jamesakirk

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by jamesakirk 3y ago
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 Eleme
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by jamesakirk 3y ago
> 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 opiates for
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by jamesakirk 3y ago
Good point.
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by jamesakirk 3y ago
You can stably suspend graphite pencil lead on permanent magnetic fields. E.G.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIizmhzPQc
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by jamesakirk 4y ago
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 duller and less compl
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by jamesakirk 4y ago
Mad Magazine did this in 1963... "If kids designed their own Xmas toys": https://imgur.com/gallery/45RGR
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by jamesakirk 4y ago
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 fascinating dive into orthogo
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by jamesakirk 4y ago
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
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
Counterexample: It is impossible to understand a new language without memorization. Memorization is critical, but it is not sufficient.
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
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 information (which I strongly
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
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 meanings. I don&#x
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
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.
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
Got anything to trade for them?
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
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 job entails keeping
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by jamesakirk 5y ago
breitbart.com is an approved news source on HN!?
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by jamesakirk 6y ago
You use your hand to clamp down one nostril. Lookup Nadi Shodhana.
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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 its velocity un
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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." If by sh
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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) a
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
* $200/yr
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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.
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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 stra
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
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 in
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
If you are doing signal processing (Laplace and Fourier transforms especially) and want to gain an intuitive sense of Complex Analysis, I recommend the book Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham.
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
"That is, until Gallant opened her phone and chose the loudest band she could think of: Metallica." Clearly, Gallant is not a Motorhead fan.
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
Sennheiser HD25: fantastic sound quality, bulletproof construction, easy to drive, and replacement parts (earcups, pads, cables) are readily available and easy to install. I've used them daily for a decade and have no regrets. No noise
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
http://f5oclock.com
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
"Note that the maps are not measuring the overall greenness, which explains why the Amazon and eastern North America do not stand out, among other forested areas." This measures area, not density. It is not a good measure of carbo
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by jamesakirk 7y ago
ctrl-f squamish ret Thanks for being awesome!

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