Archive for the 'Meta' Category
A single-woman’s and also a single-mother’s perspective of life. Interesting user comments follow, for example: There is always “better.” Ask instead, what’s “enough?”
Settle for less in love
Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain — there is evidence that meditation changes brain structures.
Scientists probe meditation secrets
Metadata, and more specifically tagging, has become synonymous with the Web 2.0 experience. Tagging allows you (and more importantly, others) to quickly find information of relevance using a couple of keywords. However, if you are a content creator, it’s also time-consuming, and you risk overlooking certain keywords.
Solutions have been available for automatically tagging text for a [...]
An impressive list and words of wisdom.
50 things I’ve learned in 50 years, a partial list in no particular order
Researchers have found that low self-esteem and materialism are not just a correlation, but also a causal relationship where low self esteem increases materialism, and materialism can also create low self-esteem. The also found that as self esteem increases, materialism decreases.
“The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that [...]
A real life story that touched my heart!
Escape from polygamy
I was just reading this article and found it very interesting. It is bit slow in the middle, but see if you like it.
To succeed, learn to be intuitive
Scribd is a user-based web portal where the users can upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Text, etc. files to share with others. The files can be opened in embedded viewers on the website. Presently the content on the website is neither quantitative nor qualitative, however, it has great potential. Original source: LifeHacker
Scribd
Wow, an excellent essay - only read it when you’re calm and free-minded, otherwise, it will be a boring lengthy nonsense.
Curve, Split, New, Limits, Recipes and Different.
Is it worth being wise?
This documentary is definitely worth ~2hrs of your life, especially if you’re an American citizen or resident. Hell… based on Russo’s conclusions, it’s worth watching if you even live on this planet and value freedom.
And here’s another site which seems to have a fair few similar-themed movies and documentaries.
America: Freedom to Fascism
“If you have a tendency to procrastinate, at least do the most enjoyable thing first”. Thanks to Matthew for the recommendation.
A matter of opinion by Roger Hicks
Many thanks to you for visiting wastedmonkeys.com blog and making it a great success! We were fortunate to receive 200+ real hits in first 24 hours and 700+ hits in the first week of launch. We welcome your thoughts, comments and criticism.
There are two dominant opinions about the future of Artificial Intelligence and Humanity. On one hand is the optimistic view of Ray Kurzweil that increasing potency of computers and AI will aid human beings in being better at everything they do. While, on the other hand, is the camp of Hugo de Garis who is [...]
Now here’s one to get your ‘consciousness neurons’ in a frenzy… A thought provoking write-up citing how scientists are approaching the matter of understanding ‘consciousness’. As a firm believer in science, I feel this should be possible - only a matter of time.
Btw, has anyone heard of the term qualia before?!
Why the mind is life’s [...]
First I thought this is simply like the Matrix theme - what’s new about it!?! But then I realised there is more. It’s intriguing. I didn’t quite understand p2 col 1 - “If we work out the numbers, we find that there would be vastly many more simulated minds than nonsimulated minds”. Last paragraph in [...]
