Man makes things that start out pristine and then decay. Nature makes things that become progressively hardier.
人類はまず完全で、けっきょく壊している物を作る。自然はこつこつ強くなる物を作る。(たとえば生態系)
Archive for April, 2005
The English garden mentality… is Wrong!
Sunday, April 24th, 2005Natural resources and mental resources
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005Environmentalists don’t want to waste natural resources, but they gladly waste mental resources. ‘What?!!’ you ask? Well, as long as land fills are government-owned, the vast mental resources of entrepreneurs isn’t available to solve waste disposal problems. Landfill owners can adjust costs for what the market can support, charge based on trash usage (pay-as-you-throw), and find ingenious ways to make money off the trash… hmmm… This leads to a disturbing thought. Is libertarianism the answer? Surely all the laws we’re passing to protect the environment are good. right? right?!!
College Acceptance
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005Well, congratulate me. I’m starting University of Phoenix’s BS in Business Administration program next Tuesday.
But something’s been troubling me. I have to reject other colleges! I have to tell Cal State Chico, et al that I won’t be attending them. I feel like a dork that once couldn’t find girls but now is forced to dump a really hot chick.. Why must I? You can all be my girlfriend!
来週、火曜日にフェニックスの大学を始める。ビジネスを勉強する。でも、あと生物学を勉強する。
stupid bug
Monday, April 11th, 2005there’s a bug in magpie, which this site uses to print out content from blogger. at least it’s a bug as far as I’m concerned. basically, it seems to convert the html entities into the actual characters (unless the actual php xml parser classes do this..) and as a result, the example wml file in the post below this one doesn’t appear. stupid!
Serving pages to cell phones
Monday, April 11th, 2005If you are bored on the train, never fear! Ugly, slow-loading websites on your cell-phone to the rescue! Seriously, kids. You can make a portable version of your website so easily.
Basically, you make the pages (index.wml) and throw them up. Easy, right? Below is a sample wml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="c1" title="Thomas J. Webb" >
<p>
<a href="news.wml.php">blog</a>
</p>
</card>
</wml>
Most webmasters like to put the WAP version of the site in a different subdomain (such as wap.yahoo.com), but I don’t know why they bother. We have a wonderful thing in Apache called content negotiation. Throw everything up there and let the webserver sort it out. First, enable multi-views in httpd.conf:
MultiViews on
Then set the directory index as simply index. This way, the webserver selects from index.html (or index.php or whatever) for regular browsers and index.wml for cell-phone browsers.
DirectoryIndex index
Another higher-performance alternative to MultiViews is to simply use a .var file for the index. See Apache’s documentation for details…
携帯のサイト
つまらなくて電車に乗ってる時、つまらないサイトを見られる。楽しいね！まじめに小さいバージョンを作りやすいだよ。
まず、index.wmlを作ってアップロードして。やさしいね。
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="c1" title="Thomas J. Webb" >
<p>
<a href="news.wml.php">blog</a>
</p>
</card>
</wml>
ウェブマスタはほとんどサブドメーンを作る。たとえばwap.yahoo.com。でも、何でか分かんねえ。ApacheのContent Negotiationはスーパーである。サーバは頭が言い。まずhttpd.confにコレを入れて。
MultiViews on
すると、始め見るページがindexにさせて。サーバはindex.htmlとindex.wmlの中に決心出来る。
DirectoryIndex index
Empathy
Sunday, April 10th, 2005One of the great fallacies of mankind is as follows..
- When one sees someone else in a way that would make themselves uncomfortable, they assume the other person is uncomfortable.. or possibly crazy. This is of course wrong. There are differing physiologies. We know sensitivity to cold or hot has to do with environment as feral children are perfectly comfortable outside stark naked.
- When one is in a foreign land and they see someone doing something that in their land would be rude (or even immoral!), they assume that this person is doing something that they, themselves see wrong in and should know better. We know, now about a thing called cultural relativism.
- Many people scoff at the idea that people can be color blind.
- Some people think that homosexuals are just being that way to get attention, even though it’s surely unlikely that so many people would choose to be marginalized so.
I think you get the point. That which creates the above situations and others is one of the great fallacies of mankind. But, is this not what empathy is based on? The imagination we have inside to inform us of others’ feelings.. Maybe we just need a wilder imagination!
My Idea
Friday, April 1st, 2005obvious.. Okay, when psychologists try to get a grasp on more generic psychological principles, not merely describing man, they study other animals. But won’t this, too lead to bad assumptions? Most intelligence on this planet is very, very similar. It is mostly:
- mammalian, or at least vertebrate
- life
- native to earth
So… Psychologists can start getting out of their rut by studying cephalopods (octopusen, squids, et cetera).. They at least don’t fit the first thing in the list above. That alone means they violate many assumptions we have about intelligence. They are short-lived & non-social. Just because the genesis of our intelligence was primate social structure doesn’t mean a slimy sea monster that doesn’t even take care of it’s young can’t be wily also. Robot Psychology, on the other hand, I’ll just leave to Dr. Susan Calvin.
この全部言い方が分かりません。タコやイカなど本当に頭が良いですよ。でも、頭がちょっとちがいと思います。