It's not only me, right?
Seriously, Mr. Yudkowsky. Your writings have affected me deeply and positively, and I can't properly imagine the counterfactual world in which you don't exist. I think I'd be much less than the person I want to be, and that the world world would be less awesome than it is now. Thank you for so much.
Also, this fanfic thing is pretty dang cool.
So come on everyone, lets shower this great guy and his great story with all the praise he and it deserve! he's certainly earned it.
Just a heads up.
This has been verified by express and trick-DNS.
So in this class that I rather despised that all freshmen were required to take at my college, we were assigned to write a dialogue that mirrored the one in Euthyphro, but discussed the definition of another "undefinable" term besides piety. Most people in my class chose terms like Love, Bravery, or Morality. But I was so fed up with the class I decided to sort of troll my professor and write it about spoons. So in about an hour one night I put this dialogue together and submitted it. To my surprise, it was my professor's favorite submission out of any she had received (this was also aided by the fact that she was a avid collector of 19th century spoons). I ended up getting an A on it and my professor went so far as to commend me by saying I had "a future as a deconstructionist philosopher." So without further ado, [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17xcGJxziGwfG6Qj3eT7HViDhig4jUf2MyfwatvhI5eM/edit?usp=sharing) it is. Enjoy!
Hi! training question here- I can currently get about one rotation of a back spin, two if I'm lucky (Ugh I know right?) I might post a video later if it will help, but I'm not really looking for "don't grab your foot too soon, kick through more etc" unless you really think that is the type of thing that would help me most. I'm really more wondering how to better train it for improvement. Are there certain things you did when learning it (or maybe other moves?) that helped you progress? I'm asking because just practicing the same thing in the same faulty way over and over, doesn't really seem to be changing much for me. How did you start training it and how did you progress? This is probably applicable to all sorts of moves, but if you remember how you did it for back spin, even better. Did going real slow at first help? Videoing yourself? Something else entirely? Thanks!
Over the last week or so, I’ve routinely been saying ‘thank you’ in my mind whenever I’m experiencing something that rustles up my body, be it positive or negative.
When it’s positive, I feel this vibe of gratitude for my Source presenting me with the intuition to achieve that particular experience, which prompts my mind to create a silent affirmation. When it’s negative, I feel a vibe of gentle appreciation for the emotional downturn (as if I’m simultaneously giving thanks to my older, more insecure ego for creating these feelings in order to keep me ‘safe’ as well as my source for telling me that it goes against my current being) followed by a replacement of that emotion with something healthier.
I was wondering if any of you have gone through this process or something similar and if it has garnered some interesting results.
Write it in the comments and reflect on it and if you want, write it on paper and keep it close as a reminder. The whole "humans use 10% of the brain" thing might be a myth but I'm pretty sure most people don't use nearly as much as 10% of their potential. Read other people's comments and really let that fact sink in. Then stop wasting time. You're literally creating your future every day. A good craftsman doesn't let his mind wander when creating something. All of their energy in that moment goes into creating a better work. That's how it should be with your life. I'm not saying never relax, but earn that relaxation.
As a bonus, write down where you could be 1+ year(s) from now and try not to repeat what you did before.
it was a study session with one of the most spiritual guys (there's a GREAT plot twist on this guy at the end!!) I've ever met and the missionaries in my apartment. We read Matthew chapter 10:
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
The bold lines are at the very core of why/ how I decided to get baptized. I was hesitant and TORN to get baptized because I knew I was going against the wishes of my parents. BUT, I was a few months shy of 24 and thought I should make my own decisions in life. I was looking for a deeper meaning to my existence. I was searching in life...
What I didn't realize is that the line of reasoning in these verses above - leave your family and join XYZ religion for the sake of God's purposes - is the very definition of cult-like thinking. Why would God want me to deny, leave, disavow, or in any way reduce or remove myself from a relationship to my next of kin?
Why should I reject or go against the very people who have given their lives for me and would literally give their own lives for my sake all b/c God's demands loyalty? It makes NO sense. It didn't make sense somewhere deep inside me, my gut/ intuition whatever you call it. I wish I would've listened to myself and my parents. It didn't add up and I felt it then, but well...I was pressured into it. It was complicated, my judgment was clouded by a love interest as well, but there's no blame there but it was a factor that weighed on my mind. I thought I'd "give it a chance", "what could go wrong", and part of me felt this wasn't impermanent, I can always change my mind, right? (I can and I have!)
Regardless, I moved forward and did get baptized. I thought in that moment I was doing the right thing. I don't think I even thought or felt this was what God wanted me to do. I thought I was doing the moral thing. I make decisions (or try to) based on reasoning through things, based on ethical and moral reasons: doing the right things for the right reasons (efficient and effective!).
Letting myself f
... keep reading on reddit ➡There's a number of examples where method of moments has smaller MSE on at least one of the parameters in small samples here.
Unfortunately, most of them are rather complicated examples.
Do you know of any relatively simple cases?
Im trying to find the moments in LN where 8man is hurt during his altruistic approaches to take things upon himself for the greater good
Im reading the LN now and finished chapter 6 so im searching for moments like the one in the last part of chapter 6, for example the whole Sagami arc
I have a for loop where I need to generate different dates and then look up data according to the dates:
for (let j = 7; j > 0; j--) {
let beginningOfDay = moment().startOf('day').subtract(j, 'days').toDate()
let endOfDay = moment().endOf('day').subtract(j, 'days').toDate()
console.log(j)
console.log(beginningOfDay)
When I run the code, with this block in it, my log statements show descending integers for the value of j, but the the beginningOfDay log is blank. This only happens when I use j as the 'amount' argument in the subtraction method. If I replace 'j' with '3', it works just fine.
Why is that?
Remorse can help us to reflect on errors and avoid repeating them - but its important to keep things in perspective. If we didn't intent harm to others, it's import that we treat ourselves with compassion as we would a friend. We can let go of regular feelings of guilt by looking deeply into its roots - this episode of Mindfulness for Beginners includes a guided mindfulness meditation supporting you to let go of guilt.
I was hoping to get some maybe motivation to keep pursuing web development.
As I have studied into this for 3 months there is just TOO much to know. I am so overwhelmed at the moment. Does it get any better?
HTML
CSS ----- Bootstrap, materializeCS, foundation, semantic UI
VanllaJS----- es5 / es6
jQuery
AJAX
Restful Routes / API's
NodeJS
Express
Express Routing
MVC
MongoDB / MySQL / PostgreSQL
React / Angular / Vue
CoffeeScript / TypeScript / LiveScript
LESS / SASS
Gulp / Grunt/ Bower
DOM
Command line / shell / bash
GIT / GitHub
Chrome dev tools
Debugging
Testing
I get what all the above do, and I can somewhat use half of them. But when time passes by and I have not used said framework for 2 months. I cant even remember what method calls it uses. I mean just the other day I could not for the life of me remember the syntax for vanillaJS DOM manipulation 'document.getElementById()' since I have not used it in a while. I mean even bootstrap, with all the stupid class names it uses it uses, can anyone honestly remember all of bootstrap?
I then have to go back to google and research the answer for up to an hour or so depending on how severe my question is.
Does this ever get better? I feel like there are so many pieces to the puzzle that its impossible to remember everything.
It’s like I will be going strong for a period of time and then something in me just snaps and I am buying liquor and getting hammered even though it’s not what I really want to do and inevitably I regret it
