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I was talking about an intuitive realization that there is no "I", rather there is an ongoing constantly changing process that is referred to as "I". This requires years of meditative training. I am not familiar with the case but I doubt very much these women were meditating.

As your sense of "I" diminishes the more compassionate and caring you become. The more emotionally resilient you become and the less harmful your decisions are to yourself and others (including animals). This is the core of Buddhist findings.

Having said that, there are religions and ideologies that tend to become a big part of a person's identity. Then their actions become guided by those ideologies.

Exactly, we are getting overconfident in our ability to control the planet and its resources. I believe we are privileged to share this planet with other beings. Instead we treat animals like some kind of inanimate resource.

"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus" -- Agent Smith (The Matrix)

This behavior is rooted in a world view taught by religious/cultural teachings that all living beings have equal right to exist. They suffer just like humans and they cherish their lives just as much as humans.

I am a little rusty on my probability basics now but I was trying to remember how one would go about answering the following question regarding Wuhan numbers cited in this study:

"Given a person has type A blood type, what is the probability of that person having covid19"

I remember this being something like P(E1 intersection E2)/P(E2) where E2 = event that a person has type A blood and E1 = event that the person has covid19.

In case of Wuhan 32.16% of the population has type A blood. So E2=0.3216. To get E1 we would need total infections/total population for the city. We don't have that number but is this thinking correct?

When it comes to writing reliable software the best paper I have read is “Design By Contract”. That one paper combined with proper usage of exceptions will go a long way in preventing bugs. Of course there is also a need for more rigor in requirements.

They called him “neutron Jack” for that very reason.

I worked remotely for almost 8 years. Even managed a team of 10 developers remotely. I loved it as it gave me 2-3 hours each day for exercise and meditation. The only issue was I could not establish a clear work start and end time.

I can see by the way you write, you have read enough Buddhist texts.

One thing I would clarify is that Buddhism, as taught by Buddha, doesn’t have beliefs. It has hypotheses that are proved causally and tasted experiential you during deep attention and awareness. The word used by Buddha is “Ehipassiko”, translated as come and see for yourself.

Carry on with your journey of mathematics and I wish you all the success!

Please prioritize psychological well-being over everything else. Please have a therapist for regular counseling. As a practicing Buddhist I can tell you of two excellent teachers in Canada, Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu near Toronto and Ajahn Sona in British Columbia. Check out their videos on YouTube. Do remember that there are a lot of people, who you may not know, but still they care for you. Sending you lots of good wishes from across the border. Take care dear friend!

I had enabled the port forwarding on my home router for 5 hours, so I could get into my home server. I saw exactly same log pattern on my server’s ssh logs.

Different as in the reason for morality. Why is morality important? It is not because a soul will be judged for violating 'thou shall' commandments. It is explained more in terms of Karma, the intentions your mind generates (karma) will be the forerunner to future states of your mind. Think of it in terms of causality in the context of plasticity of your mind. Your mind becomes conditioned by intentions it generates. The intention for greed will lead to a more greedy future state of the mind. Here is a short explanation of 'sila' (morality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBbQvM4CBY

I don’t know whether the meditators used in this study were training under Buddhist methods or something else.

Buddhist teaching focuses on three aspects: sila (morality, but not in Abrahimic sense), samadhi (concentration), and panna (wisdom).

Each of these form a feedback loop into each other. Meditation is just one third of that. Meditation without morality and wisdom can turn you into a psychopath. You cannot understand or study meditation without understanding morality and wisdom.

Buddha gave the path of end of suffering as eight noble qualities: "right view", "right intention", "right speech", "right action", "right effort", "right livelihood", "right mindfulness", and "right concentration".

Notice "right mindfulness" is different than "right concentration" and it is just 1/8th of the path. When your hypothesis is 1/8th of the complete picture, of course your studies will prove it does not work.