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Shamanism (via Vredeskind)
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1 year agotwo year shamanism students reflect on the Edge (via toddlesbycanoe)
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“Some Useful Final Conclusion: Interesting idea, possible applications would be towards creating an a simple automated search agent, which would periodically interrupt your daily data stream activities, and ask you to say one word or phrase. It could be anything. You could try to stump it or trick it, even and it would still work: it would go out and actively seek information and data patterns on your behalf, and according to its programmatic hunches, and would return you with a pool of items that might interest you, which you could sift through, “ingest” into your datasphere, etc. [All concepts and software concepts herein described are licensed as Free & In the Public Domain. December 3, 2008 TimBoucher.com]”
“Our present day search engines are a poor match for the way that our brains actually think and search for answers. Our brains search associatively along networks of relationships. We search for things that are related to things we know, and things that are related to those things. Our brains not only search along these networks, they sense when networks intersect, and that is how we find things. I call this associative search, because we search along networks of associations between things.”
“Both forms of search make use of the intersections of sets, but the associative search model is exponentially more powerful because for every additional search term in your query, an entire network of concepts, and relationships between them, is implied. One additional term can result in an entire network of related queries, and when you begin to intersect the different networks that result from multiple terms in the query, you quickly home in on only those results that make sense. In keyword search on the other hand, each additional search term only provides a linear benefit — there is no exponential amplification using networks.”
“By entering keywords into a search engine like Google we are simulating an associative search, but without the real power of actual relationships between things to help us. Google does not know how various concepts are related and it doesn’t take that into account when helping us find things. Instead, Google just looks for documents that contain exact matches to the terms we are looking for and weights them statistically. It makes some use of relationships between Web pages to rank the results, but it does not actually search along relationships to find new results.”
“Basically the problem today is that Google does not work the way our brains think. This difference creates an inefficiency for searchers: We have to do the work of translating our associative way of thinking into “keywordese” that is likely to return results we want. Often this requires a bit of trial and error and reiteration of our searches before we get result sets that match our needs.”
“Jesus Christ Superstar (born Dec. 25th, 0AD, as Jesus H. Christ) was the founder and leader of the “People Who Loved Each Other Unconditionally,” a cult he began in Israel in 30AD. He was convicted of being a dick for commanding certain members of the group to carry out the March 33AD throwing of the money-changers out of the BankTemple in Jerusalem. Though there was no evidence he personally was a dick, he was found guilty anyway, through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy (see Roman Penal Code Statue 55.62-B).”
“Man-made noise in the world’s seas and oceans is becoming an increasing threat to whales, dolphins and turtles who use sound to communicate, forage for food and find mates, wildlife experts said on Wednesday. Rumbling ship engines, seismic surveys by oil and gas companies, and intrusive military sonars are triggering an “acoustic fog and cacophony of sounds” underwater, scaring marine animals and affecting their behaviour.”
“http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/horn-of-plenty.jpgThankful for President Elect Obama, stressful yet paid work, freezing rain and hot chocolate, funny and talented friends, fab family members, and not-so-fab family members, and the depression, which is the only reas”
