Flashdance

Social Robots

Having read The Game and read in between the lines the following conversation, between a college friend of mine and I, greatly amuses me.

(9:42:05 PM) DW: what ya up to?
(9:53:50 PM) Me: nm
(9:54:03 PM) DW: ive been talking to a girl on aim for 4hrs
(9:54:16 PM) Me: About what?
(9:54:33 PM) DW: i used Mysery’s false repore multi-threading technique
(9:54:39 PM) DW: and then it fell away about an hour ago
(9:54:46 PM) DW: and we just got into the convo
(9:55:27 PM) DW: well girls like a lot of mystical stuff I think.  You notice that?  So I talk about my yoga practice
(10:00:47 PM) Me: That’s actually a good idea
(10:03:47 PM) DW: ??
(10:04:04 PM) DW: i thnk i no this, but tell me more
(10:04:52 PM) DW: ive been using multi-threading DHV with story injection coupled with intrigue mechanisms
(10:22:40 PM) Me: and uh
(10:22:44 PM) Me: Yeah,
(10:22:46 PM) DW: ??
(10:22:53 PM) DW: what did yousay?
(10:23:10 PM) DW: or what did i say
(10:26:21 PM) Me: gimme a second
(10:26:34 PM) DW: well i just virtually tucked her into bed, so i think it went well
(10:26:57 PM) DW: she just told me she was falling asleep listening to music and i wished her sweet dreams and she wished back
(10:27:20 PM) DW: but shes not my oneitis, so its nice but it doesnt have a deep satisfaction to me
(10:39:11 PM) Me: Now wouldn’t it be funny, if she would have liked you anyway?
(10:39:37 PM) DW: ???

He’s bordering on becoming a social robot.  He’s starting to get the hang of confidence, but it still needs work.
The “aha!” moment for me came, when I realized I don’t give a shit and I just started doing whatever I wanted and understood to be right. 

I love how scientific the words sound. No wonder computer programmers and geeky types just gobble it.  Rather than talking about their multi-threaded routines they wrote to run on their quad-core rigs, they get to talk about the multi-threaded routines they wrote to run on women. 

Why cannot I achieve the detachment necessary to really level up my “game”?  After much self-analysis I reached the concluision that it was a side-effect of taking Minds and Machines and watching the Matrix movies.  Are you like the guy that betrayed the humans to the agents? I wonder how the “higher value” girls, would react if you described the routines and the effects they were supposed to have? Would they still be content to play along with the program?  At what point does it cross the line between giving them a good time and into manipulation? 

How many of those girls would take the blue pill?

The hard part?  Asking enough girls that question, to get a good idea, without alienating every single female friend I have.

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici!

Man

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
~Hamlet (II, ii)

EDIT: I just realized how this may appear sexist, but I read man as “humankind”. 

Hand of Yahweh

Next time you need to have some humility instilled in you simply watch this video of THIRTEEN year old Itzhak Perlman play a difficult Mendelssohn concert.

His fingers move so effortlessly… that is true virtuosity.

 

Wall Street

Why didn’t I take the job at GS or LB?

BECAUSE I AM AN IDEALISTIC IDIOT THAT WILL BE PAYING THE PRICE FOR MY STUPIDITY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Kids, when your family, friends, & teachers tell you to do what you want, tell them to f*ck off.  When you’re getting the 1 million dollar bonus and banging a different girl every night of the week (maybe even different ones on the same night) and have more disposable income in a year then most people see in a lifetime and can hide it offshore bank accounts…  that’s when you’ll be laughing.

The hardest hit will be the salespeople dealing with mortgage-backed securities, according to Options Group director Eric Moskowitz. Their average bonus will be about $1 million compared with $2 million last year

Awwh, shucks only a million dollars this year…

Immigration & Pointers

Strength thought unity! Unity through faith! England prevails!

I would like to point out that all the Scandinavian countries have higher happiness indexes than North America. Booming tech and commodities sector and are properly investing to grow their countries value.  Taxes are high but I would argue that they have no really poor people.
Their metro used to be run on the honor system.
(I’m no longer sure if it is)

Most white people don’t want to work low-end jobs and would rather have immigrants do those jobs for them.

Most white people don’t want to work any non-financial technical jobs either.

Why does a country allow lax immigration in the first place?  If they didn’t can you imagine how expensive a plastic tub of strawberries would be?

~ 1 cup of blueberries is like $5 or $6 USD with Mexicans picking it on the cheap. Can you imagine what would happen if a white person (who wants $1000 / week) were to be picking blueberries? You’d have a huge inflationary shock to the system. 

Microsoft is importing Indians and Asians like crazy, because there are not enough qualified people being produced by American schools. 

23/25 CS graduates could not properly use pointers.  A female senior in my operating systems class once asked me for help.

Her: I did almost everything like he said. I pretty much copied and pasted the example algorithm, but it’s not working. It keeps crashing at this point where it tries to read the information into the input buffer.

Me: Hmm, let me take a look.  Let me take a look.  Did you call malloc to allocate memory?

Her: What do you mean allocate memory?

Me (inside my head): Are fucking kidding me?  You’re a bloody senior with a 3.8 GPA and you don’t know you have to allocate memory to use it?

Me: For this class we’re working in C. In C++ the string and vector classes automatically handled the memory management for you. Since you need to store stuff in a buffer you need to call a memory allocation routing to reserve space to put the relevant information.  That variable with a star next to it is a pointer.  In other words it is an integer that points to the physical memory address
in the computer, where the information is stored. The pointer itself is a WORD, or a 32 bit integer on this specific platform.

Her: Why can’t I just use the variable?

Me (inside): There is no hope.

Me: It’s like reserving a locker in a private gym.  You can’t just go and put stuff anywhere you want.  You might put your stuff in someone else’s locker and then it will get stolen, moved, or damaged when they try to put their stuff in there. The operating system is like a security guard at the gym who will stop you and kick you out if you’re not using your reserved locker.

Her: How come, I can’t just use the = sign to assign values to the pointer.

Me (inside):  Wow.  She has no internal concept of how a computer works.  Somehow she has managed to make it this far by being nothing better than a monkey.

Me: That would be like trying to store your stuff in the piece of paper that tells you your locker nnumber.

John McCain maybe a war hero, but he’s still a mama’s boy

You can be an alpha male & war hero, but your mother… she’s still your mother.  McCain’s mother is still incredibly feisty at the age of 95 and is campaiging with her son.

Sen. McCain, who was seated next to her, raised his eyebrows and flashed a polite grin during her comments.

“The views of my mother are not necessarily the views of mine,” McCain chimed in.

“Well, that’s my view. You asked me,” Mrs. McCain followed.

After a commercial break, Sen. McCain further tried to distance himself from his mother’s comments.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/10/mccains-mom-takes-on-romneys-mormonism/

Like Mr. T says, treat your mother right!

My ding ding dong

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling.

This confession has meant nothing.

Remember, remember the fifth of November

This has to be the nuttiest campaign video I have ever seen. 

If you don’t donate $100 dollars to Ron Paul then you are a communist!

Classic.