http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=15 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:36:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=15#comment-961 Ze titel of ze blog » Astrology and Other Hash Functions for the Masses Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:05:30 +0000 http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=15#comment-961 [...] The important feature of the astrological hash functions is not avoiding collisions. On the contrary, they WANT to have many people in the same category (so they can sell them ’special’ jewellery, etc). No, the best feature is that the algorithm for calculating them is known to the sca… practicioners , and whomever of them you visit for a second oppinion (as a layman’s scientific test) he would arrive at the same predictions as the first one. Obivously, as the two haven’t met (or didn’t have time to, or live 1000km apart), their ’science’ must be correct! [...] […] The important feature of the astrological hash functions is not avoiding collisions. On the contrary, they WANT to have many people in the same category (so they can sell them ’special’ jewellery, etc). No, the best feature is that the algorithm for calculating them is known to the sca… practicioners , and whomever of them you visit for a second oppinion (as a layman’s scientific test) he would arrive at the same predictions as the first one. Obivously, as the two haven’t met (or didn’t have time to, or live 1000km apart), their ’science’ must be correct! […]

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