Isn't it really interesting that news would take weeks or months to traverse the whole of the Roman empire? Novel information is still not uniformly distributed in our era, but thinking to back then, even news of a new emperor or something did not happen automatically. You could have a departing army coming across a retreating army, or something like that.
Does anybody have a good tutorial on the Fast Fourier Transform? It always feels to be just out of my grasp and I wonder if someone has broken it down in an intuitive way.
It’s not a Supreme Court ruling, it can be rescinded more easily than that — the language suggests a ban that cannot ever be undone, is that good?
Is the Twitter UI itself conducive to healthy discourse?
I contend that healthy discourse cannot happen with a UI that is designed for knee-jerk reactivity.
If a platform becomes a standard means of engagement for elected officials, ought we not more seriously consider the ramifications of clamping on free speech?
Have considered brain to sometimes reflect cities and causeways and roads similar to how slime molds expand. Galaxies and their self-organization seem to be on another scale entirely, but maybe it is a conformal fractal geometry?
Righteous. Longevity over Output would be my contribution right now -- More valuable than pushing one release is the constancy of effort and playful persistence with what is being researched/pursued. Everything that caters to Longevity of Enthusiasm and general stamina is valuable, I would say please include that.
Yes, the external laws are well understood, but what about the internal laws? It's like saying the finite world out there is well understood, so the infinite world within must also be understood therefore. I think you underestimate how much of the world is dependent on our psyches. If there are no beings, what is the use of speaking of a physical universe?
Thus, beings are primary, their experience fundamental and non-negotiably there. Physics does not explain nor make any room for deliciousness, the color blue, or the experience of joy, so I think your argument against Free Will is about as real as the notion of Deliciousness in Physics -- not at all addressing the main point.
Oftentimes we are tempted to say that "well there is a tiny probability that this tiny book on the shelf negates our whole understanding so far, but that's so unlikely, so let's make laws without examining every last book." And thus, we forsake completeness for convenience, and the very pursuit of truth is subjugated to emotional ease. It's easier to think that there's no free will rather than to consider we are wasting a valuable opportunity. In reality, causality has been demonstrated, and the quantum while interesting in addressing spontaneity can still not address the fundamental question of if or how a seed grows.
In that case, consider that what is learned by a yogi or through meditation about the nature of reality, it's learned from accessing wisdom within, which is thusfar an unexplored realm in science. Yet, it is the one we share more intimately than even the rocks and the waves of the ocean and the dip and etude of the solar system. Our real-world experience is unaddressed by physics, so how can we negate the Anthropocentric-realism that we all experience thanks to observations made about the External World?
For me the best way to get stuff done is to get up early, and to get up early I go to bed when tired, and try to get up at roughly the same time every day without an alarm clock. The "brightest slice" of my day is my most creative and most productive. I use downtime or slow-brain time to design and draft, and I use late-night sessions to create todo lists for the morning attack. Procrastination is usually a result of insufficient preparation and non-ideal environment. First make the ideal environment, then get to work. I like the tip about meditation, that definitely helps a ton with clarity, emotional modulation, and your motivation can be more than just for yourself -- to help lots of people, everyone, through your labors.