Can the $200 OLPC actually help people with an annual income of less than $700 ?
Moon Missions
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| The First Full View of Earth |
The Truth is more interesting!
Fitbit Surge : The Computer Inside
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| The Fitbit Surge : Teardown from iFixit |
The future of Computing is Wearable
Reading a review of the iWatch OS3 by Walt Mossberg (this guy is awesome!), I was reminded of how computers will be worn in the future, and in some ways they already are (smartphones, bluetooth ear buds, smart watches)
Smartphones eating PC & Camera markets!
If you purchased a digital camera in the last few years, there are few incentives to upgrade! Like the PC market, the camera market is being eaten alive by smartphones!
Lithium Ion Batteries Made of Oil
Lithium Ion batteries are made of petrochemical oil derivatives, the LiPo case material, electrolyte, separator film, the chemical additives, cell wraps, labels, BMS board components, and the plastic housing of the BMS.
Digital Extensions of You Online
You likely exist as a digital extension of yourself outline. Every time you use a search engine, your IP address and what you searched for paints a picture of who you are. If that was done on your smartphone, the extension goes even deeper.
Patented Molecules < Patenting Bio Mimicry Combinations
Voltaire wrote about the failures of single compound modified isolate patent molecule pharmaceuticals hindered by side effects!
"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing"
I found this quotation in an amazing book, the link below is hyperlinked to Amazon so you can pick up a paper or e-book copy.
"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing"
I found this quotation in an amazing book, the link below is hyperlinked to Amazon so you can pick up a paper or e-book copy.
Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine
By Andrew WeilGlobalization of the English Language
If everyone communicates in the same language, then all people can communicate more effectively.
56 calories per day to loose 5lbs per year
If you want to loose 5lbs on this same day by next year, cut out 56 calories per day from your diet, or you can burn the extra bit with a 15min walk. Eat less and move more, its not magic !
Alcohol more harmful than Cannabis
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| Addiction experts in psychiatry, chemistry, pharmacology, forensic science, epidemiology, and the police and legal services engaged in delphic analysis regarding 20 popular recreational drugs. |
Apple Watch Series 2
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| Polymer, Steel, Ceramic : Apple Watch Series 2 Collection Image via Link |
Borosilicate Glass : Boron is Amazing
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| Borosilicate Beakers : Image via Link |
$159 Apple AirPods (wireless Earbuds)
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| Apple AirPods w/ iPhone 7 : Image via Link |
Neurosynaptic Learning AI Autopilot for Cars : Artificial Neural Networks the Key
Developmental robotics using artificial neural networks takes the approach of using a learning AI that must be trained like a baby, knowing nothing at first, but learning vast amounts of knowledge in a cumulative process similar to going to school for 18 years, but in only a few weeks, because the robots can share their learning with each other online, hooked up to wifi and with LTE, just like a fleet of Tesla Model S's!
Smartphones Revolutionized Photography in 2011
Apple's iPhone 4S brought in the era of mobile photography linked to Facebook, Twitter, and the internet in many ways, uploading photos that people capture everywhere, the "Selfie" emblematic of the era we live in today. The digital photography revolution started in 2011!
Connecting the Human Mind to Computers
Nothing will expand the power of the human mind more than hybridizing brains with digital & analog AI based computing platforms that use neurosynaptic processing modeled after the computational biological information processing in the human brain. Bio-Digital Irony via Innovations worth "Thinking About"
Neurological Constellation Formation : Building a Better World by Uniting Good People :
Make the pledge to make A Better World for everyone!
Clean Technology, Ecology, Life Extension, Harm Reduction, Ethics, Values, Ideologies worth thinking about! Innovations that improve the world for everyone! Technologies that reduce pollution, because pollution causes harm to everyone. We are all in it together here on earth, lets start working together to build a better tomorrow!
Clean Technology, Ecology, Life Extension, Harm Reduction, Ethics, Values, Ideologies worth thinking about! Innovations that improve the world for everyone! Technologies that reduce pollution, because pollution causes harm to everyone. We are all in it together here on earth, lets start working together to build a better tomorrow!
Hormone Disrupting Perfume
Never spray synthetic perfume on your skin, its filled with inedible toxic chemicals that wreak havoc to the cell health in your body, causing all sorts of sickness and preventable diseases like cancer, thats the entire post! Truth : Ethics Matter
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| OSIRIS-REx : NASA : Awesome : Image via Link |
Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is an ongoing NASA asteroid study and sample return mission. The cost of the mission will be approximately USD $800 million, not including the $183.5 million Atlas V launch vehicle !
In Defense of Ethics : George Westinghouse!
Good people make the world better, visionaries that changed the world, all of them setting out to make the world "better"! You learned right from wrong when you were a child, so why do bad people exist? Who knows. George Westinghouse's life is the best defense of ethics that I can think of, just short of the life and times of Jesus Christ. Ethics matter! Lets make the world better together!
Cortana the most Human AI of Today
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| Image via Link |
LTE a miraculous solution to Mobile Broadband
On facebook I condemned FB for putting up UAV's that create WIFI in poor countries, where the local government squander tax revenue on luxury cars, aircraft, mansions, servants and lux galore for the diplomats while the average person is so poor they don't have running water or electricity, and even if it was available, they would not have the income to pay for the service!
Kind Words Make all the Difference
You can lift other people up with positive edifying words or tear other people down with negative condemning words!
People are connected by social networks of communication, informal associations, friendships, relationships, made of words that were shared, ideas shared, common goals, when we collaborate everyone wins!
People are connected by social networks of communication, informal associations, friendships, relationships, made of words that were shared, ideas shared, common goals, when we collaborate everyone wins!
GMO the Key to Living Forever
Genetic engineering will be the key to endless life. Why should a tree live 600 years if a person dies after about 80?
Purpose
Intentionally doing something because you are able, because you want to, because it is cool, fun, interesting, exhilarating, makes you smile, because you are alive, living in each moment as they fly into the past, forging your way into the future one instant at a time, choose wisely!
3.5mm Headphone Jack not in iPhone 7
Another special Apple "designed for iPhone" dongle required to use your favorite headphones! At least it is only $9, so stock up with a few if you are going to drink the iPhone 7 fluid!
Lithium Ion Fires & Explosions are Preventable
Lithium Cobalt Carbon, the dominate lithium battery chemistry used in Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, and other portable electronics like the Tesla Model S, are prone to catching fire if the manufacturer is not extremely thorough with QA : QC during the entire vertically integrated manufacturing process that must be done in a clean room.
14 Megapixel Screen : the 5K iMac deep inside
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| Image via Link |
The Spark of Consciousness Explored
A relatively slow biological computer, the human brain is the pinnacle of intelligence in nature, at least potentially in some people for brief periods while they are alive! 700TB of data storage, the human brain hosts a lot of memories!
ARM sold to SoftBank for $31 Billion!!!
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank purchases UK ARM holdings for record $31 billion ^^
Intelligent Population Regulation
People are afraid to give up their rights to reproduce, but there are lot of bad parents in the world, people who are frankly unfit to be parents who had children anyway. The sick cycle repeats, and now we have 19 kids and counting, two dumb fools who barely graduated from high school producing an army of similarly confused people, to who's benefit?
Keep Learning
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young" ~ Henry Ford
Salt & Your Body
Water intake and sodium intake from salt are balanced by the brain, kidneys, bones, blood production, urine creation, hormones, and a biological system in the body so elegant and complex that our bodies exceed and eclipse even the most complex man made technologies!
Innovations = Shared Wealth & Prosperity for Everyone!
Innovations create shared wealth and prosperity. Politics hinder technological progress. Can we move beyond listening to the wisdom in TED videos to actually doing something with the truth!
Public Urination
Everyone has to pee, and when you are stuck in a traffic jam, congested public transportation place, or somewhere else where a bathroom is impractical to access, what can we reasonably expect people to do with number 1?
All Lives Matter
All life is precious, temporary, each entity living and dying, none of us get out of this world alive!
Galaxy Note 7 exploding while charging : recalled
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| It might be IP68 rated for water resistance, but some have exploded while charge = immediate recall from Samsung! |
$40k Exoskeleton for Disabled / Elderly in 2016
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| SuitX Pheonix : Image Via Link |
Prometheus the film depicts Mr. Weyland ( Guy Pearce ) wearing a robotic exoskeleton as an old man, but now such a device exists in a crude early form called the SuitX’s Phoenix exoskeleton! $40,000 gets you some cool gear, if you are disabled to the point where this machine gives you an edge over someone in a wheel chair!
Space X Falcon 9 Exploded This Morning :(
The rocket was set to launch Facebook's Amos 6 internet for Africa satellite, totally destroyed in the oxygen tank malfunction. The Falcon 9 in this case is not going to be reused, the fire the ensued after the explosion totally destroyed it beyond repair!
Watch it on Youtube
Watch it on Youtube
Plugged in : Hooked up : Screen Glow the Drug of TV and Internet
Long ago people said that TV rots the brain, now they point the finger at internet and cry out that it is bad for millennials!
7th Gen Intel Tablet / Laptop action
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| Intel Kaby Lake 7th Gen Image via The Verge |
History Made of Moments : You Live in the Moment
Long ago I had the pleasure of briefly studying Zen Buddhism, under the direction of legendary teacher Rob Prufer. The deepest meaning I was able to derive from this study was that the core tenant in Zen Buddhism is to live in each moment completely and as fully engaged as possible, focusing on here and now, being happy where you are at, aware, awake, alive.
25mi in 5.25 hours on the Segway Mini Pro
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| As the crow 13mi or 21km! The real route much longer |
4K Gaming : Project Scorpio : My next Xbox
The next Xbox in 2017 will bring 4K gaming via a 6 teraflop GPU setup that is remarkable for a console!
Europeans Fitter From More Movement, Higher Food Costs & Smaller Serving Sizes
Traveling to western Europe may shock people from China, India, America or other parts of the world where food is cheaper. Serving sizes in France for example, according to my own experiences in 2000 were about 40% smaller per dollar eq at a restaurant. In Tokyo Japan I saw the same high food costs, smaller servings, smaller people who walk more and drive less, often riding trains standing up.
Pulsed Magnetic Fusion not Hot Fusion : The Key to Commercialization of Fusion Energy
General Atomics and Lockheed Martin have a strategic partnership to pipeline secretive defense fusion energy technology into commercial power applications aimed at ending coal power in 2026.
Wi-Fi Explored
Online research of transparent technologies many people use every day, here I do a brief exploration of WiFi, a technology that began back in 1997 because of CISERO research done by scientists in Australia to find tiny black holes. Click read more to dig deeper!
Complex Human Thinking
I am reading a book about the human brain, and it has inspired me to think about my own mind, emotions, thoughts and ideas. Now I listen to my thinking in a new way, thinking about thinking, and it has become more clear to me why understanding consciousness is so difficult! Here I explain why, click read more if you are interested in thinking about thinking!
Do Not Microwave Food in Plastic Containers
Well, unless you are trying to fume your food with Bisphenol S, UV stabilizer, or God only knows what other chemicals are present in the plastic, heated by RF in the microwave.
Obesity, Depression, Inactivity the 3 big killers in America
Eat smaller servings if you are having obesity issues, a serving size should fit easily into the palm of your hand. If you are really active like a carpenter, you can eat two handfuls per meal.
HDR + 4K TV 2016 Buzz Words
High Dynamic Range or HDR, a feature from Cameras of recent release made its way into the TV monitor space with the new Buzz word for TV's in 2016, say it with me "HDR"
EHT in Coffee : Healthy Neurons = Sharper Cognition
A friend of mine recommended Nerium, an EHT supplement, which caused me to start researching EHT (eicosanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamide). I promptly purchased a French Press, 2 bags of whole bean coffee and a coffee grinder. Beware of the supplement EHT, its a pyramid scheme distribution system. The inventor is a liar, and Nerium is full of questionable components like titanium dioxide! Do your research before you buy supplements. Organic Coffee is a better solution!
The Era of Lithium Ion
Your cell phone, your tablet, your Tesla Model S, your Segway Ninebot, your iPhone, your Android, your laptop, your portable router, your high output LED rechargeable 18650 flashlight, your portable battery packs, the mobile power we consume today is Lithium Ion! Tesla Giga-Factory FTW
Custom HPU 28nm Silicon in Microsoft HoloLens
More than 1 trillion calculation per second, the 10w HPU is amazing!
Human Cognition vs Age into an AI
Imagine building an AI that spans a lifetime of cognition by training the AI with people ages 5,10,15 and so on up to 105, then combine the AI from each age group, all 21 of them, into a single AI using a more advance neurosynaptic chip at 10w or greater.
Moms vs Toxic Products & Their Children
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| A Child Chewing Plastic Chemicals: Saliva ExtractionImage Via Link : http://goo.gl/G2Pyrj : |
Click read more to learn why that plastic toy your children chew on is making them sick with preventable diseases, and why many common consumer products around you home pose hazards that have been minimized by media because of confluence and corruption.
5K iMac Amazing 14MP screen + More
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| Image via BH Photo : Note the wire free desktop ! Clean |
Manual Focus on Canon T5i with 50mm F1.8 prime : Mirrors and Light
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| A Toyota Emblem with Sky & Sun reflected off the Chrome : Focus Blur ^^ |
The gif is hidden after the page break, click "Read More" to see the GIF and article :)
Perspective : The magic human visual system and brain computer that turns sight into vision
The sight captured in this stitch is off my top deck,
a composite image made of 12mp images originally captured on a Canon SX40 by yours truly!
Budget Math : Honda PCX150 Scooter Edition + Honda CRZ TCO and CPM ^^
Post Violates Design Principle normally used in my other writing: its my frugal thinking about budget math to understand why I am paying to have and use my stuff, to understand is to know, and to know is to understand more completely. Knowledge is power, set yourself free!
CPM and TCO for our 2013 Honda PCX-150
Cost $4600 new Paid in Full
At 85mpg, it sips fuel, cheap to fill the 1.6 gallon tank, good for 120mi of riding at 55mph as a realistic cruising speed maximum, though it can peak to 68mph max before the 153cc liquid cooled fuel injected single achieves the RPM range limiter, the 12.9hp failing to elevate the speed beyond 68mph max.
$2.90 for 1 gallon that can move the scooter about 75 to 105 mi, centering around 85MPG in city suburban use cases. Not meant for constant highway use, but it can do it....
Cheap to fuel
27,000mi of fuel will cost 317 gallons, or $1000 estimated though 2023
Tires $400 pair, every 8000 mi : $1400 over 27,000mi
Services $1500 over 27,000 mi
Repairs $600 over 27,000 mi
1000+ 1400 + 1500 + 600 = $4500 operating costs vs $4600 capital costs or $9100
Estimated mi log yield in 12 years to 27,000 mi or about 2200mi per year $759 per year or $63/mo
Out of pocket realized costs only $40/ mo now because the capital cost was already paid, and the title is held, owned. Its ours to take care of, use, pay for, enjoy! Hopefully safely for a long time!
Special gear cost warning, helmets $750, gloves $100, boots $200, etc, the special gear for summer safety, its not cheap, we are taking about $1200 of gear potentially if you go pro out of the gate.
We are talking about a CPM of $0.34 per mile, a 10 miles drive will cost $4 total
We are talking about a TCO of $10,500 with gear updates rarely!
With Meg, other special gear, we are into the $12,000 range on a motor scooter, one obtained by trading in our 2009 Suzuki GSX-R600 + $504 cash to get the PCX free and clear after all taxes and so forth, sold! 3 years later and it only has 2,700 miles, but I will fix that now!
Now we live 35mi away from the place I will drive it round trip perhaps 70 times per year max if I use special warm dry gear that I do not own to operate rain or shine in spring and fall, and warm in winter if dry and non freezing temps.
The sad trade in value is only at $1450 now, according to Tom of Lake City Powersports, the owner operator sales guy who sold me the PCX160 back in April of 2013
Brief CRZ 2014 TCO
$78,300 for 200,000 mi of operation or $0.40 per mile
Total via addition of following fee/ cost estimates
$22000 base price
$5000 options, warranty additions and a service contract
$3000 in loan fees over 7 years
$5000 repairs for 200,000 mi
$4500 services for 200,000 mi
$21,000 for fuel for 200,000 mi
$17,800 for 20 years of insurance
CPM and TCO for our 2013 Honda PCX-150
Cost $4600 new Paid in Full
At 85mpg, it sips fuel, cheap to fill the 1.6 gallon tank, good for 120mi of riding at 55mph as a realistic cruising speed maximum, though it can peak to 68mph max before the 153cc liquid cooled fuel injected single achieves the RPM range limiter, the 12.9hp failing to elevate the speed beyond 68mph max.
$2.90 for 1 gallon that can move the scooter about 75 to 105 mi, centering around 85MPG in city suburban use cases. Not meant for constant highway use, but it can do it....
Cheap to fuel
27,000mi of fuel will cost 317 gallons, or $1000 estimated though 2023
Tires $400 pair, every 8000 mi : $1400 over 27,000mi
Services $1500 over 27,000 mi
Repairs $600 over 27,000 mi
1000+ 1400 + 1500 + 600 = $4500 operating costs vs $4600 capital costs or $9100
Estimated mi log yield in 12 years to 27,000 mi or about 2200mi per year $759 per year or $63/mo
Out of pocket realized costs only $40/ mo now because the capital cost was already paid, and the title is held, owned. Its ours to take care of, use, pay for, enjoy! Hopefully safely for a long time!
Special gear cost warning, helmets $750, gloves $100, boots $200, etc, the special gear for summer safety, its not cheap, we are taking about $1200 of gear potentially if you go pro out of the gate.
We are talking about a CPM of $0.34 per mile, a 10 miles drive will cost $4 total
We are talking about a TCO of $10,500 with gear updates rarely!
With Meg, other special gear, we are into the $12,000 range on a motor scooter, one obtained by trading in our 2009 Suzuki GSX-R600 + $504 cash to get the PCX free and clear after all taxes and so forth, sold! 3 years later and it only has 2,700 miles, but I will fix that now!
Now we live 35mi away from the place I will drive it round trip perhaps 70 times per year max if I use special warm dry gear that I do not own to operate rain or shine in spring and fall, and warm in winter if dry and non freezing temps.
The sad trade in value is only at $1450 now, according to Tom of Lake City Powersports, the owner operator sales guy who sold me the PCX160 back in April of 2013
Brief CRZ 2014 TCO
$78,300 for 200,000 mi of operation or $0.40 per mile
Total via addition of following fee/ cost estimates
$22000 base price
$5000 options, warranty additions and a service contract
$3000 in loan fees over 7 years
$5000 repairs for 200,000 mi
$4500 services for 200,000 mi
$21,000 for fuel for 200,000 mi
$17,800 for 20 years of insurance
Segway Mini Pro
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| Black or White : $999 on Amazon : 10mi @ 10mph : The Segway Mini Pro by Ninebot its $736.99 in China A cheaper less capable $377.99 Ninebot Mini is Chinese |
Kitty GIF Late 15
I found a clip of kitty photos that looked like a GIF possibility in the making. PicGif in OS-X was used to stitch the GIF!
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| She meows looks to ask us to follow her :) |
IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic Computers : Disruptive Information Technology
6 Million Synthetic Neurons, 4 Billion Fabricated Synapses, 50 Petabytes of Data, 300 Petaflops on 2.5w of Power
Inspired by biological naturally occurring intelligence, neurosnynaptic processors will pave the way AI engines like SIRI hosted locally on handheld thinking smartphone computers!
Inspired by biological naturally occurring intelligence, neurosnynaptic processors will pave the way AI engines like SIRI hosted locally on handheld thinking smartphone computers!
3,000+ MPG : Why Cars 4 Real People never Live up to What is Possible!
Starting in 1985 Royal Dutch Shell started hosting the Eco- Marathon. The $64 trillion dollar questions is : why are the engineering lessons learned at these events not visible in modern car designs?
Biopharma GMO bacteria to Therapeutic Innovations
There are ethical and responsible ways to use genetic engineering technology. Meg and I disagree with GMO foods because of their unknown safety, but there is a positive side of genetic engineering!
Diesel Dead End Exhaust Emissions Externalities Scrutinized in Japan
In Japan, the government is going outside the laboratory for emissions testing in the real world after diesel vehicle models from Honda, Toyota, Nissan & VW have failed updated lab tests.
Methanol from Atmospheric CO2
The new CO2 to Methanol process is not competitive with $30 per barrel oil, but commercialization of the captured CO2 to methanol process is at least 5 to 10 years in the future.
Disruptive Lithium Sulfur Batteries
Offering more than 2x the energy density of conventional lithium ion batteries, LiS or Lithium Sulfur batteries have been used in aerospace UAV applications since 2006. Short cycle life and safety issues plague the LiS chemistries, but R&D aimed at improving LiS will pave the way for smartphones with 4 days of battery life in just a few more years.
Oil Prices to $100 by 2020
In 1998 the inflation adjusted price per barrel reached an all time low of ~$12.50, so lets party like its 1999 ^^ My first foray into oil stock investing via some COP shares on the first day of Feb 2016
Low Gas Prices : Short Term Memories
The high climate and air pollution costs of low pump prices. People rushing out to buy gas guzzlers (SUV) while the pump price is low $2/gal, many will end up keeping these vehicles for 11 more years, long after the price rebounds to $6 or more per gallon. I hope to see oil hit $200 per barrel in the near future.
85 Therms of Natural Gas
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| Rinnai RL75iN Tankless Natural Gas Water Heater |
New for 2016, we installed an instant hot natural gas water heater :) This made in Japan RL75iN is a cool unit for a small family
The 2015 Honda CB300F
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| 2015 Honda CB300F |
My first two bikes were 600cc super sports (wrist strain, awkward seating angle), my current bike is a very comfy but kind poky PCX150 scooter, the next one we plan to add to our vehicle collection is a Honda CB300F. Not until the 2017 model year at the soonest. I have to save $5k after paying off $4k of existing credit card debt at 17% interest. This gives Honda that time to recall all the 2015 and early 16 models that have defective crank bearings and defective camshaft bearings. The fix from Honda is not out until Aug 2016.
Ethics of a Honest Motorcycle Dealer named Tom
These guys are great, its where our Honda PCX150 came from. I gave them my business because they were honest and ethical. Lake City Powersports in Seattle.
X-point Disruptive to IT
Imagine a desktop or laptop that boots up in 1 second with all the programs and apps already loaded into its main memory, along with every file, photo, video, database, etc all up ready to launch instantly with no lag. Intel XPoint is the solution.
OLED moving beyond Phones
Amazon Echo : Cool
Like adding Star Trek or Jarvis to your kitchen, especially if you connect the Echo to some smart switches, smart outlets, or smart appliances that work with it. Amazon continues giving it more features with updates, so its becoming a cooler and more capable product as time rolls on.
Emotional Logic
Thinking about how logical thinking and emotional thinking coexist in our mental cloud computer framework.
Our minds are composed of layers of complex abstract logic, sensory information processing, memory management, process cycle focus control, motor control, endocrine control, biological control though neuro-peptides, small signaling chemicals that control the living systems of the body, trillions of cells working together in a mutualism system of self improvement, repair, and functioning, everyone is born then become old and then dies, ephemeral like the blooms of a flower. While we are here, what we think about and say, how we affect each other. Its not all the logic and reason of IBM watson, but something more than Apple Siri or Google Now, something more than Amazon Alexa through Echo, each person is more than those AI engines put together, our mind is far more complex than the cloud computers of today, but they are both computers. Your brain is a fuel cell information engine, with automatic pattern recognition, general intelligence, acute skill building potential, and amazing motion control, organ control, and body system control.
Think about Systems
What is a system?
What are related components, how do our cells know what to do. Biological Intelligence is totally automatic, healing outside the realm of medicine today, the body heals itself before dying. Complicated intellectual frameworks to think of our minds as layers of cloud computing, with natural language processing, and automatic idea creation, building, innovation, memory sorting, memory storage and deleting of unnecessary memory data. Our brain is like Intel X point memory compute, a product that does not exit where the memory and CPU are the same device. Your brain is the network, the internet of your body!
Our minds are composed of layers of complex abstract logic, sensory information processing, memory management, process cycle focus control, motor control, endocrine control, biological control though neuro-peptides, small signaling chemicals that control the living systems of the body, trillions of cells working together in a mutualism system of self improvement, repair, and functioning, everyone is born then become old and then dies, ephemeral like the blooms of a flower. While we are here, what we think about and say, how we affect each other. Its not all the logic and reason of IBM watson, but something more than Apple Siri or Google Now, something more than Amazon Alexa through Echo, each person is more than those AI engines put together, our mind is far more complex than the cloud computers of today, but they are both computers. Your brain is a fuel cell information engine, with automatic pattern recognition, general intelligence, acute skill building potential, and amazing motion control, organ control, and body system control.
Think about Systems
What is a system?
What are related components, how do our cells know what to do. Biological Intelligence is totally automatic, healing outside the realm of medicine today, the body heals itself before dying. Complicated intellectual frameworks to think of our minds as layers of cloud computing, with natural language processing, and automatic idea creation, building, innovation, memory sorting, memory storage and deleting of unnecessary memory data. Our brain is like Intel X point memory compute, a product that does not exit where the memory and CPU are the same device. Your brain is the network, the internet of your body!
The Roads of Today with Vehicles of Tomorrow
Making use of the existing roadways is more eco friends than investing trillions into a new system of rails, rails that would never connect to all of the suburban neighborhoods where everyone lives in America.
$599 for the Oculus Rift : Low Volume
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| The 2016 Oculus Rift Gen 1 |
Bird Drone : Neighborhood Security Concept
Imagine ending crime in your neighborhood with video evidence; theft, home invasions, mail box break in's, personal assaults or any other crime that takes place out in the open, where the Birds can see. Enter the Drone Bird Concept.
The Dirty Sachs MadAss Scooter I never Got
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| $3k 11hp 56mph Max 119cc Air cooled 4speed Manual The Sachs MadAss is an interesting oil burner |
2015 Newfangled Tech Considered
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| The 2014 Fitbit Surge : The coolest Fitness Tracker / Watch The one that other people actually want! |
Papa Schwarz Memories Live On
Get down..... and boogie
Here, we can see my parents enjoying life to the fullest, to celebrate the holy union of my sister to her lovely husband.
Today was a sad day, as the world lost a wonderful man name Ken Schwarz, the only father I ever knew, he adopted me and treated me as his own. He was a great dad, a great person, a funny guy, a real man. He went through a lot of hardships in life but his optimism, sense of of humor and light hearted positivity prevailed.
My wife and I spent a good portion of our day and night grieving, with eyes of tears, and hearts full of sadness and sorrow, but we share this GIF image to celebrate the spirit of Papa Schwarz, our beloved father who passed away today. We will not remember him for his death, but instead we share this to celebrate the life he lived, his spirit of fun and happiness.
LED ^^
85% less energy, 20x longer life, instant on and often dimmable, sometimes color choices, look for ones with metal heat sinks as they will last longer. LED solves all the problems of CFL
The Ethics of 7 Billion People
With 7 billion people, our civilization is still plagued with corruption, war, poverty, pollution, rape, prostitution, slavery, hatred, bigotry, ignorance, stupidity, sickness, suffering, preventable diseases and illnesses, side effect heavy prescription drugs, greed, and evil. We can and must each choose to do better than this.... and together we can move mountains and solve these problems.
Meg Love Point GIF
Using PicGif, an App Store on IOS app, I took some photos of my lovely wife Meg, and made a GIF image with them. I share this here because facecbook does not allow its users to post GIF images yet. Glad that Google allows its blog posters to share GIF images.
Computer + LIDAR + Battery Vacuum = Robotic Vacuum Cleaner : The Neato D75
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| A Neato D75 w/Me in 10' by 12' room : Pentax W90 Photo every 10 Sec The little robot took about 7 minutes for a single a pass over the rooms floor |
Soil is Food
We eat dirt that turned into a plant. We eat plants that converted dirt into plant tissue. Animals eat plants and other animals that eat plants, Plants are solar powered, our homes and buildings will be solar powered some day as well.
Internal Combustion : Gasoline and Diesel : Hybrid Vehicles : Plug in Hybrid and Pure Electric
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| A Sun Rise viewed through Particulate Smog Forest Fires Create Dangerous Air Pollution |
Air quality is something that everyone should be thinking about when shopping for a vehicle of any kind. Clean technology vehicles create less air pollution, and if you think about your car, its probably the tail pipe of carcinogens that you interact with the most, and this is true for most people in America, who in one way or another are hopelessly linked to using a car for transportation
ICE fused Images Image Composite Editor with Canon T5i images via a Windows 8.1 NoteBook
My windows laptop touchscreen about to be windows 10 acer 15.6inch Core i5 2013 tech helped me smith together some top notch photo stitches, the images were too large to post to facebook, so enjoy them here. I have had a long lasting interest in photography, here my interest in computer science intersects with software based image editing and digital photography.
My beautiful creative intelligent artistic loving flower sniffing granola organic lovely wife Meg was with me on this most vacation like day of good times. A nice last day of July 2015 farewell, on to forming new positive memories :)
Ancient Sun Energy Depletion
When a barrel of oil can be turned into $700 of plastic and chemicals, why are we burning it for $40 to $140? Why are vehicles so aerodynamically inefficient? Why are their no choices but blended international petrol at the gas station pump? Is this capitalism if the burning of oil products does not make economic sense? What about the ecological impacts on earths food farms from the pollution emitted by all the exhaust pipes in the world? What about our economy, we make still have to import 10 million barrels per day to fuel our transportation infrastructure, is that economically sustainable?
Sun Energy
1 square meter of earth or the ocean under full daylight is receiving 1kw of sunlight energy. Plants use this energy to covert water, co2 and minerals in living soil into food for us to eat and for animals to eat so that we can eat the animals too.
Life on earth is solar powered, industry is not. We power most of our infrastructure burning ancient sunlight, carbon based fuels that were once plants and animals. Subjected to the heat and pressure in earths crust, these plants and animals were slowly cooked in the absence of oxygen, creating hydrogen rich carbon molecules. Today we mine this coal and oil and natural gas from earths crust in an unsustainable system of natural resource depletion, pollution generation and ecological food system damage that is ultimately bad for our long term success as a civilization. The entrenched powerful industries that render this burnable carbon from the earth want to keep society linked to using energy dense liquid fossil fuels in transportation.
When a barrel of crude oil can be converted to $700 worth of plastics and petrochemicals, what on earth are we doing burning oil in crude inefficient internal combustion engine applications willing to pay only $40 to $140 for that barrel. The oil industry could make way more money and pressure society into moving beyond burning oil by converting most of the oil to plastics and chemicals.
So, then if it does not make economic sense to burn the increasingly hard to get at oil from earth crust, why are we still doing it? Stupidity and corruption in the oil sector and government and a lack of reasonable choices or alternatives at the consumer level. At the gas pump of today you have only one choice most of the time, petrol, is that a free market ?
Sun Energy
1 square meter of earth or the ocean under full daylight is receiving 1kw of sunlight energy. Plants use this energy to covert water, co2 and minerals in living soil into food for us to eat and for animals to eat so that we can eat the animals too.
Life on earth is solar powered, industry is not. We power most of our infrastructure burning ancient sunlight, carbon based fuels that were once plants and animals. Subjected to the heat and pressure in earths crust, these plants and animals were slowly cooked in the absence of oxygen, creating hydrogen rich carbon molecules. Today we mine this coal and oil and natural gas from earths crust in an unsustainable system of natural resource depletion, pollution generation and ecological food system damage that is ultimately bad for our long term success as a civilization. The entrenched powerful industries that render this burnable carbon from the earth want to keep society linked to using energy dense liquid fossil fuels in transportation.
When a barrel of crude oil can be converted to $700 worth of plastics and petrochemicals, what on earth are we doing burning oil in crude inefficient internal combustion engine applications willing to pay only $40 to $140 for that barrel. The oil industry could make way more money and pressure society into moving beyond burning oil by converting most of the oil to plastics and chemicals.
So, then if it does not make economic sense to burn the increasingly hard to get at oil from earth crust, why are we still doing it? Stupidity and corruption in the oil sector and government and a lack of reasonable choices or alternatives at the consumer level. At the gas pump of today you have only one choice most of the time, petrol, is that a free market ?
Energy Storage Key to Solar Success
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2013-15 Honda CR-Z Lithium Ion Battery
Not the easiest information to find online, the specifications and details of the CR-Z battery are not something that Google will easily navigate too. I did the tenacious internet scouring using lots of search terms and dug up what I believe to be the truth about the Lithium Ion battery in the 13,14,15MY Honda CR-Z hybrid coupe :)
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