Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Michel Folcault is a postmodernist who says:

  • There are no absolutes.
  • Truth, beauty, justice, reality, science; these are all social constructs which we can never truly define.
  • Language is a power struggle. Language is creation but also destruction. When we talk of something, we talk about it narrowly and thus limit what it is.
Another truth, Folcault is very hard to read.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

-OATS (Osteochondral Autologous Transplantation) is where a doctor takes healthy cartilage from a part of the knee that doesn't really need it, and transfers that cartilage to a place where knee has damaged or missing cartilage.

-CARTICEL or ACI is where a culture of cartilage is taken, grown and then grafted onto a place where cartilage is missing. This procedure is highly effective and therefore highly expensive.

-It would be good to get the ACI treatment but I'm afraid I'll have to go for OATS instead.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008


-Almost all forms of fossil fuels are chains of different hydrocarbons.
-Butane, propane, and other gases are just stands of hydrogen and carbon of varying length.
-Hydrocarbons are one of the easiest molecular structures to create.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

- The anterior taliofibular ligament is the most commonly torn and damaged ankle ligament.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

--Saudi Arabia has actually dealt fairly well with their Al Quida and Terrorist related problem. They have detained and killed most of their violent fundamentalist radicals as only a monarchy can.
-- The U.S. on the other hand has done a fairly bad job at ridding Iraq of its violent radical Muslims. Such a bad job that Iraq is now a danger to Saudi Arabia.
-- Funny how the monarchy can deal with a problem much better than the would-be democracy can. Be careful what you ask for.

Monday, March 17, 2008

-One space at the top of the rule in Microsoft word is equal to 3em. I'm sure everybody wanted to know that.

Monday, December 10, 2007

- A software agent is a program that has a degree of autonomy, meaning that it can evaluate itself and it's actions and make future decisions depending on it's past outcomes. Think of cell in your body responding to its environment.
- Multi agent is just like it sounds: many agents working together. This system, of linking many small agents of software together is one of the biggest hopes for developing artificial intelligence. think of all the cells (agents) in your body coming together and forming you (multi-agent).
-I love this stuff.