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Another successful example of literate programming is fastHTML, and probably most of the code written at fast.ai and answer.ai. https://fastht.ml/docs/

Here's Jeremy Howard explaining why he loves doing everything in notebooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6sLbz37gk

There's a healthy way to be a critic, which is helping people find and enjoy works they didn't notice.

There are also unhealthy ways of being a fan, for example if you admire someone there's probably someone else you despise. It's much better to follow the title of the post and believe in people in general.

I asked it what are some famous squares around the world, and it gave me a list of squares "with historical significance" that included Tienanmen. When I asked what gave it historical signficance, it mentioned the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Deepseek wouldn't name any squares in Beijing.

According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".

I read some of her books and it also sounds weird to me. The only thing that struck me is that she saw the tribe of Israel in the ancient testament as a nasty example of one group crushing another, something she also didn't like in the roman empire, and also in how french regions were culturally crushed at the expense of the center.

Googling turned up this criticism: - Simone Weil, whose life was devoted to witnessing oppression and injustice, and was almost silent about the persecution of Jews by Nazis — chose to instead focus on the fate of France at the hands of the Germans https://levecenter.ucla.edu/mary-gordon-2013/

It seems a stretch to call her antisemitic.

Without the shadow dom, your component can still have children.

If you need several slots, there's an example duplicating that functionality with javascript in the second comment of this blog post: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/light-dom-only/

It's not very surprising to find math in Perec's work, he deliberately put it there.

This joke, that the Germans or the Swiss have no sense of humor, I never found it funny. But maybe that's just because I'm Swiss.

I justs finished reading the book and the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it indeed baffled me. How do you make sense of that? I was disappointed there wasn't a clearer motivation for it.

Ah, visual anagrams, that was exactly the idea I had for a project that would allow me to learn. I hadn't dared looking if it already existed. I will try to pretend it doesn't and try to find my own way...

We don't seem to have the same taste, but you made me really curious by mentioning comics.

What are your recommendations for bandes dessinées that are stronger than Flaubert?

Haven't read all of that, but it strikes me that some of these authors like Freud and Levi-Strauss are perfectly understandable without much background. Haven't tried Kant but other authors consider him very methodic and logical, about the opposite of Deuleuze, and he's a big inspiration for the very readable Schopenhauer.

Maybe Hegel and Heidegger are where things get complicated.

I read a few pages of thousand plateaus and I didn't get the impression he really wanted the reader to make sense of it.

It's full of quotations of works you would certainly know if you had enough culture. It feels like an violent attempt to humiliate the reader into submission. Apparently the english version came out with a lot of footnotes to provide context. This probably betrays the spirit of the original.

I'll try to listen to the podcast though, maybe some civilized people did manage to find something valuable in his writing.

I've been using it for years on windows. Magit is much slower but still great. Some people run emacs inside wsl, and I've done that once or twice to try out unix-only modes, but they were never good enough to convince me to use them.

My life improved a lot when I switched to Doom emacs, which takes care of a lot of emacs stuff I don't know that well.

Their first point is that saying the values are already there. The most obvious value of science is truth, which can be reached by the scientific method, which allows paradigms to change. Giving so much importance to truth is a matter of faith, you don't derive that from somewhere. It's interesting that they're going further than that and apparently find awe and meaning even just from the scientific method. Awe and meaning are in short supply in this world, so it's worth asking if we can get more of it from science, instead of pretending it's not there.

Which one of your resources would be most relevant if I would like to start as you recommend by learning to hear harmony qualities and then to hear them within a key?

I'm surprised to find very positive question about pushing yourself.

I'm not at all into sports, and from the title I expected a psychology of competition and wanting to beat the others, which sounds horrific in the workplace. Instead it almost sounds like people would even do sports without medals.

How much of sports would remain without striving for worthless tokens and aggressivity?

Paul Graham wrote a great essay that's related to this: keep your identity small http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Life is ambiguous so we make sense of it with stories. Stories all have a point, life just is.

"He was a decent man" sounds like a worthy ambition. I'd be proud of "He wasn't a dick".

The swiss university had advised the student to be enrolled only China in order to make it easier for him to complete his PhD at the swiss university afterwards. The swiss university is now evading their moral responsibility by hiding behind the convenient legal situation.

The professor explicitly cut ties with the student because she was afraid to lose her ability to get a visa for China. It's unclear how she came to this conclusion, but I don't see how she can conclude this just from a message she got from a student in Canada. Chinese authorities must have made it clear at some point that they are ready to punish either this or any slightest misstep like this. And it's really an insignificant incident: someone who is not officially her student, has basically no followers because he just created his account, tweets a little and deletes everything as soon as the professor finds a problem with it.

The idea that you can start with the good ones doesn't make sense to me. It's the same with literature. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy the "classics". How many books you had to read at school did you really like ?

Finding good works of art is a really hard problem, because what you'll like depends a lot on your personal taste and experience, and it evolves with time. Once you've seen a lot of films you can orient yourself by following directors you like, and if you're lucky you find a film critic you can trust.

I've been using the mingw windows version every day for years. I used to spend time now and then to make new things work, recently I switched to doom emacs, and almost every new functionality or package I try works out of the box.

It's true that Magit is slow, but I still prefer it to the command line.

Some economists have tried arguing that advertising adds value to products, but I think it only hinders people from making choices based on the product's merit. It's a distortion of the market.

We wouldn't lose much if advertising would just be forbidden. A traditional definition of it would probably be enough to get rid of most of it. The main problem is that huge sums of money are involved, and almost all media profit from it to some extent, so there's a huge incentive to shut down this conversation.

A good way to get started might be with a curated emacs configuration like doom emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

The black-scholes model for pricing options had a big impact on the financial industry, and the big breakthrough for solving the equation was to realize it could be turned into the heat equation that already had a solution. If I remember well, the insight came to Robert Merton, an economist who had also studied engineering mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model

Charles Gleyre was the teacher of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Whistler and many others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gleyre

Politics is not a zero-sum game. When parties discuss with each other they have a chance of all furthering their agendas to some extent, and have all parties mostly support the compromise.

It's also the case that if a party campaigns strongly one subject and win votes with that, its ministers will tend to get the ministries that allow them to implement their ideas. So if you're tough on security you might get the police, if you're a fiscal conservative you get finances. It's more complicated than that, but the longer they stay on the bigger the chance they end up where they want.

I didn't expect I would enjoy the lockdown as much as I do. It probably helps that in my country we have a soft lockdown. I did have to overcome a tinge of bad conscience, but that didn't last. I wonder if this is related to the black hole you mention, does it have anything to do with shame?

I made a comic about my experience, but it's in french... https://lecourrier.ch/app/uploads/2020/04/intermede-confine-...

I haven't read that particular article, but from other sources I've read quaternions appear to be mysterious/magical even to people who know them, while the rotors have a very concrete geometrical interpretation in geometric algebra.

Geometric algebra also addresses much more than just rotating stuff, it's just that when you want to do rotations it leads naturally to something very similar to quaternions.