Quantum Self Help: collapse of the belief function

Posted on June 4, 2009
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The shops are filled with books on everything from NLP to how to become your most amazing awesome self. There are manuals and guides to get you self-actualizing like you’ve never self-actualized before.

There ought to be a disclaimer on the jacket of every self-help book, though. It should read: WARNING: This will actually work, if you’ll play along. But you’ll need to maintain the belief-space after we help you instantiate it. Otherwise… erm, good luck. You’ll need it more than you did when you picked up this book.
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re-understanding computing

I was reading this blog post on the expanding notion of what computing is, over at Broader perspective.  I like the inclusion of ideas from the biological realm, because it's one of those areas which proves once and for all that the universe is one giant computation, with smaller computations piggy[...]

May 30, 2009 | Collective Intelligence | 1 Comment

Off to the land of sun (and rain)

So we (carelessly/stupidly) picked the rainy season to go. Shut UP! Less said about that the better. But it's finally time... no more putting it off; tickets and passorts packed along with everything else and the kitchen sink (it's incredible that a 2-week period requires a sink of the kitchen va[...]

May 2, 2009 | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

SYN-ACK? (or, the fragility of human relationships)

<mood-warning> rambling vague psychobable </mood-warning> Human interactions are interesting things. One thing I have learned about them is that an incredibly huge proportion of every set of interactions between two given people (hey, I'm not about to solve some sort of weird psycho[...]

April 28, 2009 | Armchair Philosophy, Society and culture | 2 Comments

Ninja-itis

Some time ago I was approached by a recruitment agent ('agent' sounds fitting - she was a tad stealthy) about two positions. When I went to look at the postings, I was rather gobsmacked by the language used to describe the roles. Other than the usual assertions about my (presumed) gung-ho, work-h[...]

April 22, 2009 | Armchair Philosophy, Computing & Software Systems, Society and culture | Leave a Comment

Caveat empty

By Peter Saunders At a shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon for assorted errands, I noticed a Bell Store—no easy feat, given its recent blink-and-you’ll-pass-it redesign. Leona and I use Bell’s satellite TV service (formerly known as ExpressVu, now neutered to BellTV) and from time to time[...]

April 19, 2009 | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

time to break out the 'ole tin foil

Sooner or later, everyone will have met their tin foil dude (I don't know why, but it's never a dudette)... a man convicted of the 'truth' that Big Brother is interfering with all our thoughts, and that we'd all better start wearing tin foil inside our hats. My tin foil dude >>> [...]

April 5, 2009 | Computing & Software Systems, Rise of the machines, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Net anonimity schmanonimity

Clicktale, crazyegg, userfly. Suppose I asked you to Google those and then come back. If I had those sorts of things installed on my pages, I could tell who among you did indeed go and look, and whom amongst you bothered to come back at all, and how long you lingered thereafter. And if I h[...]

March 28, 2009 | Computing & Software Systems | Leave a Comment

Galactica Finale - oh what a tangled web we leave

You know, we can't keep making excuses for the writers and producers of this show, however much we might love them for bringing us this gritty world of bot-humans, quaintly pointless octagonals and a design sensibility that I like to call 'metal-bleak'. I have loved this show, especially when it sta[...]

March 21, 2009 | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Projected metadata : a new way of interfacing

A friend of mind passed on this video on a new type of wearable tech called 'Sixth Sense'. Built as a device cobbled together from only $350 worth of off-the-shelf components, what gives 'sixth sense' the psychological edge is the tactile thing... After all, what could be more intuitive than man[...]

March 17, 2009 | Computing & Software Systems | Leave a Comment

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