Saturday, June 23, 2012

Alan Turing's 100th Birthday

On today's Google home page features Google's own version of the "Turing Machine". When you click on the green play button, a set of simple puzzles will be served to you. To solve the puzzle, all you need to do is to tweak around with the buttons coloured in yellow and then click on the green play button to enter your "answer" into the Turing machine. If your "answer" manages to alter the bar of ones and zeros to match the "key" shown, you will light up one of the letters of "Google".

Well of course, if you don't know by now, this doodle is created to commemorate the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundation for the creation of the modern computer. Without him, we might probably never have personal computers, mobile phones and god knows what else...

Friday, June 1, 2012

An instant versus an ounce of gold

一寸光阴一寸金
寸金难买寸光阴
光阴却能换取金
所以光阴大过金

An interval of time, an ounce of gold.
Gold can't buy back an instant of your time.
But you can change your time for gold.
Hence your time is greater than gold.

* Its not an exact translation but the meaning is somewhat there. *
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