IQ Hijinx Ahoy!

People who design IQ tests keep making them increasingly tougher to master due to the Flynn effect.

The subjective effect of this policy on the population over time is that your tested IQ* will usually keep falling after you reach optimal brain function (circa 22), the shrinking number flying in the face of everything we know regarding experience & long-term cogitation as enhancers of intelligence. Also note that we know that at least in children, the social self-image developed in school - brainy nerd or dumb jock - has a real corresponding effect on their subsequent development of intelligence. IQ isn't just controversial - for a growing elderly demographic it may be becoming literally toxic.

Average IQ is a value with no net numerical accuracy over time.

This contradiction appears insoluble.

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* Mine was 187 as a wee sprog circa 1972, burned down to thirty points less by the last test I took, circa 2000. Makes for a jocular little thought-experiment to work out that long before my 500th birthday, my IQ would inevitably reach zero.

Jocular New Neighborhood Motif

A concrete slice of local relevance which is both delicious & moist!

Thesis

That the content of descriptions within a theory or theories of sets can be used to derive a complete map of both extant & latent realities.

For ZAPPADAN 2014

For ZAPPADAN 2014

For ZAPPADAN 2014

Femaissance Theory

Thesis: That the shift from engagements arranged by the bride's father to engagements chosen by the individual damsels being wooed by their swain or swains was both a fundamental cultural sea change in its own right & a major evolutionary quantum leap in action - one whose ensuing net benefit to humanity has been on a par with germ theory.

New Kind Of Thing I Did Ahoy!

My very first DIY animooted thing!

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Quizzickal Querie Quizze Tyme

Having read* that at scales approaching Planck Length dimensions, space turns granular:

 - are space-granules' surfaces & interiors of different or identical composition?

 - what inhabits the areas of discretion between space-granules? _______________________________________________________________________

* ... no, NOT on someone's blog on the Interwebs, in a science book from a library.

Interwebz Adventure Time!!!

 

















4/20: N3VAR F0RG3T

Today I got a bouncing baby imgur account.
GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!

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2014: Year Of Teh New Shape

Platonic Solid Porn ahoy!

Cultural Petrie-Dish Sample

The Economoronicon

Psybourg Lulzabye

eve of squelchageddyn (Depravity-As-Virtue Remix)

Muzak Of The Damned

Kevlar Suppository

Debian: A Parable

As someone who habitually hops from one Linux distro to another, I've had a wide variety of experiences, to put it mildly.

For example Crunchbang is a sweet dream: easy to install, most everything I wanted was there already, wireless worked right from first boot, crashless & fast - a real treat.

On the other hand, Fedora was a real nightmare of a bitch in heat - when I finally did get it running on a USB, the 300+ updates promptly ate the entire memory on a 16GB system, rendering it unusable. Nothing more frustrating than not even being able to remove cruft because your system is frozen solid with it. I even went to the trouble & expense of getting a 32GB stick instead ... with exactly the same sad result.

From my prior encounters with it, I assumed Debian fell into the latter camp - but I really really REALLY wanted it to work. For one thing, that dreamboat OS Crunchbang? Yeah, it's basically Debian. I'd seen other Debian derivatives that were also pretty sweet, so surely there must be some kind of trick or angle by which to make the parent distro not eat a big bag of ass.

Sooooo ... I did something a bit weird: burned Debian onto a flash-drive & did the installation from one USB onto another one, because hey, what the fuck, why not? Those last few shards of sanity aren't going to exterminate themselves, amirite?

It was a tedious & excruciating slog getting every little parameter set up, with many a red progress bar slower than hillside erosion ... but by Gog & Magog I bloody well did it - & the bugger actually works!

Hell, I even got the Xfce desktop to handle the eldritch mystery of recognizing touchpad taps (which not even Crunchbang's Xfce desktop would let me solve).

The moral: stubbornness is its own reward.