From suggestions of others, I came to suspect a toothache might be caused by my sinuses. I had seen dentist who saw nothing to cause pain, although he filled one small cavity. I ad additionally started having headaches and pain in right ear – pain in tooth was in lower right side toward back. I had tried some sinus med, but stopped last night over concerns with possible side effects (blood pressure). Today for 1st time there is tangible drainage! Also the pain is much less. For details see my health diary
More on my health
March 9th, 2010Notes on my Health
March 3rd, 2010I am confused about my health. I have been experiencing two possibly related things. One is that I am noticing all sorts of things I never noticed before. Secondly I have been going through quite a bit of pain – my legs, one tooth, and headaches. I suspect these my be due ib various ways to the wearing of of the old antipsychotic meds and better work of the new ones. Also the stopping of artificial sweeteners, and much better balanced diet in general. I suppose no alcohol for almost 10 years now may also have helped.
See also my heath page
My Work on Differential Equations – Progress Made
March 3rd, 2010I seem to have working both the programs [in Ruby] to generate Ruby and Maple programs to solve Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. The Ruby code uses my Arbitrary Precision Floating Point Code. The web pages and documentation need more work. Also the code in the two versions of Sode does not always match – they evolved somewhat independently beyond some point.
See:
Recent new books for me
March 3rd, 2010Cohen, Stephen P – “Beyond America’s Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East”
Safire, William – “Safire’s Political Dictionary”
Scahill, Jeremy – “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”
Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations (SODE)
February 21st, 2010I have been working on testing and debugging the Ruby version of my program. I have made great progress. Also fixed a couple problems in my APFP which it uses. I am systematically testing both before releasing. I may choose to uses a different source code control system on SourceForge than the cvs which I used there before – I am having some sort of trouble with cvs now. I have automated the testing process in a way similar to what I did with testing APFP.
Start to testing my APFP (better that is)
February 5th, 2010I’m writting a program to thoroughly test my Arbitrary Precision Floating Point.
Recent Work – Updated Feb. 9, 2010
restore data) had stopped since I had not been doing development. I am keeping regular data on the old laptop and development
on the new one.
to compare answers.
sinh and tanh also had one problem.
The Ruby Program to generate a Ruby program to generate a Maple test program
The generated Ruby program to generate a Maple test program
The generated Maple test program
Test Results – Just all functions
Back to differential equations
February 4th, 2010Since I stopped working on differential equations several months ago, I stopped having various mysterious problems on my computer I was using. I had frequently had my user profile fail to load – which would seem to be solved merely by booting. But a few times I had had to reinstall all software and restore data. The cause was never clear. A couple times recently, several hours after running MapleSode, I had mysterious lockups. This had not been happening otherwise.
A week ago, I got a second laptop. This new one I will use for development. I am proceeding very methodically. At this point I am primarily using cygwin under (64 bit) Windows 7. I am keeping all my non-development applications on the older laptop. I also have a even older desktop, with just Linux on it, which I almost just use for music. Sitting up at a desk causes by back to ache.
I now have the source to RubySode and MapleSode on the new laptop. RubySode appears to work. I do not have Maple itself there (I am going to check the terms of the license.) I have started writing (a regression test to the Arbitrary Precision Floating Point (APFP)) a Ruby program to write a Ruby program to write a Maple program to compare the basic functionality of APFP (which is used in RubySode) with results calculated by Maple. APFP also tries to keep track of the maximum possible error. I had previously written calculators in Rails, but it seems they keep breaking when Rails is updated. I can make testing better the new way, anyway.
If I cannot install Maple on the new machine, I will copy the test program to the old one.
BTW Windows 7 is much faster. But, there, I have 4 Gig instead of 1.
Revised version of perception in prolog
January 23rd, 2010/* ————————————————————————
1/23/2010 ideas on perception
I have tested ‘perceives’ and it seems to work.
I have not tested ‘hallucinates’ yet – but I did make the corresponding changes.
Subject = person doing perceiving
Time = time of perceiving
Sense_data = particular (but complex) entity = a complete set of a persons
experiences at that time
Sd_obj_a = piece of a Sense_data corresponding to an object (e.g. circular part)
[could also be additional Sd_obj_b, Sd_obj_c, ...
Sd_pred = predicate true of a Sd_obj (e.g. red)
PA = predicate describing an external object that ordinarily would cause
such experience of external object A
PR = predicate corresponding to predicate R of external object that ordinarily
would cause such experience of object A having such predicate R
A = object perceived
could also be a B, C, ...
R = prredicate object perceived as having (property)
------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
perceives(Subject, Time, PR, PA) :-
experiences(Subject, Time, Sense_Data),
phys_pred(R),
phys_obj(A),
normal_pred_conditions(PR, R),
normal_obj_conditions(PA, A),
apply(PR,[PA]),
perceptual_obj_relation(Sd_obj_a, PA),
perceptual_pred_relation(Sd_pred, PR),
sub_sd_object(Sense_data, Sd_obj_a),
apply(Sd_pred, [Sd_obj_a]).
hallucinates(Subject, Time, PR, PA) :-
experiences(Subject, Time, Sense_Data),
phys_pred(R),
phys_obj(A),
normal_pred_conditions(PR, R),
normal_obj_conditions(PA, A),
not(apply(PR,[PA])),
perceptual_obj_relation(Sd_obj_a, PA),
perceptual_pred_relation(Sd_pred, PR),
sub_sd_object(Sense_data, Sd_obj_a),
apply(Sd_pred, [Sd_obj_a]).
hallucinates(Subject, Time, PR, PA) :-
experiences(Subject, Time, Sense_Data),
phys_pred(R),
phys_obj(A),
not(normal_pred_conditions(PR, R)),
perceptual_obj_relation(Sd_obj_a, PA),
perceptual_pred_relation(Sd_pred, PR),
sub_sd_object(Sense_data, Sd_obj_a),
apply(Sd_pred, [Sd_obj_a]).
hallucinates(Subject, Time, PR, PA) :-
experiences(Subject, Time, Sense_Data),
phys_pred(R),
phys_obj(A),
not(normal_obj_conditions(PA, A)),
perceptual_obj_relation(Sd_obj_a, PA),
perceptual_pred_relation(Sd_pred, PR),
sub_sd_object(Sense_data, Sd_obj_a),
apply(Sd_pred, [Sd_obj_a]).
Still working on analysis of perception
January 20th, 2010I am now working toward getting the definitions to actually work in prolog.
Recommended Reading
January 20th, 2010Miller, Mark Crispin, ed. – Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008
How can we know?