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"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius
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Scarcity vs abundance mentality - You are the only one who gets to decide your perception
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Janusian thinking is the ability to imagine two opposites or contradictory ideas, concepts, or images existing simultaneously. Imagine, if you will, your mother existing as a young baby and old woman simultaneously, or your pet existing and not existing at the same time.
Psychology 1508: Janusian Thinking (Presentation)
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"The Entire Universe is Prefused with Signs, If It Is Not Composed Exclusively of Signs." - Charles Peirce
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Flow States. The experience of time changes - Short about the research of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany.
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David Bohm on Problems
"Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates." - David Bohm (read more...)
David Bohm on Theory
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Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture (Guardian)
Note in which Hitchhiker’s writer reminds himself he will finally get pleasure from process to be part of book based on his archive: “Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author wrote to himself. “Writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it!”
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Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics without Vector Supervision
Machine learning will soon surpass hand-engineered image vectorization methods (which are already quite good), but will allow us to more interesting things with the learned representations
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Parrots Will Share Currency to Help Their Pals Purchase Food
In an experiment, African grey parrots were taught to buy food using tokens. When paired up, without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their partners which had no tokens, so that everyone could eat.
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In software engineering, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat. "Desk check your code" is the original term for this technique.
