aftoprokrustes

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Stella, the First Talking Dog(hungerforwords.com)
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
If I trust Wikipedia, even today the term "Erdapfel" is used to refer to topinambour in some regions: "Mancherorts in Baden wird Topinambur als Erdapfel bezeichnet." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/To
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
While I prefer expressive type systems by a long shot, I would be much more careful about it "guaranteeing correctness". Types can act as good documentation and as a safeguard for stupid mistakes. But the worst bugs are due to log
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
I would go one step further: why would the question be irrelevant for a janitor? Let's say you search for a janitor for a high school. You have three good candidates. One just applied randomly. One lives just around the corner, and wan
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
My feeling is that people with a more mathematical background tend to like developping DSLs that look more like math than code, and is typically written once and then thrown away; whereas people with a more software engineering background t
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
Note that "insight" meditation without Samadhi/Jhana practice is sometimes called "dry insight", and a lot of "insight" focused teachers still emphasize Smadhi/Jhana as an important part of practice.
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
They are the same, but in a different language. Jhana is Pāli, Dhyana is Sanskrit. Pāli ist the language of the oldest collection of discourses of the Buddha, on which Theravada buddhism is based. Sanskrit appeared later and is often used i
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
In the case of the Pali canon, the Buddha always re-orients the questions whenever asked about the nature of the universe or of reality, to teach the "noble truths" of suffering, its origin, its cessation and the path to its cessa
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
Not even need for drugs. Just give a good, intense, long stare at your hand. I bet before long, a weird sense of "this is not mine/me" or it being very uniquely unique, rather than a "hand", or being an empty set of
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
I guess you mean "the entire eastern philosophy" in your last sentence. I absolutely agree that there is a lot of parallels with Buddhist descriptions of "co-dependent arising", but there are also important differences.
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
As other commenters said, what you describe could actually be considered a secret code. But in the specific german case, the code is not even that secret. This is a formal document with a very specific structure, and very standardized phras
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
Thank you, it is great to have the opinion of someone actually practicing this. I was indeed wondering if regular lectio of a text would lead almost automatically to memorizing it, but it seems not to be the case. Still, I could imagine tha
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
I actually came here to comment on how this memorization "technique" or "strategy" reminded me of what is done in some religions. Catholic meditation, for instance, is structured around _lectio divina_ and _meditatio_: t
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
I will not comment on the technical part, as others already did it better than I could, but it just reminded me of an anecdote that reminds of the importance of such trivial things as a period at the end of a sentence: In Germany, where I w
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
I agree that the citation does sound cold and coercitive, but actually this is already kind of how streets and urban developments are designed. Human drivers are limited, so if you allow cars to go fast, you restrict or remove the right to
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
In my experience (10 years in academia), people who understand statistics enough do look at effect size rather than significance levels. But unfortunately, even in one of the top european universities, a lot of researchers (who are ~70% PhD
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by aftoprokrustes 2y ago
This is, fortunately, not my experience. In all of my jobs, the most highly regarded people, including by management, were/are those who have an informed opinion and are confident enough to voice it, and potentially take responsibiliti
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I cook for a 5 persons household, and I fill 4 to 5 1L Ziplock bags with vegetable peels, tips/tails and other "garbage", which I then turn into 1 to 2L of stock. We also eat a lot of pasta, and I make sure to keep the "
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This actually the opposite: he sees it as a positive, which might be sensible on a first look. But there are various problems with it, which completely counterbalance the initial benefits, and which he does not aknowledge. For instance - tr
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
My main problem is not someone disagreeing with the consensus in the field. I actually love when someone sheds a new light on something everyone agrees on. I also have no problems with "laypeople" not being aware of the research a
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I usually try to be respectful, but here I have to say it: this article is junk. I did transportation research, and taught it at the masters level, for more than 10 years. His "arguments" against the concept of induced demand are
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Indeed, I wonder what is the reason. The only explanation I can think of would be that the event is already widely advertised by "authorized" partnering media - who thus have an interest in preserving the aura of the event - and s
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
"Rock climbing is the new golf": I never thought about it in this way, but it makes a lot of sense. In both sports, most of the time is spent waiting/resting. This makes golf clubs and climbing gyms as much places for social
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I was indeed something more in the line of this, where a building was excavated, put on rails, and moved 60m in order to make way for an extension of a train station: https://youtu.be/dEZ-AantPaY?si=9n6SdBYowo1HoXuD https:
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Thank you, I find it interesting to read the "back cover" now that I know about his writing method: one can see how it emerges from the various steps he described. Also, it manages to make me want more, even though the premise is
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I also have the impression that a common use of error correction is the "QR Code with a logo in the middle" style. With an appropriate level of error correction, you can carve an empty patch in the middle of the logo and slap a lo
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This is actually hilarious. It looks like a student who did not learn for the exam but still tries their best to scratch a point or two by filling the page with as many reasonnable sounding statements (a.k.a. "bullshit") as they c
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This is I think a much bigger issue, and pretty much impossible to understand for most users: the fact that the frontend happily accepted your name/e-mail/whatever is _not_ an proof that it can handle it. I tried to use gmail&#x27
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I actually think it is a bit more subtle than that. I am here really focusing on consciousness as a subjective experience, which seems to be of an entirely different nature than physical processes. We have a lot of examples of emergent prop
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This is an hypothesis. Of course, it is obvious that a lot of what human/animals are and do can be explained or described by physical processes. But there is the "hard problem of consciousness", to which no one has a satisfyi

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