[[ not once did I feel the urge to be more violent ]]
I was thinning my old books recently, and just could not throw out "The Anatomy of Motive" by John Douglas, one of the first FBI "profilers". A lot of the insights mention something like 'precipitating stressor'.
The deep point is that we ALL have the ancient emotional brain in addition to our sophisticated fore-brains - the emotional brain functions much more primitively, and via the so-called "Amygdala Hijack" our brains are so architected that the ancient emotional brain is SUPPOSED to TAKE CONTROL when we *FEEL* threatened.
So the question is not about your urges during normal everyday life. The question is, what will be your instinctive response should be in the case that whatever the foundations-of-your-security may be, they are THREATENED. Say by job loss or someone steals your sex partner. The idea is that your EMOTIONAL brain is learning, that the appropriate response is to just go out and shoot the threatening person.
"Wells-to-wheels" is a nice Google query.
(( "Wells-to-wheels" Tesla )) surprisingly does not bring Martin Eberhard's blog entry of several months ago to the top, I thought that he really explained it nicely. Anyway www.teslamotors.com reports that they have received the first production-line car now, although since it was delivered to Elon this does not count for so much as the first one delivered to an end-user, THAT will be a milestone !
Arthur Koestler's "Act of Creation" (1975) still fetches about $45 on Amazon - compared to a lot of old books which go for a penny, this jibes with my memories of reading it. These days it is hard to imagine not knowing the structure of DNA, much less the Benzene Ring - I remember that Koestler spent a few pages detailing how Kekule loaded up his buffers with the data to support his crystallizing insight - (( kekule benzene snake )).
"Act of Creation" had quite a collection of case-histories in addition to Kekule. You need to load up your buffers, and the insight needs to crystallize, which often requires a "Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter" because "What you think you know that ain't so" so frequently is holding you back.
What I would LIKE to read is "Act of Creation" updated by the awesome amount of neurophysiological advance since 1975. Like the article we are discussing there is a lot of shallow garbage out there - can anyone recommend a current work with this kind of depth ?
[[The amount of extra lift at a given speed from flaps 15 to 30 is very small, but the additional drag is quite large...]]
A "delayed realization" - by Googling (( ba 38 coward flaps lift )) one can see that in response to both-engines-out the response was to INCREASE the flaps to provide more lift, and possibly to achieve more ground-effect. Your remark raises the possibility that counter-intuitively by backing off on the flaps one might reduce drag while not giving up very much lift... Of course this is a rare scenario and will be even more rare when they fix whatever allowed both sides to shut down simultaneously, but would a computer simulation which models the ground-effect and so forth possibly conclude that the correct response for such an scenario might actually be to BACK OFF on the flaps a little bit ?
>> full flaps, with lots of drag, for landing, so the engines stay spooled up until about touchdown.
So to rephrase, what you point out and I never saw mentioned in any mainstream-media article, is what must be the huge number of disasters avoided by the ability of the pilot to quickly remove the "drag brake" of those 30-degree-flaps to avoid some other kind of problem. The trade-off is that in the statistically-rare engine-out-on-landing, this kind of thing happens. GREAT explanation, thanks !
How would you compare "Understand" to "Source Insight" ? I had never heard of either before today, but on reading Dgoldman's comment http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=422996&cid=22095314 [slashdot.org] I am so impressed by the screenshots http://www.sourceinsight.com/features.html [sourceinsight.com] that I think it will be worth a try, the visual call-graphs look outstanding, unless "Understand" is enough better to be worth twice-the-price.
How would you compare CodeSurfer to "Source Insight" ? I had never heard of either before today, but on reading Dgoldman's comment http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=422996&cid=22095314 I am so impressed by the screenshots http://www.sourceinsight.com/features.html that I think it will be worth a try, the visual call-graphs look outstanding, unless Codesurfer has them too and I missed it somehow.
HyperAddin is actually merely on my "list of things to try", I have never actually installed it even. It's at http://www.codeplex.com/hyperAddin, part of "Microsoft's open source project hosting web site". On a new project, theoretically it would be great to link things up as you believe you understand them. On the other hand I have met folks who would actually delete all comments from something they are trying to understand, but that philosophy goes too far, I think a grain-of-salt is what you want.
You can find a 1-star review of Frederik Pohl's "Gateway" by Googling the quoted phrase "Bonobos in space", must concede there's truth to that assessment. Anyway as the Wikipedia entry under HeeChee explains, the HeeChee built this network which goes all sorts of places, but their technology being incomprehensibly advanced( like pointers ? ) all we can do is push the buttons and go where their magic ships take us.
[[ 'test drive' costs almost nothing ]]
Conceded, but also to choose a different registrar with a click of the mouse is VASTLY cheaper than physically traveling to a dealership to look at cars. TCO is such a fruitful concept. The effort involved in visiting the dealership allows the dealer to provide free coffee and not be mobbed by free-sample-seekers.
Numbers-wise NSI is perhaps having problems, are their finances public, anyway they surely can't afford game-theory-advice. To do this in a sneaky way is so totally different than up-front, what could they possibly have been thinking, it's pure PR-downside. Daniel Day-Lewis may be able to put himself in the head of a greedy oil-man, but I cannot imagine issuing orders to do something like this, without putting on the Alfred E. Neumann hat that is.
Game-theory advice for Network Solutions - DECREASE the hold-time to say HALF of the legal max - AND ADVERTISE WHAT YOU'RE DOING UP-FRONT "Pick Registrar, then pick Domain".
If you know already that you will be using a different, say cheaper registrar, then what are you doing using up NSI's resources for the search phase ? This is analogous to test-driving a car at some dealership knowing full well you will close the deal somewhere else.
Game-theory-wise, dealerships SHOULD charge for test-drives.
In other words there is this asymmetry. If a BUSINESS lures you in and then tries to sell you something else that's bait-and-switch, that's unethical. But for consumers to be absolutely ruthless in test-driving and free-sampling, the other side of the coin ?
Amazon says 159 pages and the cover is different - my old copy is 144 pages, but 144 Very Good Pages - High Priority Advice, much of it simply not to be found in my other thicker books.
For many months I have been using "Site Advisor", still free from McAfee. It works perfectly with FireFox. I searched for "Advisor" and did not find mention of it in these articles, but I would be surprised if any of these sites earned that nice green dot which I find so reassuring, am I wrong to be so reassured ?
To compress dynamic range means to make faint sounds louder or loud sounds fainter. It makes no sense, that this CANNOT happen with the vinyl medium, maybe it WON'T, but that's a matter of policy, not capability.
What a nice perspective - so I could probably find a lot of common ground with one of those Mutazilites, relative even to say a dogmatic Christian, although a Scientific-Method-Christian would still be best-match. The battle between Science and Dogma is in other words the deeper battle, in our classification-tree of belief-systems.
IIRC it was the the lady from Mobile, Alabama who remarked for-the-record that her city's economy consisted in "doing each other's wash", in perhaps the second segment of Ken Burns' "The War". Computer-wise this is a great phrase because it captures the notion of self-referencing, which not only gets your program chasing its tail but is central to the notion of mania-driven-boom-and-bust, folks value something because other folks value something....
Nothing intrinsically wrong with medicine, except that its "value" is so artificially boosted by our creeping enslavement to the welfare-state-concept. So you study law, to conclude that government has become obsessed with routing wealth to doctors, not to mention "home"-builders, sigh...
Yes, I viewed the whole video, and specifically noticed his remark, something like please don't come up to me with 'herbal remedies' etc.
Which is maybe too bad, because it might not be coincidental that he's at CMU which is fairly North, and perhaps he also uses sunscreen, might even be a religious sunscreen user.
You saw it coming - MY religion can be found by Googling (( Holick p53 tumor ))- what if he "got religion" and vowed to spend his final days on the beach, and experienced a miraculous recovery ? Of course this is a very serious cancer, but that's all the more reason to dismiss skin-cancer as a potential side-effect of my folk remedy - I am not a doctor.
At least once upon a time it was routine for Cable-TV companies to maintain a "war chest" by charging monopoly prices in nearly-all communities. Should a rival attempt to set-up-shop in a community, this "war chest" could be tapped in order to sell Cable-TV BELOW-COST in that one community. The rival cannot compete with the war-chest-funded-BELOW-COST pricing, and goes out of business.
There's a difference-of-degree between tolerating-piracy and Predatory Pricing. In some other article it was mentioned that Microsoft was selling LEGAL copies in China at way-below-USA-cost. If true, this would be Cable-TV-Style predatory pricing at the International level.
The Google query (( "KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD" debt social )) verifies this latest catchphrase for what is indeed such a fundamental issue. (( "Tragedy of the Commons" HARDIN )) fetches Garrett Hardin's Ur-Rant on this. Another favorite game-theory-phrase is "Individually Rational". I have read a couple of Hardin's books, what I like best is his recognition of "Adverse Selection" - yes you can call for sacrifice, and some people will, and then those folks are Gone... War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left.
[["We also see a pattern called dead fish. This is a project that is doomed from the start because the schedule is outrageously unrealistic."]] Checking Amazon, Edward Yourdon's "Death March, Second Edition" was released in 2003, I had not realized there was a second edition: "...companies continue to create death-march projects, repeatedly! What's worse is the amount of rational, intelligent people who sign up for a death-march project - projects whose schedules, estimations, budgets, and resources are so constrained or skewed that participants can hardly survive, much less succeed."
Dyson's moaning about rural poverty misses the point, witness http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
"Who's going to pay for the food stamps" for the suburban-poor, that's OUR problem !
Once upon a time there were peasants with pigs and chickens or rice, whatever.
The Chinese government then said to the peasant, look, come to the city, we will give you FREE ROOM AND BOARD in a dorm within bicycle-range of work, for the few years that your are optimally productive, and at the end of this time you can take your few hundred bucks in savings and go back to your pigs and chickens. ( True Story )
In other words "Rural Poverty" is better spelled "Reservation Utility". Pigs and chickens may not seem exciting, but physicist-wise while exciting sex and gambling does NOT actually generate food or goods, they are analogous to "cooling the room by opening the refrigerator door", as The West must soon learn.
The late Garrett Hardin's book "Living Within Limits" also contained a numerate analysis of the cost of space travel, but this goes beyond that.
However I did not spot Hardin's central meme "The Tragedy of the Commons" - just Googling that quoted phrase WITHOUT Hardin's name finds his 1968 essay, proof that he was indeed a seminal thinker.
At least they are honest - but I am spoiled with my Matrox G550, I can't go back to 1280x1024.
Coincidentally, just recently I happened to skim the article found by the Google query (( BRUMME MTA PUMPING )), that is, "Apartments and Pumping in the CLR".
Go ahead, start with your clean sheet of paper, then "how are you going to implement OBJECTS" ?
COM is *such* a mess, nextStep was going to have OBJECTS too, the world awaits your better mousetrap !
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[[ not once did I feel the urge to be more violent ]] I was thinning my old books recently, and just could not throw out "The Anatomy of Motive" by John Douglas, one of the first FBI "profilers". A lot of the insights mention something like 'precipitating stressor'. The deep point is that we ALL have the ancient emotional brain in addition to our sophisticated fore-brains - the emotional brain functions much more primitively, and via the so-called "Amygdala Hijack" our brains are so architected that the ancient emotional brain is SUPPOSED to TAKE CONTROL when we *FEEL* threatened. So the question is not about your urges during normal everyday life. The question is, what will be your instinctive response should be in the case that whatever the foundations-of-your-security may be, they are THREATENED. Say by job loss or someone steals your sex partner. The idea is that your EMOTIONAL brain is learning, that the appropriate response is to just go out and shoot the threatening person.
"Wells-to-wheels" is a nice Google query. (( "Wells-to-wheels" Tesla )) surprisingly does not bring Martin Eberhard's blog entry of several months ago to the top, I thought that he really explained it nicely. Anyway www.teslamotors.com reports that they have received the first production-line car now, although since it was delivered to Elon this does not count for so much as the first one delivered to an end-user, THAT will be a milestone !
Arthur Koestler's "Act of Creation" (1975) still fetches about $45 on Amazon - compared to a lot of old books which go for a penny, this jibes with my memories of reading it. These days it is hard to imagine not knowing the structure of DNA, much less the Benzene Ring - I remember that Koestler spent a few pages detailing how Kekule loaded up his buffers with the data to support his crystallizing insight - (( kekule benzene snake )). "Act of Creation" had quite a collection of case-histories in addition to Kekule. You need to load up your buffers, and the insight needs to crystallize, which often requires a "Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter" because "What you think you know that ain't so" so frequently is holding you back. What I would LIKE to read is "Act of Creation" updated by the awesome amount of neurophysiological advance since 1975. Like the article we are discussing there is a lot of shallow garbage out there - can anyone recommend a current work with this kind of depth ?
[[The amount of extra lift at a given speed from flaps 15 to 30 is very small, but the additional drag is quite large...]] A "delayed realization" - by Googling (( ba 38 coward flaps lift )) one can see that in response to both-engines-out the response was to INCREASE the flaps to provide more lift, and possibly to achieve more ground-effect. Your remark raises the possibility that counter-intuitively by backing off on the flaps one might reduce drag while not giving up very much lift... Of course this is a rare scenario and will be even more rare when they fix whatever allowed both sides to shut down simultaneously, but would a computer simulation which models the ground-effect and so forth possibly conclude that the correct response for such an scenario might actually be to BACK OFF on the flaps a little bit ?
>> full flaps, with lots of drag, for landing, so the engines stay spooled up until about touchdown. So to rephrase, what you point out and I never saw mentioned in any mainstream-media article, is what must be the huge number of disasters avoided by the ability of the pilot to quickly remove the "drag brake" of those 30-degree-flaps to avoid some other kind of problem. The trade-off is that in the statistically-rare engine-out-on-landing, this kind of thing happens. GREAT explanation, thanks !
Thanks for the detailed information, I was so clueless about this area, a little less so now !
Thanks !
How would you compare "Understand" to "Source Insight" ? I had never heard of either before today, but on reading Dgoldman's comment http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=422996&cid=22095314 [slashdot.org] I am so impressed by the screenshots http://www.sourceinsight.com/features.html [sourceinsight.com] that I think it will be worth a try, the visual call-graphs look outstanding, unless "Understand" is enough better to be worth twice-the-price.
How would you compare CodeSurfer to "Source Insight" ? I had never heard of either before today, but on reading Dgoldman's comment http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=422996&cid=22095314 I am so impressed by the screenshots http://www.sourceinsight.com/features.html that I think it will be worth a try, the visual call-graphs look outstanding, unless Codesurfer has them too and I missed it somehow.
HyperAddin is actually merely on my "list of things to try", I have never actually installed it even. It's at http://www.codeplex.com/hyperAddin, part of "Microsoft's open source project hosting web site". On a new project, theoretically it would be great to link things up as you believe you understand them. On the other hand I have met folks who would actually delete all comments from something they are trying to understand, but that philosophy goes too far, I think a grain-of-salt is what you want.
You can find a 1-star review of Frederik Pohl's "Gateway" by Googling the quoted phrase "Bonobos in space", must concede there's truth to that assessment. Anyway as the Wikipedia entry under HeeChee explains, the HeeChee built this network which goes all sorts of places, but their technology being incomprehensibly advanced( like pointers ? ) all we can do is push the buttons and go where their magic ships take us.
[[ 'test drive' costs almost nothing ]] Conceded, but also to choose a different registrar with a click of the mouse is VASTLY cheaper than physically traveling to a dealership to look at cars. TCO is such a fruitful concept. The effort involved in visiting the dealership allows the dealer to provide free coffee and not be mobbed by free-sample-seekers. Numbers-wise NSI is perhaps having problems, are their finances public, anyway they surely can't afford game-theory-advice. To do this in a sneaky way is so totally different than up-front, what could they possibly have been thinking, it's pure PR-downside. Daniel Day-Lewis may be able to put himself in the head of a greedy oil-man, but I cannot imagine issuing orders to do something like this, without putting on the Alfred E. Neumann hat that is.
Game-theory advice for Network Solutions - DECREASE the hold-time to say HALF of the legal max - AND ADVERTISE WHAT YOU'RE DOING UP-FRONT "Pick Registrar, then pick Domain". If you know already that you will be using a different, say cheaper registrar, then what are you doing using up NSI's resources for the search phase ? This is analogous to test-driving a car at some dealership knowing full well you will close the deal somewhere else. Game-theory-wise, dealerships SHOULD charge for test-drives. In other words there is this asymmetry. If a BUSINESS lures you in and then tries to sell you something else that's bait-and-switch, that's unethical. But for consumers to be absolutely ruthless in test-driving and free-sampling, the other side of the coin ?
Amazon says 159 pages and the cover is different - my old copy is 144 pages, but 144 Very Good Pages - High Priority Advice, much of it simply not to be found in my other thicker books.
For many months I have been using "Site Advisor", still free from McAfee. It works perfectly with FireFox. I searched for "Advisor" and did not find mention of it in these articles, but I would be surprised if any of these sites earned that nice green dot which I find so reassuring, am I wrong to be so reassured ?
To compress dynamic range means to make faint sounds louder or loud sounds fainter. It makes no sense, that this CANNOT happen with the vinyl medium, maybe it WON'T, but that's a matter of policy, not capability.
What a nice perspective - so I could probably find a lot of common ground with one of those Mutazilites, relative even to say a dogmatic Christian, although a Scientific-Method-Christian would still be best-match. The battle between Science and Dogma is in other words the deeper battle, in our classification-tree of belief-systems.
IIRC it was the the lady from Mobile, Alabama who remarked for-the-record that her city's economy consisted in "doing each other's wash", in perhaps the second segment of Ken Burns' "The War". Computer-wise this is a great phrase because it captures the notion of self-referencing, which not only gets your program chasing its tail but is central to the notion of mania-driven-boom-and-bust, folks value something because other folks value something.... Nothing intrinsically wrong with medicine, except that its "value" is so artificially boosted by our creeping enslavement to the welfare-state-concept. So you study law, to conclude that government has become obsessed with routing wealth to doctors, not to mention "home"-builders, sigh...
Yes, I viewed the whole video, and specifically noticed his remark, something like please don't come up to me with 'herbal remedies' etc. Which is maybe too bad, because it might not be coincidental that he's at CMU which is fairly North, and perhaps he also uses sunscreen, might even be a religious sunscreen user. You saw it coming - MY religion can be found by Googling (( Holick p53 tumor ))- what if he "got religion" and vowed to spend his final days on the beach, and experienced a miraculous recovery ? Of course this is a very serious cancer, but that's all the more reason to dismiss skin-cancer as a potential side-effect of my folk remedy - I am not a doctor.
At least once upon a time it was routine for Cable-TV companies to maintain a "war chest" by charging monopoly prices in nearly-all communities. Should a rival attempt to set-up-shop in a community, this "war chest" could be tapped in order to sell Cable-TV BELOW-COST in that one community. The rival cannot compete with the war-chest-funded-BELOW-COST pricing, and goes out of business. There's a difference-of-degree between tolerating-piracy and Predatory Pricing. In some other article it was mentioned that Microsoft was selling LEGAL copies in China at way-below-USA-cost. If true, this would be Cable-TV-Style predatory pricing at the International level.
The Google query (( "KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD" debt social )) verifies this latest catchphrase for what is indeed such a fundamental issue. (( "Tragedy of the Commons" HARDIN )) fetches Garrett Hardin's Ur-Rant on this. Another favorite game-theory-phrase is "Individually Rational". I have read a couple of Hardin's books, what I like best is his recognition of "Adverse Selection" - yes you can call for sacrifice, and some people will, and then those folks are Gone... War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left.
[["We also see a pattern called dead fish. This is a project that is doomed from the start because the schedule is outrageously unrealistic."]]
Checking Amazon, Edward Yourdon's "Death March, Second Edition" was released in 2003, I had not realized there was a second edition: "...companies continue to create death-march projects, repeatedly! What's worse is the amount of rational, intelligent people who sign up for a death-march project - projects whose schedules, estimations, budgets, and resources are so constrained or skewed that participants can hardly survive, much less succeed."
Dyson's moaning about rural poverty misses the point, witness http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ "Who's going to pay for the food stamps" for the suburban-poor, that's OUR problem ! Once upon a time there were peasants with pigs and chickens or rice, whatever. The Chinese government then said to the peasant, look, come to the city, we will give you FREE ROOM AND BOARD in a dorm within bicycle-range of work, for the few years that your are optimally productive, and at the end of this time you can take your few hundred bucks in savings and go back to your pigs and chickens. ( True Story ) In other words "Rural Poverty" is better spelled "Reservation Utility". Pigs and chickens may not seem exciting, but physicist-wise while exciting sex and gambling does NOT actually generate food or goods, they are analogous to "cooling the room by opening the refrigerator door", as The West must soon learn.
The late Garrett Hardin's book "Living Within Limits" also contained a numerate analysis of the cost of space travel, but this goes beyond that. However I did not spot Hardin's central meme "The Tragedy of the Commons" - just Googling that quoted phrase WITHOUT Hardin's name finds his 1968 essay, proof that he was indeed a seminal thinker.
At least they are honest - but I am spoiled with my Matrox G550, I can't go back to 1280x1024. Coincidentally, just recently I happened to skim the article found by the Google query (( BRUMME MTA PUMPING )), that is, "Apartments and Pumping in the CLR". Go ahead, start with your clean sheet of paper, then "how are you going to implement OBJECTS" ? COM is *such* a mess, nextStep was going to have OBJECTS too, the world awaits your better mousetrap !