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Broke: pay attention to what people say. Woke: pay attention to what people do . Bespoke: pay attention to neither - only the outcome & what they have to gain or lose from that outcome. Then work backwards.
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@naval with the internet you get to have mentors that don't necessarily have to deal with you being their mentee.
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re: technology/automation/"AI" taking over jobs: it's like the calculator. It replaces the computation, not the mathematician - in fact it enhances the productivity of the mathematician, empowers them to focus on what problem to solve, not how to solve it.
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i can think of no greater restraint on human comprehension than the contrived separation of art, mathematics & language.
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chatGPT will do for writing what calculators did for math. mathematics is less about blitz-computing & more about finding general solutions elegantly. writing is less about prose & more about extracting truths from obscurity.
re: technology/automation/"AI" taking over jobs: it's like the calculator. It replaces the computation, not the mathematician - in fact it enhances the productivity of the mathematician, empowers them to focus on what problem to solve, not how to solve it.
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the Poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. it is the Logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. & it is his head that splits. ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
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both Genesis 2:7 & Surah Al-Hijr verse 29 describe the soul of man as a result of God "breathing His Spirit" into us. is it any surprise that the act of conscious breathing - meditation - increases our awareness of this consciousness?
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"the days are short, the decades are long" . “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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@Cernovich Jesus Christ was, is, and will be a threat against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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few realize that both share from the same fountain of Beauty.
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@LauraDeming striking a middle ground with (dis)agreeability in cooperation . image credit: @Conaw
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beauty is unity in variety. Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature. or more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search - for unity in variety. ― Jacob Bronowski, h/t Samuel Coleridge.
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@edleonklinger Uhh. Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Johannes Kepler. heard of em? . Looking glass or mirror?
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Satoshi Nakamoto (creator of Bitcoin) first post in 2002. The replies always get me.
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"In the Standard Model of particle physics, photons and other elementary particles are described as a necessary consequence of physical laws having a certain symmetry at every point in spacetime."
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A Story in 4 Chapters. 1. Taliban bans the production of poppy seeds. 2. US invades Afghanistan to root out Taliban. 3. Opium production skyrockets. 4. Opiate crisis in the United States, ~ 10 years later. What are opiates made of? Oh right. opium.
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“it’s just random”.
When the motion of the planets are charted as their so called epicyclic geocentric paths, or the shapes their orbits have as seen from Earth, you find these interesting mandala-like structures [from: «Old and new astronomy», Richard Proctor, 1892
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both optimism & pessimism are metacognitive protocols for us to come to grips with reality . that eventually have no effect on the task at hand. we might be better off just seeing things as they are. the glass isn’t half full or half empty — it’s just half.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.". ― Alexander Pope.
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a recession doesn't destroy assets as much as it exposes the extent to which they have been misallocated.
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Matthew 6:25-34. • which of you, by worrying, can add one cubit to his stature?. • seek first the Kingdom of God & His Righteousness - all these things shall be added to you. • sufficient for the day is it’s own trouble
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G-d is a computationally irreducible proposition. Revelation, not logic or observation, is the only path of light. Logic & scientific observation serve only to make the undecidable explorable. Layer by layer, we understand how little we understand, and that is enlightenment.
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logging on to twitter = receiving your syllabus of research for the day lol.
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@desantis @CVPITVLIST the languages of intelligence (writing) and self-interest (money) are the mind's greatest creations; both must be decentralized or all is lost. —DeSantis.
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a natural alignment of interests is more powerful than any incentive scheme.
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"I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.".
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when you feel your sins are too great to repent . you're not exaggerating your sins . you're depreciating the vastness of His Mercy.
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the Quranic message is to “not become overjoyed when things go your way” & to “not become depressed when things don’t “ — equanimity
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mathematicians ultimately spot patterns, which allow them to create structures, which contain axioms. realization of an axiom allows them to generalize: if universally true, true in other set(ting)s . Something looked over: as a by-product they're also spotting inconsistencies.
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. — Nikola Tesla .
Don’t look for “smart,” look for “clear thinker.”.
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writing is powerful because it is the physical manifestation of ideas, thoughts. writing is formalized thinking . the physical manifestation becomes particularly powerful as it allows you to share thinking w/ people over distances & across time - not just w/ people you're around.
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desire is not the problem, the problem is that you desire something beneath you, that your desires are unambitious. نِعۡمَ أَجۡرُ ٱلۡعَٰمِلِينَ.
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your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. — Fyodor Dosteovsky.
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there is an old idea;. It is easier to control a select few that influence the masses, than it is to try to control the masses. Because the masses will rebel against you. But the select influential few that you control, you have leverage against ($, information).
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successful founders are masterful allocators: of time, capital, and labor.
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@FluidFluxation @jack @joerogan right after he called it a threat to banking institutions and governments
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"to become a master of yourself is a deed that probably surpasses in its benefit to all mankind any external achievement that you can perform".
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“My brain is only a receiver; in the Universe there is a core, from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” . ― Nikola Tesla.
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ولم أر في عيوب الناس عيبا كنقص القادرين على التمام. "i do not see a flaw more distasteful than the mediocrity of the capable".
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"mathematics & science - particularly geometry & cosmology - was directly linked to the Divine for most medieval scholars. Since God created the universe based on geometric, harmonic principles, to seek these principles was therefore to seek & worship God.".
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trading time for money < trading money for time < trading time for accumulation of human capital. first is symmetric, linear .second is having a low-time preference, asymmetric, non-linear outcomes .third is a power law distribution of compounding effects.
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There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality. ― Werner Heisenberg.
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حقّ truth. توحيد oneness [of God]. علم knowledge. عرفان gnosis; awareness of knowledge. عقل intellect; rationality. حكمة wisdom . إِنْسَان humanity . عمل action . عدل justice / equity . أخلاق (practice of) morality/manners. عمران development. إسلام Submission, wholeness, peace.
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pay very little attention to what people do/say --> focus all attention on the underlying rationale.
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either you tell a computer what to do or it tells you what to do.
I need a neural net that generates my plan for the day, with one of three modes to choose from:.1. Maximize productivity.2. Maximize chill.3. Maximize weirdness & adventure.
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@sharghzadeh True as that is, there's a meaningful & I'd argue a huge distinction between the slavery practiced by the West (chattel slavery) that Muslim countries never practiced & was immoral from the Islamic perspective from the get-go.
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@svpino Introduction to Algorithms by MIT OCW. • The Algorithm Design Manual. • - Lectures on this book:
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