Gedanken and the meaning of nicknames\handles
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found the meaning to Gedanken's handle.anyone else have handles thathave a meaning?
1)John Reynolds, 1970. "GEDANKEN - A Simple Typeless Language Based on the Principle of Completeness and the Reference Concept", J.C. Reynolds, CACM 13(5):308-319 (May 1970).
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/g*-dahn'kn/ Ungrounded; impractical; not well-thought-out; untried; untested.
2)"Gedanken" is a German word for "thought". A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term "gedanken experiment" is used to refer to an experiment that is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because it can be reasoned about theoretically. (A classic gedanken experiment of relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through space.) Gedanken experiments are very useful in physics, but must be used with care. It's too easy to idealise away some important aspect of the real world in constructing the "apparatus".
Among hackers, accordingly, the word has a pejorative connotation. It is typically used of a project, especially one in artificial intelligence research, that is written up in grand detail (typically as a Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implemented to any great extent. Such a project is usually perpetrated by people who aren't very good hackers or find programming distasteful or are just in a hurry. A "gedanken thesis" is usually marked by an obvious lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about what does and does not constitute a clear specification of an algorithm. See also AI-complete, DWIM. -
Basically a klutz.
dit·sy also dit·zy ( P )
adj. Slang dit·si·er, also dit·zi·er dit·si·est, dit·zi·est
Eccentric or scatterbrained: “Needless to say, this ditsy crew succeeds in spite of itself” (David Ansen). -
Sardaukar is from Dune right?
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Close, Sarkaudar. It is indeed derived from Gedanken experiments, in particular Schroedinger's Cat. There is a bit more to it, and I covered this a few weeks ago in another thread:
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my name.
a flower's name
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guess mine...
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Keyboard layout. Same email password as my hsemate studying IT security.Originally posted by 12qwaszx:guess mine... -
1st 2 keys of every row of the keyboard.Originally posted by 12qwaszx:guess mine...
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ditzy, you from QUT is it? I also from QUT leh.Originally posted by ditzy:Keyboard layout. Same email password as my hsemate studying IT security. -
my name? lucky
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u must not be local to guess mine
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y not kopiodua?
or kopiotiga?
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yup,Sardaukar is from Dune.
They are defined as the elite troops of the Padishah Emperor.They were trained to be ruthless,merciless and persistent,at the cost of their lives.They were taught not to surrender.Their only weakness was their pride and lack of caution,which led to their defeat by the Fremen.
After this defeat,they retained their former qualities and learnt to respect their enemies and be cautious,becoming more deadly than the Fremen,returning to their original level,returning to their roots and warrior religion. -
A much maligned and misunderstood member of Animalia, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Sauropsida, Archosauromorpha, Ornithodira, Dinosauria, Theropoda, Tetanurae, Coelurosauria, and finally Tyrannosauroidea that resides in Singapore.
And you thought things were clear cut. -
Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:A much maligned and misunderstood member of Animalia, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Sauropsida, Archosauromorpha, Ornithodira, Dinosauria, Theropoda, Tetanurae, Coelurosauria, and finally Tyrannosauroidea that resides in Singapore.
And you thought things were clear cut.
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Thanks for letting me know. I try to reveal less the next time round.Originally posted by 12qwaszx:ditzy, you from QUT is it? I also from QUT leh.