My Emails

Taking the email fwding to a different level...Fwded emails (from humor to tips to speeches to pictures ...) I thought to be worth sharing. NOTHING is my original work. If you've the copyrights of the content, let me know and I'd specify so in the post. AND if you do not want your content blogged, just comment so.
"fwd this to every alive and dead else": I've received so many chain emails that they're no longer frustrating. Now they amuse me. By posting them here, I don't encourage them!

Fwd: Fwd: FW: Fwd:See the guts !

From:
To: jjshah1@rediffmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Fwd: FW: Fwd:See the guts !
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:00:08 IST

In a ship the Generals of three nations were traveling with their soldiers. They started the topic that whose soldier had more of guts.

The American general called for one of his men and told him to jump down the ship and take a round swimming around the moving ship. The soldier did as he was commanded and the general boasted of by saying "See the guts!".

Now the German general called out for one of his men and asked him to take two similar rounds. The soldier did as he was told. When he came back from the water the German said "See the guts ".

Now the Indian General called out for his most courageous man and asked him to take five similar rounds. The soldier promptly replied, "Tere baap ka naukar hooon kya?????."[loosely translated: I am not the maid hired by your dad] At this the general proudly said "See the guts"

Alwayz
Joy

BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California

From :
Sent : Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:37
Subject : BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you agree, pass it on.

P.S. WOULDN'T BE A BAD SPEECH FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AS WELL!

Fwd: Fwd: FW: LESSON IN LOGIC

From: To: jjshah1@rediffmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Fwd: FW: LESSON IN LOGIC
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:54:46 IST

Lessons in Logic

If your father is a poor man, it is your fate
but,if your father-in-law is a poor man, it's your stupidity
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I was born intelligent - education ruined me
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Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?
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If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?
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Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak
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How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?
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Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa
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One should love animals. They are so tasty
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Behind every successful man, there is a woman
And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two
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Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in life
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The wise never marry.and when they marry they become otherwise
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Success is a relative term.
It brings so many relatives
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Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today
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"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep
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There should be a better way to start a day
Than waking up every morning
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"Hard work never killed anybody"
But why take the risk
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"Work fascinates me"I can look at it for hours
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God made relatives;
Thank God we can choose our friends
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The more you learn, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget
The more you forget, the less you know
So.. why learn
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A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station....
what more can I say........

What is the height of globalization?

From:
To:
Subject: What is the height of globalization?

...
Question: What is the height of globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.???

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine,driven by a Belgian who was high on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines !!! And this is sent to you by an Indian, using Bill Gates'technology which he stole from the Japanese. And you are probably reading this on one of the IBM clones that use Taiwanese-made chips, and Korean made monitors, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by lorries driven by Indians, hijacked by Indonesians,sold by China-men and using 'pirated'software that are easily available in Pakistani market!!!

Networking for Shy People

From : MAPP Newsletter
Sent : Friday, June 18, 2004 11:31 AM
To :
Subject : Networking for Shy People

Dear Jignesh:

Here’s the paradox: networking is by far the best way to learn about other companies and new job opportunities, but few job seekers want to do it.The main reasons include:-

Shyness-
Introversion-
Being uncomfortable talking to strangers

If you can relate to any of these reasons, then I have a tip for you: Play to your strengths. Chances are you’re a good listener. Capitalize on that.Develop a strategy that gets the other person talking while you listen. You can do that by creating and memorizing five good questions.

These questions can’t be answered with a Yes or No. They are questions that everyone has an answer to, and allow the other person to talk easily about themselves. Here are some examples:

- What kind of work do you do?
- How did you get into that field?
- What do you like most about it?
- What do you find most challenging?
- What would make your job easier?
- What are the big challenges facing your company in the next two years?

By having these questions memorized you will not feel like you will run out of things to talk about, because your conversation partner will do most of the talking, and you can use your listening skills. Periodically reflect back to them what you hear, and ask follow up questions. If you do, two things will happen.

First, the more they talk, the more they think you are terrific. Second, they will invariably ask how they can help you. That’s the graceful opening that allows you to ask about companies or job openings.

Besides listening, what are your other strengths? If you’re not sure, visit www.assessment.com and get your MAPP results, the powerful career management tool that identifies your top motivations and talents.

Sincerely,

Henry.
www.Assessment.com

Fwd: [Fwd: FW: WINDOWS 2000 HINDI STYLE]

From : hemang shah
Sent : Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:56 AM
To :
Subject : Fwd: [Fwd: FW: WINDOWS 2000 HINDI STYLE]

WINDOWS 2000 HINDI STYLE-By Sunil Badghare

Bill Gates announced that Microsoft plans to release a windows version in Hindi. Here are some Windows related terms that are proposed to be used in the Hindi version of.........

Khidkiyan Do Hazar ( Windows2000):

1.Phaail =File

2.Bachao = Save

3.Aise Bachao = Save as

4.Subko Bachao = Save All

5.Mujhe Bachao = Help

6.Dhoondo = Find

7.Firse Dhoondo = Find Again

8.Hilao = Move

9.Dak = Mail

10.Dakiya = Mailer

11.Paas se dhekho = Zoom

12.Dhoor se dhekho = Zoom Out

13.Kholo = Open

14.Bandh Karo = Close

15.Naya = New

16.Purana/Khatara = Old

17.Badli Karo = Replace

18.Bhaago = Run

19.Chaapo = Print

20.Dekh Ke Chaapo = Print Preview

21.Nakal Utaaro/Kaapi = Copy

22.Kaato = Cut

23.Chipkao = Paste

24.Payshal Chipkao = Paste Special

25.Goli Maaro = Delete

26.Nazaara = View

27.Hatyaar = Tools

28.Hatyaar Khamba = Toolbar

29.Khuli Chaadar = Spreadsheet

30.Kalti Maaro = Exit

31.Ped = Tree

32.Thooso = Compress

33.Chooha = mouse

34.Tik Karo = Click

35.Tik-Tik Karo = Double Click

36.Idhar-se-Udhar = Forward

37.khamba= Scrollbar

1. MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000- ATISUKSHMA MULAYAM (microsoft) KHIDKIYAAN(windows) AVRUTTI (version) Do hazar (2000)"

2. Double Click with the left mouse button - Chuhe ke baye kaan ko zatpatdo baar marodkar 'tadak-tadak' (clik-click) kariye

3. GPF(GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT) - Sarvasaadharan Suraksha Mein Gadbad

4. 'This program has performed an illegal operation - "Abort, Retry or Ignore" ?- "Is karyakram ne gairkanooni kaam kiya hai - Zatak se bandkaro (abort), Koshish karte raho/Hum honge Kamyaab (retry), Goli Maro(Ignore)"

5. MS POWERPOINT - "AtiSukshma Mulayam ShaktiBindu"

6. MS WORD 6 - "AtiSukshma Mulayam Shabda Cheh"

7. ACCESS - "PRAVESH KI SAMMATI"

8. FOXPRO - "Lombdigiri (Lomiree) mein Maahir"

9. VISUAL C++ - "Nazaaraa C adhik hi adhik"

10. OFFICE 97 - "Karyalaya 97 mein"

11. Internet Explorer - "Taaron ke Jaal ka Sanshodhak "

12. Lotus Notes - " Kamal ke Ruppeye"

13. ACCESS DENIED - " Ghusne ki Agya nahi "

Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Papa kehte hain for Software Engineers, Really Nice One]

From : hemang shah
Sent : Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:16 AM
To :
Subject : Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Papa kehte hain for Software Engineers, Really Nice One]

Papa kehte hain for Software Engineers

Doston, Aaj Delivery ka Aakhri Din hain,

Aur sabhi ne kuch na kuch file check-in kiya hain

Par maine koi file check-in nahin kiya hain

No really I mean it

Aaaj, Aaj mujhe bar bar ek hi khayal aa raha hain

The song begins here ........

PM ( Project Manager ) kehte hain bada kam karega,

TM ( team member ) hamara bada code likhega,

magar yeh to koi na jaane

ke iska template hain

kahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

PM kehte hain bada kam karega,

TM hamara bada code likhega,

magar yeh to koi na jaane

ke iska template hain

kahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

PM kehte hain bada kam karega

aaaaa aaaaaa

[jazzy music in the manner of TDD being typed]

Baithe hain milke,

Sab reviewer apne,

sabke dilon mein armaan yeh hain [eh he eh]

woh Review mein kal kya bharega,

har ek defect ka Owner kaun hain.....

koi reviewer ka kaam karega,

Defect resolution main koi apna naam bharega,

magar yeh to koi na jaane

ke is defect ka owner hain

kahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

PM kehte hain bada kam karega,

aaaaa aaaaaa

[jazzy music in the manner of Review defects being closed]

Mera to sapna,

Hain Onsite Jana

Jau jo wahan

Jhume Bahar

tension badhati,

UAT ka mausam,

client ki masti,

OC ka haal....

bandha onsite main 0 defect try karega....

good show mail mein apna naam payega

mujhe bus itna kaho yaaron...

ki mujhe onsite jana hain

kahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

PM kehte hain bada kam karega,

TM hamara bada code likhega,

magar yeh to koi na jaane

ke mera appraisal hain

kahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

[applause and sounds of developers destroying cubicles......]

Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Bihari Essay(Damn Good)--I Bet you wont write better than this]

From :
Sent : Friday, September 10, 2004 9:57 PM
To :

Subject : Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Bihari Essay(Damn Good)--I Bet you wont write better than this]

Bihari Essay(Damn Good)

A essay written by a Bihar---- candidate

You'll forget your English by the time you finish reading this. This is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate at the UPSC (IAS) Examinations.

The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

Indian Cow

HE IS THE COW. "The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [ but will do so when he is got child.] He is sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement. [ horses dont have any such attachment] What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species. Also his other motion.. gober] is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes [like Pizza ], in hand , and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies.

We are informed that the candidate passed the exam and is now an IAS, in bihar.

regards.

Mathematical Recreation

From : hemang shah
Sent : Friday, May 28, 2004 4:43 AM
To :
Subject : Mathematical Recreation

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I found the below material on fortunecity.com
READ ONLY WHEN MIND IS CALM AND IN PEACE.
MAY BE HEAVY.
------HEMANG-----

A Partly True Story

Allow me to introduce myself: Epimenides, professional liar. Well, that's not quite true. My name is really Herman Fenderbender, and I work for a car insurance company. But my friends at the Paradox Club call me Epimenides, and when I'm with them, I always lie.

Last Thursday it was raining, so I got to the club a bit late. Socrates and Plato were leaning against the bar, and next to them was a chubby little fellow."This is our newest member, Lukasiewicz," Plato chimed. Horrified to meet you," I said in disgust. My name's Zeno." He means he's delighted to meet you, and his name is Epimenides," Socrates explained, "Epimenides always tells lies." "That's not true," I said. I opened my wallet and took out my business card. "This isn't my card," I commented and handed it over. Lukasiewicz read one side of the card: The sentence on the other side of this card is true. He turned the card over and saw: The sentence on the other side of this card is false.

"Socrates is right, however,I always tell lies," I boasted. Lukasiewicz shook my hand warmly, "It's one third false that I'm pleased to meet you, and both sides of your card are half true." "Pardon?" I said. "Lukasiewicz is interested in fuzzy logic," Plato explained." "Instead of just the truth values 1 for a true statement and 0 for a false statement," Lukasiewicz said, "I am prepared to consider half-truths with truth value 0.5 or near-falsehoods with value 0.1 -in general, any number between 0 and 1." "Why would anyone want to do that?" I asked, bemused. Lukasiewicz smiled, "Suppose I said the club president looks like Charlie Chaplin. Do you think that's true?"
"Of course not ! "
"Not even his feet?"
"Well, I guess they do rather-"
"So it's not completely false, either."
"Well, he does look a bit like Chaplin" Lukasiewicz leaned toward me, "He had very penetrating eyes."
"How much like him?"
"Around 15 percent l'd say."
"Good. Then my statement , 'the club president looks like Charlie Chaplin' is 15 percent true. It has a truth value of 0.15 in fuzzy logic."
"That's just playing with words. It doesn't mean anything."
Lukasiewicz grasped my arm. "Oh, but it does. It helps to resolve paradoxes. For instance, you claim to be a complete liar. Let's think about your statement 'I am lying.' Or, more simply,this statement is false.' In classical logic, it is a paradox, yes? If it is true, then it is false; if it is false, then it is true. To put it another way, you have a statement P with truth value p, which is 0 or 1, and P says the truth value of this sentence is 1 - p."

"Sorry, I didn't quite get that."
"Ah. If P is true, then its negation, not-P, is false, and its truth value is 0. And conversely. Now, 1 - 0 = 1 and 1 - 1 = 0, so if the truth value of P is p, then the truth value of not-P is 1 - p."

(I need to upload the pictures-Jignesh)
DIAGRAMS OF "ESCAPE TIME" (left) and a logical attractor (right) were created to analyze a self-referential statement. Such statements typically lead to paradoxes in classical logic. The illustrations above are based on the sentence "the assessed falsehood of this statement is not different from its assessed truth."

"Oh. I see." Right. Now the problem is that 'this statement' is P, so P is telling us that the truth value of P is 1 - p. That's where the paradox comes from. If p = 0, then P tells us that p = 1 - 0 = 1. And if p = 1, then P tells us that p = 1 - 1 = 0. Neither choice is consistent."

I gave him a condescending smile. "Luke, all you've done is reformulate in complicated algebraic language what was obvious all along." He smirked. "Maybe. But in fuzzy logic, there is a consistent solution to the equation p = 1 - p, namely, p = 0.5. So your claim to be a permanent liar is a half-truth, and everything works out fine. Your own statement leads inevitably to fuzzy logic." Plato slapped him on the back, and Socrates nearly knocked his cocktail over laughing. My face went red, but I saw the point.

"What about his business card?" Plato asked. Lukasiewicz was about to speak, but I stopped him "Let me answer that. Seems to me I have two statements P and Q with truth values p and q. Moreover, P says Q is true, and Q says P is false. So the corresponding truth-value equations are

p = q for P
q = l - p for Q

These make no sense if p and q can only be 0 or 1. But there's a unique solution in fuzzy logic: p = q = 0.5. So each side of my card is a half-truth, and there's no paradox anymore."

"Precisely," Lukasiewicz said. "But it goes further than that. What we've been discussing is the beginnings of a whole new theory of dynamic logic, invented by Gary Mar and Patrick Grim in the department of philosophy of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It provides a link between semantic paradoxes and chaos theory."

It was Socrates' turn to look puzzled.
"Oh, wake up. You know what chaos is. Simple deterministic dynamics leading to irregular, random-looking behavior. Butterfly effect. That stuff." "Of course, I know that," Socrates said in irritation. "No, it was the idea of dynamic logic that was puzzling me. How can logic be dynamic?"

Lukasiewicz looked surprised. "How can it be anything else when discussing self-referential statements? The statement itself forces you to revise your estimate of its truth value. That revised value has to be revised again and again. Consider the Paradox of the Liar , your statement P: 'this statement is false'. Earlier I wrote an equation for its truth value: p = 1 - p. But what I should really have written was a process that forces constant revision of your assessment of its truth value, p <– 1 - p. If you assume that P has a particular truth-value p, then P itself tells you to replace that truth value by 1 - p. For example, if you started out thinking that P was 30 percent true, so that p = 0.3, the revision rule implies that p = 0.7, which in turn implies that p =0.3 again...and you get an infinite sequence of truth values, oscillating periodically between the two values 0.3 and 0.7. The classical paradox, with p = 0 or 1 , leads to the sequence 0, 1, 0, 1,...which faithfully reflects the logical argument if P is false, then P is true, so P is false, so P is true, so.... the logical oscillations of the paradox are captured by the dynamics of the truth value." And p =0.5 is the only value that doesn't lead to an oscillation," Plato mused. Precisely. Now, the Dualist Paradox on your business card is really a logical dynamic :

p <– q

q <– l - p

Suppose you start out by estimating p = 0.3, q = 0.8. Then your first revision is to p = 0.8, q = 0.7. A further revision leads to p = 0.7, q = 0.2, a third to p = 0.2, q = 0.3. A fourth revision gives p = 0.3, q = 0.8, and you're back where you started. It cycles with period four-unless you start at p = 0.5, q = 0.5, when everything stays unchanged."

"Okay, I'll buy that," I said. "But what about the chaos?" Lukasiewicz's face went very serious. "Before I can explain that, I must be more precise," he said. "If you want to play around with these ideas for yourself, l'd better tell you how to calculate fuzzy truth values for combinations of logical statements [see box below]. Although all you really need to know at the moment is that not-P has truth value 1 - p if P has truth value p. Second, you must know how to assess the truth value of statements about statements."

" I'd like an example," Socrates said. "Okay.Suppose I said Plato is a good golfer. How true do you think that is?" "Ooooh -about 40 percent," Socrates said. Plato gave him a nasty look. Well, Epimenides usually beats you, and he's pretty mediocre." I gave him an even nastier look.
Fine. Let's call that statement S. It has a truth value s =0.4. Suppose I make a statement about the statement S. Suppose I utter statement T: 'S is 100 percent true.' How true is statement T?"

Fuzzy Logic

In classical logic,a statement has a truth value of either 1 for true or 0 for false. The statement "the sun is shining" has a truth value of 0 if it is cloudy. In general, statement P has a truth value p equal to 1 or 0. In fuzzy logic, a statement can have a truth value of between 1 and 0. If a cloud obscures a quarter of the sun, then statement P has a value of 0.25.In fuzzy logic, like the classical theory, the truth value of a statement will change when applying the operators NOT, AND, OR, IMPLIES and IF AND ONLY IF. NOT-P has a truth value of 1-p.EXAMPLE: If the sun is shining with a truth value of 0.25, then the sun is NOT shining with a truth value of 0.75.

P AND Q has a truth value equal to the lesser of p and q where q is the truth value of statement Q. EXAMPLE: The sun is shining with a truth value of 0.25, AND Jane is getting tan with a truth value of 0.10. The value of the example is 0.10.

P OR Q has a truth value equal to 1 the greater of p and q. EXAMPLE: The sun is shining with a truth value of 0.25, OR Jane is getting tan with a truth value of 0.10. The value of the example is 0.25.

P IMPLIES Q has a truth value equal to the lesser of 1 and 1 - p + q. EXAMPLE: If the sun is shining with a truth value of 0.25, then Jane is getting tan with a truth value of 0.10. The value of the example is 0.85.

P IF AND ONLY IF Q has a truth value equal to 1 - p - q, that is, one minus the absolute value of p minus q. EXAMPLE: The sun is shining with a truth value of 0.25 IF AND ONLY IF Jane is getting tan with a truth value of 0.10. The value of the example is 0.85.

I thought for a moment. "Well, it's certainly not 100 percent true itself. Otherwise S would be 100 percent true, and we've already decided it isn't."

"Right. The degree of truth of my statement T, which is about S, depends on the actual truth value of S and on the truth value attributed to S by T. Here s = 0.4, but the value that T leads me to assess is 1. So T will be untrue to the extent that these two values differ, yes? The more inaccurate my assessment, the falser my statement becomes. Because they now differ by 0.6, T is false to the extent 0.6. That is, it is true to the extent 0.4."

"What if you'd said S is half true? " Lukasiewicz nodded happily. '"You'll see how nicely it works. That statement assesses the truth value of S as 0.5, but the actual value is 0.4. The difference is 0.1 , which is how false your statement is, so its truth value is 0.9. Because your assessment is only wrong by 10 percent, you're 90 percent correct."

"Ah. And if I'd said S is 40 percent true, I'd have been 100 percent right. So the truth value would have been 1. I've got it." "Good. In general, suppose I have a statement P with truth value p and a statement Q that leads you to assess the truth value of P to be p'. Then the argument we've just been through says the truth value of Q is q = 1 - p - p', where x means the absolute value of x (equal to x when x is positive, -x when x is negative). Let me call this the assessment formula."

Lukasiewicz thought for a moment. Now I can show you what I call the Chaotic Liar, statement C:

This statement is as true as it is assessed to be false.
If its truth value is c, then it instructs you to assess a truth value of 1 - c. So by the assessment formula, its truth value is 1 - c - ( 1 - c) = 1 - 1 - 2c.In short, there is a dynamic process
c <– l - 1 - 2c of reassessment of the truth value c. Choose any starting value for c, say c = 0.12345, and calculate successive values. You'll find they are chaotic. Actually, I should warn you that because of round-off errors in your calculator or computer, the process may appear to settle down to either 0 or 1. It may help to replace the dynamic by c <– 1 - 0.999999 - 2c. You can even observe the famous butterfly effect of chaos theory-if a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a hurricane a month later. More prosaically, small changes in initial conditions make big changes to the subsequent dynamics. If you use a start value of 0.12346 instead, you get a different image."

Lukasiewicz paused. Next there is the Chaotic Dualist, which involves two statements:

X: X is as true as Y is true
Y: Y is as true as X is false

"It's rather like your business card, Epimenides. The dynamics are

x <– l - x - y y <– l - y - (1 - x)

To see what it does, you choose an initial pair of values, say, (x,y) = (0.2, 0.9), and calculate successive pairs of values. Think of them as coordinates and plot them in the plane. You get a geometric shape, called the attractor of the dynamic system. In this case, you get a triangle, densely filled with points [see right illustration above]. This representation can be transformed into a beautiful and intricate image known as an escape-time diagram. To create it, temporarily relax the conditions that x and Y lie between 0 and 1. The idea is to watch how far (x,y) moves from the origin (0,0) and to count how many calculation steps are needed before it goes beyond some threshold value. Then the point (x,y) is plotted in a color that depends on the number of steps required. To start, you should try a threshold value just larger than 1 [see left illustration above].

" I begin to see now," Socrates said. You take the train of thought involved in assessing the truth value of a set of self-referential statements and convert it into a dynamic process. Then you can apply all the techniques of chaos theory to that process. The escape-time plot is inspired by exactly the same method that creates all those wonderful multi-colored images associated with the Mandelbrot set : swirling spirals, sea horses, cacti, stars and so on." Indeed. Here's one final idea for you to mull over. We can rephrase the Chaotic Liar as

The assessed falsehood of this statement is not different from its assessed truth.
In fuzzy logic, it is standard to interpret the adjective 'very' , as forming the square of a truth value. So think about the rather woollier statement

The assessed falsehood of this statement is not very different from its assessed truth.
The statement leads to the dynamic

p<– l -(p-(l -p))2,

which converts into the form

p <– 4p(1 - p).

Chaos theorists call this the logistic dynamic system-so my statement is the Logistic Liar. It's chaotic, too-try it."

At midnight, the Paradox Club closed, and Lukasiewicz and I walked out into the street. I realized I had been so absorbed working out examples of fuzzy-logical chaos that I had forgotten to ask one very important question. "Luke, it's all very pretty, but how significant is it?"
"' Well," he said. Mar and Grim point out that it gives a geometric approach to semantic complexity, letting you distinguish between different systems of self-referential statements. They also say it can be used to prove there is no decision procedure that will tell you whether or not a given system is chaotic. That's a result in the same general line as Kurt Gödel's famous theorem on the undecidability of arithmetic. It's potentially rather deep stuff, Epimenides." "So I see. Connections between logic and chaos- Amazing! But wait a second. How can I be sure everything you just told me is true?" "If I have ever lied to you, I ask the gods to strike me down with two lightning bolts."

Just then, thunderclouds formed in the sky, and a single lightning bolt zapped Lukasiewicz into oblivion. I looked up, shaking my fist at the clouds: "So was he telling me the whole truth, or only half?"

About Italians.... (sounds like Indians..)

From :
Sent : Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:33 PM
To :
Subject : About Italians.... (sounds like Indians..)

You must see this. It will remind you of
Indian culture instantly!!
Please wait for complete loading and then
click on Play..
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/flash/
Enjoy!

ants

From :
Sent : Friday, July 30, 2004 4:07 AM
To :
Subject : ?????

An ant knocks the door of a house. House owner opens the door."I want a place to stay", said the ant . "I have a vacant room which you can occupy for free of cost", said the owner. Ant went inside and occupied that vacant room.

After some days,the ant brought in another ant and requested the owner "Can you please allow this ant to stay along with me". "Oh sure, you can do so without paying any rent" said the owner.

After some days the ant brought one more ant and requested the owner to allow that ant to stay with it. Owner agreed to it without asking for any rent.

This continued i.e ant brings in one more ant and owner agrees for it.

On one fine day, the ant brought in tenth ant and requested the owner to allow that tenth ant also to stay with it.

The owner said "Ok, you all can stay here but you need to pay rent". Now the question is Why did the owner ask for rent when the tenth ant came in?

Scroll down for the answer

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Because they are now Tenants (Ten ants) !!

links : teen lingo

From :
Sent : Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:06 PM
To :
Subject : teen lingo

http://www.thesource4ym.com/teenlingo/index.asp

Leave Letters

From :
Sent : Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:37 PM
To :
Subject : leave letters

This is a collection of leave letters and applications written by
people in various places of India.

A candidate's application: "This has reference to your advertisement calling for a 'typist and an accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both for the past several years and I can handle both, I am applying for the post.

I.T.I., Bangalore: An employee applied for leave as follows: Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife. Please sanction me one-week leave.

Another employee applied for half day leave as follows: "Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return, please grant me half day casual leave"

A leave letter to the headmaster: "As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"

An incident of a leave letter "I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."

Another leave letter written to the headmaster: As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day.

A covering note: "I am enclosed herewith..."

From H.A.L. Administration dept: As my mother-in-law has expired and I am responsible for it, please grant me 10 days leave.
Actual letter written for application of leave: "My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".

Letter writing: -
"I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."

Another gem from I.T.I. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding: "as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave.."

Dying

From : prashant desai
Sent : Tuesday, December 7, 2004 7:41 AM
To :
Subject : Dying

Fwd: Fw: Simply Amazing

From :
Sent : Friday, October 8, 2004 1:58 PM
To :
Subject : Fwd: Fw: Simply Amazing

= = = Original message = = =

This will boggle your mind... Take your time and follow the instructions.

After reading each window click on the boy in the lower right corner.

In the last window type in your numbers in the white box.

Use the keyboard (there is NO curser ). Use your mouse on the little man.

You will be amazed....and no, I don't know how it's done .

http://digicc.com/fido/