savęs tvarkymas
radau labai įdomų straipsnį apie psichologą b.f. skinner. kiek supratau, tai ganėtinai žymus psichologas, vienas iš biheviorizmo lyderių. jis manė, kad keisdami savo aplinką, mes galime pakeisti savo elgesį. straipsnyje daug pavyzdžių, kaip jis pats pritaikydavo tai savo gyvenime, kartais net visiškai juokingai:
He never let deteriorating eyesight or hearing have its way with him. He compensated, often with gadgets of his own making. At one point he wore large plastic ear flaps, resembling Mickey Mouse ears, to amplify his hearing; they worked well, he said, but he stopped wearing them because they startled visitors.
man nauja savoka buvo reinforcer:
I installed a motor and began to wire in the bulb when Fred suggested that we plug the device in the wall. ‘‘Why?’’ I asked, ‘‘It’s not finished yet.’’ ‘‘Well, to see it go, of course,’’ Fred replied, his eyes illuminated. In other words, let’s produce a reinforcer.
manau, kad programavimo pasaulyje vienas iš reinforcerių yra unit testai, jie ne tik tikrina kodo korektiškumą, bet ir suteikia galimybę greitai pasižiūrėti, kad judi teisinga linkme.
cia biki ne i tema…:P perzurejau tavo muzika…;)
pkmk tmblr
iškarpos iš interneto. sukauptos per tumblr.com servisą. nereguliariai ir neįpareigojančiai.
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Bill Keller (via soupsoup)
TSP art
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an old and well-studied problem in computer science. Given a collection of cities on a map, a salesman must make a tour of the cities, visiting each once, and returning to the city from which he started. Of all the ways that he could travel from city to city, he must find the one that requires him to travel the least total distance (our salesman is nothing if not frugal). Mathematically, we can view this form of the TSP as finding the minimum length closed path connecting a collection of points in the plane.
We can exploit this relationship to produce a new halftoning algorithm (halftoning is any process that approximates a continuous-toned image with black-and-white marks). We distribute cities with a density that locally approximates the darkness of a source image, and pass the cities to a program that finds a TSP tour. The result is a kind of twisty closed path that resembles the original image.
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots … in fact I think they have to be … a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
Iain Banks, The Crow Road. (via travors)
At the very least, outsiders need to understand that China is controlled for the benefit of insiders. The insiders know when to sell, and so one would expect the businesses that have been made available to the outside world systematically to underperform those ventures still controlled by card-carrying members of the Chinese Communist Party. “China” will underperform China, and a “China” bubble exists to the extent that investors underestimate the degree of this underperformance.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
Under more normal circumstances, one would not have thought that the same mistake could happen twice in the lifetimes of the people involved. One might be tempted to invoke extraordinary psychosocial explanations — for example, that all of this was driven by baby boomers who destroyed their minds on drugs in the 1960s and therewith merit the dubious distinction of being America’s Dumbest Generation.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
Apocalyptic investors will miss great opportunities if there is no apocalypse, but ultimately they will end up with nothing when the apocalypse arrives. Heads or tails, they lose.
The Optimistic Thought Experiment | Hoover Institution (via Instapaper)
... 2005.11.12 01:36
my dying bride….lietuvoj..hmmmm