does the buddha have maze nature?
Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
Most normal people hear the word “cryptocurrency” and assume that means that they are “cryptic” or “private,“but that’s actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequences.The “crypto” in cryptocurrency merely comes from its cryptographic nature.
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saw this great writeup once on how somebody visualized data by drawing faces with them, and letting our brain’s natural face feature-extraction algorithms interpret the data. Kinda want to try to do that with some of these samples and waveforms I’m curating. #halfbakedideas
When in challenging or sad situations it’s only reasonable to be grumpy, or pessimistic or what have you. Negative emotions or feelings are part of our natural range and appropriate depending on the cirumstances. Forced positivy to me always has something ghoulish, Truman-show like. It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016) | Hacker News
the natural color system: when in doubt, these are some pretty good functional colors. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Color_System]].
Dreelix, King of Gears
Dreelix is a goblin, and he is 130 years old. A young goblin, as goblins can live for many, many years. Dreelix lives in a tidy, relatively small house, in the little town of Enter Town Name Here near the Enter geographical reference here. He is a tinker by nature and by heritage, as his parents, and parents’ parents were all tinkers, and very proud of it.
The title he holds, King of Gears, was given to his great-great-great-great-great grandfather by the Trade Excellency Tenlix … ⌘ Read more
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
planck keyboard feels 98% natural to me now. I’m using stiff tactile grey cherry switches on them, which feel great to me, but my fingers need to build up strength for long-term use.
Something being ‘natural’ might make fixing it more difficult, but it is not an excuse not to fix it. If inequity & injustice are ‘natural’ – i.e., happen without conspiracy – that just makes it more important to fight them.
Random link from the archives: https://worldwritable.com/https-worldwritable-com-natural-language-processing-for-programmers-world-models-b01943959830 originally archived Wed Jun 20 10:37:12 EDT 2018
On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Language
the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.
GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX
There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/
Natural Processes “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/natural-processes/
It’s probably a mistake to believe we know what ‘human nature’ entails & how consistent or flexible it is.
Controlled natural language - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
Band name of the day: rejecting the natural
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision
“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/
GitHub - opencog/link-grammar: The CMU Link Grammar natural language parser https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar
303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1
QOTD: ‘For Lovecraft, if all horror can be explained by natural law, then the obvious inference is that natural law is horrific.’
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?
Band name of the day: a creeping naturalism
The Secret London Exhibition for Spies’ Eyes Only - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exhibit-for-spies-at-natural-history-museum-london
Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
Band name of the day: naturally occurring-interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys
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303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05773-y
Humans are natural magic-users because their cognition is grounded: Whenever they meet an ungrounded cognition (say a spirit), that spirit is grounded through them and the resulting flow of energy can be harnessed
Seeing into the True Nature: Have You Tried Solving the Problem? http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/have-you-tried-solving-problem.html
Art project if you have too much money: Anonymously buy some 95% to 100% of your city’s ad space for a month and make it display only art and nature pictures; then hope for protests once the ads are back
Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature https://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization-is-indistinguishable-from-nature/
Please describe the precise nature of the absurdity.
Band name of the day: the nine springs of our nature
A nature god by the name of “it”, hidden in plain sight where the monotheists can’t exorcise it: It rains, snows, thunders
Ouroboroi are natural self-sustaining summoning grids: Circle and blood are already included and when they yawn, they catch drifting worlds and the occasional demon
303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07220-w
nature: (n) […] etymology uncertain, possibly a contraction of “not ture” (“not human”)↵vulture: (n) […] etym.: vult+ture (“wants human”)
📚 Finished reading On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
📚 Finished reading On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
Sarcasm Corpus V2 | Natural Language and Dialogue Systems https://nlds.soe.ucsc.edu/sarcasm2
The correct mass noun for a swarm of pixies is ‘jpeg’, often occurring near windows since they’re naturally drawn to them
The most common werecreature is the werehuman, transformed by the sun. Only those who flee the solar system revert to a more natural form