Thank you!! I can't wait to drink my latte with uhhhhh cacao, honey, maple syrup, panela, rum and milk if you ever find yourself down here next coffee's on me !
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Your post has some tension in it that I can't quite place my finger on. Like you want to succeed like the dumb people but you can't cause you're not dumb? I'm confuses then, are the NFT producers dumb if that's the case? Maybe the king of the dumbs.
NFT's in this realm don't really seem like they add value to much, but I am starting to see the value of NFT's more generally speaking!
Sure, rich parents will give someone a safety net, but I bet in most cases it yields the kids pissing in the wind.
Are they creating something they actually enjoy doing while earning a comfortable living? That's an intersection that takes a lot of work beyond just having money to find.
I would argue that the real success of a startup is in its potential to grow 'organically' rather than just throwing money inefficiently at it to try and force its success. There's a lot of competition, ideas and people carelessly throwing around money out there regardless, so I think it's a niche that requires much more than money alone to discover. More money is obviously preferred if you do find it though!
"we have a whole host of features on our roadmap that have all been suggested and voted on by the community which we plan to bring in the near future"
One of the features displayed is multilingual support, but may not be available right now according to the vid.
I remember this poor teaching fellow where I went to Lehigh University where I studied Mechanical Engineering. He was foreign and had the honor of teaching us Linear Algebra. He must have noticed that none of us had even the slightest damn clue what he was talking about. So, the class before every exam, he would literally just give go over the exam problems nearly verbatim and solve them. I came out of that class with a good grade and not the slightest fucking understanding of Linear Algebra beyond the very superficial algebraic laws of multiplying tensor objects (i.e., scalars (0-D tensor), vectors (1-D tensor), and matrices).
I'd like to thank Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) and Mike Cohen (Udemy Linear Algebra course using Matlab and Python) for teaching me linear algebra. And don't forget Gilbert Strang, of course!! (find his course on MIT OCW) The visualizations of the tensors transforming provided by the first two are what really made Linear Algebra start to click for me. I want to go back to Gilbert Strang's course now that I have a better geometric understanding of what is happening and appreciate all his wisdom on the subject.
It starts off with the history of writing, which I actually have to go back and re-read because it's such a crazy evolution. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I can't imagine getting thrown back into the stone age and having to figure out a way to communicate ideas.
It also talks about the fascinating ways that the brain uses different modalities to converge on meaning - really made me thought a lot about machine learning algorithms. It refers to a lot of well-designed studies with results that provide valuable insights into the inner workings of the brain.
It also talks a lot about dyslexia and how it is a rather broadly defined disorder. I'm pretty sure I could be considered dyslexic based simply on how poor of a reader I am. This also, however, could explain why I did better with math and science where you are doing yourself a great disservice to trying to skim the texts. I read that shit at the pace of a snail, but hey, maybe that allowed me to process the concepts better.
Every individual has their own distinct perception of "me". Additionally, my perception of their perception of me is almost definitely incorrect and moreso a reflection of my thoughts. Conclusion : why waste energy trying to play roles based on how I think people see me when it's highly unlikely to be true? There's an interesting novel called "One, No one and One Hundred Thousand" by Luigi Pirandello that touches on this! I also have stopped trying to define the people around me by their physical appearance or habits because I want to encourage them to feel like they can be fluid around me.
Similar to above, I had this revelation that I was putting energy into so many irrational habits just to try to please others. Holidays are a good example. I refused to participate in these traditions that were stressing us all out every damn year. It took me quite a while to actually find a compromise here because I wasn't going to give some arrogant speech to my family that they had to abide by my way, so for quite a while I just attended but hardly participated in the circus. I also no longer just buy random presents for people simply for the reason that I don't want to hurt their feelings if I don't. I've started being more creative and personal with my gifts. It was a bumpy road, I definitely offended some, but it has made the whole experience so much more fulfilling and valuable.
Something else that was interesting is I noticed how vocal I am when I feel shitty as a way to comfort myself and feel secure. I got the shits for a few days during one of the retreats and I didn't want to break the silence unless it was really necessary. I remember thinking crazy stuff like "what if I pass out on the toilet from dehydration and everyone just thinks the bathroom is always occupied when they pass by and I die?" Haha, I hardly ever complain now to people when I feel ill. I usually just analyze the sensation.
Finally, it was just crazy to see my body through that lens of just feeling sensation. Like one day someone mentioned during a group meeting that they were feeling their gums and even their teeth. Next time I meditated I focused on them and was like "Holy shit!! How have I never felt these before?!" (note: it's not TOTALLY silent, you talk once a day briefly in group and have the option to ask questions after lunch to the meditator for your gender who is overseeing the retreat.)
I consider all of these revelations to have kind of become integral to who I am, so in that sense they're benefits have been permanent. I have dealt with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in the past so the energy I save from not doing irrational habits has made a huge difference. I still have some issues in that realm, but I am always learning and improving more about myself based off my new way of observing myself.
I will say one thing that's important though. After my meditation I actually became quite depressed. This was largely due to having gotten a parasite (giardia) from traveling. After I took the medicine, which seemingly nuked my microbiome off the face of the earth, I suffered an immense cognitive dissonance. Despite having had all these revelations on the "surface" of my mind, it took a much longer time for me to modify my habits, which carried a lot of momentum with them, especially situationally, e.g., how you act differently when you're with a friend you grew up with. It really depressed me to watch myself performing old habits that were at odds with this new mindset. This took me years to come to terms with and I still have periods of difficulty, but I'm finally closing the gap between my thoughts and my actions and I'm way more forgiving and understanding to myself. Hashimoto's definitely made this more difficult. Ayahuasca helped me out a ton with these difficulties.
By the way, the Vipassana retreats I did (started by S.N. Goenka) are totally free! You get a room and fed 3x a day. They're all over the world too. You can go to www.dhamma.org to sign up if you're interested. You can donate at the end if you'd like. I personally think aspects of the teaching are a bit antiquated, but overall I'm really glad I did them.
(edited this a decent amount for clarity, almost gave up on posting because it was getting hectic, but I think it's coherent enough!)
I think you can also have VS Code just load up the packages you expect to use on a regular basis at startup.
I particularly like his videos because he breaks them down into small bites that are easy to work into your day and he's a great teacher.
a) The ability to observe an instance of a multidimensional universe, each instance a mapping of a point moving along a continuous trajectory whose direction is constrained by the arrow of time (i.e., increasing entropy)
b) the ability to impart a force to change the direction that trajectory follows
The idea is that it is in this waveform until you do something to observe it. Observation requires an exchange of energy, i.e., an interaction. This is why there is always uncertainty, because in order to observe something, that which observes has now intimately interacted with the waveform in order to cause its "collapse" into what we consider to be a particle. A particle very well may just be a highly localized energy that we perceive to be "solid"
You can't, for example, try to get a measurement of the location of a photon without putting a measuring device which absorbs the energy of the photon, modifying its wave function and thus the probability of where it will decide to reveal itself at that point in spacetime.
note: I consider energy, fundamentally, to simply be the consequence of fluctuating. The fluctuation of one thing can interact with the fluctuation of another and, minding conservation, transfer "fluctuation". The direction of that transfer of energy relying may be due to the fact that entropy always increases along the arrow of time, i.e., energy likes to spread itself out just as heat goes from high concentration to low concentration.
It's actually quite fascinating. I'm currently following a course created by Dr. Elaine Ingham, who is a microbiologist that studies soil biology and has done some really amazing research. She also worked at Colorado State University, which can't be a coincidence!
Here's the lowdown of what happens, because we've been getting this wrong for centuries in agriculture. The nutrients (N, Ph, Mg, K, etc) are bound to materials in the soil ranging from rocks to pebbles, to sands, silts and clays. We have been destroying the soil by tilling practices and large machinery which are creating compaction layers that lead to anaerobic conditions causing the "good" biology in the soil to die and also preventing roots from growing to the depth they need. It turns out that the way that the nutrients become available to the roots of the plant is by means of the bacteria/fungi breaking their bonds from the previously mentioned materials (rocks, etc) and then, even more interestingly, they get eaten by higher trophic level predators who shit out the nutrients in plant available form!
Some fun facts: - The roots release sugars (photosynthates) into the soil which attract particular bacteria/fungi based off its needs for nutrients AND pH requirements (bacteria release substances which raise pH and fungi acids which lower it, and the pH can vary on the scale of micrometers based off this)
-Bacteria and particularly fungi (if you haven't studied fungi, go watch Paul Stamets on Joe Rogan, cause they're incredible organisms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ) create symbiotic relationships with the plant, each one feeding and protecting the other.
- Many tests which tell you your soil is low in nutrients can be complete bullshit. Extracting agents will yield different results, and if, for example, you're only looking at soluble nutrients, you're missing the fact that they're available but just bound up chemically and require the biological activity.
- dousing your soil w/ inorganic fertilizers are hardly short-term solutions because 1) if the soil has no structure to it, then they will wash immediately out with rain and 2) you're literally dissolving salts into the water of the soil, making the water unavailable to the plant and can stress the plants more. Sure, they might get a quick dose of nutrients but you're playing a losing game.
- there's a whole bunch of other stuff. Elaine's course available on www.SoilFoodWeb.com, it's a bit expensive, but I find it fascinating and I'm barely halfway past Ch 2. She basically gives you all the science behind it and the know-how of how to address the problem yourself, not rely on a product. She's a total G, it's really fun listening to her and hearing about the history of her research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Ingham
I'm not sure what this Rhizolizer brand is, but I presume it's not far off from a "tea" made from vermicomposting (i.e., you feed your compost to worms and they shit out a magical biologically rich and diverse "casting" which you can utilize to put the healthy biology back in your soil)
All that being said, there are experienced groups, in Holland for example, that lead safe group Ayahuasca ceremonies, such as a long weekend with 2 ceremonies. Peru is an option but it's much more of a raw experience and less gentle to a western mindset.