Coronado pictures

[nibot]

Coronado is an island adjacent to San Diego, CA.


The beach!



This bus is actually at the Torrey Pines Gliderport:









[Crossposted to cityscapes]

P.S. Meta Math: the Quest for Omega (mlp from billclementson2) seems to be entertaining reading. Does anyone know anything about the author? I have no idea where he stands on the crackpot index. For instance, at first glance, his "complexity-based proof that there are infinitely many primes" looks totally bogus. Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading the first couple sections.

Comments

[forvrkate.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Coronado. We were there for 8th and 9th grade. My parents still live there. They're within walking distance of the beach.

The big house (the 4th picture) is owned by the Hansen family. Lexy Hansen (their granddaughter) was in a few of my classes. :}

[nibot.livejournal.com]

That house is a castle!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the crack-pot index!! It should be posted in every lab!
We should steal the idea and adapt it for non-research based crackpotism.

[eigenvalue.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I feel that "Godel, Escher, Bach" is also kind of crackpot-y. But only sometimes. :-x

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

That bus, and the house below it, are quite pretty.

Chaitin is mildly crackpot, but to a slightly lesser extent than Steven Wolfram. I've read several of his papers, and they're entertaining and fairly easy to read. His main issue seems to be giving credit to other people. In particular, I'm pretty sure his definition of information is equivalent to things like Kolmogorov complexity and a few other notions. And it's only defined up to a constant factor that can be added or subtracted from the complexity of every other sequence (because it depends on _which_ universal Turing machine you use). So it means something, but not as much as he'd like.

The results about Omega are sorta nice, but he wants to make a much bigger deal of them than is justified. And his books for lay audiences seem to make himself out as bigger than Godel.