thoughts 6

thoughts

3:04 AM 10/10/2006
easier to think of questions you know the answer to than ones you don't

3:53 AM 10/10/2006
dihonesty is the key to happiness, i know because i'm not

11:47 AM 10/10/2006
people will fight for what they have but not for something better

4:09 AM 10/11/2006
i think i am depressed, but i just accept it as my personality

5:51 PM 10/12/2006
refering to crashing into my mom while both of us were riding bikes in a deserted parking lot:
actually we both knew how to ride at the time. the problem is that when you look at someone/something you tend to drift toward it - sometimes not realizing what's happening.
this statement is true in general - like with relationships or loni focusing on her father even though he doesn't care much about her.


9:08 PM 10/12/2006
thinking as an artist, i think it is best to not care what anyone thinks about anything you do - you just care about what you think. and then your art is you - rather than everybody else averaged.

1:22 AM 10/21/2006
the hardest thing for apes is to deal with other apes - carrying big brain around is not the issue
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to maryann, subject=brains:
I think mammalian brains blew up (in size) similar to the way DNA did in eukariotic cells - lots of repetitions and "junk" came in because there wasn't much pressure for concise DNA anymore. There's probably a lot of junk-neural-mass like there is junk DNA - which is probably marginally useful but keeps things open for expansion. In other words, I would bet fish brains have more ability per gram of neurons - and probably a cleaner architecture.


10:46 PM 10/29/2006
some women have a fire burning in their brain all the time and when you interact with them not only do you get burned but they spark new fires in your brain that you have to deal with - at times it may be wise to "insulate" the fires in their brain (from yourself) by keeping some distance. papa said two things in this life to fear are fire and women.


1:01 PM 11/1/2006
coupon are all about making everybody who doesn't use coupons pay a little more so that the people that do waste there time cutting them off can get a discount - it's all about wasting people's time

6:04 AM 11/4/2006
bible is like austin powers movie, ok if you don't think about it too hard

11:23 AM 11/6/2006
there seem to be two kinds of people - those who are technical and do not see the broad picture (IT person for example) - those who are not technical and do see the broad picture (management for example)

6:02 PM 11/8/2006
i think today i fully realise that i am on level playing field with other students - i am not at an advantage - the only "advantage" i will have will be my certain strengths which come at the cost of certain weaknesses - it's going to be the choices i make that define the things that i know or do and the usefulness i have to others and the kinds of things i accomplish - choices may set me apart but i truly accept i am not at an advantage - willingness to sacrifice is a strength

3:22 PM 11/10/2006
sometimes what i say is BS and something there's a lot behind it to back it up, but both seem to come out the same (as if both are BS)

3:34 AM 11/11/2006
i am a person so pessimistic i run the risk of not trying things because i don't think they would work - when acutally they would

2:15 PM 11/13/2006
DNA is one of the more elegant part of biology - celebrated discovery because it tells you so much - although the rest (most of biology) is not elegantly described (it cannot be because it's basically a big evolved blob that works)

1:09 PM 11/15/2006
i've seen people very smart. i think loni's reason for being in school is to prove to the world she is smart. i don't care about proving such things because i see many people as smarter or smarter than i. the thing is that smart is multidimensional, it's like a vector. and most people have different strengths and weaknesses so their vector points a certain way. i have value partly because my vector is pointed different than many, not because it's longer than everybody elses. and partly i have value just because i can choose to work on things that i feel are important, when other people do not - so i can make those things happen.

11:40 PM 11/20/2006
people should figure out those who are statistically the greatest threat to the population and keep them separated from the rest of the population.
i don't really think the system of prison and jailing reforms many people.


2:05 AM 11/21/2006
i'm not big on uniformity


10:10 PM 11/23/2006
maryann does metascience


1:08 AM 11/25/2006
could be said to maryann but not an email (yet):
the bone i have to pick with symbolic ai is one i've been thinking about since i was in those classes at gatech, one more symbolic one more numeric. i don't think humans words to solve things, i think they figure them out nonverbally and then use words to communicate them. although you can do some logic with the words alone, you are limited.


5:31 PM 11/25/2006
i think this would be better than the turing test:
build a robot that can clean the room for me


5:26 PM 11/26/2006
women want more out of friendships - and the amount that a woman wants a man wouldn't give - unless she was giving him sexual gratification. so it's unusual for a man and woman to be really close and not have romantic interest.


3:54 AM 11/27/2006
i do tend to feel i am waisting time when someone is explaining gory details of what happened to them during the day. although in some sense i may be wrong, these stories may have lots of useful information for everyday life. i think only about 5% of the story contains useful information on average.


7:53 AM 11/27/2006
skinny women on magazine covers act as clothes hangers, for display, but for certain physical acts skinny may not be the most desirable attribute for a woman


4:39 AM 11/28/2006
you could use suatomic particles to make computer - very small ones. although if nature doesn't use them in an intricate way, it makes me think they aren't very easy to use. nature uses chemistry, but not chemistry that messes with the nucleus.


10:13 PM 12/2/2006
the fact that loni *wanted* to be talked to when i accidently made her fall and hurt her head is telling. i mean she wanted to talk to relieve the pain on her head. when i am hurting i usually want silence.


1:57 PM 12/9/2006
what would an american accent sound like (to me) if i wasn't american (like if i was british)


5:00 AM 12/10/2006
software user interfaces are like prositutes, pretty ones are worth more


1:07 AM 1/6/2007
important to look at consequences of your actions across time and space (even if the space is out of sight and the time is out of your lifetime)


12:30 AM 1/7/2007
like is like a machine that is sort of link a car - wind up car of sorts - that goes in one direction, learns everything in one direction, that's the direction of time. you don't go back. but if you could look around you could see all time ahead of you and behind you. but the rest of the universe is like this car too i think - so all of it is traveling down this road at constant rate.

4:40 AM 1/15/2007
it took about a year for parker's music to go from impressive to enjoyable ... (refering to me listening over time)


11:05 PM 1/15/2007
the model of the microscope would be like cutting the tree down rather than picking low hanging fruit... optical sectioning program and such are low hanging fruit... and when the tree came down every thing would be low to the ground

5:06 PM 1/27/2007
austin said he would be the scientist that believe the theory and tries to make it work.... i see him as a person who tends to find a theory to express what he thinks intuitively and rarely questions intuition


1:57 PM 1/29/2007
i don't think you can go back in time. i don't think the universe remembers what happened a long time ago. but in quantum mechanics it seems that particles do go back in time... so maybe you can.


1:36 AM 1/30/2007
the point of a relationship: woman has place to dump all of her problems and man has place to dump all of his semen

9:02 PM 2/7/2007
i embrace my role as a messenger. the message is the structure of the brain, and the receiver is a bunch of geeks to do image processing and analysis.

10:25 AM 2/8/2007
rural states have an inordinate amount of power considering their small population - because of the way the senate is set up. this is unfortunate because they tend to have worse education and communication too - so it's easier for the government to keep them in the dark. (on this subject, the electorial collage doesn't do that much, but it does tend to squeeze out the smaller parties - it has an all or nothing effect - so if both of the large parties are really one (like chomsky suggests) - it makes sense they would both like the idea of the electorial college)

1:12 AM 2/16/2007
james writes matlab code in java... (use of matrices (arrays) to do everything) it's like going to a chinese restaurant for you steak an potatoes

12:11 PM 2/16/2007
take away someone's ability to fake it and they have to do it for real
(i remember telling austing i had to really learn math because my short term memory wasn't big enough to just memorize a procedure for certain problems.)
(kate probably didn't learn a lot of things because she was good at faking an understanding of them.)

8:15 PM 2/24/2007
the your unites states people fought so that they control their own resources... now the older united states does the same thing britian was doing to the your US... and they do it to Iran .... take the raw resources from Iran (or africa)
(1953 coup)


5:21 PM 3/1/2007 [first paragraph sent to loni]
by the way, today schoenbein extended his hero worshipping philosophy to a new level. he said there's going to be a genius that arises in the next 200 years or so that will come up with a formula (sort of like F=ma) that describes the full development process of biology... like predicts from DNA what a finished organism looks like. he implied that it would have been done already except someone as smart as newton hasn't shown up yet.

i felt sorry for the guy and i could tell he was really excited so i didn't make any complaints about his reasoning.

but if i were to make a complaint it would be this: going from dna to an organism is way more complicated than planet movement. it's chaotic in the formal sense and extremely difficult to predict with a little formula. as far as i know, nothing newton dealt with was like that. if we do come to a time when it is predictable, it's more likely to but some sort of computational simulation - like (loosely speaking) finite element analysis. and it will likely take a large number of people to put it together in a reasonable amount of time - rather than one prophet or whatever.

(and this is just my opinion but i think people as smart as newton have come and gone many times over.)
he seemed to totally avoid the fact that the first principle laws of physics already have biology covered...

5:13 AM 3/3/2007
human language words are like ice burgs - lots behind them
computer languate words are like ice cubes - you can pretty much see the whole thing


7:03 PM 3/7/2007
the really small cantilever getting hit with atoms to turn heat into motion thing: if you make the ratchet thing a wheel then it's turning. now there are losses when heat goes into the lever. but once the lever heats to the temperature of the particles flying around there won't be any net losses any more.... so you never run out of energy. so you have perpetual motion.... you aren't getting something for nothing... but you don't loose much either.


7:55 PM 3/8/2007
communism is like capitalism but there is only one monopoly - the government

11:01 PM 3/8/2007
you can stare at a 5 and imagine it as a symbol as it is turned 90, 180, or 270 degrees, and turning your head helps, but you don't even have to turn your head. each orientation sort of has its own personality when you see it that way.

8:20 PM 3/9/2007
some people take drugs to excape the experience of the rat maze we live in, and this causes them to get stuck in the rat maze, not find their way out... those that accept the maze have a better chance of getting out (making it so your job for money is what you want to do). this is part of the reason i go to college.


5:17 PM 3/10/2007
the importance of a discovery is not proportional to the intelligence of the person who discovered it

6:05 PM 3/11/2007
i don't think people should be at war with the civilians of another nation... only the military (war is sloppy but still there is a difference in what target you choose)

3:32 AM 3/13/2007
rick lawrence said one of his friends said mother nature is a bitch.. i think she's more like a helpless child
(she doesn't intentionally hurt you but she's not going to do your research for you)

2:10 AM 3/15/2007
why should science magazine be the best and the worst - hardest to access (because of expensive site license) and most prestigious

12:44 AM 3/17/2007
i've had to take a hiatus from learning to slog through the education system and maximize grades

2:07 AM 3/17/2007
there may have been intelligent design... image people a zillions years in the future finding dna humans engineered (genetic engineering) and saying it's intelligent design. that may have already happened.


2:56 AM 3/20/2007
there are people that master things and give them no thought. like mr. hankla or dr. skully using the computer and basically memorizing how to use programs. i tend to not master anything, but rather think about it as i go. this is (i assume) how my brain is wired and not really a choice. with music the same applies. it takes me a while to move into the mastery without thought phase. some people always operate in that phase. i think it is a limiting phase in that it's sometimes not very creative... although the creativity in the music does come out even when things are mastered.... it's the higher level flow that becomes what the person thinks about and all the fundamentals are mastered. the mastery way of learning is more fragile, when something changes it doesn't work any more. change the software version and it doesn't work anymore. change the music instrument and it doesn't work (has to be re-learned). the conscious thought way works in general but is slower. i choose to be a scientist partly because your job is to look at new problems, to the conscious thought is a useful tool. for the tedious parts of science, the "mastery" is probably more helpful. mastery is important, mastering the computer keyboard frees you to think about the writing rather than which key you are hitting.


3:05 AM 3/20/2007
if you can just get the answer and then multiply it by one, that will give you the answer
[this is not a typo but rather an example of something like circular reasoning]



7:58 PM 3/27/2007

i think the teaching system in school/college is an artifact from 100 years ago... when there was no cheap way to mass distribute video and multimedia stuff. ignoring the details, i basically think that the best lecturers/experts in the world should be paid (by the government) to put together lectures on the subjects and record them and distribute them to the rest of the world... ideally distributed freely over the internet under a "copyleft" kind of license. as new information comes about new lectures could be made and distributed. but i think there are lots of politics and history and tradition in place that will keep the system of classroom lectures in place for a while.

nota bene: i do think realtime human interaction is helpful to learning and certainly could/should be part of the curriculum... although i'm still not sure if typical classroom settings are very good for that either.





1:15 AM 4/10/2007
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that makes me sad and i don't even know her well.


> do you remember that hot little number i used to date a few years ago?
> Margaret White....Alex White's little sister.
>
> well, she's dead. she killed herself earlier today.
>
> where is she now?


that's like asking where is a chess game is after someone knocked all the pieces off the board in the middle of the action.
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7:06 PM 4/22/2007
scientist who break concrete with a rubber mallot do get points for creativity - but personally i wouldbe more interested in making jack hammers.
(this applies to brain-mapping technologies)


3:10 AM 4/27/2007
attractive female college teachers with accents:
the mems person
the turing machine lady
the pet imaging lady
(all the attractive female teachers had accents)


8:37 PM 5/2/2007
death is the most permanent thing in life

6:25 PM 5/9/2007
i think people believe you better when you make an explanation even if it's wrong. there's an outher limites episode where a guy makes a little world that evolves faster than normal. (eventually a God-like ghost comes out of it.) one could say it evolves faster because it's small... and that would make it more convincing to some... as in move believable. but really it's not much better because there's nothing said about why something small would evolve faster.


12:44 AM 5/11/2007
I think it's interesting that nature tried to retrofit freely evolving independent cells into altruistic and harmonious animal cells. But it couldn't quite tame them. I suppose if humans had been designed from scratch with the end goal in mind, it may have been easy to prevent cancer. Or maybe not.


2:45 AM 5/11/2007
wax fruit looks good but you can't eat it. i tell this to boris because he originally brought home a girl that was difficult but pretty.

1:23 AM 5/12/2007
all the people who have tortured my mind with there thoughts, i disown them all. i disown those people. i don't know if it's possible to disown the thoughts. probably it is - if a way it found. but i certainly disown the people.

12:53 AM 5/16/2007
smartest women do get the highest grades. the smarted guys do not. consider austin and his lover jessica. both i consider the smartest.

11:35 PM 5/16/2007
spank you berry much (my words)
thank you verry much
we apple-gize (under the couch at georgia tech words)
we apologize


9:51 PM 5/20/2007
biology tells us that the watchmaker was a lunatic

4:37 AM 5/22/2007
the government is somewhat greedy, somewhat stupid, somewhat dishonest. it's a careful balance. when interpreting events (like the thing about republicans giving immigrants citizenship status) you have to consider this. i figure they will give some of them citizenship but still keep most of them in the cheap labor pool.

6:57 AM 5/29/2007
biology is the messiest scientific field and the most organized thing on the planet

11:39 PM 5/29/2007
some women are delicate pieces of glass - and when they break they end up cutting you

8:14 AM 6/1/2007
you could use an elephant for a vacuum cleaner but why would you want to?

9:18 AM 6/2/2007
genetically engineer colored cotton for clothing, that way there's not die to bleed out.

1:30 PM 6/9/2007
you tend to remember dreams last part first

1:48 PM 6/24/2007
whitehouse is a BS factory, should be called brownhouse
(thinking about recent science friday show 2007 06 22 - whitehouse said no embyotic research is principle america was founded on)

3:17 PM 7/8/2007
womare a like software, you want to find the ones that are user friendly

8:07 PM 7/8/2007
you naturally don't bite your tongue when chewing

2:53 AM 7/9/2007
i think listening to stories about einstein can be painful but often useful

10:33 PM 7/12/2007
fault tolerance is one way that people are intelligent - like peltier can put up with just about anything and find some truth in it.

12:45 AM 7/17/2007
if lobsters are basically oversized cockroaches why are they so much more expensive

6:42 AM 7/23/2007
antichristmas may be a better name for the thing

5:46 AM 7/28/2007
school teachers can be good people at heart, they are like the professional whippers, that torture you for a living, but conceivably you could learn to like one of them, and later in life maybe put the torture incidents aside and accept them (accept the teacher)

9:52 AM 7/28/2007
i doubt humans are much different than praying mantis in terms of females biting off the males head and feeding him to her young.

8:57 PM 7/30/2007
working an ncmir is splashing around in a puddle of insanity that has been established by previous grants

2:10 PM 8/18/2007
i'd rather deliver what i can't promise than promise what i can't deliver

4:11 PM 8/18/2007
nothing IS good enough.
(sort of like silence is golden)

6:44 AM 8/20/2007
people blow leaves off street and make more noise pollution than there was street pollution

2:33 AM 8/25/2007
in responce to bryan's comment about names preferably telling you about the thing. i say it's okay if they are just unique id's. consider saul williams compared to DJ jazzy jeff. DJ jazz jeff says something about the person. saul williams is just a unique ID. juliet said names aren't that important.


5:10 AM 9/9/2007
quantum mechanics can be tested thoroughly and thoroughly tested, cosmology probably cannot


10:25 PM 9/10/2007
explaining is reverse engineering a thought that came in an instant without explanation


9:32 AM 9/12/2007
seems like most people want a structure to explore and i prefer no structure so that exploration is easier (in music, art, whatever)


7:00 PM 9/15/2007
some grab the low hanging fruit and some build latters
you give up the fruit while building the latter
building the latter is like high risk research
picking low hanging fruit is the low risk research


11:31 PM 9/17/2007
science is maybe more useful as something to keep out wrong ideas (crazy traditions and such) than to change things.


10:05 PM 9/18/2007
when people say they don't like a whole genre of music - that's like racism

1:24 AM 9/22/2007
drummers (during drum solo) seem to be possed by a spirit that moves their limbs around, and they watch is happening like a spectator

10:09 PM 9/24/2007
electron flow, water flow, heat flow, and maybe momentum, they are all the same, have resistors and low resistance pipes (or wires) and pressure (voltage), etc

10:11 PM 9/24/2007
voltage is a made up thing
it's not really like red or yellow, which are just there


7:48 PM 9/30/2007
i think people should be stripped away from ideas. in math in science they go out of their way to try to connect them (name the thing after the person). but it's the idea that lives, the idea that was there and always there. multiple people often notice it at nearly the same time.
it's the idea that lives on, not the person. i appreciate how when feynman talks about physics, he talks about physics, rather than the people who worked on it.


5:00 AM 10/1/2007
to austin
title: government
seems that the story of government is the story of power centers being dragged (kicking and screaming) into actually helping the nation rather than just using it for fuel.


9:56 PM 10/3/2007
compared to others, i think my brain is sometimes like a heavy object (train or whatever) - takes a lot of effort to change the direction (even at the shot time scale level of doing one problem then another - also at longer time scales)


1:09 AM 10/6/2007
you don't choose your friends, they choose you. maybe.


3:42 AM 10/6/2007
to rachel
subject: ...
... we only have a limited amount of effort that we devote (give freely) to others. like 5% or so. a few minutes a day. i think that's enough to make the world a nice place to live in. if everybody gives a little, things work out. but that giving should be chosen wisely. it makes since to give something that will have a positive impact - rather that just giving something that makes you feel better about yourself...


1:58 AM 10/7/2007
i think the isrealites said sodomy was bad because they needed a way to incriminate nearly everybody so they could justify killing them. they had to create a separation between them and the others - so they said genital sucking (or whatever) is punishable by death.


7:04 AM 10/7/2007
paracites show up when you have a restaurant, bums, salesmen
all humans are paracites though

8:55 AM 10/8/2007
surprising the instincts of humans work at all in modern society. the watching sports, having pets, replacements for tribal hunting and having children. things like that are what we do, nearly everything is a replacement, a substitute for what the instinct requires. kids that have trouble in school have trouble because the environment is unnatural.


2:20 AM 10/14/2007
from wikipedia
Russell also wrote regarding his expectations: "We are not prophesying; we are merely giving our surmises . . . We do not even aver that there is no mistake in our interpretation of prophecy and our calculations of chronology. We have merely laid these before you, leaving it for each to exercise his own faith or doubt in respect to them."
this changed to God is behind the governing body so they know best

3:13 PM 10/18/2007
i spent years thinking about evolution. now, to me it's a done deal. i remember when things started, with couch burroughs pointed out some things (vestigial organs) that made it probably that animals evolved. and then later at trenbeaths when i read in that little book most scientists don't spend time trying to prove evolution happened because they are too busy doing there work (many of them using the priciples of evolution). then i decided to pretty much lay off the studying of it and work on whatever i want to work on.

7:41 PM 10/19/2007
there are nerds in highschool who will say things that are correct
but people like akeem will go beyond and say things that are profound

1:10 PM 10/20/2007
rock and roll is a spin off of the larger musical projects black people were working on in the 50's

2:36 PM 10/22/2007
people who like starting fires feel relieved when fire starts - evolutions way of insuring people use fire

9:04 PM 10/22/2007
most people i respect had trouble with women
(einstein for instance)
(louis armstrong)


9:31 AM 10/23/2007
in life people choose what they are going to do and then how to do it. i think the geeks focus more on how to do it sometimes ignore the what to do and why part. the manager type people do the opposite, focus on what needs to happen and don't pay attention to how.


12:41 PM 10/26/2007
i think saying obvious things can be useful in communcation - to establish the language you are using - lets people match what they know to how you describe it


4:11 PM 10/26/2007
we aren't the center of the universe (as cosmology says) but life in an interesting blip, a little thing in the corner of the room (the corner of the universe) (and this view from biology). there's a radiolab episode (in october 2007) where they talk about insignificance based on cosmology - but they don't look at biology.

11:33 PM 10/28/2007
big different between learning something... as in you read it and agree with it ... and learning something at a deeper level, probably by experience. like if you breakup you learn about breaking up. in goodwill hunting movie robin williams mentioned to the kid that he hadn't experienced much, just read about it.

8:36 PM 11/6/2007
if sex were stealing guy would be kleptomaniacs
marriage would be buying the whole convience store next door so you could steal and not get in trouble

2:57 AM 11/13/2007
if most men were attraced to very old women, they wouldn't go after young fertile ones, for fear of impregnating them (in a time of no birth control)

5:20 AM 11/13/2007
song was probably the first way of preserving textual information before written language was used. the rhyme and meter is a form of data compression. by imposing structure, there is less information for the brain to remember.

9:54 PM 11/14/2007
it seems that the more ability people have to BS, the more they do BS.
the doctor "house" (tv show) has a guy that doesn't BS like most doctors do and that probably makes him more realistic - that's a tv show, but i think the effect occurs in real life.


6:26 AM 11/19/2007
placebo effect is body's way of thanking you for trying something

10:48 AM 11/22/2007
ash is always black or white, why?

11:52 AM 11/24/2007
truth doesn't care if i'm happy or sad, alive or dead, it is what it is

9:59 AM 11/27/2007
brain makes sense if though of as a tool for survival. realtime processing, even if imprecise. (for geeks this may be shifted a bit to more precise and less realtime). machines are far more precise but don't handle a lot of stuff - intuitive stuff. anger could make sense in terms of survival.

10:16 AM 11/27/2007
by thinking of humans as baboons with extra capabilities, things begin to make sense. there's an npr science friday episode about baboons.

1:17 PM 11/30/2007
i think humans should go ahead and move to mars rather than reducing the earth to mars like conditions (messing up all life) and then finally moving to mars

2:29 AM 12/9/2007
protein folding is a minomer (sort of). when i think of folding i think of folding sheets. protein folding is creating 3d arrangement.

6:18 PM 12/9/2007
Science Friday > Archives > 2005 > May > May 27, 2005, Hour One:
you could take male and female dna and do a simulated crossover operation on a computer (or by hand). would the result be sacred in someway? this is what claiming that a particular set of dna is sacred would mean.
i think the core of the debate on whether an embryo is sacred is based on an assumption that people have souls that God implants. if there are not souls that God implants then the embryo is a ball of cells, period.


4:51 PM 12/16/2007
people of other countries should be respected as if they live on our soil

4:58 PM 12/16/2007
ego/conversation
conversations in groups are all about ego. the point is to appear superior. not to communicate information.


6:56 PM 12/22/2007
when you flush a toilet most of the water goes down but some sprays out - like a black hole - most things go in but some visible jets of stuff go out


8:41 PM 12/22/2007
i don't think that humans were made to experience so many options in terms of mates - that's probably why it's so easy to find others and why that hurts so much and why we don't really have ability to cope very well - something dr. vasseur at vsu touched on (the large number of options)


8:54 PM 12/22/2007
first makeout session is to feel things out, get a better understanding of the situation

10:10 PM 12/24/2007
tell me what you mean by free will and i can argue that a toaster has it -- and if not that i can argue than humans to do not have it.

6:35 PM 12/25/2007
in scientific engineering i don't care much about innovation, i care about solutions to problems that i think are problesm. and was the solutions to be good ones, whether they are innovative or not i don't care.


9:09 AM 1/9/2008
some of my comments (about human behavior or whatever) may have the effect that if someone doesn't fully understand they will think i'm a jerk (or sexist or whatever)


12:05 PM 1/23/2008
woman are like sharks, they smell blood and attack (or reject)

2:27 AM 2/3/2008
cells have an apoptotic gun to their head all the time, if they mess up they die

2:18 PM 2/6/2008
i would guess that God would be ok with stem cell research because life naturally kills cell (apoptosis) and fertilized eggs (about half i think) never even attach to the uterine wall (and die).

1:19 AM 2/7/2008
#326: Quiz Show this american life
girls do what they need to do to snag the alpha male, this is expected in terms of evolution. looking the smartest isn't neccesarily the best thing to do.

1:20 AM 2/7/2008
finding a girl smart and pretty is difficult. i assume the same development cues (like hormones) that make a women beautiful also make her illogical.

11:06 AM 2/8/2008
oxidative phosphorilation was sufficiently complicated that (eukariotic) cells didn't want to do it themselves and hired bacterial to do it for them

6:55 PM 2/8/2008
tribal warfare was a war of different religions. the strongest religion one. tribe is like a multicellular organism, each cell a person. religion is like extension of DNA, programmable. so it can be changed much more quickly than DNA. if you are a bacteria, DNA decides behavior, if you are human, religion determines behavior (it's set to a value when you are a child and pretty much stays that way - although i've also heard it is often rechecked when you are a teenager and then (usuallly) sets in for good (by "for good" i mean permanently))

12:00 AM 2/9/2008
to austin:
stocks are like women. investments, choices, the need for diversification. possible payoff. possible loss. risk/reward ratios. low maintence/ hight maintenance. low risk/ high risk. knowing when to buy, when to sell. when to cut losses and get out.

5:50 AM 2/9/2008
love hurts and sex feels good

5:16 PM 2/9/2008
dating like poker game. mentioned on this american life. people develop methods. if method works, you may still have a bad month or bad year ... but if you then start changing method you may be worse off. you have to accept that it's a stochastic process.

7:08 PM 2/12/2008
when people no longer demand, rather they expect a right, then they have it (like freedom of speech)
dr. shmeer sort of hinted at this when he said america because inpependent (not a spanish colony or whatever) because they were just used to being independent, they expected it - they had been left for a long time alone.

6:38 AM 2/27/2008
smooth jazz is not jazz that's smooth, it's a different category all together

7:34 AM 3/4/2008
i don't care what people believe as long as it's true
maybe better to focus on a progression toward truth rather than promoting a certain idea

11:16 PM 3/4/2008
sometimes i'm not into the movies that my brain shows me at night. like with the frog man swallowing up women one at a time (women standing in a rectilinear formation) and then a god like character deciding to attack the frog man with a machine gun

6:31 PM 3/5/2008
eyes are beautiful because they are useful
the brain was programmed to put inphasis on them


2:52 AM 3/12/2008
it takes longer to learn to debug than it does to program

1:21 AM 3/29/2008
War of the Worlds
radiolab
people are fools
fools are people

5:08 PM 3/29/2008
i beleive in honesty and self preservation which tend to lead to monogomy but monogomy itself i don't think is important
honesty: telling girl you are not behaving monogomously will end the interaction usually
self preservation: it's dangerous to be promiscuous because of sexually transmitted diseases


11:05 PM 3/29/2008
radiolab show on deception
makes me think i'm thrown naked against the rocks of reality


8:13 PM 4/9/2008
when i say strong women i mean free standing. i do not mean strong enough to pull another down.

11:40 PM 5/6/2008
when doing physics you interact with the stuff you are studying (like atoms) so even if you can't see them you sort of know they are there. with God, there is no interaction, prayer is one way comminication, so it's hard to tell if God is there.


5:18 AM 5/8/2008
some people speak to impress or manipulate rather than convey information


2:46 AM 6/3/2008
suffering is natural, orchestrated and fine tuned. (consider animals eating each other - consider when the lion ate a cow-like animal stuck in mud) i would not assume it is an accident.


2:22 AM 6/25/2008
falling in love is like falling asleep, if yiou miss initial windows of opportunity you don't feel tired anymore


12:08 PM 7/11/2008
some religions became preditors, and those are the most popular today
"Civil wars that are fought over religion have tended to occur more in monotheistic than in polytheistic societies;" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war


10:10 PM 7/30/2008
it would be interesting, for a day, to have that filter women seem to have, so you can't perceive your problems but are able to totally deny them, even to yourself. (men do it to.)


6:26 AM 8/5/2008
life can be run like a train, where people adjust to schedule of train, the train doesn't adjust to schedule of people. so they can choose to interact or not. (you are a train in this analogy)


7:08 PM 8/26/2008
everyone pulls things in the direction they want and you have to stand firm or pull back lest you end up pulled off a cliff

10:35 AM 9/13/2008
jazz is sort of like reality tv, reality music

11:26 AM 9/13/2008
we are insane apes... or equally apes are insane humans

12:29 AM 10/2/2008
by creating laws humans stopped evolution from fixing things... because of marriage people were not tuned to have children naturally at the "right time"

3:57 AM 10/12/2008
brain brain does batch processing more than realtime stuff, maybe with a queue and everything

5:58 AM 10/13/2008
there's lawyer smart, straight up nerd smart, and skater smart
(shane trenbeath was skater smart, ian trenbeat was layer smart, richard trenbeath probably straight up nerd)

5:19 AM 11/14/2008
why die now when you could do it later
procrastination

1:12 AM 11/17/2008
learning may be like reading a magnetic disk, you notice differences

8:21 AM 12/6/2008
being religious involves working everything into a theory which may be right or not, it's a lot of work, easier to just believe truth

8:51 AM 12/6/2008
smart girls can handle a lot of complexity
smart guys work to reduce complexity

10:47 AM 12/7/2008
irony: religion, a product of evolution denies the existance of evolution. (specifically some religions deny evolution some actually are ok with it)


3:43 PM 1/10/2009
it's not having patience that matters, it's what you have patience for that matters. everybody has patience for something.

3:52 AM 1/17/2009
lawer personalities (even caleb) assemble beliefs around what they want and fit the facts to the belief. non-lawer personalities assemble beliefs around the facts. and then there are people like my mother who pay no attention to facts at all, except maybe to back up a belief - and beliefs are derived totally from intuition.


12:17 PM 2/1/2009
peopel are young, they build a house in their head, religion, and after than it's not easy to change, they are just adding furniture at that point

4:12 PM 2/17/2009
love is usually a mistake

11:25 AM 3/29/2009
bums and scientists ask people for money

10:02 PM 4/18/2009
nice thing about the God theory is that it sllows you to say everything will be okay - it is a stress releiver - and that could even help to releave obsessions (like the ones i have with writing things down)

1:14 AM 4/21/2009
when you cross a threshold you have a negget of information you can then store in an ontology


7:52 PM 2/6/2010
christian can do everything but she can't talk about it
(sex)


10:51 PM 4/13/2010
reality's holding me captive