Ulkar
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by day: biology, science history, metascience | by night: composition | https://t.co/PpuV1zhkrg | https://t.co/W6QDqE82Vv | Emergent Ventures '22
New York
Joined May 2020
a thread of recordings of my music! .
overjoyed and with a singing heart, i want to share with you the recording of my first suite for cello and piano, ‘Bayatı’, performed by the brilliant Juilliard musicians, cellist Daniel Hass (who is also my composition teacher) and pianist Richard Rivale.
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TIL plumbing comes from Latin plumbum, meaning lead. never made this connection before, though it’s right in the periodic table - element 82, Pb
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are there any words left in LOTR that companies are not named after.
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the magic of fireflies definitely gains from the fact that they don’t buzz. silent hovering with unpredictable flashes of light makes them ever more fairy-like.
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found in Speech and Language Processing (2024), Chapter 6: Vector Semantics and Embeddings
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what helps me write:. - no / sparse twitter use.- changing seats around my table.- taking stretching breaks.- lots of tea.- enthusiastic feedback.- working from my favorite cafe/bookstores a few times a week.
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interesting that 'dramatically' means 'with great intensity' while 'theatrically' means 'not really'.
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maybe one reason there are so many excellent writers among physicians is that they are faced with the most brutal and tender stuff of life, with people at their weakest and strongest, on a daily basis. just writing down their observations already gets them very far.
there are quite a few physicians turned writers or who wrote in parallel with their medical practice: Doyle, Keats, Maugham, Chekhov, Bulgakov. who else?.
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mediterranean diet is a strong attractor, i seem to default to it without making a conscious effort to adhere to it.
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lutes with such strings sound gentle and warm yet distant, as if playing from afar, even if you sit a few feet from the instrument.
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“Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?” asks Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. turns out strings made of sheep’s guts can produce richest overtones compared to other materials.
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i realized that i was reading HCI (human-computer interactions) as HCl (hydrochloric acid) all this time and wondering why it doesn't make any sense.
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conjecture: to create something anew, one has to let oneself be swept away by strong experiences, not just notice and observe one’s mental states in a detached way. muse doesn’t come to a quiet mind.
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are there outstanding artists, composers, writers, poets among experienced / advanced meditators? have meditators created something truly profound in the arts?.
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it’s kinda ironic that teslas are charged with direct current.
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they are 2-4 cm in length and 1-2 cm in diameter yet the amount of detail they encode is huge
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a measure of civilizational advancement is the amount of information it can fit into a unit of space (or time). by this token, assyrian cylinder seals are a testament to an incredibly highly advanced civilization
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