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Entries from July 2008

GTD Flowchart

July 31st, 2008

Tags: Life Skills

Another flowchart on GTD

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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!

with only a pack of cards in hand, there’s always a Hipster PDA!

AM PM

July 29th, 2008

Tags: Current Technology

Amplitude Modulation and Phase Modulation…

ampm AM PM

picture credit: wiki

 

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:

  • Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
  • Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)

vocab

July 26th, 2008

Tags: Culture and Society

words…

  1. veracity - unwillingness to tell lies 
  2. Corinthian Column - n classical architecture, a column decorated at the top with a mixed bag of curlicues, scrolls and other lavish ornamentation.
  3. assault - close fighting during the culmination of a military attack 
  4. intransignent - 
  5. 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
  6. thwart - a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat 
  7. forfeit - something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
  8. rescind - To cancel a contract
  9. flagrant - onspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  10. 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…

  1. loaded question
    E.g. Are you still beating your wife? 
  2. buttering up
    E.g. Would you wanna be a nice girl and pack up all your toys? 
  3. Legitimately complex questions (not a fallacy)
    Who is the Queen of England?
  4. Illegitimately complex question
    Who is the King of France?
  5. Implied Dilemma (not a fallacy)

vocab

July 24th, 2008

Tags: Culture and Society

some more words…

  1. acuteness – keenly perceptive
  2. muse – a guiding point/poet
  3. syllogism - A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
  4. tenous – long and thin
  5. liturgy - A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship
  6. gargoyles - a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building
  7. dirge – mournful hymn
  8. engender - To bring into existence; give rise to

vocab

July 23rd, 2008

Tags: Culture and Society

some more words…

  1. gall – bitterness of feeling
  2. connoisseurs – experts in fine arts
  3. preclude – to make impssoble/exclude
  4. mitigate - To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate.
  5. ratify - To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm
  6. unfettered – to set free
  7. inscrutable – difficult to understand
  8. perspicacity – acuteness of perception/understanding
  9. Occidentals – Western Christian 
  10. 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.
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