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Comment Re:Electric ping pong? (Score 1) 196

Just for the record... the video you linked is very old and show a exhibition match between to defensive players. Take a look to really pro, competitive and modern matchs like this one http://youtube.com/watch?v=9xrCQMxWMzk . Oh, and also, table tennis rules change a couple of years ago to make it more marketable. This includes, shorter games (is up to 11, not 21 any more) and bigger ball (from 38 mm to 40 mm).
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Journal Journal: use my signature space!! 1

Do you need free advertisement? do you have a phrase so wise its a crime to hold back? can you write it in an obscure language? if any of the above is true, please comment on this journal entry with a suggestion for my signature space, the best entry will be used for 30 days or until someone submits a better one, etc etc. Granted, i am pretty bored, but who knows. ;)

Comment The End of Anoonymity - A good Thing (Score 1) 914

This is my "Realtime Air Traffic Control: For People" working at vehicle resolution...
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2005/07/end-of-anon ymity-good-thing.html
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?off. 9.250603.31

"So, imagine a Google Maps interface to all the public cameras in the world. Anyone can look through any camera at any time. That's phase I. Phase II: Universal Continuous Identification of all people in public space. Think air traffic control for people. Collision alert when known sex offender nears an unsupervised child?"
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Journal Journal: Shocking Mathematics 2

Tonight I am thinking about the hippocampus and amygdala as a Hopf Map of metasignal indexing a thalamocortical Milnor sphere of signal...this is a mathematically shocking thing for me to be doing. I sense God nearby.

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Journal Journal: Nature: Warnings of a Flu Pandemic

"Millions of people killed in highly developed countries within months. Tens of millions worldwide. The global economy in tatters. A Hollywood fantasy? No -- it's now a plausible scenario. The first act, the spread of avian flu to, and probably between, humans, has already started across Asia..."

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Journal Journal: Euclidean quantum gravity in seven dimensions 4

I wrote Jack Milnor today--kinda scary. I wonder if he will think my suggestion that the brain is a Milnor sphere generator, crazy. Afterall, the universe itself is giving hints of being a Milnor sphere too. Below is a an abstract very interesting paper I found today (Source):

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Journal Journal: New Respect for Safari

There was a loose cable between hubs here that was causing me to drop 30-80% of my packets...neither firefox, nor explorer could manage to load google's gmail page under these condidtions. Safari didn't even hiccup. I will keep a copy around in case I ever find myself in a high noise situation again.

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Journal Journal: Pasting Together Julia Sets...

In the spring of 1995 I started to notice patterns in the primary index of my Lobner Prize entry, Jackie. She worked much like Alicebot works now, except she indexed stimuli in a filtered phonetically invariant form--essentially I stripped out all the high frequency words, then converted the remaing text to soundex codes, and sorted those alphabetically. The patterns I notced were simple, because her corpus was small, but they gave me a vision.

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Journal Journal: No black scorpion is falling upon this table.

In 1934, while dining at the Harvard Society of Fellows, B. F. Skinner found himself seated beside Alfred North Whitehead, and they dropped into a discussion of behavorism, with Whitehead mostly listening and trying to understand. Whitehead agreed that science might account for all behavior, except for verbal behavior--behavior Whitehead considered to involve something els

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