"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women."

Charles Johnson

Reality is fickle. Ask anyone's perception.

Average a large number of faces and you end up with stunningly gorgeous. Do the same with voices and you end up with something similar.

Subitizing, coined in 1949 by E.L. Kaufman et al.[1] refers to the rapid, accurate, and confident judgments of number performed for small numbers of items. The term is derived from the Latin adjective subitus (meaning "sudden") and captures a feeling of immediately knowing how many items lie within the visual scene, when the number of items present falls within the subitizing range

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So what to do with that supercomputer?

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An endorsement. Definitely in favour of information depth....

Simplicity, authenticity, NOW! Desire. Yes! ...Alive? #sixwords

Wisdom is not the apex of the data pyramid: data is fractal, information 2-dimensional, knowledge conceivably 3-dimensional....

Relationship: discrete, distinguishable, equal and excepted. #sixwords

Obtuse abstruse excuse refuse recuse use.... #sixwords

Come home to me winsome palindrome! #sixwords

Productivity improvements effectively represent compounded time returns

What shape a coevally annotated life?

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake

Oh! Glory! Glory! Glory! [Me :-)]

Amazon as Big Brother
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"Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is about that is complex."

Passive capture - Recall - Recombination

Systems collapse / fail without feedback. Nuance is multiple length inhibitory feedback loops.

What is a self-referent string of infinite length?

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(in existentialist philosophy) Relating to or denoting an emotionally appropriate, significant, purposive, and responsible mode of human life

Authenticity is not a property of opacity.

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

—Albert Einstein,

This language; this language: part breath, part sound, part gesture, part intimation, part desire, part theft , part gift, part ineffable; this is the Word - encompassing CGAT, all its strings, my embryo, my corpse, my ashes, my living - the articulation, shape, movement, thought, feeling, intention and ends - this is the Word defining, describing, delimiting me-I-we-me-us-I... Me

In the beginning was the Word and the Word....

Reminded of the utility of ambiguity

"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
Voltaire

Purpose. Meaning. Significance.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ...

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Minimum wage data...
Spare me a prayer?

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