escherplex

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by escherplex 7y ago
Side note: according to EDICT: 引きこもり [ひきこもり] (n) (1) shut-in, stay-at-home, hikikomori, people 引きずる [ひきずる] (v5r,vt) (1) to drag along, to pull, (2) to force someone along, (3) to prolong, to drag out, (4) to influence strongly, to seduce, (
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by escherplex 7y ago
It's interesting what the sense of a direct translation of hikikomori implies. Original form is (if you have the font) 引き子守 The first two characters imply someone who is dragged along and the second two refer to a nursemaid sugge
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by escherplex 7y ago
Right. So there is a received cognitive operating system which generates an interactive model of ' reality ' shaped by historic experience, a facet of this system involves ' hierarchical predictive coding .' When parsing
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by escherplex 7y ago
Which reminds me of a story from a retired Bell Labs, Murray Hill engineer who related how they would add useless circuits to microprocessors to see if these sections were duplicated or deleted by the old Soviet military engineers. They wer
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by escherplex 7y ago
However, the above link does point out a convention ripe for abuse: Because suspects are put through continuous interrogation which could last up to 23 days as well as isolation from the outside world, including access to lawyers, both the
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by escherplex 7y ago
In discussions with older Viet Nam vets there were numerous complaints about the reliability of the earlier M16s. Seems squads would use captured AK47s when they could since they were found to be considerably more reliable in combat scenari
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More Than One Reality Exists (In Quantum Physics)(livescience.com)
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by escherplex 8y ago
And by extension, maybe as the POGO comic strip observed We have met the enemy and he is us
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by escherplex 8y ago
Your link tells of Ingo Swann's pivotal role in the remote viewing program About 10 years ago came across research papers (not via Blavatsky) on an old mind-altering Buddhist copper wall setup which involved a wooden chair oriented
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by escherplex 8y ago
Funny, a physician friend once commented that the effectiveness of a placebo seems to be directly proportional to its cost :-)
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by escherplex 8y ago
Well, looks like these Monroe Institute activities segued into CIA interest into what was called ' remote viewing ' for use as a possible supplemental espionage methodology. Apparently one H. E. Puthoff was one of the primary re
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by escherplex 8y ago
Even scarier. Imagine someone with evil intent feeding captured feature vectors for any individual into a 3D printer scripted to render high-def latex masks? Privacy could then be the least of our concerns.
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by escherplex 8y ago
You are confusing 'definition' with positivism Interesting. But the subject is the nature of the definition. What is the OED definition of definition (circularity intended): a precise statement of the nature, properties, sc
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by escherplex 8y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by escherplex 8y ago
Yeah, but there's always Popper's observation hovering in the background concerning definitions: 'all definitions involve the use words which themselves remain undefined'. Now if particular constituents of language (n
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by escherplex 8y ago
Not bad! Be interesting to include this tech into a FPV drone headset which could yield serviceable complete heads-up control for area sightseeing. BTW hope you turned off the projected sniper's reticle during the demo as this does ten
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by escherplex 8y ago
Bad actors exist and they're cleaver. Plus these days you don't have to remember anything. Adding an updatable PIN field to a personal call file in such an app coupled with a software protocol with a pop-up button labeled say &#x2
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by escherplex 8y ago
A smart phone app which behaves as a firewall requiring callers to enter, say, a three character PIN code before phone rings may be useful. Incorporate two message files, one for leaving messages from those who know the PIN code and one th
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by escherplex 8y ago
experiencing an entheogen. A psilocybin experience can literally restore your spiritual faith Interesting point. Given individuals temperamentally and experientially predisposed to depression and who report they know no other cognitive co
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by escherplex 8y ago
If interested in WW2 Allied code breaking you may want to watch the BBC documentary Station X - The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park on Acorn tv
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by escherplex 8y ago
Cultural value is as important as technical advancement, at least in the long run. I think you could agree with me. True but, EG, resurrecting the old 360KB 5.25-inch floppies tech used on the '80s era IBM PCs is probably not worth r
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by escherplex 8y ago
Couple the above article with Crisis on the High Plains: The Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala URL = http://duwaterlawreview.com/crisis-on-the-high-plains-the-lo... Does seem like we're running on fume
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by escherplex 8y ago
Only if they can count to three.
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by escherplex 8y ago
Jim Breen's EDICT dictionary lists 'great' and 'old boy' as core meanings for associated kanji. Aside from an in-group honorific suffix the kimi kanji is also associated with moro no kimi or a Shinto wolf spiri
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by escherplex 8y ago
Google Books has a scanned 1914 edition of this available for download: https://ia902307.us.archive.org/26/items/elementarylectu00st... Steinmetz was also the originator of the Phasor Transform used in steady stat
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by escherplex 8y ago
Not bad! While reading the article the thought occurred that if WWV were eliminated then this would be a good opportunity for a smart phone app to pipe a GPS derived time standard emulating WWV format into a < 100mw (Part 15) 5, 10, or 1
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by escherplex 8y ago
Exactly. And isn't it curious how many down votes the initial bland observation elicited? Strange.
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by escherplex 8y ago
educated ...reminiscent of contemporary video clip interviews with individuals saying I don't mind if the government reads my correspondence. I have nothing to hide. But for an historic contrarian view: Berlin 1931 (Weimar Republic
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by escherplex 8y ago
Obviously a typo (why would you post an obvious typo in your header?) But for some etymological fun assume / were の leaving ワール alone, which turns out (check Bing translate or at Monash) to be J-shorthand for the ancient Indian city H
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by escherplex 8y ago
Cute. So now from your laptop with audio piped into a rec-room amplifier via Bluetooth you can have a Euro-based SW receiver complete with 'waterfall' display and U/LSB (moderate sensitivity) plus with the Google 'Radio

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