Tag: Constants and Variables
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Data web returns to data web
The “rights” fans are getting all excited over the non-revealing “revelation” that FBI controls media. Time for a reprint from April of this year. = = = = = START REPRINT: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political…
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Not dumb
For contrast, one of the anticoin redditors is brilliantly comparing the Madoff “fraud” with the Bankman-Fried fraud. He found an old government press release from the task force assigned to undo Madoff’s mess. The government managed to refund 88% of the losses. This means that Madoff and his partners OWNED most of the money needed…
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Would be a nice experiment
Thinking about hucksters who formerly needed to “demonstrate” their systems and machines. Here’s a pretty good modern demo for bitcoin. A sort of Tide Pod Challenge. Nocoiner and Procoiner are on Zoom. Nocoiner challenges Procoiner to a race. Each of us will pick a song on Spotify. After we pick, we’ll show them on Zoom…
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Good work by Burge
Ryan Burge, the religion graph man, has put together a huge batch of graphs from the latest annual survey. Overall, maps by county are hard to use and deceptive because ‘county’ is an entirely different entity west and east of the Dry Line. East of the Dry Line, all counties are about the same physical…
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Two Matts
Nice clean comparison between two major Substack writers doing similar exposures. = = = = = Matt Taibbi has pulled together some internal emails from Twitter ex-employees, showing how Twitter favored D over R. This is not SHANNON INFORMATION because anyone can see that Twitter is pure D. This is also meaningless information because it’s…
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Proper use of science
Here’s a nice example of Carverian science. Constant: Everyone knows that the mind shifts mode after age 40. Millions of words have been written about this change for thousands of years. We sometimes call it the midlife crisis, but most folks realize it’s not a crisis, just a change in our way of perceiving the…
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Marx is the real ledger 2
From Wikipedia: Marx was a scholar, not a politician. He was primarily concerned with disproving the concept of marginal utility. He didn’t want to publish volumes 2 and 3 of Capital until he could disprove the concept to his satisfaction, which he never did. Engels and others saw the power-mongering potential and published the rest.…
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It’s all QA
The intense pro-college propaganda issued by Deepstate after WW2 always boosted “cultural training”. Supposedly college would turn you into a “well-rounded citizen of the world.” Thinking back to my time at Phillips (small ‘liberal’ Christian college, now extinct)… Did anyone acquire culture there? No. Everyone I knew was already familiar with classical music and classical…
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Similar oddity
Thinking about the oddity of Quisp, a mainstream product happily simulating UFOs and cheerfully treating UFOs as real for 60 years, while the government loudly maintained the opposite and sucked up all information that might prove reality. Avi’s project is odd in the same way. He’s totally convinced that his comet is a remnant of…
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Thinking like an astronomer
Avi is an astronomer, so it’s not shocking that he thinks like an astronomer. The ultimate goal of his project: = = = = = I am often asked why the Galileo Project aims to collect its own data on UAP rather than rely on numerous images taken by cell phone cameras. The reason is…
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Black-boxing Brinkley
Quoting from Frank Edwards’s career biography yet again: = = = = = In 1930 the AMA delivered a bolt from the blue: Brinkley’s goat-gland operation, they said, was an impossibility. It could not be performed as Brinkley claimed. Brinkley immediately filed suit against AMA seeking damages of $600,000. “I am not a member of…
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Morse is music
A column from Telegraph and Telephone Age in 1910. Morse is a way of speaking and hearing language, so it ‘logically’ should be processed in the same parts of the brain as spoken language. These 1910 observations indicate that Morse occupies the same areas as music. Experienced operators were not bothered at all by general…
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It’s all in the deltas
UD notes the death of Frank Drake, father of the Drake Equation estimating likely planets for intelligent life. Drake was working at the Green Bank Radio Telescope during the early days of radio astronomy, in the late 1950s, when he was inspired by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison’s famous 1959 paper in Nature about using…
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Mother-in-law, cliff
Classic mixed feelings about this headline at Eurekalert: Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change On the one hand they’re still running the “climate” genocide. On the other hand they’ve finally accepted that Lamarck and Lysenko were mostly right and Darwin was mostly wrong. I’m going to take this as…
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The Endicott experiment
One of the old FOIA files on the Black Vault site is an account of an Air Force experiment in telepathy. The researchers were working out of Hanscom AFB in Mass. They built a complicated set of computing machines in an attempt to eliminate the human judgment factors in the usual JB Rhine picture-drawing experiments.…
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