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Yeah, after a few seconds of consideration, I gave up on Wired, not my ad blocker.

This is really useful. I choose random year (month..) and pick the best of these parameters. Some materials are timeless.

Do you know why there is not a single military aircraft for Asia on the map?

Also, for the tag "interesting", I see only one (UK something).. Is it because I'm in Europe?

(Just curious)

Haha I haven't watched all of them. I learn to occasionally watch so that they don't run out like Dr Who. I like the Traveler ^^. Seems like a good idea that you can travel across dimensions (more freedom) and I like it that he told Weasley to "have faith in people's ability to resolve their own problem". Sometimes if the path is too divergent, we have to let go of people.

Recently I can afford to implement this rule "I choose who can come and how much close to me, male and female alike, physical distance and psychological distance alike".

I learn every single word of this the hard way.

But the hardest is to learn that it's important to recognise "psychological distance". Because building up an "emotional armor" is trickier than keeping "physical distance" from some negative source.

I have this feeling about edge.org that they manage to invite remarkable people to have incredibly shallow content that is full of buzzword (maybe this is what happens if you try to pull off profound things for public). Just an experience.

I think civility is how we react to things that are different from us. In resolving conflict, we can bomb the shit out of each other, or we can greet our enemy with political statements. Both are painful but dead is an absorbing state, as long as you are alive, you can whine, rant or smile etc. Once you are dead, it's irrevokable.

Hence bombing is less civil on that ground.

No I watch ST to relax also (and I don't watch anything else). But I just say some of them.

For example, there is this one episode that develops a bit strange. Piccard shouts "shut up Weasley" and blindly ignore the fact that Data is acting weird. Of course that's the plot, but I don't find it convincing.

Also, the episode Hide and Q (I like Q character), it's a bit trivial in script writing compared to today understanding. However, Q comes back at the end of the next generation and make a profound appearance (he puts Piccard on a trial because he is interested in Piccard as a superior human which is a nice thing because he and the Q continuum regards publicly human as an inferior species).

I just say that there is "some" plot holes but overall, it's still something I'd stick to.

Sorry but what does the video say in tl;dr? Anyone with background in this field?

In Star Trek the Next Generation I think. It's quite old and some episodes are less intriguing for today's standard but some really really great.

If you like, you can go on dailymotion.com/video and search for it.

There is a Star Trek episode that says "No intervention is not just a rule, it's a philosophy. History has shown that, no matter how good our intention is, the intervention of imposing Earth's value on other cultures only makes things worse. And in the other case of no intervention, we never know."

So the Enterprise just leaves that system of two stars hosting two societies that have developed a symbiosis relationship (one exploiting the other based on lies) without exposing the lies even though they can give a better solution. The only thing they tell them is that "Maybe you'd discover that there are ..options"

Maybe it's the lack of emotional education from my childhood or i was born with it, but i'm diagnosed that i don't feel for myself, and (worse) mirror all the feeling of others on me. Which explains why people tire me out so fast. And when i'm overwhelmed by people emotions in a room, i get iritated and aggressive (a lot).

Now I realise that anger is a self defense mechanism because when my system is overloaded with people's emotions, it's a desperate but sane manuever of my subconscious in order to cut off the situation completely.

Of course it's just a temporary solution and it has many consequences but if you're loading too much of others on you, your body has to issue an irrevokable state of mind.

I think it's similar to other "negative" symptoms. So when i started to meditation (in order to create an interface to talk with the hidden drive in my subsconscious), i regarded them as little wicked monsters, but not anymore, now i regard them as the only company i have in my breakdown episode. Because when you're depressed, you don't believe in whatever your loved ones say anymore. there's only you and the battle.

I think when debate comes down to differences in ideology and idiosyncracy, it's at the end of debating because these differences are impossible to compromise (they are all legitimate).

And the world is at a point that everybody can believe in everything and all these beliefs are all grounded and justificable (using the available tools and knowledge we've accumulated).

To deal with the somewhat disturbing thought that the world doesn't need to be saved, I resort to the mantra that: eventually, the reason we read, the reason we write, the choice we make, everyday, is just because we feel like.

It's like I'm motivated to work like crazy until the point I can afford to be nothing.

I thought that also, but look at his body, it's machine to the bone so I was thinking where is the place for the human to occupy? I was thinking, maybe he just "thinks" that he is breathing because he was a human and wakes up to be like this.

What's that with the downvotes? A robot doesn't need oxygen to fuel chemical reactions.

How can a robot have breaths?

Why does he try to take off the "mask"? How can he identify that it's not a part of his "body"?

But the fact that having a personal trainer improves things a lot. For example having a psychologist. She doesn't do anything, she just makes comments.

Thanks for the resource, however, i work very little with NetLogo. Very nice reference though. Keep up the good work.

Hello, I'm a PhD doing agent-based models. Is your site (of your dissertation) still working? Can you share the resources? (I checked your personal site but couldn't find it).

Thanks,

Hard to draw a line, because "curiosity kills the cat" is to say about a witty animal. Cat is surely wicked. But it gets killed.

The thing is how long does that effect last?

Maybe the winning triggers a bit of feel-good hormone so that the participant finds himself in a situation of enjoying a little bit risk.

There are many behavioral experiments these days. And they'd like to produce "common sense" results.

These results can't be generalised and i think it'd be even amoral to use it to justify hating people. Like, seriously, ethical doings are not that clearly defined anymore. The world has changed so much.

I think it's nice that science never makes the claim that how it actually happens, only that it might have happened this way, on a priori ground.

Maybe we never really know (the truth as is), but if we can mimic (the truth as if), it's already intriguing and fascinating.

There is an article saying this romanticized story is a bit too much:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/remote-hokkaido-t...

Haha only half way through i realized it's a joke

I suffered a serious bias of the kind: "Well, this is Harvard, let's try a bit more to make sense out of it, maybe it's you that dont understand"

Previous news on the same thread "Elsevier":

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=elsevier&sort=byPopularity&pre...

Thanks for the second point. It's frustrated when they write titles like that for the public.

I always think that "human is born with some miracle thing" is quite suspicious. How can orderliness be born out of no where (no work spent, no energy consumed)? The probability of orderliness to be spontaneously assembled itself must be infinitesimally small.

Grammar might evolve along the way (due to statistical learning) but it seems too good to be true if it's born out of no where.

wait, i think that's a good comment. what if that "invisible grammar" they said was the result of the statistical process ? which means that it already emerges in childhood?

yeah, i watch some old french film, wearing beret was a real thing, especially for artists. anyway, fashion comes and goes, that stereotype might have become obsolete.

I think the population is a distribution and stereotype is the (estimated) mean of that distribution. So it has its right and wrong.

I've been in one of VTN's awarded house in Saigon. I've read quite a lot discussion of Vietnamese's architects around his works in general.

I agree with some comments that, VTN creative points in his designs (a very nice lighting solution for dining room, for example) comes at a quite high cost of other parts in the house. He pushes the stairway till the point of feeling suffocated so that he can have an innovatively beautiful corner somewhere in the living room.

He pays functionality for beauty, so you may admire his work on picture or if you visit the house once or twice but living there long enough, you'd start to be annoyed. Which makes me think it's not a good sacrifice.