[Thanks to metmom for the heads-up!]
Posted on 11/03/2010 1:32:28 PM PDT by The Comedian
[Thanks to metmom for the heads-up!]
I’ve learned one thing for sure.
Don’t cross the streams, Ray.
Important safety tip! Thanks, Egon.
Are you sure you need a reason?
Never mind the technical details.
When should I start running naked through the streets with my chainsaw?
You haven't started?
Sheesh, I don't know how I'd make it through the day if I didn't start my mornings with a cup of black coffee and a nude Homelite sprint.
I started last week.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for your kind words.
YOU KNOW better than anyone I’ve just been guessing 99%
You are a treasure.
PLEASE
do NOT sprint into your Dissertation defense that way.
Unless maybe your whole committee is made up of escapees from a hot tub at Esalen.
Even then . . .
Thank you. Not long to wait.
do NOT sprint into your Dissertation defense that way.
I don't know. As a friend pointed out, the committee will do whatever it takes to doctorize me just to get me the heck outta there as fast as possible. The nude chainsaw sprint might make it even quicker...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .
Maybe it’s time I talked to the Mrs.
Naw . . . she probably puts you up to such stunts! LOL.
© 2009 Jonathan Feinberg Terms of Use subscribeDoes this help make sense of it?
Here’s an ATS video and thread about a
“NUCLEAR FALSE FLAG ALERT”
the first half of November—maybe a few days away if I understood a quick scan accurately.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread626419/pg1
I'll be sure to keep an eye on The Comedian's posts.
BTW Comedian, Cliff never wants his analysis posted on any open forum, because he claims that it will foul his webbot runs (some sort of positive feedback, he sez). It seems to me to be a convenient way to keep people paying (which is his right, even though he seems like a flaming commie in some regards). Have you found this to be the case in your work? Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REy5hOep96E&feature=related
This has nothing to do with webbots - but is just about as understandable. A classic. Rockwell’s Encabulator. Sounds like it might be up your alley.
TC doesn’t post anything very elaborate; at least hasn’t so far.
A fairly terse summary is more his style.
He doesn’t post the source terms nor the cluster labels, per se; as far as I can see.
And, as noted, FR is his only publishing outlet, besides his . . . uhhhh . . . GROWING Dissertation. HINT! LOL.
IIRC, as in most statistics . . . when data sets get very large . . . and great terrabytes of data is a LARGE data set . . . isn’t there an enormous . . . don’t know the term . . . far from even a decent mathematician . . . an enormous pressure toward the mean?
I don’t recall if TC uses 300,000 emotionally laden search terms or what number . . . but that’s a ton of words.
And there’s likely a great tendency toward the mean usage of every word searched for.
Soooooooo, for any word, much less a great percentage of any cluster of word meanings to raise it’s head significantly above the mean in a dramatic way—there MUST be SOMETHING interesting going on.
I’m very skeptical that Google searches or any other fairly shallow and temporary flash sort of fad could be sufficient to cause the significant peaks TC is looking for—at least in THAT MANY KEY CLUSTERS.
I could certainly be wrong about that as I’m really about as ignorant as a doornob about it all. But that’s my sense.
I think the notion of Jung’s collective unconscious is nonsense from hell.
I do think there gets to be social and cultural and even trend gestalts that build, normally, fairly slowly in social groupings, neighborhoods, cities, counties, States, Nations.
Certainly national media and now the net have influences on such building gestalts, trends, clusters of belief, interest, concern.
Yet those influences all have an enormously weighty flywheel restraining and pulling constantly toward the historical means of belief, interest and concern.
PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY RESISTENT TO CHANGE. Some enjoy change that’s pleasant or exciting. Most resist change.
The RESISTENT-TO-CHANGE flywheel is probably the biggest one.
Another flywheel against a lot of this stuff is a fairly intense resistence to bad news, in any way that applies to every “me” in the country. That is—bad things will always happen to other people, over there. Virtually NO ONE wants to think it will happen to them. They prefer to sleep at night.
Yes, we have a LOT of Dispy Christians and others who have been studying Bible prophecy for decades as well as some others who have been studying the globalist conspiracy for decades. And, no doubt those groups and forces are having an impact in such words, themes, clusters on the net.
However, even there, as we have seen on FR—the biggest, most conservative site on the net—there’s INTENSE FLYWHEEL type pressures to resist even brazenly proven facts about such matters—from the top of the mods down.
All of which leads me to the conclusion that when TC’s software finds terms and more importantly, clusters of terms which are signalling something unique 2-4 standard deviations from the mean, I think it REALLY IS SIGNIFICANT.
Significant in WHAT WAYS and WHY are a whole set of other issues.
I come at this as a somewhat skilled and aware PhD of George Kelly’s Role Construct Theory and the clusters used in analyzing his construct grid—usually used with relationships but powerful with whatever.
That grid and cluster analysis is extremely sensitive to significant change yet extremely durable in terms of the basic structure—normally—over time.
I’m a little skeptical that TC’s software would be quite as quickly sensitive to significant change as the grid is, but that is PROBABLY WRONG to assume. I would guess that significant change in TC’s software analysis of terms on the web would take a massive growing shift—and that it would, in fact, be that time length of that trend change as well as the degree of trend change which would give him key data.
Anyway—enough guessing for now. I need to get some administrivia done for my classes this afternoon.
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