Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content

The Skeptical Zone

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."

The Skeptical Zone

Main menu

  • Home
  • About this site….
  • Rules
  • Sandbox (4)
    • Sandbox (3)
    • Sandbox (2)
    • Sandbox (1)
  • Moderation Issues (6)
    • Moderation Issues (5)
    • Moderation Issues (4)
    • Moderation Issues (3)
    • Moderation Issues (2)
    • Moderation Issues (1)
  • Noyau (2)
    • Noyau (1)
  • Messages
  • Guano (3)
    • Guano (2)
    • Guano (1)
  • Contact

Tag Archives: Humor

Shell sort [edited to provoke]

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Tom English
14

[Distinguishable entities operating identically by simple rules can form structures high in specified complexity. That is, the crabs in the video differ in size, but not in the “program” they execute. Want more specified complexity? Just add crabs.]

Not to mistaken for the Shellsort algorithm devised by Donald Shell (1924-2015).

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Humor, Nature | 14 Replies

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Recent Comments

  • Flint on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • Flint on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on An AI loses it
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Flint on Trump and mental illness
  • Flint on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • Flint on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Flint on Trump and mental illness
  • Flint on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Moderation Issues (6)
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • petrushka on Moderation Issues (6)
  • Neil Rickert on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • Neil Rickert on Moderation Issues (6)
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Moderation Issues (6)
  • Neil Rickert on Moderation Issues (6)
  • Neil Rickert on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on An AI loses it
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • Neil Rickert on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • J-Mac on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • dazz on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • J-Mac on According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • keiths on The rear story behind our hands
  • J-Mac on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • J-Mac on Trump and mental illness
  • J-Mac on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • J-Mac on The rear story behind our hands
  • keiths on Moderation Issues (6)
  • dazz on Moderation Issues (6)
  • keiths on The rear story behind our hands
  • J-Mac on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • J-Mac on The rear story behind our hands
  • J-Mac on Antivax
  • J-Mac on Antivax
  • keiths on The rear story behind our hands
  • keiths on Moderation Issues (6)
  • Neil Rickert on Moderation Issues (6)
  • J-Mac on The rear story behind our hands
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • dazz on Moderation Issues (6)
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • petrushka on An AI loses it
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on An AI loses it
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Candace Owens sets the record straight
  • colewd on Trump and mental illness
  • petrushka on An AI loses it
  • petrushka on An AI loses it
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on An AI loses it
  • Allan Miller on An AI loses it
  • keiths on An AI loses it
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • Kantian Naturalist on Trump and mental illness
  • Allan Miller on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on Trump and mental illness
  • keiths on An AI loses it

Recent Posts

  • According to historian Tad Stoermer, Liberal Nationalists are enabling far right MAGA extremists, and the consequences could be dire.
  • The rear story behind our hands
  • An AI loses it
  • Antivax
  • Trump and mental illness
  • Pascal’s Wager revisited
  • Candace Owens sets the record straight
  • A William Lane Craig “mic drop”?
  • Is the Testimonium Flavianum authentic? Why a prominent scholar thinks so
  • Since it’s likely my final “scholarly publication”….
  • The Great US Military UFO Hoax
  • Thoughts from another infinity skeptic
  • LDS Scholar Terryl Givens: What is God? And where did Christianity go wrong?
  • Does the square root of 2 exist?
  • Annaka Harris: Is Consciousness Fundamental?
  • Wildberger makes waves
  • Michael Alter debunks Gary Habermas’s “Minimal Facts” Case for the Resurrection
  • Are you smart enough for the Oval Office?
  • A critique of the Trump tariff policy and formula
  • Worth watching: ChatGPT debates DeepSeek on the existence of God
  • Defending Phil Halper
  • Could this new idea explain the laws of nature?
  • The Marian apparitions at Zeitoun: Better evidence for Christianity than the Resurrection?
  • Clear as mud: Christian apologist Sam Shamoun fails to explain the Trinity. Does Joshua Sijuwade do a better job?
  • Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: I Believe the Universe Might Be Able to Think
  • Cameron Bertuzzi on Why Atheism is Silly
  • 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Christianity
  • The problem of evil — for atheists?
  • George Lakoff on the toughest objection to immortality
  • Trump’s rambling speeches
  • Panpsychist philosopher Philip Goff explains his reasons for converting to a form of Christianity; James Fodor and Robin Collins debate fine-tuning
  • IMBeggar on divine hiddenness
  • Mindshift: Everything I’ve Ever Wanted to Say on the Problem of Evil/Suffering
  • Luke: An Eyewitness Account?
  • Top three Eucharistic miracles debunked by Catholic chemist Dr. Stacy Trasancos
  • Origins of Life: The Protein Folding Problem all over again
  • Is the Discovery Institute living in a time warp? (Part Two)
  • Is the Discovery Institute living in a time warp? (Part One)
  • TSZ is back!
  • Experts DESTROY Darwin’s Theory in 16 Minutes?

Archives

Blogroll

  • Barnbarroch Pottery
  • Birds as Art
  • Bounded Science
  • Canute's Efficient Running
  • Good Math, Bad Math
  • hairy music reviews
  • inigo web design
  • On Kalam
  • Secular Café
  • Talk Rational
  • The Daily Wingnut
  • The Panda's Thumb
  • Todd's Blog
  • Uncommon Descent

Categories

  • 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (22)
  • Active threads (9)
  • Announcements (25)
  • Education and Communication (63)
  • Ethics and morality (78)
  • Evolution (424)
  • Fine Tuning (11)
  • Gender (1)
  • Information Theory (52)
  • Intelligent Design (315)
  • Life Sciences (71)
  • Mathematics (46)
  • Metaphysics (72)
  • Mind and brain (76)
  • Origin of life (43)
  • Penguins et al (40)
  • Philosophy (129)
  • Philosophy of Science (113)
  • Physics (31)
  • Politics (6)
  • Politics (26)
  • Probability and statistics (69)
  • Stories (28)
  • Theism and atheism (150)
  • Uncategorized (686)
  • Upright BiPed's Semiotic Theory of ID (7)
Proudly powered by WordPress