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I don’t know how to describe what I’m thinking other than by chaining together these two reference points. The title is roughly a unique keyword cluster which summarizes in some kind of wexological dreamcatcher situation some data points which lead me to this connection. This one, oddly, comes off a domain “endlesssearch.co.uk”:

The Stop Exercise is said to be impossible to do on your own. The aim is to immediately stop whatever you’re doing and freeze in that position, mentally, emotionally and physically, so that you can observe your current inner state. The command must come from an external source such as the person or Teacher giving the command to stop. When you freeze you should observe the state of your physical, emotional and intellectual centers and evaluate if you were Remembering yourself at the time or were Identified. Note your physical position, your emotional state and the thoughts in your intellectual center.

Chain that to this from a page on “associative search” which is sort of how I might describe Cuil’s algorithm.

As an example, suppose there are several different -armed bandit tasks, and that on each play you confront one of these chosen at random. Thus, the bandit task changes randomly from play to play. This would appear to you as a single, nonstationary -armed bandit task whose true action values change randomly from play to play.

I have no idea what they mean by “armed bandit tasks” as I happened across this highly specialized document without any real knowledge of the context from which it arose or which it describes.

I actually installed some software from that “endless search” (in the Gurdjieff “search for truth” kind of sense) site which is supposed to facilitate the “stop” exercise. It has not yet pinged me though, or whatever it’s supposed to do. The concept makes me think a lot of how Twitter works, or how updating your Facebook status works [FYI: I've gotten WAAAY more use personally and technologically out of Twitter than FB]. Basically, you just sit there and ping the universal consciouxness with whatever you’re doing. The thing about Twitter is that other users are actively doing the same, so using self-organizing principles (whereby user entities are naturally driven to find other like, interesting or variously affiliated user entities) the information it returns to you is refinable into a highly specific datascxtream - though I have not messed with that aspect of it very much, personally.

Some Useful Final Conclusion: Interesting idea, possible applications would be towards creating an a simple automated search agent, which would periodically interrupt your daily data stream activities, and ask you to say one word or phrase. It could be anything. You could try to stump it or trick it, even and it would still work: it would go out and actively seek information and data patterns on your behalf, and according to its programmatic hunches, and would return you with a pool of items that might interest you, which you could sift through, “ingest” into your datasphere, etc.

[All concepts and software concepts herein described are licensed as Free & In the Public Domain. December 3, 2008 TimBoucher.com]

• Nova Spivak on Associative Search
• The Great Penis Caper
• Making up words
• Why Twitter Is A Big Deal
• #Twitter Social_Networking “Tuning” Phenomenon