A tree to climb to see that river where the sun sets in summer time. Climbing to this higher place became routine and a source of pride. He had not asked why it was satisfying until that special night many decades ago. Though his chosen destination was an exalted place, it had not occurred to him that there was something beyond. And why it was very special would remain with him until now and likely far into the unbounded future.
Epiphany yet to be fully explicit or that its eternal quality was the message? It would come and go as the years passed, most times leaving another hint as to why it was worth the wait. What was worth the wait? It simply did not occur for him to ask that question until now.
"What led to this?", he asked himself. Gazing back upon what or who is seeing and how she/he/it does it. Not being able to take the hardware's longevity for granted anymore. The unfortunate aspects of considering work and play mutually exclusive. Discovering that cognition center as essential AND fraught with risk. Well the list is rather long, after all. Worth the effort to keep extending it … for a later time (but soon).
So from the first time the height was reached, the view inspired awe. And the second what new might he create from it. And thereafter, ever more explicit actions until a plateau was reached. Was it because he was near the top? Or because he had reached a roof?
If he had to commit at this moment, he would guess that what had changed was connection. That connection took decades was a testament to its magnificent complexity not its irrelevance. The net was the enabling tool, at last no longer a prisoner to isolated opinion.
Yes, the roof was a container which constrained perception of the emergent. He had peaked above that fateful night. Was he now ready to go above and stand upon it?
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Old Song
Replay that long buried recording and recall its origins. What did it represent then? And don't forget the incidental or accidental. Seek also what was unconscious to better understand what its meaning is now.
A hidden dissonant chord and something to be feared? The cloud surrounding a time long past, what a tale it might tell. And just after the sun completely disappears, one of the very few times when a person can turn her back to the dark for she can be seen through the dancing warm light to be okay by some who care.
More work to do: rationalizing rather than apologizing for mean acts to others when one is consumed by a duty they do not understand … yet.
A hidden dissonant chord and something to be feared? The cloud surrounding a time long past, what a tale it might tell. And just after the sun completely disappears, one of the very few times when a person can turn her back to the dark for she can be seen through the dancing warm light to be okay by some who care.
More work to do: rationalizing rather than apologizing for mean acts to others when one is consumed by a duty they do not understand … yet.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Sherlock
"Be specific", was the reply. In a stern tone whose intent was quite transparent.
He had seen this pattern identified by the system many times as the research started to close in on the fiercely protected. When calm, nearly any person reasonably conversant with the topic at hand could recognize what was at play. Angry refutation as a diversionary tactic was far easier when the questions were forced closer to a specific case. Simply resisting the effort was to miss an opportunity?
Beneficiaries of this social phenomena had a wide range of motives for denying a link consciously or unconsciously. The map scaled well too. From a person-to-person exchange to nation-to-nation. Perhaps beyond.
Those who seek the 'observer' from a variety of disciplines could see the immediate context had much to reveal regarding opportunity. A quick defensive response invariably had a rich history as it was refined from repeated experience until it came to rest upon the triggering topic and sprung into action.
A vivid generic awareness could record the echoes reverberating from the context, the persistence to be analyzed at the appropriate future date. The persistence meta-pattern highly efficacious for differentiating these dialogic edges.
He imagined the facial signatures of those individuals that, for one reason or another, had developed this skill into high art. "Are we getting close to a time when the evolving model compared to the single mind would prove useful?", he asked himself.
He had seen this pattern identified by the system many times as the research started to close in on the fiercely protected. When calm, nearly any person reasonably conversant with the topic at hand could recognize what was at play. Angry refutation as a diversionary tactic was far easier when the questions were forced closer to a specific case. Simply resisting the effort was to miss an opportunity?
Beneficiaries of this social phenomena had a wide range of motives for denying a link consciously or unconsciously. The map scaled well too. From a person-to-person exchange to nation-to-nation. Perhaps beyond.
Those who seek the 'observer' from a variety of disciplines could see the immediate context had much to reveal regarding opportunity. A quick defensive response invariably had a rich history as it was refined from repeated experience until it came to rest upon the triggering topic and sprung into action.
A vivid generic awareness could record the echoes reverberating from the context, the persistence to be analyzed at the appropriate future date. The persistence meta-pattern highly efficacious for differentiating these dialogic edges.
He imagined the facial signatures of those individuals that, for one reason or another, had developed this skill into high art. "Are we getting close to a time when the evolving model compared to the single mind would prove useful?", he asked himself.
Intentional Nuisance
Back in high school, he took band class. Sometimes the teacher would ask the snare drum players to mute their instruments when another student was soloing his brass horn to better hear. And when the instructor forgot to do that, he was particularly annoyed.
Throughout his life he was aware of the sounds that could not be described as either signal or random noise. In this category were distortion, unintended resonances and so forth. He wasn't sure if this hypersensitivity is something he learned or inherited but was fairly resigned to the idea that it was more important to him than most. Arguing for the inheritance path, these sounds had a negative emotional impact. And for the learned path, that upon discovering their source, he classified them consciously.
More recently he described to her why the sounds from the speaker downstairs created a booming sound upstairs. The corner where the speakers were was a resonant cavity at the booming frequency. This pattern resonated (pun, intended) for the project. Since by definition these noise signals were of relatively high amplitude the trick was to know when they are not part of the signal even if they are stimulated by it.
Management leverage by manipulation of coherent noise is particularly sinister. Too many rose to influence by tuning the obfuscating pattern. An asymmetric opportunity to synchronously dampen the destructive oscillations is implicit, he thought. Preparing historical examples for input to the network was the first step.
"The rough outline is ready for discussion. Sign on with the Level VII protocol".
Throughout his life he was aware of the sounds that could not be described as either signal or random noise. In this category were distortion, unintended resonances and so forth. He wasn't sure if this hypersensitivity is something he learned or inherited but was fairly resigned to the idea that it was more important to him than most. Arguing for the inheritance path, these sounds had a negative emotional impact. And for the learned path, that upon discovering their source, he classified them consciously.
More recently he described to her why the sounds from the speaker downstairs created a booming sound upstairs. The corner where the speakers were was a resonant cavity at the booming frequency. This pattern resonated (pun, intended) for the project. Since by definition these noise signals were of relatively high amplitude the trick was to know when they are not part of the signal even if they are stimulated by it.
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Management leverage by manipulation of coherent noise is particularly sinister. Too many rose to influence by tuning the obfuscating pattern. An asymmetric opportunity to synchronously dampen the destructive oscillations is implicit, he thought. Preparing historical examples for input to the network was the first step.
"The rough outline is ready for discussion. Sign on with the Level VII protocol".
Friday, March 5, 2010
Calculated Risk
This public institution was attractive for the operation for a number of reasons. Chief among them were its historically high standing and because it was close to the nerve center, effective camouflage and geographically optimal.
The second obfuscation layer was a common illegal activity network. Suspicious matters obscured by covert operations of high interest but unrelated. Again, coherent noise.
The third layer, more innovative. High volume of everyday transactions masking net-born 'robots' that could both divert attention and provide unauthorized access to key accounts. Even proxies for them.
As a case study it could not be much better. Not knowing anything about the covert mission or its goal was the frosting, so-to-speak. If the network could learn from this instance it would not be hard to feed the net many of its type. The number of autonomous agents was close to ideal for this early test protocol step.
He looked down at the screen showing all subsystems primed and pressed Enter.
The second obfuscation layer was a common illegal activity network. Suspicious matters obscured by covert operations of high interest but unrelated. Again, coherent noise.
The third layer, more innovative. High volume of everyday transactions masking net-born 'robots' that could both divert attention and provide unauthorized access to key accounts. Even proxies for them.
As a case study it could not be much better. Not knowing anything about the covert mission or its goal was the frosting, so-to-speak. If the network could learn from this instance it would not be hard to feed the net many of its type. The number of autonomous agents was close to ideal for this early test protocol step.
He looked down at the screen showing all subsystems primed and pressed Enter.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Generative
Suggestible yes, stupid no. It is one thing when others need to be shown. Another entirely when one is best served by understanding it about oneself. Can open people lead? Yes, openness is remarkably efficient when optimizing a team for a task. But self-calibration is a highly desirable prerequisite.
'Focus', who decides?
Each time one transmits in a communications transaction they take some leadership responsibility, however minute. Even accepting such a transaction is an act of leadership, "I choose to accept the invitation to interact". Leading blindly makes no sense. It simply is not reliably conducive to an attractive outcome.
Leadership should not be confused with control. For purposes of this discussion, control is a subset of leadership.
These declarations did not seem particularly revolutionary taken separately. A little more so when considered in certain opportune moments. Clear now that it was pivotal to the task at hand. This was not just a collection of useful ideas. And more than just an ordered or hierarchical set. Adaptible pattern sequencer …
To soon to name it? Yes. But not to soon to contemplate.
'Focus', who decides?
Each time one transmits in a communications transaction they take some leadership responsibility, however minute. Even accepting such a transaction is an act of leadership, "I choose to accept the invitation to interact". Leading blindly makes no sense. It simply is not reliably conducive to an attractive outcome.
Leadership should not be confused with control. For purposes of this discussion, control is a subset of leadership.
These declarations did not seem particularly revolutionary taken separately. A little more so when considered in certain opportune moments. Clear now that it was pivotal to the task at hand. This was not just a collection of useful ideas. And more than just an ordered or hierarchical set. Adaptible pattern sequencer …
To soon to name it? Yes. But not to soon to contemplate.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Periscope Depth
They were a wise, eclectic, self-effacing group ostensibly organized to assist in the process of attracting internationally recognized influencers to the city. One had only to look at the track record to see that, on some notable level, the mission was being accomplished. His interest continued to be communications and what could be gleaned from one of the most ancient of intra-human methods, music. So, when the opportunity to bring it up arose, he did.
Meanwhile, the uncovering of the detail in a somewhat successful covert operation was a turbulent tune about to resolve. These two converging, what did it mean in indirect terms? The confusion over just what random meant in a revealing discussion in the group changed a sentence in his mind's eye from using that word, 'random' to 'unpredictable' and inserting the adverb, 'first'.
"… events are far less unpredictable than they first appear."
Bubbling below the surface of conscious awareness is something of great import. When a volitional effort is made to understand its contribution to stream of consciousness some interesting revelations emerge. Anger, fear and confusion feel close at times. Response to programmed triggers is often necessary. And the price is high when the programming is not sufficiently predictive. The degree to which the uncertainty can be quantified … just starting that sentence implied a highly conceptual and therefore, indirect relationship between the useful concept and an instance of its practical application.
Jumping around levels of indirection has at least one unfriendly use, obfuscation. Relying on it numbs the awareness and one's capacity to participate in a solution applicable to a larger whole. The seeds of war, understanding them is the best way to prevent the use of the "last resort."? At least that was his interpretation of the wise, ancient Chinese dissertation on the subject.
Meanwhile, the uncovering of the detail in a somewhat successful covert operation was a turbulent tune about to resolve. These two converging, what did it mean in indirect terms? The confusion over just what random meant in a revealing discussion in the group changed a sentence in his mind's eye from using that word, 'random' to 'unpredictable' and inserting the adverb, 'first'.
"… events are far less unpredictable than they first appear."
Bubbling below the surface of conscious awareness is something of great import. When a volitional effort is made to understand its contribution to stream of consciousness some interesting revelations emerge. Anger, fear and confusion feel close at times. Response to programmed triggers is often necessary. And the price is high when the programming is not sufficiently predictive. The degree to which the uncertainty can be quantified … just starting that sentence implied a highly conceptual and therefore, indirect relationship between the useful concept and an instance of its practical application.
Jumping around levels of indirection has at least one unfriendly use, obfuscation. Relying on it numbs the awareness and one's capacity to participate in a solution applicable to a larger whole. The seeds of war, understanding them is the best way to prevent the use of the "last resort."? At least that was his interpretation of the wise, ancient Chinese dissertation on the subject.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
I didn't know to look there.
A challenge and an opportunity. Stimulating curiosity in her and scrutiny in them would likely serve two of the more important aspects of this initiative. They would start detectable lockdown procedures to prevent further leaks. She would start looking at her immediate environment with an eye toward seeing what was heretofore hidden.
The network's recent upgrade was proving its worth now. Bandwidth had been available for sometime, even the bi-directional type. What was new was a more robust understanding of massively parallel and adaptive communications architecture. The precedent was ancient in terms of engineering development cycles. Why did we not look there earlier?
So often, we move so fast that we are not even aware of what we miss. But when we no longer have a high red line, we understand the value of efficiency. The long haul is not just how to get through the next turn as fast as possible. And now with the accumulated wisdom of untimely breakdowns, crashes and the like we are aware that the subtle truth that speed masks can contribute much to a winning race.
Competitors have good reason to mess with such understanding. At first, counterintuitive. But upon deep inspection, not so much. Speed kept the hare from victory. And the tortoise, in a place where she could be patient, could apply wisdom across the entire duration of the contest.
On the velocity dimension this made timely sense. What of the other dimension(s)?
The network's recent upgrade was proving its worth now. Bandwidth had been available for sometime, even the bi-directional type. What was new was a more robust understanding of massively parallel and adaptive communications architecture. The precedent was ancient in terms of engineering development cycles. Why did we not look there earlier?
So often, we move so fast that we are not even aware of what we miss. But when we no longer have a high red line, we understand the value of efficiency. The long haul is not just how to get through the next turn as fast as possible. And now with the accumulated wisdom of untimely breakdowns, crashes and the like we are aware that the subtle truth that speed masks can contribute much to a winning race.
Competitors have good reason to mess with such understanding. At first, counterintuitive. But upon deep inspection, not so much. Speed kept the hare from victory. And the tortoise, in a place where she could be patient, could apply wisdom across the entire duration of the contest.
On the velocity dimension this made timely sense. What of the other dimension(s)?
The Mole
Engagement without enmeshment? How better to title it? In the field and not among its natives may be in some ways more secure when one has dominant conventional capability on the edge of town. But a sensible mission need be conducted in the midst of the 'normal' constituents of the field? Generic capability no matter how far developed is at a distinct disadvantage if it projects upon rather than is co-resident.
She was on the inside of inside, so-to-speak. A double agent in spy jargon. Her background taught through example how to achieve objectives but not how to design them. Not having ownership of the mission design while virtually living the mission with all its intricate deception had a price. True even for a person obsessed with keeping physically fit.
The missing element then was a natural integration of the why with the execution. Manifestations of difficult adaptation took on a number of forms. The cultural was well documented. But cultural awareness is masked after time? The questions rather than answers set up an enhanced sensitivity to just what it meant to deal with another culture.
He had been joking earlier with dear friends about the 'raptors in our society and realized now the adjacent significance to the task at hand. Predators are useful to themselves and others in that they tend to feed on consumption of the threatening. But when the threat is no longer there? What happens then?
Disarming the robotic predators. These algorithms and the hardware to support and respond to them went way back in technological terms. Back even to a time when there was not a convenient means to record the why behind the routine. Sunsets in this world happened when something crashed rather than at some prescribed interval or a predicted event.
Only her recurring symptoms caught her conscious awareness. If its a performing whale and the symptoms caused the loss of a revered species life, what to do? If that dog, trained to automatically respond to a perceived threat, kills not the enemy but the person she/he was supposed to protect, put IT down.
At the heart of this passage was a considerable insight into the consequences of compiling with just an upper layer of invariant abstraction. Making, albeit indirectly, life and death decisions. And all the while, the unexpected gender …
She was on the inside of inside, so-to-speak. A double agent in spy jargon. Her background taught through example how to achieve objectives but not how to design them. Not having ownership of the mission design while virtually living the mission with all its intricate deception had a price. True even for a person obsessed with keeping physically fit.
The missing element then was a natural integration of the why with the execution. Manifestations of difficult adaptation took on a number of forms. The cultural was well documented. But cultural awareness is masked after time? The questions rather than answers set up an enhanced sensitivity to just what it meant to deal with another culture.
He had been joking earlier with dear friends about the 'raptors in our society and realized now the adjacent significance to the task at hand. Predators are useful to themselves and others in that they tend to feed on consumption of the threatening. But when the threat is no longer there? What happens then?
Disarming the robotic predators. These algorithms and the hardware to support and respond to them went way back in technological terms. Back even to a time when there was not a convenient means to record the why behind the routine. Sunsets in this world happened when something crashed rather than at some prescribed interval or a predicted event.
Only her recurring symptoms caught her conscious awareness. If its a performing whale and the symptoms caused the loss of a revered species life, what to do? If that dog, trained to automatically respond to a perceived threat, kills not the enemy but the person she/he was supposed to protect, put IT down.
At the heart of this passage was a considerable insight into the consequences of compiling with just an upper layer of invariant abstraction. Making, albeit indirectly, life and death decisions. And all the while, the unexpected gender …
Monday, March 1, 2010
Crackling Glow
Early warnings triggered. Non-specific initially of course. The day after the post-processing of the log. Each drill making the scramble more routine. Having recourse but not using it out of preparedness and compassion is a nice place to be.
Is recovery from the systemic invasion related? A useful perception perhaps. Action item within the hour: calm, responsive. Prepare for diversion pattern. She used it yesterday with fleeting effect. The intensity was palpable. Cater to the imagination to reveal primitive intent. It is what you don't say.
Turn the angry energy to growth … without the solicitous baggage and ego distortion. Practice, practice, practice. Rapid context switching, important at any cusp. Like the short sentences you see here.
Communication. Is music the best generic model for humans? Much would argue yes. A discussion amongst communicators on music that looked generative impressed greatly. Sharing its spontaneous wisdom will extend its campfire light. And repeat.
Is recovery from the systemic invasion related? A useful perception perhaps. Action item within the hour: calm, responsive. Prepare for diversion pattern. She used it yesterday with fleeting effect. The intensity was palpable. Cater to the imagination to reveal primitive intent. It is what you don't say.
Turn the angry energy to growth … without the solicitous baggage and ego distortion. Practice, practice, practice. Rapid context switching, important at any cusp. Like the short sentences you see here.
Communication. Is music the best generic model for humans? Much would argue yes. A discussion amongst communicators on music that looked generative impressed greatly. Sharing its spontaneous wisdom will extend its campfire light. And repeat.
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