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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Wikipedia People List Correlation Checker Script, Random Stuff, and More

Wikipedia People List Correlation Checker Script:
- I've obviously been analysing the nature of the economy/people of late and have had to build another script to deal with this. This basically scans and looks for cross correlations for people from particular groups. It's mostly focused on people of high net worth (billionaire class) but also looks at other groups as well. You can download it here:
wikipedia_people_list_correlation_checker-1.04.zip
- description is as follows:
# After noticing similarities/correlations in individuals/groups/countries
# who do well/not so well economically I decided to drill down a bit deeper
# by looking for cross correlations between high net work individuals (the
# wealthiest people in the world. This pertains almost exclusively to the
# billionaire class). I also looked at data for other people as you'll see
# by the functions/lists that I looked at. If I could find data for other
# classes of people I'd look at it but this data isn't as easy to find and
# would likely result in privacy issues. This script is one of the consequences
# of my continued research into the nature of the economic system/s in play:
#
# I could only include a small subset of test data (and no scraped data)
# as the amount of data that gets scraped scraped is pretty large (several
# hundred MB per list is common) and could only partially test due
# to time constraints. If you're honest with yourself this is the type of
# script/program you leave to run on your computer for days until it
# finishes or run on/off whenever your computer has spare processing time.
#
# Pretty interesting nonetheless if you understand how to interpret and use
# the data (you'll get some interesting URLs to look at even if you don't
# look at cross correlations).
#
# Obviously, to make the most of this script you'll need to be able to
# understand how to script/program.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy.
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
# 1.00 - used wikipedia_list_data_scan_pack.sh
# 1.01 - found a bug which had to do with not understanding how lynx worked
#        and a looping issue. Came up with a way to do word counts without
#        resorting to extra files but obviously this way makes it more
#        difficult to debug if there is an issue
# 1.02 - fixed bug in word frequency function. Added cpu_throttle and
#        get_word_count_frequencies functions. You'll obviously need
#        to use sudo to call the script and be able to throttle the CPU
# 1.03 - Added more functions to scrape alternate data. Obviously, this
#        has moved to more then just studies of cross correlations of high
#        net worth individuals. It's interesting to see correlations between
#        assassinations, scientists, activists, people in different
#        occupations, etc... Obviously, I could have integrated some of
#        these scrapers into a single function but I was more interested
#        in the data then programming elegance
# 1.04 - got rid of test code. Added convert_to_hyperlinks function
#
- I have to do some more work but I obviously have an interest in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) and automated government/businesses. Ironically, primitive versions of such things are pretty simple and could easily be built by basically combining a bunch of my scripts related to this topic to look for various alternative solutions to problems? What I also didn't realise is that the jobs of a lot of public servants/Mandarins may actually be redundant owing because they're limited in what they can do, have limited toolboxes/abilities/interests, are possibly corrupt/crazy/dumb?, etc? Makes sense given the style of education/indoctrination/colonial overhang (https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html) that we have? You can see this by the relatively small number of solutions for similar problems globally via some scripts I've been working on? I wonder how close you can get to a true version of direct democracy (completely open data, decision trees, decision selection, little to no classification of data, etc...)? Aside from crazy nude women (http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/01/country-gdp-growth-correlation-checker.html https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/email-harvesting-notes-sperminator-ari.html) I know some public servants/journalists frequent this blog. This means that they're probably bemused, curious, and/or desperate? If you scan across similar countries for countries that have successfully grown out of their situation there may be something useful from the Country GDP Growth Correlation Checker Script (most countries do it via very limited means such as becoming a tax haven, a new trade agreement, trade with particular countries, etc... This is reflected via FOREX markets, stock markets, commodities markets, GDP growth, etc... and this is also how I know automated governments and enterprises may be possible in the future)? Whether strategies stemming from it are viable will be determined by various political, geo-political, legal, local, etc... issues
Politicians are Robots
- for interests sake I scraped demographic data as well as data on assasinations (including terrorist attacks, covert activities, drone kills, etc.... Easy to see how some countries can't really get along and break the cycle if you examine the data
looming tower
list criminals wikipedia
list scientist assassinations
- after you examine enough data it is very difficult to distinguish between criminals, some politicians, and a lot of corporate behaviour?
The World Today with Tariq Ali
"Davos Man": How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic
How Davos Man Devours the World
Billionaire Can't Comprehend Why People Hate Billionaires
Renegade Inc _ Capitalism Closed for Business
Winners Take All _ Anand Giridharadas _ Talks at Google
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
The Global Power Elite - A Transnational Class
'I Am A Monster' Ep. 2 Official Clip | Billions | Season 5
BE AM A MONSTER - AXE MOTIVATION - BOBBY AXELROD BILLIONS MOTIVATION
multi corporations and criminals run the world?
Raymond 'Red' Reddington : [outside the White House with Elizabeth] People think it matters who occupies that house. It doesn't. Multinational corporations and criminals run the world.
James Spader as Raymond 'Red' Reddington - IMDb
The Americans 2x05 - "You're a monster!"
The Interview (2014) - A Fake Friend Scene (10_10) _ Movieclips
The Interview (2014) - They're Honeypotting Us Scene (2_10) _ Movieclips
Sicario (11/11) Movie CLIP - A Land of Wolves (2015) HD
Sicario (Ending Scene) : This is the land of wolves now
- what's interesting for me is whether you can build a program that can search through the lives of people and look for solutions to their problems? Basically, invert the advertising and hedge fund concepts? Not super difficult if you can connect the dots and figure out how you can combine a number of scripts/programs I've built to produce government and businesses that are semi to fully automatically managed via Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). If I had more time/money/funding I'd spend more time on this. For the time being, it's just a side project...
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Random Quotes:
- China's "artificial sun", a nuclear fusion tokamak reactor that could provide almost limitless amounts of emission-free energy, set a new record on Thursday by running for 1,056 seconds at high plasma temperature, according to a report from Xinhua.
The particular tokamak reactor is called EAST, which stands for Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. It is located in Hefei, China, and it also broke a record in May when it ran for 101 seconds at a temperature of 216 million°F (120 million°C).
Artificial suns on Earth
EAST is one of several nuclear fusion experiments around the globe designed to mimic the reaction of the sun and stars using tokamak reactors. Nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms smash together to form a heavier nucleus, releasing massive amounts of energy. By harnessing this power, several high-profile experiments hope to provide enough energy to end the world's reliance on fossil fuels.
Other nuclear fusion experiments include MIT's Bill Gates-backed SPARC and South Korea's KSTAR, which recently broke a record by maintaining super-hot plasma at one million degrees for 30 seconds. According to CGTN, the EAST experiment has reached several key milestones towards viable nuclear fusion. These include achieving a 1-million-ampere current, and producing a 1,000-second duration 100-million-degree temperature. Now the EAST engineers have to achieve these two targets at the same time.
The race towards net fusion energy
To achieve viable nuclear fusion, researchers must show they can produce more energy than fusion reactors require to run in the first place. So far this has not been possible, though key breakthroughs in recent months and years are bringing the scientific community closer to achieving the monumental milestone. In September, for example, the Bill Gates-backed SPARC experiment runner, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, announced that it successfully tested a magnet that could run at 20 teslas in magnetic strength while only consuming about 30 watts of energy.
Such breakthroughs will allow the scientific community to gradually improve the efficiency of these "artificial suns", reducing the immense power required to run them in the first place. In doing so, they may unlock net fusion energy here on Earth.
- Alex Vynokur, co-founder and CEO of BetaShares, says the growth of ETFs in Australia has been consistent with other developed markets where about 80 per cent of the market share is held by three or four companies.
Grossman said the penetration of ETFs in Australia is low compared to other countries and this pointed to very strong growth over the next decade.
He said Australia had always punched above its weight in funds management and that was one reason why he had joined the board of BetaShares.
Vynokur said growth rates for ETFs in Australia exceeded the growth rates in the United States by a long way.
In the past year the Australian ETF market grew 74.9 per cent compared to 23.7 per cent in the US. Over three years the Australian growth rate was 39.8 per cent a year compared with 16.9 per cent a year in the US.
Over five years and 10 years the Australian annual growth rates in terms of funds under management were 36 and 34 per cent respectively, compared with 20 per cent and 18 per cent in the US.
...
"But seeing how many assets migrated into ETFs reflected the recognition of how efficient they were as building blocks for portfolios.
"The growth was not just around the conventional indices but in leveraging the co-operation of different strategies that can be so efficiently invested in the ETF structure.
"First, it was slicing and dicing in different ways and then it was thematic or smart Beta portfolios and ETFs with industry-focused portfolios."
- "The new findings led by Dr. McElvain offer an important lesson in motor control," said Kleinfeld, a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences (Section of Neurobiology) and Division of Physical Sciences (Department of Physics). "The brain does not control movement though a hierarchy of commands, like the 'neural networks' of self-driving cars, but through a scheme of middle management that directs motor output while informing the executive planners."
Remarkably, according to the researchers, the SNr neurons that project to the low levels of the motor system have branched axons that simultaneously project back up to the brain regions responsible for higher-order control and learning. In this way, the newly described connectivity of SNr neurons fundamentally links operations across high and low levels of the brain.
"The fact that specific basal ganglia output neurons project to specific downstream brain nuclei but also broadcast this information to higher motor centers has implications for how the brain chooses which movements to do in a particular context, and also for how it learns about which actions to do in the future," said Costa, a professor of neuroscience and neurology at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as director and chief executive officer of the Zuckerman Institute.
Charges are filed accusing employers of illegal anti-union activity in 41.5% of all union election campaigns, according to the Economic Policy Institute. EPI did not track how many of these charges that the National Labor Relations Board ultimately found to be merited, resulting in further investigation.
"It's fairly common for there to be unfair labor practice charges at the end of a contentious election like this," John Logan, a labor and employment professor at San Francisco State University, previously told Insider.
Charges don't prove a company has broken the law.
Once an unfair labor practice charge is filed, NLRB staff investigate the claim to determine whether it has enough merit to lodge a formal complaint against the employer. If the NLRB issues a complaint, the case then goes to a hearing unless a settlement is reached first.
This is how the process that will play out if the RWDSU follows through on filing unfair labor practice charges against Amazon related to the Alabama union drive.
According to Celine McNicholas, the director of government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, the NLRB process is ineffective in clamping down on illegal anti-union activity, because punishments are relatively minor for violating related labor laws.
For example, if an employer illegally fires a worker for organizing, a company is only responsible for back pay – not further fines or damages.
"It's a broken system," McNicholas said. "There is very little reason not to push the envelope and risk a violation of the law."
- An Asian fetish is the sexualised objectification of the appearance of Asian women, according to Michelle Aung Thin, a senior lecturer in communication at Melbourne's RMIT University.
The fascination relates to power and the stereotype of Asian women being subservient.
It derives from Oriental stereotypes in historical and popular culture, Dr Aung Thin said, such as Western depictions of Japanese geishas, Asian entertainers during World War II and the Vietnam and Korean wars, and stage shows like Miss Saigon or Madame Butterfly.
"FLoC is a new approach to interest-based advertising that both improves privacy and gives publishers a tool they need for viable advertising business models," Vale said.
"FLoC is still in development and we expect it to evolve based on input from the web community and learnings from this initial trial."
The technology works by measuring a Chrome user's browsing history locally, on their browser, and determining which larger group or 'cohort' they belong to based on their personal information and internet activity.
Each member of the same cohort will be assigned the same identification number and the cohorts will be large enough to mitigate against the risk of individual re-identification.
When a Chrome user with FLoC enabled enters the domain of an advertiser, such as a news website, the embedded adtech will see which cohort the user belongs to and serve relevant advertisements.
Cohorts will be effective enough at delivering targeted ads, Google hopes, that companies won't miss being able to follow individuals across the web.
And because the user's cohort is measured locally and apparently not sent to a Google server, the Chrome keeps their browsing history private.
- Given the challenges in developing advanced communication and control systems, most work on drone swarms done so far has focussed on small, slow-moving drones that have an endurance of a few hours. In March 2020, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology published a paper on development of networking for 'hypersonic UCAV (unmanned combat air vehicle) swarms'. Hypersonic weapons travel at over 5 times the speed of sound. A swarm of UCAVs that is hypersonic would be extremely difficult to track or intercept with current sensors.
- Key points:
Data has revealed 78 per cent of regional aged care homes are running at an operating loss
Seven aged care homes in regional areas have closed in the past year, impacting 282 regional beds
Experts argue regional aged care homes need to have a separate funding model in order to survive
Radar in World War II greatly influenced many important aspects of the conflict.[1] This revolutionary new technology of radio-based detection and tracking was used by both the Allies and Axis powers in World War II, which had evolved independently in a number of nations during the mid 1930s.[2] At the outbreak of war in September 1939, both Great Britain and Germany had functioning radar systems. In Great Britain, it was called RDF, Range and Direction Finding, while in Germany the name Funkmeß (radio-measuring) was used, with apparatuses called Funkmessgerät (radio measuring device). By the time of the Battle of Britain in mid-1940, the Royal Air Force (RAF) had fully integrated RDF as part of the national air defence.
In the United States, the technology was demonstrated during December 1934,[3] although it was only when war became likely that the U.S. recognized the potential of the new technology, and began development of ship- and land-based systems. The first of these were fielded by the U.S. Navy in early 1940, and a year later by the U.S. Army. The acronym RADAR (for Radio Detection And Ranging) was coined by the U.S. Navy in 1940, and the term "radar" became widely used.
While the benefits of operating in the microwave portion of the radio spectrum were known, transmitters for generating microwave signals of sufficient power were unavailable; thus, all early radar systems operated at lower frequencies (e.g., HF or VHF). In February 1940, Great Britain developed the resonant-cavity magnetron, capable of producing microwave power in the kilowatt range, opening the path to second-generation radar systems.[4]
After the Fall of France, it was realised in Great Britain that the manufacturing capabilities of the United States were vital to success in the war; thus, although America was not yet a belligerent, Prime Minister Winston Churchill directed that the technological secrets of Great Britain be shared in exchange for the needed capabilities. In the summer of 1940, the Tizard Mission visited the United States. The cavity magnetron was demonstrated to Americans at RCA, Bell Labs, etc. It was 100 times more powerful than anything they had seen.[5] Bell Labs was able to duplicate the performance, and the Radiation Laboratory at MIT was established to develop microwave radars. It was later described as "The most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores".[6][7]
In addition to Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, wartime radars were also developed and used by Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Sweden.
- "The kid sitting on the reading mat today is going to face a world with multiple world views, with changes to world powers, and indigenous knowledges - by putting through different ways of seeing the world - will give kids a real advantage.
"It's a reality for our kids. Some people will find it may be controversial, but if you peel back our society, there are four faces of this nation. We have a colonial past, which is significant and should be in the curriculum.
"We are part of Asia. We are one of the world's most multicultural nations. And we house the world's longest-living continuous culture. If those four faces are not represented, we are doing our kids a disservice."
The New York Post reports that Janice McAfee made the damning statement Sunday in a US Father's Day post while her husband was in a Spanish jail awaiting extradition to the US to face federal tax evasion charges.
"John's honesty has often gotten him in trouble with corrupt governments and corrupt government officials because of his outspoken nature and his refusal to be extorted, intimidated or silenced," wrote Mrs McAfee, who first met her husband while she was working as a prostitute.
"Now the US authorities are determined to have John die in prison to make an example of him for speaking out against the corruption within their government agencies," she wrote.
- Key points:
The home was printed in sections at a factory and assembled onsite, where its roof was added
The home complies with local contrustuciton laws and took 120 hours to print
Five houses are due to be built using the technology
...
He figures houses can be 3D printed in the future using 30 per cent less material than traditional construction methods.
"Why? The answer is sustainability," he said.
"And the first way to do that is by cutting down the amount of concrete that we use."
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