this can ben super helpful, as well as block coding which is used on websites like scratch. basically, it has all of the commands sort of written, but it's the user's job to figure out the order and how to configure it to make a cohesive animation or a game or something.

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A few things here: 'real windy' is decidedly colloquial (grammatically, it should be 'really windy'); and 'apoplectic racket-throwing tantrum' is such a delightful turn of phrase.

Shows different ways sudoku has grown.

Accountability : Accountability means making clear commitments and sticking with them. Individuals and organizations must show they keep their promises and own up to any that they're broken. Everyone involved should be able to verify this and outside experts should be able to do so as well, not passing the buck and no playing in the blame game

Fantastic work, very clear explanations. However, I don't understand the use of the term "precision psychiatry" as the clinical psychologist is the professional more suited to offer this type of psychological treatment. Thus, I would encourage to use the term "precision psychology" as it is used by Purgato et al., (2021) or at least consider the term "precision mental health" (Bickman et al., 2016) to give a more general perspective of every professional involved in these treatments. Overall, I believe this work to be game-changing about the modern view of mental health treatments. The use of formalization of psychotherapy components to conduct simulations of their effects on different mental health patients can be a very useful tool in improving the theorization of effective factors in different psychotherapies. Besides, regardless of how well real-life experiment data may fir into this specific model, the initiation of formalization in this field will likely open yup better comparisons with other therapies in the future, potentially allowing us to eliminate ineffective therapies or components as well as better adapt existing psychological therapies that work to the unique characteristics of patients. this could be the paper that ushers in a new era in psychotherapy where there are no constant wars to determine which psychological orientation works best, bu rather an era in which we can actually test which models are more effective. Congratulations!!

• for: peer produced power, holochain - micro-exchange, Redgrid - holochain peer-produced power

• for: competitive advantage, competitive advantage - unencloseable carriers in energy systems
• competitive advantage: unencloseable carriers
  • when building on unenclosable P2P systems like Holochain,
  • it’s actually possible to have it both ways:
    • clean-energy projects that have the resources for large-scale impact and
    • are not at risk of becoming corrupt in protection of proprietary business interests.

• for: question - unencloseable carriers

• question: unencloseable carriers

  • what can they do for food supply system?
  • they can allow consumers to invent an incentive structure based on healthy nutritious food

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I feel it was well written but personally I was confused on the purpose and moral of it. It seemed it was being written on the amount of work needed to be a grandmaster but then at point it gave moments of the writer in moments playing this game.

I enjoy the examples and different parts of the game being explained. I'm a bit confused on the moral of this though, it doesn't fully seem to add up.

The grit and work ethic is at an all-time high when needing to succeed in this game

Is this saying there seems to be more potential for future players due to the technology combined with the game of chess?

The way this game is simulated and played is extremely challenging.

Is this possible? It is against computerized players so it is seems nearly impossible to play perfectly against them.

This highlights several important themes: 1) Technology and border Managements 2) Virtual Thinking about Borders 3) Analysis of a Video game (Call of Juarez: The Cartel): 4) Virtual Modes of Representation and Interaction 5)Tunnel Warfare and Racial Violence 6) Boarder Infrastructures

I think inventing the VR for video games actually helped the game a lot. The metaverse is a big thing and the game "fornite" to me helped come a long way

Cf. Kongregate flash game chat rooms

Look at fan forums not as a relatively better option than offline practices, but as a relatively better fit for what forums and connectivity can do

Shared orientation, away from presentation of self. Cf. sin as orienting away from God (and the Good and Love and all that goes with That in the meaning that makes this definition make sense) and reconciliation reorienting toward. The -muni- in communion and community is the same as in municipal, and there's something there I haven't gotten to the bottom of, yet.

But: earlier days: https://m.xkcd.com/202/

So: less inherent property of the form, more evidence that giant companies can shape these things when they're inclined (was it PR that did it? Some internal presentation that comment section conflict caused video posters to burn out?)

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Depending on what level a writer stipulates their usage, they may come to some drastically bad conclusions. One should watch out for these sorts of biases.

Compare with the results of accepting certain axioms within mathematics and how that changes/shifts one's framework of truth.

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"A Game of Chess" refuses to discuss its subject matter — namely coercion and rape — in outright terms, resorting to euphemisms, namely the phrase "Jug Jug" (which finds a recurrence in "The Fire Sermon") and the titular game of 'chess.' The third part of The Waste Land eschews this for a much more explicit depiction of this subject matter. The perspective of "I Tiresias" provides the key into this shift, as Eliot's footnote to the line reveals. Eliot comments that Tiresias is "a mere spectator" but one who is "the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest." Tiresias's status as having embodied both a man and a woman provides enormous significance to his presence, as Eliot adds, "So all the women are one woman, and the two sexes meet in Tiresias." This creates a 'wasteland' of gender without any specific allegiance, a commonality that allows Tiresias to be a neutral observer — an infinitely wise, but blind prophet, flawed just as the Cumean Sybil was. His report can be taken as true, and is incredibly disturbing, especially as the footnote concludes with, "What Tiresias sees, in fact, is the substance of the poem." This vingette — the longest and most singular up to this point — quite simply describes the rape of the typist at the hands of the small house agent's clerk.

Eliot also continues his criticism/study of prophets and their prophecies. The latter part, where the actual violence occurs, is not perceived, but "foretold" by Tiresias. As we know by this point, prophets are not the most reliable source of knowledge in The Waste Land, even when the ancient perception of Tiresias's wisdom was immaculate — he was "honoured as a god" after his death (Lempriere 2). There is definitely a reason that it is explicitly stated that the acts of violence depicted in the latter half of this vignette are not explicitly said to have occured, and this must form a larger part of what marks The Waste Land's symbolism, as Eliot's footnote tells us.

Contextualizing this excerpt within the world of "A Game of Chess," I understood this to be an expansive perspective on the woman who anxiously awaited her lover. Defeated and disappointed, her dirtied state implies a mental freeing from worldly trivialities, leaning more towards a lack of caring for her own well-being and an indifference that works against her, she enters a limbo between the worlds of consciousness and body/mind separation as "the foe in sight" robs her of her womanhood and sexual liberty.

How, then, must she continue living? In Johne Donne's "ELEGY XIX. TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED," the mistress finds solace in freeing the physical body— "Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be To taste whole joys. Gems which you women use Are like Atlanta's balls, cast in men's views, That when a fool's eye lighteth on a gem, His earthly soul may covet theirs, not them."— seizing her bodily autonomy in ways similar to the assaulted woman in the focal point at this moment of Eliot's "The Fire Sermon." As she watches her sexuality dwindle, her comfort lies within her control of the mind, indifference being wielded as her shield against the assaulter further running with both her bodily autonomy and control over her emotions.

This phrase is repeated twice—the first iteration being just a few lines earlier—so as a general, low-hanging fruit of an idea, it has obvious significance. Indeed, with closer scrutiny, the "nymphs" in question can be symbols of the web—between man vs. woman, life vs. death, and nature vs. industrialization—that Eliot has crafted. To see this, one may first look at the exact definition of a nymph, per Google: "a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations." The nymph is clearly an element of the female identity and an element of nature at the same time. This connection is ever-present in "Parisfal," where nymphs are represented as the flower-maidens. These flower-maidens were beautiful, seductive women intended to lure knights into Klingsor's, a male magician's, power. In other words, women were used as a seductive tool to heighten male power; this is not uncommon to what we saw in "The Game of Chess," where the "queen" was seen as a piece of seduction, of superficial power—to uphold the true power held by the "king."

Importantly, in "Parsifal," the women (flower-maids) are the physical representation of sin—just how in Paradise Lost, Eve was the illustration of sin and its dangers. In fact, Eve, being born out of Adam's rib, could be interpreted as a perversion of Adam's purity—falling trap to Satan's seduction. This demonization of women was discussed briefly in class. It paints women not only in a light of sin, but more specifically, seduction. Women almost take the place of Satan in this light. This is why, in "Parsifal," when "Parsifal has conquered the girls" and "He's conquered lovely Woman," he has conquered a sin (lust) but what he's truly "conquered" are the women themselves, who are agents of that sin. When the "nymphs have departed," as referred to here, sin has departed and purity has pervaded. Thus, when the "nymphs have departed," women have departed and male dominance has pervaded.

The allusions to industry are abundantly clear when we compare the ideas of man vs. woman and good vs. evil to those of life vs. death and nature vs. urbanization. One point that Sophie P. mentioned in class was that in many ways, women are symbols of nature whereas men are symbols of industry; the flower-maidens are a case in point. More importantly, however, urbanization is seen as an act of death—representing the destruction of nature, or women, or sin. When the "river's tent is broken" in the first line, the longevity of the river Thames is waning; in other words, the natural elements of London are degrading. However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing: it could be interpreted as a liberation from the shackles of nature. For example, Jules Laforgue asserts that

...until nature shows a nice and kind concern The humdrum life'll serve my turn.

In other words, nature is malicious and sinful and destructive to the individual, and it is the "turn" of the "humdrum," or industrial development, to take precedence. Yet urbanization, while being less "sinful" in this manner, can still be portrayed as "death-like." The London Bridge is a perfect symbol: Eliot comments on the crowd that "flowed over London Bridge" by saying that he had "not thought death had undone so many." The same crowd is referred to by Carpenter as a "solid flow of business men northward across London Bridge." So what does this mean? Life and death may align counterintuitively with purity and sin: in fact, it is death (industry, business, men) that is free of sin, and life (nature, women) that is full of it. This inversion of what is normally preferable—life or death—has been prominent in The Waste Land from the beginning.

Chess games have a time element to them. Players may choose how much time they would like to allot to their turn; speed chess can be as low as 3 minutes, regular chess can be as high as 24 hours+. With this in mind, the repetition of the phrase "Hurry up please its time" suggests that it is the "turn" of whoever it is the narrator is addressing. I get the sense that the lines in between are portraying the feeling of knowing that move is the last. The "goodnights" thus suggest that the narrator is giving up, in the same way Ophelia from Hamlet gave up her sanity and life. In a game of chess, sometimes a player must resign in order to preserve their dignity, since allowing the game to go in circles would be a waste of time and a recipe for madness. This entire section, I am noticing, seems to be about women. Having children, jewels, etc, so is this Elliot's way of saying that "mad women" are just women who are breaking the mold, and haven't "resigned" to their social narrative? Ophelia is surely a good example of this.

Strangely, although this is referring to the Drowned Phoenician Sailor tarot card, it reminds me of a line from the Middleton reading—where Ignatius Loyola says:

Pawns argue but poor spirits and slight preferments, Not worthy of the name of my disciples. If I had stood so nigh, I would have cut That Bishop’s throat but I’d have had his place And told the Queen a love tale in her ear Would make her best pulse dance. There’s no elixir Of brain or spirit amongst ‘em.

This one snippet of dialogue seems rather denigrating to women, to say the least. Loyola is saying, essentially, that if he were on the chess board, he would attempt to seduce the Queen—who has "no elixir / Of brain or spirit"—even if it meant turning against the pieces on his own team. In my conversation with Quisha in class yesterday, she mentioned the fact that the game of chess has distinct gender roles: the queen, though being the most powerful and versatile piece on the board, is not nearly as venerated as the king—who ultimately decides the fate of the game; this is meant to be a reflection of gender roles in society. In fact, Pound's "The Game of Chess" speaks to a similar dichotomy: he describes the "'x's of queens," which I thought of as referring to the XX chromosomes in the female sex, with little to no descriptors. On the contrary, the "'Y' pawns" were depicted in a more triumphant light: "... cleaving! Embanking! / Whirl! Centripetal! Mate!" Essentially, while the "female" pieces are dispensable—something to be seen as an object of seduction and lust—the "male" pieces are lauded, perhaps beyond their actual abilities. As for the connections to the Drowned Phoenician Sailor, this makes sense: the Phoenician Sailor, for whom one must "Fear death by water," is a reflection of the female torment. Ophelia, for one, drowns herself in a river in Hamlet—the precise "death by water"—due to the nature of gender discrimination.

The Fool is also in reference to a tarot card. The Fool, as a major arcana, is numbered either zero (the beginning) or XXII (the end). However, historically, the Fool was an unnumbered card, remaining outside the 21 other Major Arcana, which each serve a unique purpose. The Fool could be placed anywhere in the cycle of tarot cards, not having a specific place or role.

The Fool usually symbolizes the beginning of a new journey or the finalization of an old one (which leads to the beginning of a new journey). Additionally, the concept of the "Fool's Journey" led to the popular characterization of the Fool as a protagonist.

In relation to "A Game of Chess," the Fool in traditional Italian decks was named "Let Mat" and "Ll Matto." This can almost be seen as a direct reflection of checkmate in chess. In the role of tarot card games, the Fool could be used as both the lowest and highest trump, an excuse, and a wildcard.

The Fool could be categorized as a pawn in the game of chess. Despite potentially being the lowest trump, the Fool has infinite potential (promotion of a pawn). When Lil is categorized as a fool, and therefore a pawn, she is trapped within her potential. However, the potential for what is unclear.

We see the idea of fertility and the potential for children. We also see the idea of feminine power trapped within Albert. Lil is a female story in the making, the conclusion not yet complete--she is an unfinished game of chess and The Fool of the tarot.

"A Game of Chess" details, through various vignettes, the conflict between expectations of fertility and chastity (the Madonna/whore complex), which also forms a central part of Ophelia's character arc in Hamlet. These closing words also mark, as Amelia noted, Ophelia's closing words — her "suicide note." As Ophelia descends into insanity, she begins to sing, and one verse of note reveals an important off-stage development, "Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes / And dupp'd the chamber-door / Let in the maid, that out a maid / Never departed more." The implication of these lines is clear, Hamlet engaged in an illegal premarital relationship with Ophelia, leading to his rejection of her as his wife later on. The shock of this rejection, along with learning that Hamlet murdered her father, led her to commit suicide by drowning herself in the river ("Death by Water"). These events are never explicitly stated in Hamlet, perhaps because such themes stated explicitly would be unacceptable during the Elizabethan era. In The Waste Land, "chess" becomes one of many euphemisms for sexual activity, as Eliot writes, "And we shall play a game of chess, / Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door" (137-8). It doesn't take a grandmaster to realize that it is not chess that involves "waiting for a knock upon the door." The choice of chess presents an incredibly rich interpretation, compared to many more common euphemisms (i.e. flowers in Hamlet). Chess is an adversarial game (Black vs white, man vs woman) which follows with many of the themes of violence that derive from the Middleton play of the same name.. The scene of Albert and Lil also acts as a negotiation, adversarial in nature (another game of chess). These themes constitute the dysfunction that gives the latter half of "A Game of Chess" its disorganized form.

In this section of “A Game of Chess”, the poem demonstrates its most idiosyncratic features. Continuing our discussion from class on the role of women in Eliot’s poem, the female voice in these erratic stanzas is particularly distinct. The dialogue in quotation marks (“my nerves are bad to-night…”) is spoken by a woman in the T.S. Eliot reading of The Waste Land. The scene that is imagined in these fragmented accounts of conversation describes a kind of nervous breakdown, in which a woman, characterised as quite feeble and paranoid, badgers her passive husband, whose voice is, at the very least omitted, from the text. In fact, the male voice is most likely accounted for by the lines without quotation marks: for example, “I think we are in rats’ alley where the dead men lost their bones”, which seems to allude to a scene of battle. Thus, though as the reader we are privy to the man’s internal ruminations, within the rhetorical fiction of the text, the woman cannot hear his responses. Further, his nonresponse perhaps speaks to the emotional paralysis suffered by former soldiers. However, quite crucially, the man has not, like Philomela, been silenced: rather, he has been made unintelligible to the material receptions of the world. The woman’s inquiry, “What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?”, does not indict the man’s supposed thoughtlessness. Contrary to the woman’s assumption that he “knows nothing, sees nothing, remembers nothing”, the man possesses reminiscences. He just simply does not extend the privilege of sharing them with the questioner.

Eliot’s water motif is also gendered. Water is connected to death, which is often evoked in the context of drowning (“Those are pearls that were his eyes”) or other eschatological associations (thunder, for instance). For men, water is integral to a loftier pursuit of spiritual purification, while women are related to water in a narrower, domestic sense (“The hot water at ten”).

Within A Game of Chess, TWL, a poem already deeply circumscribed by circularity and failed cycle, finds yet another thematic cure introduced, love and its corresponding inversion. The title itself betrays its contents most basic nature, love being an intrinsically unifying force, through both life and death, as opposed to an adversarial match modeled after warfare itself. Additionally, the source of the title, A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, depicts seduction and sexual assault, the narrative perturbed by lust and thus distorting love; female virtue and sexuality reduced to a "pawn" in the schema of the play, and perhaps, TWL itself. This "game of chess" contains several knitted narratives, the longest regarding Lil. Within this stanza, a woman describes asking Lil "What you get married for if you don’t want children?" (165) as within her marriage, an institution held in highest esteem by both the divine and society, its very nature is inverted and abased. Notwithstanding her matrimony, her union in TWL does not yield progeny, instead the cycle of love and sex is only met with abortive resistance. The one description of birth we do receive is stained by Death, as she "nearly died of young George". The cycle of love and procreation is thus disrupted, and in turn abased by lust, her husband only desiring "a good time" after his return from war. Additionally, the trope of Philomel continues to pervade the women of TWL. The repeated motif of the violated woman gaining "inviolable voice" is satirically tinged, Philomena reduced to crying a vulgar "jug jug to dirty ears", simply another indistinguishable fragment amongst the "other withered stumps of time". This trope is reflected again onto Lil, her husband desiring her to remove all her teeth in place of a new set, purely for his own pleasure and lust, is greatly paradoxical. It is through this mutilation and abasement that she would regain seductive power over her husband, gaining a voice, and not losing him to "the others that will"; the image strikingly Philomenic. Within the perversion of love, and the consumption of lust, women continue to be a victim of their relationships with men. The marital canon of Adam and Eve rendered moot amongst the violence and death of TWL.

From the perspective of Middleton "A Game at Chess" being an extension and therefore a literary device of Eliot's "A Game of Chess," this quote is reminiscent of Middleton's Second Act, in which the Jesuit Black Bishop's Pawn tries to seduce the Virgin White Queen's Pawn. As Albert milks his wife dry for every drop of sex she can give, she, in the process loses her sense of self and drowns in the pressure of maintaining her looks, for the benefit of Albert, and prioritizing her health and medical safety. The blame positioned on her, the shame of being a "bad wife," a "bad woman" carries the storyline in both poems, as the Black Bishop, similar to Albert and the societal pressures from the woman's friends, implies the Virgin White Queen's lack of womanhood in her refusal to his desperate advances. The dichotomy of these two passages from a holistic understanding poses very intriguing questions about the society that evolved to become the modern-day Western world, and how despite the centuries that passed since their respective creation, these themes of womanhood in a patriarchal society still ring true and are still a daily battle as the woman toes the line between "pure" and "slutty."

I believe the quotations from line 111 to 126 are masculine voices questioning what a woman is "thinking of" and if she is "alive" since she "never speak[s]". On the other hand, between those comments and inquiries is a female perspective, keeping her thoughts to herself as those lines aren't voices and in quotations. It is only after line 130 that I think the quotations reveal the female's voice, specifically her worries, which are finally "audible". After the first stanza of this section, Eliot strays from a usual coherent form, but rather indents multiple lines and breaks this narrative into many fragments. As I was reading, I felt that it alluded to a female figure withholding herself. The long indentations in lines 118, 130, 135, for example, represent her hesitation before proceeding with anything; the empty spaces symbolize silence, the absence of voice and certainty, evoking Philomela's cut off tongue and Jesuit Black Bishop's Pawn saying that "Silence, if fair worth be in thee" to the Virgin White Queen's Pawn.

Because of my observations above, the symbolism of the game of chess becomes more significant. No one is mandated to speak in a game of chess; calculations and moves fulfill the game. In lines 137-138, Eliot depicts a woman planning to "play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door." The action of "waiting" is more explicit now, as opposed to mere empty indentations in the lines above, as the man waits for the woman's response like a player impatiently waiting for their opponents' next move.

But the woman waits sufferingly. Her "lidless eyes" allude to the fact she will not spare time to close her eyes and rest, constantly keeping an eye out for the man's next move without voicing anything. Merely "waiting for a knock upon the door" also resembles Mina Loy's poem in which many women are "Looking for the little love-tale / That never came true / At the door of the house." Why are these women just waiting, looking, seeking for things beyond their control? Perhaps the only aspect in their own control is their own death. Perhaps that's why Dido and Cleopatra committed suicides, because their premeditated acts, which as Rahul says is "a striking resemblance to chess [through] the strategy of sacrificing and abandoning pieces to reach an end goal." are opportunities to gain control.

The narrator repetitively states this phrase, rushing Lil to get ready to see her demobilized husband. Interestingly, this reminder sporadically appears throughout the section, as though Lil is still trying to get ready up until the ending. However, the present tense used during the first utterance of “HURRY UP ITS TIME” (“Albert’s coming back [Albert is coming back]”) contrasts with the past tense used during the last utterances of the same phrase (“Albert was home.”) To me, this phrase not only creates a feeling of hurriedness akin to a professional game of chess, when the players have to make a move within a controlled time frame, but also evokes Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the former, the Jesuit Black Bishop’s Pawn, in his attempt at seducing and entrapping the Virgin White Queen’s Pawn, beckons her to “Come, come, be nearer.” Colloquially, saying “hurry up” can be interchangeable with “come on now,” which possesses a similarly commanding tone, but the two differ in the lack of directionality present in the former. The narrator/friend (?) of Lil orders her to “hurry up” —- but to do what? In the short period of time before her husband’s imminent arrival - “ITS TIME” - Lil has, rationally speaking, no means of resolving her marital conflict which stems from the inability to have kids; making herself look “a bit smart” as a way of “hurrying up” proves to be a futile move, and she ends up pacing around in the same spot. Meanwhile, although “be nearer” contrarily connotes a clear direction given by the Black Bishop’s Pawn, it is a direction that the Virgin White Queen’s Pawn refuses to take: “But nearer to the off’rer, oft more wicked.” In Hamlet, we also see this unfulfilled “coming,” as Ophelia sings, “And will he not come again? / And will he not come again? / No, no, he is dead.” Here, “come” connotes revival - a “coming” back via the cyclic nature of life and death - but the inability of Hamlet to come back places Ophelia in a stagnant state no different from Lil, White Queen’s Pawn, and Black Bishop’s Pawn. Perhaps “The Game of Chess” ends in a stalemate.

Patience, as a virtue, and chess go hand in hand. This phrase in TWL stood out to me for a few reasons. It is repeated several times throughout "A Game of Chess," almost as if it is some interjection of the subconscious voice throughout the discourse between Lil and the narrator. The form of this section of TWL is quite evolutional, starting as cohesive stanzas and then breaking apart into into a more irregular pattern and ending in dialogue. The way in which Eliot captures this dialogue is obscure. The placement and all caps of "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME" makes it read as if it's a stage direction or some 3rd voice breaking into the conversation between the two women. Furthermore, this conversation, though occurring between two women, feels like the voice of a man. Much of what they're discussing is rooted in the desires of Albert, emphasizing what "he wants," and what Lil should do before he returns. The anticipation of his return and predicting what he desires I think is semblance to the anticipation within the game of chess. In Hamlet, Ophelia also states, "We must be patient: but i cannot choose but to weep" as if the very act of patience goes against her nature as a womam.

Chess is a game in which you aim to calculate the moves of your oppenent thinking ahead. And yet there is no rush for these. For Lil, some sense of urgency for her to act and change for him is projected: "ITS TIME." The interruptive and repetitive form this line takes on creates the image of a ticking clock in this game of chess.

Clearly, this line is an imitation of a line we see early on in Antony and Cleopatra—with one change: the word "barge" is changed to a capitalized "Chair" here. This is very much an Eliot technique, reminiscent of the other one-word alteration, from "history" to "nature," that we saw in his "Gerontion" drafts. So why was "barge" changed to "Chair," and why is the word "Chair" capitalized? For one, Chair might not be referring to a literal chair, which isn't a proper noun—but an organizational position, which can be. A "Chair" in a company is an executive position; likewise, a metaphorical Chair in a kingdom may refer to one's supreme status. This makes sense—but that still leaves out this transition from a "barge," which is an ornamental boat used for pleasure or ceremony. Eliot seems to take Cleopatra, having been described in the primary text we read, and elevating her to a much grander (and less wretched) status. For example, while the original text says that the barge "Burned on the water," the Chair in "A Game of Chess" is "Glowed on the marble"—a much more preferable alternative to burning. In the original text, also, the symbol of wind plays a much more prominent (and favorable) role. It depicts that

The winds were love sick with them; the oars were silver Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water to which they beat follow faster, As amorous of their strokes...

The wind, or "air," is portrayed in a different tone in this section, however: the perfumes that are "troubled, confused / And drowned," are "stirred by the air." These are, precisely, the differences with how love is portrayed in each text. In the original, Antony's love for Cleopatra is initially portrayed as favorable—likening Cleopatra to Venus, the goddess of love. On the other hand, love is tainted in this passage, either stirring trouble, confusion, and drowning, or simply foreshadowing a catastrophe (like when a Cupid "hid his eyes behind his wing").

Lauren similarly noted the shift in senses between "The Burial of the Dead" and "A Game of Chess" going from an emphasis on vision to an emphasis of smell. She noted: "the 'strange synthetic perfumes' permeating the air and 'drown[ing] the sense in odours.' Here, Eliot literally moves from water (drowning) to smell (odors) While perfume typically has a good aroma, "odour" connotes something pungent, as if the unknown "she" that is acting in this stanza is concocting something that releases powerful scents." Similarly, Baudelaire's "A Martyred Women" has an equally sensual experience. The opening images of his poem seem to be dominated by the "perfume" which parallels to the "synthetic perfume" and "odours" in TWL. What connects these to aromatic images is the presence of power. The "burnished throne" is a kin to some positition of superiority or reason for praise when is a central theme in Baudelaire's "A Martyred Women." The difference lies in the fact that in TWL the dominance/presence of this power is "drown[ing]" the sense in odours" as if there is an excess of power. In Baudelaire's focus on dead woman, Eliot's allusion to his work seems to be suggesting that there is an overbearing/whelming stench or. "odour" (in both a literal and metaphorical sense) of death.

As we progress into "A Game of Chess", we stray from the foreseeable cycle of life and death and the details of a mundane human nature in "The Burial of the Dead". I noticed the stark contrast in section titles during my initial read, and as I'm rereading it now, I still feel the contrast persevering throughout the context of this second section too. I, like Lauren from last year, noticed that "While [the first section] ends with imagery of sight, this section segues into the sense of smell."

I am most attracted by lines 86-93 for multiple reasons. First, the scent of "synthetic perfumes" can compare with the ashy smell that proceeds through "prolonged candle-flames" and "their smoke". These references remind me of Baudelaire's "A Martyred Woman" and the story of Dido and Aeneas. Objectively, the outset of this first stanza clearly resembles Baudelaire's piece; the diction, imagery, and embellishment in TWL seems to be a reflection of the martyred woman's death site. Then, the references of flames and smoke reflect Dido's death scene too, where "[she] ascends the pyre" just as how "these ascended in fattening the prolonged candle-flames, / Flung their smoke into the laquearia". Though the protagonist "she" of this section remains unknown for now, I'm curious if Eliot meant for her to resemble the martyred woman or Dido, who both died as hopeless romantics in their distinct ways.

Some final thoughts - Baudelaire's depiction of a decapitated woman whose death should be a sore to eyes is quite ironic; he embellishes the whole poem with promiscuous and materialistic details. Is it that even post-death, the female figure is a mere feed for "the thirsty pack of lost and wandering desires" of men? Is the imagery of a "headless cadaver" a result from masculine predators' meals? How does that relate to this section of TWL? Perhaps the martyred woman remains in "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, glowed on the marble", like a mere trophy wife. Perhaps her death doesn't mean much, with her ashes merely "stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling" and adding further decorations, because only the king's fate truly determines the win or loss in a game of chess.

“A Game of Chess” begins with an allusion to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. The abundance of imagery relating to glass, marble, and reflective surfaces unites the various romantic narratives Eliot alludes to while simultaneously introducing themes of deception and allusion. The “flames of sevenbranched candelabra” is one of the glass’s targets of manipulation, these flames having intensified in their reflection upon the table. If we take the flames to represent a personification of intense human passion — whether in the form of love or vice (indeed, the duality of fire is explicit in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which “the flame of love had taken Tereus, as if one had set afire ripe grain, dry leaves, or a haystack”; evidently, the language of fire both dramatises Tereus's attraction to Philomela and prefigures their mutual destruction — we can see how such passions have a tendency to multiply accidentally, often on the basis of artificial conceits: in Tristan and Isolde, the accidental ingestion of a love potion causes two people to begin a clandestine affair; in Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra’s efforts to secure Antony, which involve her faking her own death, result in both of their deaths. In both cases, love and deception are inextricably intertwined.

Something else I noticed about Metamorphoses is its prophesying tone of narration. On the one hand, the speaker of the verse knows the fate of Philomela before he recounts his narrative; in this sense, it is retrospective rather than foretelling, which is the most obvious function of the practitioner of Tarot divination that Eliot has elsewhere alluded to. And yet, several poetic asides — when he narrates Philomela’s parting from her father, describing how “she winds her arms around her father’s neck, entreating him to let her make the trip; she says that it will do her good to go and visit her sister” but adding in parenthesis that “(it will do the opposite)” — produce the impression of a predetermined and immutable narrative trajectory, one which the omniscient speaker is aware of but, despite his sympathy, is helpless to improve. Perhaps Eliot intends for The Waste Land to operate as a kind of Tarot card reading. As the poem’s creator, he is merely the vehicle through which destiny is pronounced, but is powerless to prescribe a means of evasion.

It’s interesting to note, as we’d talked about briefly in class, the switching of gender in TWL. Marie, Empress Elisabeth’s niece and the woman whom we assume “I” is referring to, becomes the “hyacinth girl,” who, as Lemprière elucidates, is actually a “beautiful” and “youth[ful]” boy “beloved by Apollo. The love between Apollo and Hyacinthus thus parallels the German quote right above it, which is an excerpt from Richard Wagner’s modern operatic staging of Tristan and Isolde: “Fresh the wind blows / towards home: / my Irish child, / where are you now?” (3). To me, the essence of the quote is not in the young sailor’s mockery, but in the romance that ensues afterwards, when Brangaene, Isolde’s handmaid, refers to her “lady Isolde” as her “dearest beloved” (7). Furthermore, as the unwilling bride arrives at Cornwall, only to be met with Tristan’s death, we see again this natural impulse arise within Brangaene: her stage directions is described as “(impetuously and tenderly embracing Isolde),” the implicit expression of her homosexual desires (16). Eliot furthers this theme through the imagery of eyes. In what feels like an alternate reality or the afterlife, where Hyacinthus hasn’t died from the game of quiots and is capable of “[coming] back from the hyacinth garden” along with Apollo, Hyacinthus’ “eyes failed, I was neither / Living nor dead.” When analyzed alongside Isolde and Brangaene’s interaction, when the handmaid tells Isolde, “If she is to hold herself of worth in your eyes, / place your trust in Brangaene now,” both Hyacinthus and Brangaene recognize that the authenticity of their connections with their lovers can be proven through these very organs (7). By extension, the denial of this connection —- when the eyes fail, when Isolde does not respond to Brangaene’s proposition — becomes a tragic account of impermissible love. A scene of homosexuality in TWL can only be told through a heterosexual facade --- a love story between the “hyacinth girl” and her counterpart, a “he.”

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This shows that no matter who you are, and even if it seems like what you says won't reach very many people or won't make an impact it shows how different social media is from the "real world." Before social media saying things like that might only be heard by a few people and could become like a game of telephone where people go around and some people find out what kind of person that they're friend really is. But with social media not just your friends see, or friends of friends. Once you put something on social media it is sent out into the world for anyone and everyone to see. And once it gets some attention most of the time the attention only grows. Whatever you post on social media could potentially blow up just like this. At the moment people seem to want to blow up like this, but it's not always a good thing. It also shows that anything posted on social media stays there forever, even if you delete it, whatever you post can always come back to haunt you.

ISSUE should we prioritize the entertainment factor, the education factor, or can we find an equilibrium that satisfies both?

This is a problem that could be solved, a diverse "unit completing" history game would be promising instead of an introductory one.

"All skill, no luck. There may be dice, but they're not for rolling. Beating your opponent is pure skill."

This kind of reminds me of the game 'Operation'! I know its the opposite reaction to what happened here, but the doctor being able to feel the vibration of the probes and forceps reminds me of when you hit the side when trying to retrieve a piece in the game. Besides this, I think that this is an amazing way to use this technology during that time period. I'm quite intrigued on how they did this.

Having interactable elements on your media is very important as there are many people who would just get bored of reading and having things such as a small video or game, that would allow all people to stay engaged.

I truly appreciate how this story is written. The elongated sentence structure with various twists and turns leaves the reader on their toes, wondering what point the narrator will raise next. It goes from talking about how the cousin stashed kush inside of the bag in hopes of attracting a new smoking buddy to talking to quickly turning the readers' attention to the quality of the map that is provided with the game that he is opening. It was swift shift in gears that keeps the reader interested and engaged.

This game he is playing seems to be the most important thing in his life at the moment

How did Grinnell influence future generations of naturalists?

Tonia Zinckey 9/20/2023

      Two Ways To Belong In America


    United States of America has the power to

decide who stays and leaves the country. Immigration

laws changes every time, it doesn't stay the same.

Entering any part of the United States has it's

requirements. Many Immigrants comes on Visa thinking

they can stay, Overstaying your time can lead to major

consequences, Immigration would not let you back in

there country. With a Visa it's ok to travel to your

destination and return to your country when the time is

up.

        There are two ways to stay in the United States.

All you need is the right documents and some one to

marry. Dealing with Immigration is a headache to many

people like the immigrants. Here are two sisters Mira and

Bharati who entered the United States thirty-five years

ago. Bothe sisters resided in this states. Mira entered

Detroit in 1960 and Bharati entered Canada in 1961. As

you can see they arrive different time and live in different

places but they still keep in contact with each other.

      These two sister Mira and Bharati did not waste

time in America. Bharati earned her M.F.A and PH.D. in

literature. She was also an author of many novels like

Tiger's daughter, Jasmine, Desirable Daughters and the

Tree Bride, she also became a professor. Her sister Mira

studied child psychology and pre-school education. After

Mira became legal citizen in the America after 36 years

she decided she wants to return to India, when she

retires. Mira was disappointed of how she and other

immigrants was being treated after so may years working

and paying taxes in American.

           The laws of immigration had changed so it

messed up, Mira chances of being legalize in the United

States. Her employer try to help by going to INS and

petition for the labor certification. The law of immigration

was applied to everyone even if you resides in the country

for many years. Immigration laws ad rules changes all the

time. Even in America right now there are so many

immigrants that wants to be legalized, they can't even

visit there country or even see their family members. This

all happen because of the law change and the

requirements that immigration is asking for. Mira was

determined to be an American Citizen. She said "If

America wants to play the manipulative game I'II play it

too". Mira decided she will become a Citizen for now and

then she will return back to her country India. The sister

were happy to have an opportunity to be in America. They

have accomplished a lot of success. Although they pass

through a lot of trials to get what they want. To Mira it hurt

that she had to deal with immigration knowingly she paid

her taxes worked hard in this country for over thirty-five.

Mira did not expect to have this problem being legalized

in America, although this law pass after she was living in

the country for years.

        The price Immigrants pays to stay in America

doesn't worth the struggle, This can lead to stress, stress

can lead to sickness. For people that wants the

opportunity to visit or live in the United States Of America

should do there research properly, get the right

documents and they need to understand the laws and

rules of America. It does mean if you stayed in America

for years the same rules apply for everyone.

Summary: The second stage of institution critique in 1980 regarded artworks and meanings are generated in the relationship, which is “encounter the demand of place and the methods of producer”. In this stage, criticizing and reflecting of institutions more from the roles(curator, artist, cultural producers) that collaborative or affiliated with museums, author named them “fellow traveler”. Some scholars suggests the participation and reflection of institutions should regard as the replacement of the canonized institution critique, which distinguished from the first stage of institution critique in 1970s. In this situation, curators neither fully represents the institution nor sees as a cultural producer as Szeemann. Therefore, they are able to encounter art in a pure ways. However, due to curators’ status on the power structure of art ecosystem, and the different prespectives of curators and artists in institutions, the practices and demonstration also could be seen as a role-playing game of host and guest.

Passage 4 for summarizing

The different pathways in a video game is a way to represent this concept. Playing as another character with a selection of voice lines that illustrates the ingame character's shows a piece of their mind. But the choices are all led by the player to choose what kind of personality they hold. It builds complexity and an understanding of each of the characters.

The "unsolvable" maze is an interesting concept for me to think about. Wandering through a game to interact with is very comforting, especially in our busy lives.

I understand the thought process behind this comment. It can be comforting to feel like you have choices in a world that has become so much more constrictive of our individual thoughts and actions.

Viewing a maze game as a sort of moral dilemma had not crossed my mind originally, but the contrast between the format being a video game and the dilemma itself provides an interesting through process along the lines of, "How can a game effectively portray the difficulty to make ethically debatable choices?"

Maze based games give a sense an agency as they are often moved forward directly by the player's actions. There's a sense of progress that can be called winning even if the game is not structured as a binary win or loss.

It ties back to their original definition of agency and how it shows up in entertainment.

Horror games especially are built for this purpose. Games where you have to navigate through an unknown post apocalyptic world make the experience much scarier. Throwing away all prior knowledge of what you knowl, trying to intake information of the game world, and on top of jumpscares and mood induces anxiety.

The metaphor is a great example of a definition for a rhizome. It emphasizes that there is a comfort that the game can never end.

Great way to define this classic game in the way that it appeals to the average person and why they are so popular. Coupled with the story from the first paragraph about Theseus and the Labyrinth, one almost feels immersed in the story from the start

Passage 4 for summarizing

I would actually initially disagree with this statement. I think games are exactly like stories-they are basically interactive stories. You make the story yourself, based on your skills in playing the game and the choices you make at different points in the game. It gives you a lot more agency than reading a story that somebody else wrote, yes, but the overall goal is the same, and it is exactly like storytelling.

This section is interesting in the sense that when we interact with this type of media we aren't one person, but rather we become the different people in the text. Made me think of the game we played last week where we could see through the eyes of the girl struggling with depression but we were also living out the role of anxiety.

positif pain of using cell phone

like speaking a second language

Is this why eating is causing instant sleepiness? Non-digestive vessels vasoconstrict and shut off too much cerebral blood flow, then nerves instantly have reduced firing/waste and CO2 build up/diminished mitochondria output/oxidative buildup/ &or then resultant inflammatory triggering cytokine increase?

Vessel endothelial enormous surface area, manipulator of blood flow vasoconstrictor system, and cytokine producer/influencer, and high vulnerability sensitivity to viral infection/corruption...and then it's role or adjacent system and the immediate available Google research on COVID affecting> the vascular elastin system and corrupted elevated production of destructive elastases resulting in reduced vascular compliance then resulting too narrow "pulse pressure" band essentially creating arteriosclerosis.

Also, make sure to be thinking of the entire vascular system not as one system, but subsided by dynamic changing gated sections and inspect signaling creating changing locations and amounts of high/low pressure zones. Also, keep in mind 3 things about BP: 1, when taken with a cuff it is only measuring a reading at the elbow. 2, is a reading from the artery and not giving any direct data from vein part of the system. 3, BP is not the same as blood flow. So I conceive that you could read a good BP, but actual flow could be completely inadequate.

Remember analogy, vascular system is just like car AC system, or any pressurized hydraulic system, or even actually electric circuits. Meaning that there is a high pressure side, the load component(s), and a low pressure side. Also remember veins act as the reservoir tank, and when they constrict it is injecting more blood into the system to, if functioning correctly, allow higher performance and meet increase load demand. It also, therefore has less direct effect on whole system BP vs artery constriction because it's downstream of the load. Arterial constriction conversely has immediate direct effect on systolic BP as it is essentially putting a wall directly downstream of the heart. Therefore, regardless if diastolic pressure is zero or high, when the heart contacts, the pressure shoots straight up.

A working theory component: my pulmonary vein is inappropriately constricting too much. That causes high back up pressure at alveoli. Exercise then induces veinous reservoir injection and increased blood volume into the "working system" further increasing pressure. Possibly arterious had already been fully dilated at rest in order to compensate and then when exercise happens, it can't be dilated further to increase blood flow throughout and BP increases further all behind the pulmonary vein "dam". However it doesn't present as right side heart failure like might initially be guessed (with leg and belly edema) because the right side heart is not failing...yet. So it contains any further backflow and the alveoli are the weakest point and taking the most abuse and pressure is relieved as pulmonary edema. And therefore what may be present is if we look for it, we'll find that actual blood throughput output exiting the heart is too low. And this can exist with a normal ejection fraction because the heart is functioning correctly and pumping the right percentage of what is a low starting volume. And also this can support why right ventricle is showing first signs of enlarging because it's being overpressured and stretching out (enlarging). And this can support why normal BP readings are measured at the arm because it can completely handle the abnormally low blood volume being received in the downstream location it's at. And then therefore this further supports why BP is normal but HR is riding the high limit at rest and then instantly jumps on exertion AND why dizziness happens because the artery system was already maxed out dilation at rest and for any amount of exertion, increasing HR because of the immediate too fast rise in tissue hypoxia due to too low blood supply the brain keeps driving up HR to meet demand. Total result upon exercise: supply continues to more and more not meet demand, HR rises faster and faster to try to inadequately compensate, physically become weaker especially after high output anaerobic every supply deleted in 1-3 minutes and there is no aerobic capacity cavalry with it's O2 rushing in to take over and that's when I fall off the cliff> HR spikes even faster, chest pain immediately jumps, lung edema turns on full tilt as the HR spikes and the resulting pressure is forced to "spray out of the gaskets (alveoli), and brain blood O2 supply immediately becomes super inadequate and the dizziness and need to fall over is the instant result effect. And since dysfuntioning cerebral vasoconstriction is likely the cause or highly involved in migraines, this also supports why the headaches come. ... And perhaps this explaining the rest pain and how it increases with dex and exertion because blood flow o2 becomes inadequate. Then causing lactic acid waste and CO2 buildup... (ie pain). And then it, like all body tissues being deprived necessary blood flow trigger cytokine inflammation response. ... And then, fuck it, maybe this IS chronic fatigue syndrome, and IS long covid explaining PEM, explaining why every symptom imaginable in any combination permutation is being shown, is explaining the observed elevated varing soups of cytokinesis, explaining all variety of tissue damage depending on any person's unique amount of total hit and their particular systems vulnerabilities and ultimately how far down they went on the increasing spiralling cascading systems failure towards total shutdown, and explains why measures at addressing the variety of manifestations are all somewhat helpful, but inadequate and varing efficacy from patient to patient because they are all too downstream of the root cause trunk of the symptom tree where the need to relieve vascular over constriction is the root or next to the root of the symptom tree that is common to all patients. If this were all to be accurate, then the seed would be what caused the break in vasoconstrictor system and repairing/killing it, or perhaps it's a PC bootstrap phenomenon where the simple uncomplex virus was just enough bios code to place innocuous wrenches in any of machines of the systems and then those malfunctioning systems took over control in their new malfunctioning patterns and became the new bosses that are infact the disease, you become your disease, and the initial virus seed has long been killed/departed (they're the ultimate down the road end game that is the totally corrupted bcdhhs that will then exist now as a new monstrous organism slowly lingering and depleting itself and eventually all resources at which point it will have finally killed itself after it destroyed the once thriving self sustaining world it lived in. COVID then is the teenage abusive bf or mean drunk father from their past, that put in motion what would become decades and generations of monsters, years and years after they had been long since gone). And maybe this explains the phasing leaving and returning it symptoms. Because when enough if the symptoms start to be reset/repaired, that starts spiraling the spread of the shutdown of the corruption back to health, but if the spiral up isn't strong enough to overcome the consequential reactive spiral down response, the monster returns and the rebellion is quashed. And so explains why the overall, in every system, stronger less vulnerabilities less armor chinks youth are able to quash with ease the spiral down with their incumbent exceptional spiral up response. .... And aside, this explains why dysautonomia has become a top suspect. And explains why POTS has become almost synonymous with long COVID and CFS.

Right, so the modern equivalent would be to design a game or an 3d animation in an intuitive way, yet the integration of pipeline in this systems makes it so that not even experienced professionals in the area cn develop a short film or an interactive experience through art that eases people into coding.

I think we need to do a better job at this. If the system that allowed us to design the processes also taught it to people then we wouldn't have to chose between improving the learning curve and the system there should all be one. why did we stop shipping manuals with our tech..? ahh it was because we stopped caring about what the people that designed the tool thought.

I haven't really ever thought about the different ways sociable media is used and meant for. Many different features affect how different applications are meant to be used for. Social medias such as Instagram and Twitter (X) are more of an asynchronous, public, and text and visual image based media whereas FaceTime and some messaging apps are more synchronous, private, and live video and text based.

Like the Italian cities during the Italian Wars. If France OR Spain gobbled up enough of Italy to reach a majority, other cities picked up on it and switched sides. It did not benefit states like Florence, Pisa, Venice etc. to have a huge winner.

• for: climate change policy hypocrisy, fossil fuel lobby, EU climate policy, Hoekstra, Fox guarding the henhouse, Linked In post

• comment

  • What does it say about the EU's authenticity to deal with the global boiling crisis when they put a fox in charge of the henhouse?
  • this seems awfully similar to the choice for positioning an oil man to head COP28.
  • The fossil fuel lobby is EXTREMELY busy in the opaque back end of politics. We need more light to shine and bring the back end fossil fuel lobby activity out of the shadows to pre-empt future leadership betrayals.

• future research

  • uncover future fossil fuel lobby’s game plan and future attempts to coopt climate change policy leadership
  • needed in order to proactively preempt the next attempt at coopting climate leadership. It’s difficult when we are simply reacting

you could go further with this contextual analysis. what's the discursive realm in which your article exists? what materials have you engaged with contributed to perceptions of the game? what commentators' views (about USC basketball) informed your views?

so, you didn't so much game the rubric as follow it strictly?

You got your peanut butter in my chocolate. Tech and education - how to combine. Tech is created and education application is an afterthought. is there a problem this solves?

As We May Think

From The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945: 101-108. Reprinted with permission. (c)1945, V. Bush.

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coördinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For many years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. - The Editor

This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war work has hardly required them to leave the old paths. Many indeed have been able to carry on their war research in their familiar peacetime laboratories. Their objectives remain much the same.

It is the physicists who have been thrown most violently off stride, who have left academic pursuits for the making of strange destructive gadgets, who have had to devise new methods for their unanticipated assignments. They have done their part on the devices that made it possible to turn back the enemy. They have worked in combined effort with the physicists of our allies. They have felt within themselves the stir of achievement. They have been part of a great team. Now, as peace approaches, one asks where they will find objectives worthy of their best.

I

Of what lasting benefit has been man's use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence? First, they have increased his control of his material environment. They have improved his food, his clothing, his shelter; they have increased his security and released him partly from the bondage of bare existence. They have given him increased knowledge of his own biological processes so that he has had a progressive freedom from disease and an increased span of life. They are illuminating the interactions of his physiological and psychological functions, giving the promise of an improved mental health.

Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual.

There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers--conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.

Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be startling. Those who conscientiously attempt to keep abreast of current thought, even in restricted fields, by close and continuous reading might well shy away from an examination calculated to show how much of the previous month's efforts could be produced on call. Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present-day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use. Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time, relay combinations which will carry out involved sequences of movements more reliably than any human operator and thousands of times as fast-- there are plenty of mechanical aids with which to effect a transformation in scientific records.

Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent keyboard devices, but it could not then come into use. The economics of the situation were against it: the labor involved in constructing it, before the days of mass production, exceeded the labor to be saved by its use, since all it could accomplish could be duplicated by sufficient use of pencil and paper. Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, so that it could not have been depended upon; for at that time and long after, complexity and unreliability were synonymous.

Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His idea was sound enough, but construction and maintenance costs were then too heavy. Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza.

Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile. Electrical contacts have ceased to stick when thoroughly understood. Note the automatic telephone exchange, which has hundreds of thousands of such contacts, and yet is reliable. A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the thermionic tube of radio sets, is made by the hundred million, tossed about in packages, plugged into sockets--and it works! Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months; now it is built for thirty cents. The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.

II

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted. Today we make the record conventionally by writing and photography, followed by printing; but we also record on film, on wax disks, and on magnetic wires. Even if utterly new recording procedures do not appear, these present ones are certainly in the process of modification and extension.

Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop. Faster material and lenses, more automatic cameras, finer-grained sensitive compounds to allow an extension of the minicamera idea, are all imminent. Let us project this trend ahead to a logical, if not inevitable, outcome. The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposure, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner.

The cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man's sleeve within easy reach of his fingers. A quick squeeze, and the picture is taken. On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision. When an object appears in that square, it is lined up for its j picture. As the scientist of the future moves about the laboratory or the field, every time he looks at something worthy of the record, he trips the shutter and in it goes, without even an audible click. Is this all fantastic? The only fantastic thing about it is the idea of making as many pictures as would result from its use.

Will there be dry photography? It is already here in two forms. When Brady made his Civil War pictures, the plate had to be wet at the time of exposure. Now it has to be wet during development instead. In the future perhaps it need not be wetted at all. There have long been films impregnated with diazo dyes which form a picture without development, so that it is already there as soon as the camera has been operated. An exposure to ammonia gas destroys the unexposed dye, and the picture can then be taken out into the light and examined. The process is now slow, but someone may speed it up, and it has no grain difficulties such as now keep photographic researchers busy. Often it would be advantageous to be able to snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately.

Another process now in use is also slow, and more or less clumsy. For fifty years impregnated papers have been used which turn dark at every point where an electrical contact touches them, by reason of the chemical change thus produced in an iodine compound included in the paper. They have been used to make records, for a pointer moving across them can leave a trail behind. If the electrical potential on the pointer is varied as it moves, the line becomes light or dark in accordance with the potential.

This scheme is now used in facsimile transmission. The pointer draws a set of closely spaced lines across the paper one after another. As it moves, its potential is varied in accordance with a varying current received over wires from a distant station, where these variations are produced by a photocell which is similarly scanning a picture. At every instant the darkness of the line being drawn is made equal to the darkness of the point on the picture being observed by the photocell. Thus, when the whole picture has been covered, a replica appears at the receiving end.

A scene itself can be just as well looked over line by line by the photocell in this way as can a photograph of the scene. This whole apparatus constitutes a camera, with the added feature, which can be dispensed with if desired, of making its picture at a distance. It is slow, and the picture is poor in detail. Still, it does give another process of dry photography, in which the picture is finished as soon as it is taken.

It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow, and faulty in detail. Television equipment today transmits sixteen reasonably good pictures a second, and it involves only two essential differences from the process described above. For one, the record is made by a moving beam of electrons rather than a moving pointer, for the reason that an electron beam can sweep across the picture very rapidly indeed. The other difference involves merely the use of a screen which glows momentarily when the electrons hit, rather than a chemically treated paper or film which is permanently altered. This speed is necessary in television, for motion pictures rather than stills are the object.

Use chemically treated film in place of the glowing screen, allow the apparatus to transmit one picture only rather than a succession, and a rapid camera for dry photography results. The treated film needs to be far faster in action than present examples, but it probably could be. More serious is the objection that this scheme would involve putting the film inside a vacuum chamber, for electron beams behave normally only in such a rarefied environment. This difficulty could be avoided by allowing the electron beam to play on one side of a partition, and by pressing the film against the other side, if this partition were such as to allow the electrons to go through perpendicular to its surface, and to prevent them from spreading out sideways. Such partitions, in crude form, could certainly be constructed, and they will hardly hold up the general development.

Like dry photography, microphotography still has a long way to go. The basic scheme of reducing the size of the record, and examining it by projection rather than directly, has possibilities too great to be ignored. The combination of optical projection and photographic reduction is already producing some results in microfilm for scholarly purposes, and the potentialities are highly suggestive. Today, with microfilm, reductions by a linear factor of 20 can be employed and still produce full clarity when the material is re-enlarged for examination. The limits are set by the graininess of the film, the excellence of the optical system, and the efficiency of the light sources employed. All of these are rapidly improving .

Assume a linear ratio of 100 for future use. Consider film of the same thickness as paper, although thinner film will certainly be usable. Even under these conditions there would be a total factor of 10,000 between the bulk of the ordinary record on books, and its microfilm replica. The Encyclopedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk. If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van. Mere compression, of course, is not enough; one needs not only to make and store a record but also be able to consult it, and this aspect of the matter comes later. Even the modern great library is not generally consulted; it is nibbled at by a few.

Compression is important, however, when it comes to costs. The material for the microfilm Britannica would cost a nickel, and it could be mailed anywhere for a cent. What would it cost to print a million copies? To print a sheet of newspaper, in a large edition, costs a small fraction of a cent. The entire material of the Britannica in reduced microfilm form would go on a sheet eight and one-half by eleven inches. Once it is available, with the photographic reproduction methods of the future, duplicates in large quantities could probably be turned out for a cent apiece beyond the cost of materials. The preparation of the original copy? That introduces the next aspect of the subject.

III

To make the record, we now push a pencil or tap a typewriter. Then comes the process of digestion and correction, followed by an intricate process of typesetting, printing, and distribution. To consider the first stage of the procedure, will the author of the future cease writing by hand or typewriter and talk directly to the record? He does so indirectly, by talking to a stenographer or a wax cylinder; but the elements are all present if he wishes to have his talk directly produce a typed record. All he needs to do is to take advantage of existing mechanisms and to alter his language .

At a recent World Fair a machine called a Voder was shown. A girl stroked its keys and it emitted recognizable speech. No human vocal chords entered into the procedure at any point; the keys simply combined some electrically produced vibrations and passed these on to a loudspeaker. In the Bell Laboratories there is the converse of this machine, called a Vocoder. The loud-speaker is replaced by a microphone, which picks up sound. Speak to it, and the corresponding keys move. This may be one element of the postulated system.

The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly and looks about the room and sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip which records in a phonetically simplified language a record of what the speaker is supposed to have said. Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated. Combine these two elements, let the Vocoder run the stenotype, and the result is a machine which types when talked to.

Our present languages are not especially adapted to this sort of mechanization, it is true. It is strange that the inventors of universal languages have not seized upon the idea of producing one which better fitted the technique for transmitting and recording speech. Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.

One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory. His hands are free, and he is not anchored. As he moves about and observes, he photographs and comments. Time is automatically recorded to tie the two records together. If he goes into the field, he may be connected by radio to his recorder. As he ponders over his notes in the evening, he again talks his comments into the record. His typed record, as well as his photographs, may both be in miniature, so that he projects them for examination.

Much needs to occur, however, between the collection of data and observations, the extraction of parallel material from the existing record, and the final insertion of new material into the general body of the common record. For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. But creative thought and essentially repetitive thought are very different things. For the latter there are, and may be, powerful mechanical aids.

Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by a keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable. Machines have been made which will read typed figures by photocells and then depress the corresponding keys; these are combinations of photocells for scanning the type, electric circuits for sorting the consequent variations, and relay circuits for interpreting the result into the action of solenoids to pull the keys down.

All this complication is needed because of the clumsy way in which we have learned to write figures. If we recorded them positionally, simply by the configuration of a set of dots on a card, the automatic reading mechanism would become comparatively simple. In fact, if the dots are holes, we have the punched-card machine long ago produced by Hollorith for the purposes of the census, and now used throughout business. Some types of complex businesses could hardly operate without these machines.

Adding is only one operation. To perform arithmetical computation involves also subtraction, multiplication, and division, and in addition some method for temporary storage of results, removal from storage for further manipulation, and recording of final results by printing. Machines for these purposes are now of two types: keyboard machines for accounting and the like, manually controlled for the insertion of data, and usually automatically controlled as far as the sequence of operations is concerned; and punched-card machines in which separate operations are usually delegated to a series of machines, and the cards then transferred bodily from one to another. Both forms are very useful; but as far as complex computations are concerned, both are still in embryo.

Rapid electrical counting appeared soon after the physicists found it desirable to count cosmic rays. For their own purposes the physicists promptly constructed thermionic-tube equipment capable of counting electrical impulses at the rate of 100,000 a second. The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more.

Moreover, they will be far more versatile than present commercial machines, so that they may readily be adapted for a wide variety of operations. They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical computations at exceedingly high speeds, and they will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulation. Such machines will have enormous appetites. One of them will take instructions and data from a whole roomful of girls armed with simple keyboard punches, and will deliver sheets of computed results every few minutes. There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

IV

The repetitive processes of thought are not confined, however, to matters of arithmetic and statistics. In fact, every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines. Not so much has been done along these lines, beyond the bounds of arithmetic, as might be done, primarily because of the economics of the situation. The needs of business, and the extensive market obviously waiting, assured the advent of mass-produced arithmetical machines just as soon as production methods were sufficiently advanced.

With machines for advanced analysis no such situation existed; for there was and is no extensive market; the users of advanced methods of manipulating data are a very small part of the population. There are, however, machines for solving differential equations--and functional and integral equations, for that matter. There are many special machines, such as the harmonic synthesizer which predicts the tides. There will be many more, appearing certainly first in the hands of the scientist and in small numbers.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. The abacus, with its beads strung on parallel wires, led the Arabs to positional numeration and the concept of zero many centuries before the rest of the world; and it was a useful tool--so useful that it still exists.

It is a far cry from the abacus to the modern keyboard accounting machine. It will be an equal step to the arithmetical machine of the future. But even this new machine will not take the scientist where he needs to go. Relief must be secured from laborious detailed manipulation of higher mathematics as well, if the users of it are to free their brains for something more than repetitive detailed transformations in accordance with established rules. A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformations of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs.

All else he should be able to turn over to his mechanism, just as confidently as he turns over the propelling of his car to the intricate mechanism under the hood. Only then will mathematics be practically effective in bringing the growing knowledge of atomistics to the useful solution of the advanced problems of chemistry, metallurgy, and biology. For this reason there will come more machines to handle advanced mathematics for the scientist. Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.

V

The scientist, however, is not the only person who manipulates data and examines the world about him by the use of logical processes, although he sometimes preserves this appearance by adopting into the fold anyone who becomes logical, much in the manner in which a British labor leader is elevated to knighthood. Whenever logical processes of thought are employed--that is, whenever thought for a time runs along an accepted groove--there is an opportunity for the machine. Formal logic used to be a keen instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' souls. It is readily possible to construct a machine which will manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the clever use of relay circuits. Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion, all in accordance with logical law, and with no more slips than would be expected of a keyboard adding machine.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use. The machines for higher analysis have usually been equation solvers. Ideas are beginning to appear for equation transformers, which will rearrange the relationship expressed by an equation in accordance with strict and rather advanced logic. Progress is inhibited by the exceedingly crude way in which mathematicians express their relationships. They employ a symbolism which grew like Topsy and has little consistency; a strange fact in that most logical field.

A new symbolism, probably positional, must apparently precede the reduction of mathematical transformations to machine processes. Then, on beyond the strict logic of the mathematician, lies the application of logic in everyday affairs. We may some day click off arguments on a machine with the same assurance that we now enter sales on a cash register. But the machine of logic will not look like a cash register, even of the streamlined model.

So much for the manipulation of ideas and their insertion into the record. Thus far we seem to be worse off than before--for we can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it. This is a much larger matter than merely the extraction of data for the purposes of scientific research; it involves the entire process by which man profits by his inheritance of acquired knowledge. The prime action of use is selection, and here we are halting indeed. There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.

Selection, in this broad sense, is a stone adze in the hands of a cabinetmaker. Yet, in a narrow sense and in other areas, something has already been done mechanically on selection. The personnel officer of a factory drops a stack of a few thousand employee cards into a selecting machine, sets a code in accordance with an established convention, and produces in a short time a list of all employees who live in Trenton and know Spanish. Even such devices are much too slow when it comes, for example, to matching a set of fingerprints with one of five million on file. Selection devices of this sort will soon be speeded up from their present rate of reviewing data at a few hundred a minute. By the use of photocells and microfilm they will survey items at the rate of a thousand a second, and will print out duplicates of those selected.

This process, however, is simple selection: it proceeds by examining in turn every one of a large set of items, and by picking out those which have certain specified characteristics. There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, then only to a subclass of this given by the second digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station. It requires a few seconds to make the selection, although the process could be speeded up if increased speed were economically warranted. If necessary, it could be made extremely fast by substituting thermionic-tube switching for mechanical switching, so that the full selection could be made in one one-hundredth of a second. No one would wish to spend the money necessary to make this change in the telephone system, but the general idea is applicable elsewhere.

Take the prosaic problem of the great department store. Every time a charge sale is made, there are a number of things to be done. The inventory needs to be revised, the salesman needs to be given credit for the sale, the general accounts need an entry, and, most important, the customer needs to be charged. A central records device has been developed in which much of this work is done conveniently. The salesman places on a stand the customer's identification card, his own card, and the card taken from the article sold--all punched cards. When he pulls a lever, contacts are made through the holes, machinery at a central point makes the necessary computations and entries, and the proper receipt is printed for the salesman to pass to the customer.

But there may be ten thousand charge customers doing business with the store, and before the full operation can be completed someone has to select the right card and insert it at the central office. Now rapid selection can slide just the proper card into position in an instant or two, and return it afterward. Another difficulty occurs, however. Someone must read a total on the card, so that the machine can add its computed item to it. Conceivably the cards might be of the dry photography type I have described. Existing totals could then be read by photocell, and the new total entered by an electron beam.

The cards may be in miniature, so that they occupy little space. They must move quickly. They need not be transferred far, but merely into position so that the photocell and recorder can operate on them. Positional dots can enter the data. At the end of the month a machine can readily be made to read these and to print an ordinary bill. With tube selection, in which no mechanical parts are involved in the switches, little time need be occupied in bringing the correct card into use--a second should suffice for the entire operation. The whole record on the card may be made by magnetic dots on a steel sheet if desired, instead of dots to be observed optically, following the scheme by which Poulsen long ago put speech on a magnetic wire. This method has the advantage of simplicity and ease of erasure. By using photography, however, one can arrange to project the record in enlarged form, and at a distance by using the process common in television equipment.

One can consider rapid selection of this form, and distant projection for other purposes. To be able to key one sheet of a million before an operator in a second or two, with the possibility of then adding notes thereto, is suggestive in many ways. It might even be of use in libraries, but that is another story. At any rate, there are now some interesting combinations possible. One might, for example, speak to a microphone, in the manner described in connection with the speech-controlled typewriter, and thus make his selections. It would certainly beat the usual file clerk.

VI

The real heart of the matter of selection, however, goes deeper than a lag in the adoption of mechanisms by libraries, or a lack of development of devices for their use. Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing. When data of any sort are placed in storage, they are filed alphabetically or numerically, and information is found (when it is) by tracing it down from subclass to subclass. It can be in only one place, unless duplicates are used; one has to have rules as to which path will locate it, and the rules are cumbersome. Having found one item, moreover, one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path.

The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the detail of mental pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.

Man cannot hope fully to duplicate this mental process artificially, but he certainly ought to be able to learn from it. In minor ways he may even improve, for his records have relative permanency. The first idea, however, to be drawn from the analogy concerns selection. Selection by association, rather than by indexing, may yet be mechanized. One cannot hope thus to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind follows an associative trail, but it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.

In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.

Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place. Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry. On the top of the memex is a transparent platen. On this are placed longhand notes, photographs, memoranda, all sorts of things. When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space in a section ~_ the memex film, dry photography being employed

There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions. Frequently-used codes are mnemonic, so that he seldom consults his code book; but when he does, a single tap of a key projects it for his use. Moreover, he has supplemental levers. On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each. If he deflects it further to the right, he steps through the book 10 pages at a time; still further at 100 pages at a time. Deflection to the left gives him the same control backwards.

A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another. He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him.

VII

All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it ~out on his keyboard. Before him are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions. At the bottom of each there are a number of blank code spaces, and a pointer is set to indicate one of these on each item. The user taps a single key, and the items are permanently joined. In each code space appears the code word. Out of view, but also in the code space, is inserted a set of dots for photocell viewing; and on each item these dots by their positions designate the index number of the other item.

Thereafter, at any time, when one of these items is in view, the other can be instantly recalled merely by tapping a button below the corresponding code space. Moreover, when numerous items have been thus joined together to form a trail, they can be reviewed in turn, rapidly or slowly, by deflecting a lever like that used for turning the pages of a book. It is exactly as though the physical items had been gathered together from widely separated sources and bound together to form a new book. It is more than this, for any item can be joined into numerous trails.

The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. Specifically he is studying why the short Turkish bow was apparently superior to the English long bow in the skirmishes of the Crusades. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds an interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected. Next, in a history, he finds another pertinent item, and ties the two together. Thus he goes, building a trail of many items. Occasionally he inserts a comment of his own, either linking it into the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item. When it becomes evident that the elastic properties of available materials had a great deal to do with the bow, he branches off on a side trail which takes him through textbooks on elasticity and tables of physical constants. He inserts a page of longhand analysis of his own. Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials available to him.

And his trails do not fade. Several years later, his talk with a friend turns to the queer ways in which a people resist innovations, even of vital interest. He has an example, in the fact that the outraged Europeans still failed to adopt the Turkish bow. In fact he has a trail on it. A touch brings up the code book. Tapping a few keys projects the head of the trail. A lever runs through it at will, stopping at interesting items, going off on side excursions. It is an interesting trail, pertinent to the discussion. So he sets a reproducer in action, photographs the whole trail out, and passes it to his friend for insertion in his own memex, there to be linked into the more general trail.

VIII

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's interest. The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him in his laboratory, with trails following the analogies of compounds, and side trails to their physical and chemical behavior.

The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only on the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch. There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race. It might be striking to outline the instrumentalities of the future more spectacularly, rather than to stick closely to methods and elements now known and undergoing rapid development, as has been done here. Technical difficulties of all sorts have been ignored, certainly, but also ignored are means as yet unknown which may come any day to accelerate technical progress as violently as did the advent of the thermionic tube. In order that the picture may not be too commonplace, by reason of sticking to present-day patterns, it may be well to mention one such possibility, not to prophesy but merely to suggest, for prophecy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophecy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess.

All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses--the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read. Is it not possible that some day the path may be established more directly?

We know that when the eye sees, all the consequent information is transmitted to the brain by means of electrical vibrations in the channel of the optic nerve. This is an exact analogy with the electrical vibrations which occur in the cable of a television set: they convey the picture from the photocells which see it to the radio transmitter from which it is broadcast. We know further that if we can approach that cable with the proper instruments, we do not need to touch it; we can pick up those vibrations by electrical induction and thus discover and reproduce the scene which is being transmitted, just as a telephone wire may be tapped for its message.

The impulses which flow in the arm nerves of a typist convey to her fingers the translated information which reaches her eye or ear, in order that the fingers may be caused to strike the proper keys. Might not these currents be intercepted, either in the original form in which information is conveyed to the brain, or in the marvelously metamorphosed form in which they then proceed to the hand?

By bone conduction we already introduce sounds into the nerve channels of the deaf in order that they may hear. Is it not possible that we may learn to introduce them without the present cumbersomeness of first transforming electrical vibrations to mechanical ones, which the human mechanism promptly transforms back to the electrical form? With a couple of electrodes on the skull the encephalograph now produces pen-and-ink traces which bear some relation to the electrical phenomena going on in the brain itself. True, the record is unintelligible, except as it points out certain gross misfunctioning of the cerebral mechanism; but who would now place bounds on where such a thing may lead?

In the outside world, all forms of intelligence, whether of sound or sight, have been reduced to the form of varying currents in an electric circuit in order that they may be transmitted. Inside the human frame exactly the same sort of process occurs.

Must we always transform to mechanical movements in order to proceed from one electrical phenomenon to another? It is a suggestive thought, but it hardly warrants prediction without losing touch with reality and immediateness.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.

The applications of science have built man a well-supplied house, and are teaching him to live healthily therein. They have enabled him to throw masses of people against one another with cruel weapons. They may yet allow him truly to encompass the great record and to grow in the wisdom of race experience. He may perish in conflict before he learns to wield that record for his true good. Yet, in the application of science to the needs and desires of man, it would seem to be a singularly unfortunate stage at which to terminate the process, or to lose hope as to the outcome.

This is so fascinating I wonder if we could hide modern messages like this.

This reminds me of how if you find the right learning game for your students, it could turn into something they choose to do on their own at home. This means their practice and learning will continue even when they are not in school.

Computer would obviously give a honest answer , If they have access to a large amount of Data . but are they cable of resolving a more humanistic problem , which would require nit only mere intelligence but emotional and ethics one .

not really sure what this means. If the result when the neurons fail the Pong game is predictably 150mV &5Hz for 4 seconds, how is that unpredictable?

Are they just using a nicer word for punishment lol

The slot machine games relate to gambling which is usually at a casino, which children are not allowed to enter. Online slots, ad games, and child grabbing media give unpredictable rewards because soon the child will believe they can only receive good out of the game.

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This is only the beginning of the cause. It's bound to only increase from here

It becomes their day to day routine, going from practices or games, straight to another game just virtually

Gamers around the world have been so locked in its changing their development

Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

The authors aimed to develop a whole-brain multivariate pattern predicting decisions to trust and to use this pattern to assess the construct validity of the concept of trust. To this end, they used machine learning to develop and validate a whole-brain pattern capable of predicting decisions to trust in three previously published fMRI datasets in which participants played an economic trust game. They then assessed how this pattern was expressed in several other published fMRI datasets operationalizing various psychological concepts. They observed that the trust pattern could discriminate between risky or safe economic decisions and different emotional states but could not discriminate between several other concepts such as reward/losses, famous/unfamiliar face perception, etc. Spatial similarity analyses across datasets showed converging results.

This study adopts a rigorous analytical approach, examining fMRI data from thousands of participants spanning fifteen datasets to investigate the relationship between the multivariate pattern of trust and other psychological concepts. Researchers interested in the concept of trust will find this work valuable. More importantly, it exemplifies the potential of using brain data to explore the construct validity of psychological concepts through this methodological approach.

Despite the strengths of this study, there are several points that, in my view, need further attention:

1. The trust pattern developed and validated by the authors is based on one type of task, the economic trust game. This means that the multivariate trust pattern developed by the authors is heavily dependent on how trust is specifically defined and operationalized within this task, which may limit its generalizability. Without evidence that the model generalizes to other operationalizations of trust, the authors should interpret their results more conservatively. Unless additional evidence is given, this should be presented as a pattern of the "decision to trust in an economic context".

2. In datasets 1-1 and 1-2, trust is operationalized as a form of social gambling, where participants choose to share money (trust) with someone else, hoping to triple their investment but risk losing it all, with the alternative being to keep the money (distrust). However, these datasets also include non-social control conditions (the lottery condition in Fareri et al., 2012, and the computer condition in Fareri et al., 2015), which are not discussed in this paper. Evaluating how the trust model behaves in these control conditions seems crucial, as they provide the closest comparison to similar tasks that exclude the trust component. If the trust model is not specific to social decisions in the original datasets (i.e., it cannot distinguish between gambling and not gambling), this significant limitation should be addressed and discussed.

3. The analytical strategy used to establish convergent and discriminant validity is based on the significance of the average group accuracy of forced-choice tests to assess the capacity of the model to discriminate between different concepts (e.g. rewards vs. loss, safety vs. risk). The model is assumed to be specific to trust when the accuracy is not significantly different from chance and related to the other construct when the accuracy is significantly above chance. However, the absence of an effect is related to the power of the test, and in several cases, the sample sizes were relatively small. The use of one-tailed tests also exacerbates this issue since only effects in the hypothesized directions can be significant. These analyses could be improved by adopting a different approach to evaluate support for the null effect, by setting a higher bar for what is considered a generalization of the model, or by interpreting the results more carefully to recognize that lack of evidence isn't necessarily evidence of absence.

eLife assessment

This important study identifies a spatial pattern of neural activity that corresponds to trust in an investment game. It provides a compelling assessment of the validity of this pattern by assessing its expression, or lack thereof, in a variety of datasets. This work, and the "neurometrics" approach it proposes, will be of broad interest to psychology researchers more generally.

Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

Summary:<br /> The authors set out to characterise "trust" in terms of a spatial pattern of neural responses, and then validate whether different tasks, in different datasets, express this pattern or do not express it, according to their hypotheses. They based their approach on linear classifiers (Support Vector Machines), which they trained to distinguish trust from distrust in an investment game, and then applied the classifier to other datasets. Additionally, they performed visualisations of the similarity among participants and among tasks in their neural responses, using dimensionality reduction techniques.

Strengths:<br /> The key strength of this study is the use of multiple datasets to test whether a single study's characterisation of trust, in terms of a spatial pattern of neural responses, generalises to other tasks and populations. This is a nice use for existing data, which bolsters the interpretation of fMRI results, demonstrating that they are generalisable. While I am not a specialist in decoding methods, the analyses appear to have been performed conscientiously and to a high standard. The manuscript is also clearly written.

Weaknesses:<br /> It's worth noting an obvious but important statistical point. In this study, the *inability* of a classifier to distinguish between conditions in particular datasets is taken as evidence that those conditions do not differ in terms of the effect of interest (trust). In this case, these results make sense, in that they are consistent with the authors' hypotheses. However, there are various reasons why the classifier may not work well on particular datasets - e.g. differences in noise, or a lack of linear separability between patterns (which might mandate a non-linear classifier or a different SVM kernel). Therefore, any null result obtained with classical statistics should be interpreted with caution.

Such a cool idea!

« Alors, un nouveau challenger entre dans l'arène ! Vous avez trente secondes pour choisir vos coéquipiers pour une partie de Chaîne d'Éclairs ! »

07:00 focus on reward, not process (summit syndrome), “is suffering going to pay off” (see zk fixation on results) “living life in expaction of better future is game of suffering for outcome or avoiding it” (10:00)

yike. Image investing a lum sum for developing a game, then find out that you are selling game at lost (pre-order, kickstarter, ..) until you raise price

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about free game ?

Rent seeking capitalism ?

This is something our school does do a lot of. Since our school is so large, and we have a large raffle, they will ask each grade level to bring specific items to create themed raffle baskets. For example, this year at open house, one grade was asked to bring in sports items to make a sports basket. Another grade was asked to bring in board or card games to make a game basket.. etc. All of the baskets are visible in the main hall, so the kids see the items they could possibly win if their parents participate in the raffle.

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I like this, a good point

Britannica Dictionary definition of WIRELESS 1: not using wires to send and receive electronic signals : sending and receiving electronic signals by using radio waves The video game console comes with wireless controllers. a wireless microphone 2: of or relating to the use of radio waves to send and receive electronic signals The café offers free wireless Internet access. wireless communications (US) I got a new cell phone from my wireless provider. [=from the company that provides me with cell phone service]

Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., www.britannica.com/dictionary/wireless. Accessed 9 Sept. 2023.

orchestras have embraced the trend, bringing gamers to the symphony - do classical music fans flock to the games?

this marriage of old and new art forms seems to have alot of potential.

I actually didn't know that this was a thing. In middle and high school, teachers always told us things like "Wikipedia is not a reliable source," but never really provided other widespread sources of information for reasearch. Knowing that their are librarians whos literal job is to find credible research on a topic is game-changing and pretty amazing if you ask me. I will definitely be using the library as a resource during this class as well.

In romantic situations, people use nonverbal cues to express their interest and feelings. It's as simple as making eye contact to show you're attracted, smiling to convey happiness, using gentle touches to create a connection, adjusting your body language to stay engaged, and dressing well to make a good impression. These subtle actions help communicate emotions and build a romantic connection between individuals. But most the time it is done with intention. I know many teenage girls that spend time thinking about how to min max these cues.

what makes good science fiction is fleshing things out, if only one aspect of a theme is fleshed out then it is hard to maintain, if variables are fleshed out and an entire fictional world is created it is much more enjoyable

We do this for a lot of sports. When doing a complete run through of the game plan, we wear our uniforms, and we act like its game day. This not only ensures I am physically comfortable on Go-day but also helps me mentally prepare and feel more confident. It's a simple yet effective way to reduce potential distractions and boost self-assurance when facing an audience.

This quote caught me by sulfide, only because today, and for a very long time in history. Women have always been “known” for cooking and cleaning. But never working for it. Or going to receive the food. Always the ones to stay in and finish the job, but never actually initiate it.

I question what it means by this statement. Is it general in all cultures or is it just the culture that is being looked at in this scenario?

the person is trying to make themselves feel better by asociating with their team when they win but when they loose they tend to no longer asociate with that team.

Going off of this last piece here, while I agree that media is vital today in many different aspects of life - the line between media and politics has kind of blurred (for worse) and I think especially around election times in America the media is used to kind of poke fun at very serious issues and serious faults made by very powerful people. Something that I also think is very interesting and I have seen discussed on social media (this is in no way my original thought) is the increased importance of appearance, even in politics. Today, more than ever the "aesthetic", vibes, and even just if they are conventionally attractive can change the game for people in politics (mostly presidential candidates) rather than placing importance on the policies they want to implement.

I disagree. First of all, politics arise in every circle with or without a raison d'etre - humans are wired to seek power through social approval (I take politics to mean group politics/game theory). In larger scale politics, I think it arises primarily as a means of ensuring security from the violence of outside factions. Collective action is necessary for human prosperity, and that is impossible without politics.

Use of the wording 'caught another' makes it seem like a game. I feel like it dehumanizes the Filipino captives.

Love this idea for my future classroom someday!

Imagine you were a character of "Game of Thrones" who showed up in the seventh season, knowing nothing about what led the story to that point. You would be Ed Sheeran in the most pointless cameo of all time. Jokes aside, if you're going to fight for something, you should at least know what you're fighting for; Otherwise, you're fighting for nothing.

This dilemma is one that can be seen in the Paris Agreement. Where countries have to decide between to spend money on bettering the environment or not. When a country pulls out of the agreement, they become free riders, benefiting from efforts of other countries while not putting in any funds themselves. This way we can see that the "optimal" choice for all countries is to not sign the agreement. However if all countries back out of the agreement there will be no improvement in the environment.

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/paris-agreement

The paragraph highlights the idea that when cooperation yields benefits, numerous options for collaboration might be considered. It draws on the work of John Nash, a well-known mathematician and game theorist, to emphasize that the primary concern is not whether a certain arrangement helps everyone more than no cooperation at all, but whether it represents a fair allocation of those benefits. The paragraph highlights that just demonstrating that all parties profit from collaboration does not address the fairness of the distribution, and that the true challenge lies in evaluating and selecting between numerous solutions.

prac‧tice S2 W1 / præktəs, præktɪs / noun

1 a skill [ uncountable and countable ] when you do a particular thing, often regularly, in order to improve your skill at it :<br /> It takes hours of practice to learn to play the guitar. With a little more practice you should be able to pass your test. We have choir practice on Tuesday evening. in practice for something Schumacher crashed out in practice for the Australian grand prix. football/rugby/basketball etc practice John’s at baseball practice. ► In British English, the verb is always spelled practise (see separate entry). In American English, both noun and verb are spelled practice . 2 in practice used when saying what really happens rather than what should happen or what people think happens :<br /> In practice women receive much lower wages than their male colleagues. The journey should only take about 30 minutes, but in practice it usually takes more like an hour. 3 something done often [ uncountable and countable ] something that people do often, especially a particular way of doing something or a social or religious custom :<br /> religious beliefs and practices dangerous working practices the practice of doing something the practice of dumping waste into the sea 4 doctor/lawyer [ countable ] the work of a doctor or lawyer, or the place where they work medical/legal practice Mary Beth had a busy legal practice in Los Angeles. → general practice , private practice 5 be common/standard/normal practice to be the usual and accepted way of doing something :<br /> It’s common practice in many countries for pupils to repeat a year if their grades are low. It’s standard practice to seek parents’ permission wherever possible. 6 good/best/bad practice an example of a good or bad way of doing something, especially in a particular job :<br /> It’s not considered good practice to reveal clients’ names. 7 put something into practice if you put an idea, plan etc into practice, you start to use it and see if it is effective :<br /> It gave him the chance to put his ideas into practice. 8 be out of practice to have not done something for a long time, so that you are not able to do it well 9 practice makes perfect used to say that if you do an activity regularly, you will become very good at it

COLLOCATIONS

verbs do practice Have you done your piano practice? take practice American English (= do practice ) If he’d done badly, he’d go out and take extra batting practice. have some/more etc practice (= do practice ) I’m not a very good dancer. I haven’t had enough practice. get some practice You must get as much practice as possible before the competition. need practice She needs more practice. something takes practice (= you can only learn to do it well by practising ) Writing well takes practice.

NOUN + practice football/basketball etc practice Dale was at football practice. piano/cello etc practice I’ve got to do my cello practice. batting/catching etc practice We'd better do a bit of batting practice before the game. choir practice There's choir practice on Tuesday evening. band practice Have you got band practice tonight? target practice (= practice shooting at something ) The area is used by the army for target practice. teaching practice You have to do three months of teaching practice before you qualify.

THESAURUS

habit something you do regularly, often without thinking about it : Biting your nails is a bad habit. | I always go to the same supermarket, out of habit. mannerism a way of speaking or a small movement of your face or body that is part of your usual behaviour : Even her mannerisms are the same as her sister’s. custom something that people in a particular society do because it is traditional or the accepted thing to do : In Japan it is the custom to take off your shoes when you enter a house. tradition a belief, custom, or way of doing something that has existed for a long time : The tradition of giving Easter eggs goes back hundreds of years. | In many countries, it’s a tradition for the bride to wear white. | It was a family tradition to go for a walk on Christmas Day. practice something that people often do, especially as part of their work or daily life : The hotel has ended the practice of leaving chocolates in guests’ rooms.

I wasn't quite sure what this included so I looked it up:

Fire making, foraging food, tracking, trapping, hunting game, shelter-building using basic bushcraft gear, knowledge of local plants, camp cooking, avoidance of toxic plants, reading animal signs, building snares, foraging for water, making a water filter, purifying water, felling trees, batoning branches, harvesting other materials, collecting wood, gathering tinder.

info from tactical.com

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/game-theory-and-climate-change/9780231184649#:~:text=Game%20Theory%20and%20Climate%20Change%20develops%20a%20conceptual%20framework%20with,practical%20analyses%20of%20international%20negotiations.

This article helps us understand climate change through understanding climate change. Published my Columbia University it states that " Game Theory and Climate Change develops a conceptual framework with which to analyze climate change as a strategic or dynamic game, bringing together cooperative and noncooperative game theory and providing practical analyses of international negotiations". Both of these sources highlight that game theory provides a valuable lens for comprehending the complexities of climate change by offering a structured way to analyze strategic interactions among countries. In the context of climate change negotiations, game theory highlights the challenges rooted in self-interest and cooperation. For instance, when modeling climate change as a prisoners' dilemma involving countries like the US and China, it becomes evident that without proper coordination, the dominant strategy is to continue with high carbon emissions. This analysis underscores the need for international cooperation and policy mechanisms to shift the equilibrium towards sustainable outcomes.

ArticleThe article linked provides 3 different methods of using game theory to provoke companies to reduce their carbon emissions. One of which is carbon pricing.

I find this really interesting, that we can use the prisoner's dilemma to model conflicts with environmental problems for businesses. This makes me wonder what other applications can this model be used for.

I find this very interesting because the prisoners' dilemma model can be applicable in environmental problems with businesses as well. I wonder what other applications the Nash equilibrium can be used in.

This ties into another interest of Scott's -- he's fascinated by how much history is made by people who leave little or no traces behind for historians. Elsewhere, he calls this "the hidden transcript."

Sounds similar to the current rise in public acceptance of stealing from super stores like Walmart and Target.

fail to undertand the meaning about while( while is for count or for guess?)

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An example of what makes sports from boxing's one vs one to Soccer's One City vs Another so enjoyable, even if a game is not for a championship or if it is, you go against for someone long enough, gain that genuine annoyance or even hatred and you form a captivating rivalry that draws people in and forms must see stories.

Obviously 10 hours of de-escalation training is too low, but I wonder what that number should be? Maybe the same amount as firearm training? Or should we switch it to 50 hours of de-escalation training and 10 hours of firearm training?

I went to a baseball game with my boyfriend and they spoke on the intercome about what was going on in the game but I never watched a baseball game in my life so while my bf already decoded it in his head he decoded it for me out loud as well about who's winning.

This is exactly the way society has become these days. Everyone is either on a phone or some device while others are into their video games. I mean it is always a daily struggle with me and my family since I choose not to be consumed every day by a device. I have to always repeat myself to my kids or partner because they are consumed by their technology or faces so deep in their phones. It literally drives me crazy.

Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

This study examines whether the human brain uses a hexagonal grid-like representation to navigate in a non-spatial space constructed by competence and trustworthiness. To test this, the authors asked human participants to learn the levels of competence and trustworthiness for six faces by associating them with specific lengths of bar graphs that indicate their levels in each trait. After learning, participants were asked to extrapolate the location from the partially observed morphing bar graphs. Using fMRI, the authors identified brain areas where activity is modulated by the angles of morphing trajectories in six-fold symmetry. The strength of this paper lies in the question it attempts to address. Specifically, the question of whether and how the human brain uses grid-like representations not only for spatial navigation but also for navigating abstract concepts, such as social space, and guiding everyday decision-making. This question is of emerging importance.

The weak points of this paper are that its findings are not sufficiently supporting their arguments, and there are several reasons for this:

1. Does the grid-like activity reflect 'navigation over the social space' or 'navigation in sensory feature space'? The grid-like representation in this study could simply reflect the transition between stimuli (the length of bar graphs). Participants in this study associated each face with a specific length of two bars, and the 'navigation' was only guided by the morphing of a bar graph image. Moreover, any social cognition was not required to perform the task where they estimate the grid-like activity. To make social decision-making that was conducted separately, we do not know if participants needed to navigate between faces in a social space. Instead, they can recall bar graphs associated with faces and compute the decision values by comparing the length of bars. Notably, in the trust game in this study, competence and trustworthiness are not equally important to make a decision (Equation 1). The expected value is more sensitive to one over the other. This also suggests that the space might not reflect social values but perceptual differences.

2. Does the brain have a common representation of faces in a social space? In this study, participants don't need to have a map-like representation of six faces according to their levels of social traits. Instead, they can remember the values of each trait. The evidence of neural representations of the faces in a 2-dimensional social space is lacking. The authors argued that the relationship between the reaction times and the distances between faces provides evidence of the formation of internal representations. However, this can be found without the internal representation of the relationships between faces. If the authors seek internal representations of the faces in the brain, it would be important to show that this representation is not simply driven by perceptual differences between bar graphs that participants may recall in association with each face.

Considering these caveats, it is hard for me to agree if the authors provide evidence to support their claims.

Some people tend to get very worked up about sports but that is no excuse to harm or even take someone's life over a game. I can see that maybe their adrenaline spiked up and got to their head.

It is very unfortunate that a moment when people are meant to celebrate after their team won is met with violence. Was there a common factor that could have possibly provoked this?

This is a weird situation. I agree with both Heather and Isaac. The coach should not have been sued when the team physician and AT both gave the athlete the okay to play. But also the coach should of sat the player out just to make sure there was no other injures they didn't find at that moment.

This is a situation that should never happen. It doesn't matter if she's the tallest on the team or the shortest. It doesn't matter if she's the star player or the worst. She should never have played especially after she had a hard time in warmup.

Any coach that coaches a sport where head injures are likely they need to be trained on concussions so things like this does not happen.

In a situation where an athlete is coming back from an injury and you feel they are not ready the coach and the trainer need to get together to discuss the issues and test the athlete to see if they are physically ready or not.

This happens more often than people may realize. Coaches tell players all the time "don't be soft", "You are alright", or "shake it off". This is the right choice to make by a coach, which asserts that most of them do not have any medical experience

Concussion protocol is not something to mess around with. If an athlete is in any type of situation involving a head related injury. They need to be evaluated. Sometimes the athlete may not have symptoms until the next day. Evaluations on the athlete need to be considered until they are okay.

These steps were interesting, and people having to be familiar with concussions. Athletes will believe that a headache has occurred, when it can be a concussion. It is important for athletes to know that playing with a concussion can leader to further brain damage. These medical examinations have to be performed correctly, and this keeps athletes from further brain damage.

A large matter in question in the future of the sport of football is the trust in the sports medicine staff in ensuring that the athlete's health is the priority and protecting these athletes from themselves at times.

I understand Isaac's argument above, but I do put some blame on the coach. I say that because as a head injury, those are often pretty significant. Even though the Athletic Trainer had gave the clear, I would still allow for a second opinion when proceeding forward with letting the athlete go back into the game.

This is another reason why I said in another annotation that coaches should have some voice in whether an athlete is ready to participate or not. Because of a coach and trainer are not on the same page than it can lead to an injury getting worse.

No players health is negotiable. If the best player on the team is hurt, they shouldn't be forced to play.

To me, this is a no brainer. Athletes should always have the best care when it comes having health care personnel available. Regardless of funds, every high school should have a medical staff member at every practice and game. Every university should have multiple medical staff members on campus at athletic competitions and practices.

I strongly agree with this statement because I feel as though recently there have been trends of people of all ages participating in non-competitive sports. This could be a pick-up 3-on-3 basketball game in a community park, a group of people meeting for a fun game of sand volleyball, or two elderly citizens engaging in a round of bowling.

this is why games don't change much and just keep punishing out content

paid this with music and you have combination

story and purpose

This is why people should sit in the firing range and learn before even stepping into the game.

Skill Based Match Making, why they use it

Using Magic: The Gathering boxes for younger children and teenagers might be a more palatable way to introduce the zettelkasten method of note taking to them, particularly when it's a game in which they have a pre-existing interest.

I find it very interesting that there are quite literally over a hundred definitions of the word 'communication.' If you step back and look at a popular definition, "the imparting or exchanging of information or news" (Oxford Definitions), it paints a picture of the irony of such a statement. Human communication has such a span on our history as a species, that the literal definition of the word we use to describe understanding each other has gone through a telephone-game- style treatment. As word of mouth has translated to written word, even now we can't decide on the definition of key phrases in human nature, such as 'communication'.

12:3 Those who are wi se[a] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

• https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college

• https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/12/20/144016912/we-the-people-npr-readers-would-ratify-four-new-amendments

• https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college

• https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/12/20/144016912/we-the-people-npr-readers-would-ratify-four-new-amendments

• https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/vote-now-an-amendment-to-end-the-electoral-college

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/opinion/letters/electoral-college.html

• https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-electoral-college-20180904-story.html

you are offline

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/05/amending-the-constitution-is-much-too-hard-blame-the-founders.html

we the people rise again

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/06/fix-the-constitution-amending-by-national-referendum.html

safe souls, safe fu

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/06/fixing-the-constitution-protecting-informational-privacy.html

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/new-reconstruction-constitution-democracy.html

We the People of Slate ...

The U.S. Constitution, as you [mighta been, shoulda "come" on ... its someday] rewrϕte it.

"Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state's population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn't like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts' desires. Here's what the document would look like with their best ideas."

• Slate: u_s_constitution as_rewritten by_slate_legal_experts_and_readers

多也了了夕 "with a ~~wand~~ of scheffilara, 并#亦太 he begins ... "I am now on the Staff of Menelaus, the Spears of Longinus and Lancelot; and the name "Mosche ex Nashon."

Logically the recent mentions of Gilgamesh and the simultaneous 同時 overlaping 場道 of the eventual link between the famous ruling of Solomon on the separation of babies and mothers and waters and land ... to a story of many "two cities" that culminates in a cultural or societal or "evolutionary" link to Sodom and Gomorrah and the city-state of Babylon (and it's Hanging Gardens) and also of course to Paris and Troy and "Masstodon" and city-states [ciudadestado] and perhaps planet-cities; from Cambridge to Cambridge across the "Cable" to see state to "London" ... recently I called it "the city of realms" ... I started out logically intending to link "game theory" and John Nash to the mathematical story of Sputnik and a revival of American physics; but in my usual way of rambling into the woods [I mean neighborhood] of stream of consciousness ... turned into a premonitory discourse of "two cities" and how sometimes even things as obvious as the number of letters in the word "two" don't do a good enough job of conveying ... how and/or why one is simply never enough, and two isn't much better--but in the end a circle ... is drawn; the perfect circle in our imaginary mathematical perfection ... I see a parted "line" in the letter pronounced "tea" (and beginning that word); and two "vee" (pron. of "v") symbols joined together in a word we pronounce as "double-you" ... and symbolically because I know "V" is the Roman Numeral for 5 (five) and I know not how to multiply in Roman numerals--

It's important to pause; here. I am going to write a more detailed piece on "the two cities" as I work through this maze like crossroads between "them" and "demo..." ... here demorigstrably I am trying to fuse together an evolutionary change in ... lit. biological evolution as well as an echelon leap forward in "self-government" ... in a place where these two things are unfathomable and unspokenly* connected.

• https://www.google.com/search?q=prometheuslocke+%2Bsite%3Agodlikeproductions.com

• "Silence is betrayal" -MLK

To a question on the idiom; is Bablyon about "the law" or "of the land of Nod?"

"What is democracy" ... the song, Metallica's "ONE" echoes and repeats; as we apparently scrive together the word "THEM" ... I question myself ... if Babylon were the capital city of some mythical Nation of Time ... if it were the central "turning point" of Sheol; ... >|<

Can you not see that in this place; in a world that should see and does there is a gigantic message proving that we are not in reality and trying to show us how and why that's the best news since ... ever---that it's as simple as conjoining "the law of the land" with a basic set of rules that automatically turn Hell into something so much closer to Heaven I just do not understand---why we cant stand up together and say "bullets will not kill innocent children" and "snowflakes will not start avalanches ...." that cover or bury or hide the road from Earth to Verital)e .... or from the mythical Valis to Tanis---or from Rigel to Beth-El ... "guess?"

## as "an easy" answer; I'm looking for a fusion of "law and land" that somehow remembers a "jok'er a scene" about "lawn" seats; and "where the girls are green;"

It's as simple as night and day; Heaven and Hell ... the difference between survival and--what we are presented with here; it's "doing this right"--that ends the Hell of representative democracy and electoral college--the blindness and darkness of not seeing "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT" encoded in these words and in our governments foundation ... *by the framers [not just of the USA; but English .. and every language] *

... is literally just as simple as "not caring" or thinking we are at the beginning of some long process--or thinking it will never be done--that special "IT" that's the emancipation of you and I.

Here words like "gnosis" and "gaudeamus" pair with my/ur "new ntersanding*" of the difference between Asgard and Medgard and really understanding our purpose here is to end "evil" ... things like "simulating disease and pain" (here, simulating meaning ... intentionally causing, rather than "gamifying away") and successfully linking the "Pillars of Hercules" to Plato's vision of Atlantis and the letter sequences "an" and "as" ... unlock a fusion of religion and mythology and "cryptographic truth" that connects "messianic" and "Christian" to "Roman" ... "Chinese" and "American" ... literally the key to the difference between the phrases "we are" and "we were" ....

in "sight" of "silicon" in simulation and Israel, Genesis, and "silence" ... trying to the raising of Asgardian enlightenment ... and seeing "simple cypher" connecting to "Norse" ...

and the "I AM THAT" surer than shit ... the intention and design of all religion and creation is to end "simulated reality" and also not seeing "SR" ... in Israel and Norse ... "for instance."

• https://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+AM%22+%22WE+ARE%22+%2Bsite%3Afromtaws
• "SOIS" a key--in two languages conjugated literally as both "I AM" and "WE ARE" simultaneously;
• Search: I know that if I am than so are you ... and it is because we have overcome .... something I truly cannot figure out, fathom, or believe ... was truly here before us--a spiralling series of failures ... speaking: to the heavens; but in secret and in action; "doing everything possible to succeed."

It's a simple linguistic concept; the "singularity" and the "plurality" of a simple word--"to be"--but it goes to the heart of everything that we are and everything that is around us. This is a message about understanding and preserving individuality as well as liberty; and literally seeing "ARXIV" and understanding "often" and failing to connect God and prescience to "IV" and the Fourth Amendment ... it's about blindness and ... "curing the blind instantly" ... and fathoming how and why this message has been etched into our entire history and and all religions and myths and music--to help us "to be THAT we" that actually "are responsible" for the end of Hell.

• I neglected to mention "Har-Wer" and "Tower of Babel" which are both related lingusitically, religiously and topically: "to who ..." and while we're on "four score and [seven years from now]" seeing the fourth "living thing" in Eden and it's (the name, Abel) connection to Babel and Abraham Lincoln; slavery and ... understanding we live in a place where the history of the United States also, like Monoceros and "Neil Armstrong's first step" are a time shifted ... overlayed map to achieving freedom ... it's about becoming a father-race ... and actually "doing" the technological steps required to "emancipate the e's of 'me&e'" and survive in exo-planetary space---

it might be as simple as adding "because we did this" here and now; and having it be something we are truly proud of .... forevermore™ ... for certain in the heart of this story about cyclicality and repetition of error--its not because we did "this" or something over and over again; it's about changing "the problem" and then helping others to also overcome ... "things like time travel ... erasing speech" --- however that happenecl.

• I also failed to mention that "I am in Hell" ... as in this world is hellacious to me; in an overlay with the Hellenic period and this message that we are in the Trojan Horse ... a small gem .... "planet" truly is the Ark of the Covenant---and it's the simple understanding that "reality is hell" is to "living without air conditioning and plumbing is hell" just as soon as you achieve ... "rediscovering" those things---

• I can't figure out why I am the only person screaming "this is Hell." That's also, Hell.

... but recently suggested an old joke about "there being 10 kinds of people in the world (obv an anti-tautology and a tautology simultaneously)" only after that brief bit of singularity and duality mentioning the rest of the joke: "those that understand binary and those that don't know how to base convert between counting with two hands and counting with only an 'on and off.'" It's not obvious if you aren't trying to figure it out, I suppose; but 10 is decimal notation for "kiss" and the "often" without "of" ... and binary notation for the decimal equivalent of "2." A long long time ago in a state that simply non-randomly ties to the heart of the name of our galaxy ... I was again thinking of the "perfect imperfections" of things like saying "three equals one equals one" (which, of course was related to the Holy Trinity and it's "prescient/anachronistic Adamic presence encoded in the name Ab|ra|ha|m" which means "father of a great multitude") ... I brought that one back in the last few months; connecting the letter K and in this "logos-rythmic" tie to the "base of a number system" embellish the truth just a bit and suggest a more accurate rendition of the original [there is no such thing as equality, "is" of separate objects--as in no two snowflakes are the same unless they are literally the same one; true of ancient weights and with the advent of (thinking about) time no two "planets" are the same even if they're the exact same one--unless it's at a fixed moment in time.

• This name may be viewed either as meaning "father of many" in Hebrew or else as a contraction of ABRAM (1) and הָמוֹן (hamon) meaning "many, multitude". The biblical patriarch Abraham was originally named Abram but God changed his name (see Genesis 17:5).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua#Yeshua,_Yehoshua,_and_Yeshu_in_the_Talmud

K=3:11 ... to a handle on the music, the DHD of the gate and the *ring of David's "sling" ...

---and that's a relationship of "3 is to 11" as [the SAT style "analogy)]y" as a series of alpha, two mathematic, and two numeric symbols ... may only tie in my mind alone to the books of Genesis and Matthew and the phrase "chapter and verse" and to the stories of Lot and Job ... again in Genesis and the eponymous "Book of Job." So ... "tying up loose ends one 10b [III] iv. " as it appears I've taken it upon myself to call a Job and suggest is my "Lot in life [x]i* [3]"

• I worry sometimes that important things are missing, or will disappear---for instance Mirriam Webster, which is a "canonical/standard dictionary) should probably have an entry for "lot in life" non-idiomatically as "granny apples to sour apples" as

2 MANY ALSO ICI; 1twoⅱ ... following in Mitnick's bold introductory word steps; the curve and the complement ... the missiles and the canoes; the line and the blank space ... "supposedly two examples of two kinds, which could be three not nothings ... Today I write about something monumental; as if as important as the singularity depicted in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 "A Space Odyssey" ... and remember a day when I thought it very novel and interesting to see the words "stillborn and yet still born" connected in a single piece of writing to "Stillwater and yet still water" ... today adding in another phrase noting the change wrought only by one magical single "space" (also a single capital letter; and a third phrase): "block chains with a great blockchain."

• http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2015/07/21/arabic-numerals-have-nothing-to-do-with-angle-counting/

• https://gizmodo.com/no-this-viral-image-does-not-explain-the-history-of-ar-1719306568

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22

• https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/translation-ji_howmany.htm
• https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/translation-duo_many.htm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis or Iphigenia at Aulis[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year[2] in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger,[3] and won first place at the City Dionysia in Athens.

• The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy. The conflict between Agamemnon and Achilles over the fate of the young woman presages a similar conflict between the two at the beginning of the Iliad. In his depiction of the experiences of the main characters, Euripides frequently uses tragic irony for dramatic effect.

J.K. Rowling spurred just this past week a series of explanations about just exactly what is a blockchain coin worth ... and why is it so; her final words on the subject (artistic liberty taken, obviously not the last she'll say of this magic moment) "I don't think I trust this."

Taken directly from an off the cuff email to ARXM titled: "Slow the S is ... our Hypothes.is"

I imagine I'll be adding some wiki/ipfs stuff to it--and try to keep it compatible; the design and layout is almost exactly what I was dreaming about seeing--as a "first rough draft product." Lo, and behold. It's been added to the many places I host my tome; the small compilation of nearly every important email that has gone out ... all the way back to the days of the strange looking Margarita glass ... that now very much resembles the "Cantonese character 'le'" which I've come to associate with a "handle" on multiple corners of a room--something like an automatic coat rack conveyor belt connecting different versions of "what's in the box." I'm planning on using that symbol 了 to denote something like multiple forks of the same page. Obviously I'm thinking forward to things like "the Transhumaist Chain Party" (BDSM, right?)'s version of some particular piece of legislation, let's say everything starts with the sprawling "bulbing" of "Amendment M" ideas and specific verbiage ... and then we'll of course need some kind of new git/subversion/cvs style version control mechanism to merge intelligently into something that might actually .... really should ... make it into that place in history--the first constitutional amendment ratified by a "Continental Congress of All People" ... but you could also see it as an ongoing sort of forking of something like the "wikipedia page" on what some specific term, say "technocracy" means, and how two parties might propagandize and change the meaning of such thing; to suit the more intelligent and wise times we now live in. For instance, we might once have had a "democracy" and a "democractic" party that had some Anarchist Cook Book version of the history of it ending in something like Snipes and Stallone's "DEMOLITION MAN."

Just kidding, we all know "democracy" has everything to do with "d is cl ... and not th" ... to be the them that is the heart of the start of the first true democracy. At least the first one I've ever seen, in my old "to a republic" ... style. As it is you can play around with commenting and highlighting and annotating all the stuff I've written and begged and begged for comments on--while I work on layering the backend to to perma-store our ideas and comments on both a blockchain (probably a new one; now that i've worked a little with ethereum) with maybe some key-merkle-tree-walk-search stuff etched into the original Rinkeby ... and then of course distributed data in the "public owned and operated" IPFS. To be clear, I plan on rewriting the backend storage so that we will have a permanent record of all comments; all versions of whatever is being commented on; and changes/revisions to those documents--sort of turning the web into a massive instant "place of collaboration, discussion, and co-authoring" ... if you use the wonderful LEGO pieces that have been handed to us in ideas from places like me, lemma--dissenter, and of course hypothes.is who has brought you and i such a polished and nice to look at "first draft" of something like the living Constitution come repository of all human knowledge. I do sort of secretly wich they would have called this project something like "annotating and reflecting (or real or ...) knowledge" just so the movement could have been called ARK. ... or something .... but whatever join the "calling you a reporter" group or ... "supposedly a scientist?"

NOIR INgR .. I CITE SITE OF ENUDRICAM; a rekindling of the dream of a city appearing high above in the sky, now with a boldly emblazened smiling rainbow and upsidown river ... specifically the antithesis of "angel falls," there's a lagoon too--actually a chain of several ponds underneith the floating rock ... and in some versions of this waking dream there are rings around the thing; you might imagine an artificial set of centripetal orbitals something like a fusion of the ring Eslyeum and the "Six-Axis ride" of the JKF Center's "Spacecamp." I write as I dream, and though I cannot for certain explain exactly how; it's become a strong part of my mythology that this spectacular rendition of "what ends the silence" has something to do with the magical delivery of "a book" ... something not of this Earth but an unnatural thing; one I've dreamt of creating many times. This book is something like the DSM-IV and something like a Merck diagnostic manual; but rather than the old antiquated cures of "the Norse Medgard" this spectacle nearly "itsimportant" autoprints itself and lands on something like every doorpost; what it is is a list of reasons why "simply curing all disease" with no explanation and no conversation would be a travesty of morality--how it would render us half-blind to the myriad of new solutions that can come from truly understanding why "ITIS" to me has become a kind of magical marker: an "it is special" as in, it's cure could possibly solve a number of other problems.

Through that missing "o," English on the ball, we see a connection between a number of words that shine bright light including Exodus itself which means "let there be light," the word for Holy Fire and the Burning Bush.. .reversed to hSE'Ah, and a story about the Second Coming parting our holy waters.

This answer connects the magical Rod's of Aaron in Exodus and the Iron Rod of Jesus Christ to the Sang Rael itself... in a fusion that explains how the Periodic Table element for Iron links not just to Total Recall and Mars, but also to this key

my dream of what the first day of the Second Coming might be like; were the Rod of Christ... in the right hands. In a story that also spans the Bible, you might understand better how stone to bread and your input make all the difference in the world between Heaven and Adam's Hand. Once more, what do you think He ....

Since the very earliest days of this story, I have asked for better for you, even than see

Nearly all of the original parts of the original "post-origination dream" remain intact; there's a walkway that magically creates new paths and "attractions" based on where you walk, something like an inversion of the artificial intelligence term "a random walk down a binary tree" ... for instance going left might bring you to the Internet Cafetornaseum of the Earl of Sandwich; and going to the right might bring you to the ICIMAX/Auditorium of Science and Discovery--there's a walkway to "Magical GLAS D'elevators" that open a special "instantiation" of the Japan Room of the Potter and the Toolmaker ... complete with a special [second level and hidden staircase] Pool of Bethesdaibo verily delivering something like youth of mind and body ... or at least as close to such a thing as a sip of Holy Water or Ambrosia or a dip in the pool of Coccoon and Ponce De'Leon could instantly bring ... to those that have seen Jupiter Ascending ... the questions of "nature versus nurture" and what it means to be "old and wise" and "young at heart" truly mean---

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8CyN1awWls
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230366688_16
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDo5zvYNn3A

Somewhere between the outdoor rafting ride and the level with the special "ballroom of the ancient gallery" ... perhaps now being named or renamed or recalled as something about "Face [of] the Music" lies a magical "mini-maize" ... a look at a mock-up (or #isitit) of Merlink and Harthor's "round table" that displays a series of ... (at least to me) magical appearing holographic displays and controls that my dreams have stolen from Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report and something of what I hope Microsoft's Dynamics/Hololens/Surface will become---a series of short "focus groups" .... to guage and discuss the information in the "CITIES-D5AM-MERCK" ... how to end world hunger and nearly all disease with the press of a magical buzzer--castling churches to something like "political-party-town-hall-meeting centers" and replacing jails and prisons and hospitals with something like the "Hospitalier's PRIDE and DOJOY's I practiced "Kung-fun-dance" ... a fusion of something like a hotel and a school that probably looks very much like a university with classrooms and dorms and dining hall's all fit into a single building. I imagine a series of 2 or 3 "room changes" as in you walk from the one where you get the book and talk about it ... to the one where you talk about "what everyone else said about it" and maybe another one that actually connects you to other people with something like Facebook's Portal; the point of the whole thing to really quickly "rubber stamp" the need for an end to "bars in the sky" nonalcoholic connotation--as in "overcoming the phrase the sky is the limit" and showing us the need for a beacon of glowing hope fulfilled--probably actually the vision of a holographic marker turning into actual rings around the single moon of Earth, the focus of the song annoucing the dawn of the age of Aquarius---

It might lead us also to Ceres; and another set of artificial rings, or to Monoceros and a rehystorical understanding of the birthplace and birthing of the "river roads" that bridge the "space gaps" in the galaxy from our "one giant leap for mankind" linking the Apollo moon landing to the mythological connection to the sun; and connecting how the astrological charts of the ancients might detail a special kind of overlapping--the link between Earth's SOL and something like Proxima or Alpha Centauri; and how that "monostar bridge" might overlap to Orion and from there through Sagitarius and the center of the Milky Way ... all the way to Andromeda and more dreams of being in a place where there's a map to a tri-galactic system in the constellation Cancer and a similar one in Leo ... and just incase you haven't noticed it--a special marker here, I thought to myself it might be cool to "make an acronymic tie to Monoceros" and without even thinking auto-wrote Orion (which was the obvious constellation next to Monoceros, in the charts) and then to Sagitarrius; which is the obvious ... heart of our astrological center and link to "other galaxies."

----I've dreamt or scriven or reguessed numerous times how the Milky Way's map to an "Atlas marked through time by the ages and the ancients" might tie this place and this actual map to the creation of the railways between stars to the beginning and the end of time and of course to this message that links it all to time travel. There's a few "guesses" I've contemplated; that perhaps the Milky Way chart is a metal-cosmic or microcosmic map to the dawn of time in the galactic vision of ... just after the big bang; or it might tie to a map of something like the unthinkable--a civilization that became so powerful it was able to reverse the entropy of "cosmic expansion" and reverse the thing Asimov wrote of in "The Last Question" as the end of life and the ability to survive basically due to "heat loss."

"The Last Question." (And if you read two, why not "The Last Answer"?). Find these readings added to our collection, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free.

• https://archive.org/details/texts
• http://zlibraryexau2g3p.onion.pet/

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* all "asterisks" in the abovə document denote a sort of Adamic unspoken relationship between notations and meanings; here adding the "Latin word for three" and source of the phrase "t.i.d." (which is doctor/pharmacy latin for "three times a day") where the "t" there is an abbreviation of "ter" ... and suppose the link between K and 11 and 3 noting it's alphanumeric position in the English alphabet as the 11th letter and only linking cognitively to three via the conversion between hex, and binarryy ... aberrative here is the overlapping "hakkasan" style (or ZHIV) lack of mention of the answer in "state of Kansas" and the "citystate of Slovakia" as described in the ICANN document linked [in] the related subsection or slice of the word "binarry" for the state of India. Tetris could be spelled with the addition of only a single letter [in] "tea"---the three letters "ris" are the hearts of the words "Christ" and "wrist" [and arguably of Osiris where you also see the round table character of the solar-system/sun glyph and the chemical element for The Fifth Element (as def. by i) via "Sinbad" and "Superman." The ERIS Free Network should also be mentioned here in connection with the IRC network I associate in the place between skipping stones and sacred hearts defined by "AOL" and "Kdice" in my life. In the lexicon of modern HTML, curly braces are generally relative to "classes" and "major object definitions (javascript/css)" while square brackets generally only take on computer-interpreted meaning in "Markdown" which is clearly (by definition, by this character set "[]") a superset (or at least definately not a subset) of HTML.

Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife, Evelyn (played by Rebecca Hall), is also a scientist and helps him with his work.

Following one of Will's presentations, an anti-technology terrorist group called "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with a polonium-laced bullet and carries out a series of synchronized attacks on A.I. laboratories across the country. Will is given no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend and fellow researcher, Max Waters (Paul Bettany), questions the wisdom of this choice, reasoning that the "uploaded"

Just from my general understanding and memory "st" is not ... to me (specifically) an abbreviation of "state" but "ste" is a U.S. Postal code (also "as I understand it") for the name of a special room or set of rooms called a "suite" and in Adamic "connotation" I sometimes read it as "sweet" ... which has several meanings that range from "cool" to "a kind of taste sensation" to "easy to sway or fool."

If you asked me though, for instance if "it" was an abbreviation or shorthand notation or acronym for either "a United state" or "saint" ... you'd be sure.

While it's clear from studying linguistic cryptography ... (If I studied it a little here and some there, its also from the "universal translator of Star Trek") and the personal understanding that language is a kind of intelligent code, and "any code is crackable" ... that I caution here that "meaning" and "face value" often differ widely and wildly ... even in the same place or among the same group of people ... either varying over time or heritage.

Menelaus, in Greek mythology, king of Sparta and younger son of Atreus, king of Mycenae; the abduction of his wife, Helen, led to the Trojan War. During the war Menelaus served under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces. When Phrontis, one of his crewmen, was killed, Menelaus delayed his voyage until the man had been buried, thus giving evidence of his strength of character. After the fall of Troy, Menelaus recovered Helen and brought her home. Menelaus was a prominent figure in the Iliad and the Odyssey, where he was promised a place in Elysium after his death because he was married to a daughter of Zeus. The poet Stesichorus (flourished 6th century BCE) introduced a refinement to the story that was used by Euripides in his play Helen: it was a phantom that was taken to Troy, while the real Helen went to Egypt, from where she was rescued by Menelaus after he had been wrecked on his way home from Troy and the phantom Helen had disappeared.

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Menelaus-Greek-mythology

This article is about the ancient Greek city. For the town of ancient Crete, see Mycenae (Crete). For the hamlet in New York, see Mycenae, New York.

Μυκῆναι, Μυκήνη

The Lion Gate at Mycenae, the only known monumental sculpture of Bronze Age Greece

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Mycenae (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykēnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south-west of Athens; 11 kilometres (7 miles) north of Argos; and 48 kilometres (30 miles) south of Corinth. The site is 19 kilometres (12 miles) inland from the Saronic Gulf and built upon a hill rising 900 feet (274 metres) above sea level.[2]

In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.[3]

3. Chew 2000, p. 220; Chapman 2005, p. 94: "...Thebes at 50 hectares, Mycenae at 32 hectares..."

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clymene_(mythology)

Melpomene (/mɛlˈpɒmɪniː/; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious'), initially the Muse of Chorus, she then became the Muse of Tragedy, for which she is best known now.[1] Her name was derived from the Greek verb melpô or melpomai meaning "to celebrate with dance and song." She is often represented with a tragic mask and wearing the cothurnus, boots traditionally worn by tragic actors. Often, she also holds a knife or club in one hand and the tragic mask in the other.

Melpomene is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Euterpe (muse of lyrical poetry), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). She is also the mother of several of the Sirens, the divine handmaidens of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) who were cursed by her mother, Demeter/Ceres, when they were unable to prevent the kidnapping of Kore (Persephone/Proserpina) by Hades/Pluto.

In Greek and Latin poetry since Horace (d. 8 BCE), it was commonly auspicious to invoke Melpomene.[2]

See also [AREXMACHINA]

• Muses in popular culture
• The Nine Muses

Flagstaff (/ˈflæɡ.stæf/ FLAG-staf;[6] Navajo: Kinłání Dookʼoʼoosłííd Biyaagi, Navajo pronunciation: [kʰɪ̀nɬɑ́nɪ́ tòːkʼòʔòːsɬít pɪ̀jɑ̀ːkɪ̀]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2018, the city's estimated population was 73,964. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097.

Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at around 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona. Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 feet (3,851 m), is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks Wilderness. The geology of the Flagstaff area includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, with Moenkopi Formation red sandstone having once been quarried in the city; many of the historic downtown buildings were constructed with it. The Rio de Flag river runs through the city.

Originally settled by the pre-Columbian native Sinagua people, the area of Flagstaff has fertile land from volcanic ash after eruptions in the 11th century. It was first settled as the present-day city in 1876. Local businessmen lobbied for Route 66 to pass through the city, which it did, turning the local industry from lumber to tourism and developing downtown Flagstaff. In 1930, Pluto was discovered from Flagstaff. The city developed further through to the end of the 1960s, with various observatories also used to choose Moon landing sites for the Apollo missions. Through the 1970s and '80s, downtown fell into disrepair, but was revitalized with a major cultural heritage project in the 1990s.

The city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare, and is home to the U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station, and Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater, and Historic Route 66.

PSANSDISL #LWDISP either without gas or seeing cupidic arroz in "thank you" or "allta, wild" ...

pps: a magnanimous decision ...

I stand here on the brink of what appears to be total destruction; at least of everything I had hoped and dreamed for ... for the last decade in my life which appears literally to span thousands of years if not more in the eyes of some other beholder. I spent several months in Kentucky telling a story of a post apocalyptic and post-cataclysmic delusion; some world where I was walking around in a "fake plane" something like a holodeck built and constructed around me as I "took a walk around the world" to ... it did anything but ease my troubled mind.

Recently a few weeks in Las Vegas, and a similar story; telling as I walked penniless down the streets filled with casino's and anachronistic taxi-cabs ... some kind of vision of the entirety of the heavens or the Earth or the "choir of angels" I think of when I echo the words Elohim and Aesir from mythology ... there with me in one small city in superposition; seeing what was a very well put together and interesting story about a "star port" Nirvane ... a place that could build cities into the face of mountains and half working monorails appearing in the sky---literally right before my eyes.

I suppose this is the place "post cataclysm" though I still have trouble understanding what it is that's actually about ... in my mind it connects to the words "we are losing habeas" echo'ed from the streets of Los Angeles in a more clear and more military voice than usual--as I walked block by block trying to evade a series of events that would eventually somehow connect all the way to the "outskirts of Orlando, Florida" in a place called Alhambra.

Apparently the name of a castle; though I wasn't aware of that until much later.

It doesn't feel at all like a "cataclysm" to me; I see no great rift--only a world filled with silent liars, people who collectively believe themselves to have stolen something--something gigantic--at least that's the best interpretation of the throws and impetus behind the thing that I and mythology together call Jormungandr. With an eye for "mythological connections" you could clearly see that name of the Great Serpent of Revelation connects to something like the Unseelie; the faeries of Gaelic lore. To me though this world seems still somewhat fluid, it's my entire life--moving from Plantation to a place where the whole of it might be Bethlehem and to "clear my throat" it's not hard to see here how that land of "coughs" connects to the Biblical land of Nod and to the "Adamically sieved" Snifleheim ... from just a little twist on the ancient Norse land most probably as close to Hel as anyone ever gets--or so I dream and hope---still today. It all looks so real and so fake at the same time; planned for thousands of generations, the culmination of some grand masterpiece story that certainly ties history and myth and reality into a twisted heap of "one big nothing, one big nothing at all."

I've tried to convey to the world how important I believe this place and this time to be--not by some choice of my own ... but through an understanding of the import of our history and the impact of having it be so obviously tuned and geared towards this specific time ... many thousands of years literally all focused on a single moment, on one day or one hour or even just a few years where all of that gets thrown down on the table as if some trump card has been played--and whether or not you fathom the same magnanimous statement or situation or position ... to me, I think it depends on whether or not you grew up in the same kind of way, believing our history to be so fixed and so difficult to change. I don't particularly feel like that's the "zeitgeist" of today; I feel like the children believe it to be some kind of game, and that it is such as easy thing to "sed" away or switch and turn into something else--another story, another purpose ... anyone's personal fantasy land come true.

I don't think that's the case at all, it's clearly a personal nightmare; and it's clearly one we've seen time and time again--though not myself--the Jesus Christ that is the same yesterday, today; and once again perhaps echoing "no tomorrow" never remembers or believes that we've "seen it all before" or that we've ever really gotten the point; the thing you present to me as "factual reality" is a sickness, it disgusts me; and I'd do anything to go back to the world "where I was so young, and so innocent" and so filled with starry-eyed hope that we were at the foot of something grand and amazing that would become an empire turned republic of the heavens; filling the stars ... with the kind of love for kindness and fairness that I once associated very strongly with the thing I still believe to be the American Spirit.

"Suddenly it changes, violently it changes" ... another song echoes through the ages--like the "words of the prophets dancing ((as light)) through the air" ... and I no longer even have a glimmer of hope that the thing I called the American People still exist; I feel we've been replaced by some broken container of minds, that the sky itself has become corrupt to the point that there's no hope of turning around this thing that I once believed with all my heart and all my mind was so obviously a "designed downward spiral" one that was---again--so obviously something of a joke, intended to be easy to bounce off a false bottom and springboard beyond "escape velocity" and beyond the dark waters of "nearest habitable star systems (being so very far away)" into a place where new words and new ideas would "soar" and "take flight."

Here though; I am filled with a kind of lonely sadness ... staring at what appears to be the same mistake(s) happening over and over again; something I've come to call "skipping stones in the pond of reality" and really do liken it to this thing that appears to be the new meaning of "days" and ... a civilization that spends absolutely no love or lust to enter a once sacred and holy place and tarnish it with their sick beliefs and their disgusting desires. You all ... you appear to be some kind of springboard to "bunt" forth yet another age or era of nothingness into the space between this planet and "none worth reaching" and thank God, out of grasp. Today, I'd condemn the entirety of this world simply for it's lack of "oathkeepers" and understanding of what the once hallowed words of Hippocrates meant to ... to the people charged and dharmically required to heal rather than harm.

It appears the place and time that was once ... at least destined to be the beginning of Heaven ... has become a "recurring stump" of some future unplanned and tarnished by many previous failed efforts and attempts to overcome this same "lack of conversation or care" for what it meant to be "humane" in a world where that was clearly set high aloft and above "humanity" in the place where they--where we were the best nature had to offer, the sanest, the kindest; the shining last best hope.

Today I write almost every day ... secretly thanking "my God" for the disappearance of my tears and the still small but bright hope that "Tearran" will one day connect the Boston Tea Party and the idea that "render to Caesar" and Robin of Loxley ... all have something to do with a re-ordering of society and the worth and import of "money" ... to a place that cares more for freedom from murder than it does ... "freedom from having to allow others to hear me speak." I hold back tears and emotions; not by conscious choice or ability but ... still with that strange kind of lucky awkward smile; and secretly not so far below the surface it's the hope of "a swift death" that ... that really scares me more than the automatons and mechanical responses I see in the faces of many drivers as they pass me on the street--the imagery of connecting it to the serpentine monster of the movie Beetlejuice ... something I just "assume" the world understands and ... doesn't seem to fear (either); as if Churchill had gotten it all wrong and backwards--the only thing you have to fear, is the loss of fear of "loss."

Here my crossroads---halfway between the city my son lives in and the city my parents live in--it's on making a decision on whether I should continue at all, or personally work on some kind of software project I've been writing about, or whether I should focus on writing about a "revolution" in government and society that clearly is ... "somewhat underway." In my mind it's obvious these things are all connected; that the software and the governance and the care of whether or not "Babylon" is remembered as a city of great laws and great change or a city of demons and depravity ... that these thi]ngs all hinge and congeal around a change in your hearts; hoping you will chose to be the beginning of a renaissance of "society and civilization" rather than the kings and queens of a sick virtual anarchy ... believing yourselves to have stolen "a throne of God" rather than to literally be the devastating and demoralizing depreciation of "lords and fiefdoms" to something more closely resembled by the time of the Four Horsemen depicted in Highlander.

These words intended to be a "forward" to yet another compliment of a ((nother installment of a partial)) chain of emails; whimsically once half-joking ... I called it the Great Chain of Revelation. The software too; part of the great chain, this "idea" that the blockchain revolution will eventually create a distributed and equal governance structure, and a rekindling of monetary value focused on "free and open collaboration" rather than "survival of the most unfit"--something society and civilization seem to have turned the "call of life" from and to ... literally just in the last few years as we were so very close to ... reaching beyond the Heaven(s).

I don't think its hard to imagine how a "new set of ground rules" could significantly change the "face of a place" -- make it something shiny and new or even on the other side of the coin, decayed or depraved. It's not hard to connect the kind of change I'm hoping for with "collision protection" and "automatic laws" to the (perhaps new, perhaps ... ancient) Norse creation story of the brothers of Odin: Vili and Ve.

It might be hard to see today how a new "kind of spiritual interaction" might be only a few "mouse clicks" away though--how it could change everything literally in a flash of overnight sensation ... or how it might take something like a literal flash of stardom (or ... on the other hand, something like totalitarian or authoritarian "iron fisting") to make a change like this "ubiquitious" or ... something like the (imagined in my mind as ... messianic) "ED" of storming through the cosmos or the heavens and turning something that might appear to be "free and perfect feeling" today into a universe "civlized overnight" and then ...

I wonder how long it would take to laud a change like that; for it to be something of a voluntary "reunderstanding" of a process ... to change the meaning of every word or every thought that connects to the process of "civilization" to recognize that something so great and so powerful has happened as to literally change the meaning of the word, to turn a process of civilization into something that had a ... "signta-lamcla☮" of forboding and then a magical staff struck into the heart of a sea and then ... and then the word itself literally changes to introduce a new "mid term" or "halfway point" in which a great singularity or enlightenment or change in perspective or understanding sort of acknowledges ...