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Emily Dickinson would tend to disagree: Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays — 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An…
> I don't think I could survive an amputation on modern cannabis alone, however. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. My dad was a cancer patient with severe chronic pain. Cannabis did not eliminate the need for…
Good point.
You can stably suspend graphite pencil lead on permanent magnetic fields. E.G.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIizmhzPQc
This notion reduces the totality of human interaction to language. Do you think proto-huminoids who hadn't developed complex language felt lonely because they lacked an ability to explain themselves? If I become a…
Mad Magazine did this in 1963... "If kids designed their own Xmas toys": https://imgur.com/gallery/45RGR
Thank you for mentioning J. Nathan Kutz! Reading through this article, I saw similarities to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (I am not literate enough on the topic to elaborate). His Coursera courses and book were a…
Yeast has been genetically modified to produce psilocybin ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761... ). Researches have yielded the equivalent of about 60g dried shroom in only 1 liter of…
Counterexample: It is impossible to understand a new language without memorization. Memorization is critical, but it is not sufficient.
Which polls? Please be specific. Are the polling methods and results beyond the influence of Russian State? Further, even if they are correct, to what extent is their response based on incorrect or insufficient…
I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.
Tarkovsky was an Orthodox Christian, but his ideas about the irreducibility of experience parallel Zen: "Everybody asks me what things mean in my films. This is terrible! An artist doesn't have to answer for his…
If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.
Got anything to trade for them?
Same. It goes without saying perhaps, but one consideration is what type of social contact you want. I work in a technical role and I miss my colleagues immensely. I feel best when I am around people I know, and when my…
breitbart.com is an approved news source on HN!?
You use your hand to clamp down one nostril. Lookup Nadi Shodhana.
Norbert Wiener discussed this in Cybernetics: "Another example of a purely mechanical feedback system — the one originally treated by Clerk Maxwell — is that of the governor of a steam engine, which serves to regulate…
There is a difference between awareness and judgement. What Tarkovsky is asking you to do is shut down your judgement to gain awareness. In the words of Alan Watts "You must go out of your mind to come to your senses."…
I discovered Tarkovsky only last year. I didn't "get" him until the death of my father. Roiling in ineffable grief, I struggled to find meaning, to sum up the arc of my father's life. The experience had (and still has)…
* $200/yr
There is an exceptional explanation of this in the Adam Curtis documentary "The Century of Self." In the 20th century, advertizers pivoted from marketing on the basis of need to the basis of identity.
Here is the section in Gravity's Rainbow which tells the tale of Byron the Lightbulb (the longest-burning lightbulb) and his troubles with the Phoebus Cartel: https://www.tildedave.com/byron.html In a book full of…
Yes, it is the same Bruce Damer! Here is a clip of Bruce giving Wozniack a tour of the DigiBarn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHM3MXnrNM He's a fascinating individual who wears many hats. He's done a ton of…
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Emily Dickinson would tend to disagree: Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays — 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An…
> I don't think I could survive an amputation on modern cannabis alone, however. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. My dad was a cancer patient with severe chronic pain. Cannabis did not eliminate the need for…
Good point.
You can stably suspend graphite pencil lead on permanent magnetic fields. E.G.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIizmhzPQc
This notion reduces the totality of human interaction to language. Do you think proto-huminoids who hadn't developed complex language felt lonely because they lacked an ability to explain themselves? If I become a…
Mad Magazine did this in 1963... "If kids designed their own Xmas toys": https://imgur.com/gallery/45RGR
Thank you for mentioning J. Nathan Kutz! Reading through this article, I saw similarities to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (I am not literate enough on the topic to elaborate). His Coursera courses and book were a…
Yeast has been genetically modified to produce psilocybin ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761... ). Researches have yielded the equivalent of about 60g dried shroom in only 1 liter of…
Counterexample: It is impossible to understand a new language without memorization. Memorization is critical, but it is not sufficient.
Which polls? Please be specific. Are the polling methods and results beyond the influence of Russian State? Further, even if they are correct, to what extent is their response based on incorrect or insufficient…
I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.
Tarkovsky was an Orthodox Christian, but his ideas about the irreducibility of experience parallel Zen: "Everybody asks me what things mean in my films. This is terrible! An artist doesn't have to answer for his…
If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.
Got anything to trade for them?
Same. It goes without saying perhaps, but one consideration is what type of social contact you want. I work in a technical role and I miss my colleagues immensely. I feel best when I am around people I know, and when my…
breitbart.com is an approved news source on HN!?
You use your hand to clamp down one nostril. Lookup Nadi Shodhana.
Norbert Wiener discussed this in Cybernetics: "Another example of a purely mechanical feedback system — the one originally treated by Clerk Maxwell — is that of the governor of a steam engine, which serves to regulate…
There is a difference between awareness and judgement. What Tarkovsky is asking you to do is shut down your judgement to gain awareness. In the words of Alan Watts "You must go out of your mind to come to your senses."…
I discovered Tarkovsky only last year. I didn't "get" him until the death of my father. Roiling in ineffable grief, I struggled to find meaning, to sum up the arc of my father's life. The experience had (and still has)…
* $200/yr
There is an exceptional explanation of this in the Adam Curtis documentary "The Century of Self." In the 20th century, advertizers pivoted from marketing on the basis of need to the basis of identity.
Here is the section in Gravity's Rainbow which tells the tale of Byron the Lightbulb (the longest-burning lightbulb) and his troubles with the Phoebus Cartel: https://www.tildedave.com/byron.html In a book full of…
Yes, it is the same Bruce Damer! Here is a clip of Bruce giving Wozniack a tour of the DigiBarn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHM3MXnrNM He's a fascinating individual who wears many hats. He's done a ton of…