DrStormyDaniels

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by DrStormyDaniels 10mo ago
Not true, the effect of high blood levels can be very unpredictable. Especially above a certain number - and largely depending on the basal insulin strategy of the patient, for instance long acting shots versus constant micro doses of short
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by DrStormyDaniels 10mo ago
One of the main uses of these technologies is precisely because some type 1 diabetics can become unaware of the symptoms over time either through chance adaption or over-exposure, for instance, hypo-unawareness.
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by DrStormyDaniels 1y ago
I remember reading the 6th paragraph as a teenager, it’s still good: “First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling o
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by DrStormyDaniels 2y ago
Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
Is perception and evaluation a basic function? By analogy with cellular life, maybe. But I think this abstraction hides more than it reveals.
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
You are right of course. The plays are plays. And ”commercial” minus the poetry ;) and yet, the poetry is there, for the non-commercial reader. (I hear they exist)
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
Perhaps, but I think that is beside the point. I read the tales for the voices of the characters, and for the poetry. It’s like Shakespeare, where the plot or story is usually a bit boring, more of a pretext to the poetry, and not really th
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
It takes less time than you might think to get aquatinted with older English spellings, especially if you start at the deep end with Chaucer; it’s plain sailing after. Personally I got to enjoy and prefer the absolute disregard for standard
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
It it surprising that science, which is the theory of impersonal necessity, should find individual agency a rather inconceivable thing?
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
Indeed
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
It’s interesting. Creativity might not be different in effect to “adding some randomness”, but it is different in cause. If the effect is indistinguishable, this distinction may seem sentimental. But take the idea to its limit. If an A.I. t
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
I think your comparisons miss the point: those technologies improved means of production of things made by humans. Instead, these applied statistics models directly seek to emulate the humans themselves. You say ”it gives us what we want” -
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by DrStormyDaniels 3y ago
A different stance from Amherst: I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – t
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by DrStormyDaniels 4y ago
“ … I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Do you take yourself to be an illusion?
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
A short interesting site on Wittgenstein: http://handprint.com/SC/WIT/wittframe.html
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
I think it was likely both. That conditions can diminish a human being is obvious to perceive but impossible to accept. However, if conditions don't suffice to explain, then it seems like there must be something wrong with the person t
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
"This seems like an anthropocentric view of the world." - What else would you suggest? The world itself, taken on its own terms, has no history, no memory of itself, no experience of time, or change, it simply is, and in that sens
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
take a sample of Morris' own writing, from 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' : "Worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in o
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Morris' good advice is a weaker statement of Keats' last words in the Grecian Urn, where the difference between use & beauty becomes null - & belief is left out of it altogether. Morris loved Keats and towards the end of h
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
It's likely not true: https://johnballblog.wordpress.com/william-morris-and-arseni...
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
I think we can agree on common ground, I just don't think it's what really matters. Actually, I'd say what matters most, is that we disagree. What would actually happen if everything was simply true?
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
The denial of reality may be something, (clearly in the trivial cases, denial of facts, it is a common fault) - but more interesting is to ask the converse question: just what exactly does it mean to "accept" reality? As if there
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
You couldn't make it up - "the ominous opening: “Thou still unravish’d bride.” Keats himself is not trying to convince us that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” but to ask us to consider the kinds of people who might say so, and wh
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Thanks, I'll have to look the recording up.
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Interesting, thanks. I want to know more about Lutherism, if you have any suggestions? As for my point, I'm not 100% sure there was one, except that it's nice to observe a theologian having common ground with the antichrist himsel
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Bonheoffer was a Lutheran pastor. Nietzsche, the son of a Lutheran pastor: 'In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.' Also cf. Cipolla: https://www.google.com/ur
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
I think the final movement of the 5th symphony in E-flat major is probably some of the best music that ever will be heard - specifically this recording, Allegro Molto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAFouzo3ZHQ&t=1397s
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
Forget the curvature of the earth. The controversy is how a belief in science, which is necessary, translates into a non-trivial understanding of human life, which is voluntary - this is where things get "religious", in the sense
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by DrStormyDaniels 5y ago
cf. etymology of laconic

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