My co worker, who studied biology, mentioned another point to consider - the size of the humans skull. The skull of a newborn is big. It is as big is can get without causing mortal damage to the mother at birth, but, apparently, it is not 'big enough', as it is still growing... So on the one hand, a human infant needs a lot of protection and care for a long time (as it's brain and skull are still growing), but on the other, the mother is very weak for a substantial time after birth (due to the difficulty of delivering a baby with such a big skull). She could certainly use a helping hand, preferably in the coming years, but certainly in the coming days.
Some people simply have too much dimensions on their hands.
In essence, it seems to be an Aether theory: "The breaking of rotational symmetry would be a solid indicator of an underlying spacetime grid, although not the only one."
While the idea of a space-time grid is alluring, and cannot be shrugged off hand, I get reminded of the rumor that students at the "Pythagorean school" were required to keep silent for a few years before being permitted to study the abstractions pertaining to Physics and Math. This tactic was geared toward keeping one grounded. IMHO, these abstractions are far from grounded.
As so many interdependent variables come into play the value of speculating diminishes rapidly.
In the "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics" (second part of "The Character of Physical Law") Saint R. Feynman marvelously establishes the irreducible relevancy of the known interrelations between abstractions (known as math) to any scientific endeavor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0xTfdt6qw
While the map is not the territory, mapping is a territory in and of itself. Regardless of the notation, or the map, or the math one uses. Doing away with a good map will leave us in the dark, unless our new map is at least as concise and effective.
Having said that, there is a lot to be said for refining our ways of equipping young students with a proper abstractions tool-set, so in the near and bright future we may avoid such blunders of poor abstraction being attributed to a Prof. BTW, What was that science you said he was practicing?
Another path to travel is the OS tweaking path. Assuming you have the admin rights needed... If not, hey, its may-day. tell the admin stuff that the proletarian movement demand more control over the means of production. Assuming its a Redmond spawned code were talking about, start by turning off some resource-hogging features like error reporting and fast user switching. Check out http://www.blackviper.com/category/guides/ for a list of services you can safely disable. Consider creating a trimmed hardware profile where some of the services and the drivers will be disabled. Last but not least, even though you seem fond of glitzy UI elements, try to disable some of the fade-in-while-i-yawn features. Most times you will not even see the difference, and the benefit in reduced mem. footprint is not trivial. Another thing to consider is Flash. Minimize the number of flash\video\shockwave (etc.) instances to the required min. (i.e. - block ads and don't open more than 951 Youtube flicks @ once). Using mem. management software may help or may even hinder. Its a trial-n-error process. No one solution (that I'm aware of) fits all configurations and usage patterns. I've had some luck setting up some pretty neat 512MB and even 256MB systems. I even ran a proof-of-patience system for a while using XPsp2(or 3) Office 2003 and IE7(or 8 - I guess I suppressed these memories) with a mere 64MB of ram, I think Win2K would not even install under such conditions. I repent! Now... You can secretly bring along a Linux-on-a-stick and simply do most of your browsing from there. If you won't tell I won't.
Feynman words of wisdom can be found in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" on page 22 under the heading ”Science Which Is Not a Science . . . ” IMHO - "Truer words were never spoken": "There’s all kinds of myths and pseudoscience all over the place. I may be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things, but I don’t think I’m wrong. You see, I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know some- thing, how careful you have to be about checking the experi- ments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something, and therefore I see how they get their information and I can’t believe that they know it, they haven’t done the work necessary, haven’t done the checks necessary, haven’t done the care necessary. I have a great suspicion that they don’t know..."
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My co worker, who studied biology, mentioned another point to consider - the size of the humans skull.
The skull of a newborn is big. It is as big is can get without causing mortal damage to the mother at birth, but, apparently, it is not 'big enough', as it is still growing...
So on the one hand, a human infant needs a lot of protection and care for a long time (as it's brain and skull are still growing), but on the other, the mother is very weak for a substantial time after birth (due to the difficulty of delivering a baby with such a big skull). She could certainly use a helping hand, preferably in the coming years, but certainly in the coming days.
Some people simply have too much dimensions on their hands.
In essence, it seems to be an Aether theory:
"The breaking of rotational symmetry would be a solid indicator of an underlying spacetime grid, although not the only one."
While the idea of a space-time grid is alluring, and cannot be shrugged off hand, I get reminded of the rumor that students at the "Pythagorean school" were required to keep silent for a few years before being permitted to study the abstractions pertaining to Physics and Math.
This tactic was geared toward keeping one grounded.
IMHO, these abstractions are far from grounded.
As so many interdependent variables come into play the value of speculating diminishes rapidly.
In the "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics" (second part of "The Character of Physical Law") Saint R. Feynman marvelously establishes the irreducible relevancy of the known interrelations between abstractions (known as math) to any scientific endeavor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0xTfdt6qw
While the map is not the territory, mapping is a territory in and of itself.
Regardless of the notation, or the map, or the math one uses. Doing away with a good map will leave us in the dark, unless our new map is at least as concise and effective.
Having said that, there is a lot to be said for refining our ways of equipping young students with a proper abstractions tool-set, so in the near and bright future we may avoid such blunders of poor abstraction being attributed to a Prof.
BTW, What was that science you said he was practicing?
Another path to travel is the OS tweaking path. Assuming you have the admin rights needed... If not, hey, its may-day. tell the admin stuff that the proletarian movement demand more control over the means of production. Assuming its a Redmond spawned code were talking about, start by turning off some resource-hogging features like error reporting and fast user switching. Check out http://www.blackviper.com/category/guides/ for a list of services you can safely disable. Consider creating a trimmed hardware profile where some of the services and the drivers will be disabled. Last but not least, even though you seem fond of glitzy UI elements, try to disable some of the fade-in-while-i-yawn features. Most times you will not even see the difference, and the benefit in reduced mem. footprint is not trivial.
Another thing to consider is Flash. Minimize the number of flash\video\shockwave (etc.) instances to the required min. (i.e. - block ads and don't open more than 951 Youtube flicks @ once).
Using mem. management software may help or may even hinder. Its a trial-n-error process. No one solution (that I'm aware of) fits all configurations and usage patterns.
I've had some luck setting up some pretty neat 512MB and even 256MB systems. I even ran a proof-of-patience system for a while using XPsp2(or 3) Office 2003 and IE7(or 8 - I guess I suppressed these memories) with a mere 64MB of ram, I think Win2K would not even install under such conditions.
I repent!
Now... You can secretly bring along a Linux-on-a-stick and simply do most of your browsing from there. If you won't tell I won't.
Feynman words of wisdom can be found in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" on page 22 under the heading ”Science Which Is Not a Science . . . ”
IMHO - "Truer words were never spoken":
"There’s all kinds of myths and pseudoscience all over the
place.
I may be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things,
but I don’t think I’m wrong. You see, I have the advantage of
having found out how hard it is to get to really know some-
thing, how careful you have to be about checking the experi-
ments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I
know what it means to know something, and therefore I see
how they get their information and I can’t believe that they
know it, they haven’t done the work necessary, haven’t done
the checks necessary, haven’t done the care necessary. I have
a great suspicion that they don’t know..."
The man himself can also be seen uttering these very words on youtube -
R. P. Feynman and Social Science:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbY
May d 4s b wiz u!