reading the Return of the Griffin

the sf world is awesome. 

in the psycho-physics world, there would be Maslow planes, having   channels, and there would be linkages from other channels in other layers, giving a zig-zagging line representation of a person's psyche.

however, this is only the partial picture. what we also need are actuator planes, things one can do, and a event-probability plane -on what can happen

apparently someone predicted the big-bang, and the 'god-particle' etc on a whim and a lark right before science figured it out ( and probably eons after the vedics figured it out) . The Eureka essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Was he an American Transcendentalist ? Hard to picture the cabin in the woods by the lake with a grim raven and grey skies, and the sunny greens of the Emerson/Thoreau/Whitman in the same image.

The Darto model for product. also the Craigslist model. and to some extent the basecamp model. 

From the Sivers website .  I was looking for the book notes on Pema Chodron's "Go where you are afraid". (actually it's titled 'wisdom of no escape', which is a better one-liner than 'wisdom of insecurity')  Found a blog post, and a quote.

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth)"

Was reading about Weka yesterday. The Data mining book (han,kamber,pei) has a lot of the words and terms that showed up in the course. Where it diverges is the second part - the machine learning. Weka has all this plus the neural networks/ deep learning part. No one has the Gen AI part.