This document provides background information on a practical guide to free-energy devices. It discusses the author's interest in free-energy which began with a 1980s UK television program. It notes the lack of specific, practical information available on free-energy systems at the time. The author then wrote the first edition of this guide in 2005 to share what he had learned from his research in order to help others. The guide is intended as an introduction to the subject and covers various free-energy devices and inventors, but is not a complete resource. It aims to provide concise descriptions of devices and how they operate rather than extensive mathematical analysis.
In this Presentation I am presenting the different way of electricity beyond your expectations. Here I am showing the origin of the Electricity including generation, transmission and distribution. I hope that you like this very much.
Yours Krishna.........
Its an analysis presentation about generator- its types, usage, basic parts and idea of its futuristic development. Feel free to read and share with others. You may also find your desired presentation topics on my other slides.
Thank you.
In this Presentation I am presenting the different way of electricity beyond your expectations. Here I am showing the origin of the Electricity including generation, transmission and distribution. I hope that you like this very much.
Yours Krishna.........
Its an analysis presentation about generator- its types, usage, basic parts and idea of its futuristic development. Feel free to read and share with others. You may also find your desired presentation topics on my other slides.
Thank you.
Thane C. Heins
President and CEO, Potential +/- Difference Inc.
Email 1: thaneh@potentialdifference.ca
Cell: 613.898.1131
Potential +/- Difference Inc. - Pioneering Electric Vehicle Regenerative Acceleration Technology
Charging Ahead...
The Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries namely the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait have embraced changes to their power sectors with more
private sectors participation as a result of increasing demands for power due to rapid population,
commercial and industrial growth in their respective countries. Realizing the need for more reliable
GCC power grids with power exchange possibilities, the Governments of the GCC countries have
established the GCC Interconnection Authority to construct and operate a 400 kV interconnection
backbone grid between the six Member States (MS).
The GCC Interconnection network phase 1 was completed and successfully commissioned during the
first quarter of the year 2009. Phase 1 network consists of seven 400 kV substations interconnecting
the independent Member States’ Power Systems (MSPS): Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar
through a 900 km 400 kV overhead lines and a 51 km 400 KV submarine and land cables. This GCC
Interconnection phase I combines long distance high voltage overhead lines, high voltage cables and a
HVDC back-to-back substation. The HVDC connects the 50 Hz interconnected networks of the power
systems in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman with the 60 Hz system in Saudi Arabia.
The GCC Interconnection network phase 3 successfully completed when UAE 400 kV network was
connected to the GCC Interconnection network Phase 1 through double circuits 400 kV overhead
lines, and synchronised for the first time with Phase I network on April 2011 and Oman grid was
connected to UAE grid through double circuits 220 kV overhead lines on October 2011.
In order to prepare for the safe, secure and stable operation of the combined GCC interconnection
including UAE and Oman, a number of detailed operational studies were performed including system
studies, electromagnetic transients, protection studies, frequency control studies, and more. The paper
presents the results of these operational studies and the approach the operations issues arising from the
results of the studies were addressed
Synchronous generator is a machine which converts mechanical power into electrical power. Three phase synchronous machine are used in thermal , hydro power plant to generate the electrical. Synchronous generator is used to generate the large number of electricity
This slideshow contain a detailed explanation of the following topics:
(1) Condition of generation of net torque.
(2) Concept of Electrical & Mechanical Angle
(3) Equation of induced emf
(4) B-wave
(5) B-wave for uniform and non-uniform air gap
(6) Distributed winding
(7) Short pitched winding
ReGen-X Concentric Multi-Function Tricoil Intellectual Property Presentation
By: Potential +/- Difference Inc.
April 25, 2021
Preface:
This document explains the integration of the ReGenX Generator Coil, ReGen-X Motor Coil, ReGen-
X Quantum Motor Coil and conventional motor/generator coil into a single Multi-Function Tricoil IP.
Background:
All conventional motor/generator coils in use today in electric vehicles (EVs) have only two functions.
The first is Motor Operation where the motor coil receives electric input power from the EV's batteries and converts it into Mechanical Output Power which accelerates the EV. Positive Work is performed by the motor coil, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased.
The second is Generator Operation where the generator coil receives Mechanical Input Power from the stored Kinetic Energy of the EV and converts it to electric energy which is stored chemically in the batteries.
Negative Work is performed by the generator coil (a Counter Electromagnetic Torque is produced) and the EV is decelerated during regenerative braking where the Kinetic Energy of the EV is reduced.
The ReGenX Multi-Function Tricoil Intellectual Property includes the same operations of the conventional motor/generator coils but it adds six new operations including:
• EV Regenerative Acceleration Generator operation, where Positive Work is performed the EV is accelerated, the EV's Kinetic Energy is increased while the EV's batteries are being recharged. The more power delivered to the EV's batteries the more the EV is accelerated.
• EV Regenerative Acceleration Motor operation, where Positive Work is performed, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased while the EV's batteries are being recharged.
• ReGen-X Quantum Motor operation, where Positive Work is performed, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased but zero input energy is required from the EV's batteries.
Thane C. Heins
President and CEO, Potential +/- Difference Inc.
Email 1: thaneh@potentialdifference.ca
Cell: 613.898.1131
Potential +/- Difference Inc. - Pioneering Electric Vehicle Regenerative Acceleration Technology & Charging Ahead...
Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles. The electromagnetic force usually exhibits electromagnetic fields such as electric fields, magnetic fields, and light, and is one of the four fundamental interactions (commonly called forces) in nature. The other three fundamental interactions are the strong interaction, the weak interaction, and gravitation.[1] At high energy the weak force and electromagnetic force are unified as a single electroweak force.
ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING COURSE
Lect 2- Electric Machines
Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel for best training lectures:
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Rotor Resistance Control of Wound Rotor Induction Generator (WRIG) using PSCA...Anmol Dwivedi
The primary objective of the carried out mini-project is to develop a variable slip (Type-2) wind turbine. Models in this report include representations of general turbine aerodynamics, the mechanical drive-train, and the electrical characteristics of the induction generator as well as the control systems used. This mini-project was part of the course Wind And Solar Electrical Systems (EEPE-32) at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy), India.
In the modern world, energy is needed for almost everything. It's
almost impossible to imagine life without electric lights, without
televisions, cell phones, laptop and desktop computers and more.
Energy is consumed by almost
every device that makes your life
easier and more comfortable. It is also needed by lifesaving devices, such as heart defibrillators, nebulizers and an uncountable host of other things.
Energy is most often used in the context of energy resources, their development, consumption, depletion, and conservation. Since economic activities such as
manufacturing and transportation can be energy intensive, energy efficiency, energy dependence, energy security and price are key concerns.
In short, without energy, modern life would be impossible. However, all of that energy comes at a cost. The environment pays dearly for our energy generation, as do the
animals and plants that share this world with us. In addition, energy generation comes at a financial cost to you - constantly mounting electric bills are another hallmark of the
"modern age."
Thane C. Heins
President and CEO, Potential +/- Difference Inc.
Email 1: thaneh@potentialdifference.ca
Cell: 613.898.1131
Potential +/- Difference Inc. - Pioneering Electric Vehicle Regenerative Acceleration Technology
Charging Ahead...
The Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries namely the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait have embraced changes to their power sectors with more
private sectors participation as a result of increasing demands for power due to rapid population,
commercial and industrial growth in their respective countries. Realizing the need for more reliable
GCC power grids with power exchange possibilities, the Governments of the GCC countries have
established the GCC Interconnection Authority to construct and operate a 400 kV interconnection
backbone grid between the six Member States (MS).
The GCC Interconnection network phase 1 was completed and successfully commissioned during the
first quarter of the year 2009. Phase 1 network consists of seven 400 kV substations interconnecting
the independent Member States’ Power Systems (MSPS): Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar
through a 900 km 400 kV overhead lines and a 51 km 400 KV submarine and land cables. This GCC
Interconnection phase I combines long distance high voltage overhead lines, high voltage cables and a
HVDC back-to-back substation. The HVDC connects the 50 Hz interconnected networks of the power
systems in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman with the 60 Hz system in Saudi Arabia.
The GCC Interconnection network phase 3 successfully completed when UAE 400 kV network was
connected to the GCC Interconnection network Phase 1 through double circuits 400 kV overhead
lines, and synchronised for the first time with Phase I network on April 2011 and Oman grid was
connected to UAE grid through double circuits 220 kV overhead lines on October 2011.
In order to prepare for the safe, secure and stable operation of the combined GCC interconnection
including UAE and Oman, a number of detailed operational studies were performed including system
studies, electromagnetic transients, protection studies, frequency control studies, and more. The paper
presents the results of these operational studies and the approach the operations issues arising from the
results of the studies were addressed
Synchronous generator is a machine which converts mechanical power into electrical power. Three phase synchronous machine are used in thermal , hydro power plant to generate the electrical. Synchronous generator is used to generate the large number of electricity
This slideshow contain a detailed explanation of the following topics:
(1) Condition of generation of net torque.
(2) Concept of Electrical & Mechanical Angle
(3) Equation of induced emf
(4) B-wave
(5) B-wave for uniform and non-uniform air gap
(6) Distributed winding
(7) Short pitched winding
ReGen-X Concentric Multi-Function Tricoil Intellectual Property Presentation
By: Potential +/- Difference Inc.
April 25, 2021
Preface:
This document explains the integration of the ReGenX Generator Coil, ReGen-X Motor Coil, ReGen-
X Quantum Motor Coil and conventional motor/generator coil into a single Multi-Function Tricoil IP.
Background:
All conventional motor/generator coils in use today in electric vehicles (EVs) have only two functions.
The first is Motor Operation where the motor coil receives electric input power from the EV's batteries and converts it into Mechanical Output Power which accelerates the EV. Positive Work is performed by the motor coil, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased.
The second is Generator Operation where the generator coil receives Mechanical Input Power from the stored Kinetic Energy of the EV and converts it to electric energy which is stored chemically in the batteries.
Negative Work is performed by the generator coil (a Counter Electromagnetic Torque is produced) and the EV is decelerated during regenerative braking where the Kinetic Energy of the EV is reduced.
The ReGenX Multi-Function Tricoil Intellectual Property includes the same operations of the conventional motor/generator coils but it adds six new operations including:
• EV Regenerative Acceleration Generator operation, where Positive Work is performed the EV is accelerated, the EV's Kinetic Energy is increased while the EV's batteries are being recharged. The more power delivered to the EV's batteries the more the EV is accelerated.
• EV Regenerative Acceleration Motor operation, where Positive Work is performed, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased while the EV's batteries are being recharged.
• ReGen-X Quantum Motor operation, where Positive Work is performed, the EV is accelerated and its Kinetic Energy is increased but zero input energy is required from the EV's batteries.
Thane C. Heins
President and CEO, Potential +/- Difference Inc.
Email 1: thaneh@potentialdifference.ca
Cell: 613.898.1131
Potential +/- Difference Inc. - Pioneering Electric Vehicle Regenerative Acceleration Technology & Charging Ahead...
Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles. The electromagnetic force usually exhibits electromagnetic fields such as electric fields, magnetic fields, and light, and is one of the four fundamental interactions (commonly called forces) in nature. The other three fundamental interactions are the strong interaction, the weak interaction, and gravitation.[1] At high energy the weak force and electromagnetic force are unified as a single electroweak force.
ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING COURSE
Lect 2- Electric Machines
Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel for best training lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkUJFOsyZG1E1LDWzUr_hw
Rotor Resistance Control of Wound Rotor Induction Generator (WRIG) using PSCA...Anmol Dwivedi
The primary objective of the carried out mini-project is to develop a variable slip (Type-2) wind turbine. Models in this report include representations of general turbine aerodynamics, the mechanical drive-train, and the electrical characteristics of the induction generator as well as the control systems used. This mini-project was part of the course Wind And Solar Electrical Systems (EEPE-32) at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy), India.
In the modern world, energy is needed for almost everything. It's
almost impossible to imagine life without electric lights, without
televisions, cell phones, laptop and desktop computers and more.
Energy is consumed by almost
every device that makes your life
easier and more comfortable. It is also needed by lifesaving devices, such as heart defibrillators, nebulizers and an uncountable host of other things.
Energy is most often used in the context of energy resources, their development, consumption, depletion, and conservation. Since economic activities such as
manufacturing and transportation can be energy intensive, energy efficiency, energy dependence, energy security and price are key concerns.
In short, without energy, modern life would be impossible. However, all of that energy comes at a cost. The environment pays dearly for our energy generation, as do the
animals and plants that share this world with us. In addition, energy generation comes at a financial cost to you - constantly mounting electric bills are another hallmark of the
"modern age."
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Critical thinking is the kind of thinking that specifically looks for problems and mistakes. Regular people don't do a lot of it. However, if you want to be a great tester, you need to be a great critical thinker, too. Critically thinking testers save projects from dangerous assumptions and ultimately from disasters. The good news is that critical thinking is not just innate intelligence or a talent—it's a learnable and improvable skill you can master. Michael Bolton shares the specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking and presents realistic testing puzzles that help you practice and increase your thinking skills. Critical thinking begins with just three questions—Huh? Really? and So?—that kick start your brain to analyze specifications, risks, causes, effects, project plans, and anything else that puzzles you. Join Michael for this interactive, hands-on session and practice your critical thinking skills. Study and analyze product behaviors and experience new ways to identify, isolate, and characterize bugs.
Body Count - Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”Lex Pit
Body Count
Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror”
Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan
Four Million Muslims Killed in US-NATO Wars
A March report by Physicians for Social Responsibility calculates the body count of the Iraq War at around 1.3 million, and possibly as many as 2 million. However, the numbers of those killed in Middle Eastern wars could be much higher. The actual death toll could reach as high as 4 million if one includes not just those killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the victims of the sanctions against Iraq, which left about 1.7 million more dead, half of them children, according to figures from the United Nations.
In the wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. not only killed millions, but systematically destroyed the infrastructure necessary for healthy, prosperous life in those countries, then used rebuilding efforts as opportunities for profit, rather than to benefit the occupied populations. To further add to the genocidal pattern of behavior, there is ample evidence of torture and persistent rumors of sexual assault from the aftermath of Iraq’s fall. It appears likely the U.S. has contributed to further destabilization and death in the region by supporting the rise of the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria by arming rebel groups on all sides of the conflict.
Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985, all from MIT. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation: developing a computational model for the human auditory system, understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems for human computer interactions, as well as applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to gene predictions. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, and has been invited to give keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Master's and PhD theses at MIT. In 2012, Dr. Seneff was elected Fellow of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA).
In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology. She is concentrating mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. Since 2011, she has written over a dozen papers (7 as first author) in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer, autism, cardiovascular diseases), analysis and search of databases of drug side effects using NLP techniques, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.
Quantum phenomena modeled by interactions between many classical worldsLex Pit
Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-André Deckert, and Howard M. Wiseman
ABSTRACT
We investigate whether quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a mechanical theory, in which there is a huge, but finite, number of classical “worlds,” and quantum effects arise solely from a universal interaction between these worlds, without reference to any wave function. Here, a “world” means an entire universe with well-defined properties, determined by the classical configuration of its particles and fields. In our approach, each world evolves deterministically, probabilities arise due to ignorance as to which world a given observer occupies, and we argue that in the limit of infinitely many worlds the wave function can be recovered (as a secondary object) from the motion of these worlds. We introduce a simple model of such a “many interacting worlds” approach and show that it can reproduce some generic quantum phenomena—such as Ehrenfest’s theorem, wave packet spreading, barrier tunneling, and zero-point energy—as a direct consequence of mutual repulsion between worlds. Finally, we perform numerical simulations using our approach. We demonstrate, first, that it can be used to calculate quantum ground states, and second, that it is capable of reproducing, at least qualitatively, the double-slit interference phenomenon.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041013
The Project Gutenberg EBook of On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
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Get smart a look at the current relationship between hollywood and the ciaLex Pit
Government agencies have long employed entertainment industry liaisons to work with Hollywood in order to improve their public image. For instance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation established its entertainment office in the 1930s and has used its influence to bolster the image of the bureau in radio programs, films and television shows such as G-Men (1935), The Untouchables (1959–1963), The FBI Story (1959), and The F.B.I. (1965–1979). In 1947, the Department of Defense established its first entertainment industry liaison, and now, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, and the US Coast Guard all have Motion Picture and Television Offices or official assistants to the media on their payroll. Even government centers are now working with Tinsel Town, as evidenced by Hollywood, Health, and Society—a program associated with the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center and funded in part by the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health to provide the entertainment industry with information for health-related story lines
The search for the manchurian candidate: the CIA and mind control The secret ...Lex Pit
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate:
Marks' award-winning 1979 book, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate describes a wide range of CIA activities during the Cold War, including unethical drug experiments in the context of a mind-control and chemical interrogation research program. The book is based on 15,000 pages of CIA documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and many interviews, including those with retired members of the psychological division of the CIA, and the book describes some of the work of psychologists in this effort with a whole chapter on the Personality Assessment System.
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).
Matter, mind and higher dimensions – Bernard CarrLex Pit
Prof Bernard Carr
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queen Mary, University of London
Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions.
Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction.
Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension.
“The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract.
Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in.
“The only non-physical entities in the universe of which we have any experience are mental ones, and … the existence of paranormal phenomena suggests that mental entities have to exist in some sort of space,” Carr wrote.
The other-dimensional space we enter in dreams overlaps with the space where memory exists. Carr says telepathy signals a communal mental space and clairvoyance also contains a physical space. “Non-physical percepts have attributes of externality,” he wrote in his book “Matter, Mind, and Higher Dimensions.”
He builds on previous theories, including the Kaluza–Klein theory, which unifies the fundamental forces of gravitation and electromagnetism. The Kaluza–Klein theory also envisions a 5-dimensional space.
In “M-theory,” there are 11 dimensions. In superstring theory, there are 10. Carr understands this as a 4-dimensional “external” space—meaning these are the four dimensions in Einstein’s relativity theory—and a 6- or 7-dimensional “internal” space—meaning these dimensions relate to psychic and other “intangible” phenomena.
Superinteligência artificial e a singularidade tecnológicaLex Pit
Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão em torno da aceleração tecnológica atualmente em curso,
utilizando o viés da IA como fio condutor, na tentativa de identificar tendências, implicações e perspectivas
que poderão se concretizar no curto prazo, influindo, talvez radicalmente, no próprio futuro da humanidade.
A atual escalada do desenvolvimento tecnológico coloca em bases concretas a perspectiva de realização do
que tecnicamente está sendo chamado de Superinteligência Artificial (SIA), uma forma de inteligência muito
superior a do ser humano em todos os sentidos. A possibilidade do desenvolvimento da SIA impõe, talvez
pela primeira vez, em termos reais, a questão de uma tecnologia ser capaz de efetivamente “posicionar-se”
contra a humanidade, com conseqüências imprevisíveis. Torna-se então necessário ampliar o debate em
torno do tema para garantir ética e segurança nos rumos futuros do seu desenvolvimento.
Narcissism impairs ethical judgment even among the highly religiousLex Pit
though high levels of narcissism can impair ethical judgment regardless of one's religious orientation or orthodox beliefs, narcissism is more harmful in those who might be expected to be more ethical, according to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal of Business Ethics.
"Devout people who are narcissistic and exercise poor ethical judgment would be committing acts that are, according to their own internalized value system, blatantly hypocritical," said Marjorie J. Cooper, Ph.D., study author and professor of marketing at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. "Narcissism is sufficiently intrusive and powerful that it entices people into behaving in ways inimical to their most deeply-held beliefs."
The study identified three groups- skeptics, nominal Christians, and devout Christians. Skeptics largely reject foundational Christian teachings. Nominal Christians are moderate in their intrinsic religious orientation as well as in their orthodox beliefs. Devout Christians are high in intrinsic religious orientation and orthodoxy, which indicates that they fully internalize Christian beliefs and values.
"We found that nominal and devout Christians show better ethical judgment than the skeptics overall, but especially those whose narcissistic tendencies are at the low end of the spectrum," said Chris Pullig, Ph.D., chair of the department of marketing and associate professor of marketing at Baylor. "However, that undergoes a notable alteration as levels of narcissism rise for subjects within each cluster."
"Both the nominal and devout groups show degrees of poor ethical judgment equal to that of the skeptics when accompanied by higher degrees of narcissism, a finding that suggests a dramatic transformation for both nominals and the devouts when ethical judgment is clouded by narcissistic tendencies," he said.
For the skeptics, the range of scores for ethical judgment from low to high lacks the range that is found for the nominals and devouts. Increased narcissism among skeptics does not result in significantly worse ethical judgment.
"However, the same cannot be said for the nominals or the devouts," Cooper said. "For both of these groups as narcissism increases so does the tendency to demonstrate worse ethical judgment. Thus, a higher level of narcissism is more likely to be associated with unethical judgment among nominal Christians and devout Christians than skeptics."
The life twist study an independent report commissioned by american expressLex Pit
In the last decade, American society has undergone
a transformation brought on by a world of accelerated
change. This has been exacerbated by a recession,
increased global conflict, political tension and most
of all, the technological revolution. All of these factors
have altered our nation’s cultural and social views and
called into question one of the most basic American
ideals: our definition of success and individuals’
aspirations when seeking fulfillment.
For more than a century, American Express has
reflected society’s hallmarks of achievement, and
enabled its Cardmembers to attain the attributes of
success. Recognizing a shift in the life priorities and
aspirations of its Cardmembers, American Express
commissioned The Futures Company to explore the
evolution of success and what it means today.
The benefits of playing video games amp a0034857Lex Pit
While one widely held view maintains playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article. This is particularly true for shooter video games that are often violent, the authors said. A 2013 meta-analysis found that playing shooter video games improved a player’s capacity to think about objects in three dimensions, just as well as academic courses to enhance these same skills, according to the study. “This has critical implications for education and career development, as previous research has established the power of spatial skills for achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” Granic said. This enhanced thinking was not found with playing other types of video games, such as puzzles or role-playing games.
Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills, the authors said. The more adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study published in 2013. Children’s creativity was also enhanced by playing any kind of video game, including violent games, but not when the children used other forms of technology, such as a computer or cell phone, other research revealed.
This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin—war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It preys on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training
There are some not well known risks associated with the program of SETI—the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. One of them is the scenario of possible vulnerability from downloading hostile AI with “virus-style” behavior. The proportion of dangerous ET-signals to harmless ones can be dangerously high because of selection effects and evolutionary pressure.
Alexey Turchin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. Alexey studied Physics and Art History at Moscow State University and actively participated in the Russian Transhumanist Movement. He has translated many foreign Transhumanist works into Russian, including N. Bostrom and E.Yudkowsky. He is an expert in Global Risks and wrote the book “Structure of the Global Catastrophe: Risks of Human Extinction in the XXI Century,” as well as several articles on the topic. Since 2010, he has worked at Science Longer Life where he is writing a book on futurology.
Edward Frenkel, professor of mathematics at California
Berkley, authored Love and Math, part biography part
attempt to explain, among other things, his research in
the field of a unified theory of mathematics (sometimes
called the Langlands program). He sat down with physicist,
Matthew Putman, to talk about the relationship between
physics and math, love, and the shape of the universe
As the 21st Century dawns, warfare is in the midst of revolutionary change. Information Age warfare characterized by knowledge, speed, and precision is slowly supplanting Industrial Age war and its reliance on mass. The advent of precision firepower is but the first tremor of this tectonic shift. As it reverberates around the globe, the Precision Firepower Military Technical Revolution will dramatically increase the lethality and reach of defensive fires. Unless the means
for offensive maneuver adapt to overcome the greatly enhanced power of the defense, future soldiers will face stalemate and indecision much like their forefathers confronted in 1914.
What has AI in Common with Philosophy?
John McCarthy
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Abstract
AI needs many ideas that have hitherto been studied only by philosophers. This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new forms when thought about in terms of how to design a robot. Some approaches to philosophy are helpful and others are not.
There are inherent discrepancies between the nuclear declaratory policy and the nuclear employment policy of most countries, and the United States is no exception.
U.S. declaratory policy is what officials say publicly about how nuclear weapons would be used. During the Cold War, official public statements usually suggested that the United States would employ its strategic nuclear arsenal only in retaliation against a Soviet nuclear “first-strike.” But this rationale poses a logical disconnect that suggests an unsettling theory. If the Russians attacked first, there would be little left to hit in retaliating against their nuclear forces, and even less by the time the U.S. “retaliatory” attack arrived at its targets. Many Russian missile silos would be empty, submarines would be at sea, and bombers would be dispersed to airfields or in the air. Ineluctably, the logic of nuclear war planning demands that options exist 14 Natural Resources Defense Councilto fire first. Thus the U.S. President retains a first-strike option, regardless of whether he has any such intention or not. The Soviet Union was faced with a similar dilemma and must have come to similar conclusions. As a consequence, therefore, both sides’ nuclear deterrent strategies have “required” large and highly alert nuclear arsenalsto execute preemptive strike options.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
2. Preface
Here is a small amount of background information in order that you can understand the nature of this “Practical
Guide to Free-Energy Devices”.
I am just an ordinary person who became interested in “free-energy” as a result of a television programme entitled
‘It Runs on Water’ shown in the 1980s by a UK television company called ‘Channel 4’. This programme has since
been put on the internet and at this time can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghjGwvmrqE. From my
point of view, the content of this documentary seemed to be rather unsatisfactory as it suggested quite a number
of very interesting things but gave no real hard and fast specifics for the viewer to follow up on to investigate the
subject further. However, it had the enormous benefit of making me aware that there was such a thing as “free-
energy”.
My attempts to find out more were not very successful. I bought paper copies of several of Stan Meyer’s hydroxy
gas patents from the Patent Office in 1986 but while they were interesting, they did not provide much in the way of
additional information. Searching on the internet at that time did not produce much more in the way of practical
information. Things have changed dramatically since then and there has been an enormous increase in available
information. But, even today, it is relatively difficult to find direct, useful and practical information on free-energy
systems and techniques. Much of the information consists of chatty, lightweight articles describing people, events
and inventions in vague, broad outline terms which are almost completely lacking in specifics.
These articles have the style of saying “There is a new invention called a ‘bus’ which is used to carry passengers
from place to place. We saw one the other day, it was painted green and blue and looked most attractive. It is
driven by Joe Bloggs who wears an engaging smile and a hand-knitted sweater. Joe says that even his children
could drive a bus as it is so easy to do. Joe expects to retire in six months time as he is going to take up gold
prospecting.” While I’m sure that an article like that is interesting, the sort of description which I would want would
be: “There is a new invention called a ‘bus’ which is used to carry passengers from place to place. We saw one
the other day, and were very impressed as it has seats for some forty-five people. It has bodywork made of
pressed aluminium, a wheel at each corner of its considerable 40’ x 10’ structure, a five litre diesel engine made
by the Bosworth Engineering Company of Newtown, and has power-assisted steering, hydraulic brakes and
……”.
There are also many articles, scientific papers and books which, quite frankly, I am not able to understand as the
authors think mathematically and express themselves in equations (where they frequently do not define the terms
which they use in their equations, making them effectively meaningless). I do not think in mathematical
equations, so I do not share in this much higher level of thinking and analysis, though I do have some of these
papers on my web site for the benefit of visitors who do have the ability to understand them easily.
After a long period of searching and investigating I was beginning to gather enough information to be fairly
confident of what was being done, what had already been achieved, and some of the possible background
reasons for the effects which were being observed. Early in 2005 I decided that as I had encountered so much
difficulty and had to put in so much effort to find out the basics of “free-energy” that it could be helpful to others if I
shared what I had found out. So I wrote the first edition of this presentation and created a simple web site to
make it available to others. Of course, this body of information is not static – on the contrary, it is very fast-
moving. Consequently, this information digest is updated and refined typically once or twice per week. The
present form of presentation is the third style of layout which has been used as the volume of material has
increased.
It should be stressed that this information is what I have discovered as part of my interest in the subject and is
mainly a reporting on what is being said by other people. I have not built and proved every device described – to
do that would take many lifetimes, so please understand that this is just an attempt to aid your own investigation.
While it can be proved that some device works as described, through independent replication and verification, the
reverse is not true. If someone were to build a device and fail to get it to work as described, then the most that
can honestly be said is that an unsuccessful attempt was made to replicate it. It does not, of course, show that
the original device did not operate exactly as described, just that the (possibly inept) attempt at replication, was
not successful. In some instances, you will see that I have expressed the opinion that the device is not viable, or,
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3. as in the case of the ‘Nitro Cell’ that I do think that it does work, but as many people have tried to build it and failed
to get the results described, that it can’t be recommended as an investigation project.
I do not suggest that this set of information covers every possible device, nor that my description is by any means
the complete and definitive statement of everything to be known on the subject. The old saying applies here: “If
you think you know all the answers, then you just haven’t heard all the questions!” So, this material is just an
introduction to the subject and not an encyclopaedia of every known device.
I should like to thank the very large number of people who have most kindly given me their permission to
reproduce details of some of their work, providing photographs, checking what I have written, suggesting
additions, etc. Also those kind people who have given me permission to reproduce their own works directly on my
web sites or in my documents. There seems to be a common thread of concern among many people that shows
as a desire to share this information freely rather than to try to make money from selling it, and I thank these
people for their generosity.
Many people hold “conspiracy theory” views and believe that there is a concerted effort to suppress this
information, and more especially, to prevent free-energy devices reaching the market. Personally, I think that
while that is certainly true, the bulk of this opposition is just the normal reaction of vested commercial interests. If
you were making a profit of literally millions per hour, would you welcome the introduction of a system which
would eventually cut your income to zero? If not, then how much would you be willing to pay someone to make
sure that the present system is never changed – a million? A billion? While this opposition is definitely there and
people who stand to lose money and/or power through change will continue to oppose this knowledge, and to a
much greater extent, the introduction of any commercial free-energy device, this is not something which I feel is
immediately relevant to this presentation, and so almost the entire focus of the information is on devices – what
they do, how they are made and how they may operate when they draw additional energy from the local
environment.
Let me stress again, that this set of information is not by any means the final word on the subject, but just an
introduction to the subject by a single person who makes no claims to knowing all the answers. Enjoy your
research – I hope you are successful in every respect.
April 2008
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