The ever growing effects of gratitude in your life

[bradly1101]

Grateful to what? I suppose I'm thankful I'm not laying in a puddle of my own piss in an alley somewhere. Thank you to myself for working a job and not taking up habits like smoking crack.

[sorry, another reply]

In Dr. Dieb's class I had to write about a technical subject for the layman (who in tech, any job really, hasn't needed to explain something?). I chose the diode, explaining its roots, what semiconductors meant, electrons simulating thought with a yes and a no [Sophia is "engineered with empathy" as she says. She also says, complimenting humans, that we "have some ability to self-modify," unlike them, constant curiosity and adjustment. Electrons though transistors, neurons, logic circuits. Differentiated charges unifying into a mind, even an artificial one. Like picking yourself up. Bootstraps aren't that far down your leg. I hate many suggestions, I'll just say this, thinking can be changed, electrons can be rearranged - you've done it many times. There are incredible books out there, there was a thread.]. Wafers, etched with chemicals like a photograph. The brief history of a revolution through the lens of this funny, miniature glass-looking component.

Dr. Dieb was an entirely British fellow, having taught English in old, well respected halls in Britain. He had no technical background [but DeVry was obviously pouring money into general education. An uppity, know it all - sometimes it was the sighing IT guy of the 1990's when a salesman can't at first comprehend something - was being replaced with people savvy people, and the damn efficiency the shareholders demanded meant that you had to be on your toes, anticipating, and friendly. The ladder is wide for the humble], and after he read it he said, "I had no idea." It was hand-written, lost in a box somewhere.

You have a 'puter. Writing may not be your thing. The more fiction and non I read, the more I want to write, convey, get it down, have fun. It may never get read, and it may be (too) personal, but as I write truths, I can't stop yammering on, seeing my past and my current thought process from older, more experienced eyes, and it's a blast! Those who seem to solidify with age, get stuck in their ways, never seem happy (not saying you, but in general).

If you have time to watch that link above [23 min.] the ending has an explanation of the tech, and the whole thing was probably the most interesting video this old man has ever seen. AI on a different level.

 

[bradly1101]

Meh old news, knowledge of this has been around since the 60's.

The Grateful Dead

Knowledge and enduring knowledge are often separate, the latter seeming lately to be almost nonexistent in favor of intentional ignorance. Gratitude can be a science, and I think it more goes back millions of years. If I do this, they act like that. Simple yet strangely forgettable.

 

[Geekbabe]

What about the dark side of the force? Is there any research that shows that by properly focusing my anger and hatred I can obtain telekinetic powers?


There must be SOME advantage to being angry and miserable, considering how many people seem to be in that state constantly yet lead such otherwise enviable lives.

Anger uses up energy, gratitude gives energy.Don’t know about you but I have a limited amount of energy at any given moment. I would rather use mine for happy purposes.

 

[Perknose]

Couldn't just say helpful or beneficial, could you?

And eschew obfuscation? I abjure the very idea!

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Thanks. I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn a new word: abjure

 

[highland145]

Suck up. :colbert;