Tuesday, February 28, 2012

15-th Translation of my Rules- in Chinese!



 A wonderful present from the great friend of this blog, Do Miracles: 1 billion+ potential readers!
Chinese readers, welcome! I admire you!

“ I think, I exist. I decide I live. I solve problems, I live with a purpose.“我思考,我生存。我决定我活着,我解决问题,我有目的性的活着。”


1.没有孤立的问题,它们总是会以动态串般到来。

2.事实上面对重大难题并没有最终的解决方案,总是要经过反复不断的尝试才能解决。

3.给它下定义是关键的一步,而不是解决问题。


4.不是未知的数据,而是那些已知的和不真实的数据是这些解决方案的最大障碍。

5. NOT what we know, but what we don’t know is more important for solving the problem.
5.不是我们知道什么,而是我们所不知道往往会对解决问题更加重要。


6. 非主要预期产生积极的效果,而是那些次要的消极和/或不希望有的效果决定在大多数情况下,如果一个解决方案被执行了。

7. NOT all problems have a complete, genuine solution.
7.不是所有的问题都有一个完整的、真正的解决方案。

8 .NOT the solutions that seem perfect from the start, but those which are very perfectible are the best in many cases.
8.不是所有的解决方案从一开始似乎就是完美的,但是那些解决方案是非常完善的和在很多情况下是最好的。

9. NOT the bright, shiny, spectacular solutions but those elaborated, worked out with difficulty and effort and patience are more valuable and have a larger area of applicability.
9.没有明亮的、光泽的、壮观的解决方案,但是那些煞费苦心,阐述了困难和努力和耐心的解决方案更具有价值性和广阔适用性。


10.没有解决方案是逻辑和完全理性的,但是适合于潜能用户的感受,即使他们是不逻辑的,有最大的机会快速地实施。


11.没有解决方案的质量方针但是它的可实施性的速度在很多情况下是决定性因素。比起几乎完美的慢速解决方案,有一个局部可快速实施方案将会更好。

difficult problems.

12.不总是长期的辛苦工作和巨大努力,但(有时)放松和娱乐会是更好地获得解决(非常)困难问题的方式。

13. NOT our own problems, but the problems of other people are usually more boldly and creatively solved by us
13.不是我们自己的问题,而是其他人的问题通常更勇敢地、创造性地被我们解决。


14.不是我们制定出了解决方案,而是它们被别人模仿,被购买或被偷会更容易被接受和实施。


15.不是人类的力量增强而是人类弱点的有限对于有效地解决问题更有用。

16- NOT the very careful perfect planning, but the smart assuming of risks and firm decision taking are the practical keys to successful problem
solving.
16.不是非常小心完美的计划,而是聪明的风险假设和坚定的决心是成功解决问题的实际关键。


17.存在真正的问题,而是很多次虚构的和想象的问题是最难于解决的。


18.不要接受问题的前提,改变他们是必要的也是合适


19.不要停留在第一个解决方案上,寻求替代方案。然而,对于那些真正高级的问题解决者,这是一个超级规则,对每一位人都非常重要;

20.不是智者的应用规则,而是寻找具体的例外情况,是解决问题的真正高级的艺术境界。

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Innuendo

Motto (rephrasing the classic Serenity Prayer /short version):
God, grant me the serenity to recognize and accept the people I cannot trust,
Courage to trust the people I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.


Ask a regular child to describe the Sun and he / she will most probably say it is yellow and bright. Then ask the same question to a blind child; this one would probably just say it is warm.

Ask a kid that is about 5 years old to describe how much can be bought with 100.000 Euro. You will most probably get some really funny answers. He may even believe he can buy a plane if this is on his wish list on the ‘expensive’ end.

Every other month, some new chain letter about crazy things that children say hits our Inboxes. What I find most fascinating in those letters is how genuine all those phrases are. The kids say exactly what they believe to be truth (and in their world it may very well be so!). They help me detach from the busy surrounding and read with my heart, then pick some phrases that are extremely wise even if they look silly. I start then thinking that we have just grown up into ignoring or forgetting about those things. We went on with our lives, becoming serious adults and masters of our universe. Is it so? I really wonder…

I remember one feature of the Romanian language, praised intensively throughout my school years. It was presented to us as exceptionally rich when compared to others. Almost any simple word you choose has a wide variety of meanings and there are certain words that cannot be translated while preserving their full meaning. We Romanians are actually very proud of this feature of our language and attribute it to its Latin root.

Lately I started to wonder if this feature is now helping or hindering, in the contemporary context of multicultural communication. Not only that it makes translation difficult, but it also opens the door for a lot of misunderstanding. Taking this to an extreme, one could even say it makes the ‘imported’ laws and rules interpretable and weak.

But then I look around and see it is not a matter of Romanian language. There is an increasing tendency to play with the meaning of the words, twisting and turning them to serve one’s purpose. People attribute distinctive understanding of the same words in different contexts. It may happen either for making best use of them in accomplishing their own purpose, or for hiding their own mistakes behind the ambiguity and vulnerability of their own words.

There are sometimes funny and sometimes unpleasant situations, when misunderstandings are really genuine, as there is always hard to place yourself in someone else’s shoes. There are so many alternative meanings of the same word and so many different sides of the same truth that we cannot anticipate how our interlocutors would read our intention when we try to communicate. Repeating what you hear and defining a common understanding on important matters may help very much in avoiding misunderstanding, but we may never be really certain about the outcome whenever more than one person is involved.

There are different ways of listening and perceiving, which are influenced by our past experience, as well as expectations from that moment. If people are not used to hear outspoken honest phrases, they will always look for the alternative meaning of every word you say. On the other hand, whenever they are used to hear things expressed in a plain and simple way, they will not look for alternative meanings and so you should not ‘beat around the bush’ with those people. This reminds me about the classical prejudice about how men and women communicate their wishes – straight to the point versus induced and suggested.

Whenever we are consistent in our communication, we should expect improved understanding over time. However we should still adapt to any new people that come into our lives and first check our level of common understanding before jumping into conclusions. The communication game may be challenging and beautiful at the same time, as long as it is played fairly by the participants. It is another thing when ‘innuendo’ kicks in (and I am not talking about Queen’s song…). This is defined as negative insinuation, somehow hurting the interlocutor. The unspoken innuendos are also the strangest ones, and I refer here to either unasked or unanswered questions. They extend to non-verbal communication, respectively looks that are never followed by words or by actions. Or even stranger – looks or body language that come in contradiction with the outspoken words. The world around us creates a net of possibilities mixed with potentials, both on the negative (threat) and on positive (opportunity) path.

Our current life is full of playing with words, be it using the hidden meaning in positive ways, or slipping into the world of innuendo. Sometimes something is really hidden behind our words, either threatening or complimenting and flirting. Other times we are just having fun and playing around. Sometimes our positive use of hidden meaning is misinterpreted by recipient as innuendo. The probability of such misreading increases when people from different background come together (be it educational, social, cultural, religious etc.).

It may even happen that we do not mean anything to be hidden, but still is perceived as such. This is why is important in a communication to exercise seeing through the eyes of our counterparty. It becomes especially important when the innuendo turns nasty, into a battle of opposing interests, when hurtful misunderstandings are actively planned, displayed and sometimes even publicly escalated. In those cases we should not allow time to pass without addressing the issues and clarifying whether we had a genuine misunderstanding or not.

It seems that a fashion of using innuendo as a way of communication has spread in the world nowadays. We may enjoy it in movies, at parties and on reality shows, while we may not enjoy it so much in our work or at home, in our courts and parliamentary debates, or on the evening news. Unlike the kids that are usually genuine in sharing their feelings and opinions, larger parts of the adult population have evolved into mastering the communication in a way that allows taking back whatever was said, while pretending it was just misunderstanding. It is a matter of integrity and trust and one should be always careful how to choose communication partners and address them with care.

The positive message which I still get for you today is that there is a child hidden in each and every one of us. We will always carry the genuine side within ourselves and will always crave to share this with our most trusted friends. We just need to take care that our inner kid is well taken care of, has a good understanding of the limits of the playground and the rules of the game. Otherwise he/she may be hurt too often and never wish to play ever again.

Have a nice genuine week.
Georgina(-the-Kid) Popescu

Saturday, February 25, 2012

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 496

My Dear Readers from everywhere,

We still have to wait a bit for Defkalion’s official test results.
We still have to wait till we really understand where, how, why
industrial LENR works- and why it does not work -when doing so.
Veteran cold fusionists like me are great experts even maestros in waiting. But it is both pathological and counterproductive to like waiting. I don’t like it at all.

My new Project, based on the fundamental idea that old researchers have to routinely execute infinite and impossible tasks- I am speaking about the translations of my Problem Solving Rules, is going VERY slowly see please: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2012/02/list-of-languages-for-translation-of-my.html

I cannot understand and it hurts me that my friends speaking Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese or some 20 European languages are NOT helping me.
But I am a lover of positive thinking- many other friends have helped me with generosity and I am grateful to them.
The next week will be much better.
Peter


SEARCH

INTERNET

 

The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229074023195322.html

 

Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120224/11362717869/reddit-writes-law-first-draft-free-internet-act-emerges.shtml


SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  
  

First Impressions Form Quickly On the Web, Eye-Tracking Study Shows: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120216094726.htm  

 

Use Jinni to get your next movie recommendation: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/21/use-jinni-to-find-your-next-favorite-movie.htm?nl=1

 

How to find what you might be interested in on Tumblr: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/16/how-to-search-for-people-on-tumblr.htm?nl=1

Metaphorical search engine finds creative new meanings: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328536.500-metaphorical-search-engine-finds-creative-new-meanings.html

 

5 ways to view Flickr photos on the Web: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/14/5-interesting-ways-to-view-flickr-photos.htm?nl=1


Free Online Spell Checker:
http://www.spellcheckonline.com/                                

 

Why the Popularity of Some Web Pages Doesn't Fall Over Time. Unlike many Web pages, the traffic to some sites doesn't fall over time. A new model of Web traffic shows why:

 

10 Best Sites to Find and Download Free Fonts For Windows and Mac:                                                      http://savedelete.com/10-best-sites-to-find-and-download-free-fonts-for-windows-and-mac.html

 

The Most Addictive Sites on the Web, 2012: http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/weirdwebculture/tp/The-Most-Addictive-Websites-of-2012.htm?nl=1


BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Facebook Makes Us Happier & More Creative: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42544

 

The Empower Network: My Personal Reasons for Joining: http://davestrayer.com/article-marketing/the-empower-network-my-personal-reasons-for-joining/


Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.pdf

 

LinkedIn Growing Faster than Twitter or Facebook:

 

Everything You Need to Know About the Facebook Subscribe Button:                   http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2012/02/facebook-subscribe-button/

 

 

Workforce collaboration in the network era: http://www.jarche.com/2012/02/workforce-collaboration-in-the-network-era/


GOOGLE

A Google Event- Solve for X: http://www.wesolveforx.com/

 

Google's PageRank algorithm used to model hydrogen bonds in water:                                                       http://www.gizmag.com/google-pagerank-hydrogen-bonds/21532/

 

“Scroogle.org Is Gone Forever” Says Site Owner: http://searchengineland.com/scroogle-org-is-gone-forever-says-site-owner-112245

 

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/


WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

 

You can't do the math without the words: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-math-words.html

 

Easily Pronounced Names May Make People More Likable: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/name-pronunciation-success/

 

Podcast: Saving Endangered Languages: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/podcast-saving-endangered-langua.html?ref=em


 

New $199 Nook Tablet to compete with Fire: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33198_7-57381627-286/new-$199-nook-tablet-to-compete-with-fire/
The New, New Nook B&N refreshes its barely-months-old tablet http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27595/?nlid=nlbus&nld=2012-02-24


 
SCIENCE

 

New Brain Connections Form in Clusters During Learning (for animals): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120219143214.htm

 

Is There a General Motivation Center in the Depths of the Brain?:

 

Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Works to Select What We (Want To) See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221212618.htm


Studying the Evolution of Life's Building Blocks: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120220090844.htm

How the Universe Came from Nothing: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42598


The scale of the Universe 2: http://htwins.net/scale2/

 

Origin of Photosynthesis Revealed: Genome Analysis of 'Living Fossil' Sheds Light On the Evolution of Plants: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221125409.htm


Newly discovered legless amphibians are horrifying:

Primitive and eyeless, world’s deepest land animal discovered:

TECHNOLOGY

 

Alta Devices: Finding a Solar Solution. Looking to enter a highly ­competitive solar market, Alta Devices hopes to use a combination of technological advances and manufacturing savvy to succeed where many others have crashed and burned: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39649/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-22

 

A Leap Forward for Plastic Solar Cells. An inexpensive, polymer-based device breaks a record, reaching 10.6 percent efficiency: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39763/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-02-23


Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal. A study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/39771/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2012-02-23

Duckweed: The Next Bio Fuel Revolution?: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42573

 

Plant Toughness: Key to Cracking Biofuels?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221125203.htm

 

Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems: http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=30231&section=33&topic=23


In honor of engineering:

 

Making Droplets Drop Faster: New Nanopatterned Surfaces Could Improve the Efficiency of Powerplants and Desalination Systems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223104110.htm

 

'Miracle Material' Graphene Is Thinnest Known Anti-Corrosion Coating: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222133125.htm

 

Single-Atom Transistor Is End of Moore's Law; May Be Beginning of Quantum Computing: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120219191244.htm




EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

 

The diplomacy of knowledge: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-diplomacy-of-knowledge/article2341017/

 

Why School Won't Prepare You to Be an Entrepreneur: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42637

 

Life's Messy. Train Your Brain to Adapt: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42522 .

Evolution and the Meaning of Life: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42559

 

22RoutesToExtraEnergy (personal energy): http://blog.strategicedge.co.uk/2012/02/22routestoextraenergy.html

 

The law of life is this: All things both good and evil are constructed from an image held in mind: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/02/20/the-law-of-life-is-this-all-things-both-good-and-evil-are-constructed-from-an-image-held-in-mind/

Why Americans Don't Elect Scientists: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42557




The Virtual Museum of Japanese Art:                             http://web-japan.org/museum/menu.html

 

Creativity* Duh, where do ideas come from?:http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/DPDgrZ

 

10 Writing Tips for Sounding Smart:              http://savedelete.com/10-writing-tips-for-sounding-smart.html

 

What Can Animals' Survival Instincts Tell Us About Understanding Human Emotion?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222132116.htm

 

Lies: Why They Are So Hard to Detect: http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/02/lies-why-they-are-so-hard-to-detect.php

Remarkable- the Respect Research Group: http://www.respectresearchgroup.org/cgi-bin/rrg.pl

Adultolescence: It's the Beginning of a New Age: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42586


BUSINESS

How to advance your web career: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2012/nt-2012-02-20-How-advance.htm


Questions to Teach Leadership and Management: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2012/02/questions-to-teach-leadership-and.html

 

Which Way Are You Dysfunctional?: http://davidkanigan.com/2012/02/23/which-of-the-12-dysfunctional-personal-productivity-personalities-do-you/#more-4248

 

Your Online Presence Is Your Résumé: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42644


HEALTH & MEDICINE

 

The Patient of the Future

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39636/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-02-21

Foundation Medicine: Personalizing Cancer Drugs

Foundation Medicine is offering a test that helps oncologists choose drugs targeted to the genetic profile of a patient's tumor cells. Has personalized cancer treatment finally arrived?:

 

New method for regrowing blood vessels developed: http://www.gizmag.com/blood-vessel-regrowth-u-texas/21520/

 

New vaccine is effective against all major strains of hepatitis C: http://www.gizmag.com/hepatitis-c-vaccine-developed/21553/

 

Depression Is Linked to Hyperconnectivity of Brain Regions, a New Study Shows: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/depression-is-linked-to-hyper-connectivity-of-brain-regions-a-new-study-shows0.html

 

The myth of the eight-hour sleep: http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/the_myth_of_the_eight_hour_sleep

 

10 Questions You Need to Ask About Colonoscopy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/esn-colonoscopy-expert.html (no problem with the questions, the answers wouldn’t make you merry)

 

Rainforest Plant Combats Multi-Resistant Bacterial Strains: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120220090614.htm

 


 

New Strategies for Treatment of Infectious Diseases:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120224110555.htm


Checking and treating for head lice: http://www.pulseuniform.com/treating-head-lice.asp

The Future of Medicine? Your Smartphone: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42647


FOOD & COOKING


All-Natural'? How to Guard Against 3 Misleading Food Labels: http://www.good.is/post/all-natural-how-to-guard-against-3-misleading-food-labels/

 


Fried Food Risks: Toxic Aldehydes Detected in Reheated Oil: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222093508.htm

 

7 of the Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But Aren't: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eatingwell/healthy-food_b_1189431.html?ncid=dynaldushpmg00000056


MISCELLANEA

 

Misfortune Teller.  A statistics professor says he can predict crime before it occurs:


SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Bob Rankin: do Hackers and Spammers Get Away With It?

http://askbobrankin.com/do_hackers_and_spammers_get_away_with_it.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JXJuijY9n8P6SL


Use a disposable email address to avoid junk mail: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/15/four-sites-for-disposable-email-addresses.htm?nl=1


VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Bob Rankin- how did my e-mail account hijacked?:

 

Chain letters, free money, and scare tactics on the Web: how to avoid falling for common hoaxes: http://websearch.about.com/b/2012/02/17/web-hoaxes-how-to-make-sure-you-dont-fall-for-em.htm?nl=1

 

Banks in the Crosshairs: 8 Ways Cybercriminals Outfox Strong Security Controls: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74461.html


WiFi

How much does it cost to manufacture an iPhone?: http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/22/the-iphone-manufacturing-cost-structure/

 

Brain Makes Call On Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120221124713.htm

 

The Smartphone Revolution Is Over (For Now): http://www.fastcompany.com/1819197/is-the-smartphone-at-an-evolutionary-dead-end-yup