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tag > Philosophy
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- The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
- The more one produces, the less one gets.
- Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.” - Rumi
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Death is the most certain possibility - To think critically is always to be hostile - Love is all you need
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Throughout history, many of true substance came to a common conclusion: life is too precious to waste on fleeting fame, empty allegiances, or hollow power and riches. Once you grasp this, you see history with new eyes—not through the famous, but in the shadows.
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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. - Laozi
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When i first encountered Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" in my teen years, i was confused & intrigued. After years of working on it, I've come to terms that Ted is poetically describing "an experience of water & interconnection"
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Don't be too serious. You're creating problems in your head again. Meditate now, all else can wait.
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Nishida Kitarō (西田 幾多郎, 1870-1945) was one of modern Japan's most important and influential philosophers. He founded the Kyoto School of philosophy and developed original philosophical ideas that bridged Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.
Nishida had interesting perspectives on Logic:
- Nishida was critical of traditional Western logic based on subject-predicate structure
- He developed what he called "predicate logic" (述語的論理) - not to be confused with modern predicate logic
- His logic tried to capture the idea that predicates could exist without subjects
- He was interested in developing logical systems that could handle:
- Self-reference without paradox
- The unity of contradictions
- Non-dualistic thinking
- The logic of place rather than substance
His work on logic is particularly interesting because it attempted to formalize some traditionally Eastern philosophical insights. While he didn't develop a formal multivalued logic system in the modern sense, his ideas about:
- The inadequacy of binary true/false distinctions
- The possibility of statements being simultaneously true and false
- The importance of context in logical relations
- The need for a logic that could handle paradox and self-reference
These ideas anticipate some developments in non-classical logic, though his approach was more philosophical than formal.
The temporal aspects of his thought are especially complex:
- He argued for a view of time that wasn't simply linear
- Developed concepts of "absolute present" where past and future coexist
- Suggested that causality itself was grounded in something more fundamental (absolute nothingness)
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After a decade working on HCI / ML latent space exploration, I’ve noticed a big common misconception: Many believe longer exploration improves user outcomes. I argue the opposite—short, efficient interactions serve users better and should be our goal.
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Perspective: Life is short, The Galaxy is big, Things are very weird, You are alive. What is stopping you from putting on a highly eccentric hat, proclaiming gnomes are real and smiling like a crazy person?
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The only spiritual life you need it not to react. To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.
