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generalPurpose sensemakingSystems & informationColocation
General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation | Smart Data Collective
When reference data, transactional data, and even user queries are colocated in the same data structures and is the same indexes as the extracted features from text, video, biometrics, and so on … something very exciting happens: data naturally finds data and context can accumulate.
Jeff Jonas: Accumulating Context: Now or Never
Sensing importance across a sea of dynamic systems with constantly changing data requires the accumulation and persistence of context. (I am using the term persistence here to mean storing/saving what one has observed and learned – in a database for example.)
...a system will be more intelligent when it can persist context on data streams… achieved by taking every new data point (observation) received and first querying historical observations to determine how this new data point relates...with Sequence Neutral processing – whereby the final context is the same despite the order in which observations are processed...
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...the brain may be made up of two types of basic functions: short-term, and long term memory, but the structure underneath is the same (synapses, dendrites, neurons, etc..) And the functions break down into immediate, versus nightly processing.
Jeff Jonas: Accumulating Context: Now or Never
Sensing importance across a sea of dynamic systems with constantly changing data requires the accumulation and persistence of context. (I am using the term persistence here to mean storing/saving what one has observed and learned – in a database for example.)
...a system will be more intelligent when it can persist context on data streams… achieved by taking every new data point (observation) received and first querying historical observations to determine how this new data point relates...with Sequence Neutral processing – whereby the final context is the same despite the order in which observations are processed...
danLinstedt
...the brain may be made up of two types of basic functions: short-term, and long term memory, but the structure underneath is the same (synapses, dendrites, neurons, etc..) And the functions break down into immediate, versus nightly processing.
20101112
pictureThis
You're sitting in the door of a Huey, hanging on to the butterflies of your pedestal mounted M-60, heart pounding to the whop whop beat of the blades. AFVN Radio turned up to drown out the scream of the turbines above your head, and quiet possibly from yourself. Leaning out to scan 180 degrees for tracers coming up.
Approaching the LZ you swing the 60 against the forward stops, firing ahead in burst only long enough to see where you're walking the tracers, to save the barrel. You use a can of peaches instead of the ammo belt chute, so you can grab the belt and break it back if the barrel does get hot enough to cook off rounds without the triggers pulled, switching ammo boxes is a lot quicker, and you get a hot peach snack later too.
You're not looking for people in the triple canopy or elephant grass. You're not even shooting at anyone. Just walking the tracers in front and below the point where the closest tracer streams originate to use enfilade and ricochet. When the tracers stop coming, you move on to the next closest stream. If there's friendlies nearby, the tracers are usually skirting the ground, not coming up.
Ahead and below are the priority targets because the pilots' armored seats don't protect them from rounds entering through the Plexiglas nose bubble at their feet. That's your responsibility, protecting them and the grunts.
Your armor is a ceramic composite plate front and back just big enough to cover vital organs. It shatters to absorb the impact of the first round, and you know that if a round enters through your side it just might deflect off the back plate and enter your vitals anyway. You and the other gunner split an extra vest to sit on. Being lighter than sand bags under the seats means more grunts, ammo, or other supplies.
If Sir Charles is better at leading tracers than you are at trailing them, you've only got your gun mount to hide behind. It's an aluminum post about and inch and a half in diameter. Since most rounds that don't hit the transmission or gearboxes go right through, you're thankful that Hueys have redundant vital systems. The fuel cells are double walled with sealant between. The cell collapses as fuel is used to keep oxygen out so tracers don't ignite fuel vapors.
Maybe you won't have to fire a shot this time. In some ways that's worse. Anxiety, imagination, fear, anticipation, and boredom can be rougher than actually getting it on. While the reality is worse than you could have ever imagined, if none of the good guys get hurt, coming out the other side is as exhilarating as love wishes to be. You're a warrior that danced with the elephant without letting him step on your toes. You're immortal, lucky, victorious, ALIVE!; with an intensity that leaves withdrawals and depression in it's wake.
If you get back to base alive, you'll probably deaden or evade the contradictory feelings with booze, dope, or religious zeal.
Approaching the LZ you swing the 60 against the forward stops, firing ahead in burst only long enough to see where you're walking the tracers, to save the barrel. You use a can of peaches instead of the ammo belt chute, so you can grab the belt and break it back if the barrel does get hot enough to cook off rounds without the triggers pulled, switching ammo boxes is a lot quicker, and you get a hot peach snack later too.
You're not looking for people in the triple canopy or elephant grass. You're not even shooting at anyone. Just walking the tracers in front and below the point where the closest tracer streams originate to use enfilade and ricochet. When the tracers stop coming, you move on to the next closest stream. If there's friendlies nearby, the tracers are usually skirting the ground, not coming up.
Ahead and below are the priority targets because the pilots' armored seats don't protect them from rounds entering through the Plexiglas nose bubble at their feet. That's your responsibility, protecting them and the grunts.
Your armor is a ceramic composite plate front and back just big enough to cover vital organs. It shatters to absorb the impact of the first round, and you know that if a round enters through your side it just might deflect off the back plate and enter your vitals anyway. You and the other gunner split an extra vest to sit on. Being lighter than sand bags under the seats means more grunts, ammo, or other supplies.
If Sir Charles is better at leading tracers than you are at trailing them, you've only got your gun mount to hide behind. It's an aluminum post about and inch and a half in diameter. Since most rounds that don't hit the transmission or gearboxes go right through, you're thankful that Hueys have redundant vital systems. The fuel cells are double walled with sealant between. The cell collapses as fuel is used to keep oxygen out so tracers don't ignite fuel vapors.
Maybe you won't have to fire a shot this time. In some ways that's worse. Anxiety, imagination, fear, anticipation, and boredom can be rougher than actually getting it on. While the reality is worse than you could have ever imagined, if none of the good guys get hurt, coming out the other side is as exhilarating as love wishes to be. You're a warrior that danced with the elephant without letting him step on your toes. You're immortal, lucky, victorious, ALIVE!; with an intensity that leaves withdrawals and depression in it's wake.
If you get back to base alive, you'll probably deaden or evade the contradictory feelings with booze, dope, or religious zeal.
20101109
snapShots
Evidentially snapShots' onHover service was generating too much traffic or taking up too much bandWidth.
I logged in this morning to find the service and the linkButton back to them gone from my syndicNation weBlog.
At first I assumed it was blogSpot or it's parent, Google, because I assumed snapShots wouldn't have editAccess. Thinking it thru further though, I realize snapShots could simply block access from my account and stop their services from working on my site, as well as keep their scriptButton from showing.
Reviewing the html in my blogTemplate should tell the tale. Too bad whomEver didn't bother to contact me with any concerns. I'm sure not hard to find...
Update: I went to the snapShots webSite and checked my status there. Both my blogs that I have registered with them are still listed. I saw where they had upGraded the popUp window some, so I reNewed the connection and jScript coding between my site and theirs. Still no life in my links... I had other things I needed to attend to so it was just a short while ago that I followed a link I'd posted on faceBook back to here.
Presto! As I was scrolling my mouse down the page to watch some of my favoriteFlicks from youTube snapShots popUps jumpped out at me. It's working again autoMagically!
I logged in this morning to find the service and the linkButton back to them gone from my syndicNation weBlog.
At first I assumed it was blogSpot or it's parent, Google, because I assumed snapShots wouldn't have editAccess. Thinking it thru further though, I realize snapShots could simply block access from my account and stop their services from working on my site, as well as keep their scriptButton from showing.
Reviewing the html in my blogTemplate should tell the tale. Too bad whomEver didn't bother to contact me with any concerns. I'm sure not hard to find...
Update: I went to the snapShots webSite and checked my status there. Both my blogs that I have registered with them are still listed. I saw where they had upGraded the popUp window some, so I reNewed the connection and jScript coding between my site and theirs. Still no life in my links... I had other things I needed to attend to so it was just a short while ago that I followed a link I'd posted on faceBook back to here.
Presto! As I was scrolling my mouse down the page to watch some of my favoriteFlicks from youTube snapShots popUps jumpped out at me. It's working again autoMagically!
20101106
suburbanCoyote
I was just surprised, just now, tonight to hear a small pack of coyote with something cornered just a few houses away here in Cabot, Arkansas. I didn't take time to ponder it because my first thought was of Black Jack, my Manx. He spends most nights out hunting mice and moles either across the street in a vacant lot, or across the fence over in BrierWood. Tonight I think he was on the menu himself.
When I went out the front door and started calling him the coyote stopped their excited yip yipping and broke off to the North West. Jack came running from that direction. His fur wasn't wet or any other sign of mauling so he was probably safely holed up under a neighbors tool shed.
Having a family of fat raccoons, and random possums come up to the back deck to steal pet food didn't surprise me. They're opportunists and not very shy or afraid. The coyote though usually give houses a wide berth unless it's deep into winter and most game is holed up and hard to find. They have to be hungry and desperate. The wetlands and headwaters of Bayou Des Arc and Cypress Bayou should have plenty of game.
As many dogs chained or penned outside as there are around here you'd think they would raise hell and keep the wildlife at bay. I suspect that the dogs know they wouldn't have a chance against a pack of coyote chained up that way though. None were barking at the coyote. They probably didn't want to give their positions away. When I call for Jack to come in they usually bark. They didn't tonight.
In Scott County we've listened while a pack cornered and took down some unlucky dog. At first the dog barks and growls mean and threatening trying to fight back. They're usually bigger than the coyote and could take on two or three in a direct fight. The technique is about numbers though, and coordination. It don't take the pack long to change the dogs tune to pitiful yelps and squeals. The silence afterward us eerie.
The coyote pack hunts just like the orca and wolves to bring down prey larger than themselves. Circling and feinting in to draw the prey's attention while others strike from the back and sides. Hitting and veering quickly away. Turning to confront the one drawing a little blood just lets a different pair or trio close in. They go for tendons and veins to immobilize the prey.
When I went out the front door and started calling him the coyote stopped their excited yip yipping and broke off to the North West. Jack came running from that direction. His fur wasn't wet or any other sign of mauling so he was probably safely holed up under a neighbors tool shed.
Having a family of fat raccoons, and random possums come up to the back deck to steal pet food didn't surprise me. They're opportunists and not very shy or afraid. The coyote though usually give houses a wide berth unless it's deep into winter and most game is holed up and hard to find. They have to be hungry and desperate. The wetlands and headwaters of Bayou Des Arc and Cypress Bayou should have plenty of game.
As many dogs chained or penned outside as there are around here you'd think they would raise hell and keep the wildlife at bay. I suspect that the dogs know they wouldn't have a chance against a pack of coyote chained up that way though. None were barking at the coyote. They probably didn't want to give their positions away. When I call for Jack to come in they usually bark. They didn't tonight.
In Scott County we've listened while a pack cornered and took down some unlucky dog. At first the dog barks and growls mean and threatening trying to fight back. They're usually bigger than the coyote and could take on two or three in a direct fight. The technique is about numbers though, and coordination. It don't take the pack long to change the dogs tune to pitiful yelps and squeals. The silence afterward us eerie.
The coyote pack hunts just like the orca and wolves to bring down prey larger than themselves. Circling and feinting in to draw the prey's attention while others strike from the back and sides. Hitting and veering quickly away. Turning to confront the one drawing a little blood just lets a different pair or trio close in. They go for tendons and veins to immobilize the prey.
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upStarts
How a Small Band of Upstarts Are Challenging Facebook - Advertising Age - DigitalNext: Diaspora; "...Facebook-like experience (and interface) that is built to be open and distributed from the ground up"
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doWhat?
If you've visited my syndicNation blogSpot lately you probably noticed that @twitter isn't the only syndicated site that's changing.
rightClick:::doWhat? and open it in a new tab. All the links on syndicNation are enhanced by snapShots. When you hover the cursor over a linked object snapShots will preview that link for you and offer you the option to share it yourself with addThis , all without you having to leave syndicNation.
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BTW:::put your cursor between the left and right sections for a popUp free safeZone while you use your mouse scroll wheel.
rightClick:::doWhat? and open it in a new tab. All the links on syndicNation are enhanced by snapShots. When you hover the cursor over a linked object snapShots will preview that link for you and offer you the option to share it yourself with addThis , all without you having to leave syndicNation.
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BTW:::put your cursor between the left and right sections for a popUp free safeZone while you use your mouse scroll wheel.
20101007
agrarianPhilosophy
iThink ...all wealth originates with the land, making farming the most productive enterprise. Agrarianism claims that agriculture is the foundation of all other professions.
Philosophically, agrarianism reflects the ideas of John Locke, who declared in his Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) that those who work land are its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders understood ownership of their farms.
Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that,"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, & they are tied to their country & wedded to its liberty & interests by the most lasting bonds."
Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life which is "a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins". Hofstadter notes that to call this a "myth" is not to imply that the idea is simply false. Rather the myth so effectively an agrarian ethos that it profoundly influences people's ways of perceiving values and hence their behavior.
He emphasizes the importance of the agrarian myth in American politics and life even after industrialization had revolutionized the American economy and life. He stresses the significance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as John Taylor of Caroline in the development of agricultural fundamentalism.
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Philosophically, agrarianism reflects the ideas of John Locke, who declared in his Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) that those who work land are its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders understood ownership of their farms.
Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that,"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, & they are tied to their country & wedded to its liberty & interests by the most lasting bonds."
Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life which is "a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins". Hofstadter notes that to call this a "myth" is not to imply that the idea is simply false. Rather the myth so effectively an agrarian ethos that it profoundly influences people's ways of perceiving values and hence their behavior.
He emphasizes the importance of the agrarian myth in American politics and life even after industrialization had revolutionized the American economy and life. He stresses the significance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as John Taylor of Caroline in the development of agricultural fundamentalism.
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