tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34952281.post922849399531893097..comments2024-03-27T03:28:24.204-07:00Comments on Peromyscus: TEOTWAWKI again: We Got Five YearsLyle Hopwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17498505748509787968noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34952281.post-38427123040704230252008-07-04T19:38:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:38:00.000-07:00You've got it exactly right, except the drug earli...You've got it exactly right, except the drug earlier in the book isn't smoked but "ingested" as an "infusion". It's ayahuasca (yage). I'm amazed that so many people have touted this theory without looking at how the graph was actually produced.Lyle Hopwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17498505748509787968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34952281.post-79874925180141018442008-07-03T15:49:00.000-07:002008-07-03T15:49:00.000-07:00Let's see if I've got this right. We take a sequen...Let's see if I've got this right. <BR/><BR/>We take a sequence of characters from an ancient Chinese book, and somehow combine them with a modern 384-day lunar calendar, making the sequence a function of time.<BR/><BR/>We then average this sequence over scaled and weighted versions of itself (reason unknown). The scaling introduces a further arbitrary periodicity of 64, while the weights simply make the series converge. Somehow this is 'fractal'.<BR/><BR/>The sequence and transform have been designed to give a zero value at the origin. This origin is arbitrarily assigned an end-of-cycle date from an ancient Mayan calendar.<BR/><BR/>Despite only having 384 data values, we somehow produce a graph that covers the history of the universe with the resolution of a day. (Making the sequence periodic and extending it ad nauseum does not add any information).<BR/><BR/>The vertical axis is arbitrarily assigned to 'novelty' (or rather its inverse, since we gave the graph a zero origin). Similarly, the horizontal axis must now read backwards.<BR/><BR/>The various minima in the graph are now associated with world events. For any given year, choose an arbitrary world event.<BR/><BR/>The only serious question is: what were they smoking? (No doubt, the answer is earlier in the book.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com