apeconmyth

After over a decade of knowing about it, I finally got a copy of Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events by Persinger/Lafrenière last week and was reading about this subject yesterday, but from a book published in 1977. It's blowing my mind to see this here today, but the ultimate source of me even knowing about the above book, Robert Anton Wilson, would not be surprised at all!

Hi, sorry, meant no offense. Apeconmyth is my old account here on HN, which is why I posted from there. I created the new Papercuts account after making the front page. I'm not trying to play games.

Why would someone so successful with productive work take on something so unproductive?

This looks like classic overstep.

If only there was a rational segment of investors ready to make a counterpoint here about anyone saying they are going to fix Twitter ... LOL ...

This is the universe balancing itself. Elon will have to mess up Elon, and my bet (or wishful thinking) is this inflection point right here. He'll be going to Mars to forget this mess.

Popcorn, please!

I've just tried Mastodon recently and haven't been blown away by my experience so far, but I don't like social media either. It's more a Twitter replacement than Facebook. I'm looking to get out of FB as well...

"Are you really keeping him in the Pentagon?" https://books.google.com/books?id=gnO76vZELmQC&lpg=PA356&ots...

From NYT Book Review: Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/books/review/classic-nove...

Here's the scene... https://youtu.be/-rdG7ug_icw?t=1m18s

eXistenZ is paused!

After years of jumping at any opportunity to build up China as an economic threat.

I got to see the FDNY in action in my East Village apartment building a decade back after a neighbor's boyfriend set her place on fire. We locked our door and got it popped and it was amazing how quickly and efficiently they took out doors, windows, ceilings and floors as needed to control the fire and get the smoke out. They definitely knew their business and we were back in our 300 sq ft 6-floor walk-up in no time!

Thanks once again, FDNY!

A quick heads-up: I left the page open to play with it later and about an hour and a half afterwards, it apparently started blaring quite alarming noise out of nowhere. Didn't hear it myself but it freaked out the unlucky person in the room.

Speaking for the data janitors of the world, I can't believe there wasn't a mention of hiring some of us to do this so-called dirty work, if for nothing else than to save these data scientists from using the word sexy.

After twenty years of financial operations, including a decade in the back-office of a top hedge fund, I eventually accepted that I'm a bit backwards for my desire not to jump straight to a pivot table when encountering a new data set. Like a farmer reaching down to touch the soil, my first step is exploring the rows and columns with little tests here and there to find weaknesses within the information at hand rather than paving over them with instantly flawed reporting.

Anyway, for all the big data scientists out there too sexy to clean up their own data, I'm looking for work and don't mind pushing a broom. Check my profile for more info.

Thanks, Jeff! The key to the Periodic Calendar is identifying that there are seven types of years, depending on the day of the week that starts it off. At first I thought I needed to make 7 calendars to cover the possibilities, but my aha moment came with the idea of the Gregorian Isotopes, which flip our focus from the day of the month to elements based in days of the week that exist on an array of days of the month.

The core idea is that August 10th is a semi-meaningless count of the days, whereas the real information lies in today being Sunday.

As I explained to a friend recently, I'm not the type of person who can readily do the calc in my head, but rather the type who would enjoy the tedious work of laying out all the possibilities on paper, as I did with the Periodic Calendar: http://periodiccalendar.com/

Try rinsing your razor in a cup of water. No need to fill up a sink, even at home.

Guess I'm near a distribution center then as I generally find that free super saver shipping, which is supposed to take 5-8 days, ends up being two day. Definitely hinders my urge to go Prime.

Reminds me of Middle Men. "We just made $9.99..." http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/middle-men/we-just-made-99...