Meta: Today’s entry begins as a diary’s; recanting previous efforts, describing occupying thoughts and intentions, as sitting on this higher perch with the hope of gaining a more accurate perspective of these written fields. Why not begin where yesterday ended. I had been in the process of exploring the sensation of a mental switch whose activation I’ve come to associate with a...
Sunday August 18, 2013
Meta: The first thing I’d like to note today is that yesterday’s meta-worries were both baseless and valuable. They demonstrated both these properties (virtues?) and in doing so characterised what is perhaps most valuable about this diary-style writing, namely, “try-it-and-see” and “learn-from-experience”. Yesterday’s example is perhaps in itself not...
Science 090813 II: PubPeer, social influence bias, transcription factories, microbiome speciation, and neuronal methylation
This is a continuation of an effort to review Science 9 August 2013 Vol. 341 no. 6416. V. PubPeer is a nice, interesting, and new website, designed to allow readers to critique papers they’ve read. VI. P647, I read the full research paper, entitled Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment – basically about how knowing about aggregated opinions affects our own, albeit in...
Saturday August 17, 2013
Journal: Reading science literature: I did a once-over browse of the TRENDS journals that have been published so far in this month, and have selected a few that I thought could be interesting. In TRENDS IMMUNOL I found an article that claims to review what’s known about the genetic implications for mechanisms of IBS. This is not something I’ll read now, but appears to be a reference...
Friday August 16, 2013
Editorial notes: This is the first of 51 Evernote entries titled according to the date on which they were written, making this a personal, chronological journal of observations, lessons learned and conclusions, together with an element of diary writing. Synopsis: Today I discover a foreign news service, muse about its benefits, get side-tracked onto developing an open mind. And then finally added...
Priorities
Editorial notes: This is one of a number of entries found in Shai’s Evernote archives where he discusses his own methodology for researching and acquiring knowledge, and his preferred methods for storing his notes, taken during that process. Shai devises a system of four tiers of acquiring knowledge. He refers to them as Tier1 to Tier 4. The notes arising from this process of knowledge...
Borrowings: Scribbles
Here some Notes are taken describing books acquired, thus possibly illustrating motivations, etc., which may serve Bibliome growth. 2013_03_01: A book by Cicero and by Drabble, via the Philosophy and Literature Bibliomes. Dense Macarbe by Stephen King, which are essays on his thoughts on Horror. This serves my previous affection for his writings and respect for his authorship, and which may...
Biomes, Concepts, and Categories
The intention is to create “Biomes” for bibliomatic (bibliophrenic?)…{?}. So far (27.02.13) we have the Concepts “BYAF” and “Neurochronoarchitecture”… actually, the former is more accurately described as an Idea… hence, I’m renaming Concepts to Ideas, since the former are a subset. For now, it would be best to accumulate items under...
Dec 2, 2010
This is a log of my experiences here to date. Today I was pushed over the line and have won myself the right to vote; seems a good an occasion as any to do this. This log is not meant to be anything more than what it is: A record of some recollections that perhaps later may be of interest. If it’s ordering appears random that is because it is. My first post was Rituals of marijuana...