Training and Metadata
Training and Metadata
Most of the time a sniper’s job is to gather information. In order for that to be useful there are three distinct skillsets a sniper is trained to use:
Knowledge – snipers are repositories of knowledge. They understand wind speeds and trajectories. The impact of air temperature and barrel speed on bullet ballistics. They know how to take the Coriolis effect. They know about average walking speed, running speed and the way human biomechanics govern a person’s movement across a plane. The things they see are a construct of modalities where everything means something that leads to something else.
Memory – the ability to remember a tableau, to examine it to see how it has changed and understand why is a crucial skill for all snipers. Not only is change a reliable indicator of potential risk but it can also reveal intent. In intent we decipher motivation which, in turn, determines behavior. Memory plays a key role in understanding when and why something may happen.
Observation – snipers learn to see instead of just look. Because everything is a potential signal to them what they see is never just noise. They carefully filter everything through the contextual layer of their own intent and derive the information they need from what they see. The glint of light at the side of a road is more than just light being reflected from a shiny surface. The slight move of reeds in tall grass at odds with the breeze means more than just the factual information transmitted by its movement.
#thesnipermind
Originally shared by David Amerland
The Mind is Mightier Than the Gun
The ultimate reality-maker is our brain. And snipers use just three distinct skills to function like a semantic search engine. Dive in.
https://davidamerland.com/seo-blog/1176-snipers-use-metadata-much-like-semantic-search-does.html
Most of the time a sniper’s job is to gather information. In order for that to be useful there are three distinct skillsets a sniper is trained to use:
Knowledge – snipers are repositories of knowledge. They understand wind speeds and trajectories. The impact of air temperature and barrel speed on bullet ballistics. They know how to take the Coriolis effect. They know about average walking speed, running speed and the way human biomechanics govern a person’s movement across a plane. The things they see are a construct of modalities where everything means something that leads to something else.
Memory – the ability to remember a tableau, to examine it to see how it has changed and understand why is a crucial skill for all snipers. Not only is change a reliable indicator of potential risk but it can also reveal intent. In intent we decipher motivation which, in turn, determines behavior. Memory plays a key role in understanding when and why something may happen.
Observation – snipers learn to see instead of just look. Because everything is a potential signal to them what they see is never just noise. They carefully filter everything through the contextual layer of their own intent and derive the information they need from what they see. The glint of light at the side of a road is more than just light being reflected from a shiny surface. The slight move of reeds in tall grass at odds with the breeze means more than just the factual information transmitted by its movement.
#thesnipermind
Originally shared by David Amerland
The Mind is Mightier Than the Gun
The ultimate reality-maker is our brain. And snipers use just three distinct skills to function like a semantic search engine. Dive in.
https://davidamerland.com/seo-blog/1176-snipers-use-metadata-much-like-semantic-search-does.html
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ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder are we search engines that think we are people or are we people who want to be like search engines Zara Altair ;)
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland I think we, as people, are search engines innately with or without web connections. I think of little kids learning not just language but about the world around them. What's that? That? That? and then cataloguing the information for retrieval . Not to mention the annoying 4-year-old question: Why? :D We start that way and just keep building.
ReplyDeleteZara Altair that's so true! I've been looking at how young brains acquire language and it is miraculous!
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland It is miraculous. And so fast. I'll never forget my daughter's first sentence when she heard a bird outside our window: Birdy sing I love you. Before that it had been the naming of things.
ReplyDeleteZara Altair it's amazing to see, right? A brain beginning to become a person with agency. #miraculous indeed.
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland #miraculous Being a parent is just the coolest, most wonderful, inspiring, and humbling role.
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