Monday, November 26, 2012

I am a lunatic

First time in DC today
It's a very interesting city
Street names are named by numbers, letters, and state names
which is so legit in the capital
Shanghai, which is not the capital city of China,
has some street names named after other provinces.
The license plates of a lot of cars from DC say
"Taxation without Representation"
reminding me of a discussion with Nam and someone else in freshman year
People really emphasize on their political liberty
but how many folks actually take it seriously enough to follow the news everyday
However, maybe that is democracy after all
(or representational democracy. I might have misused the terms here but I am too stupid to look it up)
Why should everyone be directly involved in governing?
Some are utterly disinterested
Some are largely neutral as long as their basic rights are preserved
Some may not be eligible for governing (controversial?)
So it can be a total mess if everybody has a strong opinion in politics
So am I arguing for elitism here?
Anyway that is too much tangent

A question came to mind on my way to DC
Does every question has an answer?
I think so, as wrong answers can still be classified as answers, I guess? So it is not hard to make up an answer to any question, I suppose.
So Does every question has a correct answer?
Well the tricky part is what is correctness.
Telling a white lie can be (morally) correct but (factually) wrong. So I further refined the question to be:
Does every question has a factual answer?
Then I backed off to think about the definitions of QUESTIONS and ANSWERS.
If we define a QUESTION as a statement that invokes an answer, and define an ANSWER as a statement in response to a question, the whole discussion becomes trivial. Maybe?
So after consulting the dictionaries, the two words are defined in following manners in this discussion:
Question: A statement that seeks to elicit information
Answer: A statement that contains the information requested (this definition still has the element of question, asking, and eliciting in it. In other words, it seems impossible to turn this discussion into a meaningful one)
Anyway back to the topic
Does every question has a factual answer?
To make things more messy, does every question has only a factual answer? In other words, answers that do not contain all the necessary information would not be considered as factual.
Oh well, I need a break.

===straying again===
I didn't bring my razor with me
I hope that this won't get me screwed up tomorrow
Anyway another lunatic idea
The whole notion of pipelining in processor design was so genius that I can't believe how much more efficiency of using the hardware parts we can harvest from pipelining.
Well it seems that a lot of resources in our society are not as nearly utilized to their capacity
Think about those office buildings.
They are in use between 6AM to 6PM let's say
whilst they stand idle for the rest of the day
Is there absolutely no way for us to use that space
by teleporting the office supplies out to somewhere?
One day?

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