I wanted to blog about my day out (one whole day out slacking cos of my birthday! >.<) But... I'll do that after I wake up. Hehe (; It's really very late/early in the morn now (5am). And if I don't sleep soon, I won't wake up till way after 12pm.
So I'll write about the easy stuff first.
1. My Eureka! keychain is well and truly dead >.<
The keychain was a token of appreciation by Biosoc cos I organised the bio practical component of an inter-secondary competition called Eureka!. There was bio, chem and physics... and theory and practical questions. I admire the clever candidates, because when I sat in for the theory round, I was beyond stumped. So anyway. The keychain was co-created by DSTA and DSO (defence, science and technology agency and defence science organisation respectively), and it was solar-powered and the first press of a button gave a lazer pointer that was really powerful; the second gave two LED lights and the third switched the device off. I was immediately taken with it and attached it to my pencilcase. Then after some time the LED lights stopped working, so i opened up the keychain and realised that one LED was detached. The solder had dropped off. Since I have solder but no soldering iron, I wasn't able to fix the LED lights.
Next, the laser light grew dim. I suspected it was because I hadn't been allowing the mini solar panel to get some light, and since it was the exam week, and I didn't think that such devices were allowed into the examination hall, I took the keychain off and let it get some sun in the afternoons. The laser light grew strong... but then even thought the supply of light remained constant over the next few days the laser grew slowly dimmer and dimmer, until it died out totally. So now the whole keychain can't function... RIP, my beloved keychain. You served me well.
2. Intelligent Design
I came across this short video on Khan Academy. Then I thought I didn't know what it was. Then I remembered... it's some American thing that most other schools don't teach (because intelligent design, unlike evolution, centres on God. But American schools taught it as an alternative to the Darwinian theory. I'm not too sure about the specifics, though.). So i didn't bother listening closely. Then I looked down at my phone (the KhanAcademy stuff are available as apps on Iphones) and saw some really cool pic (I'll edit this post later and add in the pic) that was linked to what the author talked about. He compared intelligent design (God creating a complex world out of a few simple rules) to the mathematical equation that produced the picture (a complex picture created from a simple mathematical recurrence relation (i think), Z(n+1) = Z(squared)(n+1)). This is what i gathered from the eight minutes of video time...
And the picture was created by subbing in values and black spaces were created where numbers did not run to infinity, and different colours being coded for by the different extents and ways that certain numbers ran to infinity on a complex plane.
So I'll write about the easy stuff first.
1. My Eureka! keychain is well and truly dead >.<
The keychain was a token of appreciation by Biosoc cos I organised the bio practical component of an inter-secondary competition called Eureka!. There was bio, chem and physics... and theory and practical questions. I admire the clever candidates, because when I sat in for the theory round, I was beyond stumped. So anyway. The keychain was co-created by DSTA and DSO (defence, science and technology agency and defence science organisation respectively), and it was solar-powered and the first press of a button gave a lazer pointer that was really powerful; the second gave two LED lights and the third switched the device off. I was immediately taken with it and attached it to my pencilcase. Then after some time the LED lights stopped working, so i opened up the keychain and realised that one LED was detached. The solder had dropped off. Since I have solder but no soldering iron, I wasn't able to fix the LED lights.
Next, the laser light grew dim. I suspected it was because I hadn't been allowing the mini solar panel to get some light, and since it was the exam week, and I didn't think that such devices were allowed into the examination hall, I took the keychain off and let it get some sun in the afternoons. The laser light grew strong... but then even thought the supply of light remained constant over the next few days the laser grew slowly dimmer and dimmer, until it died out totally. So now the whole keychain can't function... RIP, my beloved keychain. You served me well.
2. Intelligent Design
I came across this short video on Khan Academy. Then I thought I didn't know what it was. Then I remembered... it's some American thing that most other schools don't teach (because intelligent design, unlike evolution, centres on God. But American schools taught it as an alternative to the Darwinian theory. I'm not too sure about the specifics, though.). So i didn't bother listening closely. Then I looked down at my phone (the KhanAcademy stuff are available as apps on Iphones) and saw some really cool pic (I'll edit this post later and add in the pic) that was linked to what the author talked about. He compared intelligent design (God creating a complex world out of a few simple rules) to the mathematical equation that produced the picture (a complex picture created from a simple mathematical recurrence relation (i think), Z(n+1) = Z(squared)(n+1)). This is what i gathered from the eight minutes of video time...
And the picture was created by subbing in values and black spaces were created where numbers did not run to infinity, and different colours being coded for by the different extents and ways that certain numbers ran to infinity on a complex plane.
Here it is. I forgot to rotate the image... but it still looks good no matter what, no? (:
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