Saturday, March 26, 2011

New Testament View on Digitial Communications

The Bible's for it, according to Matthew 5:37:
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Indeed, this passage might even be reference to communications from the Apostles themselves. (If you can't figure out why, I'm sure some commenter will explain.)

(via Claude Shannon via James Gleick's The Information (2011), at 244)

3 comments:

MaxedOutMama said...

1s and 0s man, 1s and 0s.

Tell me, by this standard, how would you categorize President Kinetics?

@nooil4pacifists said...

M_O_M: Not sure how to do Boolean arithmetic when combined with imaginary numbers.

OBloodyHell said...

> M_O_M: Not sure how to do Boolean arithmetic when combined with imaginary numbers.

Dems have always used imaginary numbers.

You do realize that when you square an imaginary number, you get a real number.

Sorta explains a lot about Democratic budget proposals, don't it...?
:D