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Home Latest News Himachal CM Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu Met The Prime Minister, PMO Tweeted The Information
Himachal CM Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu Met The Prime Minister, PMO Tweeted The Information
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. This information has been given by tweeting the picture on behalf of the PMO. This is Sukhu's first meeting with PM Modi after becoming the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Let us tell that earlier on Monday, he had also met the President and the Vice President. In the recently held assembly elections, the Congress won the state, after which Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was made the Chief Minister on behalf of the party.
Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, called on Prime Minister @narendramodi, pic.twitter.com/0i7jrW4Wp1
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 24, 2023
A statement has also been issued by the CM's office regarding the Chief Minister's visit. In which it has been said that the Chief Minister has paid courtesy visits to the leaders. The statement said, "Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu called on President Draupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Monday. It was a courtesy call.
After meeting Dhankhar, Sukhu said that they discussed several issues of development and public welfare. In a tweet, the Chief Minister's Office quoted Sukhu as saying, "It was wonderful to meet and discuss with the Vice President on various issues related to the development of Himachal." '
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Morrison Hotel Gallery Commemorates THE DOORS With Collection Of Iconic Images
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of THE DOORS' seminal "Morrison Hotel" album release, Morrison Hotel Gallery is excited to introduce an exclusive collection of rare and iconic images handpicked from THE DOORS archives. With over 25 images that have never been available before as fine art prints, THE DOORS archive is now available exclusively through morrisonhotelgallery.com.
The exhibition comes just ahead of the October 9 release of THE DOORS "Morrison Hotel" 50th-anniversary deluxe edition (Rhino), a 2-CD/1-LP box set that expands the band's fifth studio album with over an hour of unreleased session outtakes that show how the songs evolved in the studio. Both the iconic cover photo taken by Henry Diltz and the album itself have become legendary touchstones in rock and roll history.
With an intoxicating, genre-blending sound, provocative and uncompromising songs, and the mesmerizing power of singer Jim Morrison's poetry and presence, THE DOORS had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture. THE DOORS' arrival on the rock scene in 1967 marked not only the start of a string of hit singles and albums that would become stone classics, but also of something much bigger — a new and deeper relationship between creators and audience. Refusing to be mere entertainers, the Los Angeles quartet relentlessly challenged, confronted, and inspired their fans leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness while other bands warbled about peace and love. Though they've had scores of imitators, there's never been another band quite like them. And 50 years after their debut album, THE DOORS' music and legacy are more influential than ever before.
THE DOORS collection will feature images captured by a lineup of extraordinary photograhers, including Paul Ferrara, Jerry Hopkins, Bobby Klein, Nettie Pena, Gloria Stavers and David Sygall. Each image is printed directly from the original negatives that have been stored in THE DOORS' archives for over 50 years. Each fine art print will come with an original estate stamp along with a certificate of authenticity. There will be three available sizes, each having their own limited edition.
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UBC's Kenneth Chau holds a glass sample used in his latest research, which proved that putting thin layers of metal over glass increases light transmission.
Imagine if the picture window in your living room could double as a giant thermostat or big screen TV. A discovery by researchers at the University of British Columbia has brought us one step closer to this becoming a reality.
Researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus in Kelowna found that coating small pieces of glass with extremely thin layers of metal like silver makes it possible to enhance the amount of light coming through the glass. This, coupled with the fact that metals naturally conduct electricity, may make it possible to add advanced technologies to windowpanes and other glass objects.
The theory underlying the research was developed by Chau and collaborator Loïc Markley, an assistant professor of engineering at UBC. Chau and Markley questioned what would happen if they reversed the practice of applying glass over metal—a typical method used in the creation of low-e window coatings.


Thriller returns for another night of sweaty dance in the plastic people bunker. You can expect to hear Thriller dj's playing the Thriller music, with all proceeds going towards a good cause.
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The Assembly hands-on: The future of VR is adventure games
Adventure games may have fallen out of popularity in recent years, but virtual reality reinvigorates the genre.
Hayden Dingman (PC World (US online)) on 30 June, 2016 23:00
If virtual reality takes off, the adventure game is along for the ride. It's perfectly suited for the format. Shooters don't work that well. They're too fast, the movement too unpredictable. Third-person action games are fine, but leave you feeling like you could've experienced the same on a normal monitor. But first-person adventures? Pretend I just kissed my fingertips like a French chef or whatever.
And The Assembly is one of the most anticipated adventure games of the year, if only because it's been in development for so long that people know quite a bit about it. They've been demoing it since the days of the Rift's Crescent Bay prototype.
The gist: The titular Assembly is a company of scientists that's like Aperture without the humor. They consider their work to be of paramount importance, and thus are willing to flout ethical constraints, laws, and common human decency if it means it eventually benefits humanity as a whole.
You play as two different characters in alternating chapters. One, Cal Pearson, is a high-ranking scientist in the Assembly who's begun to question its methods. The other, Madeleine Stone, is an outsider.
I recently played three chapters as each character and the perspective switching is one of The Assembly's highlights. It's a simple idea—hell, Game of Thrones is famous for it. But it works because you get multiple outlooks on the situation, each characters thoughts and fears. You get the dramatic irony of knowing what's happening to Madeleine because you've played as Cal, and et cetera.
So story-wise, The Assembly seems well worth your time. I don't know how it'll wrap up, but I do know the demo ended on a cliffhanger in Chapter Six and I wished I could keep playing—a good sign.
As for how it plays, well, I'm of two minds. Remember how I said The Assembly has been in development for a long time? That's a double-edged sword in virtual reality. Sure, it means the team has some name recognition and a game that's actually a game and not a ten-minute tech demo.
It also means The Assembly was conceived before some key developments in VR. Namely, room-scale and motion controllers. The Assembly is cross-platform Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR but only takes advantage of a standard gamepad. There's no Vive room-scale support.
That's a shame, because the Vive's control scheme is tailor-made for first-person adventure games, as evidenced by The Gallery and other less-polished titles. Playing with an Xbox controller is just…well, it's playing with an Xbox controller.
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That disappointment aside, it's a competently-made adventure game. Cal's episodes focus mostly on corporate espionage. He's looking to turn whistleblower, so you're focused on gathering evidence against the Assembly—digging through file cabinets, trying to find keys someone hid in a bookshelf, standard adventure game stuff. Unfortunately it also means "reading a lot of in-game emails," which is fine except the Rift still isn't great for looking at text. I struggled a bit there.
Madeleine's episodes are way different. She's being inducted to The Assembly and thus her chapters are a battery of mental testing, like MENSA puzzles in three-dimensions. Some are great—the last chapter of my demo involved a murderous-dinner-party-as-allegory, and rendered in a fascinating way. Other chapters feel a bit like VR gimmicks though, particularly her second test which is just "Move these boxes around in VR." It almost feels like you can tell which chapters were developed very early in VR's lifecycle and which are more recent, though that's just my own biases talking.
In any case, navigation is done by way of teleporting, same as most of these new-era VR adventure games. It's not a node system—you're not constrained to certain areas. Instead it's the standard "look-where-you-want-to-go-and-teleport-there" method. There's also a free-roam method if you have a better stomach than me.
Which brings me to one other crucial aspect: There are some scenes early in the game I think should be reworked, but I don't think will be. They involve you in a wheelchair or something, being pushed along by someone else. I didn't get sick, but I did close my eyes at one point as the world went madly sliding past. In a game that's so careful about keeping the player comfortable the rest of the time—that's what teleportation is for—these scenes seem out of place.
The Assembly's hooked me though, Xbox Controller and all. Ever since wrapping up The Gallery and Dead Secret I've been waiting for another polished and meaty adventure game to release. This looks to be the next big one, and I'm curious to see where it goes. It's dated for a July 19 release.
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1) Myles Jury is a name you might want to know over the next 12 months. This former Ultimate Fighter alum had two shots on the reality show (one ended in injury, in the other he was eliminated) but he might be one of the talented cast members of the past few seasons. Jury is a powerful wrestler with his own style of ground fighting he calls "Jury Jiu-Jitsu" and whatever the formula is, it's working. Jury is undefeated since coming to the UFC, with a perfect 3-0 record that includes a stifling performance over Michael Johnson and a knockout victory where he finished Ramsey Nijem on the feet. Jury also has a great team around him working at the Alliance Training Center alongside notable names like Alexander Gustafsson, Phil Davis, and UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz.
He won't have an easy time with Mike Ricci because he's an improving fighter, who also works with some of the best training partners in the game, including welterweight king Georges St-Pierre and Rory MacDonald. Ricci is also a southpaw, which can give orthodox fighters nightmares if they aren't ready for the left-handed attack. Where Ricci struggled in his loss in the UFC was against a physically powerful wrestler in Colton Smith who could put him on his back and keep him there. Jury can employ a similar strategy, except he's got much more technique and strength on his feet. Jury will keep Ricci guessing and will probably put him down on the mat repeatedly over the course of 15 minutes.
2) Expect fireworks when Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson meets Chris Clements at UFC 165. Both fighters love to create an exciting standup fight, and there is always the possibility for something crazy and flashy to happen when these two are in the Octagon. Thompson wrote the book for creative striking in the UFC's welterweight division. He's a fighter with a karate background who has done kickboxing since he was just about old enough to walk. Striking comes natural to Thompson, and just like another karate fighter all UFC fans should know named Lyoto Machida, this welterweight is elusive and comes in at more angles than a scalene triangle. Clements is proficient on his feet, but only defends 49 percent of his opponent's strikes. That's probably about 51 percent less than what he'll need against Thompson. They don't call him "Wonderboy" for nothing, and with him now entering his fourth fight in the UFC, the comfort level will be there, and without much worry for the takedown, he should be able to light it up on the feet and may contend for Knockout of the Night.
3) It's crazy to think just how many top fighters that Ivan Menjivar has faced in his career, but his resume is basically a who's who of names. Menjivar is a veteran of more than 30 professional fights, and while he's certainly had some losses along the way, he's not a fighter that falls to just anybody. The names that hold wins over Menjivar include Georges St-Pierre, Urijah Faber and Matt Serra. This time around he'll take on late replacement Wilson Reis, who is a slick jiu-jitsu practitioner with eight of his 16 career wins coming by submission. He also comes into this show on a four fight win streak, and Reis isn't exactly coming in on short notice because his last fight that was set for UFC Fight Night in Brazil got canceled last minute, so he's been training and preparing for weeks now.
Reis is a great ground fighter, but Menjivar is scrappy, can scramble out of problems, and his experience factor is second to none. Menjivar's losses over the last few years in the UFC and the WEC have only come to top ten level opponents, and otherwise he's pitching a shutout. Menjivar might have to defend a lot of takedown attempts from Reis early, but once he's done, than it's his fight to win on the feet. Look for a decision victory from Menjivar who will be controlling the distance and stuffing Reis' attempts to get this one to the ground over 15 minutes.
4) Roland Delorme meets Alex Caceres in a fight that might just be the exact opposite of what we will see in the bout between Thompson and Clements. While both bantamweights are working on their striking, the ground game is what suits them best. Delorme is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a black belt in Judo, while Caceres is an exciting grappler with four submission victories to his credit. Caceres is also a bit of a wild card in this one because he's pretty much grown up as a fighter while competing between The Ultimate Fighter and the UFC. Caceres is tough to figure out, and hard to put away.
The difference in this one is Delorme's ability to get this fight to the ground and keep it there. He's got suffocating jiu-jitsu that can confound an opponent, and he's averaging 2.6 submission attempts for every 15 minutes he's in the cage. Delorme also averages 3.89 takedowns per fight, and that's where he's going to want to shine in this one. If he can get Caceres to the mat, Delorme's quick reactions on the ground, where he's constantly looking to set up the position for a finish, should give him the edge. Caceres is not going to go away, however, so this may be a fun fight with three rounds of scrambles, submission attempts and near escapes.


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Werner Urban has released some "library" materials of dubstep rhythms and beats on the AV Music and Soundiva labels, but Dworzec Towarowy seems to be more of an experimental art statement. It's released as a vinyl LP in a cover with stencil letters and numbers laser-cut into the outer sleeve. When he visited Poland with Lilian van Rooji, who is a photographer, he played pieces of junk found in an abandoned railway freight station outside Wrocklaw, and from these recordings produced this rather ordinary album of beats, percussion, and low-key electronics.
Lots of edits and varispeeds were evidently used to do this, assembling and recasting inert sounds into something with musical tones and patterns for pulsations and beats. The track titles refer to the physical objects used to create the sounds: for instance, 'Broken Wine Bottle', 'Bricks And Holes', 'Flat Tire and a Rain Puddle', and 'Falling Nail Styrofoam Bottle Rack'. These suggest that Durand may at least have some interest in substantially different materials (glass, masonry, rubber, metal, water), and the different sounds they make, yet what ends up on the disc is all the same over-processed noise, with no discernible variations.
The fanciful sleeve notes by Dennis L'Ami try to make out this banal process art to be something more than it is; "a certain machine…reincarnates to play a role it was never cut out for," is his assessment. Further, likening Durand to a visual artist or novelist, the claim is that he "creates protagonists out of a rusty nail or a broken fluorescent tube, while reinstating their functionality beyond the present time." Pah! Composers, improvisers, sound artists and other musicians have been repurposing commonplace objects for a very long time now, and in far more imaginative ways than this; Durand contributes little advance to the practice, and the end result on this record is little more than minimal techno. Well, I kind of like the subdued voices of Werner and his girlfriend which have ended up on the tape, and could be read as a low-key miniature version of a rapper or toaster punctuating the tracks, but I'm being generous. Dworzec Towarowy might have made a decent four track EP, but a whole LP is overkill. From 20 February 2017.


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Home » Uncategorized » Nanozyme shuts down production of hepatitis C virus in the body
Nanozyme shuts down production of hepatitis C virus in the body
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University of Florida researchers have moved a step closer to treating diseases on a cellular level by creating a tiny particle that can be programmed to shut down the genetic production line that cranks out disease-related proteins.
In laboratory tests, these newly created "nanorobots" all but eradicated hepatitis C virus infection. The programmable nature of the particle makes it potentially useful against diseases such as cancer and other viral infections. The researchers created and tested a nanoparticle that targets hepatitis C virus in the liver and prevents the virus from making copies of itself.
The new virus-destroyer, called a nanozyme, has a backbone of tiny gold particles and a surface with two main biological components. The first biological portion is a type of protein called an enzyme that can destroy the genetic recipe-carrier, called mRNA, for making the disease-related protein in question. The other component is a large molecule called a DNA oligonucleotide that recognizes the genetic material of the target to be destroyed and instructs its neighbor, the enzyme, to carry out the deed. By itself, the enzyme does not selectively attack hepatitis C, but the combo does the trick.
"They completely change their properties," Cao said.
In laboratory tests, the treatment led to almost a 100 percent decrease in hepatitis C virus levels. In addition, it did not trigger the body's defense mechanism, and that reduced the chance of side effects. Still, additional testing is needed to determine the safety of the approach.
Future therapies could potentially be in pill form.
Hepatitis C infection causes liver inflammation, which can eventually lead to scarring and cirrhosis. The disease is transmitted via contact with infected blood, most commonly through injection drug use, needlestick injuries in medical settings, and birth to an infected mother. More than 3 million people in the United States are infected and about 17,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients can go many years without symptoms, which can include nausea, fatigue and abdominal discomfort.
Current hepatitis C treatments involve the use of drugs that attack the replication machinery of the virus. But the therapies are only partially effective, on average helping less than 50 percent of patients, according to studies
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Cao and colleagues, including graduate student Soon Hye Yang and postdoctoral associates Zhongliang Wang, Hongyan Liu and Tie Wang, wanted to improve on the concept of interfering with the viral genetic material in a way that boosted therapy effectiveness and reduced side effects.
The particle they created can be tailored to match the genetic material of the desired target of attack, and to sneak into cells unnoticed by the body's innate defense mechanisms.
Recognition of genetic material from potentially harmful sources is the basis of important treatments for a number of diseases, including cancer, that are linked to the production of detrimental proteins. It also has potential for use in detecting and destroying viruses used as bioweapons.
"We can effectively stop hepatitis C infection if this technology can be further developed for clinical use," said Liu, who is a member of The UF Shands Cancer Center.
The UF nanoparticle design takes inspiration from the Nobel prize-winning discovery of a process in the body in which one part of a two-component complex destroys the genetic instructions for manufacturing protein, and the other part serves to hold off the body's immune system attacks. This complex controls many naturally occurring processes in the body, so drugs that imitate it have the potential to hijack the production of proteins needed for normal function. The UF-developed therapy tricks the body into accepting it as part of the normal processes, but does not interfere with those processes.
"They've developed a nanoparticle that mimics a complex biological machine — that's quite a powerful thing," said nanoparticle expert Dr. C. Shad Thaxton, an assistant professor of urology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and co-founder of the biotechnology company AuraSense LLC, who was not involved in the UF study. "The promise of nanotechnology is extraordinary. It will have a real and significant impact on how we practice medicine."
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At least nine people sustained non-life threatening injuries in a knife attack on the Ohio State University's campus today, forcing a campus wide lockdown. A "shelter-in-place" order has been lifted, but classes have been canceled for the day. Initially, reports indicated a live shooter scenario, but it turns out that the assailant possessed only a butcher's knife.
Early reports indicate that the assailant first drove a car into a group of pedestrians before then getting out and attacking people with a butcher's knife. Abdul Artan, the assailant, is known to be of Somali descent, and had spent time living in Pakistan before his family moved to the United States as legal residents. (As I don't believe in glorifying the perpetrators of these crimes, I will refer to him henceforth only as "the assailant.") Thankfully, the assailant didn't possess a gun and was quickly killed by a responding officer. Early reports indicate that an officer was able to put the suspect down within only a few minutes of the attack starting.
Gun control remains a hot topic in the United States. For the record, I support basic measures, such as background and mental health checks, and believe that all guns should be sold with a trigger lock. Yet as today's attack proves, people don't need access to guns to inflict harm. The exact circumstances surrounding today's attack remain unknown and given the assailants background, there is good reason to suspect that Islamic extremism played a role. Still, there's another common element found in most mass attacks in the United States, and that has also been tied to Islamic extremism: mental illness.
With the United States having suffered yet another violent attack, it's important to revisit this issue. Mental illness remains a major problem in the United States. High health care costs and an unwillingness to talk about issues in the open means that mental health issues often go undiagnosed, untreated, and are not discussed even among family and friends.
To be clear, little information regarding the assailant at the Ohio State University has so been released. It is possible that mental illness had nothing to do with today's attack. However, in past attacks mental illness and various mental disturbances have been an important factor.
Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter who killed 26 innocent people, many of them children, was known to have suffered from a form of autism. That, in and of itself, isn't out of the ordinary, but many now believe that Lanza suffered from other, more severe disorders, including schizophrenia, severe social anxiety, and mental depression, and other disturbances.
Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, also suffered from mental illnesses and had spent time in psych wards. James Holmes, who shot and killed 12 people at a movie theatre in Colorado, also appears to be suffering from severe mental illnesses.
Reports and studies also suggest that those who suffer from mental illness, including depression, are more likely to be drawn to Islamic extremism. For whatever reason, perhaps searching for a sense of belonging, or perhaps simply being more impressionable, or simply depressed and wanting to take their anger out on other people, mental illness does seem to draw people to terrorism.
Once upon a time, the United States had one of the world's best mental health systems. In terms of mental hospital beds, 500,000 have been closed over the last sixty years, with less than 38,000 remaining open. Worst yet, about half of those still open are part of the correctional system, which is increasingly expected to bear the burden of the United States' mental health problems. Even if mental illness didn't play a role in today's stabbings, it will almost certainly play a role in a future attack. Further, if our mental health system is not improved, the risks will only increase.
Of course, most people who suffer from mental illnesses will never go on to perpetrate massively violent crimes. Just as mental illness needs to be treated as a public health issue, and just as people need to become more open talking about it, society needs to be careful not to discriminate against or persecute those who suffer from mental issues.


Over the last couple of years we have seen a huge increase in couples ordering 50/50 wedding cakes. This type of cake allows you to have two designs, usually one conventional side, along with one that is a little more fun! We've made several half white fondant/half chocolate fondant cakes, along with many half white/half superhero theme cakes. In 2016 this is expanding even further to include half traditional/half football team and half traditional/half Star Wars. These type of cakes are a great way of injecting a bit of fun into your cake design and could include anything from your favourite team, book, movie, or just a special memory you share. If you're thinking of doing something a little different for your wedding cake then come on in and see us and we'll find a way to incorporate two themes into one cake.


Yesterday, I ran into a friend whose daughter is the same age as Rain. They went to preschool together for a year and a half, have attended each other's birthdays and had play dates. I asked my friend how school was going for her daughter. She told me how much her daughter likes getting ready for school in the morning, how she's asking to ride the bus instead of being picked up, how she loves having a spot to hang her backpack.
I've been thinking of these things the last two weeks as I remembered to slow down in the school zones on my way to work, as I watched the kids in the new sneakers and backpacks walking to the front doors of the school two-by-two and smiling, as I noted the adorable rows of bikes on the bike rack.
There's this little part of me, deep down, that feels like I'm depriving Rain of all those things.
Going back-to-school shopping – we didn't have a lot of money growing up, but it was one time when we were guaranteed at least a few new things.
Arranging everything neatly in my little desk (until it eventually became a mess of crumpled paper and uneaten peanut butter sandwiches – even today I have good intentions but not the follow through).
Sitting cross legged on the tapis (carpet – some words are forever in french in my memory) to do calendrier (calendar) – what day is it today? what is the weather like?
Clearly I was a bit of a nerd, but man, I really loved those things and I still kind of do. It makes me smile to think of Rain experiencing it all and part of me is sad to think that he is missing out. And part of me is sad that I am missing out on living it again vicariously through him.
I have to remember however that Rain isn't a mini-me. He would rather be building in the garage or digging for worms than sitting at a neat row of desks, and unlike my friend's daughter, Rain hates getting dressed and ready to go anywhere, let alone to spend 6 hours in the company of 22 peers. I also remind myself some of the ways schools have changed since I was there. I think about the ways I felt let down by my education.
But this week, I find myself wistfully wishing that public school really was the idealized version that exists in my memories.
You're right, Rain isn't a mini-you. And also, it's not necessarily true that he will never get to experience those things. Maybe he won't, because home-schooling will be so great for him. Or maybe he'll be a different kid in a few years, you know? I try to remind myself that life doesn't have to be all-or-nothing.
My favourite part of elementary school was the new school supplies. I remember that particular smell of them so well. Sitting up and labeling Hannah's totally brought me back.
.-= Amber´s last blog ..The Tale of the Canadian Tire Money =-.
This is one of the main reasons I waver back and forth about homeschooling – feeling like I would be depriving my kids of the shared nostalgia. I hope that there will be kids that my girls can share their homeschool experience with in a similar way.
With the popularity of homeschooling growing, as it seems to be in my home community and online, having a shared homeschooling experience may not be as out-there as it once was.
.-= Michelle @ The Parent Vortex´s last blog ..Resource Review Thursday- Playful Parenting Online Discussion Group =-.
What about creating fall back-to-school routines for yourselves?
Go buy some of the school supplies (on sale after everyone else is done shopping), or get a calendar set from Staples.
Every year we do a trip or two (or three) to the art store to get art supplies. Everyone gets sketchbooks to fill each year. In our house, we all love that. The Not Back To School Picnic is a big one for us too.
I understand this too. Everyone asks my daughter what grade she is in at school and which school she's attending. There's that excitement in the air especially this time of year, and it's contagious. My daughter is very shy so I end up telling the people that we are homeschooling, and in a way it feels like I am depriving them of experiencing their own nostalgia. She started a yoga class today with other 5-7 year olds and they were all talking about their teachers and classrooms and my heart sank that my little girl who already has so much social anxiety now has even less in common with her peers than before. It's heart breaking for me to see her not know what to say. But one thing wonderful about self design for us is that because of my daughter's challenges they are paying for counselling for her anxiety and social skills issues. So maybe it will end up being worthwhile.. For now we're still settling in and I'm still struggling with these similar feelings you are having.
I definitely have those same fond memories of school… But isn't it funny how our fond memories don't include any of the lessons or learning experiences provided.
i was also worried that i would be depriving special k of these rituals but we did the back to school shopping and have joined a co-op that meets once a week for three hours of lessons in writing, art, geography, and science. there's a recess like time and a lunch session too. eventually when we are comfotable with the new routine we will look back and see all the things we have added to and enhanced during these moments.
.-= carla´s last blog ..homeschooling on a monday =-.
And my favorite thing about elementary school was learning. I just loved to learn (and read!). I carried around a little notebook in my back pocket, like Harriet the Spy.


How many photographs do you have in your computer? When was the last time you downloaded an image or synced image files from your phone to your computer? Did you ever copy an image from the download folder and pasted on the desktop of your PC?
There are, generally, many devices on which we keep our photos and in an effort to centralize, we sync all these photos to our computer. It is easier to maintain a few folders of images than memory cards, pen-drives, and all other external drives we use. Right?
Our unending copying and pasting, relentless syncing or restoring creates duplicates at much faster rate than we think. If you transfer or restore your photographs to your computer or download lots of images for your personal blog or any research, there are good chances that your system is cluttered with all kind of unwanted identical or similar photographs. And it is very demotivating (and boring) to manually clean your PC by selecting and removing what seems superfluous.
I am lately interested in reviewing those tools that could help the audience of my blog in keeping their system free of clutter, and Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is the first I could get my hands on.
Duplicate Photos Fixer is quite popular, having reigned over the Mac Store for the paid photography app category for quite some time.
We found no significant differences between the Windows and Mac version of the software.
The overall layout and interface of the tool is user-friendly. There are no bells-and-whistles and only the required features are given a place.
The home screen asks users to add folder or photos. In the sidebar, there are settings for changing the default 'comparison method' employed by the app's scan engine for predicting similarity and duplicity. One can easily add folders to allow the tool to search for duplicate images saved in those folders.
The overall process-flow of the app is pretty good.
As already stated, the overall process is seamless. Users are required to 'add' or 'drag and drop' folders to set the ball rolling.
If you want to remove only duplicate photos, you can choose 'Exact Match' option from the 'Comparison Method' menu. By default, the 'Similar Match' option is enabled with Matching Level set almost halfway between 'High' and 'Low'. You can leave the other settings intact.
Figure 1. Adding folders to scan for duplicates.
After adding folders and photos, you must click 'Scan for Duplicates'.
There were around 1000 photos saved in the folders added by me (screenshot provided), and the tool's scanning process took no longer than two minutes to find out all similar and duplicate images as per the default settings.
The application intelligently grouped together all images that were deemed similar to the tool.
A total of 66 groups of similar images were formed, and the app found a total of 180 duplicate photos in a few folders that I had added. The thumbnails were big enough for me to decide whether I want to keep an image to send it to recycle bin straight away.
A word of caution here, please do not set the matching level on 'low' as the application would then start picking up even those images that are just slightly similar, which you may want to keep intact.
Also, deleting hundreds of duplicates may seem not good enough to think twice about, but you may end up deleting some important images; however, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro doesn't permanently delete duplicate photos and rather send them to recycle bin so that you can restore any accidentally removed file.
That said, the default settings yielded superb results for me, and I didn't feel the need of manually selecting the images for deletion.
There is an 'Auto Mark' feature on the top left corner that you can use to select all images except one from each group. ALL images of any groups cannot be deleted, and this ensures that you don't end up removing every copy of the image and scrap only those that are duplicates or similar ones.
By clicking on 'Delete Marked' button, one can remove all selected images.
In spite of adding several folders, you should preferably add one or two folders that contain majority of images. Scout for all possible location where your photos reside and group them together in not more than two folders (you can create subfolders if you like). This will not only make the process of scanning easier but also keep the gallery organized.
Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro for Windows is as good a version as it is for Mac. It is good at picking up similar and duplicate images, and makes it really easy for you to recover some good hard-drive space.
If you are pretty quick at downloading several images or syncing photos from your camera devices, this tool will come in-handy more often than not.
I quite like their Android duplicate photo finder, but I prefer Duplicate Photo Cleaner for my Mac. Being an artist, I have quite a few duplicates and similar images on my Mac and sometimes I need to single out a detail on one image and search other images for that particular detail. Duplicate Photo Cleaner's sector detail scan is a life-saver for me.
Hi Eliza, we too like their software and android part. Its worth try!
Well, you didn't mention that the software is not free. Also, my antyvirus complaints that their website is dangerous and blocks it – so I even cannot tell how much the software is.
Hi Mark can you tell us the anti virus you are using ?
I purchased this after trying to mark photos for deletion and learning that it is not free after all. I think it is worth the price, EXCEPT when I ask it to delete the photos I marked, a screen comes up asking if I really want to delete them. The problem is that only part of the text is visible. I assume that there's a button to confirm the deletions because I can't do anything further; even the exit option does not appear anywhere on the screen. Is any information available for using this software or at least a way to contact their support?
Try to change the screen resolution, that's the quick fix!
They charge a lot and the Pro version is an Annual subscription! They also now want to scan the PC for viruses? Seems like a bad business model.


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Formed in 1998 by GAMMA RAY drummer Dan Zimmerman and vocalist/guitarist Chris Bay, the band went on to stardom, healthy sales, extensive touring and unexpected member changes. Their debut "Stairway to Fairyland" got them a good start in 1999 and all in all this is their seventh full-length release. Today´s lineup lacks Dan, who left in 2010, but Chris remains, while guitarist Lars Rettkowitz, bassist Sammy Saemann and drummer Klaus Sperling complete the ranks. 14 new tracks are on offer here, all fantasy and no doubt power metal with some imagination added.
The bag-pipe sounding "Age of the Phoenix" does a respectable job as an opener, but the almost silly and somewhat ESC friendly "Rockstars" does it even better. The over-adaptation of melody and power to the masses may be hard to muster for some, but the concept will work. "Crimson Dawn" is equally ridiculously well measured but the almost pop-like refrain will do the trick. The sing-along "66 Warriors" almost hits jackpot too, but misses by a millimeter. This is the most plusses I´ve jotted down this year. But some might say that "Hero on Video" is closer to BUCKS FIZZ than heavy metal, or that the slick aimed and polished songs lack in spontaneity and true metal. Well, ther are two songs athat I think are way too average; "Rockin´ Radio" is like a radio spot, and "Power & Glory" is simplicity in action and a blatant attempt at a simple live favorite. Apart from those two this is almost water-combed, but damned efficient at winning over fans!


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Sri Lanka and Notre Dame: Christianity under fire
Jack Zinsky | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Sri Lankan Christians were stunned when a series of bombings in Catholic churches killed 290 and left more than 500 others seriously injured. This comes only days after the devastating Notre-Dame Cathedral fire and the destruction of other French churches by fire around the same time. Catholics already in mourning for the loss of a beacon of their faith were hit with more tragedy as the persecution of Christians continues. While the media did address these attacks and covered the Notre Dame fire extensively, the fact remains that Christian persecution is grossly overlooked.
This has become a pattern in this column, but the social media addressing of the Sri Lankan attacks once again failed to capture the enormity of the devastation and the actual victims of the crime. Hillary Clinton rightfully spoke out on Twitter specifically against the persecution of Muslims after the Christchurch attack in New Zealand (though the full scope and meaning of that attack is an issue to address another time). However, following the Sri Lanka Easter attacks on Christians, Clinton avoided using the word "Christians," instead substituting the phrase "Easter worshipers." Barack Obama did the same thing. While the intent still seems to be the typical politician "thoughts and prayers," this tweet carries a subtext that Democratic politicians fear using the word "Christians."
This begs some questions: Why is the left so afraid of Christianity? For a party so devoted to diversity, why not condemn specifically the persecution of Christians, just as it condemns the persecution of Muslims? Will world leaders don crucifixes and rosaries just as they donned hijabs in solidarity with those at Christchurch? This is not a Christianity vs. Islam debate. This is an observation of the hypocrisy of politicians with an agenda. Politicians that preach diversity and equality should treat religious tragedies equally, then, right? The cycle of the media means great tragedies are forgotten within 48 hours, and the selective avoidance of the word "Christian" is an attempt to filter out the Sri Lanka bombings quickly and disassociate the attacks with anti-Christian violence.
The media, of course, did their part in focusing on all the wrong things. CNN actually aired a segment criticizing Donald Trump for getting the fatality number wrong in his condolences tweet. The network decided to actively avoid discussing the implications of the tragedy to nitpick the President's error, which was sent while the death toll was still being tallied. This was not surprising for a network devoted to slandering the President first and delivering news second. While CNN did cover the Notre Dame fires sufficiently as the news broke, it did what the other news outlets did: avoided a real explanation.
Church fires surfaced around France before the Notre Dame fire, but these went generally unacknowledged by the mainstream media. The atrocity of church arsons and bombings recently during the Triduum is appalling and disgusting. Given that there were many deliberate attacks on churches in recent weeks, the Notre Dame Cathedral fire should be given a second look and much further investigation. The cathedral's rector speculated that an electrical short circuit may have caused the fire, which spread quickly in such an old building. The blaze was detected and an alarm sounded, but a computer bug showed the fire in the wrong place, causing the roof to ignite without obstacle. This explanation is very feasible, and I hope investigators can prove that it was accidental. Until then, though, every cause is on the table.
Keeping in mind that both Sri Lanka and Notre Dame are very fresh, hot-button topics, I mean no disrespect by this speculation. Nevertheless, I do think that it is worth considering Notre Dame to be a potential arson. Think about the context: churches around France were vandalized in the year leading up to it, and now bombings at Catholic churches in Sri Lanka killed nearly 300 Christians. Notre Dame was sandwiched between these purposeful terror acts. It stood for 800 years before it suddenly burned down. I do not believe it was anything more than an unfortunate accident, but the media has not even entertained the idea of an intentional attack, especially given the context of incidents before and after Notre Dame.
Christians everywhere are grieving for Sri Lanka and Notre Dame. Christians continue to be persecuted, yet it is glossed over in the media, which is afraid to even use the word "Christians." In this time of violence, Christians must remain true to their faith and politicians must avoid hypocrisy. Unfortunately, the latter seems to be far less likely than the former.
Jack Zinsky is a sophomore from Tinley Park, Illinois, majoring in finance. He writes for the rights of the right. He can be reached at [email protected]
Tags: Christianity, Notre-Dame Cathedral, sri lankan bombings
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Rationality From AI to Zombies
Rationality From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Insights, lessons learnt:
Amazing collection of writings on morality, probability, ai, etc.
Many that have already been internalised from reading parts previously of this over the years
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Do you believe that elan vital explains the mysterious aliveness of living beings? Then what does this belief not allow to happen-what would definitely falsify this belief? A null answer means that your belief does not constrain experience; it permits anything to happen to you. It floats.
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Back in the old days, people actually believed their religions instead of just believing in them. The biblical archaeologists who went in search of Noah's Ark did not think they were wasting their time; they anticipated they might become famous. Only after failing to find confirming evidence-and finding disconfirming evidence in its place-did religionists execute what William Bartley called the retreat to commitment, "I believe because I believe."
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Not only did religion used to make claims about factual and scientific matters, religion used to make claims about everything. Religion laid down a code of law-before legislative bodies; religion laid down history-before historians and archaeologists; religion laid down the sexual morals-before Women's Lib; religion described the forms of government-before constitutions; and religion answered scientific questions from biological taxonomy to the formation of stars. The Old Testament doesn't talk about a sense of wonder at the complexity of the universe-it was busy laying down the death penalty for women who wore men's clothing, which was solid and satisfying religious content of that era. The modern concept of religion as purely ethical derives from every other area's having been taken over by better institutions. Ethics is what's left.
To assign more than 50% probability to the correct candidate from a pool of 100,000,000 possible hypotheses, you need at least 27 bits of evidence (or thereabouts). You cannot expect to find the correct candidate without tests that are this strong, because lesser tests will yield more than one candidate that passes all the tests. If you try to apply a test that only has a million-to-one chance of a false positive (~20 bits), you'll end up with a hundred candidates. Just finding the right answer, within a large space of possibilities, requires a large amount of evidence.
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Once upon a time, there was an instructor who taught physics students. One day the instructor called them into the classroom and showed them a wide, square plate of metal, next to a hot radiator. The students each put their hand on the plate and found the side next to the radiator cool, and the distant side warm. And the instructor said, Why do you think this happens? Some students guessed convection of air currents, and others guessed strange metals in the plate. They devised many creative explanations, none stooping so low as to say "I don't know" or " This seems impossible. " And the answer was that before the students entered the room, the instructor turned the plate around.
I encounter people who are quite willing to entertain the notion of dumber-than-human Artificial Intelligence, or even mildly smarter-than-human Artificial Intelligence. Introduce the notion of strongly superhuman Artificial Intelligence, and they'll suddenly decide it's "pseudoscience." It's not that they think they have a theory of intelligence which lets them calculate a theoretical upper bound on the power of an optimization process. Rather, they associate strongly superhuman AI to the literary genre of apocalyptic literature; whereas an AI running a small corporation associates to the literary genre of Wired magazine.
How can you realize that you shouldn't trust your seeming knowledge that "light is waves"? One test you could apply is asking, "Could I regenerate this knowledge if it were somehow deleted from my mind?" This is similar in spirit to scrambling the names of suggestively named LISP tokens in your AI program, and seeing if someone else can figure out what they allegedly "refer" to. It's also similar in spirit to observing that an Artificial Arithmetician programmed to record and play back Plus-Of(Seven, Six) = Thirteen can't regenerate the knowledge if you delete it from memory, until another human re-enters it in the database. Just as if you forgot that "light is waves," you couldn't get back the knowledge except the same way you got the knowledge to begin with-by asking a physicist. You couldn't generate the knowledge for yourself, the way that physicists originally generated it.
What should I believe? As it turns out, that question has a right answer. It has a right answer when you're wracked with uncertainty, not just when you have a conclusive proof. There is always a correct amount of confidence to have in a statement, even when it looks like a "personal belief" and not like an expert-verified "fact."
But, writes Robin Hanson : 1 You are never entitled to your opinion. Ever! You are not even entitled to "I don't know." You are entitled to your desires, and sometimes to your choices. You might own a choice, and if you can choose your preferences, you may have the right to do so. But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie.
Believing in Santa Claus gives children a sense of wonder and encourages them to behave well in hope of receiving presents. If Santa-belief is destroyed by truth , the children will lose their sense of wonder and stop behaving nicely. Therefore, even though Santa-belief is false-to-fact, it is a Noble Lie whose net benefit should be preserved for utilitarian reasons. Classically, this is known as a false dilemma , the fallacy of the excluded middle, or the package-deal fallacy . Even if we accept the underlying factual and moral premises of the above argument, it does not carry through. Even supposing that the Santa policy (encourage children to believe in Santa Claus) is better than the null policy (do nothing), it does not follow that Santa-ism is the best of all possible alternatives. Other policies could also supply children with a sense of wonder, such as taking them to watch a Space Shuttle launch or supplying them with science fiction novels. Likewise (if I recall correctly), offering children bribes for good behavior encourages the children to behave well only when adults are watching, while praise without bribes leads to unconditional good behavior.
In this case, I begin to suspect psychology that is more imperfect than usual-that someone may have made a devil's bargain with their own mistakes, and now refuses to hear of any possibility of improvement. When someone finds an excuse not to try to do better, they often refuse to concede that anyone else can try to do better, and every mode of improvement is thereafter their enemy, and every claim that it is possible to move forward is an offense against them. And so they say in one breath proudly, "I'm glad to be gray," and in the next breath angrily, "And you're gray too!"
This isn't the only way of writing probabilities, though. For example, you can transform probabilities into odds via the transformation O = (P/(1 - P)). So a probability of 50% would go to odds of 0.5/0.5 or 1, usually written 1:1, while a probability of 0.9 would go to odds of 0.9/0.1 or 9, usually written 9:1. To take odds back to probabilities you use P = (O/(1 + O)), and this is perfectly reversible, so the transformation is an isomorphism-a two-way reversible mapping. Thus, probabilities and odds are isomorphic,
A famous proof called Cox's Theorem (plus various extensions and refinements thereof) shows that all ways of representing uncertainties that obey some reasonable-sounding constraints, end up isomorphic to each other. Why does it matter that odds ratios are just as legitimate as probabilities? Probabilities as ordinarily written are between 0 and 1, and both 0 and 1 look like they ought to be readily reachable quantities-it's easy to see 1 zebra or 0 unicorns. But when you transform probabilities onto odds ratios, 0 goes to 0, but 1 goes to positive infinity. Now absolute truth doesn't look like it should be so easy to reach.
We live in an unfair universe. Like all primates, humans have strong negative reactions to perceived unfairness; thus we find this fact stressful. There are two popular methods of dealing with the resulting cognitive dissonance. First, one may change one's view of the facts-deny that the unfair events took place, or edit the history to make it appear fair. (This is mediated by the affect heuristic and the just-world fallacy .) Second, one may change one's morality-deny that the events are unfair. Some libertarians might say that if you go into a "banned products shop," passing clear warning labels that say THINGS IN THIS STORE MAY KILL YOU, and buy something that kills you, then it's your own fault and you deserve it. If that were a moral truth, there would be no downside to having shops that sell banned products. It wouldn't just be a net benefit, it would be a one-sided tradeoff with no drawbacks. Others argue that regulators can be trained to choose rationally and in harmony with consumer interests; if those were the facts of the matter then (in their moral view) there would be no downside to regulation.
Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is necessarily a change.
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. -Eugene Gendlin
In the same sense that every thermal differential wants to equalize itself, and every computer program wants to become a collection of ad-hoc patches, every Cause wants to be a cult.
In a 1989 Canadian study, adults were asked to imagine the death of children of various ages and estimate which deaths would create the greatest sense of loss in a parent. The results, plotted on a graph, show grief growing until just before adolescence and then beginning to drop. When this curve was compared with a curve showing changes in reproductive potential over the life cycle (a pattern calculated from Canadian demographic data), the correlation was fairly strong. But much stronger-nearly perfect, in fact-was the correlation between the grief curves of these modern Canadians and the reproductive-potential curve of a hunter-gatherer people, the !Kung of Africa. In other words, the pattern of changing grief was almost exactly what a Darwinian would predict, given demographic realities in the ancestral environment.
If you read Judea Pearl's Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference , 1 then you will see that the basic insight behind graphical models is indispensable to problems that require it.
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But that's not the a priori irrational part: The a priori irrational part is where, in the course of the argument, someone pulls out a dictionary and looks up the definition of "atheism" or "religion." (And yes, it's just as silly whether an atheist or religionist does it.) How could a dictionary possibly decide whether an empirical cluster of atheists is really substantially different from an empirical cluster of theologians? How can reality vary with the meaning of a word? The points in thingspace don't move around when we redraw a boundary.
When you find yourself in philosophical difficulties, the first line of defense is not to define your problematic terms, but to see whether you can think without using those terms at all. Or any of their short synonyms. And be careful not to let yourself invent a new word to use instead. Describe outward observables and interior mechanisms; don't use a single handle, whatever that handle may be.
A word itself can have the destructive force of clich茅 ; a word itself can carry the poison of a cached thought
eyeballing suggests that using the phrase by definition, anywhere outside of math, is among the most alarming signals of flawed argument I've ever found. It's right up there with "Hitler," "God," "absolutely certain," and "can't prove that."
it sometimes seems to me that at least 20% of the real-world effectiveness of a skilled rationalist comes from not stopping too early . If you keep asking questions, you'll get to your destination eventually. If you decide too early that you've found an answer, you won't.
In one of the standard fantasy plots, a protagonist from our Earth, a sympathetic character with lousy grades or a crushing mortgage but still a good heart, suddenly finds themselves in a world where magic operates in place of science. The protagonist often goes on to practice magic, and become in due course a (superpowerful) sorcerer. Now here's the question-and yes, it is a little unkind, but I think it needs to be asked: Presumably most readers of these novels see themselves in the protagonist's shoes, fantasizing about their own acquisition of sorcery. Wishing for magic. And, barring improbable demographics, most readers of these novels are not scientists. Born into a world of science, they did not become scientists. What makes them think that, in a world of magic, they would act any differently?
Modern science is built on discoveries, built on discoveries, built on discoveries, and so on, all the way back to people like Archimedes, who discovered facts like why boats float, that can make sense even if you don't know about other discoveries. A good place to start traveling that road is at the beginning.
There is an acid test of attempts at post-theism. The acid test is: "If religion had never existed among the human species-if we had never made the original mistake-would this song, this art, this ritual, this way of thinking, still make sense?" If humanity had never made the original mistake, there would be no hymns to the nonexistence of God. But there would still be marriages, so the notion of an atheistic marriage ceremony makes perfect sense-as long as you don't suddenly launch into a lecture on how God doesn't exist. Because, in a world where religion never had existed, nobody would interrupt a wedding to talk about the implausibility of a distant hypothetical concept. They'd talk about love, children, commitment, honesty, devotion, but who the heck would mention God?
As Cialdini remarks, a chief sign of this malfunction is that you dream of possessing something, rather than using it. (Timothy Ferriss offers similar advice on planning your life: ask which ongoing experiences would make you happy, rather than which possessions or status-changes.)
The problem is that, in the present world, very few people bother to study science in the first place. Science cannot be the true Secret Knowledge, because just anyone is allowed to know it-even though, in fact, they don't. If the Great Secret of Natural Selection, passed down from Darwin Who Is Not Forgotten, was only ever imparted to you after you paid $2,000 and went through a ceremony involving torches and robes and masks and sacrificing an ox, then when you were shown the fossils, and shown the optic cable going through the retina under a microscope, and finally told the Truth, you would say "That's the most brilliant thing ever!" and be satisfied.
The sound of these words is probably represented in your auditory cortex, as though you'd heard someone else say it. (Why do I think this? Because native Chinese speakers can remember longer digit sequences than English-speakers. Chinese digits are all single syllables, and so Chinese speakers can remember around ten digits, versus the famous "seven plus or minus two" for English speakers. There appears to be a loop of repeating sounds back to yourself, a size limit on working memory in the auditory cortex, which is genuinely phoneme-based.)
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But the conjunction rule does give us a rule of monotonic decrease in probability: as you tack more details onto a story, and each additional detail can potentially be true or false, the story's probability goes down monotonically. Think of probability as a conserved quantity: there's only so much to go around. As the number of details in a story goes up, the number of possible stories increases exponentially, but the sum over their probabilities can never be greater than 1. For every story "X and Y," there is a story "X and 卢Y." When you just tell the story "X," you get to sum over the possibilities Y and 卢Y. If you add ten details to X, each of which could potentially be true or false, then that story must compete with 210 - 1 other equally detailed stories for precious probability.
Tell people to choose an important problem and they will choose the first cache hit for "important problem" that pops into their heads, like "global warming" or "string theory." The truly important problems are often the ones you're not even considering, because they appear to be impossible, or, um, actually difficult, or worst of all, not clear how to solve. If you worked on them for years, they might not seem so impossible . . . but this is an extra and unusual insight; naive realism will tell you that solvable problems look solvable, and impossible-looking problems are impossible.
This parable helps illustrate why Bayesians must think about prior probabilities. There is a branch of statistics, sometimes called "orthodox" or "classical" statistics, which insists on paying attention only to likelihoods. But if you only pay attention to likelihoods, then eventually some fixed-coin hypothesis will always defeat the fair coin hypothesis, a phenomenon known as "overfitting" the theory to the data. After thirty flips, the likelihood is a billion times as great for the fixed-coin hypothesis with that sequence, as for the fair coin hypothesis. Only if the fixed-coin hypothesis (or rather, that specific fixed-coin hypothesis) is a billion times less probable a priori can the fixed-coin hypothesis possibly lose to the fair coin hypothesis.
Therefore do I advocate that Bayesian probability theory should be taught in high school. Bayesian probability theory is the sole piece of math I know that is accessible at the high school level, and that permits a technical understanding of a subject matter-the dynamics of belief-that is an everyday real-world domain and has emotionally meaningful consequences. Studying Bayesian probability would give students a referent for what it means to "explain" something.
Once there was a conflict between nineteenth century physics and nineteenth century evolutionism. According to the best physical models then in use, the Sun could not have been burning very long. Three thousand years on chemical energy, or 40 million years on gravitational energy. There was no energy source known to nineteenth century physics that would permit longer burning. Nineteenth century physics was not quite as powerful as modern physics-it did not have predictions accurate to within one part in 1014. But nineteenth century physics still had the mathematical character of modern physics, a discipline whose models produced detailed, precise, quantitative predictions. Nineteenth century evolutionary theory was wholly semitechnical, without a scrap of quantitative modeling. Not even Mendel's experiments with peas were then known. And yet it did seem likely that evolution would require longer than a paltry 40 million years in which to operate-hundreds of millions, even billions of years. The antiquity of the Earth was a vague and semitechnical prediction, of a vague and semitechnical theory. In contrast, the nineteenth century physicists had a precise and quantitative model, which through formal calculation produced the precise and quantitative dictum that the Sun simply could not have burned that long.
Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math. The fascinating words are not knowledge but the illusion of knowledge, which is why it brings so little satisfaction to know that "gravity results from the curvature of spacetime." Science is not in the fascinating words, though it's all you'll ever read as breaking news.
There is a shattering truth, so surprising and terrifying that people resist the implications with all their strength. Yet there are a lonely few with the courage to accept this satori. Here is wisdom, if you would be wise: Since the beginning Not one unusual thing Has ever happened. Alas for those who turn their eyes from zebras and dream of dragons! If we cannot learn to take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Anthony, only those who have moralities worry over whether or not they have them . If your metaethic tells you to kill people, why should you even listen? Maybe that which you would do even if there were no morality, is your morality.
So all this suggests that you should be willing to accept that you might know a little about morality. Nothing unquestionable, perhaps, but an initial state with which to start questioning yourself . Baked into your brain but not explicitly known to you, perhaps; but still, that which your brain would recognize as right is what you are talking about. You will accept at least enough of the way you respond to moral arguments as a starting point to identify "morality" as something to think about. But that's a rather large step. It implies accepting your own mind as identifying a moral frame of reference, rather than all morality being a great light shining from beyond (that in principle you might not be able to perceive at all). It implies accepting that even if there were a light and your brain decided to recognize it as "morality," it would still be your own brain that recognized it, and you would not have evaded causal responsibility-or evaded moral responsibility either, on my view.
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The experimental rule is that losing a desideratum-$50, a coffee mug, whatever-hurts between 2 and 2.5 times as much as the equivalent gain.
Once upon a time, three groups of subjects were asked how much they would pay to save 2,000 / 20,000 / 200,000 migrating birds from drowning in uncovered oil ponds. The groups respectively answered $80, $78, and $88. 1 This is scope insensitivity or scope neglect: the number of birds saved-the scope of the altruistic action-had little effect on willingness to pay.
People visualize "a single exhausted bird, its feathers soaked in black oil, unable to escape." 4 This image, or prototype, calls forth some level of emotional arousal that is primarily responsible for willingness-to-pay-and the image is the same in all cases. As for scope, it gets tossed out the window-no human can visualize 2,000 birds at once, let alone 200,000. The usual finding is that exponential increases in scope create linear increases in willingness-to-pay-perhaps
I believe that one experiment showed that a shift from 100% probability to 99% probability weighed larger in people's minds than a shift from 80% probability to 20% probability.
Whenever you try to price a probability shift from 24% to 23% as being less important than a shift from ~1 to 99%-every time you try to make an increment of probability have more value when it's near an end of the scale-you open yourself up to this kind of exploitation.
Save 400 lives, with certainty. Save 500 lives, with 90% probability; save no lives, 10% probability. Most people choose option 1. Which, I think, is foolish; because if you multiply 500 lives by 90% probability, you get an expected value of 450 lives, which exceeds the 400-life value of option 1. (Lives saved don't diminish in marginal utility, so this is an appropriate calculation.) "What!" you cry, incensed. "How can you gamble with human lives? How can you think about numbers when so much is at stake? What if that 10% probability strikes, and everyone dies? So much for your damned logic! You're following your rationality off a cliff!" Ah, but here's the interesting thing. If you present the options this way: 100 people die, with certainty. 90% chance no one dies; 10% chance 500 people die. Then a majority choose option 2. Even though it's the same gamble. You see, just as a certainty of saving 400 lives seems to feel so much more comfortable than an unsure gain, so too, a certain loss feels worse than an uncertain one.
Occasionally people object to any discussion of morality on the grounds that morality doesn't exist, and in lieu of explaining that "exist" is not the right term to use here, I generally say, "But what do you do anyway?" and take the discussion back down to the object level.
you see people insisting that no amount of money whatsoever is worth a single human life, and then driving an extra mile to save $10;
But any human legal system does embody some answer to the question "How many innocent people can we put in jail to get the guilty ones?," even if the number isn't written down.
Being the lone voice of dissent in the crowd and having everyone look at you funny is much scarier than a mere threat to your life, according to the revealed preferences of teenagers who drink at parties and then drive home.
Particularly damaging, I think, was the bad example set by the pretenders to Deep Wisdom trying to stake out a middle way; smiling condescendingly at technophiles and technophobes alike, and calling them both immature. Truly this is a wrong way; and in fact, the notion of trying to stake out a middle way generally, is usually wrong. The Right Way is not a compromise with anything; it is the clean manifestation of its own criteria.
I once lent Xiaoguang "Mike" Li my copy of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Mike Li read some of it, and then came back and said: Wow . . . it's like Jaynes is a thousand-year-old vampire. Then Mike said, "No, wait, let me explain that-" and I said, "No, I know exactly what you mean." It's a convention in fantasy literature that the older a vampire gets, the more powerful they become. I'd enjoyed math proofs before I encountered Jaynes. But E. T. Jaynes was the first time I picked up a sense of formidability from mathematical arguments. Maybe because Jaynes was lining up "paradoxes" that had been used to object to Bayesianism, and then blasting them to pieces with overwhelming firepower-power being used to overcome others.
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You have to be wide awake to enjoy Stoppard, and this play is no exception. Radcliffe and McGuire are great together as the two ill-fated courtiers and they never miss a trick. David Haig is a fantastic father figure, who brings the players (both his troupe and the two courtiers) together to make the play coherent to those new to Stoppard.


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Nomination Of Former Oil Industry Lawyer Is "Fantastic News For Colorado," Says Gardner
by: Jason Salzman February 4, 2019 at 2:46 PM MDT
(Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
Reactions diverged wildly today to Trump's nomination of Colorado native and former oil industry lobbyist David Bernhardt for Secretary of Interior, with a leader of a Denver-based environmental group calling Bernhardt an "affront to America's parks and public lands" and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner saying his appointment is "fantastic news for Colorado."
"I've known David Bernhardt for many years and have worked closely with him over the last two years to advance Colorado priorities," Gardner, a Republican, said in a statement. "As a native Coloradan from the Western Slope, David knows how important public lands are to our state and has a keen understanding of the issues Coloradans face every day. From moving the Bureau of Land Management to the West to promoting conservation programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Coloradans will be lucky to have David lead our Interior Department. I look forward to supporting him throughout the confirmation process."
During his tenure at Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt served as a lawyer for oil and gas companies, which is one reason Jennifer Rokala, Director of the Center for Western Priorities, said Bernhardt shouldn't be confirmed.
"David Bernhardt's nomination is an affront to America's parks and public lands," said Rokala in a statement. "As an oil and gas lobbyist, Bernhardt pushed to open vast swaths of public lands for drilling and mining. As deputy secretary, he was behind some of the worst policy decisions of Secretary Zinke's sad tenure, including stripping protections for imperiled wildlife. Bernhardt even used the government shutdown to approve drilling permits for companies linked to his former clients."
Rokala's statement directed reporters to a list of actions Bernhardt is undertaking at the request of oil and gas companies that he's allegedly represented in some way and represent conflicts of interest.
"As senators consider Bernhardt's nomination, it's crucial they remember that the ongoing investigations into Ryan Zinke's conduct intersect with policies that David Bernhardt has helped enact. Otherwise, we'll see another Interior secretary fall into the same ethical abyss that ended Ryan Zinke's political career. If a walking conflict of interest like David Bernhardt gets confirmed, oversight and true transparency will be more important than ever."
Bernhardt is currently deputy Secretary of Interior, and would replace Ryan Zinke, who was praised by Colorado Republicans not long before he resigned under pressure and amid ethics investigations.
ColoradoPolitics reported today:
He met Zinke when he volunteered to help with the Trump transition team, then helped prepare Zinke for his confirmation hearings as Interior secretary.
Both of Colorado's U.S. senators — Republican Cory Gardner and Democrat Michael Bennet — voted to confirm Bernhardt as deputy Interior secretary in July 2017, but most of Bennet's Democratic colleagues opposed the nominee, as did several environmental groups. The confirmation vote was 53-43
February 4, 2019 at 5:23 PM MDT
Cmon, Zappy, let's boo Bennet! Boooooooooo………..
Duke Cox says:
Booing Bennet aside…there is much well deserved derision to heap upon Bernhardt.
One of the circumstances of kleptocracy is the capture of industry and commerce by the producers. It is in the producers' business interests to own the regulatory agencies and to have their elected politicians make appropriate laws for those agencies to ignore the health and safety of their consumers.