Saturday, November 4, 2023

Math

 

All About The Bass

Because you know I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass (bass, bass, bass, bass)

Actually it’s all about the MATH!

Most people are familiar with Pythagoras’ Theorem, c=√(a2+b2), where c is the hypotenuse of a triangle with sides a and b.  This is actually only true for a flat, Euclidean, surface.  It is true because of the identity of a circle, cos2+sin2=1. For a triangle on a flat surface, the hypotenuse can also be expressed as

 cos(c)=cos(a)*cos(b).

For a triangle on a spherical surface, the formula for the hypotenuse of a right triangle is based on a similar principle, but it is

cos(c/R)=cos(a/R)*cos(b/R)  or c=R*cos-1(cos(a/R)*cos(b/R))

where R is the radius of that spherical surface.  As R approaches infinity, it becomes identical to Pythagoras’ Theorem.

For a triangle on a hyperbolic surface, the formula for the hypotenuse is

cosh(c)=cosh(a)*cosh(b) or c=cosh-1(cosh(a)*cosh(b)).

This is true because of the identity of a hyperbola, cosh2-sinh2=1.

What is true for any surface, regardless of its shape, is only that c2=a2+b2. 

For the cylindrical coordinates (r, θ, z), of a point (x, y, z) in rectangular coordinates, it is true that x=r*cosθ, y=r*sinθ, z=z, and θ=tan-1(y/x).  However the solution of r as √(x2+y2) is only true if x and y are on a flat surface. On any surface it is only true that r2=x2+y2, and the solution for r depends on the shape of that surface. 

Additionally, hyperbolic trigonometric functions are defined in terms of exponentials such that

cosh(x)=½*(ex+e-x)

In this case, if the surface is hyperbolic, then the formula for the hypotenuse of a triangle is

c=cosh-1(½*(ea+e-a)* ½*(eb+e-b))

From Euler's formula, eix=cos(x)+isin(x), it is also true that ei0=-e.  Thus it is suggested that Pythagoras’ Theorem, taking the imaginary axis into consideration, is better simplified as  

c=ln(-cosh(a2+b2)±sinh(a2+b2))

rather than the conventional

c=√(a2+b2).

However it is also acknowdged that, when a and b are much less than infinity, just as Pythagoras’ Theorem can be used on the surface of the spherical Earth where its radius, R, is much greater than a or b,  Pythagoras’ Theorem is still a reasonable approximation. In fact there is virtualy no diffence between the two until a and b are more than 20% of the absolute/infinity.  The difference between the two does not become appreciable until after a and b are more than 7%[1] of the absolute/infinity.

Euler’s formula, eix=cos(x)+isin(x) can also be viewed as the rotation of Minkowski’s spacetime, reality, on an imaginary axis to create cylindrical coordinates. If, in Eulers’ formula, x is taken to be θ, that is  e=cos(θ)+ sin(θ)*i, this can then be viewed as a complex number in rectangular coordinates, a+b*i, where sin(θ) can be viewed as a rotation of the imaginary axis, i, by θ, and cos(θ) is the real portion of this complex number. However, while sin(x) is cyclical, and sin(0)=sin(π)=0,  the cosine, the real part of the complex number in rectangular coordinates, is out of phase with the sine such that cos(0)=1 but cos(π)=-1.  Thus it is proposed that if a surface passes through an origin of a two-sheeted hyperboloid such that sin(0)=sin(π)=0, that in one sheet of the two sheeted hyperboloid, cos=1, while in the other sheet cos=-1. This implies that if our universe, reality, is on one sheet of a two sheeted hyperboloid, that at its origin it must have undergone a phase change such that a hyperbola in one sheet, our universe, is a reflection of a hyperbola in the other sheet, and that one sheet is also a phase shift of π from the other sheet.

Setting the coefficient of the imaginary axis to 0, does not mean that the axis is eliminated, only that its coefficient is zero.

[1] Actually the mean of a choice of one, squared, multipled by π squared divided by threeis 0.52π2/3 , which is equal to the variance, or 82.2%.

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Speaker of the House

 

Sympathy For The Devil

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politnesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah

Republican “moderates” in the House appear to have had a “Come to Satan” moment.

By picking MAGA Mike Johnson as their Speaker, the moderate Republicans appear to have selected him because he seemed so polite, compared to Jim Jordan.  Uh, the devil is also polite.

The devil is NOT equal to God.  Believing that life is a contest between God and the devil is to believe that the devil is EQUAL to God.  If you have chosen God, then denying anyone else a choice is tantamount to handing that person over to the devil, because you won’t let that person choose God for themself. It does not count that you are afraid they might choose the devil.  Someone can choose God or no-God, but that same person can not choose the devil, unless the devil is equal to God.

No-God is the ABSENCE of God.  This is NOT the devil, although the devil is also absent of God.  Since MAGA Mike wants to eliminate the ability to choose your gender, your partner, your reproductive freedom, your religion, etc. he is apparently against many choices.  It makes no difference if he is polite in doing so, that is the way of the devil. Those moderate Republicans who voted for him have had a "Come to Satan" moment.  They are confusing tolerance with acceptance.  God help us all.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Pro-Choice II

The Struggle for Guadalcanal 

And when I Get to Heaven
To St. Peter I will tell
Just one more marine reporting, sir
I've spent my time in Hell

What if our universe is Hell?

We shave been taught that there are three domains: Heaven, Reality and Hell.  This is at odds with a belief that Heaven is where God dwells.  If we also believe that God dwells everywhere, including Reality, then there are only two domains, God's and the absence of God's.  Reality may then only be the interface where a choice is made to join God or join God's absence.  In that case, Reality is both Heaven and Hell.  The choices that are made in Reality detemine whether after life you enter Heaven.

If there are no choices in Reality, then no one can choose God and enter Heaven.  In Other Words, God must be pro-Choice, for every choice.


No Man is God

 

With God On Our Side

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war

And a powerful man on your side, such as Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk is NOT God.

It makes no difference whether that powerful man has views with which you agree, such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, or George Soros.  A human is not, can not, ever be God.  A man may act like God, but if we also act like that man is God, then that is our mistake.  If as humans, we defer to powerful rich men, believe that they are on our side, then it is better that we pluck them out than let that cause the rest of us, our body, to stumble. 

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for
thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:29



Friday, October 27, 2023

The Election of a Speaker of the House II

 

Hey There Little Red Riding Hood

I'm gonna' keep my sheep suit on
Until I'm sure that you've been shown
That I can be trusted, walking with you alone
Awooh

MAGA Mike Johnson has been called Jim Jordan with a jacket and a smile by a Republican colleague.

While the speaker’s race has mercifully ended, the conservatives crazies have won.  The candidates desired by the Republican moderates, Steve Scalise and Mike Emmer, withdrew from the race when it became obvious that they would not get the crazies’ vote.  Mike Johnson was not opposed by Donald Trump precisely because he was one of the architects of Donald Trump’s election denialism.   That he was not well known by the public is no excuse for the moderates backing him. 

While the Senate and a Presidential veto may keep the bad bills passed by the House in check, but the Speaker's House still needs to originate among other things appropriation bills. Stopping bad bills can be expected, but no good bills can also be expected.  Humoring the “Freedom” Caucus is appeasing the ”Freedom” Caucus, and that is not so funny.  If the moderate Republicans voted against Jim Jordan, then they should also have voted against Jim Jordan with a jacket and smile, i.e. his sheep suit.  Don't we deserve someone who can actually be trusted, not someone who can deceive us into being trusted.

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

The Election of a Speaker of the House

 

Burning Down the House

Ah, watch out You might get what you're after Cool babies Strange but not a stranger I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house

Watching the Republicans in the speakership disaster is watching them “Burning Down the House”!

Mike Emmer has joined Steve Scalise in withdrawing his name from the Speaker’s race after winning the support of a majority of the Republican Conference.  The problem is that while there are  two parties in the House, the Republican Conference is in fact a coalition of the “Freedom” Caucus and moderate Republicans versus a coalition of Democrats of all persuasions.  While the coalition of Democrats has remained firm, the coalition of Republicans has been anything but firm.  Since the job of the Speaker is to govern a coalition of the entire House of both parties, a Speaker who can not even win the support of a coalition of Republicans can probably not do the People’s business. 

Because the Speaker of the House is the third in line to the President after the Vice President, maybe the People are better served by no Speaker until a new House takes office in January of 2025 than having a Speaker who has the support of those who want to burn down the House.  Matt Gaetz is like the dog who chased after trucks only to catch a truck. That dog did not know what to do after he caught that truck. Matt Gaetz did not know what to do after he removed Speaker McCarthy.  The People should watch out because Matt Gaetz got what he was after!

Monday, October 16, 2023

Perfection is the Enemy of the Good

 

If I Can’t Have You

If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you, uh-ho-oh-oh-oh

Love the One You’re With

And there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the one you're with

Dueling lyrics to show that "Perfection is the Enemy of the Good.”

Stating an absolute position sounds admirable, but it is limiting. “All, or nothing at all” means you will accept the absolute, perfection, or will accept nothing. Like teaching sex education to teenagers.

Should unmarried teenagers be having sex?  Probably not. 

Will teaching sex education make unmarried teenagers have sex? Probably not. 

If unmarried teenagers are not having sex, then do they need sex education?  Probably not.  But if they do have sex, then at least they will know what then are doing.

Humans are not absolutes. We can approach an absolute but can not attain that absolute. IOW, we exhibit exponential behavior. Saying that you will only settle for an absolute, IOW perfection, guarantees that you will attain nothing.  On the other hand, if you accept less than perfection, then you will attain something.

When disaggregating an Origin-Destination table, such as USDOT’s Freight Analysis Framework, or any matrix which is itself an aggregation, or expansion of a survey,  then there is one unique outcome that is related to that aggregation or survey, IOW is accurate. However, there are many possible outcomes, e.g. disaggregations, many of which are virtually identical and some of those are also the most numerous, probable.  That most probable outcome may not be ACCURATE, but it is available and can be solvable.   Or as statistician George Box famously put it, “All models are wrong, but some are useful”  A most probable solution may be wrong, but it may be useful.  Use the solution you can solve, e.g. love the one you’re with.