MEME: Occam’s, or Ockham’s, razor

Sunday, April 15, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Occam’s razor

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Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness. It is a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.

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Or, as I like to say it, “KISS — Keep it simple, stupid!”.

I took some trash yday for being too erudite (That’s, for the intellectually challenged or those eddykated in a Gooferment Skrule, using de big wurds.) and making a joke at the expense of poor old Ockham and his razor or a German knife.

Tuff!

Grow up.

Stretch your paradigms and memes.

(Pair of dimes is how you perceive stuff. Your eyes can deceive you. Look in Johari’s box.)

(Meme, like genes for ideas. How you think about thinking. SOP’s for life. An idea that can spread from human mind to human mind. Like a fad, rumor, or (mis)understanding. Think MegaBall Jackpot craze, “pet rock”, religious beliefs, and concepts like “money”. Memes can be handy shorthand, like the United States Government, Alma Mater, political party, or the “Tea Party”. They can be false like “Social Security is insurance”, “Laws protect me”, or even that there is such a thing as “government”. They can be unprovable “God Exists”. Or obvious, “Law of Gravity”.)

I refuse to accept that using the correct word, even if it’s big, uncommon, or strange, is being pedantic, obtuse, or show offy.

So, get a dictionary, use Wikipedia, or get lost!

:-)

The fat old white guy injineer is in his alter ego “Grumpy”.

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FUN: Poking fun at the President

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Here’s some spam from Evy’s High School chum that imho is worth forwarding with suitable editorial comment.

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———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Karen
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Subject: Where to Put # 44

Where to put  president  #44

Where, oh where —  to put Obama’s picture.

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George Washington, our nation’s first president  and leader of the American  Revolution!

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Abe Lincoln,  honorable leader who pulled our nation through its darkest  time!

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Alexander Hamilton,  founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury and  leader of the constitutional  convention! >>>>>>>>

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Andrew Jack  son, “Old Hickory ” fought the British in New Orleans!

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Ulysses  Grant, Union army general, led the North through the Civil  War!

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Ben  Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist and leading  author of the Constitution.

Finally, we have  someone to put on the food  stamp!!!

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Obama’s policies  have put more people on welfare than any president before him, so this placement is most  appropriate.

Unlike the Nobel  Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an “honor”  he richly  deserves.

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I agree with Washington, by far, with some pimples, imhothe BEST president. At least in his first term; later on, not so much.

I’m OK with Grant; a good ordinary joe.

Ditto Jackson; anybody who shoots the guy who insults his wife is OK in my book.

Franklin should have been a prez since anyone who likes turkeys is OK with me.

Lincoln is my worst!

Hamilton, if he had been Prez, would be in my third tier(i.e., worse-est, worse-er, and just plain worse). No doubt the folks at the FED like this since AH wanted a Federal Reserve cabal back in his time. It took Wilson to sell us out to the Big Banks. And sneakily put us in WW1 and on the road to empire.

It’s funny to put BHO44 on the food stamp, but that honor should belong to FDR. He put the nation on the dole, perminently put us on the road to Socialism and hell, all while corruptly sneakaly and with malice aforethought putting us in WW2.

imho

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