Sys--Talk

I’m working on figuring out various parts of WordPress. Themes are formatting schemes. Lots of pre-defined themes are available for free. I just added one of the more popular ones, will now need to work on customizing beyond changing the logo. Once again, applying the default theme was a breeze.

The Enneagram is a figure that has been appropriated to model all sorts of things – a personality model, a body type model, and as a form for nine-facet systems within the larger topic of Systematics.

So I’m new to a blog. What sort of engagement does it fit?
I live in rural Vermont – moved here a dozen years ago and settled in. I earn a living largely through providing tech skills to local schools and businesses. I’m interested in yoga & related knowledge (ayurveda, nad & swar yoga, tantra, &c), [...]

I started this blog not intending to put out some thoughts this way. Nick suggested Word Press as a CMS – content management system for a new web site. My eyes were opened to a whole new way of laying the initial structure onto a web site. Looking into what else could serve as a [...]

You can find some of what I wrote about a decade ago on N-Grams at www.solbakkn.com/math/n-grams.htm . Click on the links for tables to see what N-Grams look like. In my last post I described them as “a collection of diagrams formed using the same mathematical / diagrammatic rules / conventions as the Enneagram, but [...]

Late last century I wrote about three mathematical ideas that hold particular interest for me. (See yesterday’s Math posting for a web link.) All have to do with the basics of number and structure. I went into some detail about ideas,
* the “balanced base 3″ about which I wrote yesterday,
* and “N-Grams”, a collection of [...]

I add the (trademark) because the phrase is claimed (along with “prana calendar,” “inner tuning” and other phrases) by Shyam Bhatnagar, who along with his one-time close companion Harish Johari were important influences in my life. I will not go into detail, but have been disappointed in how Shyamji has led his personal life, and [...]

The usual way mathematicians discuss number bases 2 and larger (call base “b”) has them with digits that range in value from zero to b-1.  Base ten has values 0 to 9; base two has values 0 to 1.  Some years ago I hit on the idea that for base 3, using digits with values [...]

If I weren’t relatively adept in social situations, I might be said to lean towards Asperger’s. I tend to take things literally, and love to explore the underlying structure of my world. Over the years I’ve explored extensively the ideas of Bucky Fuller (Synergetics), Stafford Beer (Viable System Model), and John G. Bennett (Systematics), among [...]

My thanks to Nick (springercartographics.com, cartotalk.com) for pointing me towards Word Press. Getting this site up and running was a breeze, with the help of web host bluehost.com. I told bluehost I wanted to “apply” Word Press to systalk.org, and in minutes, the site was ready to go. I’m absolutely amazed how easy it was. [...]