Last night I watched a poor YouTube clip listing behaviours of intelligent people. It suggested that pattern recognition, global overview and an awareness of complexity were characteristics.

I have for now finished my physiotherapy. The experience has been good and the ending for now very satisfactory. I am not used to being physically close to other humans and the feeling is a little strange. Her timekeeping is excellent which for me is a big plus.

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There is a US comedienne who jokes that she was told that she was not sufficiently intelligent to have Asperger’s. Diagnosed autism under some circumstances has a “gifted” component.

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“Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.

It leverages the world’s first topoconductor, a breakthrough type of material which can observe and control Majorana particles to produce more reliable and scalable qubits, which are the building blocks for quantum computers.”

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Nobody really knows what happened to Ettore Majorana who just “disappeared”. He may have done a “Reggie Perrin” to escape Sunshine Deserts. The plot is left hanging unsatisfied, which enables people to make all sorts of shit up.

I was having a look at Quantum Startups on YouTube yesterday and some are getting funded in aircraft carrier size quanta. With a possible Venture Capital overexposure to AI some diversification of longer term risk might be needed.

I have all the early Microsoft patents on this computer and I may dip into them if I have trouble sleeping. I remember them been longer than a long thing on a well stretched day.

Of late I have noted rushed and unsatisfactory endings to a number of TV series and movies we have been watching. The dramatization and death has been perfunctory and without much artistry. People have been introduced, sketched out a little and then killed off. This has left me with a feeling that the ending was unsatisfactory they could have done better. Body count does not always corelate with narrative excellence. I do wonder if my dissatisfaction with modern drama narrative is partly due to the “old git syndrome”.

“When I were a lad…”

The closing of the Godfather series of movies was very apt and the story telling circle was complete. It was well rounded off. Tidy.

Loose ends hanging are unsatisfactory, there is no closure .

In life there are elements of narrative left pendant and unsolved. They are untidy and messy. From time to time these messy threads reappear like the herpes virus.

Not everyone gets a Disney ending. Some want to make way for a second series or a franchise follow up. Almost without exclusion the follow up is never as good as the original.

This need for some kind of closure whether temporary or otherwise is, it seems, a part of the human psyche.

Leaving things open, untidied and untied can seem wise it can also seem highly unsatisfactory.  Fluidity and winging it can leave a right mess…which can have very wide implications and many ripples.

We are yet to find out what the longer term impacts of what Benjamin Nosferatu and Trump are doing in Iran.

I’ll speculate that it won’t be cut and dried, nor tidy and that the ending will not be satisfactory to anyone. It is a mess made out of a “cunning plan” that was not thoroughly thought through…

Which might be difficult to say for a Frenchman….

It is a moot point as to what makes an ending satisfactory.

But pendant situations do have a knack of hanging around and for a long time…