The tendency is to go to bed instead of writing out what you have in mind. This is the tendency, what one normally does, but it’s contrary to the idea of keeping a diary !
So now.. we sblog it out as a form of discipline !
Today I felt the biggest quake ever (for me). I promptly went to the flexing furniture that was holding the projector. I did already bind it with some rope, but the whole furniture may have fell off (nothing too heavy, just something standing on some screwed in wooden poles).
The shaking had me worried, in my mind the running thought was “the big one, the big one” ..actually in English, because that’s really how I learnt the expression (in California, nonetheless).
At night I went for dinner to a friend’s house. He cooked some good pasta. We ate that and some prosciutto (Italian ham) that his mother sent thought his sister that recently visited Japan.
We then spilled onto the streets of Roppongi to proceed with the nightlife rituals. We met another Italian friend, moved from club to club.
We met several known people in the process. We were actually betting on whom we would have met. Some we guessed, some we couldn’t possibly have guessed.
The interesting part of all this, is of course the hints that one may or may have not gotten. Hints related to the world of socializing. What does one girl mean with her glance ? What catches her eye ? What makes her look away almost immediately ? How long is the fraction of a second that tells difference about her taste, as she looks away ? -> Does 1/10th of a second mean that she is interested, as opposed to 1/20th of a second ? How about all the time that she looks at you while you don’t know it ?
A lot of information is floating all around the environment and it isn’t formally rationalized. A girl tells me that I look nice in blue. That I should wear blue or white (?!). A guy spontaneously gathers friends (male and females) around the staff thanks to his looks (including behavior) which in a way makes him sympathetic towards others. I meet some old acquaintance and, as we both play cool, the background complexities that kept us away (common friends/ex-friends) are somewhat felt.
In the end, this is in a way my money’s worth, although I’d still be much happier if I could rationalize the whole experience and put it down into a formula & parameters. A mathematical representation wouldn’t be necessarily accurate as the perception would still be human.. however it would be much better than just experiencing and trying to keep all in mind for the future.
Basically it’s a lot like solving a problem mathematically or thought a neural network. The neural network, with enough valid experience samples, gives out good predictions.. however it doesn’t logically (mathematically) explain things. So, it’s really a solution good for the user but not much for the “developer”. I don’t want to be good at the game, I want to understand the complex details of it !
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Posted by Davide Pasca in Uncategorized
