Conversing using data

I enjoyed the preparatory work of arranging data into a presentable form. The surprise was when I was then put in a position to present this to a critical audience. I accidentally experience the ability to handle surprising questions. I was addicted. The addiction was to the conversation. The conversation happened to involve the language of data, a vast collection of individual datum.

A zero value god

Under this concept of Aten, there can be a more coherent understanding of the recent discussion about man’s value. By default, every man’s value is zero. To have value, a man has to do something with the timestamp he is given. In particular, he has to spend that timestamp on actions that builds and grows his relationships along a scale that has a high-value end. Such effort is optional in Aten’s mind. The motivation for man is that if he plays his provision of timestamps well, he will reap rewards for himself as well as those in his network.

Efficient isolation for epidemic

It is inevitable that there will be a point where we must abandon the hope of containing the spread through quarantines.   Our best hope of minimizing the number of deaths and of those needing intensive care is to isolate the ones most at risk if they were infected.   Instead of removing from the economy those who are suspected as being infectious, we instead remove those who have known preexisting conditions or age.

What makes data possible

In an earlier article I was thinking about the meaning of nothingness that separates the particles inside an atom or that separates celestial bodies.   It occurs to me now that maybe they may not be the same kind of nothingness.  Thinking about nothingness turns it into something and that makes possible the idea that that…