Better Economics

The point about your personal IP address

2012-01-31T03:04:00.000-08:00

It belongs to you, each home user has one, I used to use mine, leave the home computer on and run one of these bitsy ftp servers. So they are like phone numbers, kind of give it out, but sort of private. And when its stolen, demand a new number. You and your circle can share some encrypting codes, no DNS for us.

Public addresses still work. But you can graph all the bogs, spin them out with key words graphs. Public information? Keep a bitsy watson to carry around in your hand helds. You can always bring it up and spin it with a finger motion. It would be nice to have an encrypting watson, one that can open up on personal command. Hey, I just patented something, I hereby patent that.

A better way to embed sql into Json

2012-01-31T02:20:00.000-08:00

Like this:
Sql:{Tables,Columns,Conditions}

The Json will soon have operators, arithmetic and variable updates. So, all graph machines, underneath the grammar, know what to do. ' The elementary path is Json easy text to Bson precompiled. Make Sql a defined identifier? Hmm, how does the Dublin Core do that, lemme see.. well something like that. Joins come with the convolution operator, so its coming. But we need some very simple rules for a forward symbol definition, something natural to the clients has they type Hmm.

The point though, is the query can be tested at home, gotten just right then sent off to the tables in the big graph as Bson. But Json, with that engine code, sort of feeds the installed graph processor. I have that engine tuuned to support script, Bson, lazy Json, sqlite3. It is self contained, carrys its own symbols. The graph layer (Sqlite3) provides an exo path!. That machine will bind faster than anything else, graft right onto the exokernel, port right into a Cray. It is so simple, anyone can Json at the terminal, the rules so simple. Done anonymously, the pinball machine, no loops everything eventually comes home. I have won this, I have the Regex of ontology navigating, and it is ready just in time for MIT, its 1500 lines of code where is my zillion dollars?

On line bot games

2012-01-31T01:45:00.000-08:00

Hey the bots can move, go do battle with others at the server, returning reat multi-media. You get to program the buggers, then release hem to the game server, watch the fun. I should patent this. Ok, I hereby patent this.

But the idea is that the game is a structured graph, full blown with Htnl5 generated graphs sent back to the user. The user at his console can issue orders, using whatever gadgets and dostware the player has at home.him, but his bot his graph exploring with other bots.

Oh yes, security? Egad!! t has been on my mind also. Hmm....

Oh yea. Make the bots write on the scratch partition. When you want to check, then scan , make sure they are graph compliant, check the opcodes. The important thing will be guarding the interpreter, making sure its partition is not writeable, without a secure exchange.

The MIT exo kernel is designed to solve these problems.

Cheetah, the fast little web server

2012-01-31T00:33:00.000-08:00

It is about 600 lines long or so. I think this needs to be embedded into the engine. There is no reason everyone can;t have their own Cheetah, the address won't be advertised to DNS, but the way user bots work is they carry their own return address, numerically. They don't need no stinking DNS badges to return home , they just need it to find stuff. So, screw it, the Cheetah will come up, find it network IP address, then it can go about the web with a path home.

Once the bots are on the move, they can meet at a central server and exchange IP address, setting up private virtual groups outside of the Giggle ad network. Various developers can compete with the best Social Network apps. The market would be huge for special service private networks constructed this way, developers, clients making social networks leaving Footbook to stew in old, complex technology, like Microstuff.

What is a bot?

Technically, just serialized Bson standard, but that stanrd is mobile, once we free it up. Bson comes complete with browser, yea, one of the bots will layout your browser for you. Look at the DOM tree, what is it? Set and descent, fundamental. So we have these personal bots, our personal bot knows about our computer. It will convolve itself with the MIT exokernal, setting up your computer just the way you wanted it. It can issue the sales bot, in your name, and go meet up with the other sales bots, chat about software, come home with some goodies. Its all changing. If the seller has great information, then he can enforce the ad bots in exchange.

Mayor Villaraigosa pays off the Union Bosses

2012-01-30T21:19:00.000-08:00

Overall, these expense reductions of $250 to $500 million will be felt by the beleaguered City employees who will be either furloughed or laid off, and by long suffering Angelenos who will have to live with rapidly deteriorating roads and fewer services.

And once again, this “solution” is just more of the same old stuff, another one off gimmick that does not address the City’s Structural Deficit caused by out of control increases in salaries, pension contributions, and medical benefits. These personnel costs are projected to increase by $226 million next year and almost $740 million over the next four years.

Over the last six years, the super secretive Executive Employee Relations Committee (the “EERC”), under the fiscally irresponsible leadership of Mayor Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti, has given away the store to the campaign funding union bosses.

In this six year period alone, the average compensation for members of the City’s two pension plans has increased by over 24% to almost $82,000 a year. And the police and fire fighters are now taking home an average of over $100,000 a year, and that is before very generous benefits.

And during the reign of Villaraigosa and Garcetti on the EERC, pension contributions have increased by over 150% and now chew up over 20% of the General Fund while human resource benefits are up 47% and comprise almost 13% of the General Fund.

On another note, pension tsunami has a report that puts Fresno County second to Sonoma County in underfunded pensions. Give us a little time in Fresno, we will go belly up.

I have to get me one of these

2012-01-30T18:26:00.000-08:00

A fundamental problem that confronts peer-to-peer applications is
to efﬁciently locate the node that stores a particular data item. This
paper presents Chord, a distributed lookup protocol that addresses
this problem. Chord provides support for just one operation: given
a key, it maps the key onto a node. Data location can be easily
implemented on top of Chord by associating a key with each data
item, and storing the key/data item pair at the node to which the
key maps. Chord adapts efﬁciently as nodes join and leave the
system, and can answer queries even if the system is continuously
changing. Results from theoretical analysis, simulations, and experiments show that Chord is scalable, with communication cost
and the state maintained by each node scaling logarithmically with
the number of Chord node MIT Networking papers

Do nano tubes grow with Fibonacci sequences?

2012-01-30T17:12:00.000-08:00

The periodic makeup of carbon nanotubes suggests that their formation should obey the principles established for crystals. Nevertheless, this important connection remained elusive for decades and no theoretical regularities in the rates and product type distribution have been found. Here we contend that any nanotube can be viewed as having a screw dislocation along the axis. Consequently, its growth rate is shown to be proportional to the Burgers vector of such dislocation and therefore to the chiral angle of the tube. This is corroborated by the ab initio energy calculations, and agrees surprisingly well with diverse experimental measurements, which shows that the revealed kinetic mechanism and the deduced predictions are remarkably robust across the broad base of factual data. PNAS

Sure, they have to have screw location to meet the maximum entropy encoding norm. Finonacci is the basis set for Shannon maximum entropy channels, and Fibonacci spirals. I would us channel theory in this situation, and look at the carbon arrangements as encodings of a channel.

OK,OK I am starting the debug

2012-01-30T12:30:00.000-08:00

I think I can get a lab stable nearly semantic machine this week. I will have it just in time for Facebook suckers to lose big time.

5 PM

OK, I have fixed one bug, but no full bore debug stepping today. I did provide a clearer view of the commutative lamda operation, otherwise known as graph convolution.

What is the deal with Footbook and Giggles?

In about two weeks FootBook loses control of the user interface and Giggle loses control of web indexing. For Footbook users, the new model is to pick two separate graphs, a personal Watson graph and a personal user interface graph. Data collected by the Watson bot is convolved with the user interface generating the browser controls. Generally information companies will suggest new users download a Watson, and personalize it. The user can separately select some user interfaces that match their usage. Footbook ends up with a ton of competition.

For Giggles the problem is defacto standard for indexing on named graphs in the web, with access to the engine and syntax, developers are free to enhances tagging and named graphs technology, developing bots to manage the indexing using standard java or javascipt tools. Giggle gets tons of competition.

So, the half life of these companies is about well, 1/4 of what is was a few years ago.

You have to run for president first

2012-01-30T12:26:00.000-08:00

Gov. Jerry Brown is on a mission to prevent the United States from becoming a Third World country, and he says the solution is a high-speed railroad in California.

"We're not going to be a Third World country if I have anything to do with it," Brown said in a Friday morning interview on KCBS-AM in San Francisco. Fourteen countries already have high-speed rail, but the United States does not. Burbank Leader

I admire Jerry's desire to enrich Washington DC with California taxes. But the California tax payer cannot afford all of Jerry Brown's DC patriotism, especially when we barely have a vote in DC. If Jerry wants to save the Union, then I would suggest the first step is a California default and rebellion.

Bson has disinvented Http

2012-01-30T02:41:00.000-08:00

Think about it. There is no hypertext, just Bson packages, with self described contents. Evan absent the semantic revolution, Bson alone has done away with Http. What's the point? May as well run high speed Bson streams straight though sockets.

Separately the semantic system will use the named graph system to manage the ip vs Url tables. That's has to be the overall plan, just dump http subsume the DNS indexing into the local named graph tables, let the web bots go about keeping them up to date. I think I am pursuing this approach with the semantic machine.

The other point is what's the point of a CGI when your server holds nothing but potentially executable Bson sub graphs? Just take the retreived object, convolve it with the user graph and execute the results, right there by calling the overload method in the same thread.

Not much there

2012-01-30T00:25:00.000-08:00

Keynesian analysis as I define it implies that you need monetary policy, and occasionally countercyclical fiscal policy, to stabilise the economy, but that is not what is generally meant by a mixed economy! Simon Lewis

There is an ongoing debate about schools of though in economics. What is Keynesianism? It is not as vague as the definition above. I can substitute, oil, housing, roads, clean air, and shoe laces:

Keynesian analysis as I define it implies that you need shoelace policy, and occasionally countercyclical shoe policy, to stabilize the economy Me

I used to use the shoelace metaphor a lot, then one day I looked it up. Something like 30,000 serious injuries a year happen from untied or broken shoelaces.

But the point is, saying that the waves must go up and down does not define a theory. Your theory is defined by the units of measure your normative agent executes.

The indexedDB Web Sql debate

2012-01-29T21:52:00.000-08:00

The issue sort of evaporates. Fro the point of view of Sqlite3, it simply means they compete with the table system for naming sequences of Bson, they offer high powered rowid indexing, and subgraph indexing.

The storage standard has become Bson serial, one way or the other anyway. Sqlite keeps its opcode system for a while, but Bson sequences can easily exchange with them. Sqlite can go into the B Tree and set fom page partitions values, optimized for typical triple storage. Sql syntax becomes a variation of a Bson named call. I think sqlite3 still wins the game here, with BerkeleyDB coming in second. But someone will produce the open source version of B-Tree optimizable, that is easily adjusted in page partitions for various types of storage.

Then, my 1500 lines of semantic machine is translated into Javascript, and each browser becomes a Watson in the semantic ocean

Too many drop down menus

2012-01-29T18:09:00.000-08:00

Am I the only one who is afraid to move the cursor least I am bombarded with drop downs?

CYGWIN

2012-01-29T09:31:00.000-08:00

Great stuff, I have finally become a unix fan.
I managed to get the semantic engine complied and running in the unix envirnoment. It took three hours of unix typeface explosion, reams and reams of instructions. I manged to avoi auto make, but bit the bullet and adopted make. Linux stil has a lot of separating the wheat from chaff problem.

Compiling in cygwin is all about loaction the header files, nested deep with the directory, the finding a CCFLAG -I option that gets me to the headers. Then, it button the thing up, never open it again, and have a beer as all the linux hyroglifics needs to be erased from my brain.

Anyway, this is a network project, and all we need is a simple linux kernel that can run sqlite3 or some other micro graph layer. There is no way the customer is going to pay Steve Balmer a ton of money just to run 1500 lines of free code on their server platform!

Illinois is doomed

2012-01-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

"These projections clearly demonstrate that action must be taken to control not only Medicaid costs but also (pension) costs, or all other areas of government will continue to be squeezed," Kraft said.
Looking at the bigger picture, the state has a backlog of about $8.5 billion in unpaid bills and owes about $27 billion in outstanding bonds. And then there's the roughly $80 billion owed to the state's public employee pension funds.

Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/2012/01/22/2026569/illinois-budget-is-dripping-with.html#storylink=cpy

Illinois taxpayers should quit paying taxes, force the default and get it over with.

I have too many rants about the software industry

2012-01-28T19:37:00.001-08:00

Sorry, I will try to keep them at my Git Hub

But the good news for the machine is that I was able to compile with cygwin, the unix environment, and further I can compile cheetah, the web server, making is possible to run the semantic machine as a server. Dunno when I will integrate.

Anyway, taking a break from bug fixing. It is time to let the industry stew a bit.

Semantic web is graph pattern patching

2012-01-28T19:27:00.000-08:00

Really, I tire of reading the esoterics talk about meaning and uncertainty. Humans terms. The machines match patterns in graphs, that is all they can do and that is all they have been doing to 50 years. What is changing is that the computer industry has suddenly realizing this elementary fact.

What about RDF and the rest of the W3C hierarchy? Keep them, RDF just specifies data type, but it is not the semantic web, RDF has no grammar for pattern matching.
They key break through will happen when some software geek proposes a standard for storing Bson nested stores in SQL. At that point, the grammar of finding matches between Bson streams is, well, a few additional hundred lines of code actually.

On line college, here we go

2012-01-28T09:56:00.000-08:00

President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach. Particularly sharp words came from the presidents of public universities; they’re already frustrated by increasing state budget cuts. WA Times

What is the industry standard for storing Bson in sql tables

2012-01-28T09:31:00.000-08:00

I brought it up in the sqlite3 forum and was told there was no good reason to define such a stadard. But there is not just sqlite3, we also have BerkelyDG, a very popular open source engine. One might think that customers might just ask the question, is there a standard for storing Bson into sql. Yet if one searches and searches, the only person working on the standard is some nut in Fresno,CA.

The answer, I think, is the www standards group being dragged along, slow to pick up the pace. The W3 standards organization can only keep the same pace as their big company funders. Big software companies want control of the process, however it is too late, I think.

Most of the onrush of enterprise software activity started when the industry began working around ML, which never really took off,. I am beginning to think XML was a problem from the start. But dumping XML and embracing javascript/html, the small enterprise software vendors took off at the cost of big company proprietary systems.

The market is transformed, and Bson over sql is the next step,and here at Imagisoft we figured this out.

Good news on biofuel technology

2012-01-28T00:11:00.001-08:00

Algae produce an oil which can be processed to create a useful biofuel. Biofuels, made from plant material, are considered an important alternative to fossil fuels and algae, in particular, has the potential to be a very efficient biofuel producer. Until now, however, there has been no cost-effective method of harvesting and removing the water from the algae for it to be processed effectively.

Now, a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, believe they have solved the problem. They have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. The research is set to be published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering on 26 January 2012.

The system developed by Professor Zimmerman´s team uses up to 1000 times less energy to produce the microbubbles and, in addition, the cost of installing the Sheffield microbubble system is predicted to be much less than existing flotation systems.Next Big Future

The Couchbase language

2012-01-27T20:28:00.000-08:00

INSERT INTO abc VALUE 1234;
INSERT INTO abc VALUE 3.141592653;
INSERT INTO abc VALUE "This is a string";
INSERT INTO abc VALUE ["this","is","an","array"];
INSERT INTO abc VALUE { type: "message", content: "This is an object" };

It is nothing but SQl with Json objects, they missed the whole frigging point. Json is not the object, Json is the Subject,Predicate,Object, and can only be done when the engine gets nested store. Couchbase srewed this, and so did ignition partners, the fools.

Microsoft support is no help, if Microsoft knew what was going on they would already have semantic database engine, its only about 1500 lines of code, and they can cut and paste my current version, and go from there. Jeez!

Dumping xml

2012-01-27T20:20:00.001-08:00

The funny thing about semantic web is that it takes off not because of some miracle of technology, but mainly because the industry is dumping XML as a database technology. We were waiting for years for the computer industry to figure it out, we are a fairly dumb buch.

Venture capitalists don't scare me

2012-01-27T20:11:00.000-08:00

NoSQL database company Couchbase, created earlier this year through the merger of CouchOne (co-founded by the creator of CouchDB) and Membase (founded by the key developers behind memcached), has scored $14 million in a Series C round of funding. Tech Crunch

Couchbase is a company one has to register to look at their white paper. Why not just go to my hub and read my wiki description. Couchbase was just invented out of the market, they are not needed when the world is Bson. The semantic engine will win this day, watch. The semantic engine is pen source, and makes the entire world Json/Bson compatible, generates it own query by example though simple derivation of Json syntax.

now I can see why the sqlite folks are upset, they took a bunch of shares to make Couchbase work. All a waste of effort because they didn;t get what just happened in the industry. Once the data streams are Bson, then semantic pattern matching and query by example are the only thing working.

Wait, this is Imagisoft';s business!

2012-01-27T16:48:00.000-08:00

Udemy, a company that allows anyone to create and sell courses through its online platform, has announced a new area of its site, called The Faculty Project, devoted to courses by professors at a number of top institutions, such as Colgate, Duke University, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and Vassar College. While Udemy is a for-profit enterprise, the Faculty Project courses will be free. Inside Higher Ed

I have to check with the staff, I thought we had a patent on teaching people, or something.

Dojo, a JSON query syntax

2012-01-27T12:57:00.000-08:00

Here Examples

data = {foo:"bar"};
results = dojox.json.query("$.foo",data);
results -> "bar"

?price < 15 & rating > 3

These little syntax elements will appear when JSON is used as a query. The resulting syntax is a lot like Typeface Exlposion. I will bookmark Dojo, the fist example to follow.

The system I am after is built in, query is part of navigation. So the json.query term goes away, but I still need the convolution operator. so I would get:

{{foo:bar.@},{(foo:*),Graph} ? First define the named graph bar, hen search for anything with that name on the sub graph, Graph.

But who knows right now. No one The confusion comes because the industry is just now figuring out that most queries are BSON queries on BSON data over the same path with the same data syntax. We are still human centric because human web access has recently been dominating profits.

Gingrich woos the Tea Party socialists

2012-01-27T10:30:00.000-08:00

All the folks who voted for his pie in the sky space adventure. Tea Party trekkies, they do not even realize how socialist the proposals are.

Newt Gingrich’s goal to establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if he is elected president would be costly and shouldn’t be the space program’s focus, said John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth. Bloomberg

The is why the Tea Party failed, they were just small state welfarists Republican Communists.

Json as a search syntax

2012-01-27T10:17:00.000-08:00

The industry is a bit confused, but getting there. They need a typeface explosion, some regex operations on Bson data. They are a month or so away, lotta time for me to finish the graph machine,

Getting information about Imagisoft products

2012-01-26T03:08:00.000-08:00

https://github.com/Matt-Young/Semantic-Machine/wiki
Or click on this link

Start there, the wiki page for the open software engine, designed and developed, right here on this blog, right in front of your eyes. This machine will reviolutionize enterprise data.

It's a Json/Bson world

2012-01-25T17:53:00.000-08:00

My latest web market survey of who is getting it and who isn't in semantic machine.

In the industry, one thing we should all be aware is that it is Jxon text in, Bson text between machines. Humans talk Json, and within Json they can have machine executable code, carry, script code, operator identifiers, and bound objects. The Bots carry this stuff around and request to apply the code at machines,

So the data base industry has to get what happens at the Bson level, how to the bots communicate?

How is my code coming?
Imagisoft's revolutionary , open source engine.

Great, I have nailed this thing. The solution is the semantic graph layer which can lie atop a number of machines, my preference still Sqlite3. My software will win this battle, it talks Json in and Bson between he machines. And the human console has a very free flowing, forgiving Json parser. The input Json query goes straight to sql based Bson, ready to rumble.

I love compettion!

2012-01-22T08:04:00.000-08:00

Splunk collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated by your applications, servers and devices - physical, virtual and in the cloud. Troubleshoot application problems and investigate security incidents in minutes instead of hours or days, avoid service degradation or outages, deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights.Splunk

Control freaks in the corporation love this stuff. Little police bots running around in a protected environment. Imagisoft and a free thousand line of code get you a world wide graph layer, go anywhere in the protected graph layer, do anything in in (subject to local protections). Do it in bson binary with a human json interface, powered by sqlite micro code.

I'm coding!

2012-01-22T07:41:00.000-08:00

I am now completely over my unixphobia, even beginning to like the command line. I am with the github movement, An the code is back to runnin the command line, an very improved, but incomplete.

I love competition

2012-01-21T00:27:00.000-08:00

We got the mean blue machine cornered and open sourced

Lotusphere: IBM plans to push Watson to finance and medical markets

ORLANDO: IBM has revealed more of its plans to turn its Watson supercomputing platform into a viable business offering, outlining several of the industries where it believes it can find a market for the system.

Manoj Saxena, IBM's general manager for Watson, explained that the firm is set to target industries that generate and collect huge volumes of data as its core markets for the tool, including finance, telecoms and healthcare.

"The healthcare industry jumped out as one of the first areas we will look to market Watson, as information in the medical world is doubling every five years so it’s getting ever harder for staff to find the data they need," he said.

Saxena added that the capabilities of Watson would be vital for businesses that are struggling to keep up with the huge amounts of unstructured data being created and stored, which is as high as 80 per cent in some organisations.

"We will look at Watson as a line in computing where it advanced from standard computing to the ability to use reasoning on the information it can access to provide better insights," he said.

Imagisoft will give every adult anywhere their own. You got your Watson, we got our own:

Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. He is best known because his name was one of the first words spoken over the telephone. "Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you."

I am beginning to see Woodrow Wilson's point

2012-01-20T21:24:00.000-08:00

One Mexican State Bordering The US Was Deadlier Than All of Afghanistan Last Year

(CNSNews.com) – Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan.

They are just up the street, armed, zombified and dangerous.

Free Visa to America with an on line degree

2012-01-20T16:59:00.000-08:00

Tuition at the University of California

The LA Times has some choice quotes over the pain and frustration playing out in California.

Imagisoft is offering a one time deal, a California certified student visa for each new foreign enrolee!! With out agents world wide you get 1) A verified and monitored undergraduate on line degree 2) A four year vise to Amercia to wander around America and do as you please. Call now!!

Imagisoft is a certified California, on line school granter of unlimited student visas

Inequality and government policy

2012-01-20T13:51:00.000-08:00

Failed government policy increases inequality when politicians push dis-similar needs of disparate groups onto central government. This is the most common failure mode.

Thing that map to DC and thing that don't:

Social Security seems safe because it has a similarity across the continent. Much of specialty medicine does not map to DC. Emergency room medicine is standard across the continent, and may well map to DC. Monetary policy does not map well to DC is the real world does not map well to DC. Earmarks, on a congressional basis might map, I think so but could be proven wrong.

Warming to the unix command line

2012-01-20T13:42:00.000-08:00

Github has me using their command shell, unix standard. I find myself switching to it ore often instead of a grabbing a dos box.

Github, ftp loaded with complexity, but Good Stuff

2012-01-20T11:08:00.000-08:00

I have this trick, bring up Windows studio, load the project and do that before executing the myriad of Github ftp commands with master-slave intelligence. Don't ware what happened, Studio tell me when a file is about to be changed. Unless you learn their data model, you can screw yourself. But my brain is too valuable to fill it with the versions of different data models!

Learning is getting the canonical graph of the thing. Github, is actually quite great groupware, Fossil, all of em. They add efficiency to the software.

I am a critic of Citizens United

2012-01-20T06:32:00.000-08:00

So, to critics of Citizens United, I have a question: should those business entities have had a right to engage in SOPA/PIPA protests like they did? If so, what is the source of that right, and by what mechanism is it vindicated? Popehat

They always had that right, never been threatened. If these entities performed collective action during elections, and their behavior was unusual and timed to effect the election, then these group of individuls may have created a conflict in the rights of others, the right to a fair vote. I dunno, we have legislature to arbitrate between the two right, free speech and fair voting. We have a Supreme Court to arbitrate any dispute between these two people rights. But in arbitrating between the rights,the Supremes have no reason to grant additional rights.

If these folks are engaged in monopolistic action, that is a separate issue, and I do not express any opinion on monopoly business rights.

If Citizens United wanted more rights, they have to have a Constitutional revision, the same problem the rest of us face. Dim bulbs on the bench don't help one way or the other.

New kids on the semantic block

2012-01-19T22:24:00.000-08:00

The key principle behind Mirage is to treat cloud virtual hardware as a compiler target, and convert high-level language source code directly into kernels that run on it.
Our prototype compiler uses the OCaml language (x3) to further remove dynamic typing overheads and introduce more safety at compile time. Paper

Check them out and compare with my stack:

Semantic
BSON
Graph
Hardware

Concurrency? Not a problem with convolution of serialized active BSON. Web wide index management, built in graph 'rail', web bots in a web wide memory protected virtual active graph. Free concurrency management when treated as graph traversal.

ML the language:
fun fact n = let
fun fac 0 = 1
| fac n = n * fac (n - 1)
in
if (n < 0) then raise Fail "negative argument"
else fac n
end

There F#, and so on. What do they all have in common?
Step back, take the canonical view. They all are serializations constructed with sets and descents, and support match and pass operations on a node-node basis. It is what we are getting, right here. CutnPaste license, patent free, BSON standards based, JSON console searching and graph construction, and embedded sql micro machine with high speed node indexing, collating call backs on match. Imagisoft wins again, they should fund me and I would just hire these folks, they are all doing great. Giggles of fun.

Imagisoft, where we beat the big boys with mere pennies.

Why are Bulldogs trashing their own people

2012-01-19T21:41:00.000-08:00

Eight people were arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after police investigated a central Fresno house that they say was being used to sell methamphetamine.

After serving a warrant at the residence in the 2300 block of East Webster Avenue, police recovered an ounce of methamphetamine and a loaded handgun, Lt. Joe Gomez said.

Several of those arrested were Bulldog gang members. Fresno Bee

These Bulldog gang members have already removed too much brain, literally. Look up meth brain scans, scary stuff. They have likely been using the stuff heavily for years, often right out of middle school.

So what does the Hispanic community do?

These are their people, blowing holes in the minds of their children. This is all around me, this arrest was up the street, across from the junior college. these folks likely a major supplier. These folks would go out in a blaze of shooting, they really know themselves that they are about done for. Seriously, the meth addict knows real soon that he really screwed himself, disabled themselves. So they have this sense of primitive revenge, get as much pay back before they are useless.

Hispanic parents? Seriously, the welfare is going away if your children are becoming Zombies. How do you ell if a young kid has had brain removal? Simple, around here they only know one behavior, the stick two fingers out, do a little finger jive, then say, 'Yo man'. That's it, that is their life skills after a year of this stuff.

I debugged code!

2012-01-19T19:11:00.001-08:00

Worked out a bug or two. So proud.

Loops in the control

2012-01-19T14:48:00.001-08:00

Controls of complex things, like managing a local respository and a remote repository.

Try to avoid loops, like check out local, then push to remote, then commit local, then they ain't sunk. Git allows lots of opportunities to loop in the control path, bad form an means the user cannot just play dumb.

Southwest States of America elect Perry president

2012-01-19T10:22:00.000-08:00

Perry bows out of GOP race, seeing 'no viable path to victory'

Suggest the boy do less Tent Revivalism and focus on the lack of fair voting for Texas citizens.

Pope demands more fairy tales

2012-01-19T10:10:00.000-08:00

Pope Benedict XVI says Roman Catholics in the U.S. need to understand the "grave threats" to their faith posed by radical secularism in the political and cultural arenas. AP

I wonder if he is talking about me. I get paranoid when the religious psychotics start bad mouthing the materialists.

How much will Republicans cost us

2012-01-19T09:58:00.000-08:00

Romney: $600 billion
Gingrich: $1.3 trillion
(Late lamented) Perry: $1.0 trillion
Santorum: $1.3 trillion

The numbers (reduction in 2015 tax revenues, from the Tax Policy Center): Baseline scenario
The link says these are increased deficits in 2015, alone. Can we push something $3T through those puny 19 bond dealers in one year? Pay for 80% of federal spending with debt? They sound awfully hyperinlflationary to me, you know, end game.

Mild slowdown, soft landing

2012-01-19T09:18:00.000-08:00

My recession indicator smoothly goes up a bit, so I expect the previous quarter to be down a bit. Compare that with mid 2008 where we had a sharp reduction.

A git repository up and running

2012-01-19T08:21:00.000-08:00

Embedded SQL

I have ten windows open, following instruction, fixing a known dll install problem, managing my git from the web, local git manual (five windows) , remote help. All in all, my self taught course in cOde repositories has left about five local repositories and about the three left hanging in the web. Whew!!

Is it not like the old days when we just FTPed a file! Naturally I left all the CRLF in the file. This is a 'no no' in Unix land where they strictly enfocre the sole LF as end of line. But the editors don't care too much.

IS THERE ANY REASON TO THINK THAT THE INTEREST RATE ON U.S. GOVERNMENT DEBT IN THE FUTURE WILL BE GREATER THAN THE GROWTH RATE OF THE ECONOMY?

2012-01-19T05:33:00.000-08:00

Nice chart from Brad. He removed long term growth trends from long term Treasury interest rates, thus showing the difference between growth and rates. They should correlate, interest rates dhould represent differential growth in inventory from trend.

Brad asks the question, and the short answer is yes, interest rates on DC treasuries can be much lower than growth rates of the American economy, mainly when the West coast uses another form of money. If the peripheral become disconnected from he center, their money decorrelates and Treasuries mainly measures growth around the Mid-Atlantic.

We have a name for the phenomena, Zero Bound in DC.

Recognize Cuba

2012-01-18T18:30:00.000-08:00

An American man imprisoned in Cuba on charges of crimes against the state was being tracked by island authorities since 2004 and traveled there at least five times in 2009 to set up sophisticated wireless Internet networks, according to a purported leaked court filing.AP

They have smart phones now anyway. Any president worth beans would say, time to move on, recognize Cuba. Tell the Cuban mob in Miami to get lost. And I like Castro and His Beard

I wrote three lines of code

2012-01-18T18:21:00.000-08:00

Proud of myself, basically starting with insert graph. It is so powerful and so version three I though it fun.
In any graph, within the sl microde range, just use insert after rowid.. In the process converting all object pointers to relative value, hence change the call back on suggraph bounds..

And doing it in fossil!! But still no web repository, I have managed to screw that again. And if I keep screwing with fossil on the web they are going to make me write the security qwuetion page, for password resetting. That is JSON, been there ten years ago, doing that stuff with name:value pair in the URL code. Don;t wanna do JSON, wanna do high speed mobile BSON graphs.
So I am still using the g page on the right.

The secure webotic password manager

2012-01-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

The web bot is a self directed nested store, defined on a graph layer with just a few methods for mobility, matching and indexing. A web bots that is trapped inside a closed graph, that bot can be a single process, self check summing itself along a single access database of files. A completely automated soldier bot in the castle, looking at the jewels, constantly on the alert with its ongoing check sums. Under the Imagisoft nested convolution system, the jewels are easily protected.

What's this all about?
Take the sandbox model of byte code we use in browsers, extend that model across the 'web', grease the web with a mobile graph layer.

Gingrich and slurs against Italians

2012-01-18T14:01:00.000-08:00

Because Obama is Italian, the tag 'Food Stamp' President is implied to be a racist? Does this charge mean that Gingrich has less faith that the Italians will not get out of the sovereign mess and will need Food Stamps from Germany?

What about Bob?

2012-01-18T13:47:00.000-08:00

The Richard Dryfuss movie, he being the pompous self indulgent trying to look scholarly, and Bob, just being Bill Murray. Listening to this guy, try it, he is yet another welfare bum looking to get the federal government in his grand scheme. Find me a small government consevative, rather than yet another in a long list of Communist aparachicks.

What does the title tell you? This guy has great big plans for DC, paid for with your dollars. Tell me how this guy and Eric Cantor are any different from any other welfare bum?

Ilya Shapiro lousy legal scholar, Jonah Goldberg ignorant fool

2012-01-18T13:33:00.000-08:00

As legal scholar Ilya Shapiro writes, “It cannot be any other way; in a world where corporations are not entitled to constitutional protections, the police would be free to storm office buildings and seize computers or documents. The mayor of New York City could exercise eminent domain over Rockefeller Center by fiat and without compensation if he decides he’d like to move his office there. . . . [R]ights-bearing individuals do not forfeit those rights when they associate in groups.” NRO

Why does idiocy migrate to the law?

Shareholder property rights, outside or inside, the corporation have never been threatened. Their rights protected in search and seizure rules because they are people rights, the right of property owners. This bozo forget that corporations are owned by shareholders, and then he gets Jonah Goldberg to believe his fantasy.

There has never been a legal right to invade corporatation, just like there is never a right to invade the home of shareholders, the right ties to the people.

NRO please get a better legal scholar to quote, look for someone not quite the Dim Bulb, look outside your circle (step out of the box, maybe?)

Lost password on fossil

2012-01-18T13:11:00.000-08:00

The wiki pages remain for viewing, but no more updates.

OK, back to economic theory

2012-01-18T09:26:00.000-08:00

Back when I simply said, OK, lets create the quantum model, based simply on the fact of the large crash, Oct 2008. In looking at the equations, I knew I had a yield curve, and from my background cast about looking for a model that dealt with the Corridor Hypothesis. My background caused a pattern match with Burg of Stanford.

Burg, I summarized as performing the smooth Fourier transform, then entropy encoding that result with something like a Huffman encoder. That led me back to Shannon and Kelly an Benford's law and channel theory.

But it is still Burg, but in a different order. The economy does the Huffamn encoding first, in order to get quants that generate a smooth Fourier math about a Lagrange point, essentially. We edjust the economy as if to make money work, and money needs a zero (the additive identity). The economy creates a model that gets us a Zero for a while, but eventually we start to meander over to the Zero point and the quants no longer are stable, we need a Recalc.

Nature has no Zero, it is artificial! But Zero makes transaction simple, low cost;, it enables money. The trade off, use the broken model, but eventually it needs calibration.

I am using a web repository!!

2012-01-18T08:50:00.000-08:00

Mainly for the Wiki pages to describe semantic machine, and I point the Wiki pages back to the code page on the right. But at least I am using the formal method to talk to other programmers, I get past the signalling!!

It is all in our imagination, I use a formal repository, but only as a wiki blog to explain the thing. I know that software geeks follow the new repositories, so yet again, this is not much more than a search gimmick. But the wiki explanation of semantic machine will be stable there, and I can go on abusing this blog without embarrassing the semantic machine market.

I declare a write in candidacy to replace Jim Costa in Congress

2012-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

My platform? Jim Costa and the Obama/LaHood Choo Choo scam, enough to have the bum thrown in jail, or at least be deselected.

Wherever you see Jim Costa on any ballot, or if you vote in Republican primary, write in Matt Young. Fresno is not that stupid to fall for Choo Choo one more time, it is too embarrassing for Fresno to be the butt of constant Train to Nowhere jokes.

No one else wants to run.

Fossil, a new code repositary

2012-01-17T21:50:00.000-08:00

Yet another, in about three. This one has little support so far, and there seems to be no desire for group projects using this, yet. But fun, for a while.

Speed Freak Killers

2012-01-17T16:33:00.000-08:00

Herzog was convicted in 2001 of the methamphetamine-fueled rape and murder of Vanderheiden and the killings of two other people in the mid-1980s. His trial and the case against a co-defendant, childhood friend Wesley Shermantine, were moved to Santa Clara County from San Joaquin County because of extensive pretrial publicity over what were dubbed the "speed freak killers."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/17/BAK51MQI8C.DTL#ixzz1jlVwXPBf

I=S for all transactions

2012-01-17T15:51:00.000-08:00

But my most controversial charge was that Wren-Lewis (and by implication Krugman) forget that S=I.Money Illusion

I go with Scott. The idea is that I=S has to be the outcome in the model, if one assumes that I!=S, then one has a new model. Can't have it both ways.

Channel flow does have moments outside the model, sorry, I guess those periods radiate goods. Oct 2009? The model on that day was certainly different than the usual model.
The general question is, can one construct a single model always and everywhere consistent? Not when I,S -> 0, because near zero the model blows, and all models usually have a zero so the algebra has additive identity, and thus generating a robust language.

The only repair is a transform that moves the definition of I,S away from zero, and that's a new model.

Sung to the tune of

2012-01-17T15:27:00.000-08:00

Here comes QE, here comes QE
Coming down QE Lane
Geithner Bernanke and all the New York primes
Placing their puts and
Printers hummin, traders grinnin
All is merry and bright
Grab your balls and say some paryers
Because QEs comin tonight

Mises breaks the News
Property rights on the lyrics subject to the CutnPaste license

Markets in Everything

2012-01-17T15:13:00.000-08:00

An Iranian firm, seeking to capitalize on the frenzy that followed the crash of the drone — and American calls to have it returned — is now producing miniaturized toy versions of the craft. Most of the toys, which come in several colors and are made of Iranian plastic, have already been snapped up by Iranian government organizations, according to the group that manufactures them. WA Post

The remote control version will be very popular.

Mish on recession indicators

2012-01-17T14:57:00.000-08:00

Turning points in unemployment, heres Mish:

Looking at longer-term trends, I count 4 instances in red where weekly-claims was more of a lagging indicator than anything else. A recession started 4 times with weekly claims at or very near the lows.

I count 3 recessions in green where a weak case can be made that claims are a leading indicator. However, I can also count six instances in which weekly claims turned up relatively sharply and there was no recession.

Mish reminds me of those CERN physicists, trying to find the optimum encoding of a finite set of events seeing if they identify a Higgs.

Air wave Markets

2012-01-17T13:54:00.000-08:00

AT&T Inc. (T) is under so much pressure to add wireless spectrum after its failed $39 billion bid for T- Mobile USA that it may be compelled to pay the highest premium in more than a decade to secure Dish Network Corp. (DISH)
AT&T may consider a bid for Dish after the second-largest U.S. satellite-television provider acquired airwaves from the bankruptcies of DBSD North America Inc. and TerreStar Networks Inc. that could give AT&T two to four more years of capacity, said Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Bloomberg

Where is the cheapest bandwidth available? Shannon optimum encoded semantic trees, they get the client the optimum data with the optimum path length. Imagisoft has this nailed

Republican Communists want a Ron Paul third party

2012-01-17T13:12:00.000-08:00

I would be comfortable in a general election if Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum as the Republican in the Reagan tradition and debating both Barack Obama and Ron Paul.” Weakly Standeard

That would be Billy Kristol demanding that middle class tax payers should support his group galavanting around the world in aircraft carriers. They want to run Ron Paul as the libertarian vs Obama the libertarian so the Republicans can hold the entire Communist sector of the electorate.

Grover 'Gut Defense' Norquist is likely to support Ron Paul.

If you support Ron Paul in opposition to the Communist Standard and click on all the Ron Paul donation ads you can find.

Redevelopment agencies are deselected

2012-01-17T09:22:00.000-08:00

Oakland used nearly $30 million of its redevelopment funds to support salaries in almost a dozen departments, including the City Council, the mayor's office and public works. Without the money, up to 200 city workers will lose their jobs. SF Gate

That is odd, one might think shutting redevelopment puts construction worker on the street, not City Hall office workers.

In San Francisco, the future of the city's roughly 100 redevelopment workers is uncertain.

Under a proposal pending before the Board of Supervisors, the agency would transfer its debts and obligations to the city. A transition period means workers would stay until the end of March.

"We don't know what staffing level we are going to require to continue the projects, programs and services currently provided by the redevelopment agency," said Christine Falvey, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's spokeswoman.

At least 1,500 jobs are at risk statewide, according to the California Redevelopment Association.

Odder still that state wide we don't have 1500 costruction workers leaving. I thought redevelopment meant rebuilding, but I could be mistaken.

The Silly Confrontation

2012-01-17T07:16:00.000-08:00

Notice, politicians ham up and prepare to do the dramatic face to face? Look at Mitt, what's he thinking? He is thinking:

" Good God, here comes the fake face to face thing, go ahead, lets, get it over with"

In the venture capital business, the investors do the eye roll when this happens, when a young venturist gets all, you know, the drama showy thing. It's an embarrassing moment.

A meth addict trick

2012-01-17T05:19:00.000-08:00

Fresno woman took video of herself on an iPad as she smoked methamphetamine before shooting four family members and turning the gun on herself in a grisly murder-suicide case, police said Monday.

Aide Mendez, 23, killed her two children, 17-month-old Aliyah Echeverria and 3-year-old Isaiah Echeverria, as well as her boyfriend's cousin, Paul Medina, 27, police said. She then killed herself. Fresno Bee

This and of stuff happens a lot from points here, on toward Mexico. The horrific stunts follow the trail of meth users. Unitiated people need to be forewarned of this stuff, the actual addict usually gives up and in their delusions try to infect others with the Leprosy. Women who fail to acheive simple education about the brain are the most susceptible. They get delusional about what the man offers, and just take the stuff ruining their lives within the week.

I now the apartment complex where this happened, it is the apartment complex where the Zombie Mexican Drug Cartel distributes much of the retail meth trade. For meth users, about half their welfare checks go to the Mexican Zombie Killer machine, and that feeds directly into the Mexican Zombie Foot Soldier recruiting campaign. Training to be a Mexican Zombie Cartel member consist of blowing a golf ball size hole in the center of your brain. It won't stop until the welfare checks stop.

Bobbing for Nuggets

2012-01-16T20:06:00.001-08:00

A Los Angeles woman was arrested after she offered sexual favors in exchange for chicken McNuggets, Burbank police said.
Khadijah Baseer of Los Angeles reportedly opened customers’ car doors in the drive-thru of McDonald’s on the 1700 block of Olive Avenue about 11 p.m. Wednesday, asking for free chicken McNuggets in exchange for sexual favors, Officer Joshua Kendrick said.
A man told police Baseer approached him but he refused the offer. Burbank Leader

Two tone hair dye?

2012-01-16T20:03:00.000-08:00

Isn't she gray by now?

Collating functions in sqlite

2012-01-16T19:45:00.000-08:00

sqlite lets you register a collating function, hence making is possible for the graph layer to construct a match on the matchable portion of the subject value in a triple. So you get this bounding index, the object pointer based on rowid, and the subject matcher, and the two together determine a pass or reject between the corresponding nodes on either of the commutative sub graphs.

So, here I am, thinking. Just as soon as the complete JSON syntax is complete, all issues and bus removed, etc etc, then hey, the code is a few months away from completion, built on sqlite. The wide spread use of sqlite means, by default, it becomes the basis of the semantic machine.
Where have I gone wrong?

Another topic:

Further, follow the analogy a bit more. What is a DOM tree? Just a portion of the giant graph, it is BSON, kind of, by definition. The browser display is nothing more than a convolution of some local subgraph of windowing methods with another subgraph of data.

My guess is their is an XML bias going on, hence the weakening of IndexDB, like a conspiracy of some sort! Really, it is No-SQL/Yes_XML. The thing is going to blow up in their faces. This g machine, already in the hands aof a dozen superior programmers, wadya gonna do?

Some day I will get over my phobia of looping, complex Unix typeface and make a code repository.

Ron Paul on taxes

2012-01-16T19:32:00.000-08:00

The five remaining candidates also sought to outdo one another in calling for lower taxes.
Paul won that competition handily, saying he thought the top rate should be zero. Fox News

What is the standard libertarian line on taxes? Taxes should match services, tax activity, not people. It is not a complete theory, well not until we apply channel theory, then we can determine how to calculate a match between services and taxes.

There is a related issue Paul should mention, the lack of fair voting in the Senate, a case where the folks in Kentucky get six times the voting power as the folks in Texas.

White Paper on Semantic Engine

2012-01-16T18:46:00.000-08:00

I'll state the case, sort of succinctly and then I can refer back to this post.

The context is creating storage presented in the form subject, predicate, object; with ontological navigation on the subject, the the from of the semantic relations implemented as a nested graph. Under these assumptions, every subject, predicate, triple (lets call it a triple) is a subgraph, having one or more triples, that is triples can be embedded. The object is a triple counter, it counts the number of triples in the object.The goal is to create the regex of semantic relations, a convolution operator on the two graphs. This is the market, or the market that will dominate, that is my assumption.

What are some requirements? Well, locate any sub graph anywhere damn fast. Now within a local base of triples, SQL makes that quite easy, every row is a triple and all rows are indexed with a sequential counter of rowid. Named graphs are simple, because the matchable name is on the subject, and that can be indexed by the rowid. Locating the next subgraph a snap, the arithmetic is rowid + object, it lets you skip over the current subgraph. Sequencing through a sub graph is a snap counting sequential rowids.

The fundamental triple is the triplet, which contain the minimum for ontological key word navigation. Triplets become triples when we add the BSON overloads, but the mapping is yet to be defined completely.

Anyway, it is a slam dunk, why re-create the wheel. I will get back to this post and improve it and refer back to it. Use SQL as the micro-code layer.

Happenings in semantic engine

2012-01-16T17:02:00.000-08:00

Lurker that I am. Last time we checked, the issue was how do BSON streams ever get connected up in a flexible storage system with B-Tree. It looks like the InnoDB B-Tree system is winning the game. Not yet a slam dunk, but lurking around and watching the No-SQL vendors try to dump SQL, they realize the baby-bathwater thing, dump SQL if it helps, but keep the B-Tree. Oracle owns InnoDB (B-Tree system) , last I heard, but there is a GNU license, which MySql has made use of. InnoDB supports MySql.

MongoDB changed their name, or rather I did, I preferred to call them the fruit company. They are going to be fun to watch, they are making an attempt at JSON query syntax, and dealing with confusion about which objects needs quotes and which don't. There system abounds in quote characters. They also struggle with the $ punctuation mark, when it is used and when it is not. Eventually there is gonna be a pow wow concerning the correct form of JSON as a query by example, otherwise known as mobile graphs.

I have no idea why the No-SQL crowd limited themselves to name/value pairs, the market has already selected the <subject,predicate,object> format.
Then there is the BerkeleyDB storage engine, look to have the hooks. Looking at it now. But, I still an favoring sqlite, sql and all. With sql we get a microcode that supports the semantic layer. What is wrong with that?

Oil is money

2012-01-16T14:27:00.001-08:00

Saudi Arabia is aiming to keep oil prices at about $100 a barrel, a third above its previous public target, in a sign that Riyadh needs higher oil revenues to sustain a big rise in public spending. FT

Want to know the value of the dollar? It is worth .55 gallon of oil.

Obamney 45 to Obamney 46

2012-01-16T11:55:00.000-08:00

Fox News poll: 2012 Obama-Romney race would be tight

It'll be a squeaker.

You too can join the money machine

2012-01-16T10:15:00.000-08:00

The cost of education these days would make anyone squirm, but researchers say it’s worth it.

People with a bachelor’s degree make 84% more over a lifetime than high school graduates. In 1999, the premium was 75%, according to a study released Friday.

Granted, the report comes from a university -- specifically, Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce.

But the data is striking, especially amid the backdrop of increasing concerns about soaring school expenses.

-- On average, a doctoral degree-holder will earn $3.3 million over a lifetime, compared to $2.3 million for a college graduate and $1.3 million for those with a high school diploma. LA Times

Contact the staff at Imagisoft and we will monitor and verify your completion of on line college. We guarantee any of our graduates, and they are in demand world wide.

Against the resolute push for higher academic standards geared toward preparing students for college, the Palo Alto High School math department has drawn a line in the sand.
Don't prepare all students for University of California entrance, the math faculty argues, because not all students can master quadratic equations and logarithmic functions.
Their counterpush against raising graduation standards to include Algebra II has angered educators and parents who believe schools, including districts like Palo Alto with strong college-going cultures, are failing poor and minority students by expecting too little of them.
The parents point to startling statistics: In the Palo Alto and Gunn high schools' 2011 class of seniors, only 15 percent of African-Americans and 40 percent of Latinos completed the prerequisites for the University of California and California State University with a C or better. That compares with 79.5 percent districtwide meeting those so-called A-G requirements. Mercury News

Here at Imagisoft we are working this problem, and expect to solve is in Version 2.0, of our imaginary software.

Taliban leader attacks and destroys American missile

2012-01-16T09:45:00.001-08:00

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, was believed killed by aU.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officials told Reuters on Sunday.

The officials said they intercepted wireless radio chatter between Taliban fighters detailing how Hakimullah Mehsud was killed while travelling in a convoy to a meeting in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.

Drug trade futures collapse on the news

2012-01-16T09:37:00.000-08:00

SACRAMENTO -- As unemployed Californians struggle to find work, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed strict rules for parents on welfare: Get a job in two years or lose nearly half of cash aid along with training and child care.
"This is not nice stuff, but that's what it takes to balance the budget," Brown said when he released his plan this month, which would halve the current welfare-to-work time limit.

My Hometown Reports.
Jerry is likely talking about folks like us. If we are any example, then about half the welfare money goes to Zombie Mexican Cartel members.

Jeffry Sachs misses the point on liberty

2012-01-16T03:22:00.000-08:00

Libertarian Illusions

I dunno how economists and pundits talk about values higher than liberty to 30% of the population which doesn't get a fair vote in the Senate. Who are these folks in denial and why?

Trouble in IndexDB

2012-01-15T18:49:00.000-08:00

IndexDB is the new browser datatbase, replacing Webkit, they think. Webkit was sqlite, complete with B-Tree and rowid indexing, and all the sql query. IndexDB doesn't have B-tree, which is a flexible storage. IndexDB is just name-value pairs, a look up table essentially. IndexDB wont do the job for the user in a complete ontology navigation system, sorry, Houston we have a problem!

The web developers are just barely attacking the problem of BSON storage in an SQL system. They seem a bit slow, yet my common line module, over their on the right, has an incomplete, but beginning basis in storing BSON objects a sequences of triplets.

So when I search Yahoo for: BSON sqlite, I get a bunch of hits for JSON, the text version of BSON, but nothing about BSON and sql, no discussion, nada, except my site shows up. Puzzling, because even absent my ramblings and spaghetti code, one would think the issue has come up, sqlite is very popular with the mobiles, and BSON is all the rage. Maybe everyone is doing it in secret, dunno. Nor do I see the obvious, storing a DOM tree as a nested store in an SQL webkit, that seemed to me to be an obvious, I screwed around doing that over two years ago, yet nothing turns up in the search. I think the XML folks are in a panic and refusing to go along.

Let me once again put sql sqlite and BSON in that box down there, and see what happens.

By the way, how would a normal programmer respond? Well, I would take the parse section of my G machine on the right, make that more independent, and built a simple BSON storage and retrieval from sqlite. Make that a simple utility using my nested store format, and release that as a mini project. But alas, I am not a normal programmer!

The global what!

2012-01-15T15:26:00.000-08:00

Spome gal on a roll about the global brain, the philosophy of. She has some great historical background, makes it kind of mystical and fun. Note where the brain ends up, the North Pole where is cold enough to pack a thousand heat generating Cray semantic processors. Looking at this site, I will pick out some great links, stay tuned.

Starting to love this site:

All of this is a holistic approach to our own consciousness as a species, on+off line.
SO THAT'S OUR THE CHALLENGE: taking what we already know about the brain and re-imaging it or generating evolved sense from it to locate consciousness and then trying to ascertain whether it can be proxied or replicated in the "Global Brain" and consciousness that's being produced on the Web.

A conscious semantic machine! How would that work. What say we have a thought experiment.

When the semantic machine begin to predict and locate semantic patters (subgraphs of name-value pairs that match structure), its prediction will be acted on, by humans. What happens when the semantic machine begins to find patterns that include prior patters generated by itself? Will it notice iteself? Whoa, mysteries abound. Much more to see, go check it out.

A 'Software Stack', a graphical description of the layers in the semantic machine.

A couple of changes are now noted in the industry. XML sits here as a nested store, which it is. But is bewing replaced by a binary JSON. The logic framework are the match and proceed rules. SparQL is going away, there is no separate query language in semantic web, just web bots composed of nested objects. The graph layer is not there, the ndutry is just now figuring out they need the graph layer. Much of the RDF resource identifiers stays, embedded in BSON and the predicate overloads (subject, predicate, object) Namespace are an integral part of named graph.

I think the breakthrough comes when the industry realizes the query is a commutative operation, hence mobility and bots. That generates the concept ontology navigation, and away we go.

I'm a fan, she is on the trail.
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Another link:
http://blog.publishingtechnology.com/blogs/week-semantic-web-13-jan-2012/

Methinks something is happening here for 2012, including a report (which I lost) that business intelligence is the number one IT business for 2012. In my mind, this all boils down to JSON and BSON, do those folks get it. I think they do, lets see what they do in the near future.

The Methhead Zombie nation of Mexico

2012-01-15T12:34:00.000-08:00

(CNN) -- There are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them.
But the Mexican drug war, at its core, is about two numbers: 48,000 and 39 billion.
Over the past five years, nearly 48,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico, the country's federal attorney general announced this month. In the first three quarters of 2011, almost 13,000 people died.
Cold and incomprehensible zeros, the death toll doesn't include the more than 5,000 people who have disappeared, according to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission. It doesn't account for the tens of thousands of children orphaned by the violence.

There may be a tipping point, the point at which the Mexican Zombie Meth Machines proliferate faster than the Mexicans can figure it out. At that point, the Cartel will have a suicide machine, an entire nation of Brain Dead, just give them loads of Meth and point them North. It won't be racism, it will be Machine Gunism. This is evolution severely deselecting Mexicans, and if I were Mexican I might think about deselecting Meth, like right now.

Forget the drug war, this is a meth war. That poison is a horrible modifier of behavior, literally removing small chunks of conscience (the Self-Intepretor as the modern neurosciences call it. The drug is very unique among all the drugs, it should be the only focus of the war effort.

Jerry Brown, stepping out of the box

2012-01-15T11:13:00.000-08:00

Unwieldy. Convoluted. Irrational. Inequitable. Inefficient.

For years, these are just a few of the words people across the political spectrum have used to describe California's broken system of funding schools.

However, 2012 may finally be the year that simplicity reigns. Buried on Page 140 of his budget summary, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed far-reaching change, keeping a campaign promise to overhaul how schools are funded. Sac Bee Editorial

Read the article, this is Jerry Brown getting it, stepping outside the box.

Yglesias!

2012-01-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Yglesias is bitching because the Fed missed inflation expectations in the latter half of 2008, see the blue line dip?
.The fast action he wants requires a three month reaction time for the Fed to act. If the Fed could act that fast they would be breaking the law, many laws in fact put in their by... Yglesias and crowd, limiting the ability of the Fed to act fast. If Yglesias wants a fast acting central bank, then Yglesias is going to get a Goldman Sachs type of bank. Yglesias would be up in arms!

Go back and look at Fed actions, they were desperate Jan 2008:
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/yieldcurve.html
Go look at when the Fed begin the Yglesias panic run. There is no way the Fed could keep up, the oil tanker lines had cell phones for christ sake, and were instructing oil captains, on the water and en route, to skip this round of oil purchases. Who was making the calls to stop the oil purchases? Goldman Sachs, banker for the oil traders. They were the central bank at the moment.

More than one call that Britain is now in recession

2012-01-15T05:27:00.000-08:00

The Ernst & Young Item Club will warn that Britain's recovery is being "paralysed" by the European debt crisis as it slashes its 2012 GDP growth forecast from 1.5% to just 0.2%.
After a brief respite over Christmas and the New Year, fear returned to world stock markets again on Friday as the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors downgraded nine European countries, with France and Austria losing their coveted AAA ratings.
British economists had hoped that with public and consumer spending in the doldrums, exports and investment by businesses would power the UK's economy this year.
However, Europe accounts for more than 40% of British trade and the ongoing uncertainty about the continent and its currency has smashed business confidence in the UK.
The ongoing anxiety has deterred many companies from hiring staff or spending on goods and services. Telegraph

SIMON WREN-LEWIS mixing metaphors

2012-01-15T02:30:00.000-08:00

If S = I is an equilibrium condition, only true if we integrate over a cycle, then you have a macro model.
No, he says, there exists a central bank. Did he integrate the central bank over time?
No, he does not, central banks are a constant, and accounting identity.

Sorry you have to pick a macro model and stay with it. Whatever economic force you pick to cause integration over time must apply to the central bank. The central bank is never actually in equilibrium, like the rest of the economy, and its variations from equilibrium will mirror the economy.

Economists need some explanation here. I= S is always trule by definition, the economists picks a model with a measuring norm, then sets I=S under the norm and goes on.

As long as the entire collected set of economic acts is complete, dense in the range, has a fixed point, yada yada, then all works. But you cannot change norms in mid-stream.

Here at Imagisoft we have a solution, we will verify and monitor, for a fee, any economist who studies the particular MIT series on Hilbert Spaces. And in fact, we encourage MIT to come out with a modified series on Hilbert Spaces, a course series designed just for the advanced PHD economists.

What about Steve Keen's model?

I am too lazy to go into detail, however, it appears on glance that he uses a single norm, he just computes that norm a little differently for the central bank. Perfectly fine, and more fine still if the new computation can be more accurate for the sector being modeled.

Reminding you all how good my recession indicator compares

2012-01-14T18:58:00.001-08:00

Mine, a proxy for gains from specializtion

Robert F. Dieli and Mr. Model

Mr Dieli uses a spread measure and looks for turning points. Dash of Insight plans to examine the variable in more detail. Mine is pretty damned good in comparison to the best recession indicator in the world, though I need to normalize it over the range.

The difference between me and Mr. Diali is that I worked my indicator solution, right here in the blog, in real time thinking, out loud thinking, unpatentable thinking, real Tourette's stuff. I based it upon the natural conclusion of channel theory, look for changes in gains from specialization as the channel changes rank. Bingo, came up the first time. Where is my banana?

Both recession indicators indicate a new down turn, his very slight, mine more pronounced. Let us see.

Obamney up by 21

2012-01-14T17:57:00.000-08:00

Romney opens 21-point lead in South Carolina: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Want your Hispanic child to become a murder target?

2012-01-14T17:13:00.000-08:00

A report by an anti-handgun lobbying group shows that Fresno County's murder rate in 2010 for people under age 25 ranked seventh in the state, up from 12th the previous year.

For a second straight year, the study shows, San Joaquin Valley counties had higher murder rates for people ages 10 to 24 than most other counties in the state. Fresno Bee

Hispanic parents. You have two choices, send your Hispanic child out there to become a murder and drug victim, or get some common sense. I do not understand why the Bulldog gang is not up in arms about the killing of Hispanics teenagers? If I were a Bulldog gang member, I would hound the parents around here, get the damn kids off the streets and make it a permanent feature that Hispanic kids do not take meth.

Figure out what to do, otherwise whats the point of being a gang member? Do you realize what a bad impression to have some teenage Hispanic going Yo Man, doing the figure jive with a golfball size hole in his head. People around here get the problem.

Stupidity in the White House

2012-01-14T16:48:00.000-08:00

he terms of the reorganization, five agencies — the Small Business Administration, the United States Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade and Development Agency, plus the business and trade functions of the Commerce Department — would be consolidated into a single agency focused on helping the private sector. Mr. Obama said he would elevate the director of the Small Business Administration, now Karen Mills, to his cabinet. The United States trade representative would retain cabinet rank, the White House said." Mish Reporting

This is where entanglement seems confusing. To government ministers, creating another cabinent position is reducing the bureaucracy.

But from the outside, it seems to me they had a meeting and decided the best method to make Obama look stupid, and they chose the optimimum Obama-is-stupid path. Seriously, are they even aware of the Internet in the White House? I want to see the idiot who proposed this, government expansion and calling it a reduction. I am reminded of the Ray LaHood Choo Choo scam. The scam comes into town, repeatedly, so that reporters around the world can write about the Jim Costa train to nowhere, making Costa look like a dunce. Anybody get this?

Contrast this with Jerry Brown. Brown pathetically services his liberal base, but Jerry spent time in Jesuit school, training himself to know when he is or out of the box. Obama can't do that.

Go read Mish's comments, he adds more irony.

Penn State is a Catholic University

2012-01-14T16:03:00.000-08:00

On how Sandusky was allowed to engage in his alleged deviant acts with young boys while going undetected: “I wish I knew. I don’t know the answer to that. It’s hard.” The premise of the question is absurd, of course, as several high-ranking members of the university were made aware of allegations involving Sandusky dating as far back as 1998. College Football

Pensylvania football fans are pedophiles.

Tent Revivalists dump Perry for Santorum

2012-01-14T15:44:00.000-08:00

The group of social conservative leaders meeting in Texas this weekend has thrown their support behind Rick Santorum, giving the GOP hopeful a much-needed boost a week before the pivotal South Carolina primary.

In a conference call this afternoon, Family Research Council chief Tony Perkins said that on the third ballot Santorum won a solid majority of votes from the movement conservatives gathered at a private ranch near Houston.

Of 114 votes cast, Santorum won 85. Newt Gingrich took the remainder.

In a remarkable slap in his home state, Rick Perry didn't even make it past the first ballot, Perkins said. Politico

California legislation and the lawyer Protection Act

2012-01-14T14:13:00.000-08:00

Most of us are familiar with the adage "knowledge is power." But knowledge is much more to Kern County businesses. It is a critical "safety net" that will help employers maneuver through the increasingly dangerous regulatory minefield.
This month, hundreds of new state laws went into effect. These regulations are layered on top of federal laws and court decisions that mandate how businesses conduct business, how they treat their workers and how they are held accountable. Bakersfield.com

"There's a potential trend when I look at the pregnancy disability leave, and organ and bone donor leave/benefits legislation," said Klingenberger. "The tweaking of laws in these areas likely means the state is willing to implement other paid leave and benefits requirements in the future."

Klingenberger warns that his firm, Dowling, Aaron and Keeler, which specializes in defending employers, is handling more wage and hour lawsuits.

Eric Cantor, shoving his head into foreign policy

2012-01-14T13:22:00.000-08:00

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Friday that key U.S. allies in the Middle East are voicing doubts that efforts to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions through economic sanctions and oil embargoes will be successful.

Republicans engage in a lot of insider trading on the Socialist Defense Network, that is how Carlyle Group got started, trading on Arab military sales. Eric Cantor knows the socialist craft, and his district is right in the heart of the Socialist Defense Swamp.

The problem with Republican insider crooks like Cantor is that they fuck up foreign policy, starting unnecessary wars.

Only from Bakersfield

2012-01-14T12:19:00.001-08:00

MIT On line school now offers a central banker program

2012-01-14T11:05:00.000-08:00

For some, that trust has a common source: three of the six banks are led by economists who studied or taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Then, as now, the emphasis was on what former MIT professor and now Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer describes as “economics about the real world.”
The MIT central bankers represent “an extraordinary level of policy influence for any one economics department,” said James Poterba, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is responsible for dating the beginnings and endings of U.S. recessions. “I’m trying to think about what was in the water.” He was head of the economics department from 2006 to 2008 and is still a faculty member. Bloomberg

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Well Imagisoft to the rescue. We have agents world wide that can moniter and very your completion of the MIT On Line Central Banker Series.

Waltz!

2012-01-14T10:59:00.001-08:00

Graph traversal protocol

2012-01-14T09:49:00.000-08:00

Websites designed to be read by computers rather than humans could make it easier to share and use data says Stephen Wolfram, creator of “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha. Writing in a blog post, he suggests that “.data” should join the likes of .com, .org and .net as a new top-level domain (TLD) for organisations to share data in a standard from, creating a “data web” that would run in parallel with the ordinary web.

gtp://SomeNestedStore.dat
See, I get this right, you think these folks are listening?

Yes!!:

We’re certainly not sure what all the issues about a .data TLD will be, and we’re actively seeking input and partners in this effort. But I think there’s a potentially important opportunity, so I’m trying to do what I can to provide leadership, and further help to accelerate the birth of the data web. Steve Wolfram

How about a BSON nested graph stabdard? (Expose the graph layer for navigation)

HT Tyler Cowen. Tyler is paying attention to what is a revolution in semantic web.