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CyrusFX returns in full form

Well, bear with me on
this one, but I think I might be starting my own
Sect... err... School of Thought. And I
prefer the entrepreneurial title as
a "Consultant Firm" over "Think Tank."
"Think Tank" just seems a bit
too pretentious to me, and besides no
one needs them except the really,
really big wigs. Right now we are small potatos.

What a sweet job would that be though, to
be a full-time member of a
company Think Tank, where you just
sit around with a bunch of other smart
people and try to come up with solutions
to the many types of problems a company
may run into. The unpredictable, unseen
and otherwise novel problems are of
course the most lucrative... not only
financially but because they present a
worthwhile opportunity for me to participate
in one of my favorite "mental sports"
of all time: solving problems via the
encorporation of knowledge, intellect
and a solid grasp on logic.

Such solutions to such problems would
definitely be worked out more
efficiently, quickly and convincingly
if such an enterprise worked as a
collective, and I think you know who
I'm talking about. If we were
clever enough to pool our resources
together to ultimately produce "satistying
results" (and we have previously
demonstrated many times in the past --
philosophy, schoolwork, jamming, BTF, etc. -
hey I'm serious!) for
whatever clientele, well hey we would have a
job we all would/could enjoy.

And really, I don't know about you guys,
but all I wanna do is have a
job that I don't hate, that I don't have
to wake up every morning and know I
have to be miserable for the next however many
hours. This might sound gay (well
this whole thing might sound gay to you by now
but fuck you), but I truly am
convinced that human sociality and technology
have evolved enough to
the point(and not only recently) where we
shouldn't have to "work" for a living.
We should be able to just do what it is we enjoy
doing all of the time,
because fuck it, whether its jamming or making weird
underground films or doing
this consulting firm thing, we owe it to ourselves to
not have to be
miserable in our chosen profession(s). We are all smart,
creative, and we fuse well,
and generally a tight unit.

The only think we lack is a way
to get off the ground. Well, this
neural-net based statistical analysis package my
professor invented (which is open
source code by the way) might be
our first entry way. See, he was about to
start up this company called "Data Busters,"
which he got government funds for
and everything, using this collection of neural-net data
analysis/forecaster algorithms, and
the first project was going to analyze insurance
company data to look for fraudulent
claims based on anomalies in patient record data
patterns. For every 5 fraud cases
he found out of every 100,000, they
offered him ~20 grand. Well, it
turns out he cancelled the whole fucking thing
which is why I have to move back
to SB, but hey I still have this program and I
think it would be worhtwhile and
possibly profitable if we could some how put it
to use.

I've tried the stock market, baseball
games, fed interest rates, to no
avail so far... But I did make a model
which could 95% of the time predict
whether some baseball player's lifetime
stats successfully indicated if he was in
the Hall of Fame or not.... So anyway,
this is already really long, but yeah I
dunno I'm gonna keep looking for different
data sources to analyze till I move
back to SB. And if you run out of data,
there's always the warm butter of a
flobular sound wave to keep you company.

There's no Gnome like Palindome,

--CFx xFC

[the foregoing is an email recieved from CyrusFX, Saturday, May 28]

Gary Gygax

Western Philosophy in a Nutshell: Part II

Plato and Aristotle turned philosophy away from science. Plato was explicitly wary of the young science, no doubt because his philosophy rejected the veracity of the senses, while, intuitively, science itself starts with observation. Aristotle tried to be the friend of science, and in some respects, deserves to be called the father of modern science proper. He invented induction, the prima facie logic of science, as well as the notion of a catalog full of taxonomic distinctions. Aristotle himself was a great biologist; no doubt his notion of science as a 'filling-out' of the categories of his catalog came from the idea that all of nature should be understood taxonomically, as a biologist sees it. Unfortunately, though Aristotles heart was in the right place, his mind wasn't. As it will turn out, trying to understand the world in terms of Aristotles sorts of categories will be inimical to modern science (though the notion of a category itself will not be so easily dispelled). One of the greatest struggles of modern science will be to wriggle out of the grip of Aristotelian thought....

War Rant I

Well, America is finally getting over the disgrace it recently brought upon itself. Oh, no, not the disgrace brought on by the whole Iraq invasion itself, rather, just the part where we put hoods on those we didn't bomb thoroughly enough. Good thing we chose to take the humane high road and just bomb all those civilians rather than try and hood them all, like you know those sadistic bastards in the pentagon really wanted to do.

NOTE TO PEOPLE OF AMERICA: WE ARE AT WAR. OUR MILITARY WAGES OUR WAR FOR US. TO PREVAIL IN WAR, OUR MILITARY NEEDS INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ENEMY. THIS INFORMATION CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM OUR ENEMY. THIS PROCESS IS NECESSARY FOR THE SUCCESSFUL WAGING OF WAR. THE PROBLEM IS WAR!

Jurgen Schmidhuber

A Computer Scientists View of Life the Universe and Everything: "A long time ago, the Great Programmer wrote a program that runs all possible universes on His Big Computer."

Thinker

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Found Poetry

"Radiohead is concise..Mars Volta tools alot..but thats good, but not as good as radiohead. Mars Volta is harder, almost like there is some metallica in what they write, but not quite. Too good to be metallica. I have to just flow about things. Have you ever heard of the concept of found poetry?"
--Exerpt from a (horribly edited) phone conversation with Josh Radon, 9pm, 05/27/04

This is not self referencecnerefer fles ton si sihT

Verisimilar Thoughts

KOMPRESSOR

If you like your audio busting out of sealed garbage bags, look no further.

KOMPRESSOR: Agressive Audio

David Deutsch Video Lectures

Here is the place to learn all about qubits, the multiverse, and you!

David Deutsch Video Lectures

this is nothing but goo. Dont keep looking at this. there is nothing interesting here..seriously..* overdoing this * know

...nothing here..nope...

Western Philosophy in a Nutshell: Part I

For some reason, the ancient Greek thinkers started to explain the world. They began by criticizing the worldview inspired by the early Greek myths. Their philosophy was physical and cosmological: it described, in physical terms, how "God's house" (ie. our world) is built. This is why they are sometimes called philosopher scientists. From Thales, on through Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno, and Democritus, the modern theories of science evolved in ancient Greece. They developed nascent forms of two of modern sciences greatest achievements: the atomic theory and the heliocentric theory. This physical philosophy was stopped dead in its tracks, however, by the idealistic philosophy of Plato....

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