06 Jonathan Warbel visit 7

Jonathan Warbel Visit 7

 

 Doctor

 

 Assuming you’re not "them"

And I am not "they"

 

 And you're not

Punching out strawberries

 

 And I’m not nuts for believing

 

 What are your thoughts?

 

 

 Punching out strawberries?

 

 That's an odd metaphor

Where did it come from?

 

 

 I don’t know

I’ve no idea

 

 

 You've heard of the Hubble?

HST as they say?

 

 The house that Jack built?

NASA?

 

 Technical faults and delays

Unfortunate Challenger loss

 

 Way over budget

 

 Twenty years from start

Until 1990 found it broken

 

 Main mirror ground incorrectly

 

 Do you know why Randall?

 

 

 The lens was blurred?

 

 

 No

 

 The lens saw the truth

So it was corrected

 

 Adjusted

Aligned to fit the template

 

 By 1993 it saw

What it was supposed to see

 

 The mission served its purpose

 

 Truth avoided errors dismissed

 

 Not all the errors were erased

Some were intentionally misplaced

 

 And some were shared

Though the context was modified

 

 Develop a system

Of weights and measures

 

 Once you decide on an inch

And build a ruler

No one questions the inch

 

 It’s assumed to be precise

 

 And precise it is but not accurate

 

 You know this conversation

Has nothing to do with a yard stick

 

 Right?

 

 My mind dabbles here and there

The subject becomes un-constant

 

 

 You mean inconsistent?

 

 

 I mean

I was shown the truth

 

 But the truth had changed

 

 And now the looking glass

Saw something else entirely

 

 I wanted desperately to see it

 

 But the truth made my study a lie

 

 It pitted my desire to see

Against my will to discover

 

 My quest of discovery

Spanned many regressive models

 

 Depending upon which medium

Which data and assumptions

 

 Regressive means to go back

 

 Science assigns a pattern

 

 A data point map

Of a process in reverse

 

 From its present point

To its previous location

 

 Then project forward

From the information gathered

 

 It’s an extrapolation or prediction

Of where the successive points

Might likely follow

 

 It’s a way of mapping a process

Before it's actually happened

 

 Some models stall others succeed

 

 That’s the hope anyway

 

 It was Gaussian process regression

That revealed the Warbel effect

 

 Gaussian process

Doesn’t assume a pattern

It lets the data speak for itself

 

 My data consisted of error

What's not present but should be

 

 The absence of data

By common standards

 

 It’s what you have with a lie

Or preferably two lies

 

 The more information the better

 

 You must let the data speak

 

 Make what assumptions you can

Add and subtract facts and noise

 

 Regress back then project forward

 

 My primary suspicion

The Civil were affecting my choices

 

 Projections of balance and orbit

Fidelity and celestial grace

 

 I pretended to embrace it

 

 Truth of their truth became clear

A discomfiting truth

 

 Their intentions were apocalyptic

And I was to be their mule

 

 Mental instability

Presented a rational escape

 

 I don’t know if they knew then

But they know now

 

 So you see Randall

 

 Either you’ve been empowered

Or sacrificed by my friendship

 

 Today I’ve told you no lies

 

 Time for us both to go home

 

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