Fuzzy logic

Wow... I went to the Fuzzy logic lecture by Dr. Zadeh and it was pretty interesting actually. I mean, math that uses terms more, most and most squared? Where have you been all my life! I thought it was interesting that something that we always do, generalizing and whatnot, could actually be turned into a math! Dr. Zadeh's graphs were way over my head though with all the lines and 'young, old, most, more...' I was all, okay. And he seemed really cool too, even cracking some jokes. I am ashamed to say that I was starting to drift into dreamland on the last 15 minutes and I tried REALLY hard to hold on but... I lost the fight for a few seconds. It wasn't that it was boring, far from it, I thought it really was a revolutionary way of doing something, but I was up doing homework last night and didn't have my dose of caffeine for the day and my body was just demanding to shut down though my mind was all "NOOOOOOO!!! WAKE UP!!!" and sobbing quietly in the corner. Dr. Zadeh had a lot of... dignity. He posted up the criticism of his theory in his slideshow without thought and even said that his response to it was always 'take it as a compliment'. It was one of the AH HA! moments when he explained that fuzzy logic was the precise method of determining impercise values.... (or something like that he was WAY more eloquent lol) but I really am thinking of maybe asking for the slideshow even though I probably won't understand half of it.... But it was a real treat and I'm actually kind of glad I was coerced into going. Well not coerced but I was definitely provided incentive for going. lol. Thanks Professor Fry.

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every Sunday

I am going to this every sunday. I don't know what the fascination is. People send their secrets on a postcard anonymously and Frank Warren, the maker of the site, posts the secrets. Here's the site
postsecret.blogspot.com There's so many striking things that just have an impact when you see it, good or bad. These were the images that struck me...

Comfort in purchasing online

Well, I'm kind of comfortable purchasing online... I pay all of my mom's bills and i pay my bills online too. I love my banking online, and my AAFES shopping online. But now that I think of it I don't really know how safe it is. It always says 'you have a secure connection' or whatnot but really how safe is my information. People base their lives on stealing my identity and who says they can't or won't! *shudders* And yet, I'll probably buy something or use something or pay something... on the Internet. Because it IS comfortable and easier to use, and no hassle, and I guess I'm going to have to just pray to God that something bad doesn't happen....

Quote of the day...

“My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm..."

Victor Hugo

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~Lynetta

Love this song!! T-pain Buy you a drink

Yeah, been listening to this for a while now... lol.

Exit 133

Well a guest speaker came into class on Monday. The guest speaker was the creator of Exit133.com, Derek Young! He talked about how his site first started which was when he wanted to keep his friends up to date about a health problem. He posted EVERYDAY, which I thought was amazing because I struggle to post stuff about things I've been GIVEN topics about. lol. I thought it was completely surreal that he just nonchalantly said that he quit his job! I would be freaking out if I quit my job but Mr. Young had gotten advertisers for his site so maybe they'll keep him funded?

I also thought it was cool that through his site he made so many acquaintances and friends through the site and that he is wholly involved in his city through his site. I think its cool that he loves his town so much.

He built a complete community that expanded and expanded to include other people of like minds. That was simply amazing and an ideal I think...

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living”

Rudolf Steiner quotes

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Alibi

Yeah, just thought this was REALLY funny.

postsecret.blogspot.com

Wow. Just wow. To think that people responded and actually sent in their secrets... is just amazing. This site was AMAZING!!!

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

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~netta

Match.com

Okay, I usually don't knock things down until I try it and I'm not knocking this down. But who really knows someone who found their one true love on a matchmaking site? I saw an advertisement on TV for Match.com and it said "if you don't find your special someone in (I think) 6 months we'll give you 6 months of free service". Okay... -_-? What makes your person 'special'? Does that take into account if you break up with them in that 6 month span? I just really never got the Internet dating craze, I thought people were MORE paranoid nowadays? Wouldn't dating someone on the Internet be kind of risky? They're probably lying, you probably lied, they could be something completely different from what you thought they would be. They should probably make a scary movie about Internet dating with some stalker dude on it. Actually I think that some kind of Internet dating type of thing was in the new movie Perfect Stranger but I watched Disturbia on Friday instead of that. To get off topic, LOVED Disturbia! Very nicely done. Scared the crap out of me. lol. But really, I was just wondering what made people want to Internet date? And if they were satisfied with the results. Do they feel like their selling themselves, their best attributes, to try and find someone? Maybe true love has been found, but how rare or common is it? Or is it really just a way to meet that one person you were born to love? Newayz, just rambling after seeing the commercial.

“How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?”

Judy Tenuta

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~Lynetta Gray

New Slate?

I open up my mozilla browser to yahoo and low and behold. Their thinking of remaking the Internet! Something that has been around forever, something my sister has been born into, might be changed! I mean the Internet has always been changing, but that was it's content not the underlying structure of it! But the article makes a convincing argument. It says that the Internet just doesn't fit into what we want now. There were things added on to make it work as the years went by but it just made the Internet more complex. Instead of just ignoring the problems and finding ways around them they want to make a new Internet that will either run parallel with this Internet or replace our beloved Internet. I'm just wondering if this 'new and improved' Internet will be available for everyone though. Will a company make amazing breakthroughs and then sell access to this better version?

Here's the article if you want to read it.

SCRAPPING THE INTERNET

‘Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.’

— Marcus Aurelius

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Vanity Search and commerce search

Well, my vanity bubble is busted. lol. Well I put in Lynetta Gray and got a UWT dean's list thingy because I made the dean's list first semester. I tried my name in quotation marks and my myspace came up which was major creepy. I might... just MIGHT changed my 'about me' now that I've seen that anyone can read it. I tried my name with Japan, Misawa, and Okinawa. First Japan because I've lived there so... yeah. But that gave me nothing, then I tried Misawa because it was more specific and that showed nothing, and then I tried Okinawa because that was another place I had lived and that showed nothing. I don't know if I should be happy or what. I tried an alias, and it is a REAL alias. I use to go by the name Lynetta Thompson because my father's name is Thompson but when I took college classes and moved to WA I changed it to my real last name which is Gray. So I tried Lynetta Thompson but that showed nothing too. So yeah. Vanity is gone. Erased. Nada, Zip, Bam... or whatever. Commerc searching? Well, when I was looking for zune user reviews to see if there was any complaints about it. I want a zune so bad but what lured me was the fact that it has a built in fm player and you can customize the background album pics. Also the fact that it is hardy and less fingerprint prone. I drop stuff a lot and yeah, those fingerprints on the screen always bug the hell out of me. But the user reviews aren't that bad for the Zune so it looks like I'm gonna try to get it later... For research searching I use UWT's databases, for definition's dictionary.com is a must. Nowadays when I need to know a word I think "where's a computer?" not "where's a dictionary".

"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
Henri Bergson

~Lynetta Gray

Publishing I like...???

Well, does Myspace blogs count? lol. I don't really think I read much of onlilne publishing. I read some news on Yahoo, I watch some clips on Yahoo, ebaums, and youtube, but if I want to read a book I'll buy it. If I want to read a magazine I'll go to a bookstore. There's just something about turning the pages of a book while lounging in a bed or a couch that just seems... traditional. I think what might contribute to that feeling is the point that I grew up reading books out of... well... books. But I wonder if in this generation or in the next kids will grow up reading off the Internet and books will be things of the past. But I do use the internet for most of my needs. If I want to find something out, if I want to watch something, if I want to communicate, do research, one word. Internet.

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”

Charles Dickens

~Lynetta

CiScO

Well. I never said anything in my live and work in the virtual world class when the Professor was talking about Cisco Networking but... *sighs* I ... have taken... Cisco. lol. I took it in my junior year of high school through running start, semesters one and two. Still have all my notes, still have the book! lol, and all my papers from the class. I did pretty well, if I do say so myself. I got A's in both semesters. BUT, I don't remember much about TCP/IP though that's all we studied in the first semester. I know that the TCP/IP protocol is incredibly more complex then what people might think. I remember that it has 7 layers which go, from the lowest to the highest layer, something like, physical, data, network, transport... and I know the last or top layer is application but it's a little fuzzy. But it has been 6 years since I've even thought about it. I remember that e-mail has its own acronym. SMTP. I think it stands for simple mail transfer protocol but I could be wrong, and I know it has its own port. I know that the packets sent from computer and recieved by computers is also more complex then it sounds. I vaguely remember talks of time delays, sliding windows, MAC addresses, etc but I know there was a LOT more. I'm wondering if I should blow the dust off my notes and try to make sense of it?

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Chinese Proverb

~Lynetta

Word Sucks

I love word as much as the average "I've only used the Word program for... hmmmm... ALL MY TYPING NEEDS!" person but Oh My God. Is there some kind of trick to it when your trying to make a word document into an HTML? I don't know, maybe someone can explain the trick because it kept flying over my head. Maybe I'm just dense like that? Or stupid. Anyway the title of this blog was just me venting out my frustrations. I finally broke down and put it in notepad, saved as first.html, pushed save and bam! There it was. What... the... hell. I guess that's what I get for being a Word snob, but NO MORE! I will be more open to... the other applications.

"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
Charles Kettering

~Netta

Random 300 question

Okay, I don't know if I am terribly naive but in the 300 movie were those buff, drool worthy bodies au natural? I'm scared to know the answer. I mean just thinking they were cg'd brings images of potbellies that were fixed into those wonderful six packs. *sighs* Never mind, the beauty of the Internet! I really just had a random question and decided to post it, but I looked for the answer right in the middle of the post and low and behold! God has answered my prayers! The bodies were not cg'd but the actors actual bodies! YES! lol. Heres the link if you want to see the article. It's legit... I think.

300 bodies

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-C.S. Tallentyre

Email and postmail

Well. A really good difference between e-mail and paper mail is that e-mail seems to have developed its own language. I mean I can't 'rite like dis wen im riting a letta 2 grndma, she'd get a headache halfway thru' but with messenger, comments, and just e-mailing friends this language is considered the norm. It's also very addicting. When I got really into messenging and e-mailing I started to use shorthand in my everyday writing, which was extremely annoying to proofread. I guess another difference is that sometimes e-mail addresses serve no other purpose but to be a member of another site. With regular mail its one address for many memberships and many different uses. But you can have an e-mail account for your dell account, a seperate one for your amazon account, one for school, one for your banking account, this list can go on. And each can have a different secret question, a different password, a different emotion behind the name. Whereas a mailing address is where you live. Thats it. Your name, a bunch of numbers, a state city and zip code. I have a teenager address foe_all_da_h8terz_out_dere@.... and a 'when i was a dependent of an active duty military dad' lynettajt.... and a 'dependent of a retired military dad' lynettajg. Each address holds a different meaning to me. So I guess the making of an e-mail address requires more creativity, more emotion, and more emotional attachment than a post address with your name written at the top.

"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." Chinese Proverb

~Netta