7:15 – 8:15 Research

• Continuing C&C
  • For the collectivity it is imperative to overcome its consuming tendency to impose a uniformity upon individuals and encourage their inclination to follow the law of least effort and obey. It is true that by causing them to abandon their personal arguments and interests, the collectivity ensures, for its own benefit, that decisions are made easy. But this is at the price of a passivity that deprives it of the energy and active initiative of individuals. They have to struggle against themselves in order to form a living entity, and the entity has to struggle against itself in order to be made up of individuals. This is in fact the necessity noted by Pascal in his time: ‘The multitude that is not reduced to a unity is confusion; the unity that does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny.’ [p 50]
  • Depth psychology
  • How and why this occurs emerges from a fine study by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the American psychologists, which deals with a familiar situation. We see volunteers going from door to door to get householders to sign a petition whose purpose was ‘to preserve the beauty of California’. Naturally, almost everyone signed it, since the beauty of the countryside, like child health or world peace, is a theme that strikes a chord. A fortnight later, these same people were asked to put up a board on their lawn: ‘Drive carefully’. Almost half agreed to do so, whereas the figure would have been much lower if they had not signed the petition. In fact, they had made the first step and then took part in an action. The participants deemed themselves infused with civic spirit, and loyal to their principles [p 52]
    • I think this is a way to reduce dimensions and as such reduce distance to make it easier to follow.
  • I’m wondering if there is some kind of sentiment analysis that can tell how much mutual support is going on in a community, and if it’s reactionary or progressive. This would be in addition to the amplitude and variance measures for beliefs in the community.
  • Hbase needs to connect to port 9000. Add this to hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml

    <configuration>
     <property>
     <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
     <value>true</value>
     </property>
     <property>
     <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
     <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>
     </property>
    </configuration>

7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Working on catching up with Aaron and Wayne
• More C&C. Tried to get things done yesterday, but… Yeah…
  • This does not warrant classing the group with the crowd, which is prey to over-enthusiasm and violence [p40]
  • If we wish to understand the nature of groups, it seems advisable to concentrate on the way they change , and in the way that they change individuals, rather than on their ability to aggregate individuals as part of a whole [p42]
  • …the danger lies less in anomie or disorder than in routine and apathy [p 42]
  • Acts of decision, as well as acts of consenting, are above all acts of participation. For various reasons their value springs from the bond that they create between individuals and from the impression each one receives that he counts in the eyes of everybody as soon as he begins to participate. [p47]
  • Consequently much effort is expended to become a member of an association, to be elected to a committee, to have the right to meet together and communicate with certain people, and so on.
    • But what if that effort becomes low or frictionless as we find online? And what about being an anonymous part of a group?

8:30 – 4:30 BRI

• Installing Hadoop
• Need to get a hotel near CCRi for Thursday night -done
• Got my Hadoop running by deleting my log files. Yes, that makes no sense.
• Starting on the geomesa-quickstart-hbase. More notes here

6:45 – 7:45 Research

• Continuing to read Conflict and Consensus
  • Thus they bring us closer to a different conception of the role of the group. This is, that it mobilizes the intellectual and affective potentialities of each one of its members by making them participate in a collective action, not in order to increase cohesion, but to allow them to breach together the barrier of norms from which, if faced alone, they would recoil. (Page 41): 
• Continuing to work on P&R Considered Harmful
• Discovered Kurt Lewin and his papers (and Principles of Topological Psychology). Downloaded Forces Behind Food Habits and Methods of Change – The Problem of Changing Food Habits and Group Decision and Social Change.
  • This indicates that in case of an external request the wish to succeed or not to succeed depends largely upon whether or not the personal likes happen to be in line with the request. A group decision, on the other hand, seems to establish a sufficiently strong group goal to be accepted by the members in a way which overrules to a considerable degree personal taste.The motivation induced by group decision is higher than that of the request groups in spite of the fact that, in our sample, the preference for whole wheat is greater in the latter (average of 3.7 as compared with 2.9 on a 4-point scale).
• I found the second paper in a repo maintained by Jared Curhan at MIT
  • Curhan specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. A recipient of support from the National Science Foundation, he has pioneered a social psychological approach to the study of “subjective value” in negotiation—that is, the feelings and judgments concerning the instrumental outcome, the process, the self, and the relationship. His research uses the Subjective Value Inventory (SVI; Curhan et al., 2006) to examine the precursors, processes, and long-term consequences of subjective value in negotiation. He also studies the dynamics of negotiation and brainstorming.

9:00 – BRI

• Starting to keep track of GeoMesa setup here
• Installing RocketChat. Need a host
• Helped Aaron with the Google CSE writeup for Gregg