It's a digital thing; think 'IQ'

It's pretty hard to get away from the mercantile habit of assigning stupid fucking Numbers to every -thing and -one. Maybe it's the "when you learn to use a hammer.." syndrome or possibly.. by now, the spreadsheet has done permanent damage to the collective neuronal nexus (?)

[OT: ever look into any of the stuff one Carver Mead (Cal Tech) was doing, trying to synthesize neural networks? Just curious if such material ever gets into the field, actual-workers' territory -- or it's just too surreal..?]

But I think you'll find that most here don't Really 'mean it', y'know?
People who understand how "significant digits" (and their frequent misuse) relate to the precision or probability of some measurement - know better. It's the ones who really Believe that the numbers (never mind their 'units') Mean something re humans : watch out for Those.

But then - you knew that. Right?
(I sure hope that modrin psych or psyche repairfolk don't assign numbers to their charges. Tell me they don't! write stuff like "87.3% paranoid/delusional, 13.26% BPD, ___")

Yours for writing all dossiers in longhand, sans arithmetic - but enough adjectives.
(Ok.. maybe.. a few video clips of the client telling her story. Animatedly.)

PS, re your field - a friend is dealing with a family member who is skirting the territory of bipolar (a term it's difficult ever to use 'with Any precision', I gather from several long-winded essays). She found the book, Stop Walking on Eggshells. It is even in English. Enter: how best to test the pharmchem soups -VS- realizing how little is done ($$ spent) to study the cross-interactions of the many popular soups. Etc.

It is clear that she will be of vastly more importance in any outcome than - the (pridefully way-overbooked) #1 shrink. Fortunately she has also learned tact, the creative evasion of ego-induced testiness. 'Computer Science' is trivial (hell, it's ALL mere logic) compared with This Gig.

Why.. I'd bet it's 87.15% harder than say, designing say, some old Linux kernel?

:-\ufffd

Post #208,904 by Ashton 5/28/05 4:59:50 AM Reply	It's a digital thing; think 'IQ' It's pretty hard to get away from the mercantile habit of assigning stupid fucking Numbers to every -thing and -one. Maybe it's the "when you learn to use a hammer.." syndrome or possibly.. by now, the spreadsheet has done permanent damage to the collective neuronal nexus (?) [OT: ever look into any of the stuff one Carver Mead (Cal Tech) was doing, trying to synthesize neural networks? Just curious if such material ever gets into the field, actual-workers' territory -- or it's just too surreal..?] But I think you'll find that most here don't Really 'mean it', y'know? People who understand how "significant digits" (and their frequent misuse) relate to the precision or probability of some measurement - know better. It's the ones who really Believe that the numbers (never mind their 'units') Mean something re humans : watch out for Those. But then - you knew that. Right? (I sure hope that modrin psych or psyche repairfolk don't assign numbers to their charges. Tell me they don't! write stuff like "87.3% paranoid/delusional, 13.26% BPD, ___") Yours for writing all dossiers in longhand, sans arithmetic - but enough adjectives. (Ok.. maybe.. a few video clips of the client telling her story. Animatedly.) PS, re your field - a friend is dealing with a family member who is skirting the territory of bipolar (a term it's difficult ever to use 'with Any precision', I gather from several long-winded essays). She found the book, Stop Walking on Eggshells. It is even in English. Enter: how best to test the pharmchem soups -VS- realizing how little is done ($$ spent) to study the cross-interactions of the many popular soups. Etc. It is clear that she will be of vastly more importance in any outcome than - the (pridefully way-overbooked) #1 shrink. Fortunately she has also learned tact, the creative evasion of ego-induced testiness. 'Computer Science' is trivial (hell, it's ALL mere logic) compared with This Gig. Why.. I'd bet it's 87.15% harder than say, designing say, some old Linux kernel? :-\ufffd
Post #208,921 by bionerd 5/28/05 10:12:42 AM Reply	I read what you wrote and only understood about 1/3 of it. Groan Will have to respond back after I've showered and had my coffee and have the brain power to decipher.
Post #209,028 by inthane-chan 5/29/05 11:08:57 PM Reply	Better get used to it. That's how he ALWAYS speaks. He's like the anti-Box. Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer. You take one down, you pass it around, Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall!
Post #209,031 by n3jja 5/29/05 11:17:45 PM Reply	Re: Better get used to it. Now there's a choice, eh? One who barely writes Engrish and another who's prose looks more like the path of a pinball going for the high score.
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Post #209,035 by broomberg 5/29/05 11:38:06 PM Reply	Close Remember, Ashton is usually juggling 3 or more concepts at once. So it's like the pinball game that goes beserk, and puts several balls into play at once.
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