I lived on the Big Island from 1989 to 2000, and it was interesting to see what people in the mainland thought it was like to live there. Obviously, you couldn’t portray Hawaii like it actually is for a movie that would just confuse people so those cliche things are in this one, but it’s funny. 50 First Dates is about a woman who damages her memory in an accident. She does not have long term memory, so she forgets everything that she has done from one day to the next. But along comes Henry Roth who has made it his pickup game to be someone who is not to hook up with women who come to Hawaii and are only going to be there for a brief amount of time.
In the scene above they meet 10 second Tom. “Hi, I’m Tom” and then you talk to Tom and tell him all the interesting things you did today and “Hi I’m Tom” he forgot it all.
If you consider a task of something T(s) as a function of time in seconds. In order for the task T to be completed it must do whatever the task is. For simplicity let’s consider we are going to sort our dresser. The job is not done until the drawer is completely sorted. At first the dresser is highly unorganized so the time it takes is longer. However later on this task becomes much quicker because the dresser is started in a more organized state. The time that the task to complete reduces as the initial requirement is not as daunting to go from completely unorganized to organized.
Now that is a simple task, doesn’t require much to do or effort. Instead of sorting a dresser, imagine you have to sort a list of names into alphabetical order. You’d take an unsorted list of names and work your way through it. The time it takes to complete the task is subject to the amount of data or items to sort. Let’s say the list is 10 items, the time it takes to sort it is small. Depending on how you approach the problem your algorithm is subject to what is called big O notation, given a set n and algorithm the worst-case time complexity is n, n^2, n! etc. The best sorting algorithm is n*log(n) I think, you can’t have a constant time sort because it takes a comparison to order things.
If you consider that time is the inverse of gravity ( not entirely true but let’s go with that ) you could in theory do your task on a planet that has smaller or no gravity and the time that flows goes much slower until you realize you can do things that take a long time on Earth much quicker on planet whatever. With that information you know you really could “Hi I’m Tom.”
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Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.