Utkarsh(Mridul) Goyal
@gcuriousatom
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thru thic & thin or maybe some irony & gin || CS PhD @floridastate || MCS @uofillinois
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Joined May 2015
Endless thoughts to organise Million words to arrange Thousand dots to connect Hundred mistakes to commit Many fears to conquer Some tears to shed Few people to love This life to live One death to arrive
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when sylvia plath wrote ‘please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. there are times when i will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand’ I felt that
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how it feels to be self-aware and still repeat self-destructive patterns
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What makes a "thing" a thing is its relative frequency. Fast activity can perceive slow activities. Slow activities cannot (easily) perceive faster activities (or perceive them as "multiple distinct things")
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what a boring world, without giants, without dragons, without monsters under bridges, without vampires in castles...
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There is no balance btw. You either want it enough to sacrifice everything for it or you don’t.
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How would you even measure something which has never happened
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American computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter on the nature of light
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there's also a nice perfume analogy for this: upon smelling a perfume, if you instinctively associate it with something you're familiar with, say "smells like hamam soap" "medimix" "sunscreen" "iodex", "burnt solder", etc., then identifying individual notes becomes difficult.
When you are learning to draw, a key skill is attending to the shapes of things before you mentally turn them into objects. There is a similar skill in writing where you have to learn to hold a nonverbal idea in your head so that you have space to choose accurate words for it.
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on twitter, communication leans on a handful of familiar framings and trending sentence patterns. original sentence construction is rare. prolific tweeters begin to see their thoughts reshape themselves to fit this memetic packaging. the content warps to suit the form.
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I turned 24 today! This year I started trying to sketch everyday and rediscovered my love for analog
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If you are stuck in analysis paralysis about a person who has hurt you, I recommend reading the Russian fable about the scorpion and the frog
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Had Claude Code build a little plugin that visualizes the work Claude Code is doing as agents working in an office, with agents doing work and passing information to each other. New subagents are hired, they acquire skills, and they turn in completed work. Fun start.
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sometimes i struggle to adjust to civilian life after coming home from the movies
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"Envy no one. For whatever you see, a price was paid." Absolute truth.
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