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Seek constructive synergies. Tuesday, August 24th, 2025 Recent posts: ->
E.g.: by using Quantitative Utopian Analysis (QUA), see “WisdomCAD” ->
… which begins to fulfill the ideals of artificial intelligence.
August 24th,2025’s FTP upload is my one-page commentary on: Quantitative Utopian Analysis
July 18, 2025,2025’s FTP upload was in https://ftp.setterholm.com/WorldPeace/Math. The four-page paper: “Modelonics.pdf” advocates using over-sampled modeling to quantitatively remove noise and nonsense from political frames-of-reference, thus cleaning up and stabilizing government decision making. It picks up where the June 27th paper below, version 2.0, leaves off.
June 27th,2025’s FTP upload was in https://ftp.setterholm.com/WorldPeace/Math. The one-page paper: “USA-IlLogic-2025.pdf”, version 1.0, advocated using quantitative logic to solve our social problems. On July 18, version 2.0 revises my assessment to: No framework, no logic.
August 5, 2025. SciShow recently posted: How do the world’s most powerful computers work? The 11:15 – 13:42 minutes of the video discuss the #1 fastest computer, “El Capitan”, at Livermore National Labs. Time 12:20 characterizes Livermore’s approach to problem solving on the world’s most powerful computer. There is a substantial amount of similarity to the approach which I advocate on page two of Modelonics.pdf (linked above). My open question is: when will Livermore’s ‘cognitive intelligence’ be brought to bear on “Quantitative Utopian Analysis”; & if not, why not? There is literally no doubt that Livermore National Laboratories could leave me in the dust in figuring out World Peace.
While my various computer CPU’s have as many as six cores, my hunch is that my applications run on just one core. My only experience with iteratively linking the precursors of “Tweak-Engine” & “3DEnvFortran” was my 2015 design of the bi-stable mechanism of An Eight-Footer-Holder, which used 2005-vintage AMD Athlon 64 3500 CPU. Note that the kluge of pipe fittings was closer at hand than the iterative design’s two ball joints & a rigid link.
May 27th, 2025’s FTP upload was https://ftp.setterholm.com/3DEnvFortran Read the .pdf file there. The source code is all free, e.g.: post copyright.
January 28th, 2025’s post was introduced and linked as: “WisdomCAD”
October 7th, 2022’s FTP upload was 1937 stereo aerial imagery of the area around Fulton, Maryland… which is exciting to see for some of us who grew up there in the 1950’s & 1960’s. I’m reminded that purely agrarian communities – that wars don’t visit – can be remarkably stable for decades. The link is: https://ftp.setterholm.com/Fulton/FultonMD-1937-RedCyan3D.jpg
June 13, 2022’s FTP upload was a three-page paper: “Mitigate the Top Dogs“; the link is: https://ftp.setterholm.com/WorldPeace/TopDogs.pdf ; today version 2.0 is posted there. “Mitigate” as used here means: “To cause to contract or shrink to the point of not being a problem“. The fact that Russia has an ongoing war against Ukraine in 2022 illuminates an age-old, orchestrated, enduring, pervasive, inexcusable failure of human intellect – which the paper characterizes.
April 28, 2022’s FTP upload was: a free 4490 x 4878 pixel 3D image of the Holy Land taken by NASA from space on October 6, 1984. Each pixel is about 60 meters wide. View the image using red|cyan glasses. Annotation is at the lower left corner. The link: https://ftp.setterholm.com/Geodesy/Satellite/HolyLand-rc3d,jpg
February 21,2022: Thwarting Tyrants – a novel approach. Vladimir Putin’s massing of Russian military forces on Ukraine’s border gives urgency to the post.
December 21, 2021’s post was: Embrace the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble.
A chronological list of my papers on improving human social synergy: http://ftp.setterholm.com/WorldPeacePapers-Chronology.pdf -through today.
Bing’s search engine prioritized these 51 WordPress & FTP links to this site: http://ftp.setterholm.com/PopularHits.pdf …as of August 23, 2021.
The 14 direct links to the WordPress Posts: http://ftp.setterholm.com/LinksToPosts.pdf
Direct links to the FTP subdirectories: ftp.setterholm.com/LinksToFtp.pdf The ‘FILES’ tab on this page presents the FTP’s Root directory.
January 3, 2022’s FTP addition was the image template of a Calendar Sliderule. The link to the subdirectory is: http://ftp.setterholm.com/CSliderule/ “CSliderule-ReadMe.pdf” introduces image template “CSliderule.jpg”. Guessing wrong &/or missing anniversaries tends to be counterproductive. On January 4th added “SuperBowlMvps.jpg” – a cluttered example of template use. Note that Google search has a delightfully diverse collection of images of slide rules.
October 18, 2021 added: Improved 3D 1959 aerial imagery of Fulton MD
Prior to July 2016, setterholm.com was an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site. Past and present content still resides there, accessed directly, though cryptically, by the ‘FILES’ tab at the upper right (on a full-screen monitor). The 11 page directory is frozen in time at March 30, 2017. The site’s first WordPress Archives commenced in September 2015; there’s only a minor amount of overlap between the WordPress introductions & Directory.pdf.
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