{"id":145,"date":"2005-06-23T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=145"},"modified":"2005-06-23T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T22:27:49","slug":"wow-this-things-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Wow, this thing&#8217;s pretty good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But what&#8217;s this transhumanism stuff about? (Meh, I won&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/wearcam.org\/\" title=\"and get hassled at the airport even more\">build<\/a> myself any cyborgans for at <i>least<\/i> a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>(Dangermouse? Maybe it means <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cs.columbia.edu\/~sedwards\/classes\/2004\/4840\/designs\/terrormouse.pdf\" title=\"Tethermeeces provoke the cat-like urge to swat at their dangling visages\">terrormouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in<br \/>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=transhumanism\">transhumanism<\/a> score: 5<br \/>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=free software\">free software<\/a> score: 5<br \/>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=ieee\">ieee<\/a> score: 4<br \/>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=algorithms\">algorithms<\/a> score: 4<br \/>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=fpga\">fpga<\/a> score: 4<br \/>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=game theory\">game theory<\/a> score: 4<br \/>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=genetic algorithms\">genetic algorithms<\/a> score: 4<br \/>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=asic\">asic<\/a> score: 3<br \/>9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=6502\">6502<\/a> score: 3<br \/>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=systems\">systems<\/a> score: 3<br \/>11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=assembly\">assembly<\/a> score: 3<br \/>12. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=dangermouse\">dangermouse<\/a> score: 3<br \/>13. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=embedded systems\">embedded systems<\/a> score: 3<br \/>14. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=matlab\">matlab<\/a> score: 3<br \/>15. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=probability\">probability<\/a> score: 3<br \/>16. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=68000\">68000<\/a> score: 3<br \/>17. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=reality hacking\">reality hacking<\/a> score: 3<br \/>18. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=memetics\">memetics<\/a> score: 3<br \/>19. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=functional programming\">functional programming<\/a> score: 3<br \/>20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/interests.bml?int=haskell\">haskell<\/a> score: 3<\/p>\n<form method=\"get\" action=\"http:\/\/www.graffitiweb.org\/cgi-bin\/lj\/interesthunt.pl\">\nType your username here to find out what interests it suggests for you.<br \/>\n<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\"  size=\"50\">Popularity Ceiling: <input type=\"text\" name=\"ceiling\" size=\"4\" value=\"1000\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"> (Please be patient!)<\/input><\/input><\/input><\/form>\n<p>&#8220;> based on code by <lj user=\"ixwin\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ixwin\/101785.html?#cutid1\">Find out more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; memes like this tickle at another little interest of mine, data mining. I know, those words tend to get a (well-deserved) bad rap from their typical applications, such as marketers homing in on the negative correlation between your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langston.com\/Fun_People\/1997\/1997ABF.html\" title=\"and chocolate purchases are way down\">frozen pizza vs. condom purchases<\/a> for a fast buck. The distilling, the seeking of obscure patterns in a disorganized haystack of unstructured data. If only I had the <a href=\"http:\/\/dodsbir.net\/\" title=\"so if I win a Phase II, I get *more* work? Fucking beautiful.\">time<\/a> to play around with that kind of stuff&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking of applications right now in IT security and <a href=\"http:\/\/rorschach.test.at\/mindflux\/mv3info.html\" title=\"and a discharge that is hourly\">virus<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanext.uiuc.edu\/worms\/wormdeli\/index.html\" title=\"some fishermen call these Vermin. I don't know why.\">worm<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/default.mspx\" title=\"but everybody's infected, so you can't correlate it to anything...kind of like Herpes\">malware<\/a> discovery without the level of human involvement currently involved. (Sort of like how M$ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1759,1829684,00.asp\" title=\"still my favorite tech writer, all hotlinking aside :-P\">dubiously tied<\/a> BitTorrent to <a href=\"http:\/\/netrn.net\/spywareblog\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/got-aurora-nailexe\/\" title=\"but why don't these DirectRevenue asshats get nailed?\">Aurora\/Nail<\/a> just recently, except less dubious.) Someday&#8230;<\/lj><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what&#8217;s this transhumanism stuff about? (Meh, I won&#8217;t build myself any cyborgans for at least a couple years. (Dangermouse? Maybe it means terrormouse.) Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in1. transhumanism score: 52. free software score: 53. 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