pauek

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   by pauek 18y ago

   My guess is that the brain is trying new combinations, so that if you hit a new idea during the day, it will get reinforced (you get "excited"). So the brain "shuffles" stuff during the night (dreams) and during the day selects. It is like
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   by pauek 18y ago

   > Eventually my motivation will return to whatever it was that I should have been doing How do you do to keep a coherent direction, then? My problem is precisely this, and I am so driven by motivation that I end up doing a kind of Brown
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   by pauek 19y ago

   If you want to get a taste of the whole thing: 1. Install Ubuntu. 2. Start using emacs (maybe with "Learning Emacs", O'Reilly, as mechanical_fish suggests). 3. Learn some Python (maybe with "Learning Python", O'Reilly too). 4. Use webpy ( h
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   by pauek 19y ago

   What I would love to read is an essay about "absolutism": the belief that there's only One Truth and that it can be really proved. I think many people disagree precisely about this, they think that being an absolutist is bad. Among progra