A very funny video from the World Universities Debating Championships 2007 in Vancouver featuring Willard Foxton's worst debates he has ever been involved in:
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
2006 Interesting Debating Motions
This house believes that developing nations should nationalize their energy resources.
This house would criminalise the payment of ransom.
This house would impose sanctions against states which tolerate female genital mutilation.
This house would make prostitutes available to the disabled on the NHS
This house believes all serious crimes should be tried by jury.
This house believes that economic growth is the solution to climate change.
(Sources: World Debating News and British Debate Mailing List)
This house would criminalise the payment of ransom.
This house would impose sanctions against states which tolerate female genital mutilation.
This house would make prostitutes available to the disabled on the NHS
This house believes all serious crimes should be tried by jury.
This house believes that economic growth is the solution to climate change.
(Sources: World Debating News and British Debate Mailing List)
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Mapping Jungian Archetypes on Cognitive Processes
"John Beebe (1, 2) is a genius!" is a thought I had during the last months each time I pondered about Beebe's idea of mapping Jungian Archetypes on Cognitive Processes.
What follows is my very own summary of his proposed model to map Cognitive Processes on Jungian Archetypes that he explained in detail in a four day workshop (Big thanks to Type Resources for organizing this).
You may want to first read John Beebe's introduction to his model.
There are probably people out there who are more knowledgeable than me to write a summary, but there isn't much published yet, so I hope to make a start.
Besides John Beebe, there are quite some people I feel thankful to for sharing their thoughts with me which in one way or another influenced my summary (but who won't necessarily agree with all I am writing): Linda V. Berens (Please write more on Cognitive Dynamics!), Dario Nardi, Vicky Jo Warner, Robin Wiley.
UPDATE, as people found it confusing: A quote is referring to what someone with the function in that role might say.
UPDATE II: These notes are now also available as mind map.
Book: "Lectures on Jung's Typology": The Feeling Function by James Hillman
Book: "Lectures on Jung's Typology": The Feeling Function by James Hillman
What follows is my very own summary of his proposed model to map Cognitive Processes on Jungian Archetypes that he explained in detail in a four day workshop (Big thanks to Type Resources for organizing this).
You may want to first read John Beebe's introduction to his model.
There are probably people out there who are more knowledgeable than me to write a summary, but there isn't much published yet, so I hope to make a start.
Besides John Beebe, there are quite some people I feel thankful to for sharing their thoughts with me which in one way or another influenced my summary (but who won't necessarily agree with all I am writing): Linda V. Berens (Please write more on Cognitive Dynamics!), Dario Nardi, Vicky Jo Warner, Robin Wiley.
UPDATE, as people found it confusing: A quote is referring to what someone with the function in that role might say.
UPDATE II: These notes are now also available as mind map.
EN (Extraverted Intuition)
| Hero: | Remarkable inferences |
| Father/Mother: | Opportunity in tragedy |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Take things up for a while: Kanasta, Mahjong |
| Anima/Animus: | "I am usually very opinionated when I see new information by comparing it to prior experience. At one point, however, I am open to new ideas, although I find this difficult." |
| Opposing Personality: | Punching holes in proposals |
| Witch/Senex: | "I accept it, but please shut up!" |
| Trickster: | "Are you single? Yes, I am but really not." |
| Demon/Daemon: | "What's new about that idea? It's not going to help anything." |
IT (Introverted Thinking)
| Hero: | Intellectual clarity |
| Father/Mother: | Explaining to others using a reasoning process, naming for others |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Collecting wise quotes; being pedantic at times. |
| Anima/Animus: | "As much as I want harmony with others, at times I need to make a tough decision." |
| Opposing Personality: | "Of course you can think everything through until death" |
| Witch/Senex: | "Principles are not a sufficient means to describe things." |
| Trickster: | Deliberately misunderstanding a point |
| Demon/Daemon: | Messy principles |
EF (Extraverted Feeling)
| Hero: | Harmony, subconscious knowing |
| Father/Mother: | Being asked by others, censoring oneself |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Divine affection; easily hurt |
| Anima/Animus: | "As my logical statements do appear harsh at times, I need to reassure others of my affection." |
| Opposing Personality: | chit-chat: exhausting, game |
| Witch/Senex: | "come to my house so I can eat you" (Hensel&Gretel) |
| Trickster: | "Let me assist you to make us both feel uncomfortable" |
| Demon/Daemon: | Disregarding other peoples feelings, being manipulative |
IS (Introverted Sensing)
| Hero: | Memento, Recognition of the natural order of things |
| Father/Mother: | Remembering things for others |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Collecting memorabilia; can be wearisome. |
| Anima/Animus: | "Constantly having new ideas may turn things into a chaos, so at times I need to get things in order again." |
| Opposing Personality: | "Don't bother me with all that detailed information that's not relevant to what's happening now." |
| Witch/Senex: | Remembering something that really pokes you. |
| Trickster: | Recall inaccurately: "Didn't we agree that ...?" |
| Demon/Daemon: | forgetting peoples names, unorderliness, hallucinations, Others ask:"Have you been in this body for long?" |
IN (Introverted Intiuition)
| Hero: | Vision, one line image, demanding, regarded scary |
| Father/Mother: | There are other ways to do things for others |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Imagining what could be a trend next year, sometimes hopeless about the future |
| Anima/Animus: | "After considering all the facts, I eventually realize what it's about." |
| Opposing Personality: | "There have to be alternative futures" |
| Witch/Senex: | Deflate dreams |
| Trickster: | "That's just superstition!" |
| Demon/Daemon: | This idea is trying to ruin us very badly; God speaks to us |
ET (Extraverted Thinking)
| Hero: | Telling others what to do that really helps |
| Father/Mother: | Generative thinking for others |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Enjoying diagrams, sometimes confusing objectivity with being blunt |
| Anima/Animus: | "I am able to establish rules or make plans to achieve what I consider as important." |
| Opposing Personality: | "This is a cheap shot, not well thought through." |
| Witch/Senex: | Rebel against structure and schedules. |
| Trickster: | Misguidance in organizing things more efficient. |
| Demon/Daemon: | Having a hard time to tell others bad news. |
IF (Introverted Feeling)
| Hero: | Self-supervising, understand in depth ourself, others |
| Father/Mother: | Charisma, hearing secrets, "I wish you had told me sooner" |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Listeing to music, writing poetry, sometimes stating strong value judgements |
| Anima/Animus: | "Telling others what to do may appear bullying at times but actually I have a soft core of important values." |
| Opposing Personality: | "Moral questions keep bugging me" |
| Witch/Senex: | "How are moral question going to help ME anyway?" |
| Trickster: | "As this discussion has now arrived at a point of no return, why shouldn't I do now what you regarded important earlier?" |
| Demon/Daemon: | "Manipulating others goes against everything that I am"; neglecting fundamental values; not valuing your health |
ES (Extraverted Sensing)
| Hero: | Seeing opportunities for action in the here and now |
| Father/Mother: | Meticulously doing things for others |
| Puer/Puella Aeternus: | Enjoying activity, sometimes overworking |
| Anima/Animus: | "It's very easy for me to get a detailed vision by considering just some tiny bits of information, but at times I need to check whether all my assumptions are actually true in reality." |
| Opposing Personality: | "I am not really good at doing two things at the same time" |
| Witch/Senex: | Blocking others' proposed actions |
| Trickster: | Repeatedly dressing up badly for a job interview |
| Demon/Daemon: | "Things magically break in my presense." "I happen to ignore the facts and rely on my interpretation of things." |
Beebe Archetypes
My summary of the Archetypes (along with references to books) as used by Dr. John Beebe, based on the workshop "Dynamics of Type" which was held in Memphis in June 2006 (Kindly organized by Type Resources).
Archetypes are patterns of human behavior that appear when they are required.
UPDATE: These notes are now also available as mind map.
- moneymaking
- movie: Marianne Sägebrecht in "Bagdad Cafe"
- Never grows out
- Pure
- book: "Puer Aeternus" by Marie-Louise von Franz
- black hole
- Bridge to the unconscious
- blackmail, creative, giving power
- libido
- puer is much more primitive
- movies: Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Miike's "Odishon"
- Book: "Lectures on Jung's Typology": The Inferior Function by Marie-Louise von Franz
- self sabotage
- anxious -> itchy - witchy
- "I wish this idea would just go away!"
- critical, in your gut
- Puts its nose at the collective
- Least preferred process
- nightmare
Archetypes are patterns of human behavior that appear when they are required.
UPDATE: These notes are now also available as mind map.
Hero
- Unconscious competence- moneymaking
Mother/Father
- Helping others, not easy to use for oneself- movie: Marianne Sägebrecht in "Bagdad Cafe"
Puer/Puella Aeternus
- Inflating, deflating- Never grows out
- Pure
- book: "Puer Aeternus" by Marie-Louise von Franz
Anima/Animus
- Inferiority Complex- black hole
- Bridge to the unconscious
- blackmail, creative, giving power
- libido
- puer is much more primitive
- movies: Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Miike's "Odishon"
- Book: "Lectures on Jung's Typology": The Inferior Function by Marie-Louise von Franz
Opposing Personality
- Hensel & Gretel: Not enough food -> send them off to starve- self sabotage
Witch/Senex
- Effect on others: control the behavior of other people- anxious -> itchy - witchy
- "I wish this idea would just go away!"
- critical, in your gut
Trickster
- Double-binds, crude- Puts its nose at the collective
Demon/Daemon
- Least domesticated- Least preferred process
- nightmare
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
R-Sig Finance Mailing List
Good to see that there are other people doing what I am doing: R-Sig Finance Mailing List.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
For all of those of you who might have had difficulties of imagining more than three dimensions, there is an animated explanation (uses flash). (You have to click below the helix to the right to enter the area where you can select the animations.)
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Berlin Ranks 23rd in British University Debating Rankings
After 9 events, my old debating society ranks 23rdin this year's British University Debating season. Patrick and Daniel (with whom I used to debate in a team in Britain) are very successful this year, I am very proud of them!
Oh, and a debating team unknown to me from Cologne (from Tilbury House) has won the renowned Oxford IV ESL Final--congratulations to them as well! It's the first time a German team has won that competition.
Oh, and a debating team unknown to me from Cologne (from Tilbury House) has won the renowned Oxford IV ESL Final--congratulations to them as well! It's the first time a German team has won that competition.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Google Codesearch: Who Needs Documentation If You Have Code?
Ruby: lang:ruby inject
Lisp:lang:lisp format\s+T
JavaScript:lang:JavaScript setInterval
... plus many other languages
Lisp:lang:lisp format\s+T
JavaScript:lang:JavaScript setInterval
... plus many other languages
Sunday, October 01, 2006
“We must embrace nuclear power to solve global warming”
A thought-provoking debate (audio) hosted by The Economist on nuclear power as an answer to global warming.
Monday, September 25, 2006
The Economist Podcast
It's quite interesting to hear the voices of the authors of The Economist's articles and fortunately their podcast seems to be updated now more regularly.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Dario Nardi on Socialbot
When I met Dario Nardi earlier this year he told me he prepared a video for Frontiers of Interaction II on socialbot as he couldn't be there in person.
Now some kind soul has uploaded his talk on youtube (Part 1, Part 2).
AFAIU socialbot is a little like Eliza but not aiming at being a therapist, rather than that it imitates cognitive behavior by showing aspects of memory, inference and animated gestures; and it uses speech recognition as well. When used in a seminar with students interaction sessions get logged and are used as a harness to further development of socialbot's behavior.
Now some kind soul has uploaded his talk on youtube (Part 1, Part 2).
AFAIU socialbot is a little like Eliza but not aiming at being a therapist, rather than that it imitates cognitive behavior by showing aspects of memory, inference and animated gestures; and it uses speech recognition as well. When used in a seminar with students interaction sessions get logged and are used as a harness to further development of socialbot's behavior.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
JavaScript Memoization and Dependencies
I've extended Oliver Steele's appealing implementation of memoization in JavaScript to use a different dependency mechanism which also works with complex variables such as arrays or hashes by introducing a dependencies callback that returns a string or other simple datatype.
Here is some code that shows how memoize() can be used to specify dependencies both on function arguments and global variables.
Take a look here if you're not familiar with the concept of Memoization.
(Thanks to Stephan for mentioning Oliver's post.)
Function.prototype.memoize = function(options) {
var fn = this
var cache = []
return function() {
var dependencyFlags = options.dependencies.apply(this, arguments)
var cacheHit = cache && cache[0] == dependencyFlags
if (cacheHit) {
return cache[1]
}
cache = [dependencyFlags, fn.apply(this, arguments)]
return cache[1]
}
}
var fn = this
var cache = []
return function() {
var dependencyFlags = options.dependencies.apply(this, arguments)
var cacheHit = cache && cache[0] == dependencyFlags
if (cacheHit) {
return cache[1]
}
cache = [dependencyFlags, fn.apply(this, arguments)]
return cache[1]
}
}
Here is some code that shows how memoize() can be used to specify dependencies both on function arguments and global variables.
var sortOrder = 0;
getSortedModel = function(user) {
// ... some lenghty calculation
alert("Performing Lengthy Calculation for " + user)
return [1, 2, 3, 4]
}.memoize({ dependencies: function(user) { return user + ":" + sortOrder }})
getSortedModel = function(user) {
// ... some lenghty calculation
alert("Performing Lengthy Calculation for " + user)
return [1, 2, 3, 4]
}.memoize({ dependencies: function(user) { return user + ":" + sortOrder }})
Take a look here if you're not familiar with the concept of Memoization.
(Thanks to Stephan for mentioning Oliver's post.)
Friday, September 08, 2006
A Dedication to "King Lear"
O bridal world of sunshine dreams
colour me brutish
wicked eyes
violently in lust
trifle life
God's horror hath a place
in the bluntness of
a serpent-like man
Cordelia,
our mildness
once, strong
is thy prison
of eyeless love
colour me brutish
wicked eyes
violently in lust
trifle life
God's horror hath a place
in the bluntness of
a serpent-like man
Cordelia,
our mildness
once, strong
is thy prison
of eyeless love
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index
A highly interesting talk by Ziv Bar-Yossef on how to benchmark search engines, i.e for comparing the size of their indexes. Also includes a very interesting discussion on how to implement a Monte Carlo simulation.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Prediction of the Future: Intelligent Life
2063-05-13, Madrid, 10:14 local time
Leading worldwide scientists report they have unravelled one of humankind's greatest mysteries, the question about intelligent life in the Universe. What people fascinates most: They discovered it on earth!
Leading worldwide scientists report they have unravelled one of humankind's greatest mysteries, the question about intelligent life in the Universe. What people fascinates most: They discovered it on earth!
Sunday, July 09, 2006
This is the Title of this Posting
This is the first sentence of this posting. This is the second sentence which is absolutely unnecessary and adds no interesting information at all. This sentence is solely intended to increase tension and expectation in the reader's mind -- a concept borrowed from Greek tragedy. This sentence introduces a link to an interesting story written in a style similar to this posting, which the author wishes to recommend for reading: This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself.
This is the last sentence of this posting and pays attribution to A. D. Barncord.
This is the last sentence of this posting and pays attribution to A. D. Barncord.
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