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Cara posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
My handwriting is pretty poor too. I used to struggle to read my father’s writing when I was a child and complained about it…. all these years later, when I compare our writing I see mine is much more illegible! My excuse could be that I am left handed…. the truth is I abandoned the writing style we were taught (cursive) a long time ago as…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
People can no longer write by hand it seems.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/cambridge-university-scrap-bad-handwriting-exams-sarah-pearsall-a7938131.html-
My handwriting was deteriorated long before the computer age
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My handwriting is pretty poor too. I used to struggle to read my father’s writing when I was a child and complained about it…. all these years later, when I compare our writing I see mine is much more illegible! My excuse could be that I am left handed…. the truth is I abandoned the writing style we were taught (cursive) a long time ago as…[Read more]
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Western calligraphy has fine letter sets too
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There goes our Western Civilization.
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The idea that handwriting is redundant and possibly recalcitrant and thus immoral seems to be the underlying aim of the corporations that sell digital machines. Handwriting employs a proper form, a proper matter and a proper intent for cohering a sacrament which anatomizes Ratio.
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Interesting idea… was around in the times of the Hitt ites according to the article.
https://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/mit-firebrick-resistance-heated-energy-storage.html-
An experiment worth trying:
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I expected to see something about charging of the minute crystals contained in the mineral and not a heat sink, but it is interesting in any case-
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
From fake news to fake reviews…. Neural Networks Can Auto-Generate Reviews That Fool Humans
Fake reviews used to be crowdsourced. Now they can be auto-generated by AI, according to a new research paper
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Margaret W. posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Postscriptum: The ‘experts’ are already on the offensive. Medieval Latin scholars, cipher geeks, librarians are skeptical about latest Voynich “interpretation of abbreviations” decoding solution by Gibbs . . . but believe it’s still most likely a woman’s health manual. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/experts-are-extremely-dubious-about-the…[Read more]
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Freefall posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
Margaret .. now this is interesting .. I have based a lot of my art on this manuscript .. Don’t ask me why .. I just found the drawings simply fascinating .. and often wonder what on earth they were trying to relay ..
Great find and thanks for sharing .. 🙂-
I like the drawings because they are imaginative and unpretentiously charming. Can you share some of your art?
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I would love to Margaret but I’m not to sure how to .. Do you mean .. upload some here or email some out .. ?? .. Any clues ??
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You can sign up on imgur.com and post your images there and then share links. Simple to do.
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Baz posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
absolutely mental….Krebs
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This is really cool because it aggravates and soothes at the same time…what I like about Krebs is that there is an implied magisterium, a folly and a threat which grounds me in un-time. (or ungrounds me in time). His work is crazy-sublime.
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Baz .. I got the aggravate and but totally missed the soothing bit .. If I HAD to listen to this .. I would go “absolutely mental” .. LOL .. Sorry !!
Give me Zelenka anyday …-
I was going to write “bunta” but I suspect Aussie slang is too much of a stretch….
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LMAO !!
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Baz posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
GDS Ears prepare ye the way of
Johann Ludwig Kuhnau-
absolutely mental….Krebs
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This is really cool because it aggravates and soothes at the same time…what I like about Krebs is that there is an implied magisterium, a folly and a threat which grounds me in un-time. (or ungrounds me in time). His work is crazy-sublime.
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Baz .. I got the aggravate and but totally missed the soothing bit .. If I HAD to listen to this .. I would go “absolutely mental” .. LOL .. Sorry !!
Give me Zelenka anyday …-
I was going to write “bunta” but I suspect Aussie slang is too much of a stretch….
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LMAO !!
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Caveat .. BUT .. I DO like the first link .. (Johann Ludwig Kuhnau)..
Thanks for sharing .. 🙂
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Margaret W. posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
More about the use of “re-purposed” breviographs in the manuscript: Patterns of Latin in the Voynich Manuscript
http://www.science20.com/patrick_lockerby/patterns_of_latin_in_the_voynich_manuscript-225418 -
Margaret W. posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
So far, the simplest, most logical interpretation! No secret codes, simply use of Latin shorthand, or breviographs.
The mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded. History researcher says that it’s a mostly plagiarized guide to women’s health https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-has-finally-been-decoded/-
More about the use of “re-purposed” breviographs in the manuscript: Patterns of Latin in the Voynich Manuscript
http://www.science20.com/patrick_lockerby/patterns_of_latin_in_the_voynich_manuscript-225418 -
Margaret .. now this is interesting .. I have based a lot of my art on this manuscript .. Don’t ask me why .. I just found the drawings simply fascinating .. and often wonder what on earth they were trying to relay ..
Great find and thanks for sharing .. 🙂-
I like the drawings because they are imaginative and unpretentiously charming. Can you share some of your art?
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I would love to Margaret but I’m not to sure how to .. Do you mean .. upload some here or email some out .. ?? .. Any clues ??
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You can sign up on imgur.com and post your images there and then share links. Simple to do.
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
I’m afraid in my lithium-fluoridated water blog, that I made a big blunder, reading “oxycontin” when the article said “oxytocin”. My bad! My dyslexic brain was in overdrive or something!
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Baz posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Time Travel though Music and Neapolitan “memory consolidation”.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep02690?WT.ec_id=SREP-20130924
I’m thinking of Bruno’s vorticular wheels and the grammar of baroque musick: Vordersatz-Fortspinnung-Epilog.
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the missing “r” is in a different time-stream…or it may have sacrificed by some internet Brahmin
does listening = observing, where the grammar is a collapsing phase state ?
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Earthquake lights…. does anyone know any more about this idea?
My initial guess would be that it is not the “explosions of transformers and electrical machines” as spouted by the expert for the article but rather something like the aurora borealis and to do with earth’s magnetic field. I believe Ben Davidson (suspiciousobservers) and others…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Short but interesting article about Pinyin and Chinese characters and the ways these play out in culture and connecting the Chinese diaspora. (I set aside the obvious political positioning memes up front to enjoy the rest of the…[Read more]
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It is essential to learn traditional characters in order to be able to read pre-1970 era texts.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
Indeed, next up: phrenology
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Spying is a game that two can play. In this case the “others” / “cousins” spying on us?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/ras-awb090817.php-
I believe that Dr. Farrell raised a similar issue in a past vidchat when he discussed the issue of “are ETs good or bad?”
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Cara posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
Take a look at this: IEEE Spectrum Special Report: Can We Copy the Brain?
I find it very interesting that this is receiving such a huge push from them. Will we see them working on and pushing forward engineering standards for brain interface and communications? It sure looks like it to me. And typically, when they do start to push standards out,…[Read more]-
IEEE: The Inst i tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The most influential electrical engineering association of worldwide, although it is a US inst i tution. It sets the standards for all sorts of technologies such as wireless communication (Wi MAX, 802.11), mobile networking (GPRS, HSDPA, 3G, LTE), etc.
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This website automatic content moderation does not seem to accept
inst i tute or inst i tution
tech ni cal
spec i alist
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I’m getting to like this algorithm
that challenges
our non-digital
intelligence
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Good luck with that, they have no idea that your mind and memory is NOT in your head.
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I agree and still, I think it is interesting that they are pushing this out in such a public way.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 9 years, 1 month ago
Here is a “soundbite” of views from the IEEE Spectrum publication:
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When will we have computers as capable as the brain?
Rodney Brooks’s revised question: When will we have computers/robots recognizably as intelligent and as conscious as humans?
Not in our lifetimes, not even in Ray Kurzweil’s lifetime, and despite his fervent wishes, just lik…[Read more] -
Jamie posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
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The “random event” interpretation of history is the oddest conspiracy of them all.
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Kenny posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
People in Florida should move to a safe location pronto, COMMANDER KENNY’S ORDERS. This was a powerful storm and Puerto Rico was so lucky the eye of the hurricane passed 50 miles from the North Coast. We experienced winds of 60-70 miles per hour.
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Did you ever get an answer to your question in the chat? Looks like the full video is up now, 😉
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Yes listening now, I like to listen the pre-chat stuff.
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Western calligraphy has fine letter sets too