Overlapping Scenarios

After my Knowledge Engineering meetup with Caltrop City (nick), I moved my operation down valley. Ryan was ready to rejoin his clan, having been initiated into our reading programs, involving Amy’s classic, a book on Markov chains, other Active Inference relevant readings. 

We talked about the three minds model during the car trip, and the potential role of dreams, and journaling them. “It’s OK to engage in a discipline habitually, religiously, and then suddenly go cold turkey, if that’s what works for you” I recall saying.

A three tier model of the mind also featured in the KE meetup: perception, attention, meta-awareness being the namespaces there. Golden Spike GNN.

Ryan got the tour of the Flextegrity Museum after which I dropped him off at Lorax Manor in Eugene, which to my mind sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss. 

Before we left, Dr. D. had sent the output of his program to solve the Snake Cube, like one of Rubic’s in being 3x3x3, but presenting a different challenge. A string of 3-long and 2-long cubes folds up in a specific way. He later shared his C source code with us, taking  me take to my days at Sunshine Elite Education, and its focus on dynamic programming techniques for solving just such puzzles.

What I noticed right away with Atlas Shrugged Part III (its original name) was it used different actors for so many key roles.

I’m thinking of a science fiction movie in which Ayn Rand tunes in Bucky big time and becomes a fan, altering her philosophy accordingly, not in the direction of Marxism, which was never a Russian ideology to begin with, but in the direction of Ouspensky. 

Man cannot do. 

Some get lucky though, like “Bob” Dobbs, and/or John Galt.

Post Tournament

I thank President Id as we Freudians might call him, for spilling the beans regarding what the numbskulls all around him are thinking, in terms of further decapitation exercises. Their rhetoric sounds kinda head choppy, not unlike Al Qaeda’s.

Sometimes the best a president can do is spill beans, as an insider, to where they don’t want you in meetings, at which point those meetings are delegitimized, so Catch 22.

My faculty visitors popped by for another photo shoot this morning. Toronto has been to Germany (back to that shorthand I was talking about). He showed us his skills as a foot bagger. Dante doesn’t tend to say Hacky Sacker out of respect for the copyright holder of that term, the giant Wham-O. He lives proximally to Toronto, not in Toronto.

Yes, our network is obviously global, always has been, given how much RBF got around, never traveling as a tourist.

The tournament was in Willamette Park, West Linn. By “tournament” I mean a whole set of events, some competitive, some less so. Dante is more a freestyle artist, and he treated Casey and I to a display of his skills at the food court last night, the new one on Hawthorne.

Synergetics Punk

Tripping on Tetrahedra (School of Tomorrow)

:: zig-zagging ::

It's not like my phone suddenly starts ringing off the hook when DC (The District) suddenly goes crazy. 

The District has always been crazy, ever since I was born, right around the time of the Kennedy assassination, and it's been downhill from there. I dodged the draft in that window after the American War in Southeast Asia (with people now egging on another one) plus as a Quaker I'd have fought for my right to not participate in such "organized" madness (i.e. chaos).

All of which is to say, I'm paying attention, but really have no active short term role in Atlanticist affairs.

With my eye on the longer term, I've continued to be productive on Synergeo, going ahead with how I'd think MHCC (a local community college) would wanna look at it: as a how best to teach teachers, who in turn take it to the frontline. 

By "it" I mean "whatever" but in this case I'm also speaking more specifically about Quadray Coordinates, an aspect of Cascadian Synergetics I've been sharing through my Philosophy Talk blog lately, among other places.

I'm continuing to hammer on some sharable color scheme, thanks to earlier meetups with Germany and Mexico, using those nation names as shorthand mnemonics for some individuals on the call. I'm in Portland, as we all know (PDX in Oregon, Cascadia, Pacwest or whatever... PNW). 

I call it "landing the spaceship" i.e. coming in from Zero G in a tumbling tetrahedron, where we wanna no longer postpone or equivocate as to "which side is down", time to choose, with the most logical thing being, with a caltrop, to put three legs on the ground, in tripod formation, with the fourth spoke straight up. 

Now that the ship has landed (up ahead of us) let's establish a color code that also locks in an angle of view vs-a-vs some "my left" (blue) and "my right" (red), with yellow in back (3rd leg) and green up top. I might be a human on foot, I might be a drone about head high. The apparatus ahead is like a radio antenna with a blinking green light at the top.

The point (one of them) is to well-establish the mathematical (and computer scientific) notion of "mapping" e.g. of 

A to Red
B to Green
C to Blue
D to Yellow. 

If that all seems arbitrary, it is. 

In Python we'd go: {A: 'Red', B: 'Green', C: 'Blue', D: 'Yellow'}. That my A, B, C, D have no quotes around them means they're names of objects in the namespace. 

That's right: they're the names of IVM vectors, instances of the Qvector class (quadray class) in my Python framework, all free online at the School of Tomorrow.

That's a screenshot of me in Spyder, constructing the dict I was just mentioning, in Python.

The Digital Mathematics curriculum I favor, native to the Silicon Forest, mixes computer programming with math as a single subject, and pays a lot of attention to "types" as in "floating point" versus "integer" but then also in the mathematical sense of Real type (R) versus Rational type (Q). 

N < W < Z < Q < R < C as some put it (progressively broader categories of number type). 

I'm supposed to use different Unicode glyphs for some of them, so call me lazy (a geek virtue).

WILPF Memo

Per my memo to the WILPF listserv just now, wherever enrichment is happening geographically, the consortium structure, mirroring CERN's lets say (an afterthought, not in the memo), would allow faculty and engineering departments to keep up to date on the (monitored) process, meaning Iranian scientists will continue contributing their talents while the Iranian admin continues securing enough inventory for the civilian programs.

WILPF of course sides with Iran in supporting the proposed UN ban treaty on nuke weapons. Such weapons, the choice of juvenile cowards, are used to threaten more principled and noble entities with destruction "or else". 

Said ban treaty is distinct from the more watered-down Nonproliferation Treaty which Iran has abided by (unlike some non signatory states or stans we might mention).

Iranians will have no problem procuring and operating more up-to-date civilian tech once the dust settles, and will now have more reason to do so. The technology just keeps getting better. 

Wherever enrichment happens, Iranians will be monitoring the supply chain, as they're part of IAEA as well, and it's in Iran's interest to enforce the UN ban treaty, once it's ratified.

Quoting from my memo (I don't have an URL for it):

Per these attacks by the neocons on Iranian nuke facilities: hardware in the nuke industry has a short half life meaning it amortizes rather quickly in terms of newer, better models coming online with support tech to boot, ergo Iran can't be stopped from at least planning to buy into the next round of nuke tech. Murdering a few scientists, however vicious, isn't going to change anything on that score. Iran will be able to procure and operate newer versions of whatever is destroyed, especially in a world without sanctions and United Nations banned nuke weapons (WILPF's goal).

Should Iran give up on domestic enrichment? Where enrichment operations are sited has less to do with ownership than with monitoring. Iran was eager to let IAEA keep monitoring its programs because it was proudly anti nuke weapon (nuke weapons are for cowards, obviously), but if the IAEA has to only monitor enrichment outside the Middle East for now, that won't mean Iranian faculty and stockholders can't nevertheless benefit from participating in the consortium. Iran will still be in the enrichment business, wherever the facilities are geographically located. That's my prediction.

I don't see Netenyahu accomplishing anything positively significant on behalf of the people he claims (weakly) to represent with his silly "Rising Lion" scenario (scoff, snicker), a tawdry piece of melodrama like something only a really poor-quality Hollywood studio would come up with. Rotten tomatoes x 10. 

Yeah, I spelled the dude's name wrong. Who cares, right?

Apex Outward Packing

Me to designer of the above: on this one I’d maybe put the labeling spheres right over the tet corners and not have them inside the tip tetras. Colored balls label vertexes more than they do volumes. 

Then of course I’ve proposed using the term “CCP-sized” if the balls are more than just heuristic labeling devices for the purposes of description, and actually are a part of the objective vista, important in their own right. Not ideological symbols but actual objective phenomena. In that case, their precise size actually matters, as I want CCP balls to touch each other (four balls make an IVM tetrahedron). Yours rarely do. You’ve come across as disinterested in the CCP of CCP-sized balls, but then seem OK with Struppi’s colored ball packings and consecutive numbering schemes.

Yes, there’s a school of thought says all these polemical word acts, such as sarcasm, are “violent” however I come from the “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” nursery down the hall, where “use your words” to a preschooler means “rather than indulge in physically outward violent acts that may lead to physical injury, express your attitude verbally in a clear and simple language.” 

That’s what “alternatives to violence” workshops, like in prisons, often feature: better verbal communication skills. We don’t punish people who “use their words” (versus “act out”) by name-calling them “violent” (that comes across as a low blow, a dirty trick, kinda “forked tongue” if you ask me). 

So sarcasm is OK. We Quakers forswear outward violence meaning it’s all about the power of the pen being greater than that of the sword. That means edgy writing, sharp wit, is encouraged, not dumbed down with a lot of waffle whiffle sniffle piffle.

I was familiar with apex-outward packing as an option, but was doing animated GIFs of center-outward (1, 12, 42, 92, 162…), and such, so long ago that OEIS itself mentions my name in the links section, has for a long time. You never link to OEIS. I judge a scholar on how much room they have for egos other than their own (without necessarily dismissing their own egos).

Your rigorous insisting on same (apex outward), versus concentric (starting with Orange or Black), starting with Blue (so arbitrary!) and growing in the direction of the RYG triangle, 3, 6, 10, 15… with cumulative tetrahedral numbers (1, 4, 10, 20 35…) showing up on Reds, because Red is always the last in our Top Down Left to Right algorithm (TDLR), helped me hammer on my codebase and produce more content in my Jupyter Notebooks. 

That’s what I was taught by Struppi when he briefed me on what you’d been doing, then I learned later it was still up for grabs to some degree. Oh well, what’s important is internal consistency. Internal to my own corpus. We can swap in different algorithms, just give them names so we can tell them apart. 

For my purposes, I had to choose one when I had a window to number all the balls out to what was it? 

Ball 15 is at the body center of a 4-frequency so the next triangle out is what triangular number? 

Packing CCP balls (in the mind’s eye — no physical objects necessary if you’re unable to obtain educational supplies, you might be a prisoner in some XYZer jail):

Layer: Tri-number: Enumeration: Comment

• L0: 1: (1) (B): apex beginning starting with BYRG-Byrd duotet of volume 3
• L1: 3:  (2 3 4) (GYR): (2 is green, then Y then R) 
• L2: 6: (5 6 7 8 9 10): (make 10 red) 
• L3: 10: (11… 15… 20): (11 is green, 15 is mid tetrahedron)
• L4: 15: (21… 35): (21 is green)

https://github.com/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/Packing_algorithms.ipynb

Now you and Struppi are refining and defining on ahead without me regarding all kinds of additional color coding matters. I’ve had a consistent color coding of Holy Grail polyhedra since the 1990s I’m not about to mess with any more than I’d mess with the Lakota mapping of Red to North. 

I’m content with my harvest of BRYG-bryg color coding for the DuoTet. I know that’ll be compatible with whatever plumbing you guys work out. In the meantime, although I practice teaching synergetics to the “Wtuff Guy” I think my readers all know that’s supposed to seem pretty hopeless. They’re supposed to figure it out while you’re still scratching your head. They feel smart and rewarded. You have been of much service. Keep it going!