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A PUZZLE

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this is a rough draft of a short story A software developer and part time hacker, DARIUS, is returning to his high-rise apartment, after going for a run. As he jogs up the stairs, he is concentrating hard on solving a Rubik's cube in each hand. As he reaches the third or fourth …

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Beginnings

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Opening phrases from deleted drafts of forgotten tomes "Watch What You Eat" After you die, you are made to spend eternity watching an endless loop of the life cycle of every plant or animal you ever ate a part of. Had a hamburger? Watch that particular cow you ate, from birth t…

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Brownsville Girl - Song

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Dylan's Best Song from his Worst Album There is this terrible thing about Bob Dylan — and, if you're still able to escape, then it's you I am talking to: It's the slipperiest slope, listening to Dylan. You soon hit a patch, slip, fall, and then you know: you're just another Dyl…

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Brownsville Girl - Song

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Dylan's Best Song from his Worst Album There is this terrible thing about Bob Dylan — and, if you're still able to escape, then it's you I am talking to: It's the slipperiest slope, listening to Dylan. You soon hit a patch, slip, fall, and then you know: you're just another Dyl…

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Caesar Cipher

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The simplest cipher (and one of the oldest) the Caesar shift is named after Julius Caesar. The month of July is named after Julius, and he also has his own salad, his own method of having been delivered as a baby (which makes no sense as his mother and the surgeons deserve credi…

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Conga Line Mathematics

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Recently I was situated on a mezzanine floor overlooking a heaving dance party, and had the opportunity to witness the spontaneous formation, growth, and eventual breakdown of a conga-line. It was a fascinating structure to observe. I love a party as much as the next lover of par…

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D.B.Cooper falls to his death

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The story is this: D.B. Cooper is the pinnacle of Americana. D.B. Cooper is the high point, the place where the tide reached its crescendo. And the story is this: A man hijacked an airplane. Demanded money and parachutes. They landed and collected goods, then took off again. …

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Default Mode Network

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If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK OF THE BRAIN is a bunch of highways you've built inside your brain, where traffic flows all the time, whether you're daydreaming or focused on a task. It is within thi…

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Dialogue in fiction

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Dialogue is a conversation between two people. Jill: How are you Jack? Jack: I'm good, Jill and you? Jill: Not good Jack. Not good at all. Dialogue in fiction should be *indirect.* Dialogue often has to do two or three things at once. - It may have to reveal facts. (This is …

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Digital Immortality

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I’ve heard people say that you must now update your "last will and testament" to state that the output you’ve left behind cannot be used to train a bot that impersonates you. But for me, that’s kind of a life goal! I’m fascinated with the idea that I can make a Leon-bot 🤖, and…

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Economists

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Where to begin. Economists. LOL. Consider first this joke which does its best to sum up the problem: A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with no implements and a single can of beans. The physicist says, "Let's smash the can open with a rock…

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Emergence

Emergence a thing of one type leads to a thing of an entirely different type, when viewed at a different scale. a phenomenon whereby larger entities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities such that the larger entities exhibit properties the smaller/simpler…

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Fan Theories

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There's a long long tradition, dating back at least five years, of reimagining a movie to have a different premise, generally in which one or all characters are dead, imaginary, or linked in an unexpected way, possibly involving time-travel. "This amazing pixar fan theory" -- Pi…

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Gaksloope

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I've been meaning to come clean for some time -- so I will share more here if you somehow crawl out from under the nest of hidden links to find what is happening for this one -- but it's true, it's always true, it always will have been true -- I am in constant contact with Gakslo…

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Interactive Text Ideas

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Text is brilliant. You should always bet on text. Text has tremendous power. But interactivity is good too. A Journey Through the History of Ideas (Successful or Discarded) in the Realm that intersects Text with Interactivity. Here is a series of *ideas* I find interesti…

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Knowlecules

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We know already that Knatoms are KNowledge ATOMS. That is to say: They are the indivisible units from which knowledge emerges. Knatoms with bonds between them (knonds?) form Knowlecules. This is cute terminology I created as a joke to try and hurt my brain. But I quite like it…

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L-Space

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Libraries exist in a transdimensional manifold - take a wrong turn in the stacks and you may go from library A to library B - seamlessly crossing both space and time - turn down another corridor and you may wind up in 2B-space - a coextensive manifold that interweaves connects an…

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Making Prose Poetic

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Writing can sing. Writing can soar. How do writers elevate their craft to carry you along with their words? I've never known, until I read this: This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen t…

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Natural Monopoly

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(These are just my half-baked thoughts. I am happy to adjust them in part or in whole, and to annotate them with links to relevant research etc.) In Economics (and econ. of capitalism) it is generally understood that Monopolies are Bad. Monopolies mean that a single player gets…

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On Recognizing Assertiveness.

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As someone who struggles to speak up, I remember when I first learned about "assertiveness" This was a revelation. I tended to be passive, and I feared that speaking up would be too aggressive. In my mind, there was passive on one side, aggressive on the other, and very little …

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Red Right Hand

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As mentioned on my ridiculously over-long analysis of Come Back, All Is Forgiven Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen ...hence I must first apologise for the murder I am about to perform upon this most perfect song. I only pray that…

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Spaced Repetition

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Spaced Repetition is a technique for helping you remember things in the long term, in an efficient way. If you paid someone to stand next to you and shout a fact at you, every waking minute of the day, for six weeks, you may remember the fact they shouted. But would it have been…

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Tagging: The Power and the Problems

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"Tagging" of content is a powerful and perilous feature. There's a few different problems and challenges — - Synonyms aka Aliases - Homonyms - Stemming - Pollution (general) - Overuse (the law of the instrument) (a kind of good problem to have… see discussion below to wielding t…

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Temporal Paradox

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Doc: A paradox! Marty: What? Doc: A paradox! Marty: You mean one of those things that destroys the universe? — *Back to the Future II* A temporal paradox is any paradox that arises due to a person, object, or information, travelling backward in time. As discussed in Unbound…

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The Empty Quine

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If there is a null operator in two different languages. Is it the same "value" -- at any time? There is an Empty Quine. It is illegal, by the way. It is not considered a quine. If an Empty Quine is claiming to be a Quine, then it is mistaken, and breaking the law. There are no …

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The Magic Unfinished Spellbook

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Spellbooks are dangerous! Do Not Eat! If you find a spellbook lying around your home you should not go up to it and ask it any questions. Do not read anything on the spellbook, not even the title of the book. Although if you do NOT read the title, you are not going to know it…

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The Multi-Deck

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You have heard of the multiverse? The mathematical model in which all possible universes are equally real, giving rise to an n-dimensional manifold in which - say - the cup of coffee you are about to sip is, instead of being a little too cold, suddenly the perfect temperature, or…

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The Sigonella Crisis - HOLY SHIT!

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It is a maxim of this wiki that no article will be blog-like - it will instead be encyclopedic in the extreme. We will never never have a an article with a name like - The Sigonella What? You won’t believe this!” Instead - the style will follow correct journalistic protocols, p…

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The Sigonella Crisis - HOLY SHIT!

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It is a maxim of this wiki that no article will be blog-like - it will instead be encyclopedic in the extreme. We will never never have a an article with a name like - The Sigonella What? You won’t believe this!” Instead - the style will follow correct journalistic protocols, p…

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This business of arrows

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"This business of arrows is a tricky one" —Dependency Graph for Knowledge The best discussion I've seen on the challenge of deciding which way to draw the arrows is from Edward Tufte, in the book "Beautiful Evidence" -- and available online here: Links, Causal Arrows, Networks …

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Time Travel Models

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There are various ways that time-travel is described in stories and in physics. - Some of these differ in how paradoxes are (or are not) resolved. - Some differ in the physical limitations they impose.1 There are various meta-studies and attempted catalogs of the entire field. …

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Ways I have written a guid

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There are many ways I have written a guid. Most recently i've been interacting with Gaksloope. I used to talk to him over a faulty msn messenger account long ago. Haven't heard from him in decades. Now he says upfront it's very important that I realise he is unwilling to discu…

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What is 'a remembrance of things past' about? What is the plot?

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ah -- it takes me back the smell of this biscuit. this is how the book begins -- and right now -- the thought of the opening of 'a remembrance of things past' or 'in search of lost time' -- invokes in me a stirring of a strange memory of having recently seen an episode of "the…

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What Should I Do Now?

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One of the greatest questions in life, in philosophy, in management, in personal productivity is the ever present: WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? (The now is redundant, as you can only do things "now". If you're talking about something to "do" in the future, then you're talking about "W…

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Why are firms so dysfunctional?

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It's fair to say that "firms" (companies, commercial entities, multi-nationals, businesses.... call them what you will) — "firms" — when viewed from the inside, seem to be riddled with what modern economics academicians would — had they permission to use a sufficiently expressive…

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Why Do Cities Exist?

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You might have lived in a city your whole life, or moved to a city from somewhere smaller, or visited a bunch of cities, without ever pondering this question: why on Earth do these monstrous places exist at all? These sort of questions can be considered on a philosophical scale,…

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Yerkes-Dodson Stress Curve

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The "Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal" is an extremely useful concept -- provided a few modifications are made to it. - Firstly, it's not a law. It's a theory. - Second, it's not a symmetrical curve. Breakdown happens. - Third, there is no zone which is "optimal." Life is trickier th…

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