dialog transcript of Darren Aronofsky movie “Pi”. I've always loved the movie and I think this is one of the best parts (the beginning) of it:
Restate my assumptions.
One: Mathematics
is the language of nature.Two: Everything around us
can be represented and
understood through numbers.Three: If you graph the numbers
of any system, patterns emerge.Therefore, there are patterns
everywhere in nature.Evidence:
The cycling
of disease epidemics;
the wax and wane
of caribou populations;
sun spot cycles;
the rise and fall of the Nile.So, what about
the stock market?
The universe of numbers that
represents the global economy.
Millions of hands at work,
billions of minds.
A vast network, screaming
with life. An organism.
A natural organism.My hypothesis:
Within the stock market,
there is a pattern as well…
Right in front of me,
hiding behind the numbers.
Always has been.
I just wanted to share this with who-ever is reading this.
I decided today that RTD4 should be ready before 1 / 9 / 2006, so I've set the launch date to 1 septembr 2006: in Belgium the first school-day after summer holiday.
I had a lame day: the only thing I did was impleting a sound engine in RTD4, and finishing the travel engine. It works quite nice at the moment.
When I see the work to be done I get a little demotivated… but I have to finish the project in time!]]>