things i believe

1. python works better than java - stuff like PIL got dimensions faster from broken images where java library failed even after 'loading plugins' whatever that is

2. reasoning about code is easier

3. you'd probably be done much faster 

4. sqlalchemy and jpa - i don't like both

 sea of apathy

broken concrete, weeds

tears for a missing life

So many pink elephants !!

 Mcluhans first and second chapters are full of aha!s

Feels ljke he is talking about stratification (and the rhizome) and systems thinking and complex systems, but not standing from one place far from the mess, but constantly weaving in and out of it.

his 'linear' or 'sequential' could be linear progression of or evolution or growth of a person or society or technology ( translates to change ina  group)

But also confusingly presentation of information

 Todays leviathan exists but it's skin is all digital

 As per kahneman in his famous book (which should be renamed "fact-templates one ought to memorise and practice becase they do not typically come as part of our intuition"), one fact template is that sample size matters, and that larger the sample size the closer the result to the base rates.

If you toss 10 coins tou might not get 5 -5  heads tails split, but you will get close to thst with 100 cojns, and real close with one million coins

In appendix A, the conclusion is that the smaller hospital will record more days of greater-than-60%-born=boys than the larger one, as the larger one tends more towards the base rate ,here, 50:50.

Which means, you will win if you bet on the smaller hospital having more days where more than 60% born were boys, than the large hospital

 (and also win if you bet more days of more girl babies too, coz it must swing wilder either way?)

How does this translate to the stocks world? Can you bet that a smaller company's share price will delta more than a larger company's ?

Can you build a speculation system based on this?

Ooh!! greedily licks its lips....

First of all, girl-boy birth thinggy is a natural law, more or less. And given some sort of socio political steady state, the company perdormance is typically a function of its past. This truism we take as foundation of all the hot air we make. Smallco reults can dip on things which dont affect Bigco at all. But bigco wouldnt make moves smallco would.  Smallco has the possibility of doubling in size much more than bigco. So there is something there.

We can look at smallco as a small sample size of all the able bodied souls working the economic machine running the economic race.

Conversely we can look at the small hospital as a small enterprise dedicated to producing  baby boys.

A note on execution. Having decided this game, picking the super popular call option as our candidate , we would need to pick calls on both bigco and smallco, and note their highs. 

Of course ,actually buying and selling them on gtts would record a different set of highs.

 i grew up thinking one always had to do things one didn't like

now, unless i don't feel the souldeath, i don't feel like i am doing anything

that is probably why i didn't follow up on my processing work or dopewars or galcon idea in 2010(11?)

 this combined with performance-factor ensured i never did anything when anyone was around who wasn't fully bought into my idea and vision   

one giant block is my refusal to open my brain to java , so i refuse to take the 2-3 steps needed to do something in java that takes 1 step in any other language, and then i remain ignorant of that thing at all, like it's not there in my map only

i grew up being told what to do

now i'm grown up there's no one telling me anything

 krishna, heracles, horus .... all bring us the hero's journey

fasting needs chanting, cos we tend to eat or surf to avoid processing painful emotions , supressing them.

fasting makes them bubble up to the surface, and without a beginning-of-the-day cleansing, worship ritual, and a regular chanting to associate/de-associate/normalise, they take over your mind

 i'm a scurryer, he said

What does a scurrYer do ?  I asked

i scurry, he said, as he scurried off

I didn't see him until later that day

 Once i realized how stupendously stupid my wife was, i couldnt help but deduce that i must be equally ,if not more, stupendouly mind-bogglingly stupid, if that were possible; for women tend to marry down

Yes i am intelligent enough to figure that out, but intelligence, like an umbrella, is only useful some of the times, and that too in one direction only 

Most people carry their skill or intelligence the way the cockerel carries its crest , they are typically unaware of it. Not in my case, looks like

 normals

and tangents

same but different

as in

we've exhausted their normals (same)

so we are now checking their tangents

one is shinier

 i am walking the stone path

green lawns on either side, sprinklers at work

the man in the uniform  under tall coconut tree,

i tell him my room number

he writes it down in his long form book

then the bridge over dry stream bed

sands, the silver waves shack on my left side

lifeguard stand ahead,  gentle roar of waves

 family and friends already 

in the water

frolicking

 There is no 'right'or 'good' only dopamine

If it is accepted by tjose around you it isnone one thing else it is your own thing

 

A tribute

 To the most

Important person

In the world

 I run

because

I want to drink

George Sheehan said

Breslow 7

 this blog's gonna be

all my life's gonna

be

is that great

or 

just sad

 THIS  LIFE IS ALL THERE IS

LIVE LIFE ON YOUR TERMS

CHOOSE LIFE !!!!

चूस ले बे  !!!

 on halloween the ghosts

knock on our doors

forgetful

we give candy

to kids proxying

but on malahaya pitru paksha

we only give 

rice balls laced with black

sesame

 when i am old

living off annuity from lic

the agent my best friend and kin

will i remember

virtual insanity blasting in my ear

at 10 pm 

my kid on my couch reading 

my other kid on my couch sleeping

all

waiting for a cab 

at 3 am

for a flight 

at 6 am

to 

goa

life you are .....

 in the clear light of tomorrow

i will assess

the missiles i fired

at israel

* the persians had a tradition of debating every decision once sober once drunk

** the word iran comes from 'aryan'

*** modern iranians ..... i dunno

 I, jalapeno

 rum stops the liver pushing 

shoogar into the bloodstream

so you feel hungry

false positive

 OMG THE ALCOHOL SUPPLIES ARE RUNNING 

LOW

RUNNING LOOWWW

LOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW !!!!!!

RUN TO THE HILLS !!!!

 in the hall

through the mists rolling

by the window

i hear

the drummers call

can i excuse myself

 recipe

1. bourneville dark chocolate - melt with warm milk + old monk coffee (tm), put in fridge

2. once thick but not hard, take out

3. add one scoop vanilla

4. accompany with slice of buttered browned hard toast with orange marmalade, hot

need someone to try this out

 all of religious practices are real world non-thought-experiement articles 

of thought trains running in the head