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afrosatanist · 2 years ago

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The astrological philosophical perspective I hold is one that combines several different philosophies at its foundations. It is a polytheistic, cosmobiological, panenthiestic, panpsychic, phenomenological approach. It blends understanding through the application of mathematical-spiritual techniques & interpretations to help querents and astrologers alike come to a deeper reverence, purpose, clarity, and awakenings while engaging with and interpreting the chart.

The polytheistic cosmobiological portion helps us render truth from the power-obsessed and Imperial-minded monotheistic conception of spiritually, and the cosmos itself. This philosophical portion combats the notion that Divinity is a singular entity creating and destroying as it sees fit based on some ancient religion and it's particular precepts, or some other temporal religious/mystical/cultural instantiation of orientation of the divine in it's regional-historical scope.

The polytheistic-cosmobiologal portion discussed how in the multiplicity of Divinity's manifestations truth is everything but singular. Truth, if I must make an axiom, is multiplicity itself. This thus means there are now an expansive, yet finite relevant logics that can offer us a spiritual clarity as we remove the impetus to find a hill to war and die in with our individual conception of the Divine Mystery. It speaks it's truths in ways that create, deeper, and resolve dualities, dichotomies, and tensions through a logic that is alive, conscious, and in inextricable relationship to Time. The celestial bodies of our solar system become a relevant discussion for our understand of the methodology of his astrology is capable of functioning as a diviner's tool, but also as a spiritual/cosmically intelligent arithmetic that provides a language and logic for the material and metaphysical events that happen in our human lives on our own celestial planetary home.

In Western Astrology, we liken the planets unto mythic deities, with desires, tendencies, domains, and intentions and then track what those may manifest as when interpret placements, aspects and other patterns in the slew of different charts we have for our different analyses. If in our practices, both now as a divination tradition passed down historically with it's particular philosophical schools, and as a functional language when applying said philosophical schools notions for interpretations, it's smooth and consistently accurate when we give (divine) consciousness to multiple celestial bodies, we reinforce the logical proof of the next portions of my philosophical foundation, Panpsychism and Panenthiesm.

This becomes logically overlapping and expansive with ideas above. If it makes sense, spiritually through meditative practice or enhanced perception, if it makes sense linguistically and practically through interpretations that lend clarity and healing, and it makes sense logically and atithmetically through the mathematical techniques applied that gave us the interpretative clarity, we run into territory of Panenthiesm's logical forms. Panenthiesm asserts that Divinity is in all things, and all things are within Divinity. There's is nothing that exists that doesn't contain or isn't made up of the same celestial-conscious materials of the very deified cosmos themselves. This also becomes an important backdrop by which can show that no matter the occurrence, it's form, it's energetic presences, it exists and belongs within the cosmos. All things have a significance and purpose under this understanding, taking us to our explanation of Panpsychism. The Deified Consciousness of the cosmos is itself the ground floor of all of materiality, Panpsychism's philosophy asserts. That all things are conscious in varying degrees, but still built of the very same Divine Intelligence that allows our astrological (or any divination tradition/tool/technique) to be capable of provide any worthwhile, meaningful application and answer.

The mathematical, the biophysical, the cosmic/astronomical, the spiritual, the psychic/emotional all become interconnected and layered over each other multidimensionally in this perspective. It becomes the logical tracks that Divinity can communicate to itself, i.e. whether through humans practicing divination or plants growing in predetermined (and also dynamic) shapes and forms.

Next becomes a very important philosophical portion for those practicing and receiving astrological divination. The phenomenological approach of the utmost importance when it comes to both a diviner and a querent. The phenomenological approach asserts that this is matter of cross-paradigmatic navigation every time we communicate anything, let alone what are supposed to be Divined Communiques from Cosmic Deific Forces themselves. The Phenomenological portion reminds us that in the multiplicity of truth, power is humility, grace, an open heart and mind, because in the lack of understanding language, our bodies are attuned to respond to feelings/energetic resonances. What may not make sense in my worldview, individually or culturally, is still capable of being received, heard, and felt (again, even if nonsensically), meaning that spiritual practice and one's personal worldview is inevitably and inextricably linked to the ability to divine, interpret, or receive the fullness of any understanding or awareness. We speak through semiotic veils at all moments, and the more complex of a topic or logic we get to the more paradigmaric curtains must be acknowledged, and to the best of our ability, pulled back. This keeps us from an arrogant assumption of a singular divine truth needing to break through another's world for value and integration, no psycho-colonialism needed, just an open hand and clarified awareness of the moment and the information for the sake of healing, evolution, and further awakenings.

#divination #philosophy #astrology #evolutionarybiology #evolutionary astrology #cosmology #cosmobiology #panpsychism #panentheism #phenomonology #polytheism #this is a small iteration a draft of what has and still is becoming a life long work

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soapver4 · 1 year ago

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Journal of Temporal Merphysics

Metadrama Bubble: A non-hearing, female version of Where's Waldo? in time travel.

A bunch of high school seniors are noisily snacking in a sunlight-dappled, mostly empty grand library while compiling materials for a presentation required in a Time class when one of them draws attention to a potential interabled romance story that just refuses to start in various real-life biography notes.

Volume 1: Limits of Optics

Issue 1

A nameless, orphaned tween liked to explore the nooks and crannies of the old textile factory where he worked as an inventory clerk.

In the shadows of its underbelly, he saw a grubby assembly line supervisor sneeringly approaching a child who looked even younger than him.

The boy rescued the shrieking child with his precocious wit.

She darted away from him like a phantom sparrow.

Issue 2

After checking out the spot on more occasions, the boy learnt that the child was a non-hearing, illiterate and illegally employed factory hand whose communication barriers were regularly exploited by abusers in the factory.

With much trouble, the boy got accepted as a friend by the suspicious girl.

The shadows became their playground, mock revenge headquarters, candlelit percussion stage and spelling and arithmetic school from then on.

The alien-like scribbles and tool layouts left behind spooked the occasional adult "normal" interloper, who subsequently kept a distance.

Issue 3

As the pair grew together over the years, factory equipment in the distance would sound like wistful ballads were being spun out as the girl watched the boy excitedly gesture his ambitions and stories about same-age girls he liked.

One late evening, he tugged at her ponytail as usual. She chased him around as usual. But after three laps around a newly abandoned giant rotor, he disappeared into thin air, never to be seen in that time period again.

She tried running more laps around the rotor, but remained in the factory shadows.

Supplement

"Serious? You saw an academic book mention the wistful ballads? Or darting like a phantom sparrow, for that matter?" Somebody quibbles. The other students hush him with "Poetic license, poetic license!" and a couple stuff gummy worms into his mouth.

Volume 2: Law of Statistics

Issue 1

The boy spun around to find the girl and the factory missing. He was now in a dazzling, bustling, speckless city full of funny wheels and other curios.

No obese, pockmarked or limping person could be seen on the miles and miles of streets he trudged on. This city was so perfect you could not spot any ordinary citizen with any form of special needs, let alone someone from another era communicating in sign language.

The starving boy could not find his way back to the girl.

Issue 2

A great deal of administrative upkeeping and technological wizardry kept the city this gleaming and dreamily flawless. Now that every element in nature and the man-made world was meticulously propertized and mechatronically gated, that extensive safeguards must be met before every action, and that the basics — smart devices, virtual currencies and identity certification — were out of his reach, the boy could not access food, jobs, medicine, or even information the way he did as a self-raised tween in his own era.

He was a runaway zoo exhibit in every populated place he went. The meaner motorists and riders passing by, chuckling at his shabby look and struggles with machines, loudly wondered why this beggar foolishly strayed from his institution for the infirm. The kinder ones looked at him with weird wonder or woeful pity.

The boy had understood the girl more than anyone else. But to the extent that disability entailed incapacitation in aspects of self-presentation and personal functioning society demanded, he now felt her daily struggles on a more visceral level.

There was a time or two he felt a genuinely concerned, familiar look in his direction, only to see more gawkers on swerving around.

He swore to charge the vehicles viewing fees, be that soondae or wurst tray. But more than anything, he longed to return to protect the girl more fiercely, not out of pity, but out of deepened solidarity and a fervor to go against the tide of a humanity with far more tolerance for moral ineptitude than for physical and socioeconomic ineptitude.

Issue 3

While the boy was stealthily picking for scraps from a garbage bin one night, a patrol car stopped by. He started to take flight like the girl did when the pair first met, but a patrol officer's offer of normal accommodation and meals over her public address system proved eventually too tempting to a traveler with increasingly heavy eyelids and blistering soles.

In the patrol car, he tried to look calm even as he scrutinized the route closely and feared that he would be lodging with jailbirds. The officer and her sergeant on the walkie-talkie attempted to break ice by joking about how their names, Taylor Swyft and Andrew Leo Webster respectively, betrayed their identities as undercover superstars from the past, but the situation only looked fishier to him.

The shelter turned out to be a church with a spare bed. For the first time in a long while, he could close his eyes without a care in the world.

Footnote

Sounds of running footsteps echoed day after day around the abandoned giant rotor back in the original timeline.

Supplement

"That's our girl, amirite?" The librarian helps herself to one of the students' pistachio pops while looking over their shoulders. Someone grumblingly wonders how much the institution pays her.

Volume 3: Principle of Protection

Issue 1

Months into the industrious boy's custodian job at the church, an impressed college dean frequenting the place took him under his tutelage, going as far as securing scholarships for him.

During the documentation process, in which the authorities accepted the youth as a memory-impaired person after much reluctance, the boy gave himself his very first formal name: Simon Bo Văn. Bo and Văn were tributes to his Asian ancestry. In Hebrew, Shim'ôn means "He has heard." That was even without a sound from the suffering person.

To make up for expenses not covered by the scholarships, Simon tidied equipment and wiped bench surfaces part-time at the dean's Weir lab, which got the ambition cogwheels in his brain rotating again. But, no, he must stay focused. A young girl was waiting for him.

At college, Simon double-majored in physics and sociology. One might lead him back to the girl. The other might lead them to an X-ray atlas of humanity's dark gaze network. They shall be the gazers this time, from the God's eye view of ivory towers.

Issue 2

A major nemesis appeared in the form of an eccentric musician. How did we get here? Well, Simon was presenting his quantum physics research at a science fair open to all when the musician enthused that the principle elucidated by the findings would elevate electronic music. He shook Simon's hands vigorously and congratulated himself for spotting the perfect rival. ("But I don't make music." "Ooooh, you shall!")

The musician used public pressure to egg on Simon to compete with him to devise the best music instrument. Not one to be forever bullied, Simon called out his tactic. Gleefully, the musician changed the name of his one-man band to Egg on the spot, to the crowd's roaring laughter.

And that was only the beginning. Simon's quick wits and versatility left the musician in greater awe after the contest. No way was he letting go of this genius with boundless possibilities who could push the musician to greater heights. "Page" after "Page," we see the musician roping Simon into a wakeboarding challenge, a mountain climbing challenge, a startup challenge and a challenge to retrofit the most underprivileged homes in a week.

Simon really, really missed the girl in her shadows.

Issue 3

Ideas from the musician flowed so much like an endless stream that Simon was starting to see him not only everywhere but also in his dreams. He even started to feel a strange attraction to the guy.

Shocked at this self-discovery, Simon called the musician a manipulative, egocentric divo with no self-awareness. The musician was finally stunned into contrite silence. He profusely apologized, then sincerely explained he did not want Simon's multipotentiality to be locked away in a comfort zone, and invited Simon to set limits on their contact intervals.

The musician's reaction tore at Simon.

That was what humanity needed: the ability to alternate between the light and the shadows, to prosper yet know itself intimately.

On top of that, all Simon had thought of, in contrast to the musician, was returning to shield the girl from danger in the safety of her hometown. Not once did he consider bringing her to the present or a future where policy and technology could mitigate her hearing impairment or its effects, let alone exposing her to different environments and different challenges within her uncertain lifespan.

Should he if he ever had a chance? Could she survive this place when he, a perfectly physically abled man, struggled so much to?

Yet that was but a hypothetical question. He conquered the waves and the ragged wilderness but failed the fundamental question: He did not even permit the girl to grow outside her or history's comfort zone in his imagination.

One could study both the sciences and the humanities but not wire them together with ease for a scalable solution to affairs of the heart.

Footnote

Sounds of running footsteps continued to echo day after day around the abandoned giant rotor back in the original timeline.

Supplement

"What?! For how many pages has she been running? Is she going to just dwell as a faceless existence in footnotes?" While the librarian is distracted, some students grab hold of remaining smoothies. A narrator tells her to relax, for the story is coming to an end.

Volume 4: Simply Connected Space

Issue 1

Lives, too, must come to an end. The dean fell terminally ill when Simon became a postdoc, so Simon took care of him at the dean's residence to repay his kindness, despite the old man's protests. The musician's earlier problems with respecting boundaries must have rubbed off on Simon. At the residence, Simon chanced upon stashes of time-travel experiment records in a storage room. And in a secret vault laid models resembling the abandoned giant rotor back in Simon's time.

Our male protagonist rushed back to the bedroom to plead for answers from the dean. If time travel was possible again, he wanted to go back for real, tell everything to the girl and let her decide for herself whether she should risk the migration.

The dean smiled sadly at him, revealing that he knew the girl. As Simon guessed, the giant rotor refused to work for her despite months of her running circles around it. When it finally worked, she found herself with no body, sound or scent at her destination. She frantically looked high and low for Simon and cried at the sight of him on the road, but was ultimately invisible also to him.

Horrified at the disclosure, Simon pressed the dean for her whereabouts. The frail dean stroked Simon's head, asking him if he really yearned to see his sweet-hearted childhood friend since context and time could change people, but fell into a coma before he could say more. The dean's demise was later announced.

Issue 2

Giving up was never Simon's thing. For years, he studied the dean's models, records and research papers closely, ran computer simulations, sourced for intricate mechanical components and eventually built up numerous versions of the giant rotor.

This might well be the day. Simon took a deep breath and started to run around a giant rotor that held great promise in the reverse direction. First lap. Second lap. Destiny needed to be next.

But just a second into the last lap, someone grabbed him by the arm. Simon looked around and instinctively reacted with a conflicted look.

Issue 3

It was the musician. In anguish, Simon began telling him about a lost, invisible girl he must save even though everything was going to sound bizarre and far-fetched, but the musician cut him off in an unusually somber tone, "I have the remainder of her story."

Practically a ghost, the desolate girl followed Simon for a while, unable to do anything for him, then wandered on hallways looking for answers to everything. She ended up spending long, lonely years reading opened books and notes in libraries and sitting in on lectures. By and by, she mastered quantum mechanics and spent decades working out time travel.

Her perseverance led her to an electromagnetic field that sent her to an earlier era, where she finally regained her young, fit corporeal form and all.

But when she managed to assemble a giant rotor which tunable electromagnetic field could send her forward in time without turning her invisible, she realized that the technology only allowed her to appear at future destinations as a male most of the time and never as a disabled person.

On further thought, however, why should our perceived identities matter more than who we made a positive impact on? With tremendous paperwork difficulty, she attended a police academy and became a police sergeant to locate Simon again but was too late at first. Simon had been so malnourished and frostbitten he did not survive for long after her rescue. To work with more hands, she made another round back and forth in time, staying underpromoted as a patrol officer to scour the streets and cameras for him while collaborating with her previous, sergeant self.

Rescuing Simon was not enough in this supercilious, paranoid society, though. So she took a third round trip and fought vicious institutional politicking to become a college dean who could mentor and advocate for Simon. As the dean, she was touched yet regretful to witness Simon dedicate his entire academic career to the protection of her. However, she did not want Simon to live his life for her when she had already lived hers for him. And so it was that she embarked on a fourth trip while terminally ill and freshly awake from a medically induced coma — to live as his devoted multi-challenger.

Simon looked at the musician in wide-mouthed shock. Tears of fatigue and relief welled up in their red-rimmed eyes.

Footnote

A trusted mentee of the dean, willing to migrate backwards, arrived in the past to dismantle the constructed giant rotors, followed by the abandoned giant rotor that incidentally enabled time travel. Someday, however, Time scholars may rediscover the mechanics of time travel.

Supplement

The librarian quickly dabs her glossy lips and dramatically admonishes the students for misbehavior, to their amusement. But one after another, they nudge each other and wipe up their stuff. The head librarian glares at everyone from an upper level. As the students trudge out of the library, the building name reads, "Weir Public Library of Arts and Sciences."

Acknowledgment

This idea has been inspired by the following commentators' observations that onscreen female characters rarely travel forward in time: frabsiscrabsis (retweeted by @thedramanotes) and Mila. The author is indebted to Mila for taking time to read an earlier version of the story and for her enlightening feedback. This does not mean that any of these writers endorses the story or is responsible for its missteps. The bullet point format is a thematic choice. All the same, discussions on developing the idea into a book project or other media will be greatly welcome.

A close variant of the light-versus-shadows concept can be found in Extraordinary You. Drama viewers are free to visualize the following actors in the roles: Twinkling Watermelon's Shin Eun-soo as the non-hearing heroine, Someday Or One Day's Greg Hsu as Simon and Fermat's Cuisine's Hosoda Kanata as the musician.

#Twinkling Watermelon #Someday or One Day #Extraordinary You #Fermat's Cuisine #Light Academia #Chaotic Academia #Metadrama Bubble #Soapbending Sunbath 4.0

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laurazukerman-blog · 6 months ago

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Broadmann Area 39

Brodmann area 39 (BA39), also known as the angular gyrus, is located in the parietal lobe near the junction of the temporal, occipital, and parietal lobes. It surrounds the caudal end of the superior temporal sulcus and is bounded by Brodmann areas 19, 37, and 40[1][2]. Functions Language and Number Processing: Plays a role in reading, writing, and arithmetic[2][6]. Spatial Cognition: Involved…

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sunaleisocial · 6 months ago

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Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way

New Post has been published on https://sunalei.org/news/like-human-brains-large-language-models-reason-about-diverse-data-in-a-general-way/

Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way

While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of data. For instance, LLMs can understand many languages, generate computer code, solve math problems, or answer questions about images and audio.

MIT researchers probed the inner workings of LLMs to better understand how they process such assorted data, and found evidence that they share some similarities with the human brain.

Neuroscientists believe the human brain has a “semantic hub” in the anterior temporal lobe that integrates semantic information from various modalities, like visual data and tactile inputs. This semantic hub is connected to modality-specific “spokes” that route information to the hub. The MIT researchers found that LLMs use a similar mechanism by abstractly processing data from diverse modalities in a central, generalized way. For instance, a model that has English as its dominant language would rely on English as a central medium to process inputs in Japanese or reason about arithmetic, computer code, etc. Furthermore, the researchers demonstrate that they can intervene in a model’s semantic hub by using text in the model’s dominant language to change its outputs, even when the model is processing data in other languages.

These findings could help scientists train future LLMs that are better able to handle diverse data.

“LLMs are big black boxes. They have achieved very impressive performance, but we have very little knowledge about their internal working mechanisms. I hope this can be an early step to better understand how they work so we can improve upon them and better control them when needed,” says Zhaofeng Wu, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this research.

His co-authors include Xinyan Velocity Yu, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC); Dani Yogatama, an associate professor at USC; Jiasen Lu, a research scientist at Apple; and senior author Yoon Kim, an assistant professor of EECS at MIT and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The research will be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations.

Integrating diverse data

The researchers based the new study upon prior work which hinted that English-centric LLMs use English to perform reasoning processes on various languages.

Wu and his collaborators expanded this idea, launching an in-depth study into the mechanisms LLMs use to process diverse data.

An LLM, which is composed of many interconnected layers, splits input text into words or sub-words called tokens. The model assigns a representation to each token, which enables it to explore the relationships between tokens and generate the next word in a sequence. In the case of images or audio, these tokens correspond to particular regions of an image or sections of an audio clip.

The researchers found that the model’s initial layers process data in its specific language or modality, like the modality-specific spokes in the human brain. Then, the LLM converts tokens into modality-agnostic representations as it reasons about them throughout its internal layers, akin to how the brain’s semantic hub integrates diverse information.

The model assigns similar representations to inputs with similar meanings, despite their data type, including images, audio, computer code, and arithmetic problems. Even though an image and its text caption are distinct data types, because they share the same meaning, the LLM would assign them similar representations.

For instance, an English-dominant LLM “thinks” about a Chinese-text input in English before generating an output in Chinese. The model has a similar reasoning tendency for non-text inputs like computer code, math problems, or even multimodal data.

To test this hypothesis, the researchers passed a pair of sentences with the same meaning but written in two different languages through the model. They measured how similar the model’s representations were for each sentence.

Then they conducted a second set of experiments where they fed an English-dominant model text in a different language, like Chinese, and measured how similar its internal representation was to English versus Chinese. The researchers conducted similar experiments for other data types.

They consistently found that the model’s representations were similar for sentences with similar meanings. In addition, across many data types, the tokens the model processed in its internal layers were more like English-centric tokens than the input data type.

“A lot of these input data types seem extremely different from language, so we were very surprised that we can probe out English-tokens when the model processes, for example, mathematic or coding expressions,” Wu says.

Leveraging the semantic hub

The researchers think LLMs may learn this semantic hub strategy during training because it is an economical way to process varied data.

“There are thousands of languages out there, but a lot of the knowledge is shared, like commonsense knowledge or factual knowledge. The model doesn’t need to duplicate that knowledge across languages,” Wu says.

The researchers also tried intervening in the model’s internal layers using English text when it was processing other languages. They found that they could predictably change the model outputs, even though those outputs were in other languages.

Scientists could leverage this phenomenon to encourage the model to share as much information as possible across diverse data types, potentially boosting efficiency.

But on the other hand, there could be concepts or knowledge that are not translatable across languages or data types, like culturally specific knowledge. Scientists might want LLMs to have some language-specific processing mechanisms in those cases.

“How do you maximally share whenever possible but also allow languages to have some language-specific processing mechanisms? That could be explored in future work on model architectures,” Wu says.

In addition, researchers could use these insights to improve multilingual models. Often, an English-dominant model that learns to speak another language will lose some of its accuracy in English. A better understanding of an LLM’s semantic hub could help researchers prevent this language interference, he says.

“Understanding how language models process inputs across languages and modalities is a key question in artificial intelligence. This paper makes an interesting connection to neuroscience and shows that the proposed ‘semantic hub hypothesis’ holds in modern language models, where semantically similar representations of different data types are created in the model’s intermediate layers,” says Mor Geva Pipek, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, who was not involved with this work. “The hypothesis and experiments nicely tie and extend findings from previous works and could be influential for future research on creating better multimodal models and studying links between them and brain function and cognition in humans.”

This research is funded, in part, by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

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learningcenter · 1 year ago

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Mastering PSLE Maths Logical Deduction: Tips and Strategies

PSLE Maths presents various challenges, and among them, logical deduction questions stand out for their demand on students' reasoning and problem-solving skills. These questions assess not only mathematical proficiency but also the ability to analyze information critically and draw logical conclusions.

Logical deduction questions in PSLE Maths require a systematic approach and a clear understanding of how to interpret and manipulate information. Find a math tutor near me, who can provide personalized guidance and support, can be pivotal in enhancing preparation for such challenging questions. Here’s a detailed guide to help students effectively approach and excel in PSLE Maths logical deduction questions.

Understanding the Basics of Logical Deduction

Logical deduction questions typically present students with a scenario or a set of conditions, from which they must deduce the correct answer based on given information. These questions often involve multiple steps of reasoning, requiring students to connect the dots between different pieces of information to arrive at a logical conclusion.

Identifying Key Information

A crucial first step in solving logical deduction questions is to identify and extract the essential information provided in the problem statement. This involves carefully reading and analyzing the question to discern what facts or conditions are relevant to the solution. For example, if a question involves determining the sequence of events based on given times and durations, students should identify these temporal markers and understand their significance in establishing the logical sequence.

Establishing Logical Connections

Once the key information is identified, the next step is to establish logical connections between the given information and the potential conclusions. This may involve using logical reasoning, mathematical principles, or both, depending on the nature of the question. For instance, in a geometry problem where students need to deduce the properties of a shape based on given angles and side lengths, establishing these connections involves applying geometric principles and logical deductions derived from them.

Applying Mathematical Principles

In many logical deduction questions, students are required to apply mathematical principles such as algebraic equations, geometric properties, or arithmetic operations to arrive at the correct solution. Understanding and applying these principles correctly is essential for accurate deductions. For example, in a problem involving the calculation of probabilities based on given data, students must apply probability formulas and logical reasoning to deduce the correct outcome.

Developing Step-by-Step Solutions

To tackle logical deduction questions effectively, it's essential to develop a structured approach to solving them. This includes breaking down the problem into manageable steps, clearly outlining each step of reasoning, and ensuring logical coherence throughout the solution. Students should practice outlining their thought processes clearly to ensure that each deduction follows logically from the previous one.

Practicing with Sample Questions

Practice plays a crucial role in mastering logical deduction questions. Students should regularly practice with a variety of sample questions to familiarize themselves with different types of logical deduction scenarios and hone their problem-solving skills under timed conditions. Time management is also key during practice sessions, as it prepares students for the time constraints they will face during the actual exam.

Reviewing and Improving Skills

Effective learning from practice involves reviewing mistakes, understanding where errors occurred, and learning from them to avoid similar pitfalls in the future. Continuous improvement in logical deduction skills comes from consistent practice, self-assessment, and seeking feedback from teachers or tutors. Reflecting on the strategies that worked well and those that didn’t can help students refine their approach to logical deduction questions.

Importance of Logical Deduction Skills

Beyond PSLE Maths, proficiency in logical deduction is a valuable skill that extends to various academic disciplines and real-world problem-solving scenarios. Developing strong logical deduction skills can enhance critical thinking abilities, improve decision-making processes, and foster analytical reasoning—all of which are invaluable assets in academic and professional settings.

Conclusion

In conclusion, mastering logical deduction in PSLE Maths requires not only a solid understanding of mathematical concepts but also the ability to apply logical reasoning effectively. Finding a math tutor near me can provide personalized guidance and support in navigating the complexities of logical deduction questions.

By following the strategies outlined in this guide—understanding the basics, identifying key information, establishing logical connections, applying mathematical principles, developing structured solutions, practicing with samples, and reviewing and improving skills—students can enhance their proficiency in tackling PSLE Maths logical deduction questions with confidence.

This comprehensive approach not only prepares students for the challenges of PSLE Maths but also equips them with valuable problem-solving skills that extend beyond the exam. With dedication, practice, and strategic guidance, students can excel in logical deduction and achieve their best results in PSLE Maths.

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phaedoe · 1 year ago

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Both contemporary physics and traditional Jewish thought recognize two types of time: 1) absolute or unified world time; 2) relative or local time. Using Moshe Carmeli’s equations, cosmological time is read backwards, approaching the initial moment of Creation. The closer we mentally approach the point of temporal origin, however, the longer the time intervals become. Insight into Louis de Broglie’s Great Law of Nature reveals that a perfectly free elementary particle must be, in essence, itself a perfect or ideal clock. This insight may provide a missing link between the geometric concept of the space-time continuum and the arithmetic concept of time. Maimonides disagrees with the Midrash that time had existed before the Creation. Hasidic philosophy also upholds that time was created with the rest of the universe by G-d. Hasidism defines two types of time: 1) ‘absolute, permanently flowing’ (etsem hemshekh ha’zman); 2) ‘measurable and estimable’ (zman ha’nimdad veha’meshuar). There is a special cycle in the Hasidic system called ratso v’shov, which comprises a dual process of ‘escape and return’. In physics this corresponds with the periodically recurrent process needed to measure time, i.e. with a finite ‘to-and-fro’ cycle which occurs by means of some restoring force.

Herman Branover and Ruvin Ferber, “The Concept of Absolute Time in Science and Jewish Thought”

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the-chomsky-hash · 2 years ago

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[D. The path of Husserl's thought - cont'd]

[3. Husserl, in the "Psychologische Studien", distinguished two modes of representation: e.g., an impression in the snow (i.e., in the state of the world), and the fleeing fox - cont'd]

[b. Now number, to the one who calculates, is very precisely that mode wherein the star shaped hollow in the snow, is, to the hunter, the fleeing fox - cont'd]

ii. To match

a plurality of objects

a series of numbers

we must rely on the arithmetic concept of the numerical equality of sets. But this concept does not borrow

either its origin

or its essence

from the context of lived experience in which it manifests itself:

Firstly, because the empirical content of the things numbered does not intervene in any way in the constitution of a collection (I can add the Earth, the Moon, the Sun), and only the collective connection of what is numbered.

Secondly, because this connection itself must not be confused with the succession of psychic events which promotes it by following a temporal order: "plurality" and "succession" have rigorously different conceptual contents (there may be plurality of simultaneous contents) and the very idea of a successive order implies the deployment of the concept of plurality in the sphere of concrete phenomena.

Finally, because this concept is not encountered in the concrete domain in the form of a relationship already constituted in the mode of spatial simultaneity: the objects that populate space are in fact what is counted, and not the number that counts; they form the real fulcrum of the act; but they are neither the act itself nor the actual content of the act.

The numerical order is constituted in complete independence with regard to the order of juxtaposition in the spatial horizon.

– Michel Foucault, The Essence of Lived Experience, d'après Phénoménologie et psychologie, ca. 1954, BnF, Fonds Foucault, NAF 28730, boîte 46, dossier 2, établie par Sabot et Ewald

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nklhuybien75 · 2 years ago

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Full Carry: What It is, How It Works, FAQs

What Is Full Carry?

In the context of computer science and computer arithmetic, "Full Carry" refers to a situation where the addition of two binary numbers results in a carry generated in every bit position. This means that in every column (or bit position) of the addition, there is a carry generated, which must be added to the next higher-order bit.

Let's break down how binary addition and full carry work:

In binary addition, you add two binary numbers bit by bit, starting from the rightmost bit (the least significant bit) and moving towards the left. Each bit position can have one of two values: 0 or 1. When you add two 1s in a column, a carry of 1 is generated and added to the next higher-order bit.

Here's an example of binary addition with full carry:

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1101 + 1011 ------- 11000

In this example, adding the two binary numbers 1101 and 1011 results in a carry generated in every bit position. The result 11000 is a 5-bit binary number where every bit position has a carry.

This concept is crucial in digital circuits and computer arithmetic, where it ensures accurate addition of binary numbers. Arithmetic circuits in computer hardware are designed to handle full carries efficiently.

If you have more specific questions about full carry or related topics, feel free to ask!

Understanding Full Carry

Understanding full carry in the context of binary addition is essential in digital logic and computer arithmetic. When you add two binary numbers, you start from the rightmost bit and move towards the left, just like how you do addition with decimal numbers. Each bit position can have a value of 0 or 1.

The concept of a full carry is best illustrated with an example. Let's add two binary numbers, A = 1101 and B = 1011:

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1101 + 1011 -------

Starting from the rightmost bit (the least significant bit), you add 1 + 1. In binary addition, 1 + 1 results in 0 in the current position, and a carry of 1 to the next higher-order bit. So, the rightmost column becomes 0, and there's a carry of 1:

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1101 + 1011 ------- 0

Moving to the next bit, you add 0 (from the carry) + 1. This results in 1, with no carry:

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1101 + 1011 ------- 01

Continuing, 1 + 0 results in 1, with no carry:

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1101 + 1011 ------- 101

Finally, 1 + 1 results in 0, and there's a carry of 1:

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1101 + 1011 ------- 11000

In this example, every bit position had a carry, resulting in a full carry. Full carry ensures that you consider all possible carry values in each bit position, allowing for accurate addition of binary numbers. This concept is crucial in digital circuits, especially in arithmetic and logic units (ALUs) in computers, where binary addition operations are performed.

Potential Arbitrage

Arbitrage is a financial term used to describe the practice of taking advantage of price differences for the same asset in different markets or forms. It involves buying an asset at a lower price in one market and selling it at a higher price in another market to make a profit. Arbitrage opportunities exist because of market inefficiencies or time lags in the dissemination of information.

Potential arbitrage opportunities can arise in various markets, including stocks, currencies, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Here are a few common types of arbitrage:

Spatial Arbitrage: This involves exploiting price differences for the same asset in different locations. For example, a commodity might be priced differently in two different cities, allowing traders to buy in the cheaper location and sell in the more expensive one.

Temporal Arbitrage: Temporal arbitrage takes advantage of price differences for the same asset at different points in time. For instance, a stock might be priced differently before and after a significant news event. Traders can buy the stock before the news is widely known and sell it after the price has adjusted.

Statistical Arbitrage: Statistical arbitrage involves using mathematical models to identify price divergences based on historical data. Traders create algorithms that automatically buy or sell assets when certain statistical anomalies are detected.

Risk Arbitrage (Merger Arbitrage): This type of arbitrage occurs when there's a pending merger or acquisition. The stock of the target company usually trades below the acquisition price due to uncertainty or time lags. Arbitrageurs buy the target company's stock and make a profit when the merger is completed and the stock price adjusts to the acquisition price.

Cryptocurrency Arbitrage: Cryptocurrencies often have price differences across different exchanges due to various factors such as liquidity, regulations, or transaction processing times. Traders can buy a cryptocurrency on one exchange where the price is lower and sell it on another exchange where the price is higher.

It's important to note that arbitrage opportunities are typically short-lived and require quick execution, as markets tend to adjust rapidly to eliminate price disparities. Additionally, arbitrage opportunities involve risks, including market volatility and execution risks, which can impact the profitability of the trades. Traders involved in arbitrage need to have a good understanding of the markets, technology, and risk management strategies to be successful.

What Is a Futures Contract?

A futures contract is a standardized financial agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset (such as a commodity, financial instrument, or currency) at a predetermined future date for a price specified today. These contracts are traded on organized exchanges, and they are a crucial part of the global financial markets.

Here are the key components and characteristics of futures contracts:

1. Standardization:

Futures contracts are highly standardized. The contract specifies the quantity and quality of the underlying asset, as well as the delivery date and location. For example, a crude oil futures contract might specify delivery of 1,000 barrels of a specific grade of crude oil in New York in November.

2. Contract Specifications:

Each futures contract has specific details, including the size of the contract (how much of the underlying asset is being traded), the tick size (the minimum price movement), and the expiration or delivery date.

3. Long and Short Positions:

In a futures contract, there are two parties involved: the buyer (long position) and the seller (short position). The buyer agrees to purchase, and the seller agrees to sell the asset at the agreed-upon price on the specified future date.

4. Price Determination:

The futures price is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. It represents the market's consensus on what the price of the asset will be at the future date specified in the contract.

5. Margin Requirements:

Futures trading involves the use of margin, which is a performance bond that traders must deposit with the exchange clearinghouse. Margin requirements ensure that traders have enough funds to cover potential losses.

6. Settlement:

Most futures contracts are cash-settled, which means that instead of delivering the physical asset, the difference between the futures price and the market price at the contract's expiration is settled in cash. However, some futures contracts do involve physical delivery of the underlying asset.

7. Risk Management:

Futures contracts serve as important risk management tools for producers and consumers of commodities. For example, a farmer can use futures contracts to lock in a price for his crop before harvest, thus protecting against price fluctuations.

8. Leverage:

Futures trading allows traders to control a large position with a relatively small amount of capital, thanks to the margin system. This feature provides the potential for significant profits but also magnifies potential losses.

Overall, futures contracts play a vital role in global financial markets by allowing participants to hedge against price fluctuations, speculate on price movements, and manage risk effectively.

What Are the Types of Futures Contracts?

Futures contracts are available for a wide range of underlying assets, and they are categorized into several types based on the nature of the underlying asset. Here are the main types of futures contracts:

1. Commodity Futures:

Agricultural Commodities: Includes contracts for products like wheat, corn, soybeans, coffee, and livestock.

Energy Commodities: Includes contracts for crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, and gasoline.

Metals: Includes contracts for gold, silver, copper, and other precious and industrial metals.

2. Financial Futures:

Stock Index Futures: Contracts based on the performance of a stock index like the S&P 500, NASDAQ, or Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Interest Rate Futures: Includes contracts based on interest rates such as Treasury bonds, T-bills, Eurodollar deposits, and Euroyen contracts.

Currency Futures: Contracts involving the exchange rates between different currencies like the US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, etc.

3. Foreign Exchange (Forex) Futures:

Similar to currency futures, these contracts involve the exchange of one currency for another at a future date.

4. Single-Stock Futures:

Futures contracts based on the future price of individual stocks. These contracts are relatively new compared to other types of futures contracts.

5. Index and Sector Futures:

Apart from stock index futures, there are futures contracts based on various economic indicators or sectors like technology, healthcare, or financial services.

6. Weather Futures:

Uncommon but existent, these contracts are based on weather events. For instance, they might be used by companies dependent on weather conditions, such as agricultural businesses.

7. Real Estate Futures:

These contracts are based on real estate values and are relatively new in the futures markets.

Each type of futures contract serves a specific purpose in the financial markets. Investors and traders use these contracts for hedging against price fluctuations, speculating on future price movements, and diversifying their portfolios. The availability of various types of futures contracts allows market participants to manage a wide range of risks and opportunities in different sectors of the economy.

Are Futures Derivatives?

Yes, futures contracts are derivatives. A derivative is a financial contract whose value is derived from the performance of an underlying asset, index, rate, or event. Futures contracts fall under this category because their value is derived from the price of an underlying asset, such as commodities, currencies, interest rates, or stock indices.

In the case of futures contracts, the contract's value is directly related to the price movements of the underlying asset specified in the contract. The price of a futures contract is determined based on the current market value of the underlying asset, and it reflects the market's expectation of what the price of the asset will be at the contract's expiration date.

Derivatives like futures contracts are widely used for various purposes, including hedging against price fluctuations, speculation on future price movements, and portfolio diversification. They allow investors and businesses to manage risks and gain exposure to assets without owning them directly, making derivatives an essential part of modern financial markets.

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duhragonball · 2 years ago

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Dragon Ball Super Manga ch.14-20

Okay, let’s look at the manga version of the Zamasu Saga.

For openers, I like this establishing scene in the deserted West City. The old newspaper celebrating the anniversary of 17 and 18′s death is a great way to clue in the reader that we’re in a different world, and just how different things are.

Toyotaro skips the part where Future Bulma dies, and I like this version better. Trunks just tells Mai that she’s dead and how it happened. We don’t even know for sure that Trunks was there to see it. He may have gotten the news from someone else, or he discovered footage on a security camera at her lab.

Back in the main timeline, there’s this weird bit where Trunks’ teacher tries to explain alternate timelines by using Trunks’ own family as an example. In this scenario, Trunks goes back in time and accidentally kills his own mother, resulting in an alternate timeline where he was never born, but his own native timeline is unchanged. Then she realizes she was reading the wrong lesson plan and she was supposed to cover arithmetic today. Okay, but why this example, though?

Meanwhile Bulma asks if Whis’ temporal do-over ability created an alternate timeline, but Whis says it doesn’t, because he just “resets” time. I’m not sure what the difference is, unless he means like the three minutes where Frieza destroyed the Earth in Resurrection F simply never took place. He didn’t take Goku back in time so much as he rewound time so that three minutes ago becomes the present.

Anyway, Whis says this is why it’s only a three-minute ability, and why he can only do it once in a great while. Otherwise, the temporal do-over would “upset the time axis”. I think this is the manga’s way of saying that it’s not enough for a time traveler to just arrive in the past. They have to actually get out of the time machine and make some noticeable changes before an alternate timeline would be produced.

I think this is what trips up a lot of fans (myself included) when we try to figure out all the timelines in Dragon Ball. It’s not hard to end up with a larger count than what the official sources seem to recognize. When Gowasu shows off his Time Rings, there’s supposed to be one for each alternate timeline, and he doesn’t have very many.

I think Toriyama’s theory with all of this in the Dragon Ball lore is that the “Butterfly Effect” isn’t strong enough on its own to create alternate timelines. Stepping on a butterfly is a big deal in “A Sound of Thunder,” by Ray Bradbury. In Dragon Ball, I’m not even sure that Trunks killing Frieza and King Cold was enough to create an alternate timeline, since that was something Goku would have done anyway. But Trunks giving Goku the heart medicine and warning him about the Androids certainly created an alternate timeline, because by that point he had “upset the time axis” enough to do what Whis does not.

Anyway, he’s some Super Saiyan 2. I’m putting this in because in the anime version, Goku is supposed to be SSJ2, but they drew him as SSJ1, which ticks me off. Toyotaro knows what’s up, though. Seriously, why do people hate this guy so much? I’m 26 chapters into this manga, and the artwork consistently rocks.

The sparring scene with Goku and Trunks ends with Trunks powering up his SSJ2 form, which somehow surpasses Goku’s SSJ3 form. That still sounds janky in my head, but Toriyama crossed that Rubicon when he had Vegeta surpass SSJ3 Goku in Battle of Gods. The important thing is that the manga version gives Trunks some more credibility going into this arc. He’s still weaker than Goku and Vegeta in this thing, but he’s not as useless as he was in the anime version, and so it’s less stupid when he rises to the occasion in the manga.

This is an important distinction between Toyotaro’s storytelling and Toei’s. There’s a genuine effort by Toyotaro to use the different transformations to explain how a character has improved or “caught up” to an opponent. The point of this scene was for Goku to get an idea of how strong Goku Black is by finding out how strong Trunks is now. And the manga gives us a general idea by having Goku use Super Saiyan God very briefly to get the better of Trunks. The message is that Trunks has gotten a lot stronger since we last saw him, and that means Goku Black is stronger still, but Goku still seems to have the advantage, at least for now.

In the anime version, it felt more like the point was just to work one more Goku fight scene into the arc. He used SSJ3 to overpower Trunks, then didn’t even bother using it when Goku Black showed up. It reminds me a lot of GT, where Goku will just... do stuff during a fight, without any sense of a strategy or purpose. The only true plan is to save the strongest transformations until the end, whether that makes sense or not.

Volume 2 of the manga ends with a bonus comic showing how things played out in the Future Trunks Timeline when they tried to use the Dragon Balls. Gohan was trying to make a wish before 17 and 18 could kill Piccolo, but the Pilaf Gang had already beaten him to the punch, and made themselves babies. Presumably, the Pilaf Gang made the same wish in the “main” timeline, which is why they’re kids throughout Dragon Ball Super.

I guess the main thing to note here is that this removes all doubt about Mai’s true age. Her adult self in the Zamasu arc is so different from the one we saw in early Dragon Ball that I often wonder if they’re even the same person, but this comic establishes that they are. I don’t think the Pilaf Gang should look quite this decrepit in this year. I think Toyotaro used their character models from GT, which is set 22 years after this moment. But then again, working for Emperor Pilaf is a rough life, which is probably why Pilaf made the wish for youth in the first place.

Moving on, we get a much better depiction of Future Trunks’ version of the battle with Babidi and Dabura. The problem I always had with the anime and the Kakarot video game is that they go out of their way to establish that Trunks has the Z-Sword for this fight, and it gets turned into stone by Dabura’s spit. The implication is that the Elder Kai can never be freed now, because the Z-Sword is lost, except Trunks kills Dabura a little later on. Killing Dabura should reverse the spell, restoring the Z-Sword to normal. Yeah, it broke while it was made of stone, but that’s a good thing, since the sword had to be broken to release the Elder Kai.

Well, Toyotaro took that into account, which is why he not only draws the petrified sword in pieces, but he also adds a panel where it bursts into flames! Not sure why that happened, but it looks cool as hell, and now we know for sure that the Elder Kai is not coming out of that thing. There’s a gag panel at the end of the chapter showing the Elder Kai with a halo just in case there was any doubt.

Speaking of Kibito, he’s the one who fights Zamasu in his introduction to the story. I have a strong suspicion that this was Toriyama’s original idea, and Toei took one look at it and said “A fight without Goku? But what about the ratings?!” so they rewrote things to have Goku fight Zamasu and defeat him, which starts him down the path to cartoonish supervillainy. And that’s fine, except it leads to some continuity headaches later.

The manga is careful to avoid having Goku and Zamasu meet until they fight in Trunks’ world. This is important for time travelly stuff I don’t want to get into right now.

Zamasu also learns of the Time Rings independently of the good guys preparing to fight Goku Black. This Zamasu/Gowasu is just presented as a side plot in the manga. At this point, no one suspects Zamasu of any wrongdoing, and there’s no indication that he has anything to do with Goku Black. In fact, there’s a point where everyone suspects Kibito instead, because he said some not-so-nice things about mortals in the Buu saga, and that’s about as suspicious as any Kai has ever been.

Anyway, Gowasu explains the Time Rings, and tells a tale about an ancient civilization in Universe 12 who invented a time machine. So one of the spare Time Rings represents and alternate timeline created by that time machine. So that’s why there was one more in the box what I had expected. The anime never bothered to explain this, so I’m glad the manga did.

Zamasu also learns of Goku and the Super Dragon Balls on his own, when he finds an illegal upload of the Destroyer Invitational Tournament on GodTube. Then he goes off to quiz Zuno about both of these things, and asks if the Super Dragon Balls could switch a god’s body with a mortal’s. Zuno relays this information to Kibito, who informs the good guys, and that’s when they figure out that Goku Black is a future version of Zamasu.

See, this is important because this arc depicts Zamasu/Goku Black’s origin story. And the anime tried to get cute by introducing a predestination paradox to it. They had Goku Black follow Trunks into the past, where Beerus and Whis noticed his Time Ring and familiar ki. Then they went to Universe 10 to ask some questions, and that’s how Zamasu learned about Goku and the Time Rings, which eventually inspired his plan to become Goku Black.

And I like the poetry of that cycle. Beerus investigates Goku Black, which inadvertantly leads Zamasu to become Goku Black, who then goes back in time and motivates Beerus to investigate. Except there’s no starting point for any of this. Dragon Ball doesn’t deal in predestination paradoxes, since they’re all about alternate timelines. So there would need to be a timeline where Zamasu became Goku Black without Beerus’ involvement, except there’s no scenario in the anime where that could happen.

What else have we got? There’s this scene of everyone hanging out and playing video games, which is cute but not too important.

And the #kisscourse is in the manga, front and center, which pretty much proves that this stupid idea of Goku never kissing his sexy wife came directly from the brain of Akira Toriyama. There’s no way this dumb bullshit made it into the manga, anime, and the dub without it being in Tori’s notes for this story.

It’s still stupid as fuck. Real talk, I think Akira Toriyama is a storytelling genius, but that doesn’t mean this was a good idea. Even Babe Ruth struck out once in a while.

Let’s talk about the fighting. One of the many dumb things about the anime version is that Goku and Vegeta go to Trunks’ future world three times, which is just incredibly tedious. Throw in the bit where Goku Black followed Trunks into the past, and Goku’s little sparring session with Zamasu, and Goku fights the main villains on five separate occasions. Remember how Goku fought King Piccolo twice, and that was it? Rememer how Goku went to Namek and fought Frieza once? Remember how those arcs were really fucking good and this...?

Anyway, Toyotaro clears away a lot of dead wood by just having two trips to Trunks’ world: One where they lose, and one where they win. And much of the fighting is handled by Vegeta, which is nice because it justifies Vegeta’s presence in this mission, and it saves Goku for when it counts. In this version, he works over Goku Black, and challenges him to use Super Saiyan Blue, but Goku Black doesn’t know how to do that yet, so it’s mostly Vegeta whoopin’ Black’s ass, which is great. This is where he does the speech about only a Saiyan being able to make full use of a Saiyan body. The anime has this too, except they stuck it near the end of the arc, when Goku Black had already beaten Goku and Vegeta twice before, so he had pretty much figured out how to use a Saiyan body by that point.

Here, Goku Black takes his licks, then discovers from fighting Vegeta how to become Super Saiyan Rosé, and then he turns the tables. The anime completely screwed all that up, and I think I see why. I’ve been comparing the Zamasu arc to GT a lot, and I’m realizing that it’s because Episodes 47-67 of DBS were made with the same production sensibilities as GT. The story took a back seat to the ratings. They wanted Goku doing things in as many episodes as possible, and they probably wanted Goku Black to transform early on, both to show off his new form, and to job out Vegeta as quickly as possible so that Goku could take the lead and get more screen time.

Because when you read the manga version, you find a lot of scenes where Goku’s either a spectator, or not present at all. While he watches Vegeta fight Black in the future, Beerus is questioning Zamasu about his fact-finding trip to Zuno. There was a similar scene in the anime, except it was rewritten so Goku could be part of it. But in the manga, they do this without Goku, and they don’t bother waiting for Zamasu to assassinate Gowasu to prove his guilt. Instead, the Supreme Kai simply uses his own Time Ring to see for himself, and he shows up to tell Beerus and Gowasu about Zamasu’s future crimes.

And this sets up a cool thing in the manga version. While the Supreme Kai reports on what he witness with his Time Ring, he reveals that Goku Black has an ally, the alternate timeline Zamasu. So while he’s explaining this in the present, Goku and Vegeta are finding out about it the hard way in the future. It’s pretty cool storytelling, especially for comics, but it’s diametrically opposed to the core values at Toei, which is “Goku = Ratingz”. The idea of having two plot threads in a story-- one with Goku on the sidelines and one without Goku at all-- is anatheme to Toei. Kozo Morishita still runs that place, you know.

So that’s why the anime version had three time-trips instead of two. They needed Goku to meet Future Zamasu, and then come back so he could join Beerus in the scene where he destroys Zamasu in the present, and then sit in on the discussion of how that all works, and then go back so he could resume the mission. It was all carefully constructed to get Goku in as many scenes as possible. The fact that it ruins the pacing and makes the story more convoluted doesn’t matter. “Goku = Ratingz”.

So let’s talk about my favorite part of the manga version. Why did this plan require two Zamasus, and why aren’t they both bodyswapped and immortal? It’s actually very simple, and it explains a lot of about this arc, which is why I’m so mad at the anime version for never touching on it at all.

Okay, so Zamasu wanted Goku’s body because of the raw power it possessed. That’s simple enough to understand. But when he got Goku’s body, he couldn’t utilize its full power. That’s why he couldn’t transform right away. And this is a major part of why Goku Black kept fighting Trunks all the time in the year before Trunks went back in time for help. It wasn’t because Black sucks at killing Trunks. Far from it. There’s a flashback in this story where Black defeats Trunks and lets him go, so that he can fight him later. He’s not just toying with Trunks; he’s using Trunks to train himself.

Throughout this arc, it’s made clear that the bad guys’ aren’t just settling for Future Trunks’ reality. They fully intend to attack the other timelines as well, so they’ll need Goku Black as strong as he can get. So they’re using this world for practice, working out all the details and giving Goku Black a chance to beef up before they move on.

That’s why Goku Black didn’t make himself immortal. He needs a vulnerable body in order to get the same benefits Saiyans get from fighting powerful opponents. If he was immortal, he’d just stagnate at whatever power level he’s at, just like his counterpart.

So what’s the Immortal Zamasu’s role in the plan? He heals Goku Black whenever he gets hurt. Remember how Kibito would heal people in the Buu Saga? Zamasu has the same ability, because he was Gowasu’s attendant, just as Kibito is Shin’s attendant. Goku Black had the same power, but he lost it when he switched bodies with Goku. So he needed a second Zamasu on his team, one who still had his Kai body and all the powers that came with it. And to protect his healer, Goku Black used the Super Dragon Balls to make him immortal and indestructible.

It drives me nuts, because Toyotaro presents it all so elegantly, and the anime didn’t even try. All you get are Black and Zamasu rambling about how one of them is the sword and one is the shield, but they never discuss healing powers or why they can’t combine Kai powers and Saiyan powers in the same body.

Okay, so like I said, this manga has two stages of the battle. After the Goku Black/Immortal Zamasu alliance is revealed, the good guys get clobbered and have to retreat. Trunks uses the Solar Flare (cool!) which is a lot more believable than a bunch of Resistance bullshit. In fact, you really don’t see much of the Resistance guys in this version, which doesn’t bother me at all.

Black tries to locate their enemies, but he knows the Saiyans can suppress their ki, so he tries a different tack and searches for an absence of ki. He locates Mai, then finds her leaving a sewer with some figures with no life signs. So they attack, only to discover they were actually dummies under sheets. Then Trunks ambushes them to cover Goku and Vegeta’s escape. Awesome!

So Trunks has to hold them both off while Goku and Vegeta retreat to the past. This is a lot like when Trunks powered up to... whatever he was in Episode 62. Except this version doesn’t bother giving Trunks a new transformation that ends up not working anyway. This version also doesn’t just skip ahead without explaining how he got out of this sticky situation. Look! He’s in a lot of danger here, and it’s a cliffhanger! The next chapter will show how he gets out of this mess. This is storytelling 101, and it astonishes me how Toei botched this so badly in the anime version.

I don’t want to oversell the manga version of the Zamasu arc. It’s got problems, but the anime version has the same problems, plus a lot of unforced errors that make it unwatchable in places. So when you read the manga version right after the anime version, like I just did, it’s like night and day. If you’re only going to do one or the other, make sure you pick the manga. But if you insist on checking out both, you might want to do manga second, if only for the palette cleanser.

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sarnakhwritesthings · 2 years ago

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For the WIP ask that I'm kinda tardy for but hey better late than never, right? 😇😉

I'd love to know about kissletoe fake dating au, Star Trek Self-Insert fic, Venom!Trill and GarashirDax fic 😎👍

whee, three of these are in pages and at some point they need to move because iCloud forcing me to log in for the billionth time after clicking 'trust this browser'... loads pages somehow not this time though. Huh.

kissletoe fake dating: a really stupid fic inspired by 3OH!3's Kissletoe (I got into them over the summer, boy You Can Certainly Tell these songs were early aughts)

it's a fake dating college modern au 'i need to get my family off my back and you're the only one from my town at this school I know' for Hamish/Sonja, a rarepair I think I invented for the Honor Harrington novels.

Hamish’s phone buzzed. Turning his attention from his laptop (and the essay that was due on Friday) for a moment, he flipped it over and frowned as he saw who it was from.

hey can we talk

if this is about that last debate practice you and I both know I won fair and square

no this is not about the debate

i need a favor

what, did you suddenly forget how to do basic arithmetic

*no i did not ‘forget how to do basic arithmetic*

that’s what i have a calculator for

this isn’t school related

Hamish raised an eyebrow. Ok, that’s interesting. I didn’t know she existed outside of school.

now im curious

can you be at the library in 15 minutes?

im already there

fifth floor study room A thumbs-up was the next notification he got, and as he turned back to his laptop Hamish wondered exactly what had possessed Sonja to ask him of all people for a favor.

Deep Space Mine, as elaborated here, was/is a fic spawned out of 2020 and attempting to cope through escapism.

“Mr. Fehd. Please, sit down.” It wasn’t a request. DTI was no-nonsense, that much was certain.

Conference Room B was sparsely appointed, especially so soon after the Bajoran/Federation takeover. Two Temporal Investigations agents were seated with their backs to the windows, halfway down the table, where they could observe everyone who had come through the door.

“You’re dismissed, Ensign,” the elder agent noted, and the Andorian security officer who head escorted me to the conference room nodded his head and exited the room.

“I’m agent Myers, this,” he said, “is agent Shallowwater.” Agent Shallowwater was a woman, and unless I missed my guess was a Native American of some variety.

“Now, I’m certain we all know why you’re here, Mr. Fehd, so we’ll get right to it.” Shallowwater said. She pulled a PADD out from a saddlebag and placed it on the table, activating the holographic display as she did so. “Begin Department of Temporal Investigations temporally-displaced persons interview: subject Fehd, Johnathan Cosmas, Stardate 46612.4. Please tell us how you arrived in our time period, if you can, Mr. Fehd.”

I nodded, watching my holographic mirror do the same with a tinge of unease. “Does that thing have to be on? I’m going to spend the entire interview looking at instead of you if it does.”

Myers nodded and dismissed the reverse image. “The camera will stay on, of course, but you don’t have to watch it if it makes you uncomfortable,” he said gently.

“Thanks.” I cleared my throat.

so i did write this two years ago, so be gentle with it, lol

Venom!Dax: Eheeheehee, this is a fun one. For one thing, a few chapters are already up on AO3 (though I'll warn you bring tissues) and is predicated on the idea that the Trill symbionts are a lot like the Venom symbionts. Shenanigans ensue.

"I said no one moves!" T'Kar barked.

"I'm the commander of this station," Sisko said, affecting his most commanding tone. "What is your business here?"

The Klingon sneered. "You'll have to ask my employer."

"I'm, I'm sorry about all this. If everyone would just cooperate, I promise it will all be over soon,” a Trill man said apologetically.

"What will be over soon?" Sisko demanded.

Quark decided that that would be a good time to interject. "This is an outrage! I demand to be released at once!"

The second Klingon who had escorted him in shut him up. "Enough of your whining!"

Quark, predictably, ignored him. "Who are these people, what do they want from us?"

"Funny, I was about to ask you that question," Kira spat.

"That's enough," the woman said.

"I agree," Sisko replied. "Now tell me what you want here."

"Dax," Verad said. "I want Dax."

"She's not going anywhere with you."

"No, no, I don't want the girl," Verad said, provoking a low hiss from the joined pair as tinges of blue flashed beneath Jadzia's skin. "I only want what is rightfully mine. What should have been mine years ago. I want Dax."

"He hasss come to sssteal me," Benjamin,” a sibilant voice said, and everyone's eyes turned to behold a floating blue psychoconstructed head hovering above Jadzia's shoulder.

garashirdax: haven't touched this one in a bit, but my main motivational process was essentially 'poly vee with julian in the middle, early in the dominion war, suddenly pirates'

“May I come in, Major?”

Major Kira Nerys, second in command of Deep Space Nine, looked up from her borrowed desk to behold Julian Bashir, with PADDs under his arm and two cups of raktajino in his hands. “Oh, of course, Doctor, sit down.”

He did so, placing both mugs on the desk before sliding one and the PADDs over to Kira. “I have the crew physical and mental fitness reports, Major,” he said. “All seventeen hundred thirty four, Starfleet and Bajoran, plus or minus the command staff’s close associates, family, and significant others.

Kira looked askance at him. “Look, Julian, just because you and Garak are…I don’t know, is dating the right word, considering what you’ve got going on with Jadzia? Doesn’t mean you can start counting him among the crew for official reports.”

Julian looked positively unabashed at the notion. “If it makes you feel better, I had Doctor Irpe administer the examinations for both Jadzia and Elim. And given the amount of time Quark and Odo spend sniping at each other, I’ve got him in there too.”

“And I suppose that Nog and Rom are both in here as well,” Kira asked sarcastically. “For completeness sake.”

“Well, sort of—I pulled Nog’s data from the Academy medical center, and Rom had to come in anyway since he’s part of the Bajoran crews.”

The major rolled her eyes and conceded the point. “All right,” she said. “But don’t let me catch you messing around with either Jadzia or Garak on working hours. Your partners or not, we’ve still got a war on.” A look crossed her face. “You have been careful to not discuss the war with Garak, right?”

“Just because he’s a Cardassian doesn’t mean that he’s going to be selling secrets to the Obsidian Order at the first sign of personal benefit,” Bashir protested. “And I thought you knew that, Major.”

“I give the same warnings to the Chief about Keiko,” Kira rebutted, but both of them knew that it was a lame excuse.

She sipped the drink he had brought her and picked up the PADD for Starfleet personnel. “Anything of note I should be aware of?” She asked, in an attempt to change the subject.

The doctor nodded. “Lieutenant Siovar from the Starfleet Intelligence unit has a concussion from playing football in the holosuite, so he’s officially off duty for a month until I reassess and certify him to return to work. And you might have the Captain tell Commander Worf to cut down on his own practice a fraction; I’m getting sick of him appearing in the Infirmary every other day to fix some broken bone he got from sparring with Dax or General Martok. If he keeps it up I may profile him just to get some quiet for a day or two.”

“I’ll relay that to Sisko when the Defiant gets back from their recon sortie to the Badlands,” Kira nodded. “Anything else?”

Julian was about to respond in the negative when Ops shook with an explosion.

maybe one day i'll finish this. we'll see

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shadowofthelamp · 4 years ago

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POV- something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

Chapter 14, the rapidfire part from the memory viewer. Dib’s POV. Spoilers for Temporal Displacement.

“No, I- one more, I need one more.” His palm was pressed against the now-warm headset, not allowing Twix to take it off and pretend this proved that she was right. This was absurd. Ridiculous. Absolutely insane. Zim was smart but he didn’t think things all the way through, there was no way he hadn’t left some gap somewhere. Who knew how good irken tech was at fabricating memories, at making Twix believe things that hadn’t happened because they couldn’t have? She sure seemed to think she was telling the truth.

“That wasn’t the deal, D- gah!” Dib pressed the button with his other hand and she slipped away, going limp again. Good, he could use both of his hands again. He’d sent her back ‘a good memory with Dib’. Easy enough. Onscreen he looked so happy, all stretched out like taffy with a little stubble. The alternate Dib tickled her, and real-Twix squirmed a little in the chair next to him.

So Zim probably had thought of that. He’d want her to like him at least a little before this mission. What about her as a baby? She said she wouldn’t remember that- and on the screen, she was playing with her feet now, Zim was bouncing her and talking about something. He seemed weirdly quiet as he cooed to her about how perfect she was. Hadn’t she said something about having hearing problems?

Training, he’d have to had trained her for this mission. She was looking down at a notebook, writing down numbers, and Zim was lecturing her on... basic arithmetic.

Okay, what about COMBAT training? She’d managed to incapacitate him and knock Zim himself out, she had to have it. Yes, there she was slicing through holograms- he was preparing her for this mission, and probably to help him with conquest afterwards. The sims appeared to have realistic gore splatters. Yeesh. She had chubby little-kid hands in that one. Why would he bother to note tiny little details like that? It’s not like it would change the memory any when shaping her perception of the world.

So maybe that one had really happened and she had accelerated growth, but some of the rest were fake? He just needed to find something she’d absolutely have if she was real but- more domesticity, Zim wouldn’t think of everything. Look at how badly-programmed the roboparents were. Zim was making cupcakes with her. He still looked and acted mostly the same, but his own alternate self came in, smiling a little. Twix gestured for him to come over, and he looked both natural and unnatural, because the base was the same but he didn’t belong in there. He couldn’t. His other taller self was rolling up his sleeves and playfully flicked at Zim’s antennae, and Zim just flicked flour back. Zim could create casual times with himself, but not a version of Dib that looked that good.

Gaz, would Zim think of Gaz? Here, Gaz had grown up too- she was still wearing a purple top, a tank top, and gave a half-nod as Twix coasted past the finish line in some racing game. She’d cropped her hair even shorter and had gained some weight, but he’d recognize her anywhere.

Gaz showed Twix how to tase Dib, and he could hear himself swearing as the girls laughed. Right, of course, this was training her to hate him too. But why use Gaz, why not himself? Why bring Gaz into this at all? Zim kinda seemed afraid of her, to be honest. It’d be easy to have just ‘killed her off’.

What about the Computer? If she’d grown up in the base, she’d know that, right? And... there was its judgy voice muttering about deserving babysitting pay as her body wriggled, staring down at a tank of snapping piranhas. What were they there for- oh, his experiments!

The lights were dim as she was handed a small still-beating ferret’s heart. He was forcing her to engage with animal experiments- training her as a sidekick, this made sense, this was fine. Experiments were something she should know. She’d admitted as much herself.

What about his dad? She didn’t seem to like him much. She’d have to know the Lab, right? There she was sitting on a table, watching Dad do something, and his- his other self was wearing a lab coat. It was open, exposing a blue turtleneck, but he had black gloves on, and she reached out and he scooped her up, setting her on his shoulder. He was smiling, the kind of smile that said everything was okay. That right now he was where he wanted to be.

He really ended up working at the lab? There he was working on something with his tongue sticking out, and she looked down at the wrench she was holding before up at him. She was wearing a labcoat of her own. Copying him, he realized with a start. Him or Zim. Zim hadn’t been wearing a labcoat in the ferret thing but he had been wearing bigger gloves.

Okay, okay, what about normal kid-things? Drawing, all kids drew sometimes but Zim wouldn’t care to add that, right? And- and there she was, drawing a cat, but she was in a cage of some kind? Gir was below her, making annoying robot noises.

Friend. She’d mentioned a friend, most kids had friends. She’d said her name was Daisy or Tutu or- Tulip, that had been it.

The friend was- normal. Two different memories. Both crystal-clear.

Back to the experiments, and those all came across as fine too, there was no way Zim poured this kind of effort into an experiment with memories this non-blurry without Dib at least getting an inkling of it. It would have taken months, and Zim hadn’t altered his routines at all, had still been pumping out scheme after scheme recently.

There was no delaying it anymore. He needed to look at her memories of them together.

They were laughing. They looked happy. Him and Zim and Gir and Twix’s body that she could see were all watching a movie and looked happy, draped over each other like personal space didn’t exist. He wasn’t like this with his other experiments, Dib didn’t think. Check, check- and Zim intertwined his antennae with hers, that seemed too intimate. He didn’t even act like that with Gir, not really.

His other self kissed her cheek, and Zim kissed her forehead, smiling, they were both smiling, Gir kissed her on the mouth and she kicked him and he laughed, this was just- just-

Dib’s hand fell off the console as he stared up at the screen, watching his older self’s lips meet Zim’s, their fingers intertwining.

Zim would never make this up with this level of detail. He couldn’t.

He looked over at Twix, her body tense as she shivered. With the headset on, all he could see were her mutant fingers. He reached over and lifted one clammy hand up, rubbing his thumb over the back before pulling the headset off with his other hand. Her face was soaked in sweat, strands of black hair sticking to the skin.

She was right. But she couldn’t be right. But she was right.

He wasn’t sure how long he stared at her before scooping her up with a grunt, wobbling towards the door and the cages downstairs.

He needed to think.

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