
Entries from July 2008
GTD Flowchart
July 31st, 2008
Tags: Life Skills
Hipster PDA
July 30th, 2008
Tags: Life Skills
Ever wondered if there’s a way to do GTD without notebooks and digital equipments? Well, there’s hipster PDA!
AM PM
July 29th, 2008
Tags: Current Technology
24. Indulgence
July 28th, 2008
Tags: Religion and Philosophy
From Tau De Ching
Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;
Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;
Justify yourself and you will not be respected;
Promote yourself and you will not be believed;
Pride yourself and you will not endure.These behaviours are wasteful, indulgent,
And so they attract disfavour;
Harmony avoids them.
Spread Spectrum techniques
July 27th, 2008
Tags: Current Technology
2 major types of Spread Spectrum are:
vocab
July 26th, 2008
Tags: Culture and Society
words…
- veracity - unwillingness to tell lies
- Corinthian Column - n classical architecture, a column decorated at the top with a mixed bag of curlicues, scrolls and other lavish ornamentation.
- assault - close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
- intransignent -
- obscure - not clearly understood or expressed; “an obscure turn of phrase”; “an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit
- thwart - a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- forfeit - something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
- rescind - To cancel a contract
- flagrant - onspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- denuded - stripped of all vegetative cover as after a severe disturbance such as a landslide
Complex question
July 25th, 2008
Tags: Religion and Philosophy
Complex question presupposes a hidden meaning. types of complex questions include…
- loaded question
E.g. Are you still beating your wife? - buttering up
E.g. Would you wanna be a nice girl and pack up all your toys? - Legitimately complex questions (not a fallacy)
Who is the Queen of England? - Illegitimately complex question
Who is the King of France? - Implied Dilemma (not a fallacy)
vocab
July 24th, 2008
Tags: Culture and Society
some more words…
- acuteness – keenly perceptive
- muse – a guiding point/poet
- syllogism - A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
- tenous – long and thin
- liturgy - A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship
- gargoyles - a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building
- dirge – mournful hymn
- engender - To bring into existence; give rise to
vocab
July 23rd, 2008
Tags: Culture and Society
some more words…
- gall – bitterness of feeling
- connoisseurs – experts in fine arts
- preclude – to make impssoble/exclude
- mitigate - To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate.
- ratify - To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm
- unfettered – to set free
- inscrutable – difficult to understand
- perspicacity – acuteness of perception/understanding
- Occidentals – Western Christian
- fathom – to comprehend
Normal Distribution
July 22nd, 2008
Tags: Science
Normal distribution/Gaussian distribution has many applications.
All normal density curves satisfy the following property:
- 68% of the observations fall within 1? of the mean, that is, between ? – ? and ? + ?.
- 95% of the observations fall within 2? of the mean, that is, between ? – 2? and ? + 2?.
- 99.7% of the observations fall within 3? of the mean, that is, between ? – 3? and ? + 3?.
- Almost all values lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean.

