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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
a long time ago, i bought two pilot mechanical pencils- one pink and one black. its that type where you push the eraser at its end to push the lead out.
recently, the lead in those pencils ran out cause i dropped them/used them up. so i went to popular and got two more pink and black pilot pencils.
it was quite amusing just now in school when i took out my new pink pilot pencil, clicked its end to make the lead come out, and lo and behold; a pen's tip emerges. the two pencils i'd bought turned out to be pens.
great. now i have an excess of pens and only one pencil.
mdm tay showed us a documentary on polar bears just now. it was really cute :) i was wishing i could be a polar bear, after seeing the first part of the documentary. so fun la, just dig your own home/roll around in the snow. then again succeeding in less than 2% of your seal kill attempts is quite the sad...hmm, the mummy bear was quite motherly. aah, the poor little bird at the end of the documentary :( after fending off the two evil birds, it reaches the water...to be scooped up by another bird. oh well- as yaseer says, 'its the circle of life'.
i want to watch a movie! i have: lord of the rings- return of the king, extended version in HD, princess mononoke dvd gifted to me by my beloved ee mentor (LOL who knew he watched so many studio ghibli movies.), laputa: castle in the sky, pan's labyrinth (that was really good) and, uh, zoolander. i remember watching the last one in class with some others and stopping halfway because it was so incredibly retarded.
oh, i finished my tok essay on monday- yesterday. it took the entire freaking day, which was quite messed up since my dad made me come up with a timetable on sunday night for the whole of monday. in the morning there was this section allotted to TOK that said: Finishing up TOK Essay: 8.45-10am. turned out to be something like 8.45-8.45. that quote on tok does actually apply...
Quote #165
Writing a TOK essay is like being constipated. It hurts like hell and you produce crap very slowly.
pardon the expletives~well anyway, tok IS still fun imo. but after awhile (say, 12 hours?) you tend to get sick of the recursiveness of the entire subject. and well, sometimes you're just too noob to understand stuffs... i came across some 'propositionary theory of truth' or somethinglikethat- my brain was wrecked enough and i didn't bother spending anymore juice to understand that. gave the link to cheryl- maybe she'll be able to make more headway on that.
yay, PE tomorrow. time to get all shacked and tired and into an impossibly lethargic state so studying for econs test on thursday is impossible. i hope we get to play badminton!
shucks, since i have so much time let's pick out a TOK question to look at just for the fun of it! obviously i shall avoid my own question - no. 8- since i'm sick of it and spreading elements of my essay on the internet wouldn't be the wisest thing to do...
question 10: a model is a simplified representation of the world. in what ways may models help or hinder the search for knowledge?
this looked a lot more refreshing than all the others questions for some reason. the first thing i thought of was the water-in-a-pipe analogy they use as an aid to teach current and electricity in physics (i never really did understand it, though). anyway...
the question seems kind enough to you to give you a definition of 'model'. but being paranoid and suspicious, i'd say it's forcing you into a corner and you can/should? probably expand on that definition in the first part of your essay to give you more breathing room- that is to say, breadth to discuss. what does that mean?
say, i want to discuss the normal distribution of human IQ as a model. but does that example fit into the question's definition of model? maybe not- that's why you might have to widen that definition before you could use such an example. at the same time when you liberalize the definition, you could probably elaborate on the obvious- how a model is meant to simplify so we can understand things clearer. then go deeper- why does something that's not the actual 'thing' but a simplified version help us understand? here, it seems quite necessary to discuss occam's razor and the whole idea of parsimony so i'd go into that while discussing the claim. one might even like to quote the acronym 'KISS' here...which translates to, 'keep it simple, ____' the last word is pretty obvious, heh. okay maybe not really but go find out yourself.
how about the counterclaim? it turns out there's actually a foil to occam's razor- namely, Crabtree's Bludgeon. yes, funny name, but it might make sense if you explain it properly. quoted from my favourite site, wikipedia:
Crabtree's Bludgeon is a foil to Occam's Razor, and may be expressed so:
"No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated."
it actually makes sense- to me, it means no matter how random and varied our observations of something are, we'll somehow make sense out of it and come up with an explanation that, well, successfully explains every observation we had of that thing. the problem i have with this, however, is how this actually relates back to occam's razor. it seems a bit distant if you ask me, but if you read up more on this and fit it into your counterclaim...it'd be quite good i think.
i feel so much more awake now! now i shall go do some math and then, more wikipedia.
9:20 AM
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