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Programming / Re: What Can Python Do? by jibolash: 3:03pm On Oct 12, 2016 |
Young padawan, the question should be, What doesn't Python do? 1 Like |
Religion / Albert Einstein Did Not Believe In God! by jibolash: 2:55am On Aug 16, 2016 |
"I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it." - Albert Einstein On almost every thread in which Atheism is discussed, it is almost always inevitable that a religious person who wants to invoke scientific authority will end up saying something like "Albert Einstein believed in God". This is to say, if someone as smart as Albert Einstein believed in God, then there must be a God. Needless to say, Albert Einstein was human and therefore was fallible and so even if he claimed to be a believer, it still doesn't mean there is a God, but the opposite is the case. As Richard Dawkins pointed out, "Einstein sometimes invoked the name of God (and he is not the only atheistic scientist to do so), inviting misunderstanding by supernaturalists eager to misunderstand and claim so illustrious a thinker as their own" One of Einstein's quotes eagerly quoted by religious people is "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", but Einstein also said "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." So is Einstein contradicting himself? Let's look at more quotes for context. "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion." "I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism." "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive." "'I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings" This quote above is clear and brings a good deal of finality to the matter. For those of us who are not familiar with Spinoza, he was a very influential philosopher whose books were added to the Catholic church's index of Forbidden books. Thus, people who mindlessly repeat Einstein quotes like "God is subtle but he is not malicious" or "He does not play dice" or "Did God have a choice in creating the Universe?" have to understand that what they call God is also used by some scientists because of lack of a better word. Indeed the most well known scientist since Einstein, Stephen Hawking who is a self acclaimed Atheist also ended his world famous book (A brief history of time) with the words "For then we should know the mind of God". This statement of course is also misconstrued by religious people. In conclusion, the use of the word God among scientists, what Richard Dawkings called the Einsteinian God, does not in any way connote a spiritual or metaphysical God. In addition... This post has garnered some replies (not totally unexpected) by people who have pointed out that Einstein was not an Atheist. There is obviously nowhere in this post where I mentioned that Einstein is Atheist. Einstein's God- Spinoza's God- is not a personal God (like the God majority of religious people believe in) who wants worship everyday forever or is offended/pleased by the actions and prayers of humans. That was the point of this post. Thanks 9 Likes 3 Shares
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Programming / Re: So What Does It Mean To Be Self-taught? by jibolash: 12:08pm On Aug 18, 2015 |
Nice write-up. When it comes to programming especially, I think most of us learn ourselves. It's impossible not to, with the way things change every day and new frameworks and platforms come up. But a mentor is invaluable. Spending time pair-programming with people who have been programming for several years is always a very rewarding experience. One always picks up subtle things that can't be quickly learned by been self-taught. It may be as simple as an IDE shortcut or a terminal command or a unique way of approaching a problem. 2 Likes |
Software/Programmer Market / Re: Create Us A Facebook Video Downloader For Android For #75,000 by jibolash: 11:59am On Aug 18, 2015 |
Sound like an interesting challenge and I'll probably work on it as a personal side project. 75k for it is tantamount to slavery. There are already android apps for this tho e.g https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=to.facebookdownload&hl=en and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.giannz.videodownloader&hl=en 1 Like |
Programming / Re: Javascript Is Very Very Powerful, It's Not Just Script. by jibolash: 2:15pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
dhtml18: Thank you. |
Programming / Re: Javascript Is Very Very Powerful, It's Not Just Script. by jibolash: 3:13am On Aug 16, 2015 |
The way the OP phrased his post has made many people who haven't toyed with Javascript on the server side before to misunderstand him. Using Javascript on the server side is done with NodeJS as some people have already mentioned. Basically the syntax is still Javascript but the environment is quite different. @Nickzom Are you using a NodeJS framework or is it just pure node? I have built a couple of full stack Javascript apps using the MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS) stack. You can check them out here http://andela-asogbein.github.io/andebooksclient and here http://andela-ssunday.github.io/tangong/. Both projects are on my github. My username is andela-asogbein |
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