another hint of quantum consciousness

One Flux concept is collaborative design, multiple people having simultaneous access to a schematic or PCB or code. That's insane.

I recently installed an addon to Firfefox that kills the Goggle sign-in atrocity. My life is much improved.

Maybe, but you're likely to find that they attract users who think it will make their lives easier. Maybe it will at some future time.

I mostly ignore Google sign in. uBlock Origin can probably kill it but no need.

Oops, sorry, I meant shot noise.

Having no Johnson noise would violate COE.

Coffee deprivation is a terrible thing.

I must admit that I wake up with many dazzling ideas that don't survive morning caffination. But some of the survivors led to real innovations, some now patented.

Joe Gwinn

Yes, this is by far the usual path.

And science has a fair sample of ideas originally thought harebrained that later turned out to be correct, to be epic breakthroughs.

I'll grant that the fraction of harebrained ideas that turn out to be correct is tiny, but it is not zero. These often led to a Nobel Prize.

So while one may be quite sure that something is harebrained, one can ignore it and see if it goes anywhere, or simply fades away.

Joe Gwinn

One way to get something out of a narrowband filter is to stuff a lot of wideband noise into its input.

Yeah, I just love Google having all my passwords, it's so convenient (for them!) isn't it? Seriously - which add-on did you use for this?

Google Sign-in Popup Blocker. It's in the Firefox extensions set.

But how many of them are actually new? The acid test for that is were they patentable? Nobody patents all the patentable idea that they have had, but if none of them get patented, the implication of them is that none of them were.

One of my colleagues at EMI Central Research had the record for the maximum number of patent queries that he had submitted in one year - some 53. I don't recall that any of them got patented.

I got my name on two patents in the three years I worked there. One was for an aspect of some work I'd done which hadn't struck me as patentable and the other was for an approach that struck me as obvious, until I'd had to explain it to enough people that it clearly wasn't obvious to those skilled in the art.

And will keep on being fun until you realise that they aren't as original as you imagine, when you find yourself having to pay royalties to the people who invented them first.

Don't do it until you have got the patenting process going on the ideas that you do imagine are patentable. Prior publication bars you from getting a patent.

Which ones? Resistors sunk in boiling liquid helium don't have much, but they have some. Your lack of thermodynamic sophistication is showing.

Evolution doesn't make anything "imperative". It exploits every effect that it can, but it's limitations make it highly unlikely that it exploits them at any level about the single molecule (though single molecules can be quite large).

The guy I went through primary school with amazed me fifty years later by explaining how some molecule that incorporated ten transition metal atoms coupled the lot together to do something metabolic (but not remotely cognitive).

Your hardware is involved in hydrogen fusion. You aren't.

You will have to wait a bit.

At least one Nobel-prize-winning idea - the Josephson Junction - came from a guy whose subsequent antics looked pretty hare-brained. Brian Josephson kept on showing up at Cambridge lectures on cognitive matters and asking very hare-brained questions.

Sadly, you don't seem to be a narrow-band filter. Selective, perhaps, but not narrow-band.

Perhaps, but it isn't any kind of sophisticated error-detection or correction.

And frequently the only feasible mode of interaction. You wouldn't be interested in ingenious electronic design (which I can do) or ground-breaking computer coding.

The reason is obvious enough. Advanced industrial economies can feed a lot of people and offer lots of well-paying jobs that are easier than agricultural labour. Since the resident populations have stopped having enough kids to replace themselves, they need the immigrants.

It also increases the genetic diversity of the population, which is usually held to be a good thing.

The blood-line that produced Cursitor Doom clearly needs to be diluted.

That's the way you see it. You are susceptible to lots of lying propaganda aimed at gullible twits, and resent being jeered for you incompetence in critical thinking.

There are few more that a more intelligent boss might add. Someone who didn't confuse shot noise and Johnson noise, for example.

It does required meticulous version control, with every change documented and explained.

When I was working at EMI Central Research and designing onto single AO schematic diagrams on drawing boards, all the drawing boards were in the area where we drank out coffee, which lead to a lot of half-finished cups of coffee when we gathered around one or other of the drawing boards.

The boss got the nick-name "Puker" on account of his capacity to come up with revoltingly effective short cuts. He had his name on some twenty

-odd patents at the time. The biography of Alan Dower Blumlien (who also worked at EMI Central Research, if a lot earlier - he died in 1942 - does emphasise that he did look over a lot of people's shoulders in a thoroughly helpful way

Thanks!

That's why he's here.