Some of the letters are consistently struggling to print properly, like a, w, q, etc. I've cleaned the typebar section multiple times which seemed to help initially but it continues to be an issue, I'm not sure what could cause only certain letters to print incorrectly.

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Since we are no longer inclined to eliminatefailures in the harsh way the Lacedemonians used to adopt inthe Taygetos mountain,

In using the picture we usually forgetabout them, except in the quite general way that we know ouridea of a light-wave is not a haphazard invention of a crankbut is based on experiment.

His paper was forgotten and was onlyrediscovered in 1900, simultaneously and independently, byCorrens (Berlin), de Vries (Amsterdam) and Tschermak(Vienna).

The results he published as early as1866 in the Proceedings of the Naturforschender Verein in Brunn.

A recessive allele influences the phenotype only when thegenotype is homozygous.

that mutations are very oftenlatent

de Vries first published his discovery, in 1902

In other words, he would have expected to produce byselection an increase of the average length of the awns.

that in the offspring even of thoroughly pure-bred stocks, avery small number of individuals, say two or three in tens ofthousands, turn up with small but 'jump-like' changes, theexpression 'jump-like' not meaning that the change is so veryconsiderable, but that there is a discontinuity inasmuch asthere are no intermediate forms between the unchanged andthe few changed. De Vries called that a mutation.

In calling the structure of the chromosome fibres a code-script

The reason for this is, that what we call thought (I) is itselfan orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e.to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree oforderliness.

Whatdegree of permanence do we encounter in hereditaryproperties and what must we therefore attribute to thematerial structures which carry them?

The course of events is appropriately called alternation ofgenerations.

syngamy

Some time ago we were told in thenewspapers that in his African campaign General Mont-gomery made a point of having every single soldier of his armymeticulously informed of all his designs. If that is true (as itconceivably might be, considering the high intelligence andreliability of his troops) it provides an excellent analogy to ourcase, in which the corresponding fact certainly is literally true.

Ontogenesis is the development of the individual, during its lifetime, as opposed tophylogenesis, the development of species within geological periods.

four-dimensional pattern

I must begin with giving a brief summary of the situation inbiology, more especially in genetics - in other words, I haveto summarize the present state of knowledge in a subject ofwhich I am not a master. This cannot be helped and Iapologize, particularly to any biologist, for the dilettantecharacter of my summary.

Das Sein ist ewig; denn GesetzeBewahren die lebend'gen Schatze,Aus welchen sich das All geschmiickt. I GOETHE

The laws of physics and physical chemistry areinaccurate within a probable relative error of the order of I Ivn,where n is the number of molecules that co-operate to bringabout that law - to produce its validity within such regions ofspace or time (or both) that matter, for some considerations orfor some particular experiment.

Y n law

You have to multiplyobservations, in order to eliminate the effect of the Brownianmovement of your instrument. This example is, I think,particularly illuminating in our present investigation. For ourorgans of sense, after all, are a kind of instrument. We can seehow useless they would be if they became too sensi tive.

Curie'slaw

This ingenious explanation is due to the French physicist P.Langevin.

And why could all this not be fulfilled in the case of anorganism composed of a moderate number of atoms only andsensitive already to the impact of one or a few atoms only?

Why shouldan organ like our brain, with the sensorial system attached toit, of necessity consist of an enormous number of atoms, inorder that its physically changing state should be in close andintimate correspondence with a highly developed thought?

Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether myway of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short,it was mine. The 'naive physicist' was myself. And I could notfind any better or clearer way towards the goal than my owncrooked one.

compare his theoretical anticipations with the biological facts.

the most essential part of a living cell - the chromosome fibre- may suitably be called an aperiodic crystal.

The large and important and very much discussed question is:How can the events in space and time which take place withinthe spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for byphysics and chemistry?

The reason for this wasnot that the subject was simple enough to be explainedwithout mathematics, but rather that it was much tooinvolved to be fully accessible to mathematics.

the lectures could not be termed popular, eventhough the physicist's most dreaded weapon, mathematicaldeduction, would hardly be utilized.

some of us should venture toembark on a synthesis of facts and theories, albeit withsecond-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of them -and at the risk of making fools of ourselves.

W e have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing forunified, all-embracing knowledge.

THE RELATION BETWEEN CLOCKWORK ANDORGANISM

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With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercialcitizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights withinsomeone else’s company store

Information is people in disguise, and people ought to bepaid for value they contribute that can be sent or stored on a digitalnetwork.

Another problem with existing chunky levees is that they tend tohave zero-sum gotchas.

The context is lost, and meaning is dependent on context.For instance, if you find a copy of a video with a politician intoningsome bizarre senseless snippet, you don’t know what the context was.Maybe the full version of the video would tell a different story. One ofthe reasons not to make copies is to avoid problems like that.

This is what we mightcall the idea of the “mash-up” today, but it also was the firstappearance, so far as I can tell, of the realization that digital systemscould both gather and repackage media to enable new kinds ofcollaboration and new kinds of expression.

The lexicon of the New Age, or self-actualization, movement reserved a special place for the wordAbundance. Abundance could mean two things. At the rational, technocratic, Confucian end of the spectrum,it might mean that people ought to take responsibility for their failures and successes, but they ought tobelieve that great success is possible. This sensibility sprouted the motivational speaker industry. Its tracesare preserved in reality television and popular song.

John Markoff’s bookWhat the Dormouse Said

The process is described in an essay1 by Alan Watts on how to be a guru that was well-known aroundthe time Apple was first taking off. T

As thefamiliar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D.Brandeis goes, “We can have democracy in this country, or we canhave great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’thave both.”*

To my friends in the “open” Internet movement, I have to ask: Whatdid you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley underminedcopyright to make commerce become more about services instead ofcontent: more about our code instead of their files.

The process is increasingly divorced from real-world events. Amessage is fine-tuned and tested. Feedback signals are fed intostatistics engines. Just as big data in business can function with lowerstandards of veracity than big data in science, so can big data inpolitics.

Perhaps we should expect to see more elections that are eitherextremely close or extremely lopsided from here on out. If opposingSiren Servers are well run, they might achieve parity, while if one isbetter than the other, its advantage ought to be dramatic. It’s too earlyto say, since big data and politics haven’t mixed long enough togenerate much data as yet. It’s like climate change was for a long time—not enough data yet to really say—though it does look like we’reseeing this pattern.

Democracies must be structured to resist winner-take-all politics ifthey are to endure. That principle applied in the network age leads toperiodic confrontations between competing mirror-image big datapolitical campaigns.

There would only be the particles that make up things, in exactly the same positions they wouldotherwise occupy, but not the things. In other words, consciousness provides ontology for particles. If therewere no consciousness, the universe would be adequately described as being nothing but particles. Or, ifyou prefer a computational framework, only the bits would be left, but not the data structures. It would allmean nothing, because it wouldn’t be experienced

In our digital revolution, we might depose an old sort ofdysfunctional center of power only to erect a new one that is equallydysfunctional. The reason is that online opposition to traditional powertends to promote new Siren Servers that in the long run are unlikely tobe any better.

Belief in the specialness of people is a minority position in the tech world, and I would like that to change.The way we experience life—call it “consciousness”—doesn’t fit in a materialistic or informational worldview.Lately I prefer to call it “experience,” since the opposing philosophical team has colonized the termconsciousness. That term might be used these days to refer to the self-models that can be implementedinside a robot.

While we have yet to see how Google’s book scanning will play out, amachine-centric vision of the project might encourage software that treats books as grist for the mill,decontextualized snippets in one big database, rather than separate expressions from individual writers. Inthis approach, the contents of books would be atomized into bits of information to be aggregated, and theauthors themselves, the feeling of their voices, their differing perspectives, would be lost. Needless to say,this approach would hide its tracks so that it would be hard to send a nanopayment to an author who hadbeen aggregated.

The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find theirway to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have.

But the problem with freestanding concentrations of power is that you never know who will inherit them. Ifsocial networking has the power to synchronize great crowds to dethrone a pharaoh, why might it not alsocoordinate lynchings or pogroms?

Siren Servers are not interchangeable. While they allshare certain traits (narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, andextreme information asymmetry), they also represent particular, morespecialized philosophies

Individual Siren Servers can die and yet the Siren Server patternperseveres, and it is that pattern that is the real problem. Thesystematic decoupling of risk from reward in the rising informationeconomy is the problem, not any particular server.

At least oldmedia, even in its decline and with all its problems, still offers a careerpath.

You are to be the neutral facilitator

Make Others Pay for Entropy

if you want to build a world-class, persistent Siren Server. In addition, you have to inject some sortof punishing network effect.

If you’ve made it to the point that growth is accelerating, you’veentered the honeymoon phase, or free rise (the opposite of free fall).

network effects tend to create a single Sirenic presence,a monopoly for that particular kind of data or pattern of use.

Whenever there is a networked race to the bottom, there is a SirenServer that connects people and owns the master database aboutwho they are. If they knew each other, comprehensively, they mightorganize a union or some other form of levee.

This is a key sign of a Siren Server. The lowly non-Sirens are asresponsible as possible, while the Siren Server presides from an arm’slength.

It’s not always necessary that the data be made absolutelyunavailable; sometimes data can just be decontextualized enough tobecome less valuable. Facebook provides a fine example. If a greatdeal of personal creativity and life experience has been added to thesite, it’s hard to give all that up. Even if you capture every little thingyou had uploaded, you can’t save it in the context of interactions withother people. You have to lose a part of yourself to leave Facebookonce you become an avid user. If you leave, it will become difficult forsome people to contact you at all.

The economist W. BrianArthur pioneered the understanding of economic network effects

New lines are being drawnbetween where individual agency should matter and where itshouldn’t, so the dichotomy must now be understood in an evenbroader way than the ancient debate about the role of government.

The dominant story is machine-centric. It’stechnological determinism.

a middle-class status has not proven to be stablewithout a little help. All the examples of long-term stable middleclasses we know of relied on Keynesian interventions as well aspersistent mechanisms like social safety nets to moderate marketoutcomes.

Marx wanted something that most people, including me, don’t want:a committee to make sure everyone gets what’s best for them.

Star Systems Starve Themselves; Bell Curves RenewThemselves

A robust solution would be “scalable,” meaning that it willbe strengthened, not weakened, as more and more people embrace it.

The buyer pays, select USPS as the Shipping method, and then uses Pirateship to actually purchase the label from USPS or UPS. This provides a small upside on shipping, which helps cover the high packing costs. Shipping typewriters is just inherently expensive, and if you pay retail, you are going to take a bath every time. Also, you need to buy supplies in bulk from a commercial supplier. Had to learn this the hard way after eBay charged someone $40 for shipping, and when I got to FedEx it was 90+the like 25 I spent on retail shipping supplies. Now have shipping supplies down to about $12 a machine and never have a negative on shipping costs.

This webring is for the personal sites of any member of the fediverse (also known as fedizens).

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