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by nyc111 4y ago
I agree. Willpower requires rational thinking. If you are able to think nationally regarding food then you won’t need any of tricks suggested in the article. In my case, my reason is blinded during overeating and I become aware of it only a
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«Physics is just “natural philosophy.”» Used to be but not anymore. The difference is, natural philosophers, like Henry Cavendish, were amateurs, physicists are professionals. They are "Doctors of Philosophy", the professional off
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"Philosophers call this “epistemological” uncertainty – uncertainty to do with lack of knowledge." Nature is self-similar. If we observe epistemological uncertainty in the macro world, the same will be true for the micro world. Th
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by nyc111 4y ago
I don't agree. Our perception of the world is colored in the gut and served to the conscious mind. When I was living in New York, the jingle of the ice cream truck draw me crazy, it was torture. But for kids, it was happiness because t
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by nyc111 4y ago
"Philosophers call this “epistemological” uncertainty – uncertainty to do with lack of knowledge." Nature is self-similar. If we observe epistemological uncertainty in the macro world, the same will be true for the micro world. Th
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Mental ilness is in your gut. That's where we should be looking at.
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Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty(iai.tv)
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"According to the standard story, which is unfortunately still found in many physics textbooks, quantum theory emerged when it was realized that classical physics predicts an energy distribution for black-body radiation that disagrees
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"These tombs [were] so frequently raided by tomb raiders that there was no guarantee that anything exciting would be down there." From a wider angle, what are archeologists doing? Aren't they raiding tombs too? They are distu
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Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary (2000)(physicsworld.com)
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Probability, seems to me, cannot be fundamental, because, a machine built to flip a coin with always the same pressure, can be adjusted to always give heads, or tails. In such a setup there won't be probability. From George Boole'
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"...Sometimes light is a wave, sometimes it's a particle." If light in these experiments is behaving as wave, then, there would be nothing surprising about a wave acting as itself even though it is far away from the origin. I
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In physics the word particle can have many different meanings depending on the context. Particle does not necessarily mean a spherical object with a finite radius. I wonder how they define a particle in this context, for example in this nic
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Elm: A delightful language for reliable web applications(elm-lang.org)
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I think the Wikipedia system of learning mentioned in the article would work. I call it "just in time learning". You click the link, you read it, if you decide that it is useful then you learn it by repeating it and understanding
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That's so true :) I think this world is absurd so the best one can do is contribute to the absurdness. Absurd is its own utility.
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Cannot read it, behind paywall.
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Restrictions will set you free(youtube.com)
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How James Clear is writing his next book (2021)(every.to)
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True. Where there is teaching there is no learning.
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I don't think mathematics is a tool invented by humans. We see that who ever designed the shell of the snail knew about math and used it. The more interesting question for me is, did the designer of the snail shell use the mathematics
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It's interesting that he used a plain notebook not a square ruled notbook. Mathematicians mostly use squared notebooks I guess.
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Does anyone know how the validity of a linear extrapolation is determined? I mean is there a standard way of measuring an extrapolation, like sigma? The only way I can think of is to take the ratio of the sample with the population. For ins
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by nyc111 4y ago
I have a 14” M1 Pro. I cannot look at the screen of this machine more than a few minutes before my eyes starts to give alarms. I have no problem with my Macbook Air. I see that no one mention a similar complaints in comments. Can you share
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Kath Kuni Architecture(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Peter Principle (1974) [video](youtube.com)
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I'm happy for physics that finally someone from their ranks is trying, at least trying, to say that cosmology is a hoax. I've been writing this for ages. Here's one article I dug: https://notlar3.blogspot.com/
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Building an RC Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft(youtube.com)
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The mental Universe (2005) [pdf](henry.pha.jhu.edu)
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He has other great essays, https://archive.org/details/indiscretethough0000rota/mode/2u...

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