We have begun the 5th day. The 5th day and the 5th night are the most important time periods in the long count cycle of the Mayan Calendar…
From calleman.com:
We are currently approaching the beginning of the Fifth day of the Galactic Underworld, November 24, 2006 and most people have experienced how things have heated up since the midpoint of the current night, May 27, 2006. In fact, the evolution of consciousness is fundamentally driven by the Light of future Heavens and Underworlds and so we are already now being influenced by it both in the form of world events and personal experiences.
In each of the Underworlds the Fifth day is the era of the breakthrough of the phenomena of that particular Underworld and from this we may have certain expectations of what is to come. The overall purpose of the current Galactic Underworld is to bring a balance between East and West as well as between the left rational and the right intuitive brain hemispheres. In short, as it will mean a significant downfall of western dominance in the world it will allow for the coming together of the cultures of the East and the West. Very likely, it will generate a downfall of the American dollar and ensuing altered economic relationships in the world.
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Filed under: Prediction
Prediction: I will be late for work. I will also begin to read a science fictin novel by philip k. dick. Lastly, I will have a large plan to figure out and I will have an idea of how to approach it. This will all come true the day of November 27, 2006 A.D.
Filed under: Science
Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury from PhysOrg.com
Nothing can possibly go wrong … go wrong … go wrong … The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid “model” of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can’t adapt.
Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself, a process that seems to resemble the way human and animal babies discover and manipulate their bodies. The ability to build this “self-model” is what makes it able to adapt to injury.
It begins by building a series of computer models of how its parts might be arranged, at first just putting them together in random arrangements. Then it develops commands it might send to its motors to test the models. A key step, the researchers said, is that it selects the commands most likely to produce different results depending on which model is correct. It executes the commands and revises its models based on the results. It repeats this cycle 15 times, then attempts to move forward.
“The machine does not have a single model of itself — it has many, simultaneous, competing, different, candidate models. The models compete over which can best explain the past experiences of the robot,” Lipson said.
The result is usually an ungainly but functional gait; the most effective so far is a sort of inchworm motion in which the robot alternately moves its legs and body forward.
Once the robot reaches that point, the experimenters remove part of one leg. When the robot can’t move forward, it again builds and tests 16 simulations to develop a new gait.
The researchers limited the robot to 16 test cycles with space exploration in mind. “You don’t want a robot on Mars thrashing around in the sand too much and possibly causing more damage,” Bongard explained.
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Ok, the dems won and Rumsfeld resigns. I still feel like I was cheated. Something still isn’t right. Weren’t there voter machine errors across the country? Why isn’t the media giving much a shit about it anymore? Why does everything seem so honky dory to them. No, there’s definitely something wrong here. But like always, it will be too late by the time we find out how….
from boingboing.net:
Report vote-machine problems to 1-800-OUR-VOTE
If you experience any irregularities in voting today, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE, the hotline for the National Campaign for Fair Elections. EFF lawyers and many others are standing by across the country to take legal action to remove malfunctioning voting machines, keep polls open, etc.
Filed under: Happenings
This Saturday, November 11, the white supremacist organization National Socialist Movement (NSM) is holding a hate rally on the south steps of the state Capitol Building
They’re a comin’ to Austin. From what I’ve heard, they’ll have much trouble to face just getting here. Austin may be the capitol of a red biggot state but the county always votes blue. They don’t call it an oasis for nothing. Austin is the capitol for hippies in all of the south. The opposition to the NSM is getting organized far beyond I’ve seen it in the two years I had been there.
To confront the Nazis and stand up for the liberty of migrants and all people meet at Republic Square Park (4th St. and Guadalupe) on Saturday, November 11, at 2:00pm. March to the Capitol at 2:30pm.
more info at austin indymedia
