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Comment on My Predictions for the iPhone4 by magitam

magitam — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:00:42 +0000

Yeah, tell me about it! I decided not to join in the 'fanboy rush' this morning, but will probably grab one sometime in the next few days.. Or perhaps over the weekend.. Interesting to see the problems with antenna/reception and pixelation of screen appearing as issues.. making me think it might be worth waiting a little bit longer..

Comment on My Predictions for the iPhone4 by M van Hylckama Vlieg

M van Hylckama Vlieg — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:35:03 +0000

I'm with you. The iPhone 4 is the first edition I actually want to own, and will own (after the crazy fanboy rush has calmed down).

It seems Apple finally got it right.

Comment on My Predictions for the iPhone4 by Tweets that mention My Predictions for the iPhone4 -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention My Predictions for the iPhone4 -- Topsy.com — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:54:33 +0000

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Comment on Welcome to FarhanRehman.co.uk by Robert WoW De Souza

Robert WoW De Souza — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:28:30 +0000

Dear Farhan,

It was wonderful to meet you to learn about Social Media and how mobile is evolving. Let’s find a way to collaborate with more like minded caring, sharing leaders who want a win win plan of action.

Namaste with love and many blessings.

Robert De Souza

Comment on Welcome to FarhanRehman.co.uk by Jessan Dunn Otis

Jessan Dunn Otis — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:37:52 +0000

“…is where I’m going to just be me.”

With a curious and informed mind, that’s is the best, Farhan.

I look forward to listening, learning, sharing and enjoying the conversation.

Dance on…

Jessan

Comment on Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery? by Farhan Rehman

Farhan Rehman — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:34:20 +0000

@Dean
I did see him describe the coin toss experiment being based on nothing more than maths, but from a statistical point of view, the probability of one person accomplishing 10 successful combinations, whilst the other person only gets one combination is most definitely skewed given my basic understanding of probability and statistics..

There’s also the work of William Tiller, where thoughts have been shown to directly affect physical reality, especially in skewing seemingly ‘neutral’ probability based events, (see What The Bleep Do We Know!? for a more detailed explanation of this worldview).

There is also the work of Rupert Sheldrake that talks about morphogenetic fields, and how a group effect is both possible, and probable in terms of generating a telepathic effect, especially with his theory of morphic fields.

Comment on Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery? by Dean

Dean — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:43:29 +0000

Farhan, if you’d watched the program properly, you’d have seen that the support group of people for the coin toss experiment made no difference – it was based on maths.

Derren Brown doesn’t believe in anything psychic. Although the wisdom of crowds theory does exist, that’s not how he predicted the 6 lottery numbers. Sure, he got them together and they managed to get 4, but that final ‘prediction’ was done using a camera trick.

Comment on Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery? by Farhan Rehman

Farhan Rehman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:55:16 +0000

@Robert – hehehe, indeed.. But having read the book the Wisdom of Crowds, and understood some of the basic principles behind divining/psychic precognitive type stuff, and also seeing some of his more obvious uses of suggestive subconscious pre-suppositions, I’m curious to figure out if it’s a Wisdom of Crowds approach that did it – or the sheer desire of a large enough support group (i.e. all the people who were watching the show and wanted him to get it right), that led to him getting the right numbers.. If you think about how he got the support of a few people, to influence a few coin tosses, this isn’t that much different, just to a larger order of scale, in some regards..

@Seung-Wook, @Mark, @Luke, you’ve all been added to the list

Comment on Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery? by Robert (thirstforwine)

Robert (thirstforwine) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:49:40 +0000

You do realise it was VERY carefully set up so that when, not if, this fails to make any significant difference, he can say it was because you weren’t disinterested enough, not in the right state of mind. Have fun though!

Comment on Who Want’s to Predict the Lottery? by Luke Edge

Luke Edge — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:12:16 +0000

Sign me up Farhan . . . . . . . would come in handy at the moment!
And like yourself and mark, really interested to see if it could be done.

Luke