Did you know…
that a quantum leap is the smallest possible step from a high energetic potential to a low energetic potential?
Coin Survival Trip (Fuzzified Path Finding Algorithm)
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 “Coin-survival-trip”. I’m citing his german annotations (translation follows below):
Wir haben ein wirklich nettes Vietnam-Reisebegleiter-Buch. Allerdings: Was machen Experten, wie wir? Richtig, wir führen in Hanoi den „Coin-survival-trip“ ein. Dies ist mindestens genau so spannend, wie einfach zu erklären.
Ziel des Spiels ist es, die nächste zusagende Bierbar zu finden. Mithilfe eines Münzwurfes wird an Kreuzungen entschieden, ob nach links oder rechts abgebogen wird. Gibt es die Möglichkeit weiter geradeaus zu wandern entscheidet das Bequemlichkeit-Zufallsprinzip. Tritt dies in Kraft wird keine Münze geworfen, sondern weiter marschiert.
Translation to english:
We’ve got a lovely vietnam guide book, but what would experts, like us, use instead? Yes, we’re going to establish the “coin-survival-trip” in Hanoi. This is certainly as much fun as easy to explain.
Aim of the game is to find the nearest suitable bar. Entering a crossing, a coin toss decides wether you’ll have to turn left or right. If there’s the possibility to walk straight ahead, a random accomodativeness-principle is used. If this principle comes into effect, no coin tossing is used.
If you’re ever on a journey yourself, spread this idea and do a coin-survival-trip; it’s such a lovely idea, it has to go ’round the world!
Interesting Statistics or Why Art Thou There
I recently installed the Wordpres StatPress-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.
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.
Summarized to an unordert list this leads to
- 72 visits (52 pageviews) on a single day, with as yet actually not any interesting posts
- 57,9% from Germany, 36,8% from US
- 12 unique visitors, so most visits seem to be bots and spiders
- 15 detected spider visits (53% Google Feedfetcher)
- 15 RSS2 suscription (most probably the spiders?)
- 93,1% Linux systems (hurray!)