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Things I find fascinating.

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Site Playlist

While building this site, my music feed kept bringing me great songs. It was relentless and I found it, well, fascinating.
I saved them into this playlist in the order they appeared. I found them meaningful. They are on Spotify as the “Gentient.me” playlist below. Feel free to emulate the list (Same song version in the same sequence) onto other platforms. I can post it here.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4A0P0cNgFCZXMkNH3W3u0R?si=a4d42a8e84634506

If you want the full experience, play the music while you read this site.

Everything IS Getting faster

Ray Kurzweil says AI will be smarter than a human in 2029. This talk is how he convinced me he is right. He has discovered that everything that uses information technology is advancing at an exponential rate. I find his arguments and data absolutely convincing. The implications of this are astounding. It is almost like he discovered a new "force" like gravity that acts around us all the time, but we didn't know is there. How will we adjust? I have no idea.

Chaos = Creativity

James Gleick's book, "Chaos: Making a New Science", an international best-seller, chronicled the development of chaos theory and made the Butterfly Effect a widely used phrase. This topic explores what it meant to me. Chaos is different from randomness and I had to see it for myself. I wrote a java program to simulate it. This topic includes some videos and images that show the difference and show how creativity can come from the heart of chaos. After reading this book, I felt I knew where the creativity in the universe comes from.

There is also the java code for my simulation to play with if you are interested.

Weighting for Godot

For two years I tried to lose weight. Then I lost it in 6 weeks. This topic is how, and there is nothing to buy, just things to know. "Waiting for Godot" is a classic play in which the characters are waiting for someone named Godot, but he never arrives. My experience with weight loss had a similar "never going to happen" feel to it. I tried and failed at dieting for 2 years, and then I went from 188 lbs to 160 in 6 weeks. It was easy. This topic tells you how. Twenty years later I am 145 lbs, because I want to be. I have complete control of my weight. I think everyone really should have this knowledge, so I wrote up my experience and findings.

Morganics

I have been helping a friend develop a soil supplement business. He uncovered a way to use nature's own mechanisms to build plant health by triggering the plant's immune response to make it into a "super-plant". It works on all plants; yes weeds too. The mechanism is fully organic. The results are astounding. Most crops have yields increased by 25-30% with longer shelf life and the entire crop becomes fully organic. With this technology, we can increase the global food supply by at least 10% and shift world-wide agriculture to be fully organic. Wow.