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Of Pretension
In mid 2015 I wrote a book titled "Of Pretension" and published it on Kindle. It was available for a time on Amazon and had a few readers. It was a short read of approximately 23 thousand words. About two years after publishing the book I re-read it, and, like any aspiring artist of any kind, I felt that it had LOTS of room for improvement in multiple ways. As a result, I eventually decided to unpublish the book, be...
The Humm Handbook (Chris Golis): A review
The Humm Handbook: Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence is a book by Christopher Golis that presents a personality modelling framework named "Humm-Wadsworth" . The Humm-Wadsworth model (abbreviated to Humm) attempts to describe human personality in terms of sets of common traits and desires that are found in all people to greater or lesser degrees. The framework is specifically marketed as a business tool, t...
Google Bear case study: poking the massive beast and losing
Google cutely names some of their major algorithms after animals. Some examples include Google Hummingbird (designed to increase speed and accuracy of natural language understanding), Google Panda (aimed at countering on-page spam / thin content sites), Google Penguin (aimed at counteracting link spam) and Google Pigeon (aimed at increasing the ranking of local listings). To honor this tradition, today I want to ...
Why Context is for Kings
In a recent Netflix series Star Trek Discovery, in the third episode, Captain Lorca explains to an estranged and demoted Michael Burnham why he chose to interfere in her punishment for mutiny and bring her on-board the Discovery as a crew member: "I did choose you, but not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the righ...
Chinese Poem: 登鹳雀楼 Dēng guàn què lóu Ascending White Stork Tower
登鹳雀楼 Dēng guàn què lóu is a classical Chinese poem by the Tang dynasty poet 王之渙 (Wang Zhihuan). The English name is Climbing White Stork Tower. It depicts a beautiful scene visible from the Stork tower near the yellow river while climbing up it. Here's the poem and my English translation of it: 白日依山尽， 黄河入海流。 欲穷千里目， 更上一层楼 Bái rì yī shān jìn, hu...
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