Memory is tricky. I don't question your story. However I have pictures and the assurance of my parents and relatives that my dad used to bet people that at age of 3.5 yrs I could read even though, obviously, I understood little of what was written. Yet my earliest memory is from age of 4-4.5 yrs. Go figure...
I am re-reading the whole musketeer saga in my native language. Last time was 30 years ago. Dumas is blamed for watering down the plot because he published the books in newspapers I believe, so he was paid by the word. I think we all agree such behavior by authors is not unknown today even though newspapers are not used;) Anyway, I enjoy it very much.
Another author I read is perhaps less known to Western audience - Boris Akunin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin]. Sherlock Holmes type adventures in tzarist Russia. What is interesting here is that the books are of very high quality (the author is a playwright and scholar of Japanese poetry and culture) and each story has distinct style, reflecting the types of stories in this genre. One reads like A. Kristie another like Conan Doyle and so on...in that respect he reminds me of Terry Pratchett. I have no observations on the quality of the English translation.
I guess there is a reason behind the oath you need to take in court. The truth, the whole truth and noting but the truth, if I remember right. Deviation from those requirements results in information which is unreliable, can be misleading and basically amounts to a lie, as you point out. Sounds quite reasonable to me...see also logical deconstruction of an average advertisement. Everything stated in the ad is true, yet it misleads you to draw conclusion about the product or service that is not true.
News reporting is business (the goal is money not accurate reporting) and an obvious target of all sorts of political agendas with the invertible corruption that would occur and other highly undesirable outcomes. The worst situation possible....while having no dictator or state control like we had behind the wall. The more a live the more I realize how meaningless the political labels are, yet we focus on them rather than the actual, measurable outcomes that the proposed systems produce...
My HTC desire lasted for 5 years and just after the battery was replaced I lost it in the train. However it was made almost obsolete around the 3rd year via app 'upgrades'
Clasical music is a subset of concert music and refers to particular time period in the development of concert music. Thus a composer today might create simphony very much like Mozatr's but it won't be called clasical. Source: audio lectures on history of music from famous dude working in Chicago's conservatory.
Interesting! For once I agreed with him regarding AI and the key phrase was "without singularity".
Do we deny, however, that "simple machine learning" (which the journalists, corporate PR, and therefore politicians call AI) applied on big data can be used (very successfully) as social engineering tool? Or tool for economic and military advantage? What follows form that? War, pure and simple.
Such - let's take the social part - powerful tool (how many stories per day about censorship, using bid data to come after people, change minds, push agendas, Google pushing whatever, MZ for president, fake news, spying on friends, spying on enemies, requiting trrists, hacking elections, etc. we have) brings completely new opportunities on he table. And it is powerful - wars are lost due to public opinion (Vietnam!). And guess who is first with the knife and fork ready to exploit the new possibilities? Politics, the eternal damnation of out civilization...Just that, social part of it...but some will argue that it is the most powerful one, above the pure military applications which are, of course yet another can of giant anacondas...assume that I have written as much on that part as above with one "call a friend" phrase to guide you - "arms race". And another equally long one on the economic warfare in the context of "AI".
AI certainly deserves the " " at the moment and if Penrose is to be believed it will forever be like that. I don't know and from pure geek point of view I am very eager for humanity to give it its best shot. Alas, that "not AI at all" machine learning is enough for WWIII. I agree with Elon.
How about yogurt? When I had to remove grain from my diet it was substituted with milk products (but not milk itself). ATM I'm on 5 to 7 liters yogurt per week...no problem except finding source of real sour milk (proper name) which turned out to be small farm coming once per week to the city market....when the farmers go on vacation I really suffer:)
The pasta is a special case...since I can't make good one I never included it in the experiments. There is something with the grain and myself though. I'm not gluten intolerant but somehow my tolerance for grains is very low. Still I can eat 2 to 3 grain based meals per week without ill effects. So pasta is probably ok too in moderation...need to find good restaurant or Italian friend to test... Some additional advice I forgot to tell: - don't abuse alcohol. - smoking is bad for digestion (among other things). - if I'm pressed with a gun on my head to name a single offender in modern-day diet it would be sugary drinks of all kinds including the 100 percent fruit juice.
On/. we have been discussing this for at least 5 years now. I lost count how many times I laid my personal experience which was nothing short of profound. When you have suffered for 7 years, being on daily medication and it all goes away in 5 days!!! once you change the diet...well that is what I call "enlightenment"
The healthy pyramid is (starting from the fondaiton) Protein-->Fat-->Carbs.
Eat proper butter, not any kind of skimmed, low-fat, and margarine type shit. Eat eggs; lots of them Eat veggies; lots of them Eat diary; either lots or moderate (that actually is rather person specific so test yourself) Eat meat; moderately (more chicken, less beef but have your rib eye every now and then - it's good for ya) Eat fish; moderately (because of pollution, alas, otherwise you can hardly eat too much fish) Do not eat sugar in any form (a bit of honey occasionally is OK) Eat fruits; moderately (sugar!) Do not eat grain in any form (as this is almost impossibly expensive at least try to minimize it)
However, the biggest news is that universal recipes do not exist. Nuts a good food, eh? No, not fo me, but for Sara they are excellent. So what to do:
1. Univariate analysis - create a diet (consisting of the simplest, basic, one size fits all approach) per week and repeat it for a month. Then start introducing 1 variation per day and monitor the outcome. Over time you fill the database with foods that are good for you. If you want to go deeper include as variable the method os preparation (e.g. boiled potatoes are bad for me, but baked are OK).
2. Multivariate analysis - assign responses rated for example 1-10 on: gas; bloating; stool hardness; skin response (itching, eczemas), pain in gut, burning sensation while pissing etc. Your doctor can help you with that (e.g. my skin reacts within 1 hour after meal; if I ate something that disagrees with me I get attack of itching). Collect food vs outcome for a couple of months. Run PCA/PLS analysis or something like that and figure out the good and bad foods. Over time you emerge with a "basket" of what works best for you and you eat this until the end.
Don't be silly, you know what he meant. The hilarity is he is correct....I grew up in communist state and they used to scream 'fascist, nazi' against all 'enemies of the people'. It is absolutely the worst offence imaginable. What is even more unimaginable is that western societies are having that kind of discussions ATM. You have no idea how crazy this is for people with my background... All of this only reaffirms my conclusion that: 1. Western governments are the same self serving greedy totalitarian asses as the so-called communists 2. Western people do not have developed sence of freedom in stark contrast of their professed beliefs. You guys love 'might makes right' and you love oppresing others in your society. I see more totalitarian minded people on/. than old time Russia. And if I look at a more mundane site e.g. YouTube the situation is nothing short of disastrous. Shame, shame, shame....
Don't ridicule the honest phone vendors. They work day and night to deliver the new OS to their customers.... Just this morning I woke up with notification 'new Android ready to install' on my Samsung! It was an upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0. ROFL!
Actually it is also good for the planet...I mean you keep a car from 69 that still runs....that beats anything. I'm greener than grass but this craziness 'buy new electric vehicle instead of running your old ICE for another decade' must stop....I bet they'll force us to buy new electric every 5 years cause you know the battery is better now and you save the world...wink wink...forced obsolescence....nudge nudge recover the RD costs of Elon the messiah... Anyone here wants to prove me bad for the environment for using C grade, Russian made fridge for 47 years (yhea we threw it last year when we sold the house: my parents bought it 3 years before my birth)?
Few percent homosexual people is a boon for the species. They can never become majority anyway, Nature takes care of that. If you think that any 'promotion' by whoever in whatever manner can turn people gay you need your head checked.
Things tend to form balls. Balls tent to move in circles. Once you figured that out everything else fell into place. In a curved motion of course! Terry Pratchett, The science of discworld I.
And at the very root the issue is that the beancounters run the whole industry these days. The process began in the 70ties but then it was the cheesemakers who just bought the studios and by mistake did a good thing - gave opportunities to young directors to experiment a bit a make movies for young people. Thus we got all those directors considered icons of the second half of 20th century. But some of those innovative movies flopped on release while becoming all time classic (e.g. Blade runner). Today the marketeers won't take any risks with such lavish budgets. No experiments, no original vision. Research says there are still enough people to buy Fsat and Furious 675 so that's what we will do. But maybe audience is getting wiser and seeing that TV shows have way bigger balls than big movies the interest is shifting. See also all the complaints about the theater going experience....
Doing the PRINCE2 training ATM....in one of the slides they say 'remember, it is not a democracy'. Funny how often people forget that the economic system is totalitarian regardless of the political system.
The purpose of any townhall meeting of any corporation is to smear the bad news (you are all fckd) with management talk, mislead the employees to keep working hard until they are fckd and reaffirm the party line. I for one avoid them as the plague but was told my absence has been noted. All this reminds me so much of the good old totalitarian regime I've lived in the past. Hilarious for sure but deeply troubling as well. BTW, I'm astounded (in a very negative way) by the comments about this stuff on/. Please tell most were shills and trolls...
I seem to recall study that shows both genders trust males for fixing things/give advice more than females. I think this will change and is changing already. Congrats for having a laugh at this...good attitude.
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Memory is tricky. I don't question your story. However I have pictures and the assurance of my parents and relatives that my dad used to bet people that at age of 3.5 yrs I could read even though, obviously, I understood little of what was written. Yet my earliest memory is from age of 4-4.5 yrs. Go figure...
Sounds reasonable to me. Why then Gates did not explain it? Has he forgotten?
Amen! Wish you were around when I was young...
A realist you mean? I concur.
I am re-reading the whole musketeer saga in my native language. Last time was 30 years ago. Dumas is blamed for watering down the plot because he published the books in newspapers I believe, so he was paid by the word. I think we all agree such behavior by authors is not unknown today even though newspapers are not used ;) Anyway, I enjoy it very much.
Another author I read is perhaps less known to Western audience - Boris Akunin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin]. Sherlock Holmes type adventures in tzarist Russia. What is interesting here is that the books are of very high quality (the author is a playwright and scholar of Japanese poetry and culture) and each story has distinct style, reflecting the types of stories in this genre. One reads like A. Kristie another like Conan Doyle and so on...in that respect he reminds me of Terry Pratchett. I have no observations on the quality of the English translation.
Thank you for the very good example!
I guess there is a reason behind the oath you need to take in court. The truth, the whole truth and noting but the truth, if I remember right. Deviation from those requirements results in information which is unreliable, can be misleading and basically amounts to a lie, as you point out. Sounds quite reasonable to me...see also logical deconstruction of an average advertisement. Everything stated in the ad is true, yet it misleads you to draw conclusion about the product or service that is not true.
News reporting is business (the goal is money not accurate reporting) and an obvious target of all sorts of political agendas with the invertible corruption that would occur and other highly undesirable outcomes. The worst situation possible....while having no dictator or state control like we had behind the wall. The more a live the more I realize how meaningless the political labels are, yet we focus on them rather than the actual, measurable outcomes that the proposed systems produce...
My HTC desire lasted for 5 years and just after the battery was replaced I lost it in the train.
However it was made almost obsolete around the 3rd year via app 'upgrades'
Clasical music is a subset of concert music and refers to particular time period in the development of concert music.
Thus a composer today might create simphony very much like Mozatr's but it won't be called clasical.
Source: audio lectures on history of music from famous dude working in Chicago's conservatory.
https://youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA
Nuff said
Did you know that the constant sound of heavy rain on the windows for five solid days can make you completely insane?
Sure do. I live in the Netherlands. Why do you think they have coffee shops..
What was the goal of US? To topple the comi government. The objective was not achieved hence the war was lost.
Not every war has conquest as its goal.
Interesting! For once I agreed with him regarding AI and the key phrase was "without singularity".
Do we deny, however, that "simple machine learning" (which the journalists, corporate PR, and therefore politicians call AI) applied on big data can be used (very successfully) as social engineering tool? Or tool for economic and military advantage? What follows form that? War, pure and simple.
Such - let's take the social part - powerful tool (how many stories per day about censorship, using bid data to come after people, change minds, push agendas, Google pushing whatever, MZ for president, fake news, spying on friends, spying on enemies, requiting trrists, hacking elections, etc. we have) brings completely new opportunities on he table. And it is powerful - wars are lost due to public opinion (Vietnam!). And guess who is first with the knife and fork ready to exploit the new possibilities? Politics, the eternal damnation of out civilization...Just that, social part of it...but some will argue that it is the most powerful one, above the pure military applications which are, of course yet another can of giant anacondas...assume that I have written as much on that part as above with one "call a friend" phrase to guide you - "arms race". And another equally long one on the economic warfare in the context of "AI".
AI certainly deserves the " " at the moment and if Penrose is to be believed it will forever be like that. I don't know and from pure geek point of view I am very eager for humanity to give it its best shot. Alas, that "not AI at all" machine learning is enough for WWIII. I agree with Elon.
How about yogurt? When I had to remove grain from my diet it was substituted with milk products (but not milk itself). :)
ATM I'm on 5 to 7 liters yogurt per week...no problem except finding source of real sour milk (proper name) which turned out to be small farm coming once per week to the city market....when the farmers go on vacation I really suffer
The pasta is a special case...since I can't make good one I never included it in the experiments.
There is something with the grain and myself though. I'm not gluten intolerant but somehow my tolerance for grains is very low.
Still I can eat 2 to 3 grain based meals per week without ill effects. So pasta is probably ok too in moderation...need to find good restaurant or Italian friend to test...
Some additional advice I forgot to tell:
- don't abuse alcohol.
- smoking is bad for digestion (among other things).
- if I'm pressed with a gun on my head to name a single offender in modern-day diet it would be sugary drinks of all kinds including the 100 percent fruit juice.
On /. we have been discussing this for at least 5 years now. I lost count how many times I laid my personal experience which was nothing short of profound. When you have suffered for 7 years, being on daily medication and it all goes away in 5 days!!! once you change the diet ...well that is what I call "enlightenment"
The healthy pyramid is (starting from the fondaiton) Protein-->Fat-->Carbs.
Eat proper butter, not any kind of skimmed, low-fat, and margarine type shit.
Eat eggs; lots of them
Eat veggies; lots of them
Eat diary; either lots or moderate (that actually is rather person specific so test yourself)
Eat meat; moderately (more chicken, less beef but have your rib eye every now and then - it's good for ya)
Eat fish; moderately (because of pollution, alas, otherwise you can hardly eat too much fish)
Do not eat sugar in any form (a bit of honey occasionally is OK)
Eat fruits; moderately (sugar!)
Do not eat grain in any form (as this is almost impossibly expensive at least try to minimize it)
However, the biggest news is that universal recipes do not exist. Nuts a good food, eh? No, not fo me, but for Sara they are excellent. So what to do:
1. Univariate analysis - create a diet (consisting of the simplest, basic, one size fits all approach) per week and repeat it for a month. Then start introducing 1 variation per day and monitor the outcome. Over time you fill the database with foods that are good for you. If you want to go deeper include as variable the method os preparation (e.g. boiled potatoes are bad for me, but baked are OK).
2. Multivariate analysis - assign responses rated for example 1-10 on: gas; bloating; stool hardness; skin response (itching, eczemas), pain in gut, burning sensation while pissing etc. Your doctor can help you with that (e.g. my skin reacts within 1 hour after meal; if I ate something that disagrees with me I get attack of itching). Collect food vs outcome for a couple of months. Run PCA/PLS analysis or something like that and figure out the good and bad foods. Over time you emerge with a "basket" of what works best for you and you eat this until the end.
Best of luck!
Don't be silly, you know what he meant. The hilarity is he is correct....I grew up in communist state and they used to scream 'fascist, nazi' against all 'enemies of the people'. It is absolutely the worst offence imaginable. /. than old time Russia. And if I look at a more mundane site e.g. YouTube the situation is nothing short of disastrous.
What is even more unimaginable is that western societies are having that kind of discussions ATM. You have no idea how crazy this is for people with my background...
All of this only reaffirms my conclusion that:
1. Western governments are the same self serving greedy totalitarian asses as the so-called communists
2. Western people do not have developed sence of freedom in stark contrast of their professed beliefs. You guys love 'might makes right' and you love oppresing others in your society. I see more totalitarian minded people on
Shame, shame, shame....
She hates that! It's a 'she' you insensitive clod!
Don't ridicule the honest phone vendors. They work day and night to deliver the new OS to their customers....
Just this morning I woke up with notification 'new Android ready to install' on my Samsung!
It was an upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0. ROFL!
Actually it is also good for the planet...I mean you keep a car from 69 that still runs....that beats anything. I'm greener than grass but this craziness 'buy new electric vehicle instead of running your old ICE for another decade' must stop....I bet they'll force us to buy new electric every 5 years cause you know the battery is better now and you save the world...wink wink...forced obsolescence....nudge nudge recover the RD costs of Elon the messiah...
Anyone here wants to prove me bad for the environment for using C grade, Russian made fridge for 47 years (yhea we threw it last year when we sold the house: my parents bought it 3 years before my birth)?
Few percent homosexual people is a boon for the species.
They can never become majority anyway, Nature takes care of that.
If you think that any 'promotion' by whoever in whatever manner can turn people gay you need your head checked.
Things tend to form balls. Balls tent to move in circles. Once you figured that out everything else fell into place. In a curved motion of course!
Terry Pratchett, The science of discworld I.
And at the very root the issue is that the beancounters run the whole industry these days. The process began in the 70ties but then it was the cheesemakers who just bought the studios and by mistake did a good thing - gave opportunities to young directors to experiment a bit a make movies for young people. Thus we got all those directors considered icons of the second half of 20th century.
But some of those innovative movies flopped on release while becoming all time classic (e.g. Blade runner).
Today the marketeers won't take any risks with such lavish budgets. No experiments, no original vision. Research says there are still enough people to buy Fsat and Furious 675 so that's what we will do.
But maybe audience is getting wiser and seeing that TV shows have way bigger balls than big movies the interest is shifting.
See also all the complaints about the theater going experience....
Doing the PRINCE2 training ATM....in one of the slides they say 'remember, it is not a democracy'. Funny how often people forget that the economic system is totalitarian regardless of the political system.
The purpose of any townhall meeting of any corporation is to smear the bad news (you are all fckd) with management talk, mislead the employees to keep working hard until they are fckd and reaffirm the party line. I for one avoid them as the plague but was told my absence has been noted. /. Please tell most were shills and trolls...
All this reminds me so much of the good old totalitarian regime I've lived in the past. Hilarious for sure but deeply troubling as well.
BTW, I'm astounded (in a very negative way) by the comments about this stuff on
I seem to recall study that shows both genders trust males for fixing things/give advice more than females.
I think this will change and is changing already.
Congrats for having a laugh at this...good attitude.