Taxes

Can't people understand a simple principle? It's NOT the goal of taxes to reduce the material inequality between people. For this, taxes are a very wrong tool. Taxes are for one and only one reason: to provide government with money, so that it can operate and carry certain projects.

The only institution which means to help poor people should be charity. Government should stay away from charity, it does more wrong than right, but if it has to be involved in helping the poor people then it should have a separate branch, called "Charity", while all other branches would be freed from such a consideration.

Actually, taxes should be lower, virtually non-existent, and charity should be done by people themselves, through a decentralized system.

I've described a way to tax, which would cause society the least harm, in Art of Agreeing, in Painless tax. (I stated this idea publicly a long time ago, and more than once, but never vigorously).

knol activity

Should I just edit another knol or should I take a step back, stop here, and write about my activity, as I was thinking about doing so for awhile?

my knol is here, it's the main entry. It has three main directions at this time:

• Art of Agreeing
• Dabanese
  
• Mathematics

I have not touched the first two in weeks. Now too, I feel like mentioning the latter one only, mathematics. Clicking on Mathematics leads to the index of my mathematical knols. Ironically, my index knol got the best rating so far (5 three times out of three). At the present the main parts are:

• General
• Algebra
• Euclidean geometry
• Metric theory of metric spaces
• Number theory, elementary
• Algebraic introduction
  
  
  
• Primes
  
  
  
• Set Theory
• Topology, general

(after "General" the rest is in the alphabetic order). They are just started. I'd like to present more of the mathematical domains i activities anyway. That's my problem, I'd like too many things. Circumstances amplify this my unfortunate tendency. I'd like to add combinatorics, statistical mechanics, simplicial and cubical theories (topology), elementary mathematical analysis... I am hopeless.

The general part consists of two knols:

1. Mathematical notation
   
2. Mathematics -- two definitions

I should extend both. Knol "Mathematical notation" helps its author, me, to write mathematical knols. I keep "Mth notation" in a window (or Firefox tab) next to the knol under editing, so that I can "borrow" mathematical symbols and similar from "Mth n.", and copy them into the knol window. The more symbols I store there, the easier it is to write m-knols.

I need to stop now, too bad.

trivia update

knol --:early| Oct11 | Oct12 | oct16 | oct26 |
=============|=======|=======|=======|=======|
m ind -: 5*2 | ditto | ditto |- 5*3 -| ditto |
m nttn : --- |- 4*1 -| ditto | ditto | ditto |
t sp mp: 2*1 | 3.5*2 | ditto | ditto | ditto |
M un 2 : --- | ----- |- 1*1 -| ditto | ditto |
E_H ar : 5*1 | ditto |- 3*2 -| ditto | ditto |
AoA-mrg: 1*1 | ditto | ditto | ditto | ditto |
t s-s i: 3*1 |- 4*2 -| ditto | ditto | ditto |
MN-ec1 : --- |- 5*1 -| ditto | ditto |- 5*2 -|
t-i op : --- |- 5*1 -| ditto | ditto | ditto |
m tria : 5*1 | ditto | ditto | ditto | ditto |
AoA pat: 1*1 | ditto | ditto | ditto | ditto |
NTh gcd: --- | ----- | ----- |- 3*1 -| 2.5*2 |

I was in a hurry. I may double check it later.
(Oct 16)

Was ok. (Oct 26)

Pros and artsy types

I wish I were a pro, meaning the ability to work efficiently in adverse conditions. Unfortunately, I am of the artsy type--after a setback in my everyday life I stop the current project. When I get back into a better mood then I start life anew, meaning a new project. And so it goes. My present project is knol. It is like several projects. I have already started math-knol, Art of Agreeing knol, and dabanese knol. Each of the consists of subtopics, and, of course, mathematics is especially expansive. I am writing about general topology, a special flavor of Euclidean Geometry, and about metric spaces from the purely metric point of view (not topological). I also have, so far only one, short section about set theory--just to establish notions and terminology of the Cartesian product (diagonal product of functions). It's really a small fragment of the theory of categories, if I wrote it in full generality. In topology, at first I am aiming at the universal images. In metric spaces, I am trying fisrt of all to describe the isometric embeddings results. I would like to write on a bunch of topics while on the other hand the notion of giving up on writing, and on devoting myself to learning a new to me, reasonably deep mathematical item, is always present. I am just afraid to do it. I can quickly write a bit of this and of that. But learning good stuff requires my full concentration, piece of mind and better conditions, at least in my case. Write now I am writing this post because I am not able to write some more of my math-knol. Hm, it was supposed to relax me, not to depress :-) Ok, here's something which to me is mildly amusing. The only of my numerous knols which got rating 5 from 2 readers is the index to my math knols. Isn't it ironic to be appreciated for index? (well, it's just 2 guys). I guess, this is due to the fact that Google didn't provide authors with any special tool for hierarchy of their knols, while my index is a substitute for a true software solution.

Well, that was not entertaining, not funny, cannot help it. The sleepiness I feel is marginally relaxing. So, I'll lay down for a couple of minutes, to recharge myself.

The wonderful anonymous world :-)

My math knol rating honeymoon is over. Within 10 hours of my last blog entry someone (or would it be two independed readers) rated my two math knols as 1 (the lowest). Now the stats are:

knol --:early| Oct11 | Oct12 |
=============|=======|=======|
m ind -: 5*2 | ditto | ditto |
m nttn : --- |- 4*1 -| ditto |
t sp mp: 2*1 | 3.5*2 | ditto |
M un 2 : --- | ----- |- 1*1 -|
E_H ar : 5*1 | ditto |- 3*2 -|
AoA-mrg: 1*1 | ditto | ditto |
t s-s i: 3*1 |- 4*2 -| ditto |
MN-ec1 : --- |- 5*1 -| ditto |
t-i op : --- |- 5*1 -| ditto |
m tria : 5*1 | ditto | ditto |
AoA pat: 1*1 | ditto | ditto |


Let me compute the average:

(10+4+7+1+6+1+8+5+5+5+1) / (2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+1+1+1)

= 53/15 = 3.5333...

Three single ratings were for Art of Agreement: (1+1+5)/3 = 2.333... It drags me down :-) Nobody rated dabanese. Thus for mathematics alone the average is: 46/12 = 3.8333... However, I got two 5s for the index of all things :-) Also one 4 for my math notation blog. This leaves 32/9 = 3.555... for actual, meritorious blogs. Ooooph, I got my stat trivia.

my knol stats

Stats are my silly fun, I like stats. Let me here start my knol stats, ratings (there is perhaps just one comment, it's from a young student from India, and it's just a social hello, email-like message rather than a comment). I am too tired right now to make an html table. A naive format will do for the time being.

knol - :early| Oct11 |
=============|=======|
m ind -: 5*2 | ditto |
m nttn : --- |- 4*1 -|
t sp mp: 2*1 | 3.5*2 |
E_H ar : 5*1 | ditto |
AoA-mrg: 1*1 | ditto |
t s-s i: 3*1 |- 4*2 -|
MN-ec1 : --- |- 5*1 -|
t-i op : --- |- 5*1 -|
m tri -: 5*1 | ditto |
AoA pat: 1*1 | ditto |

OK, enough of that. (That was in font Arial).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Courier).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Georgia).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Lucida Grande).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font times).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Trebuchet).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Verdana).
OK, enough of that. (That was in font Webdings).

Just a blog entry

Any small mistake or negligence in the care of my father by care givers means a dramatic follow up for my father, and a lot of nerves and extra effort by me.

I sleep little these days, and I am often sleepy and unable to work on my projects. Thus I start or restart to work on a project then stop and switch to a new one. Unfortunately, I have stopped again my efforts on baroque numbers. I want to come back to the attractive for me goal of finding a bunch of new baroque numbers, but I already am writing knols on general topology, on euclidean geometry, on art of agreeing, on dabanese. And I'd like to write on many other topics, especially on more mathematical topics: elementary algebraic topology, elementary number theory, combinatorics, on translation lattices, ... Knols possibly will get a larger audience than a blog. Blog can be more of writing for myself mainly. After all, this very entry is sooooooo embarrassingly boring.

In topology, I'd like to present my theory of universal functions; also my cubical polyhedra approach to algebraic topology, and about the geometry of cubical polyhedrons as well. I have outlined the theory of cubical polyhedra back in Poland, in late sixties. Then in 1970, with J.B., when he was my Ph.D. student at UofM in A², the one and only ever (I wish I had many) we published a series of papers in Italy, and J.B got his degree in a record fast time.

When it comes to number theory, I should stop playing on a kindergarten level, I should learn some advanced tools, analytic or combinatorial (sieves). Elementary games are fun but the advanced ones are so much more!

I got far away from poetry. I am still a bit active on one English language board, and on one Polish board (Poewiki) but it's only inertia, without contributing much of my energy. It's been ages since I've written any poem. I even feel that I am distancing myself from English! Objectively, I do have contact, like this blog, and in general mainly via Internet, a bit from tv, bits and pieces, when I visit my father. Hm, I have more contact with English than with Polish these days. But my contact with native speakers of (American) English is limited, despite one sharing my apt in the past three months or so.

Yes, it's early, only 21:24 but I definitely am sleepy. Let me lie down for a few minutes. Most of the time I am at the care house at this time, but today my father went to bed early. Later, I might to write about my (rather depressing) impressions from the presidential race.

I should check this entry for errors (typos, etc) but I'll stop now. I have this annoying feeling that I use word "but" way too often.