Twenty years ago, Wozniak realized that computers could easily calculate the moment of forgetting if he could discover the right algorithm. SuperMemo is the result of his research. It predicts the future state of a person’s memory and schedules information reviews at the optimal time. The effect is striking. Users can seal huge quantities of [...]
Read more →http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2008/03/observing-omission-of-seabasing-in.html Interesting concept. seems that its utility in fighting is probably pretty limited, but for humanitarian interventions, being able to do this with, say, a floating hexayurt factory would be pretty damn cool.
Read more →http://www.myprops.org/content/Wall-Street-Unspun-with-Peter-Schiff-internet-radio-show-April-16-2008-recording/ What’s interesting about this is that nobody’s suggesting that gold is under-priced by a factor or 10 or so, but that seems like an obvious conclusion.
Read more →http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail Localization bug results in misunderstanding results in murder. Oops.
Read more →“The Indian girls who tried out so far were so beautiful and so good, they were practically better than us,” said Sharica Brown, 27, a Redskins cheerleader from Baltimore, as she snacked on a plate of nachos before the game at Bangalore’s Hard Rock Cafe. Nearby, Indians in heavy-metal T-shirts downed cheeseburgers and jostled to [...]
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Read more →Rant excerpted from an email. The problems that I’ve seen in survival planning at a community level come from trying to streamline costs by creating implicit bureaucratic systems of control. We’ll have a water team, that takes money from a budget, and Does Water. Farming team that Does Farming and so on. But, in practice [...]
Read more →I’ve been working towards a simple model of survival for some time. The Hexayurt Infrastructure Package is based around a “substitution” model: * instead of your electric cooker, a wood gasification stove * instead of your toilet and the sewage plant, a composting toilet and so on. The problem with this model is that it [...]
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