Posts by TheElder 374 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2011
Yes it is.
It is also true.
U.S. Eugenics: When a Low I.Q. Meant Sterilization
However, there might be some exceptions that should apply. I am thinking of a particular government worker that must be similar to this one: A capital T comes to mind
I am doing brain mapping right now at the local university. Our neural structure can be amazing. For vision the entire retina is one to one mapped on the front of the occipital lobes with inversion taking place there. For language there are two main areas. Nouns including names are mapped into Brocca's area close behind the frontal lobes on the sinister (left) side of the brain. It is incredibly precise. It is like very thin layers of neural tissue and those layers are mapped according to age when language(s) are learned.
One of the mistakes most of us make is to use too much "baby language". Instead we should use the actual language with simple and very clearly spoken words. We all have the most neurons in the brain at about 3 months after birth, if not premature. From that point forward it is a matter of use it or lose it. That is called Synaptic pruning. The more new and interesting things we are exposed to from just after birth the more of those neurons we retain. It is why we will often put up a spinning toy with bright colours and similar items. Three dimensional toys are by far the best (no stupidity phones with flat interfaces).
Language is stored in the layers as time passes. The other areas are Wernicke's speech area and the posterior sinister fusiform gyrus. Wernicke's is used primarily for verbs, adverbs and similar as well as conjunctions etc. The posterior fusiform gyrus is for reading. Even tiny amounts of damage there can make it nearly impossible to read or at the best just a single character at a time.
In Brocca's area the words one learns later in life are more easily affected by even very tiny amounts of damage. The damage is often not direct but is called a disconnection syndrome. That is where the white matter (axons, the "wiring") are cut somehow. The memory is intact but access is limited.
The main thing is that brain structure is a huge number of very small entities that each have very specific functions. Also, it is analogue, not digital in nature.
When it comes to language what you learn very early is what you will know the rest of your life. Brain pruning is finished at late puberty. Learning any other language is then more difficult. I learned English and Danish at the same time. English has about 34 or so phonemes but Danish has 52. That is the largest number for Western European languages. It makes it much easier for me to learn other languages anywhere. I am multi lingual as is my mother.
There is far more I could say about all of this but it would be much better if you could somehow attend one of my courses I am planning, even one for children.... ☺
I cannot believe that this is the first thing I see this AM. I was just thinking about creating a class I can teach children with the above title. Just 15 minutes ago I started putting together words that should exist but make no obvious sense.
I even came up with a 3 letter word with no definition in English.
FIK
PLAP no definition
TARNK no definition
STAMBLE no definition
But better are some that do have definitions:
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STARP
Noun:
in geometry, the pentagrammic antiprism is one in an infinite set of nonconvex antiprisms formed by triangle sides and two regular star polygon caps, in this case two pentagrams. This polyhedron is identified with the indexed name U79 as a uniform polyhedron.
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GLAUD
Noun. ward, seal, type of barrier : A juffetless glaud is no glaud at all. (somebody playing games??????)
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FLUK Fluctuates
FIK (Urban DIctionary = Fuck I Know) but nothing in English. I speak a number of languages and FIK does exist in quite a few but not English.
han fik et blåt øje - he got a black eye in Danish
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Albanian
fik (first-person singular past tense fika, participle fikur)
to extinguish (fire) {Your'e fired?}
to switch off, to turn off
to bring misfortune, to ruin, to destroy
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So let's just fik a glaud.
or
I want a house with a starp and a juffetless glaud!
It works by stimulating the c-KIT gene in chromosome 4. That gene is the regulator of stem cells as well as various related blood cells. It is the stem cell king. Very important for the vascular system of course and especially arterial regeneration. Stem cells are the generator of many of the cells in the body. They may differentiate into whatever is required.
Therein lies a possible problem. How do we instruct the c-KIT gene what it should make for any particular location? Very critical is the concept of neuro regeneration. There are many types of neurons ranging from the von Economo neurons (spindle neurons) to the various motor neurons for firing up the muscles. This is all a part of the brain mapping work I am now doing and it is quite amazing to see the brain thinking in real time.
Very interesting commentary by a woman:
The Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DATA SHEET
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ELEMENT: Woman
SYMBOL: ♀
DISCOVERER: ADAM
ATOMIC MASS: Accepted as 55kg, but known to vary from 45kg to 225kg
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
1: Body surface normally covered with film of powder and paint
2: Boils at absolutely nothing. Freezes for no apparent reason
3: Found in various grades ranging from virgin material to common ore
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CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
1: Reacts well to gold, platinum and all precious stones
2: Explodes spontaneously without reason or warning
3: Most powerful money reducing agent known to man
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COMMON USE
1: Highly ornamental, especially in sports cars
2: Can greatly aid relaxation
3: Can be an effective cleaning agent
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HAZARDS
1; Turns green when placed alongside a superior specimen
2: Possession of more than one is possible but specimens must never make eye contact
A lot more than just two. Area is what matters and that is 2.6874785001719986240110079119367 times bigger than Arecibo.
It would be nice work. I have been thinking of offering my services here.
There is just one way this no attention span thing is possible. It is the same as changing from left to right lane traffic.
It must all happen on the same day. Somehow everyone on the road must have a (gift?) full driverless car.
Personally I own a machine with a big V8. I do not drive it often since I have a very nice e-bike I hacked. But when I do drive the vehicle I absolutely insist on full control! If the other traffic is speeding then so do I. It is about maintaining a safe following distance and keeping up with the traffic. Then, when I approach a school zone I slow down more than the max limit. I like to give myself some Max Headroom. Kids are like kangaroos in Australia. There is no way to predict when they might jump into traffic.
The word traffic makes me think of a car on drugs...
From Above link:
Since 2012, the company has shown that ADAM can disable targets such as boats, drones and simulated small-calibre rockets from about 1.5 kilometres away. Although unwilling to disclose the price of ADAM — or whether anybody has bought one — Lockheed Martin says that it is now ready to provide the system to customers.
The real question now is "Why is this in the news?"
It should take a few milliseconds to destroy them with current laser weapons.
In late 2014, for example, the US Navy showed that a ship-mounted laser-weapon system called LaWS could target small boats, such as those used by terrorists and pirates. That experimental weapon is currently installed on the USS Ponce, an amphibious support ship in the Gulf.
I have been considering doing some drone work. I have a pilot's licence.
People still know how to READ? What about universal ADHD? It's the 140 character thing...
I would give you some examples but I only speak/read/write about 5 real languages and some more computer languages... Verstehen Sie mich? Forstår du mig? Und so weiter...
They may have improved it a little... Hard to tell some times. Perhaps it is the weather.
Sarcasm by the ancient Greeks:
In this passage in Iliad 16 Patroklos with false admiration appears to pay a tribute to a fallen hero, praising his agility, when in fact he has killed the man, whose subsequent acrobatic dive is in fact a lifeless tumble.
No shit! I have been designing icons since before the concept existed. I worked for Xerox with some of my work at PARC. Did some early programming in Smalltalk, now using Ruby which is Smalltalk on steroids. If it has anything to do with computer graphics that is me.
As for sarcasm? What does that mean exactly?
If they start putting a lot of these things on the road I will need to change my mode of transportation.
In the somewhat distant past I installed a special filter over my vehicle identification tag.
Can be seen from directly behind but not to the side at all. When I showed it to the RCMP I worked with they were not amused. They thanked me. I also instructed them on various laser jammers as well. I have always been a teacher.
Regarding the laser jamming previously posted here: What should it do when it is suddenly blind? Jam on the brakes? Pedal to the metal? Turn off the road (bridge, overpass)?
I have always wondered what "CLOUD" means? Is that like when I stick things on my server(s)?
My first server ran on dial-up... It was sure nice when they switched to ultra fast 1000 baud.
As for mobility that must be something like using a phone with a couple of pounds of batteries clipped to my belt.
Way back when I was In Berkeley I simply used Robertson screws to fasten the 8 Track player and quite a few other things. That was handy since I was driving a convertible Morris Minus. To make it harder to steal I just removed the two little fuses and replaced them with blown fuses. Then I could just stick one fuse between them.
Driving was a lot more fun when I got an MGA, then an MGB, a TR4 as well as a Healy 3000.
Why don't the parties involved accept that the ware may be compromised? Then make a deal that must include source code and changeable firmware chip. Then alter it as desired. Perhaps a better way would to be use the same defense tactics that other military aircraft use. Allow the coordinates to be transmitted (if really happening) and fake them. "Hey look!" The drone is flying underwater and through sewage tunnels... Or maybe it is flying over your enemies... Drop bangers right here! Anybody that knows the offset and change timing can still use that data correctly.
Many years ago a company I worked for gave us laptops that had a password that changed every five minutes. Need to turn it on? Call in to a secret number, enter ID and listen to the robot.
Reasonable idea. If Giza Pyramids were stacked 900 times it would be a stack 125,100 metres tall. Outer space officially starts at 100 KM. We would have a Giza Space elevator. That would then give us a Giza Ultra Massive Pile Of Real Numbers .
The acronym would then be GUMPORN...
The supernova explosion is the sudden bounce caused by fusion at the much higher temperatures caused by insane depression compression. The neutron star is just neutrons and is not able to fuse anything by itself. It is the very final step before a black hole. Some must be right on the edge so just a bit more matter really matters. It falls into a black hole. But everything takes time even if it is nanoseconds.
The energies and spin rates are incomprehensible. The entire concept of a black hole is something we do not fully understand. What is inside a black hole? Nobody really knows. It must be something to do with matter. The idea of a singularity is just speculation. It makes sense but cannot be proven.
The old idea was that Black Holes Have No Hair. Just mass, angular momentum and electric charge. However, if evaporation really does exist then there is a great deal of hair happening when the Hole is getting tiny. The hair can entirely cover the hole.... Hmmmm.
Perhaps it isn't exactly evaporation but it may well look the same. Quasars?
Or maybe this:
When it evaporates.
That final second of a black hole's life, however, will result in a very specific and very large release of energy. When the mass drops down to 228 metric tonnes, that's the signal that exactly one second remains. The event horizon size at the time will be 340 yoctometers, or 3.4 × 10^-22 meters: the size of one wavelength of a photon with an energy greater than any particle the LHC has ever produced. But in that final second, a total of 2.05 × 10^22 Joules of energy, the equivalent of five million megatons of TNT, will be released.
Once upon a time I used to do some work at the British Columbia Loran-C Master navigation station. I had dropped in to calibrate my GHZ frequency counter on the triple atomic clock system. While I was there they decided to run a test on the new fire suppression system. That system was a fair number of Halon cylinders on the walls just below the ceiling tiles.
I stepped out of the main control room into the entrance space, fortunately.
Countdown and then the GAS BLAST for a few seconds.
It blew every single ceiling tile out of the ceiling in most of the station. They fell on everything including the atomic clock system. I was very lucky that it did not damage my counter. It nearly broke some of the protection windows on the very high power transmitter amplifiers which had tubes/valves the size of 1 gallon glass containers.
The station manager was just standing there with a very interesting expression on his face. I had finished the calibration so I picked up enough of the tiles to clear a way to retrieve my counter.
What a total mess. Stacks of papers and system logs everywhere. Many things knocked off the tables and desks. Looking at the Halon cylinders they were all aimed up, not down.
Simple mistakes can really matter...
I have used the Word Counter etc in the past. I tested it again yesterday. I am not impressed. It stated that my test contains plagiarism. Total bullshit. What I posted in the counter not only is not stolen, it is extremely unlikely that anybody else would post something similar. It was a few sentences about my personal educational history at Berkeley including working on fusion power at age 14.
I have complained that they have a bug, that much is certain. Shall see if they reply.
Other than that the word counter does work well.
I found this a little while ago. I ran the test on myself and it was amazingly accurate.
See our best guess as to which world English you speak.
As for improving your writing it is always a good idea to keep the words simpler. Iong $10 words that one can stretch between trees may seem impressive but many people will trip over those words.
Do some research on how much money they donated to various politicians to make that happen. It was many millions of dollars. Pure and simple corruption.
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