Information Reality » brains http://www.informationreality.com Explore Reality, Glimpse The Future, Live The Mystery Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:24:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Remember Passwords – Password Techniques http://www.informationreality.com/remember-passwords-password-techniques/ http://www.informationreality.com/remember-passwords-password-techniques/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:24:28 +0000 admin http://www.informationreality.com/?p=273 Techniques for remembering passwords are hard to find. There are some out there, but the hardest thing is that you can’t really write down the key for remembering your password, otherwise the person that finds it is likely to use it to work out your real password.

We really have to store so many passwords in our heads these days. Its one of those extra features that are brains are adapting to. The way to memorise long strings of inconsequential numbers is a skill that we need to have to survive in the modern world of computer hackers, internet banking and social networking.

So what is the best way to remember a password? Here are a few tips.

1. Use a swear word, or a nickname that you called someone that is derogatory. Not only will you not want to share it with others, but it will be pretty hard to guess.

2. Use a book title, or authors name for a book that always sits in the top right hand corner of your book case.

3. Video game titles are also a good one that not many people use.

4. make it random and complicated, but use mnemonic memory techniques or turning the string of characters into a song in order to remember it.

5. The name of a landmark you can see out of your home or office window

The funny thing is that the password is one of the last things that we actually do have to remember. Everything else can be accessed once we have used the password to get into the ubiquitous devices that we carry everywhere with us.

Techniques for remembering passwords are hard to find. There are some out there, but the hardest thing is that you can’t really write down the key for remembering your password, otherwise the person that finds it is likely to use it to work out your real password.

We really have to store so many passwords in our heads these days. Its one of those extra features that are brains are adapting to. The way to memorise long strings of inconsequential numbers is a skill that we need to have to survive in the modern world of computer hackers, internet banking and social networking.

So what is the best way to remember a password? Here are a few tips.

1. Use a swear word, or a nickname that you called someone that is derogatory. Not only will you not want to share it with others, but it will be pretty hard to guess.

2. Use a book title, or authors name for a book that always sits in the top right hand corner of your book case.

3. Video game titles are also a good one that not many people use.

4. make it random and complicated, but use mnemonic memory techniques or turning the string of characters into a song in order to remember it.

5. The name of a landmark you can see out of your home or office window

The funny thing is that the password is one of the last things that we actually do have to remember. Everything else can be accessed once we have used the password to get into the ubiquitous devices that we carry everywhere with us.

]]> http://www.informationreality.com/remember-passwords-password-techniques/feed/ 0 The semantic brain of the wikipedA.I http://www.informationreality.com/the-semantic-brain-of-the-wikipedai/ http://www.informationreality.com/the-semantic-brain-of-the-wikipedai/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:17:34 +0000 admin http://informationreality.com/?p=86 One thing the random wikipedia article has shown me is that there is just a massive amount of boring facts out there. I mean, i am as big a trivia buff as anyone out there, but this stuff just serves no purpose whatsoever.

Some of the things that are recorded are so trivial that i am sure that No-one will ever have to refer back to that page as the answer to any query about anything ever. But it sure is building one complete semantic database of the whole of human thought and history. So big thumbs up there for sure.

With all of this knowledge and connection, it can’t be too long before some bright spark works out how bootstrap some kind of basic AI to sort and collate all of the pages, and by infering the links and the connections, bring about a basic level of intelligence. Becuase thats one of the basic things that shows that a system / person is intelligent. The amount of meaningful connections they can make between two physicly or informationaly disparate entities before them.

It is going to be the same for human intelligence going forward. Every fact, well at least one persons interperetation of every fact, that has ever been relevant will be recorded in the near future. With data traveling with us in our pockets, wrists or even interfaced into our brains remembering facts is going to be a waste of brain power, while interopereting data and connection will be the evolutionary driving force going forwards

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