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My Integer Factorization Study: It’s Yrev, Very Good to See You Again, Old Friend.
Advertisements I decided to look at differences of squares near the values of numbers I wished to factor tonight. I took a particular randomly-generated semiprime m, and started generating differences of squares, sequentially, that would come out near m. The first graph I observed showed a triangle of fairly randomly distributed dots. But then I…
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Viral Ideas Spread Regardless of Merit. It Is a Societal Obligation to Fight and Discredit the Bad Ones.
Advertisements Sometimes it’s showing love to your neighbor when you point out to them – actually demonstrate in a way that they can understand – how they have been manipulated to accept and spread corrupt ideas and politics, and to support candidates whose actions are destructive and ignorant. Such a neighbor will, it is true,…
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A Belief/Unbelief System in Search of a Name
Advertisements What do you call someone who believes that everything that is genuinely real, is real regardless of what they (or anyone) believe? I.e., they do not believe that what/whether/how they believe has an influence on what truly exists. Because I sometimes think such a belief/non-belief system appeals to me intellectually, but there are still…
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My Answer to a Friend’s Question: When Did the War on Ignorance Become a War on Christianity?
Advertisements When scientific thought and mathematical logic became ways to perceive the world and demonstrate its principles reliably, I think some of those in power, who wanted to preserve increase their power and prosperity, but who also based that power and prosperity on deceiving or exploiting others, saw a danger in too much good thinking,…
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Acceleration
Advertisements I wonder if the acceleration of information and technology and the interactions of both on the human mind affect the ways we perceive and experience time, both at the seconds level and at the years level. It might have to do with changes in the lengths and qualities of our relationships. And it may…
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My Integer Factorization Study: “Barbara, … we’re home.”
Advertisements After some study, the author has discovered that the ascent – the difference between the ceiling root of m and the value of s so that one can form a non-trivial s2-t2 expression of m – corresponds to the value of n one finds when expressing prime factors p and q in terms of…