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If you think tracking your phone calls is scary, just wait!

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How German blood purity research led to the U.S. government granting DNA collected from blood samples of arrested citizens…hmm…why wait to arrest U.S. citizens to get their DNA samples when they’re already assumed to be guilty by association?  Ooh, look, the government has saved us again from another mysterious terrorist attack threat — I’m shaking in my boots with fear, excitement and patriotism.  I suddenly feel the urge to stand up, salute and sing, “My country ’tis of thee, devoid of liberty, I feel thy sting…”

There is a new planet to settle called Mars where, one hopes, a libertarian Utopia (and don’t get me started on oxymorons, you peroxide morons) will reboot civilisation as we know it.

In other words, let’s have some fun, shall we?

I’m busy cleaning out a crawlspace for a supercomputer network free from mettling by the Mystery Inc. gang and their Mystery Machine (a/k/a the Nobody’s Spying Again, a/k/a the NSA).

See you soon, you pioneering pilgrims orienteering your merit badges for brownie points!

 

[i.e., my posts will be limited the next few days]

Avogadro’s Number, or is it PV = nRT?

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In our supercomputer simulations, we represent sub/cultures and countries as molecules.

In one recent simulation, we asked the supercomputer network to calculate how many helium-filled balloons it would take to carry a payload into outer space.

The computer stopped immediately and asked exactly how we planned to fill the balloons with helium.

In other words, if one balloon is “full” of helium, it will burst at a lower elevation than a balloon only partially “full,” but the partially-filled balloon will not carry as large a payload.

A latex rubber knapsack problem intersecting a few gas laws.

You, the reader, are fully aware, aren’t you, what this means.

An enclosed space that we pretend contains largely a uniform distribution of a “pure” substance — gas or subcultural beliefs, for example — tends to behave according to simple mathematical formulae.

Telegraph a public message that contains little in the way of subtext and you can expect a ready answer in return.

On the other hand, atmospheric conditions are not uniform.  Pressure is related to density of gas molecules and gas ratio distribution, is it not?  Atmospheric disturbances, including solar heat related phenomena and patterns we give labels such as “Arctic Oscillation” also play into the picture.

People, are, for the most part predictable.  A person raised in a remote Pakistani village will probably not suddenly start dancing a perfect Argentinian tango from out of nowhere.

Which means we can tell the supercomputer to add layered parameters to the simulation, with every layer’s data passed into the simulation and the simulation rerun when the previous layer’s data has been crunched into output that is available to add to the next layer’s data crunching.

Inside every layer are matrices of changes, some predictable and some random, that we build from hypotheses and hallway discussions rather than tried-and-true scientific formulae broken down into simple subroutines.

Often, we save a set of output data, vary a layer’s matrix and rerun the simulation for one specific layer over and over with large numbers of matrix variations.

What’s the point of having a good hypothesis if you can’t subject it to rigorous testing and verification?

So, if I want a payload of a known mass that is not changed by atmospheric pressure changes to reach outer space, I give the supercomputer network the number of balloons I wish to attach to the payload and ask it to tell me at which elevations the balloon(s) burst until the last one carries the payload into outer space.

The same goes for the 3D chess game that is the constant interaction of sub/cultures.  A person is a molecule is a subculture is a balloon is a culture is a generalised personality archetype.

Bottom line: two issues hog some of the international news spotlight — the massacres in Syria and the nearly uncontrollable bankrupt behaviour of Greece.

It’s like telling Hernandez’ agent that the NY Giants will find a way to secretly reward him for his behaviour toward the end of the 2012 NFL Super Bowl.  Some things should be too obvious to mention.

But they aren’t.

So, we have to proceed with what’s next.

The Committee wants to box me into a corner and force me into making a decision that sways the next U.S. Presidential election.

Some want me to reveal what the supercomputer network says is a religious forecast that predicts the balance of faith-based belief for the next century or so.

Others want to ensure their families are well provided for, as usual.

For me, it’s always the hardest task to give the supercomputer network a touch of irony and sarcasm in its output.

I don’t care whether a CPU is multicore and has interlaced optical memory or if some portions of the network still operate with relay-based and bubble memory.

I sit here, after the end of a grueling session with the Committee, with seven billion of us to manage, as individuals, multiplexed into subcultures or a combination of the two that I vary by degrees in simulation scenarios that either I see fit to estimate or is input by the hacker network I depend on to throw me an unexpected curve every now and then.

Change is constant.

If India completely rejects monetary aid from the UK, who will follow by example?  Will this influence future Saudi military contracts with the U.S.?  Will Greece break up into city-states once again?  Will Syria divide into Assad-controlled and international consortium-controlled sectors, leading to the creation of the next “Berlin Wall” and a lukewarm Cold War?

And, looking back 1000 years from now, will we say this next millennium was the era of extremophiles, our only encounter with “alien” or extraterrestrial lifeforms being a set of states of energy we were unable to see or comprehend with current technology in 2012 but wholly integrated into our way of life by 3011?

Questions, questions, questions.

The saga continues unabated.

Is any one life more important than maintenance of the status quo to preserve a subculture’s place in the jigsaw puzzle of global belief sets?

Yes and no.

At least according to one simulation after the next.

Every life is important.

Every life is canceled out at one level or another of scenario stacking.

One relationship disappears and another takes its place.

Interdependencies described in the world’s longest SQL statement.

All just to say what is the smallest number of balloons to take an indescribable payload into outer space.

Outer space is infinitely bigger than the sphere from which we calculate its intersection with us.

A finite sphere full of everyday drama begging for attention 24/7.

Time’s a-wastin’!

Learning Methods

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Not found in a catalogue, encyclopedia, handbook, guide or dictionary are learning methods established 1000 years from now.

We, or those of you who were alive in the early 21st century, can remember hints of the push/pull technology that enabled us to grow as one.

In your time, it was the concept of re/search, often coined as SEO or search engine optimisation, reducing the time between an entity’s desire to fill a gap in learning by maximising the profit and minimising the cost to push the desired information to the entity.

It took a while to place a value on the quality of the information by paying attention to how much the entity kept looking before feeling satisfied and moving on to other tasks.

Of course, patternmatching was used to anticipate the entity’s next desire or gap in learning and queue the information ahead of time, pushing without shoving the data into the entity’s inner circle of influence.

The corporations that thrived during this period of our species’ growth were the ones that best applied the various learning methods to entities.

First, by trial and error.

Finally, by evaluating the quality of data and the level of data retention per entity.

How, you might ask?

Well, it took quite a bit of work.  We had to subliminally convince Web page designers to incorporate test questions associated with the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory.  Then we had to create a virtual maze that gave people the sense they were discovering new ideas on their own but were slowly being channeled toward the Web pages we wanted them to view.

As the people…entities, I mean, were answering the questions subconsciously, we determined their cognitive abilities, plus how those abilities changed over time and through the random experiences over which we had no control (in other words, our fully meshed supercomputer network, including the entities (you), had not been finished by the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and thus we could not anticipate every movement and interaction the entities and their environment made (although we did expand our algorithms that estimated the probability of future events)).

That’s why it was so important to reach critical mass with the intersection of the majority of entities in our species to an electronic social media device (mobile phones, computers, etc.).

We no longer were satisfied with the passive interface between entities and one-way devices like radios and televisions.

We needed more predictability to ensure our crowdsourced, one-species plans would move forward as easily as we hoped.

We wanted both those with cast-in-stone beliefs and those whose beliefs changed with the flowing breeze of social change.

We wanted those in opposition to one another and those who cooperated with one another without question.

All of this we needed to make Earth the birthplace of a new species destined to explore the solar system, which in turn led to new entities, outside the definition of species, exploring our galaxy.

Some of you were more closely aligned with this idea than others.

Some never knew they were contributing to the idea and they wouldn’t have cared if they knew.

Some fought, kicking and screaming, in the moment and into the future where the whole species was under control of itself.

Concepts like freedom, democracy, communism, capitalism, religion, sports, fashion, business, and technology became less and less distinguishable as they merged for the purpose of establishing a stable base from which our species jumped off Earth, forming new colonies and new rules for survival in what began as hostile environments.

Entities — sets of states of energy to us — still considered themselves individual people for many decades, reinforcing their reasoning that their beliefs, wants, wishes and desires were theirs and theirs alone, no two people exactly alike.

And that’s what we wanted them — you, me, us — to believe.

It took a long time, probably close to 100 years, before most of us saw ourselves not as individuals but as nodes in a web, the web the true “person” or superentity that was self-aware and self-consciously spreading tentacles/threads outward from the gravitational pull of Earth and its closest star.

One thousand years later, it seems that these changes were so quick and made so easily that I can hardly believe they were recorded for historical research.

To you, of course, it was a turbulent time as individuality became a quaint notion while the former method of alpha males/females leading the species gave way to crowd-based thought patterns.  You often joked that you couldn’t tell if the head or the tail was wagging the dog during those years.

The few yoctoseconds I spent (and as you can guess, “I” is a construct for your reading convenience but we can get to that later) to fill a previously missing gap in a centillion-sized matrix built to compute the next 1000 years of development in this part of the outer solar system helped me write this explanation, or blog entry, of language changes needed to estimate the symbol set that will be used 1000 years from now.

I’m done now.  On to the next task assigned to me, this node, decades ago.