Monday, August 31, 2009

Ambivalence
Words said are ripples in the thoughts of others; a defiance of entropy.
Ignorance is infinite; yet everyones' ignorance has it's own magnitude: so again, infinities vary.

Monday, August 24, 2009

An Extreme Programming approach to clinical encounters
Latencies
Google Trends + Google Insights + Google Finance + Google infrastructure = (potentially) the largest, fastest investment trading company in the world
cnnbrk: Britain's top court loosens rules on assisted suicide http://ping.fm/2GuUC (http://ping.fm/I15ht)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Optimality
http://ping.fm/HlATl
Semi-permiability in relationships:
across membranes everything is communication but shared meaning is a construct
Semi-permiability as template for engagement, defence & integrity
TedTalks: Clarity, Interactivity & Persistence
Imperatives
Biology is so easily manipulated
There are always bigger fish...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed (http://ping.fm/Bfwmb)

Friday, August 21, 2009

The only resource constraints are energy and computation

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Stress, satisfaction and burnout among Dutch medical specialists -- Visser et al. 168 (3): 271 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal (http://ping.fm/dpgon)

Sunday, August 09, 2009

I am confounded by questions of utility; that broken things must be fixed is a peculiarly male perspective...

Friday, August 07, 2009

Between Stimulus and Response for Intent
Reminder: confirm-disconfirm
The primary perspective of immortality is that nothing is urgent

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Peace
Another attempt: a language in which connotation and denotation are equivalent is autistic in the sense that autism is atomistic (sic) - everything is discrete, concrete & only itself.
Another attempt: a language in which connotation and denototation are equivalent is autistic in the sense that autism is atomistic (sic) - everything is discrete, concrete & only itself.
Meaning can be compressed to an irreducible black hole. However, such black holes are essentially nonsense....
Metaphor is an attempt at dynamic representation that is highly contingent. The utility of mathematical languages makes them necessarily autistic.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Unreal friendship may turn to real. But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.

-- T.S. Eliot
"Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more
coherent--fabulously more coherent--when you start with an assumption that Quality is the
primary empirical reality of the world...."