330 - coding and future
This post is the result of a realization ... (bodhodayom eannu pacha malluil pareyum) ... i started this blog to post intellectually stimulating problems ... but later on spiralled down to my everyday problems ... vannu vannu theerae thara ayi poyi blog #-o .. i started posting just personal things ... see and the blog is named random thoughts :-L ... i wanted to restore the previous glory of the blog ... ok ok i kno i kno ... athrekonum illa ... eankilum ... from today im starting my advanced concepts and theories :P ... anyway i fear if i tell something about god or his position i may have to face severe hardships in the future ... so i will try to steer clear from those things ... so on to our subject ....
Encoding
Everyone has a name ..right? ... but there are numerous other persons who have the same name ... hmm? ... even in our immediate friends circle we may have to turn to pet names or nick names to distinguish similarly named persons ... right?
Now .. everyone have a birthdate ... social security number ... PIN number ... birthplace .. time of birth ... and numerous other numbers ... sooo many to remember?
The Problem is simply said we have to revert to many parameters to uniquely identify a human being or any other living thing ... or even inanimate things like a tv set, a computer hard disc, even sun glasses need to have serial numbers and batch numbers to track them through out their life span and beyond ....
The solution ... to uniquely identify a person, animal, living thing or non living thing, only a fixed number of parameters are necessary ... for example lets take date, time, co-ordinates on the surface of earth .. these three will suffice for the scientific advancement as of now to uniquely identify anything which is born or produced ... there mayb numerous other things which anyone may want to enter as extra information to this ...
Coding ... make an algorithm that is capable of encoding all the parameters given to it into an uniquely identifiable string of 26 alphabetical characters ... or any; i choose 26 caz itz the number of letters in english alphabet ;)
Problems solved ...
1)Naming humans
2)Call anyone or anything by the last 2,3 or four characters combined ... or everyone can have their own chosen combination(personalised names) of letters to call someone or something ...
3)You no longer have to remember DOB, time, place of birth etc ...
4)Any other additional information you wanted in your birth certificate can also be entered into your name
5)You can even encode your family history, vital records etc into your name
6)Doctors no longer have to refresh your memory to learn about your family health history
7)All types of serial numbering can be replaced universaly
8)All linguistic classification .. or the proliferation of new words due to the advancement of technology ... or simply said the growth of the dictionary can be slowed ... making the life of translators and new comers to the language easier... (i didnt say stopped caz i had nt explained some other thing ... in nxt post mayb)
How? ... it must be built into the algorithm to come up with a string of uniquely identifiable tag anywhere in the string of 26 charas as per the properties of the thing ... machines or gadgets can be assiged names by the algorithm based on their inherent properties, shape, size, pictorial representation anything ... let the algorithm decide ... it will be more efficient in naming than steve jobes or bill gates ... ipod will come and go ... but if it was named "XVX" by such an algorithm ... that class of gadget would have been etched into human history ...
and will solve numerous other problems that we are facing now
Problems created ...
1)of course the first and most important problem is designing such a perfect algorithm.
2)properties and parameters of living and non-living things to consider
3)pronunciation ... mayb we have to come up with an entire new branch of phonetics
4)changing the current system of naming and serial numbering ...
5)learning new names for already established classes of things ... "ZVN" substituting bus mayb unthinkable for some ...
and may create a lot of other problems that i fail to foresee ...
PS:- far in the future naming will be done by the government ;) ... it had already begun ... social security numbers ... PIN numbers ... ID numbers etc ... its just a matter of time ...
ok mayb not so new ... but if we advance this a little more (nxt post ;) ) ... we have to rethink ... what is more efficient and what is not ... if there are more efficient ways to progress :-? ... think think .... tc byee
--
love
bp
People die younger.. because god loves them so much..
I am still on earth.. because there's a goddess here who loves me more..
Encoding
Everyone has a name ..right? ... but there are numerous other persons who have the same name ... hmm? ... even in our immediate friends circle we may have to turn to pet names or nick names to distinguish similarly named persons ... right?
Now .. everyone have a birthdate ... social security number ... PIN number ... birthplace .. time of birth ... and numerous other numbers ... sooo many to remember?
The Problem is simply said we have to revert to many parameters to uniquely identify a human being or any other living thing ... or even inanimate things like a tv set, a computer hard disc, even sun glasses need to have serial numbers and batch numbers to track them through out their life span and beyond ....
The solution ... to uniquely identify a person, animal, living thing or non living thing, only a fixed number of parameters are necessary ... for example lets take date, time, co-ordinates on the surface of earth .. these three will suffice for the scientific advancement as of now to uniquely identify anything which is born or produced ... there mayb numerous other things which anyone may want to enter as extra information to this ...
Coding ... make an algorithm that is capable of encoding all the parameters given to it into an uniquely identifiable string of 26 alphabetical characters ... or any; i choose 26 caz itz the number of letters in english alphabet ;)
Problems solved ...
1)Naming humans
2)Call anyone or anything by the last 2,3 or four characters combined ... or everyone can have their own chosen combination(personalised names) of letters to call someone or something ...
3)You no longer have to remember DOB, time, place of birth etc ...
4)Any other additional information you wanted in your birth certificate can also be entered into your name
5)You can even encode your family history, vital records etc into your name
6)Doctors no longer have to refresh your memory to learn about your family health history
7)All types of serial numbering can be replaced universaly
8)All linguistic classification .. or the proliferation of new words due to the advancement of technology ... or simply said the growth of the dictionary can be slowed ... making the life of translators and new comers to the language easier... (i didnt say stopped caz i had nt explained some other thing ... in nxt post mayb)
How? ... it must be built into the algorithm to come up with a string of uniquely identifiable tag anywhere in the string of 26 charas as per the properties of the thing ... machines or gadgets can be assiged names by the algorithm based on their inherent properties, shape, size, pictorial representation anything ... let the algorithm decide ... it will be more efficient in naming than steve jobes or bill gates ... ipod will come and go ... but if it was named "XVX" by such an algorithm ... that class of gadget would have been etched into human history ...
and will solve numerous other problems that we are facing now
Problems created ...
1)of course the first and most important problem is designing such a perfect algorithm.
2)properties and parameters of living and non-living things to consider
3)pronunciation ... mayb we have to come up with an entire new branch of phonetics
4)changing the current system of naming and serial numbering ...
5)learning new names for already established classes of things ... "ZVN" substituting bus mayb unthinkable for some ...
and may create a lot of other problems that i fail to foresee ...
PS:- far in the future naming will be done by the government ;) ... it had already begun ... social security numbers ... PIN numbers ... ID numbers etc ... its just a matter of time ...
ok mayb not so new ... but if we advance this a little more (nxt post ;) ) ... we have to rethink ... what is more efficient and what is not ... if there are more efficient ways to progress :-? ... think think .... tc byee
--
love
bp
People die younger.. because god loves them so much..
I am still on earth.. because there's a goddess here who loves me more..
posted by bp | 9/10/2006 02:24:00 PM
4 Comments:
nice idea.
But there is another problem ie a huge data base need to be maintained for every single person on earth.
I am not sure how the problem of security is solved
If you know my name -you know all my details and that is too bad
Probably u can use some layered architecture where u need special permission to decipher certain portions of the name.
Personally I am against such an idea.
I just dont want to become a stupid string of characters.
You may tell that even my present name is like that. but....
one more thing
this is for ur kanthari and she may feel bored reading all these hi-fi tech articles
Yeah i forgot about security ... a layered approach will be a sensible one .. for which one need to provide additional parameters to decipher really sensitive info ... or u can use a some sort of liquid storage of data ... which changes from time to time and acess methods also change from time to time ... mayb like quantum cryptography ... i dont even kno what im talking about here #-o ...
your name is already too stupid a string of characters for a western person ... "babu kalyanam" doesnt convey any special meaning to an american ... like that a russian or chinese name wil be incomprehensible to us ... come on dude .. once established the system will work fine ... universally recognisable and acceptable .. like a simple smile ...
and she wont be feeling bored ... caz earlier she's like ... looking forward to more of my random thoughts and all ... i guess she will appreciate it :-? ... ini allae? :-/ ... naaa ... i kno her
thats why i have another name
bobgali <-> Babu Kalyanam
which is easier to pronounce for people in the west ;-)
(Thanks to the movie Boyz)
see even my mail id is
bob.gali@indiatimes.com
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