Kuala Lumpur At Last!
My present apartment from satellite view at the time it was taken
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After waiting for quite a long time to be able to view Kuala Lumpur with high-resolution images, on Sept 17, Google Earth updated it at last!
However, the images are all outdated; so, you can see that my apartment was still on construction from the posted image. Nevertheless, I thanked Google for the update as I can know ask my friends to refer to Google Earth whenever they want to come to my place just by giving them my coordinates.
Getting real with Google Earth
Talim Typhoon using real-time infrared image from GEOS 9 satellite
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I am getting real with Google Earth.
Recently, I have equipped my Google Earth with real-time data like global infrared images, global cloud map, global water vapor, and a few cool things that are possible with it. Now, it is a chance of me becoming a weatherman, sort of!
I catch a glimpse of Talim Typhoon which has recently hit Taiwan and China. Now, It is heading towards Japan. And, it is big: its average radius is about 300-400km (it can engulf the whole Peninsula Malaysia with ease.)
Adios to patterns!
The famous Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Healing Touch on the wall of Sistine Chapel, Italy
(Hmm, see another rendition of it in Janji Joni)
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We live around patterns!
Everything around us evolves from patterns that are repeated and reused many times. You name one: a sentence, a protein sequence, a business transaction, a traffic route, a wind direction, a season, a menstrual cycle, an evolution, a planetary movement, a decay rate, a fractal, a musical score, etc.
Unbelievably, God reinvents a basic pattern into various styles and designs. And we, as humans, are always made to wonder God's reasoning in His intricate pattern. What is this basic pattern?
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Begin->Change->End. Everything starts with a Beginning. Then, it comes to an End. In between the Beginning and the End, we see a Change of a path. A path that is decided by every single thing, based on a choice it makes. God allows His creations to decide the path of its existence. But, He prefers all His creations to abide to this: "to do the good and to deter the evil." In one verse of the Quranic Surah Al-Fatihah, God mentions, "a straight line." "Straight" here means "right"; not deviating or crooked, as in the result of a wrong choice. We cannot run away from this or to say "Adios!" It is utterly impossible…
Today, I come across a posting in Slashdot about a breakthrough in language learning and processing study: Automatic Distillation of Structure or ADIOS. Zach Solan, the man behind the ADIOS research, claims that the algorithm manages to synthesize rules of a grammar, nevermind in what pattern the language is: human language, genetic sequence or music. If you are "otaku" enough, you can read the ideas from his research paper here
Can we say ADIOS to patterns?
