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		<description><![CDATA[that a quantum leap is the smallest possible step from a high energetic potential to a low energetic potential?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that a <b>quantum leap</b> is the <i>smallest possible step</i> <i>from</i> a <i>high</i> energetic potential to a <i>low</i> energetic potential?</p>
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		<title>Coin Survival Trip (Fuzzified Path Finding Algorithm)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bgedan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fuzzified Path finding: The new sciencetific approach in finding the nearest local pub]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine is back-packing in vietnam these days, and wrote me an adorable mail about his impressions and experiences. He mentions a method of traveling around, he himself calls &ldquo;Coin-survival-trip&rdquo;. I&#8217;m citing his german annotations (translation follows below):</p>
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Wir haben ein wirklich nettes Vietnam-Reisebegleiter-Buch. Allerdings: Was machen Experten, wie wir? Richtig, wir f&uuml;hren in Hanoi den &bdquo;Coin-survival-trip&ldquo; ein. Dies ist mindestens genau so spannend, wie  einfach zu erklären.</p>
<p>Ziel des Spiels ist es, die n&auml;chste zusagende Bierbar zu finden. Mithilfe eines M&uuml;nzwurfes wird an Kreuzungen entschieden, ob nach links oder rechts abgebogen wird. Gibt es die M&ouml;glichkeit weiter geradeaus zu wandern entscheidet das Bequemlichkeit-Zufallsprinzip. Tritt dies in Kraft wird keine M&uuml;nze geworfen, sondern weiter marschiert.
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<p>Translation to english:</p>
<blockquote><p>
We&#8217;ve got a lovely vietnam guide book, but what would experts, like us, use instead? Yes, we&#8217;re going to establish the &ldquo;coin-survival-trip&rdquo; in Hanoi. This is certainly as much fun as easy to explain. </p>
<p>Aim of the game is to find the nearest suitable bar. Entering a crossing, a coin toss decides wether you&#8217;ll have to turn left or right. If there&#8217;s the possibility to walk straight ahead, a random accomodativeness-principle is used. If this principle comes into effect, no coin tossing is used.
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<p>If you&#8217;re ever on a journey yourself, spread this idea and do a coin-survival-trip; it&#8217;s such a lovely idea, it has to go &#8217;round the world!</p>
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		<title>LAN-Partys heute und früher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bgedan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mädchen probiert euch eine ganze Nacht lang am Computer aus! Jungs: bleibt draußen! Alles im Sinne eines hohen "Fun-Faktors" (Deutschland, deine Werbetexter!)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><br />
<div id="attachment_123" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.gedan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/screenshot2.png"><img src="http://www.gedan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/screenshot2-400x127.png" alt="aus einer Veranstaltungsbeschreibung" title="Girls Only LAN-Party" width="400" height="127" class="size-medium wp-image-123" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">aus einer Veranstaltungsbeschreibung</p></div><br />
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<p>Soso, Mädchen sollen sich also die ganze Nacht lang am Computer ausprobieren und damit der besonders wichtige &#8220;Fun-Faktor&#8221; hoch genug bleibt, müssen Jungs draußen bleiben. Zu meiner Zeit haben Jungs auf LAN-Partys noch Computerspiele und nicht sich selber ausprobiert, Mädchen waren gern gesehene Gäste oder Teilnehmer und man wurde nicht für die Selbstzwecke irgendwelcher Unternehmen missbraucht.<br />
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<p>Auf der Veranstaltung werden übrigens tatsächlich Computerspiele ausprobiert. Ziel und Zweck des Ganzen ist das Wecken von Neugier und die Vermittlung von grundlegenden Computerkenntnissen und vielleicht einen kleinen Schubs die Berufswahl doch auf den Bereich der Informatik bzw. Informationstechnik zu legen. Nach erfolgreicher Teilnahme erhalten die Schülerinnen ein &#8220;I&#8217;m an IT-Girl&#8221;-Zertifikat. Ob man ihnen mit einer richtigen Schulung und einem Office-, Internet-, Programmiersprachen-, und/oder Computertechnik-Zertifikat nicht einen größeren Gefallen getan hätte, sei mal dahingestellt. </p>
<p>Da meint man vermeintlich etwas Tolles für die ach so benachteiligten Mädchen zu tun, und bedient im blinden Aktionismus gerade die Klischees, die man eigentlich abbauen möchte: Mädchen seien in technischen Dingen leicht überfordert und daher müsse man sie langsam an solche Dinge heranführen. Schade für diejenigen, die sich wirklich für Informatik interessieren und über das Ausprobieren von Computerspielen schon hinaus gekommen sind; aber die würden sich über das &#8220;I&#8217;m an IT-Girl&#8221;-Image vermutlich eh nicht freuen. (Ich hoffe jedenfalls auch ohne &#8220;I&#8217;m an Engineering-Boy&#8221;-Zertifikat bei künftigen Bewerbungen ernst genommen zu werden.)</p>
<p>Nicht das man mich falsch versteht: Die Idee, dass die Mädchen, die vielleicht eher Scheu vor dem Thema Computer haben, neugierig werden und sich daraufhin weiter mit dem Thema beschäftigen und mit ihrer geweckten Neugier etwas Sinnvolles anfangen, mag ja gut gemeint sein; warum aber stellt man nicht gleich etwas Sinnvolles an und versucht zu vermitteln, dass auch echtes Wissen Spaß machen kann? Achja, der &#8220;Fun-Faktor&#8221; wäre wohl nicht hoch genug. Wobei man an dem Abbau solcher Klischees durchaus arbeiten könnte.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know why you're here and reading this post. I don't know how many you folks might be and i don't trust statistics at any matter. I'm just wondering how noisy robots and spiders might be and if there are any people following my blog at this early state. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently installed the Wordpres <a href="">StatPress</a>-Plugin. This plugin can give you real-time information about your blog visitors. It also detects web-spiders and search-engine bots automagically, so you can seperate them from regular visitors.<br />
However, the reason for this post was not to promote this plugin, rather than giving you some insight about what StatPress has to say about my blog visitors.</p>
<p><strong>Summarized to an unordert list</strong> this leads to</p>
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<li>72 visits (52 pageviews) on a single day, with as yet actually not any interesting posts</li>
<li>57,9% from Germany, 36,8% from US</li>
<li>12 unique visitors, so most visits seem to be bots and spiders</li>
<li>15 detected spider visits (53% Google Feedfetcher)</li>
<li>15 RSS2 suscription (most probably the spiders?)</li>
<li>93,1% Linux systems (hurray!)</li>
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<p><strong><br />
Conclusions:</strong> This is not one of the best visited sites on the net, most traffic comes from bot and probably even from myself. Enabling the StatPress-option &#8220;Do not collect spiders visits&#8221; fairly reasonable. Reading statistics and<br />
babbling starry-eyed about statistics you didn&#8217;t falsify yourself, can be quite funny. </p>
<p><strong>Questions: </strong>What did YOU lead to this page, why are you here, what are you interested in? Please let me know what things you like to see on this pages and what you are missing or where&#8217;d you come from. I&#8217;d be actually interested in writing about things, you would like to read &ndash; assumed i can at least babble around those things and it lies in my field of interest. So, please, if you&#8217;re following this blog, add a comment, tell me what you think, tell me what you&#8217;d like to read. Thanks! </p>
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