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by gbjw 4y ago
This is a blatant false dichotomy and a dehumanizing one at that.
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by gbjw 4y ago
"God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" "Push this boulder, and imagine yourself happy."
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by gbjw 4y ago
> Humans derive a lot from process, not the final product. This is what gives me solace. Surely much of 'art' (in so far as a definition is useful) is not a static 'product' that you can replicate at will. It is a con
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by gbjw 4y ago
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” - William Blake
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by gbjw 4y ago
For anyone looking into this, Rotation Averaging by Hartley et al. (2011) is a must-read on the subject of rotation averaging: https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~hartley/Papers/PDF/Hartley-Tr...
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by gbjw 4y ago
Happy Birthday!
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by gbjw 5y ago
Couldn't agree more with this assessment. I'd also like to repost the top comment on Medium since it might be particularly germane to the HN community: '...a spirit influenced by gnosticism (even if it doesn't know it):
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by gbjw 5y ago
In Canada as well (e.g., York is known to have a strong 'activist' graduate union that periodically shuts down classes over labour disputes).
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by gbjw 5y ago
Sure -- or people don't want to clog up channels with what they perceive to be minutiae or very context-specific questions requiring some back-and-forth.
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by gbjw 5y ago
Sending a message in a public channel is psychologically akin to walking into a room full of people and just loudly proclaiming/demanding help. I don't think people are simply 'scared' to do it -- they just (rightly) int
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by gbjw 5y ago
Somewhat tangential, but McCarthy is publishing two new novels (after a 16 year break): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new... .
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by gbjw 5y ago
Amen. Another documentary comes to mind: The Alpinist (on Amazon). It follows a Canadian climber who ‘solved’ his ADHD by becoming one of the world’s best mountain climbers. Funnily enough, his climbing style was smooth, controlled and rela
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by gbjw 5y ago
Completely agree. I'd like to also recommend another book in the spirit of Ecclesiastes: Tolstoy's Confession. A Confession was published shortly after Anna Karenina and at a time when Tolstoy (in his fifties) was widely considere
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by gbjw 5y ago
Interesting to note that the link between emotions and the 'gut' are all over the place in English: 'trust your gut' 'I have a gut feeling' 'I hate his guts' 'my gut reaction'.
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by gbjw 5y ago
What is 'representative' democracy in the age of weekly/(daily?) polls that break down your constituents' views on every last issue? The blind leading the blind...
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by gbjw 5y ago
This is insanity -- you get paid $1.2M as an IC?! How? Is this total comp?
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by gbjw 5y ago
To nitpick here: many tenured professors also use Slack, email, alerts etc. There's also often an (implicit) expectation that they can get stuff done in the evenings, on weekends etc. (e.g., paper reviews, grants, references, etc.). So
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by gbjw 5y ago
Furthermore, a lesser-talked about side-effect of extended (semi-)lockdowns and associated measures is a general reduction in the physical health of the populace. How many of us have put on a few extra pounds? This survey [1] (which, admi
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SARS-CoV-2: eye protection might be the missing key (May 2021)(thelancet.com)
1 points by gbjw 5y ago|0 comments
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by gbjw 5y ago
Your anecdote makes me wonder if the Omicron variant is largely spreading through aerosols and eyes. See (commentary from May 2021): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5... .
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by gbjw 5y ago
Cf. 'The Myth of Mental Illness' by Thomas Szasz (1961): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
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by gbjw 5y ago
Thank you so much! Moby-Dick is my favourite novel --- appreciate the effort.
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by gbjw 5y ago
'Why can't consciousness solve the mystery of its own existence?'
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by gbjw 5y ago
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Simone Weil
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Mozart and Scatology(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gbjw 5y ago
I think it was serious. Norm was very well-read and his favourite literature was deeply religious and suspicious of modernity (Twain, Tolstoy, Proust).
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by gbjw 5y ago
Hardly nonsense and a view espoused by several other cultural commentators and authors (e.g., Ross Douthat, Dostoyevsky, Simone Weil, to name a few).
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by gbjw 5y ago
Also mine. Here is the video of it (his mannerisms only add to the aesthetic): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vaqxy
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by gbjw 5y ago
Gutted. He was a comedic genius, and extremely well-read. Rest in peace, Norm.
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by gbjw 5y ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

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