Analysis of In The Beginning Was Information, Part 2 – the Genetic Sequence

September 20th, 2011

Here I look at Dr. Gitt’s claims in Chapter 6.2 of “In the Beginning Was Information”, regarding life and the genetic sequence. I show the errors (both in fact and in implementation) in his attempt to show that our 4-letter genetic code is the most “optimal” of all possible codes, and how ultimately it is self-contradictory and false.

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Analysis of In The Beginning Was Information, Part 1 – the Logical Fallacy

September 13th, 2011

This is the first part of a detailed critical analysis of Dr Gitt’s book “In the Beginning Was Information”, a Creationist approach to proving God’s existence. This first part shows the fundamental logical fallacy of the book – that Dr. Gitt presupposes God in order to prove His existence.
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Resistor Component Values for Javascript

July 13th, 2011

During the creation of my resistor voltage divider (see sidebar for link), I had to generate a list of resistor values. Included is the .js file I created – it covers all values from 100 ohms to 10M ohms, from the E6 to E96 series.

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gyrator frequency calculator

February 18th, 2011

Here is my new gyrator frequency calculator. A gyrator is a type of filter used in some popular guitar pedals (ie, the Boss Mt-2 Metal Zone).
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grab classes from DOM object using jQuery

January 24th, 2011

Here I again talk about a simple concept – grabbing all of the class names of a DOM element – using a combination of a jQuery selector and the .className DOM property.

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jquery object to dom element and back again

January 24th, 2011

This is a quick detailing of how to convert a jQuery object to a DOM element and back again. Code snippet included.

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