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the geebus science & health: When in Rome
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Monday, February 08, 2010. Two cardiac-arrest-themed fast food joints on opposite sides of country are locked in a federal lawsuit over restaurant themes. Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Ariz. has sued Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Delray Beach, Fla. Heart Attack's owners argue that Heart Stoppers is too similar to their own restaurant. Lawyers for Heart Stoppers say the restaurants are actually different. The Wall Street Journal reports. Apparently so. Heart Stoppers is, according to Slashfood, dec...
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wikiworldview: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007
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From Saul Bellow, “ What kind of day did you have? 8221; in Him With His Foot in his Mouth and Other Stories. Page cites are to the Penguin Books. This is the part in which the great art critic Victor Wulpy (modeled after Bellow's University of Chicago colleague Harold Rosenberg. Encounters an old acquaintance, Larry Wrangel, a Hollywood sci-fi film producer, while stuck in the airport in Buffalo . Background, p.98:. Victor tells Katrina, his traveling companion . 8220;Would I know the name? 8220;In the ...
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wikiworldview: 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007
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Of Strategies and Substrates. Disparate subjective interpretations of reality characterize our world. Each worldview slices the n. Dimensional reality loaf in a different way. The various interpretational strategies (worldviews) are cabals of various sorts, meme-gangs, iterating through design space (and, to paraphrase Professor Deutsch, forming crystals in the multiverse – persisting “across” numerous possible worlds). Deutsch: "it is not living matter but knowledge-bearing. Strategy as it courses.
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wikiworldview: 01/01/2008 - 02/01/2008
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Language is Music is Math. Quoting from The Art of Music. Cannon, Johnson and Waite 1960). For a man of the Enlightenment music was matter in motion, while a man of the nineteenth century would have described it as the language of the emotions, an irrational form of speech capable of expressing the inexpressible. May not the succession of the seasons, the ebb and flow of the tides, the balance and discords of the human spirit all be related through the same proportions? As a result of such speculations m...
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wikiworldview: Doofus Turing Test
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From 5.23.2007). Is a proposal for a test of a machine. S capability to demonstrate thought. Described by Professor Alan Turing. In the 1950 paper " Computing machinery and intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. In other words: ...
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the geebus science & health: January 2009
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Daniel Tammet on Letterman. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Wolfram Blog : Quick-Starting Mathematica with Palettes. Wolfram Blog : Quick-Starting Mathematica with Palettes. I have taught collegiate mathematics for more than 20 years and have used. For 15 or so of these years to explore, learn, and teach. For the last eight years. For faculty and students to benefit from using. In the teaching and learning process, they must be able to use. When the use of technology gets in the...
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the geebus science & health: May 2009
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Friday, May 22, 2009. Bugs in our Moral Code. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely. Studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational - and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Ron Eglash on African Fractals. On Ron Eglash's website. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The Nature of Time. With philosophy professor 5.1.2009. The End of Time. Monday, May 11, 2009.
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wikiworldview: Mlodinow
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Thank you for sending it along. Reminds me of Tolstoy's point about the fog of war. I would only come back on one sentence in the whole article, in red:. If I were standing on line at the movies. Chatting with Leonard Mlodinow. In response to his assertion that 'in advance of the event' one can't discern useful from useless information . Now hold on: I didn't say 'information'; I said 'intelligence.'. Yes, that is what I said. Such that one might never utilize such predictions to evolve strategies that a...
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the geebus science & health: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009. In Shift, Cancer Society Has Concerns on Screenings - NYTimes.com. In Shift, Cancer Society Has Concerns on Screenings - NYTimes.com. The American Cancer Society. Which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer. Screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, have been overstated. Prostate cancer screening has long been problematic. The cancer society, which with more than two million volunteers is one of the natio...
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wikiworldview: fair use vel non
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Fair use vel non. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog. Fair use vel non. 17 USC § 107.
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