Uri Nieto

Recently I added some Google AdSense to this blog (www.urinieto.com).

And today I saw this amazing ad that I simply had to blog:

Oh man, I love my name.

With this great title (A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything), Jürgen Schmidhuber presents a fascinating scientific paper that tries to find an answer to the question “Is the universe computable?”

You can find the paper here.

And here there are some great quotes:

The Great Programmer does not worry about computation time. Nobody presses Him. Creatures which evolve in any of the universes don’t have to worry either. They run on local time and have no idea of how many instructions it takes the Big Computer to compute one of their time steps, or how many instructions it spends on all the other creatures in parallel universes.

Possible limitations of the Great Programmer. He does not need not be very smart. For instance, in some of His universes phenomena will appear that humans would call life. The Great Programmer won’t have to be able to recognize them.

The Great Programmer reappears. Several of the Great Programmer’s universes will feature another Great Programmer who programs another Big Computer to run all possible universes. Obviously, there are infinite chains of Great Programmers. If our own universe allowed for enough storage, enough time, and fault-free computing, then you could be one of them.

More than 2000 years of European philosophy dealt with the distinction between body and soul. The Great Programmer does not care. The processes that correspond to our brain firing patterns and the sound waves they provoke during discussions about body and soul correspond to computable substrings of our universe’s evolution. Bitstrings representing such talk may evolve in many universes. For instance, sound wave patterns representing no- tions such as body and soul and “consciousness” may be useful in everyday lan- guage of certain inhabitants of those universes. From the view of the Great Pro- grammer, though, such bitstring subpatterns may be entirely irrelevant. There is no need for Him to load them with “meaning”.

Conclusion. By stepping back and adopting the Great Programmer’s point of view, classic problems of philosophy go away.

I really enjoyed reading all of this. However, it’s sad to my religion beliefs not to have found anything related to a Flying Spaghetti Monster on this paper.

Yesterday the Sky was surreal.

It’s a tradition to this blog to list some of the achievements/facts/trips/caca that happened throughout this falling year to my humble monkey personae.

Chronologically, of course.

• MiMundoiPhone / Mobivery / Mobiguo
• Sargon Vida released in Spain by Weight Recordings
• Sargon Desgel Videoclip
• Madrid
• Leaving La Vida, Sargon Tour 2009
• Malta
• The Gods Themselves
• The Graveyard Book
• Andorra and the Templars in France
• Best Birthday Party Ever (by Diana)
• Metallica + Machine Head + Slipknot + Lamb Of God + Down + Mastodon = Alright
• North America Amazing Trip
  • New York, New York
  • México: DF, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Huatulco, Zipolite, Mazunte, …
  • La Caixa Orientation Alright: Bloomington, Chicago
  • USC: Columbia, Charlotte, Charleston
• Madrid one more time. Got my F1 VISA
• Goodbye Sargon
• Moving to California
• Stanford
• Master Student at CCRMA
• Porcupine Tree in San Francisco
• Noam Chomsky at Stanford
• Santa Cruz
• Diana (or Dynamic Interactive Audio and Noise Analyzer)
• The Sirens of the Titans
• Growl Hero
• Sol de Nit
• Uri Nieto @ CCRMA
• Lisbon

2010, here we go!
Feliç any a tothom / Happy new Year / Feliz año a todos!

Finally, the Apocalypse has started. Specifically in South Africa, where the traffic cameras have captured this punishment of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

Hell On Earth while I’m coding like a real code monkey! Hell Yeah!

I was thinking about bringing my Taylor in the plane to SF. After watching this video I think I should think twice before doing anything stupid…

I barely remembered that 26 years ago I was born when I found this in front of my door when I wanted to pee:

I think I have the greatest flatmates ever.

And after that, a Ranchera has been sung by a Mexican Princess and a cake and milk and festival de la huevada.

Joder, gràcies titans, us estimo molt!!
I el dia tot just acaba de començar! jaaaarrrrr

Wanna trip a little bit today?

Genial esto que he visto en Digg hoy:

Qué mundo más raro…

Hoy he tenido un sueño.
Y ha empezado así:

México también estaba allí.