Yep, card but the even more fundamental reason for our poor forecasting scores is our not wanting to be wrong!
________________________________ From: "cardemais...@yahoo.com" <cardemais...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 3:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Hebrew vs. Sanskrit? FWIW, because us humans seem to be programmed to look for patterns, we are worse at forecasting than e.g. rats: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/forecasting-is-for-the-birds-and-rats/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Card, I sure hope you know about this project: http://www.meru.org/ I met the guy, Stan Tenen, and he's convincing. He says that the projected 2D shadow of the ram's horn (the shofar) can become shaped like the Hebrew letters if you twist it this way and that, AND get this, he told me there's a formula/algorithm that would turn the horn incrementally such that the first chapter of Genesis is produced. Don't know how much to believe, but I'm betting you'd find this stuff very satisfying. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sharelong60" <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > > Card, sounds like you're saying that because it has more consonants, Sanskrit > is maybe more analytical. I'll add: maybe more left brain dominant? though > that doesn't sound right about Sanskrit. Are you saying that Hebrew is more > right brain, more spatial, softer because of having less consonants? >
