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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Memory Analysis Patterns (MAPs) including memory dump, malware, software trace (TAPs), and other patterns and pattern catalogs from Software Diagnostics Institute form the very rich semantic network. Now it is possible (by using a metaphorical bijection) to create a catalog of General Patterns of Abnormal Structure and Behaviour including software, hardware, biological behavior including animal (ethology) and human behavior, sociological and historical behavior including economics, business and finance, ethics and law, and even behavior of chemical and physical systems. Such “GAPs of Structure and Behavior” may include wait chains, spikes, deadlocks, etc. We provide more specific examples in the forthcoming parts. So we are a few steps closer to realization of my old dangerous idea of a parameterized science of universal memory dumps by the so called science files or might event a general diagnostics discipline.

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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
This is a little book that I bought in local bookshop adjacent to Costa and quickly read from cover to cover while commuting. I was interested in this title because my relative studies kindness (and benevolence) as a topic in Russian literature so I thought by reading that book I could better discuss it. Approx. one third of the book narrates the evolution of the meaning of kindness from Classical Greece and Rome to earlier Christianity, Augustine, then to Hobbes (Leviathan), Enlightenment, and finally, Rousseau (Émile). The second third is a lengthy treatise on the interpretation of kindness from psychoanalytical perspective (Freud, Winnicott). The final third is about the role of kindness in the modern Western society. Interesting read (although a bit repetitive sometimes) that prompted me to buy Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668
and to reconsider the role kindness in a modern corporation workplace.
On Kindness


This is a cover of the book that I bought (published by Penguin):


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Posted in Ethics, From Cover To Cover, History, Parenting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Reading List 2011, Religion, Reviewed on Amazon | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Memoretics as a science of memory snapshots borrows many ideas from the following disciplines (the list is not exhaustive):
- Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Intelligence Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Forensics
- Linguistics
- Archaeology
- Psychoanalysis
- History
- Mathematics: Sets and Categories
- Literary Criticism and Narratology
It also contributes many ideas back. The following diagram depicts such an interaction:

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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
After reading many history books I found that the real historical, sociological and psychological force (often seen unconscious from outside) is the will to be memorized (saved in memories, in memory dumps, also called as the will to be remembered) and not the will to power (Nietzsche). As often with the will it is also linked with vices and virtues. For the vice side we site Michael Burleigh: “Concern with posterity was apparent among the Nazi leadership, […]” and what we see now “… B-movie villains were self-consciously assigning themselves parts within an A-movie which runs and runs” today (documentaries, books, magazines, TV and the so called ‘Hitler industry’ “by the way of continuity”). As a more recent example, the recent tragedy in Norway clearly shows the desire of the protagonist to be memorized (masqueraded as a political agenda).
This is not to say that the will to power is not important, it is important by the way that by being memorized you actually exert more power in the future. Memorianity (memory religion) and its philosophical foundation (memoidealism) promote the will to be memorized as a virtue if all your deeds are seen as a virtue (see Memorianity and Morality).
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Posted in History, Memoidealism, Memory Religion (Memorianity), Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Sciences | No Comments »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Memory->analysis or M->analysis in short is a new pattern-driven psychotherapeutic method based on Unified Memory Theory (another name for Memory Worldview). It has a logo as well:

The name was inspired by M-theory and unified field theories. Please also see my interpretation of M-theory. Another name variant is M-analysis which can be used as a shortcut to M->analysis.
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Posted in Announcements, General Memory Analysis, Intelligent Memory Movement, M->analysis, Memory Space Art, Metaphysics of Memory Worldview, Psychology | No Comments »
Friday, December 17th, 2010
As the new decade is approaching (2011-2020) we would like to make a few previews and predictions:
- Increased complexity of software will bring more methods from biological, social sciences and humanities in addition to existing methods of automated debugging and computer science techniques
- Focus on first fault software problem solving (when aspect)
- Focus on pattern-driven software problem solving (how aspect)
- Fusion of debugging and malware analysis into a unified structural and behavioral pattern framework
- Visual debugging, memory and software trace visualization techniques
- Software maintenance certification
- Focus on domain-driven troubleshooting and debugging tools as a service (debugware TaaS)
- Focus on security issues related to memory dumps and software traces
- New scripting languages and programming language extensions for debugging
- The maturation of the science of memory snapshots and software traces (memoretics)
Imagining is not not limited to the above and more to come and explain in the forthcoming parts.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Computer software is said to be simple and predictable as any mechanism (*). We can debug it, we can completely trace what it is doing. It seems rational to us. Let’s then label it as Conscious. On the outside there is an irrational human being who did program that software. Let’s then label that person’s mind as Unconscious. What about hardware and body? They form parts of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction or Interface).

(*) Is there any life inside Windows?
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Posted in Fun with Debugging, Philosophy, Psi-computation, Psychoanalysis of Software Maintenance and Support, Psychology | No Comments »
Friday, May 21st, 2010
In this part I would like to introduce the notion of Forgotten Facts in opposition to Basic Facts or supporting information. These are facts that engineers often feel uncomfortable to mention because they are troubleshooting information they couldn’t obtain (if they tried) due to some time or customer pressures, failures, incorrectly understood troubleshooting procedures or some other obstacles. Therefore it is important to have a set of counter questions or checklists mapped from common software behaviour patterns to software troubleshooting patterns. Problem descriptions should also be subjected to close reading to reveal unconsciously concealed information. Next part will explore this in more detail with some case studies commissioned by Software Maintenance Institute.
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Posted in Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Escalation Engineering, Psychoanalysis of Software Maintenance and Support, Psychology, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Maintenance Institute, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Reading, Software Troubleshooting Patterns | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
While finishing Comrades book I started to read this “sequel” to Young Stalin (it was published before the latter book). I’m interested in psychology of a court and think this book is a good supplement to The 48 Laws of Power book that I started reading too. I have also Beria biography on the reading list. Actually I became interested in Stalin epoch after reading a book in Russian 2 years ago with a title that can be translated to English like “Killers of Stalin and Beria”. The main idea of that book were that Beria (and Stalin) wanted to do Perestroika similar to what Gorbachev did and Khrushchev murdered him (and possibly murdered Stalin too) for that. Anyway The Court of the Red Tsar was very smooth and fascinating read, revealing hidden transcripts of Stalin power. At the end the author also mentions the possibility that Beria was a possible precursor to Perestroika but contrary to that Russian book I read before he mentions the hypothesis that Beria himself poisoned Stalin’s wine. The finishing touch of Valechka weeping on Stalin corpse like Russian baba really made me sorrow. I really liked Postscriptum where the fortunes of Stalin’s and other magnates’ relatives, children and grandchildren fortunes after Stalin death up to now was mentioned.
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar


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Posted in Biographies, From Cover To Cover, History, Politics, Psychology, Reading List 2009, Reviewed on Amazon | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I finished reading Dirac’s biography The Strangest Man 3 months ago and started to read this book. Its title intrigued me when I was browsing recent physics releases on Amazon and I bought it. It looks to me like the mix of brief biographical notes with explanation of physical theories. Here learning from mistakes undoubtedly helps to understand special and general relativity better. I also liked the short and clear explanation of EPR paradox in just one page, “revisionist” and unusual biographical notes on other scientists and their faults, like Galileo and Newton, and notes about Einstein’s private life. This makes him really human (he was like an ideal scientist from Plato Universe for me before). When I was reading Not Even Wrong and the Trouble With Physics books I thought of the possible “yellow press physics” (which is not bad, and doesn’t mean bad quality for me, I like to read yellow press sometimes and listen to pop music) and one day, at lunch, when reading about Newton madness and other peculiar character traits I thought about “yellow press physics” again. Was the choice of this book hardcover and jacket colors (yellow) made deliberate? Anyway, while approaching the end of the book and reading about how Einstein wasted 20-30 years on his idée fixe unified theories I immediately recalled String Theory, and indeed, the author voiced the same thoughts a few moments later when I turned a page over. I also liked the discussion on how General Relativity might have been discovered if it wasn’t formulated by Einstein. The author tells us that it would have been done via a QFT route. Einstein has fallen in my eyes, and now, after reading this book, he is not quite the hero of science like I imagined before. Nevertheless, his stature from McDonald’s is still on my shelves.
Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius


I don’t want to repeat Einstein’s mistakes…
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
This is an encyclopedic work I bought in a local book shop and finally finished reading today. It took me a year to read from cover to cover and pages were falling out of the glue but I continued to read. Highly recommended for education and another view on human history. The review of Freud was enlightening to me because I didn’t know about the recent scholarship criticizing his work. In fact, I so liked this book that just bought it again in a hardcover version from Folio Society and start rereading it again soon.
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud


The second encyclopedic book seems was written before the previous one but looks like the logical sequel to it. I’m starting reading it next week.
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century


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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
I read this book from cover to cover while flying on a plane from Dublin to St. Petersburg and back. That was so wonderful reading experience - I couldn’t put the book down during those flights. I recall that I visited the Department of Mathematics a few times when I studied Chemistry in Moscow State University although at that time I knew next to nothing about Russian mathematicians. The book touched me so deeply that I bought the main work of Florensky: The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, the history of Russian philosophy and several books explaining Orthodox Church. This is the best mathematics history book I have ever read, my feelings perhaps comparable to those that I experienced when I finished reading Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline but that was more than 20 years ago.
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity


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Posted in Biographies, From Cover To Cover, History, Ideas, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Reading List 2009, Religion, Reviewed on Amazon, Theology | No Comments »