[From Shannon Williams (951103)]
Bill Powers (951101.1450 MST)--
Will you tell us more about who you are and what you do?
Who I am:
Stats:
1) SWF, 5'1.5", blond, born 5/9/64
2) BSEE Rice University, '86
3) Masters courses in mechanical engineering, UTA '91-93'
4) Currently I reside in Dallas, but will re-locate.
variables controlled for:
1) comprehension from first principles
2) logic
3) independence
4) improvement
variables controlled against:
1) comprehension by association (fuzzy logic)
2) romanticism
3) blind love
4) blind trust
5) blind anything
Landmarks in devlopement of my thinking (chronological):
Transactional Analysis, Atlas Shrugged, Rational Choice In An
Uncertain World, sci.skeptic and skeptics mailing list
Associated Behaviors:
1) programming (job)
2) volleyball (main social activity)
3) reading (main activity)
4) games (bridge, pictionary, puzzles, etc)
books that I have read in the last year:
1) The Society Of Mind (Minsky)
2) Sleep (Horne)
3) The Blind Watch Maker (Dawkins)
4) Invisible Illusions (?)
5) The House of Cards (Dawes)
6) A Rudy Rucker book
7) The Collapse of Chaos (?)
8) Fuzzy Logic (?)
9) More, but I cannot remember.
Do you talk with other people about PCT?
I generally talk to everyone who comes in contact with me about whatever
is on my mind. Right now, PCT is on my mind, and most of the people that
I have contact with are getting tired of hearing about it.
So this is ME in a nutshell.
Love,
Shannon aka Billie Willyams