Thursday Open Thread

Coming to the conclusion higher cognitive functions are over-rated. As long as my medulla oblongata is working, I'm cool.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:45:29 PM EST
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Tumbleweeds:

(These are Texas tumbleweeds, greatly inferior to the ones found in New Mexico as I'm sure WoB will admit.)

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:51:30 PM EST
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Hmph. Not even good by Colorado standards.

The fun of tumbleweeds is that you're driving along and they blow across the road; you can't really avoid them, so you grit your teeth and hope that the stalk (which is strong) doesn't hit your tire and blow it out. When you hit them, they sort of explode into pieces and get inside the engine compartment.

Then when you get home, you clean out the broken pieces of bush from your radiator and front grill.

by asdf on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 12:57:32 PM EST
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Running over tumbleweeds is a real bad idea. Get enough bits up against a hot catalytic converter and there's an engine compartment fire.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 01:06:33 PM EST
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Turn off the sound before watching this.

by asdf on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 08:27:56 PM EST
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I'm thinking I may have to research the use - if there is any - of Lyapunov exponent(s) in Kohonen maps/networks.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 01:10:54 PM EST

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How does it poll?

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 01:30:22 PM EST
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1% think I should
1% think I shouldn't
98% think I'm a crackpot.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:38:10 PM EST
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or Korhonen.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:05:19 PM EST
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Wikipedia and Google have it as Kohonen.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:42:55 PM EST
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FBI doesn't like competition (4.00 / 3)

Truth-out

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) really has gone rogue; at least that's what a high-level FBI official believes.
Among the 5 million emails the group Anonymous hacked from the servers of private intelligence firm Stratfor in February, one seems to not only confirm the controversial NYPD surveillance activities uncovered by the Associated Press, but hints at even worse civil liberties violations not yet disclosed. Anonymous later turned the emails over to WikiLeaks, with which Truthout has entered into an investigative partnership.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 03:51:07 PM EST

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In UnRelated Prison Planet News:

Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

SEPTEMBER 5--Federal prosecutors want Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama "Hope" poster, to serve time in prison following his misdemeanor conviction for destroying and fabricating documents in connection with a civil lawsuit over the iconic campaign image.
In advance of Friday's scheduled sentencing of Fairey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice has filed a memorandum arguing that a prison term for the 42-year-old artist would be "appropriate."
However, prosecutors did not specify how long Fairey should be incarcerated (though, statutorily, his punishment would not exceed six months). Additionally, government lawyers have contended that Judge Frank Maas could fine Fairey up to $3.2 million.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 06:11:53 PM EST
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Holed up in Denver through the weekend at my friend's place. Full day of bike maintenance tomorrow. The beer is ready. Then some hiking this weekend.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 04:17:14 PM EST

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Gonna bag a couple of 14-ers with your pal Lyin' Ryan?

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 05:03:21 PM EST
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I'm suffocating just thinking about it. Although my friends here bag 14ers regularly. They're all fit 'n stuff. They could probably breathe fine on the moon.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 06:06:15 PM EST
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The bike maintenance sounds fun, but I don't envy you being in Denver. Didn't care for it. It was like Cleveland with mountains and batshit weather.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 06:51:23 PM EST
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My friend (who grew up in Minneapolis) doesn't like the city itself at all. She's an athletic person and (in her words) is here specifically for the mountains like everyone else who moves here from somewhere else.

If you're into the mountains and also want the nice city you can move to the Bay Area and pay 4x as much for your house.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 12:00:58 AM EST
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More like 8x.

There are nice places in Denver, mostly near the old downtown section. Colfax Ave near the science museum, Sixth Ave near the capitol hill area, and near DU are pretty "normal" if you like inner city living...and there are plenty of lofts downtown near the train station...

by asdf on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 01:12:22 PM EST
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If you're into hole-in-the-wall restaurants, the place to go in Denver is Pete's Kitchen, on east Colfax.

by asdf on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 01:17:40 PM EST
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one for Helen (none / 1)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 05:15:22 PM EST

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Thanks for that. He's quite good on new trends but I would have like a little more on the history of how we got where we are.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 09:21:59 AM EST
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Was at Biltema (Scandinavian car parts chain, also carries bike parts) the other day and noted their big signs that they were changing all Biltema cards as they had switched banks. The interesting thing was that they had switched to Ikano, that is IKEA's bank.

I found it interesting regarding the discussions on payment system and what the big companies has their in-house banks for.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 06:00:26 PM EST

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So, here's a partial list of banks of the future:

IKEA
Siemens
General Electric

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 06:02:56 PM EST
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Why future? Especially GE is very much a big financial industry player of the present.

Also VE, Daimler, BMW.

On the other hand GM was forced to split of its very relevant financial arm. Chrysler I think too.

by IM on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 02:14:16 AM EST
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I meant VW.

(Of course in future there could arise a corporation called VE with a bank)

by IM on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 02:17:01 AM EST
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Volksenergie?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 03:39:35 AM EST
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That would be a public energy utility specialised on regenerative energy?

Sounds like a good idea.

by IM on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 03:42:55 AM EST
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List includes those who asked for a banking license, no?
Add EADS in there...

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 05:39:01 AM EST
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Yeah, but the EFSF and the ESM cannot have a banking licence.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 05:51:36 AM EST
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Next stop Hayekian private corporation currency.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 05:44:00 AM EST
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And company scrip. Because that is okay, whereas Wörgl type local government scrip is a violation of the Central Bank's monopoly on legal tender.

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 05:50:11 AM EST
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The practice continues today. On September 4, 2008, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice ruled that Wal-Mart de Mexico, the Mexican subsidiary of Wal-Mart, must cease paying its employees in vouchers redeemable only at Wal-Mart stores.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

by asdf on Fri Sep 7th, 2012 at 01:19:25 PM EST
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