my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

divergent/convergence/disregardful

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[mayavin]

Financial analysis refers to an assessment of the viability, stability and profitability of a business, sub-business or project.

[the fire elf]

conventionally analysis

base, be based, be contingent, be dependent, be founded, be supported, be upheld, bottom, count, establish, found, ground, hang, hinge, lie, predicate, rely, reside, stay, turn

on the ground's fiscal relationship to the individual

a few coins as gravity ensures

a reason to stay

a reason to go

all there*, analytical, balanced, calm, cerebral, circumspect, cognitive, collected, cool*, deductive, deliberate, discerning, discriminating, enlightened, far-sighted, impartial, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, knowing, level-headed, logical, lucid, normal, objective, perspicacious, philosophic, prudent, ratiocinative, reasonable, reasoning, reflective, sagacious, sane, sensible, sober, sound, stable, synthetic, thinking, thoughtful, together, well-advised, wise

Antonyms: illogical, irrational

[the fire elf]

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Bandwagon effect — the tendency to do (or believe) things
because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias.

Base rate fallacy — ignoring available statistical data in favor of particulars

Bias blind spot — the tendency not to compensate for one's own cognitive biases.

Choice-supportive bias — the tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were.

Confirmation bias — the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.

Congruence bias — the tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of possible alternative hypotheses.

Contrast effect — the enhancement or diminishment of a weight or other measurement when compared with recently observed contrasting object.

Déformation professionnelle — the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one's own profession, forgetting any broader point of view.

Distinction bias - the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

Endowment effect — "the fact that people often demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it".

Extreme aversion — the tendency to avoid extremes, being more likely to choose an option if it is the intermediate choice.

Focusing effect — prediction bias occurring when people place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.

Framing — by using a too narrow approach or description of the situation or issue. also Framing effect: drawing different conclusions based on how data are presented

Hyperbolic discounting — the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, the closer to the present both payoffs are.

Illusion of control — the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they clearly cannot.

Impact bias — the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.

Information bias — the tendency to seek information even when it cannot affect action.

Irrational escalation — the tendency to make irrational decisions based upon rational decisions in the past or to justify actions already taken.

Loss aversion — "the disutility of giving up an object is greater than the utility associated with acquiring it". (see also sunk cost effects and Endowment effect).

Mere exposure effect — the tendency for people to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them.

Moral credential effect — the tendency of a track record of non-prejudice to increase subsequent prejudice.

Need for closure — the need to reach a verdict in important matters; to have an answer and to escape the feeling of doubt and uncertainty. The personal context (time or social pressure) might increase this bias.

Neglect of probability — the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.

Omission bias — The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).

Outcome bias — the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.

Planning fallacy — the tendency to underestimate task-completion times.

Post-purchase rationalization — the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.

Pseudocertainty effect — the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.

Reactance - the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain your freedom of choice.

Selective perception — the tendency for expectations to affect perception.

Status quo bias — the tendency for people to like things to stay relatively the same (see also Loss aversion and Endowment effect).

Unit bias — the tendency to want to finish a given unit of a task or an item with strong effects on the consumption of food in particular

Von Restorff effect — the tendency for an item that "stands out like a sore thumb" to be more likely to be remembered than other items.

Zero-risk bias — preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk

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Ambiguity effect — the avoidance of options for which missing information makes the probability seem "unknown".

Anchoring — the tendency to rely too heavily, or "anchor," on a past reference or on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Attentional bias — neglect of relevant data when making judgments of a correlation or association.

Availability heuristic — estimating what is more likely by what is more available in memory, which is biased toward vivid, unusual, or emotionally charged examples.

Availability cascade - a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse (or "repeat something long enough and it will become true").

Clustering illusion — the tendency to see patterns where actually none exist.

Conjunction fallacy — the tendency to assume that specific conditions are more probable than general ones.

Gambler's fallacy — the tendency to assume that individual random events are influenced by previous random events. For example, "I've flipped heads with this coin five times consecutively, so the chance of tails coming out on the sixth flip is much greater than heads."

Hindsight bias — sometimes called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect, the inclination to see past events as being predictable.

Illusory correlation — beliefs that inaccurately suppose a relationship between a certain type of action and an effect.

Ludic fallacy — the analysis of chance related problems with the narrow frame of games. Ignoring the complexity of reality, and the non-gaussian distribution of many things.

Neglect of prior base rates effect — the tendency to neglect known odds when reevaluating odds in light of weak evidence.

Observer-expectancy effect — when a researcher expects a given result and therefore unconsciously manipulates an experiment or misinterprets data in order to find it (see also subject-expectancy effect).

Optimism bias — the systematic tendency to be over-optimistic about the outcome of planned actions.

Overconfidence effect — the tendency to overestimate one's own abilities.

Positive outcome bias — a tendency in prediction to overestimate the probability of good things happening to them (see also wishful thinking, optimism bias and valence effect).

Primacy effect — the tendency to weigh initial events more than subsequent events.

Recency effect — the tendency to weigh recent events more than earlier events (see also peak-end rule).

Regression toward the mean disregarded — the tendency to expect extreme performance to continue.

Reminiscence bump — the effect that people tend to recall more personal events from adolescence and early adulthood than from other lifetime periods.

Rosy retrospection — the tendency to rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred.

Stereotyping — expecting a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

Subadditivity effect — the tendency to judge probability of the whole to be less than the probabilities of the parts.

Telescoping effect — the effect that recent events appear to have occurred more remotely and remote events appear to have occurred more recently.

Texas sharpshooter fallacy — the fallacy of selecting or adjusting a hypothesis after the data is collected, making it impossible to test the hypothesis fairly.

Hawthorne effect — refers to a phenomenon which is thought to occur when people observed during a research study temporarily change their behavior or performance (this can also be referred to as demand characteristics).

Actor-observer bias — the tendency for explanations of other individuals' behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their situation (see also fundamental attribution error). However, this is coupled with the opposite tendency for the self in that explanations for our own behaviors overemphasize the influence of our situation and underemphasize the influence of our own personality.

Dunning-Kruger effect — "...when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Instead, ...they are left with the mistaken impression that they are doing just fine."(see also Lake Wobegon effect, and overconfidence effect).

Egocentric bias — occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would.

Forer effect (aka Barnum Effect) — the tendency to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. For example, horoscopes.

False consensus effect — the tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.

Fundamental attribution error — the tendency for people to over-emphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the same behavior (see also actor-observer bias, group attribution error, positivity effect, and negativity effect).

Halo effect — the tendency for a person's positive or negative traits to "spill over" from one area of their personality to another in others' perceptions of them (see also physical attractiveness stereotype).

Herd instinct Common tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.

Illusion of asymmetric insight — people perceive their knowledge of their peers to surpass their peers' knowledge of them.

Illusion of transparency — people overestimate others' ability to know them, and they also overestimate their ability to know others.

Ingroup bias — the tendency for people to give preferential treatment to others they perceive to be members of their own groups.

Just-world phenomenon — the tendency for people to believe that the world is "just" and therefore people "get what they deserve."

Lake Wobegon effect — the human tendency to report flattering beliefs about oneself and believe that one is above average (see also worse-than-average effect, and overconfidence effect).

Notational bias — a form of cultural bias in which a notation induces the appearance of a nonexistent natural law.

Outgroup homogeneity bias — individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.

Projection bias — the tendency to unconsciously assume that others share the same or similar thoughts, beliefs, values, or positions.

Self-serving bias — the tendency to claim more responsibility for successes than failures. It may also manifest itself as a tendency for people to evaluate ambiguous information in a way beneficial to their interests (see also group-serving bias).

Self-fulfilling prophecy — the tendency to engage in behaviors that elicit results which will (consciously or not) confirm our beliefs.

System justification — the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo, i.e. existing social, economic, and political arrangements tend to be preferred, and alternatives disparaged sometimes even at the expense of individual and collective self-interest.

Trait ascription bias — the tendency for people to view themselves as relatively variable in terms of personality, behavior and mood while viewing others as much more predictable.

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Beneffectance: perceiving oneself as responsible for desirable outcomes but not responsible for undesirable ones. (Term coined by Greenwald (1980))

Consistency bias: incorrectly remembering one's past attitudes and behaviour as resembling present attitudes and behaviour.

Cryptomnesia: a form of misattribution where a memory is mistaken for imagination.

Egocentric bias: recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g. remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as being bigger than it was

False memory

Hindsight bias: filtering memory of past events through present knowledge, so that those events look more predictable than they actually were; also known as the 'I-knew-it-all-along effect'.

Selective Memory

Suggestibility: a form of misattribution where ideas suggested by a questioner are mistaken for memory.

[the fire elf]

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[the fire elf]

what of bringing your influence into a range you can see

who makes your bread when you do not

yeast, salt, flour, sugar

organic carbon

lowtech

nature eats the same day in day out

hippos on grass

they get rich

reposition disproportionate power distributions

begin with yourself

imperfect

inplay

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wholewise implausible, percentage installible

[the fire elf]

hollow culture, shock therapy

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When an individual is wounded, a set of complex biochemical events takes place in a closely orchestrated cascade to repair the damage. These events overlap in time and may be artificially categorized into separate steps: the inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling phases (Some authors consider healing to take place in four or more stages, by splitting different parts inflammation or proliferation into separate steps.). In the inflammatory phase, bacteria and debris are phagocytized and removed, and factors are released that cause the migration and division of cells involved in the proliferative phase.

The proliferative phase is characterized by angiogenesis, collagen deposition, granulation tissue formation, epithelialization, and wound contraction. In angiogenesis, new blood vessels grow from endothelial cells. In fibroplasia and granulation tissue formation, fibroblasts grow and form a new, provisional extracellular matrix by excreting collagen and fibronectin.

In epithelialization, epithelial cells crawl across the wound bed to cover it. In contraction, the wound is made smaller by the action of myofibroblasts, which establish a grip on the wound edges and contract themselves using a mechanism similar to that in smooth muscle cells. When the cells' roles are close to complete, unneeded cells undergo apoptosis.

[the fire elf]

Clutter may refer to any of the following:

* Excessive physical disorder:
o A confusing or disorderly state or collection; or the creation thereof. Excessive, unnecessary or uncontrolled clutter can be a symptom of compulsive hoarding.
o A type of light pollution
o Clutter (radar): Unwanted echoes in electronic systems.
o Clutter (marketing): The extreme amount of advertisements or products the average American consumer comes into contact with.

* Other:
o A clutter in mathematics is a kind of collection of sets
o In computing, clutter is an animation library.
o Cluttering, a communication disorder

[mayavin]

Diogenes syndrome is named after the alleged behavior (not necessarily the ideals) of Diogenes of Sinope. Diogenes was never known to have hoarded items; he lived as an ascetic with only a robe and (for a time) a bowl.

The term Culture War is used to describe the disagreements over social and political issues between the Christian right and its more liberal and secular opponents

[the fire elf]

...found the dead body of Langley Collyer just ten feet from where Homer had died.
His partially decomposed body was being eaten by rats. A suitcase and three huge bundles of newspapers covered his body.
Langley had been crawling through their newspaper tunnel to bring food to his paralyzed brother when one of his own booby traps fell down and crushed him.
Homer, blind and paralyzed, starved to death several days later.

[mayavin]

could i vow to carry lit candles all the way across the middle to the coast

with money my mother would give me to stay for rent

and cleft from her yet again

merely to practice

more Diogenes syndrometartarackDiogenes syndrome

on the boardwalk

and move incencse for fairway?

i'll get there

sooner and later

[mayavin]

and the use of monetary kinesis must surely be connected to the collective understanding that money is to be used
and directly connected to every resultant therewith

mmmm... that expensive corn taste good?

beans and rice, beans and rice

[the fire elf]

imagine there are wyas of doing things with money
and there are ways of doing what can't be done likethat

imagine all those fools
doing money things in the name of one who chose different

fools...

did they not catch the reference to the coin,
referred to the image thereon, ignoring the rest
give em his image back!

fools

they make-beleive-make-beleive-make-believe

what, what, whhat!..

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a darshan

an early attempt devoid of much body language

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what is this sitting between corners to sit between corners business?

what facetime demands where?

[the fire elf]

if you could trace a thousand and one influences back to a source, and the source(his is an early example of a video game character showing emotion, allowing players to identify with it) what extensive inground whould havebeen instilled with"Davis and Lee had implemented the pyramid level and enemies, but were unsure of what the Q*berts goal would be"

[mayavin]

soo much of art is thoughtstream R&D...

please, do your part

don't merely show up in faux fur and paint and yell WOOT, or Muah

[Teo del Fuego]

jadis, si je me souvien bien...

[mayavin]

formerly, if I souvien well…


the life density of a rainforest is greater than the lifedensity in the desert, but perhaps not more dense than from within human form

[mayavin]

so if you make nice eco friendly organic plant food for a living,

are you feeding little starving greens;

or making a big ol' machine eat shit till it dies?