Peter Bachman on 19 Oct 2010 15:08:17 -0700 |
"hamming distance" pops up this time in the context of Google medical records and digital security. This could be due to recentness effect, since now I am noticing it, and it's getting much closer to what I am focused on. http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/shows/silverbullet-054.mp3 So is it just the Bader Meinhof phenomenon or synchronicity? I agree we tend to think that we generally randomly grep our way through well known patterns, (that are not always there) through bit flipping, and therefore assign meaning frequently without any real justification. Thus we end up with a lot of monsters coming through closet doors in dark rooms scaring little kids at night. But some patterns are so commonplace, (they lack unique information) that we tend to focus on the ones which float up in novel and interesting ways...in a Eureka moment. Wolfgang Pauli was well known for his seeming effect on objects around him, crossing over on multiple levels of meaning, at different places, at Princeton, or in Germany. He tended to break things just by being around, and that breaking often had a deeper symbolic as well as the physical effect. The Chinese-vase flood/Fludd synchronicity was one example of many, including the reactor at the Princeton advanced Physics lab, etc. This gets explored in some theories by John Wheeler ("It from Bit") and David Deutsch regarding information as a possible basis for physical interactions, beyond our mental focus that fixates on a random phrase or idea. The fact that it has significance in error correction and comparing flipped bits as well as protocol fuzzing, I like. thanks for your replies! -pb On 10/1/2010 2:07 AM, Paul L. Snyder wrote: > As for the mental portion: > > http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon > > Paul > > On September 30, 2010, "John Summers" <john@grownspace.net> wrote: > >> An XOR of two strings yields the number of differences between them. > Such measures >> enable error checking. Hamming distances (Hamming was at Bell Labs) may > make Hamming >> encoding possible. Quick and efficient error checking is offered by XORs > doing the >> work. >> >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Peter Bachman wrote: >> >>> So weirdly enough the phrase "hamming encoded" has shown up in three >>> different separate contexts this week, and I had never heard of it before. >>> >>> -pb > - > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** > **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** > > - **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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