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I am getting a nontrivial sum of postal service from "alternative thinkers" who believe that they accept discovered something groundbreaking. Much of it is repetitive but a few days ago, I was dealing amongst something new.

An creative mortal of a split upwardly who doesn't accept whatever mathematical or scientific discipline didactics has claimed to accept works life closed to "pattern inward everything" which isn't quite normal scientific discipline but it isn't pseudoscience, either.



Imagine that thirty random white lines are added to the film to a higher house too it's animated. I don't desire to embed his film amongst the lines because I scream back he's insane plenty to sue me for copyright violations. ;-)

To brand the storey short, he would add together dozens of conduct lines to whatever film – women, smokes from cigarettes, clouds, body of body of water waves, dozens of other things from the existent life, as good as the random colorful cloudy picture of mine that I sent him.




The betoken of these lines wasn't clear to me – too hence if it's non clear to you, you're non the get-go one. The lines tin move "really seen" inward every picture, he claimed; they must move important, too and hence on.

So I gave him closed to basic mutual feel nigh these matters. Some objects inward the existent earth accept a argue to accept an overrepresentation of things that expect similar conduct lines. For example, if fume comes from a root at a high velocity, it tends to motion along conduct or mildly curved trajectories. They're conduct because of closed to inertia. The construction formation that made galaxies possible also prefers filaments for closed to reasons.

And indeed, in that location may move telephone commutation one-dimensional strings, e.g. cosmic strings, that are seen inward the background of closed to hypothetical cosmic images.




But in that location are pictures which accept nada to scope amongst conduct lines – it's as meaningless to add together conduct lines to them as it is to add together disks or Smurfs to those pictures. By construction, my colorful random cloud belongs to this category. I chose closed to random Fourier coefficients, created the Fourier transform, too using a functional transformation, I made certain that the colors check to the commons cube of RGB color codes.

So there's simply no argue why in that location should move whatever preferred conduct lines inward that picture, right?

OK, the guy kept on sending me dozens of such photographs amongst added lines. One of the points I tried to brand was that he couldn't perhaps add together the lines to a given film twice inward the same way, nevertheless independently. He disagreed too the animated film at the acme was supposed to move his proof. The networks of lines are either exactly the same or they're extremely similar too hence that the locations don't differ past times much to a greater extent than than i pixel.

So I simply don't purchase it. There are obvious reasons why a human can't move able to add together such lines inward the same manner twice. If yous tried to create upwardly one's heed "which idealized trouble most exactly reproduces closed to fuzzy patterns that be inward the analog picture", yous accept to implicitly brand lots of decisions such as: Is the contrast betwixt these 2 places of the film higher than amidst other 2 places? This is of import to create upwardly one's heed whether yous should add together closed to other trouble to closed to percentage too which one.

Because a human simply can't perhaps stair out the color precisely, there's an mistake margin inward all of his decisions too this mistake margin unavoidably way that if the "same" physical care for is repeated twice, the results accept to move substantially different. Do yous concord amongst me? H5N1 figurer could physical care for a photograph according to an algorithm too the effect would move the same unless a random generator were used. But a human is an analog figurer of a split upwardly too because of the mistake margins, the distortions past times a random generator cannot move avoided.

On acme of that, I don't actually believe that he tin accept whatever exceptional algorithm inward mind. I certainly wouldn't move able to create whatever network of lines that resemble his. He claims to interpret an analog film amongst continuous colors of each pixel to a railroad train of lines determined past times their endpoints (on the boundary of the rectangle). There's simply no natural or canonical map to scope such things.

For me, the fact that he claims to larn the exact same pictures twice is a proof that he is non telling me the truth. He likely doesn't sympathize mathematical thinking at all too hence he thinks that it's possible to fool the people inward this way. But he simply can't fool me. He's adding closed to almost random conduct lines according to closed to extremely vaguely defined criteria. And a human can't scope much improve amongst analog pictures.

But fifty-fifty if in that location were closed to merit inward this add-on of lines, what does he exactly desire us to pass our fourth dimension with? He has posted tons of these pictures at diverse forums earlier he was banned. And of course, I had to terminate the communication inward closed to way, too. My agreement was that he wanted to listen on a daily footing that he is a divine genius who has works life closed to linear patterns inward everything inward the Universe. Or maybe he wanted to detect a scientist who simply completes the details of the groundbreaking regain – but the gist of the regain would belong to the guy, namely the remarkable guy who could add together conduct lines to closed to pictures.

Men similar that are creative (and obsessed) inward closed to sense. And in that location may fifty-fifty move a perspective that identifies this sort of inventiveness (and obsession) as a closed relative of closed to truthful inventiveness that acme scientists (or artists) exhibit. But I scream back that something totally essential is only missing. The audacity too obsession aren't everything.

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