On the cutting edge

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Parsers are the those components of the computer world which makes communication with computers possible by using a language.

WARNING! Only for what most of people call “nerds”… Dr. Parr presenting his ANTLR4 parser in this video.

The interesting but not so unexpected is that this video has ~7000 views in ~1 year. If you want to see what most of us consider “main stream” please check the videos with the largest amount of hits.
By considering the Youtube “hits” as an indicator of “quality” one my be easily confused…

Global Reef Record

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The Global Reef Record is an ambitious project to photograph in 3D Coral reefs and make this information available to the public. (http://globalreefrecord.org)

Check it out, if you can’t dive yourself, and even if you can how many of us (other than these guys) can afford to see all those for real?

Yet now we all can see and even see the CHANGES. And as more and more of us will see we can start to connect the dots on the big picture of life.

Huge Romanian Talent discovered at 57 years old

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A 57 years financial advisor from Iasi Romania has an incredible voice for a non professional.
Same huge surprise as with Susan Boyle but at the “Romanians have Talent” show.
It really makes me proud as I was born not so far away from Iasi.

First time audition , the big surprise

Next

Finale

And of course Susan 47 years old …

Good inspiration I hope for a lot of people to never loose faith, is never to late for your best for what you love…

Resonance

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It happened…    you feel different, you feel happy, you feel that something is different and it elevates you to heights you’ve never been before. It can be a person, or a sight, but always, you feel you are in resonance with the other and nothing can replace that feeling. I’m happy I was able to feel it and I wish you experience it too. I makes you feel alive, it makes you feel the life is worth the downs, just to be able to experience that feeling at least once in a life time. Be happy! Be alive!

Rushkoff

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This book and guy may help us all reduce the confusion creating by blending old human behaviours with new capabilities of the digital age in a fast pace. I think this guy deserves some attention. http://www.rushkoff.com/present-shock/ . One of his expressions it resonated with my thoughts was “In the digital age, if you are not the customer you are the PRODUCT!” …

Explaining Bullying

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An excellent presentation about the root cause of bullying. This presentation should be  watched more than once as I’ve been able to understand much better the second time, even though Mr. Gordon Neufeld explains it very well, the subject is not that easy to fully understand at once.

The link to TVO video

Identity: What is “I”?

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Just after December 2012 started, I’ve got in a home accident when I almost lost two fingers from my right hand. This event thought me some hard lessons but unexpectedly it also remembered me an old thought lost somewhere in my mind. Years ago I asked myself what is that we call “I”. This question applies for all of us and once we hoop over the obvious and meaningless answer like “Well, I is… I, right?”, its “me” isn’t it? In the end, “I” can use a mirror and “identify” myself into the reflected image? Or do I?

At the time I’ve realized that once you start looking closer to the question, a real “black hole of the mind” opens and pulls you in. Let’s think for a minute. What if I loose a limb (as I almost did on that day of December 2012)? Is what remains still me? Is the “new I” the same entity as the “old” one? But what if I loose my face in an accident and no one not even myself can recognize me? If my identity depends on my external shape and look then does it mean that each time when I change my clothes I’m somebody (or something) else? Well, my cat may very well think so, for a moment, but not me. I’m arguing here, that even if I lose most of my limbs, my appearance and most likely a part of my brain, I will still find something I can call “I”, or “me”, even if most likely no one else would be able to “identify” this new “me”. So back to the question of “What is “I”?

In 2012 I’ve blogged about a possibility of an existence of a “global mind” or better said a “group mind”. My current belief is that an identity is made of a subset of our brain neurons which can hold enough information (persistent memory state) to uniquely identify us, in the state we occupy in the universe.

How many neurons and which ones, is the next good question, (I think 😉 ).

Of course, this is only a hypothesis, since I have no solid proof to back it. However I’m looking closely to the issue since how we define our identity is and will be one of the most important question the human beings ever encountered. In the new age of the internet, when our minds will be much tighter connected, the identity issue will get new dimensions and meaning.

Cheers for 2013!

I really appreciate your feedback.

2013 New Year Questions

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As promise in my intro of this site (see) I value a lot good questions. Remember the “I Robot” movie little hologram message?… “My responses are limited. You must ask the right question”  😉

So for 2013 I’m prepared to ask and search for answers for the following questions.

  1. Identity: What is “I”?
  2. Super identity:  What is “us”?
  3. Determinism: What is “observe”?
  4. Super identity interaction: What is “freedom”?
  5. Computing universe: What is the fundamental model of computing and what does it have to do with the universe?
  6. Dimensions: How many dimensions, what kind of dimensions,how they impact us?
  7. Absolute: What is God?
  8. Equilibrium: What is Power?

Fire can’t be fought with fire…

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My hart goes out for all people who suffer, my mind and soul looks for ways to avoid all this and as any fire fighter knows that fire can’t be put out by fire so is that violence can’t be stopped with with more guns. Here in north America Sandy Hook disaster  (Wikipedia article) stands as a gruesome example of that ideology. Please stop for a while and feel what your soul tells you. I know is hard I know looks impossible but I believe there is a way, a better way… we just need to seek it each time we are confronted by evil and realize that what we see is a consequence of our collective actions. Also please realize that inaction is a form of action too. I believe that people should be able to defend themselves and be able to own a gun but wearing one at all times opens the door to poor thinking and fast acting which have disastrous consequences on long time.