Natural disasters figure prominently for both.
Neither necessarily follows international conventions.
In their own ways - doing their part to increase carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
When they speak, it's kind of surreal.
I gather, both on the same page with this stem cell business.
Essentially kind of hard to explain rationally.
More like this
Last thursday, I introduced the construction of John Conway's beautiful surreal numbers. Today I'm going to show you how to do arithmetic using surreals. It's really quite amazing how it all works!
Late last summer, shortly after moving to ScienceBlogs, I wrote a couple of posts about Surreal numbers. I've always meant to write more about them. but never got around to it. But Conway's book actually makes pretty decent train reading, so I've been reading it during my new commute.
In my last post on the surreals, I introduced how the surreal numbers are constructed. It's really fascinating to look back on it - to see the structure of numbers from 0 to infinity and beyond, and realize that ultimately, that it's all built from nothing but the empty set!
Surreal numbers are a beautiful, simple, set-based construction that allows you to create and represent all real numbers, so that they behave properly; *and* in addition, it allows you to create infinitely large and infinitely small values, and have *them* behave and interact in a consistent way
Let me just add that this is one of my many (many) rejected pieces, and that I'm interested in whether there are other Bush vs Bush items that could be added to such a list.
(was it the new Jess filter that caught you?)
No, I sent it straight to John - with the usual "good things to say, bad things to say" reply (the most useful kind of response really). Funny, but my favourites are 3 and 5, his were 4 and 6.
...Here, I thought of another one:
How's that for twee.
* Both claim to speak on behalf of God.
* The burning bush turned Moses' staff into a snake, whereas many of Bush's staff are snakes.
Too sciency? Nevermind.