Frank's Blog

The Political Circle post (see below) got me thinking.    What if we (humanity) have it all wrong? Ie. labels and categories are a natural human tendency to bring order. But they also obscure the reality of our world. Just as "RACE" was introduced with labels and categories -- and we got that ALL wrong. Just as the original theories on Relativity relied on constants that ultimately needed vectorization (matrix calculus) to see further. Source: Facebook Post - (link lost) Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory I prefer to think in terms of Power, Narrative and Wealth as living in their own dimensions. While Life, Liberty and Happiness exist in their own dimensions. And Representation, Law and Justice as the another dimension. And Energy, Natural Resources, and Technologies in their own dimension. The 4 pillars of reality x 3 elements per pillar gives a kaleidoscope of 12 colors to view our world for every single human being. (I did not bring in the Theologica...

My nephew posted:  “why do we have to pay to live on a planet we were born on?” I had to think on this for a bit.  Humm,  how to respond??? (any avoid the dissertation and AI simplistic explainations).  Each of us should have an answer to this. From the 1st breath one takes at birth, this question  is the singular question  that requires an answer. Do I owe something for the 1st breath? Endowed  My answer is that since my 1st breath and every breath since that moment is a gift.  Each breath is given without a debt to pay.  Thus, I reject the notion that the circumstances of my life lead me to a belief of debt for my providence . Whatever providence has been given too me is freely given out of love. Even in those moments of pain (Proverbs 12:1).  Debt is a human construct. There is no debt in the infinite of God nor in the infinite of our quantum universes. I will not let the circumstances of life obscure the wisdom and beauty of jubilee ...

  A story about a 2 month journey into real estate, double-entry bookkeeping, and the surprisingly philosophical experience of debugging session cookies - an 8hr session. The Setup (No Pun Intended) It started simple enough. A multi-member real estate LLC. A single rental property for my daughter.  A shared need to track income, expenses, depreciation, and eventually file IRS Form 1065 with Schedule K-1s for each partner. The existing workflow: a tangle of Jupyter notebooks, Excel sheets, and a shared Google Drive folder with files named things like `LLC-WB-Group_Final_FINAL_v3.xlsx`. Maintainable by no one. Auditable by no one. Tax-season panic every year. The goal: a proper double-entry ledger, automated IRS form population, and a (python Flask) web editor so any partner could review the books from anywhere —hosted on .com PythonAnywhere, so there's no server to babysit. The plan: build it with Claude. Two months later, we have version `v0.7.0` with the LLC editor app/views ...

I discovered there is even a bit of controversy around who authored the Serenity Prayer.   The earliest reference is from 1942 where an AA member shared something from a NY newspaper's orbituary column.    The following was found when one googles author “Niebuhr's contributions to political philosophy include using the resources of theology to argue for political realism. His work has also significantly influenced international relations theory, leading many scholars to move away from idealism and embrace realism. A large number of scholars, including political scientists, political historians, and theologians, have noted his influence on their thinking. Aside from academics, activists such as Myles Horton and Martin Luther King Jr., and numerous politicians have also cited his influence on their thought, including Hillary Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, and Dean Acheson, as well as presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. " Inquery to Interactive Visual Graph The ab...

I just started getting into Claude (chat, cowork, code) app and was very confused by their contracted pricing and usage model.   I asked claude to explain these in human terms and suggested they need to explain it via  "day labor contract" .    Below I have included the " Full AI Labor Contract " as explained by claude ai.  I have choosen to described the contract in human terms where Kcalories is used instead of this mysterious "token" cost.  Otherwise, I believe it reflect's claude ai pricing contracts. If you wonder how much an AI worker cost, suggest spending some time there.  My Conclusion: AI Workers and  Flow Theory Effectively, claude ai is now becoming my day laborer.  And it can do ALL SORTs of work just like any day laborer can do, e.g: sweeping, concrete work, welding, bookkeeping, coding, cooking receipts,  drafting docs, etc...  With AI, its about the tasks and the effort per task.  As I grew more dependent o...

From the beginning of time humanity was built for the Garden of Eden where everything was plentiful, our goal was to be fruitful and muiltiply and our primary vocation involved active participation in cultivating, maintaining, and protecting the natural world.   No Death, No Birth.  No concept of labor/occupation. Then the great fall.   Let's look at humanitarian trends through the eyes of man's accumulated knowledge, ie AI.  [NOTE:  Please take time to view the conclusions by different disciplines below!] View of Humanity for the past 2000 years Let's start with a "simple" perspective of of humanity for the past 2000 years : mortality X consumption. Mortality : view of Death to Births accross all humanity (per century - bar graph). Consumption : view of Calories Consumed to Calories Burned by all humanity (line graph).      Human       BIRTH:DEATH         (Bar Graph)  Human ...