November 18, 2007
Divine formulae
PlayQuestion 2 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the guidelines :)
1.
Link to MP3 file for those of you who don’t have flash support ( like iPhone users )
Who is song 1 a tribute to. (The part of the song which carries the answer is beeped out)
Hint: 2 is the title of another song composed by the same artist
2. 
VikraM, Abhishek and Bikiran have cracked the theme! They walk away with 4 points!!
Congrats!! and brilliant work, guys!
Cracked by: sidsen , Mahesh , shivathilak , VikraM , udupendra , iamniks , Anirudh , bobo , Abhishek , prasanth , ram , Keerthi Kiran M , A Nony Mouse , yaksha , deepak , nisha’s thambi , gammafunction , Ganesh Prasad , 2ndratequizzer and Tathagata Chatterjee. (and bikiran)
The name beeped out in 1 is Benoit Mandelbrot.
1 is a song called “Mandelbrot set” by Jonathan Coulton.
2 is called a “Code Monkey”, which is another song composed by him.
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November 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195388108 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 8:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195416370 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 8:10 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195416629 )
Theme: Theoretical Physics
November 18th, 2007 at 8:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195417607 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 8:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195418075 )
Theme: scientists during world war II and the nazi regime.
OR
Sceintists from Eastern europe, poland germany etc? basically countries other than the allies.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195418564 )
Benoit Mandelbrot…..
the artist is Jonathan Coulton.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195418734 )
theme:
computer bugs….(?) Heisenbugs,Mandelbugs,Bohrbugs,Schroedinbugs and Stotles
November 18th, 2007 at 9:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195421235 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195422375 )
Benoit Mandelbrot : “father of fractal geometry”..
hint2 is the sond named “Code Monkey” by Jonathan Coulton.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195428257 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
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mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 11:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195429274 )
benoit mandelbrot
November 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195429579 )
Theme : Unusual software bug
Heisenbugs
Mandelbugs
Bohrbug
November 18th, 2007 at 11:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195429620 )
is the theme “chaos” ?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195434521 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 19th, 2007 at 1:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195436649 )
The song is about Benoit Mandelbrot
Sung by Jonathan Coulton
November 19th, 2007 at 3:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195442883 )
Theme:
Paradigm shift
Uncertainity principle by Heisenberg introduced particle-wave duality.
Mandelbrot’s fractals gave an approach to model reallife things like mountain ranges, lightning bolt etc…
November 19th, 2007 at 4:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195447058 )
Benoît Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
November 19th, 2007 at 5:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195449414 )
The song is Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton.Therefore it’s a tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot of fractal fame.
2 is presumably “Code Monkey”.
googled.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195450224 )
theme-determinism?
November 19th, 2007 at 5:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195450378 )
benoit mandelbrot
November 19th, 2007 at 6:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195452836 )
1. is Mandelbrot.of the Mandelbrot curves
please avoid having audio clues from now on as I was unable to access it from behind a firewall.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195455779 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 19th, 2007 at 8:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195460184 )
Benoit Mandelbrot
November 19th, 2007 at 8:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195460440 )
Jonathan coulton wrote the song, and thats the code monkey
November 19th, 2007 at 8:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195461971 )
Mandelbrot.( The Fractals Guy?!)
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
November 19th, 2007 at 9:14 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195463698 )
the film Primer?
November 19th, 2007 at 11:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195472933 )
Unusual software bug … possible theme ?
November 19th, 2007 at 11:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195473114 )
heisenbug … mandelbug … next should be bohrbug …schroedinbug ..
November 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195481490 )
Benoit Mandelbrot