TedTalks: Clarity, Interactivity & Persistence

Imperatives

Biology is so easily manipulated

There are always bigger fish...

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

The only resource constraints are energy and computation

Famous Quotes (http://ping.fm/Jb1V5)

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

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

Between Stimulus and Response for Intent

Reminder: confirm-disconfirm

The primary perspective of immortality is that nothing is urgent

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.

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...."

Sensory deprivation time to hallucination as a proxy for cerebral complexity?

An exhortation to work by the numbers could arguably be extended to live by the numbers?

Does a transhumanist utopia have a different happiness-setpoint?

If infinities vary in magnitude they must do so as vectors...

CHIFF

CHIFF -- an acronym for "clever, high quality, innovative, friendly, and fun"

My list of proxies: Age = experience
Marriage = compromise
Kink = negotiation
Articulation = intelligence

The supercomputer in my thumb unfortunately came without an OS or UI.... And Baby is 3

In celebration of the ineffable

...things broken mend eventually....

Consciousness as entropy solution; Civilisation as Gaia's evolving autonomic computing...

Iteration: Information form, tempo & function. Extensibility, scalability & reproduction

Reminded of just-in-time learning vs. just-in-case learning.

"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal..."

Longfellow

"... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon

God is not an accountant....

Conflict and confrontation as stimuli to reflection - another argument in favour of an unjust world

"Indifference is isolation.
In difference is texture and wonder."

-- Edwin Schlossberg

The average trumps the extraordinary - move the mean.

The ideal life has unlimited bandwidth across wetware and network

If an observed frequency does not define a probability, how are probabilities to be determined?

"May you live as long as Moses"

One Bin, One Queue

Classic scheduling theory: it is most efficient having a single queue for all outstanding items: think bank queues, airline queues as opposed to supermarket queues where people have to choose between multiple queues and switching has high costs.

 

Single bin means that most things need be handled only twice: classic GTD: once to decide what to do about it and once to do it. The decision is a queue decision: now/soon/sometime/never and a quadrant decision: urgency vs. importance.

 

With everything in one bin there are no places for things to get lost and nothing else to keep in mind. A single queue means you must always be thinking about how important things are in terms of your ends.

Do you collect artifacts? (http://ping.fm/yyYLv)

Given sufficient acuity everyone is an open book. Privacy as opposed to permission is anachronistic.

Emotions are alternative cognitive gestalts

Bioprospecting - wow!

Willing is as nothing without effective

Remoralise work - Barry Schwartz - TED: http://ping.fm/cId7k

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An information-rich attention-poor non-editorial 140-character 20-font world - Welcome to the present!

Self-awareness is over-rated.....

Degrees of freedom

Telomeres grow! Go! Telomeres! Go!

If this is the attention economy, the next is the bandwidth economy and that includes the bandwidth of attention

Physiological hygiene: fluid calories protein sleep sun skin

Is Fail-fast so hard to understand?

Curating teaches parsimony

I do not understand the desire for an interesting life: interesting lives are chaotic and given to extremes. I am all for a boring life. And a long boring life at that.

In celebration of the emergent

All is performance

SATO speed (S) and accuracy (A) trade-off (TO)

Future historians will consider Warhol to have had an amazing attention-sp

Today's session on domestic abuse reminded me of wicked problems and the law of unintended consequences. Domestic abuse is common, under-reported, undesirable, costly and complex. Causes, consequences and modulators are not separable and interventionists often have little to show for their efforts. Webs are dynamic open systems; think ecology, not crystalisation.

Reconciling the desirable and the possible

Creativity as the resolution of paradox

It is valid: if teleportation is technically possible, all energy is information. And so it is not provable that reality is not a simulation. That is as consoling as God, Who lives in the temporal lobe.

Grow me a savant.... Are savants fractal?

Today's lesson was Denial. The suicidal kind. It is a truism that no-one endures the unendurable.

I RESOLVE to sleep more, read less, grow up and grow wings.

#haiku Katanakagi / God as Maker I am made / forged flexible force

Pleasure as primary or Pleasure as derivative?

Simplicity

WWDD = What would Data do?

What conversation without a common lexicon?

Serendipity.

Balance

what utility intelligence in the absence of primary scaffolding?

Good habits. Small wins. Balance.

Silver lining: with a 5-10% case fatality rate swine flu is a good rehearsal for a bird flu pandemic. We are woefully unprepared.

#haiku surface and marrow / Infinity and Omni / all is illusion

#haiku blood burning boils BOILS! / skin a frozen carapace / all is illusion

#HAIKU this self this island / my blood it's beat it's spark is / Mystery SPOKEN

#haiku Prime Creation / every breath heartbeat a grace / God Spoke us extant

#haiku parched soul privation / soft skin cinnamon sweat salt / anticipation

#haiku rain dark gloom concord / seraph's shining symphony / drown me in exult

In repose there is no respite; respite is an altogether different animal...

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast,—

#haiku eloquent skin-skin / love's the language of mute hearts / We - I it speaks... spells

#haiku lover beloved / infinity in clasped arms / The Ourobouros

#haiku words with teeth and claws / with judging eyes flaying tongues / lave renew exalt

#haiku maya samsara / samadhi, love, satori / I am! I am here.

#haiku this self this island / in an ocean encompassed / named happy herald

#haiku delicious joy / oh! delicious joy! praise! / delicious joy

#haiku Solomon David / Moses Jesus Muhammad / You and I brother

#haiku reverence worship / devotion adoration / meaning manifold

#haiku Judge me as you will / I remain myself still; True, / Multifaceted

I moved and the light - it ate my shadow...

If I believe 3 impossible things before breakfast, do I get to experience 4 impossible things before dinner?

Words punctuate the silences of meaningful conversation

Single input, single output = sensitivity
Single input, multiple output = amplification

Making distinctions - being excepted...