Friday, August 22, 2014

This austere Kansas City Life

   Its pretty amazing living the life that you live, taking for granted whatever you it is to be taken for granted.  You know going out for food.  Of course, these days leave it to the likes of Kris Ketz, we'd all be eating at safe houses, or have our groceries special delivered for the like ABC news.  But when you down to a handful of stores its no problem at all!!!!  :D

Take the Chris Leaf sign down the street, or Enuch movers...now the enuch movers apparently decided to ship off there Kris Ketz, but maybe there are some hold outs somewhere around here?!

I think I am supposed to fear the goonies showing up the doorstep there, but lucky for me...I don't know why I feel lucky today, like all the days leading up to this day!

Hmmm...

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Some more recent review thoughts on online education

    I am sort of amazed at the experience.  Although at times text in certain instances depending on the level of provisioning that a particular instructor/institution would put into the preparation for a given course, certain courses could be en par in terms of the depth of course instruction though seemingly course level materials may be tailored around the nature, one should imagine, of a given student/audience body, and mostly I'd mention I've delved around the mathematics, science, and in one particular instance a bio statistical mathematics course...actually this were a sort of signal analysis course relating to interpretation of fMRI data, where the approach to the course is more summary, thus far, and appears likely as to the courses tracking.   In a way given the level of material, and nature, since I had taken a signals analysis course before, and having known that application in a given elementary approach might be in many cases a more simplified version of the applied approach to this subject matter.  Necessarily computational aids, potentially extended beyond the scope of even free computational mathematics engines would likely entail that some sort of class specific computational software were made accessible, I would likely guess...at least the wolfram alpha website curtails more lengthy and extensive computations from what I've seen if you weren't a professional package consumer.  In the case of the signal analysis course, a free in class version of Matlab were provided, and generally given all the manner of primer to using the software were provided as opposed to having the class designate any sort of pre requisite knowledge on using this software.  It seems in the case of signal analysis course, I could offer that even with the added expense of having to teach software usage, my overall feeling were that the course were potentially successful.  As in the case of actual applied techniques for fMRI, it would seem (into the 3rd week) any sort of applied problem work could be potentially much tougher without some simplification to work and/or course appropriate work loads for problem solving.  

    Onto the physics side, thus far I've probably been most involved time investment wise in on a given Mechanics course.  That being said, I've still generally loved what I've seen, or at least I could offer the feeling of having worked a bit more in terms of problem solving techniques relative to an engineering preparatory dominant college level 1rst or 2nd year undergraduate course, likely leaning more towards 2nd year at least potentially given the potential nature of calculus being employed in the course.   Many of the problems it would seem in the case of this course requiring at times, any number of decomposition steps in obtaining a given solution/derivation.  This being said, probably in some ways challenging and surprisingly so, I could at least offer at least in grasping concepts to classical mechanics, I feel like the review has refreshed something of knowledge on subject matter here if not outright providing some manner of insight.  It would seem on the point of insight grappling with this subject matter were concerned in to the nature of self learning, or in other words, potentially some could take away less while other more depending on their approach to tackling material.  By far the stronger points, it seems were the work in these assignments for this course, as opposed to the primer educational materials, or at least maybe it were something lacking on my part for the given course readings?

     If one were looking for preparations for any undergraduate level courses, some of the classes actually seem to offer some excellent free source material for gaining foothold and advantage given any level of deficits, although it seems still that outside of certificate options, there wouldn't exactly be any given substitute for a given diploma or degree.  For continuing education, or supplemental education in general, and potentially in some areas were certificate related experience were stronger points to one's career as opposed to being strictly based upon traditional academics, online education appears to be excellent from what I've seen so far.  Then I think in terms of the added access provided here, a bit in spirit perhaps, like communiversity type educational setting but at least as I've seen typically beyond the formatted scope of even this, this sort of presentation provides a nice academic interface between a given layman's world and popular education in general.  At least where this tends to provide demystification say in the arenas of sciences and mathematics, for instance, relative to applied concepts that many should take for granted.  

Monday, August 4, 2014

What is he talking about?! ...

    When there is much else it seems going on in this world...

    Priorities come by way of the dangers supposedly posed by any one thing in life, rational or irrational fear supposedly is made of this,  truth comes by the rational nature of people that scale anything where inherent dangers abound and are called sane, while those that remain in too much supposedly the coveted state of protection are called dangers to themselves and others.  The suspect causus belli is one driven for other reasons, if for the sake of perceived power alone.  If a career is driven in some way in part by a given professional sanctuary given to those in saying whatever should be pleased in some way shape or form by the industries, governments themselves, which invoke the insanity of imagination, it is this sort of sanctuary that is endowed to the privilege of a few, all else considered in another way suspect.

    Typical response testing might fall short in any event, and likely it seems in the long run, one were to ask, much here should fall short of assimilating, reintegrating, providing social welfare to other for their benefit, but merely having engaged in risk measurement and potentially any punitive means in liabilities assessment.  Only the threshold bar declines in some manner, and with threshold diminishing it seems it would take a long time before the fitness test should formally preclude legislation which explicitly made clear the mentally fit should even have an eligible vote in a given state, as if the contingency of a state's deterioration resided on the presence of insanity destroying state and government alike.  Of course, it is easy to hold suspect and target marginal peoples in society.  Social systems and economics it seems should provide some fluid easing to the notion that when changes are supposedly to be made in a society the conditions warranting were likely for all the reasons that have changes occurring where resistances are least, the marginal are easier to wrought, transform, assimilate, destroy, demolish in changing, while on the other hand, requiring the mainstream to change is another matter, it obviously costs more, for instance, changing wholesale fleets of gas driven cars with electric ones, and thus the great leap in changing the culture of societies is often times not really given to the changes one might expect.  On the matter of the supposed rise of regression, on the other hand, it seems at all likely, that razing bouts, last in short orders of time, and then pass with respect to general social trending.

    When others claim to have interests but really don't, or when it becomes more than abundantly obvious otherwise, one sees the world not as in a system devised of social welfare, mechanisms of social control can at times be devised in these forms of aid, the much given to excessive complainer fills the bed and although there really relative to other things passing in this world, be so much of a tangible threat there is something of a quota filled by these sorts of observations.  Sensitivity and tolerances, neither come so much by the systemic conditions given to any generation raised to the degree of having likely successes, these sorts of support networks are often times given to the construct that hard times are given to easier passage, recovery is given to a phone call of support, or friend at the doorstep, the 'I heard you were out of work, so I passed this message on to a friend...' while the marginalized often times have none of these advantages.  Of course, in polite terms academia focuses on inherent social structures as a causal or providing relation while major cities merely engage in risk containment strategies, and only with a pulpit whip that offers on the other side of less than affable doublespeak.   Here social welfare systems fail us when the same mega power house financial institutions rob us blind in some manner, and it is social welfare that is to serve as lynch pin of the ills for a given society?!  It seems in another way,  that we could be ignorant enough to allow ourselves to be doubly robbed in society?!  

 Test baiting and negative stimuli?!  Come on' it seems a fascist society could do better than this?!



Saturday, August 2, 2014

Ramble on science, math, economy, questioning authority, and peer reviw

    Questioning is actually good, but it can definitely be an intimidating process, and yet on the other hand if neither having the possession so much of embarrassment concerning ego or anything else for that matter, this could serve potentially better although wondering with respect to the degree of questioning and any particular ignorance or arrogance shown otherwise.  Here I think with something of uneasy trepidation, its not easy questioning at times and being wrong on a given answer but being altogether right on the same hand for daring to question?!  At least,  I could recall probably most recently squaring my thoughts in frustration on something like the examination of the subject matter of mechanics, where given radial acceleration of a rotating body, gravitational force were in the direction of the radial arm (producing zero torque), and of course given that truly a pivoting arm with any angular acceleration directed by way of centripetal acceleration while outward on the pivoting body should actually by newton's laws result in a static equation (that is, the pivoting point weren't translating), and so I think that truly the answer in another way to the question of the y component acceleration of the pivoting arm at its given endpoint in a given vertical configuration should have a net resultant acceleration of zero on the y component direction, but here for the sake of points, I answer the question differently than the way that I think in terms of net forces, although maybe it seems I could overlook this point with respect to the questions wording asking for 'y component acceleration at a given point, but not resultant y component force'.

    On the one hand in culture we are given any number of cultural wisdom s like its better to remain silence than having demonstrated, in so many words, one's ignorance, yet, if we remained silent without asking the question which may or may not protest one's ignorance, how should we ever learn as efficiently or adequately?!  Here the trepidation that passes is one gained from something of an inset wisdom on the matter of going more easily to the role of believing with conviction the right of one's truth, and then moments later only having found out all too easily, that any particular crucial detail were overlooked in the process of one's reasoning, or that one simply hadn't observed adequately all manner of assumptions.  The other common sort of logic that at times could bare fallacy were that any unruly nature of work for an assigned problem were necessarily a problem with respect to the degree of the assignment or indicators with respect to the nature of one's solution work.  I don't know how many times, I've found myself backtracking and rechecking work thinking this, yet it seems a counter example of this only occurs later.  Then one realizes being human like others.  

Thinking about the nature of questioning in another way, however, I think only as when any inclination of age existed prior as in aging, are we more likely to concede on the point of neither asking questions as much as we had when we were younger?!  Likely as we found that through rote experience of statistics that often times our overlooking details that had been parsed over by many, should be a testament to the degree of our time expedient ways of reading through information, I am not so attentive in exacting ways to details, but only through pouring over text, parsing and re reading information are I more likely to catch errors in my thinking or provided assumptions.  The larger the readership, in theory, should yield the greater likelihood that errors are caught and corrected in time, which is to say why in science, mathematics, or in literature in general, peer review or readers in general matter to the process of language, communication, and logic, but admittedly, one should wonder how persistently do errors pass unchecked even over centuries on a given subject matter, and all because of the investment and weight of presiding authority?  Top scientists and mathematicians no doubt blunder no doubt in some way likely in their lifetime, and eventually it seems inadequacies or blunders in logic succumb to the test of time.  If it were only merely having asked a group of Pythagoreans what exactly were the square root of 2, having asserted at least at such a time that it were neither rational, before facing likely a death sentence, although I am not sure if this were more historically for the sake of legend than truth, or maybe it seems one could argue to some degree with these sorts of rigid thinkers up to a point, but if you were defacing their temples with graffiti in the form of 'square root of 2 is irrational', there could be some successive stage of punishment?!  I am not sure here.  Some thinkers could have chosen preferably the way of hemlock before conceding in principle to denial on certain matters at least in so far as prejudices, or others it seems may have instead submitted in some way shape or form, and then with some manner of blessing proceeded in subversive ways.  

    Returning to the subject matter of peer review, as I have seen complained about, the degree of expense in possessing privately published academic journals are likely beyond the reach of any number of households, peer review itself might not be as democratic as we like to believe, if it weren't supposedly for the PLOS movement, and then as complained, because of the degree of specialization that should be given to any particular erudite subject matter where doctorate grade education on a particular subject were necessary merely in deciphering the code of logic for a given discipline, which might exclude any potential base of individuals.  It seems that for some given subject matter, the field could be excluded to review by handfuls of individuals here on the matter of education and expertise, replicating experiments, validating works, or as I've read complained about,  prodigious works were more likely to go unchecked over time.  The roles of any particular thinkers, scientists in verifying works should seem a less than desirable, less than noble goal compared to those who aim their careers at study, publication of original works, or contributing some theory for that matter?! 
     
    Concerning the matter of economy take, for instance,  a former leader of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, arguing about the governing mathematical logical systems governing the body mechanics of a specific type of financial derivative investments.  Here the argument having gone along the lines, 'you'd need a doctorate to understand the math, and even then you'd still have much difficulty.'  Well technically he's probably right in some way, but its is also that a given social system perpetuates authority on the basis of a form of mysticism, the power of potentially something so complex that it couldn't be understood, or as in the age, where most would likely be content to let the magic of technology operate in their daily lives without so much degree of question or understanding where or why things should be as they are, or as any degree of logic proceeds, why exactly should people be wrong to think that super colliders having replicated the conditions of our early universe and simultaneously having produced very very small black holes (or an equivalent type of energy condition), not believe that a given situation could spiral out of hand, not unlike those having talked about runaway chain reaction events like china syndrome?!  Here it seems more likely that science popularization has with cultural expediency scoffed at the idea of explanation (as I've seen at times even in layman s language), but as it turns out something could be amiss when scientists, mathematicians, engineers, or economists are remiss to understand something so readily resorted upon employed inventions, discoveries, or instrument/tool which were the wonders of scientific and technological production in comprehensive ways, or merely engage in more secretive ways to employ these technologies.  Here if you were thinking the miraculous nature of one's modern life were enough testament otherwise, it seems we have considered the cultural thinking of a technological religion or at least faith.  When we see so many positive benefits provided to us by the engineers, thinkers, mathematicians, scientists and so forth that produced them, maybe are less likely to question anything being wrong, even if everything around us seems to work so well?!  Then we find in some ways that the degree of con artistry given might have had some reducible features, like the man that walks up to the cash register and ask for change, and employs a classic age old short change trick, or at least playing accounting games, cooking books is nothing new really, even if device of a new financial/mathematical religion is held over any one's head for mystifying purposes. 

If there are dumb questions it seems maybe we are afraid to ask the smart ones?

Some amazing thoughts on statistics!

    I did a brief read on some stats, and it sort of amazed me thinking about it, the US is so tiny compared to overall world population of 7 billion.  I mean just 300 million and then some strong, its just  around 4% of the world's population alone (maybe a little bit bigger but not a whole lot more then say anything above 1% percent)!

Wold Population Statistics


Now this is a cool statistic, do a comparison, world advancing rapidly, pretty, pretty amazing!  

And as to securities arrangement worldwide...crap your guess is good as mine?!  :D

As to the fictional story, the leftovers, with 2%  loss in world population which would amount to approximately half of the US population (or precisely around 140 million people)...generally pretty small beans in terms of loss still, that likely does squat for population growth, and generally likely has marginal to limited impact in effect dampening statistical growth in consideration of much else on this planet...hardly a rapture compared to raptures in the past really...of course, one could also argue on the lines of residual effect and chaos theory, alongside whatever communications theories that should exist in so far as problems that would pop up given loses and see some potential impacts but I am not sure that overall given impacts what effects these might have.  The residuals problem it turns out under a given scenario should seem more likely, that is, where losses in populations are, for instance, coupled or linked to impacts relating to some catastrophe or calamity in general.  Thus any asteroid impact having released enough energy to decimate say 2% of a world population would likely create residual problems down the road impacting existing populations which is to say its hard to argue along the lines either that an initial 2% loss happens and that were that as though with the stroke of a magic wand the problem came and vanished leaving only sociological and psychological impacts...at least concerning natural theories governing the at world's ends natural cataclysms.

Friday, August 1, 2014

Fed up with the fed!

    Grave knowledge?!

The Fed is giving up on me.  I've already stated in so many words repeatedly our credit rating agencies stink!   

Oblivion

 Between the fascination of an upcoming pandemic ridden college football season, Taylor Swift, and Kim Kardashian, wildfires, crazier weathe...