I worry about all these court cases and congressional committees that look into and describe in detail all the bad things that have been done, successfully, by our government.
Anyone remember the Church Committee reports?
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art4.html
I winced seeing Chavez handing Obama that book titled "Opening the Veins of South America ..." thinking it cautionary rather than instructive.
"It's a cookbook!"
This thread reminded me of Making Light, so, xref:
http://scienceblogs.com/bushwells/2009/03/what_one_word_tips_you_off_tha.php
> 'zombie banks'
Ding!
Paul Krugman: Nationalize the zombies, restore private enterprise
By Paul Krugman
Updated: 02/23/2009 05:08:06 PM CST
"boyonet fittings"
Oh dear. Really?
... about 1,420 English pages for boyonet ...
Dean Kamen is quoted in the article saying"
"... Most big companies seem to misconstrue Darwin's ideas about which species survive ....
"I think what Darwin really was saying was: It's not the fittest, not the smartest, not the strongest; it's the ones that can adapt to change ..."
Actually, it's the number of grandchildren that survive. And companies don't _have_ grandchildren. That's one big problem of the "immortal corporation" idea, isn't it?
I've saved all the "log me out" links I see to a folder, and on occasion click "open all in folder"-- it's always surprising.
How come there isn't a simple transparent tool available for keeping track of who's keeping track of you, on a realtime basis?
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"He found himself gazing into a glittering, interested brown eye ... The chimp was looking through the keyhole to see what the psychologist was doing."
-- Murray Leinster, "Keyhole"
> let there be no reason now for any
> American to fail
It's a prayer.
Like "and crown thy good with brotherhood" and "patriot's dream that sees, across the years, thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears"
-- these are, as they say, forward-looking statements, not guarantees of performance.
"Wouldn't it be nice if we were grownups ..."
> ... he doesn't have the experience ...
> he's going to turn us into a socialist country
You can't conclude inexperience causes socialism -- certainly not just by looking at Palin.
Yes, she doesn't have the experience.
Yes, she's governer of a socialist state.
But Alaska's been socialist since the oil money started flowing into the citizens' pockets.
Palin just moved into the chair as governor of a socialist state, she didn't make it one.
Jaynes, _Bicameral_Mind_
Google Scholar finds much still being written, including
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18851007
And I really liked _Blindsight_.
For bad sources, there's
www.oism.org/pproject/
Is it now yet?
> start playing sound before the user
> clicks on them
They're just demonstrating their total control.
You should install NoScript and set them as untrusted.
Worth a look, because the core skill is error detection, much studied:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.3114
Implications of Human Error Research for Spreadsheet Research and Practice
----excerpt----
... human error has been studied for over a century across a number of human cognitive domains, including linguistics, writing, ....
The research that does exist is disturbing because it shows that humans are unaware of most of their errors. This “error blindness†leads people to many incorrect beliefs about error rates and about the difficulty of detecting errors. In general, they are overconfident, substantially underestimating their own error rates and overestimating their ability to reduce and detect errors. This “illusion of control†also leads them to hold incorrect beliefs....
...
Some of the best human error research has been done in writing. Research on human writing, for instance, has shown that writing is extremely mentally demanding. When a person is typing or writing, they are also concerned about the grammar of the entire sentence as well as what he or she has already said and what he or she still plans to stay to complete the story or argument [Flower & Hayes, 1980; Hayes & Flower, 1980].
Figure 3 shows error rates by level. For mechanical actions, such as typing characters or words, human accuracy is 99.5% to 99.8%. At the level of complex thoughts, such as sentences, accuracy falls to 95% to 98%. At the level of a document, accuracy is 0%, in the sense that any document of nontrivial length will contain grammatical and spelling errors [Panko, 2007a]. ...
------end excerpt----------
This is a task requiring specialist statistical analysis.
Can I still say that?
"Don't eat the snow this winter. Tell the other kids." -- my dad, North Carolina, late 1950s.
Much later, I was able to figure out why.
"... The states were Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia in the South, and Nevada, Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming in the West. "
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/SecretFallout/
I just reread Bruce Sterling's "Zenith Angle" and was impressed by how, well, naive it seems just a few years later. At the time it seemed horrific.
He describes the piddling little dotcom meltdown as a huge economic disaster, for example. As perhaps it seemed then. Hoo ha. And the espionage? I'll leave it to the extperts to say.
In retrospect, seems like failure of imagination, failure of nerve, compared to today's daily news.
Well, except for the clear insight that nobody's going to do anything really energetic to fix the known problems. That has certainly continued to be true.
Hoodathunkit, as they say over at http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/
Lots and lots of CNN spam since it started.
Number caught increasing steadily (Postini at work and SpamCop at home are doing a good job catching these now, after some got through last week).
Look up "semantic differential" for the original work, which I recall from 40 years ago found three common clusters:
evaluative (Good-Bad)
potency (Strong-Weak)
activity (Active-Passive)
Quick look with Google Scholar finds it's still quite an active area of research, e.g.
http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/4/573
Psychology of Music, Vol. 34, No. 4, 573-587 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0305735606068105
© 2006 Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research
The dimensions of baroque music performance: a semantic differential study
My hunch is you've got new names for the three clusters described in the research -- they're pretty fundamental to how people perceive the world.
> prhm 455:
> So if he were cast as Bottom in A Midsummer
> Night's Dream, you would veto his participation?
We took our niece and nephew to see that at Ashland Shakespeare years ago, and they remembered it very clearly. It definitely helped them define what behavior to avoid. Recommended.
Oooh! Shiny!!
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2008/07/remember_the_good_old_days.php
http://pwnie-awards.org/2008/
http://www.ybo-interactive.com/blog/2008/03/30/wordpress-vulnerability/
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