mudita

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by mudita 5y ago
Here they call the number in the British television show QI: https://youtu.be/zUrYRdIxYp8
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by mudita 5y ago
"WarVOX spent 60 seconds on every call, whether it was answered or not. This resulted in a wardialing speed of 1 call/minute. For 56874 calls, this means roughly 40 days calling day and night." Seems like he did actually call
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by mudita 5y ago
I discovered a similar thought the first time in the amazing science fiction novel Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling: "Lindsay glanced at one wall and was paralyzed at the sight of his own clan's founder, Malcolm Lindsay. As a child,
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by mudita 5y ago
Maybe I am mistaken about this, but I think the "browser locale" shows the preferred languages, not where the user lives. As such it would be the wrong information to use for this. For example, I am German and live in Germany, but
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by mudita 5y ago
Like suicide bombers?
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by mudita 6y ago
One of the central characteristics of art, is that it is trying to break out of boxes. As such it resists any attempt to define it and I personally think that’s is actually a really good example of Wittgenstein’s family resemblance ( https:
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by mudita 6y ago
I quickly googled the saying - which was familiar to me - to check and it is indeed etymologically correct. The origin is the proto-germanic word kunnan, which means “to recognise, to know (how to be able)”. According to Wikipedia, the fir
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by mudita 6y ago
When you're learning latin, it's usually not mainly about the practical application, anyway, and aesthetically it feels somehow so much more pleasing to use the “correct” pronunciation - to me at least. Furthermore it can help to
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by mudita 6y ago
I am very much not interested in what Cade Metz has to say after the way he treated Scott Alexander from Slate Star Codex. (see, e.g. https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-framers-and-... )
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by mudita 6y ago
From the way you're writing about dance, I assume that you mean couple dances like tango or waltz? This study is not about a couple dance, where one has physical contact with one dance partner, but about synchronised movement to music
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by mudita 6y ago
See also the goldilocks effect in developmental psychology: "Human Infants Allocate Attention to Visual Sequences That Are Neither Too Simple Nor Too Complex". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM
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by mudita 6y ago
So, as a bonus, the ones who were not lying about being good at chess were probably really happy about the chance to play a grandmaster! :)
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by mudita 6y ago
It is pretty well established in psychology that women score higher in agreeableness (in the sense of the Big 5 trait). This difference is pretty small, the distributions overlap a lot, but I think, the fact, that women are more agreeable i
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by mudita 6y ago
For me, the experience with friends is similar. If I want to mostly hear their voice and feel close to them, voice messages are great, but if I want or need some information then please, just send me a text.
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by mudita 6y ago
If that's true, then it's a real shame. I strongly prefer written text to podcasts. Maybe that's just my own taste, but to be honest, I believe, that it's just a much, much better medium for conveying ideas. With text I
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by mudita 6y ago
I was poor for some time after deciding to quit my computer science phd for a career in art. I guess I still am compared to others, but it does not feel that way any more. When I was really poor, worrying about money and how to pay the next
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by mudita 6y ago
“He conclude the book by saying that when you don't know what you're talking about, it would be better for you to not speak about it” That’s NOT what he wrote. The quote is: “whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.
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by mudita 6y ago
In principle, I really like the legal situation in Germany, where I live: There’s a fundamental right to “informational self-determination”, but this right is not absolute. Journalists have the duty to weigh the freedom of the press and es
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by mudita 6y ago
"lots of people would like to remain anonymous. would you like to live in a world where the New York times lets powerful people who are doing awful, unethical things remain anonymous as they would like to?" That's a false dic
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by mudita 6y ago
No, of couse not, that would be a very, very strange claim. I agree with rcxdude's reading of the statement: 'if you reject IQ, you have raised your standards of evidence so high you must logically reject everything else in psycho
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by mudita 6y ago
This is a nice, very readable article by a psychologist specialising in lifespan personality development: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/30/4840534... "while personality trai
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by mudita 6y ago
Let's hear it from a psychologist: "If you don’t buy IQ research, you might as well throw out all the rest of psychology." (Jordan Peterson) https://youtu.be/D7Kn5p7TP_Y?t=2938 For anybody interested in perso
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by mudita 6y ago
This duet between a human dancer and an industrial robot might interest you as well: https://youtu.be/Q-sK-s_TzN0
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by mudita 6y ago
What style of dance do you mean? I think this "making it look easy" is probably most relevant for ballet, where high level dancers still train very "basic" movements or use a lot of muscular effort to create the illusion
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by mudita 6y ago
Yeees, but the problem Jtsummers mentions is that often the label gets “internalized as a quality of themselves”, so especially men sometimes thing that it’s their own preference, when they just never had the right space to discover the joy
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by mudita 6y ago
Yes, at least for me this would be very bad advice. It seems to be some kind of common wisdom, but from personal experience staying in contact immediately after a breakup really helped me to get closure sometimes. Sometimes I also had to br
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by mudita 6y ago
Thanks a lot for this reference. I am a professional dancer and phd student in machine learning and starting to combine these fields for an art project, but I wasn’t aware of Donna Harraway, this could actually be really helpful to me.
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by mudita 6y ago
> Hell, the only thing you listed that I'd think people in the US with a passing familiarity with anime might know would be Cowboy Bebop. Really? He listed Akira! From Wikipedia: > The film had a production budget of ¥700 million
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by mudita 6y ago
Just as an aside: This seems like a very unfair characterisation of Wittgenstein to me. His writing can be almost mathematical, but it can also be very poetic, playful and funny. Appreciating his writing might be a matter of taste, but it s
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by mudita 6y ago
Could you say more about what this stacking technique is? I got the impression that it's about combining different images by aligning and averaging them to get a better signal-to-noise-ratio, is this correct?

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