sábado, 13 de junio de 2009
Lost In My Mind
Man, this series is really cool. Needless to say, all these characters mixed up with secrets, theories and fantasies and the matter of destiny as a question with no response keeps me watching it 24/7 (well, as much as One Piece, in a different world, allows me to).
Now almost one whole year to wait for the next season. Will we know if Locke was dead in the end and died as a tool, believing he was special and being a total wuss instead? Did the Losties cause the Incident or just changed the past-future-whatever?
Is now Jack a man of faith like it seems? will he have to battle against Locke-Nemesis etc (pointless to me, Jack in this case would be old Locke's vision of faith and purpose). Jack is a true hero, is one of those guys who had to be a hero, even without willing to be one, and who has lost it all, just to have nothing to lose but to change everything? Will the endless praise to the average-antihero guy Sawyer continue? Just because he pretends to be a badass when he's been losing his own identity and the little depth of before, I won't support all those stupid 100x female-hormone campaigns against a true wounded and redeemed hero like Jack.
Sadly, many sources indicate that our doc is going to die. If there's no other way, then die as a hero, good boy Shephard :)
lunes, 8 de junio de 2009
Erdos Number
To be assigned an Erdős number, an author must co-write a mathematical paper with an author with a finite Erdős number. Paul Erdős is the one person having an Erdős number of zero. If the lowest Erdős number of a coauthor is k, then the author's Erdős number is k + 1.
Erdős wrote around 1,500 mathematical articles in his lifetime, mostly co-written. He had 511 direct collaborators[2]; these are the people with Erdős number 1. The people who have collaborated with them (but not with Erdős himself) have an Erdős number of 2 (8,162 people as of 2007), those who have collaborated with people who have an Erdős number of 2 (but not with Erdős or anyone with an Erdős number of 1) have an Erdős number of 3, and so forth. A person with no such coauthorship chain connecting to Erdős has an Erdős number of infinity (or an undefined one).