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shrthndon RealPage and landlords illegally created a 'cartel' to set prices, lawsuit says

shrthndon Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with arrays?

Which is more efficient?

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

shrthndon The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethean_science => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...

This. The flow of information through a system explicitly illustrates the implicit rules of a system. Like water running down a mountain. When reading the landscape, follow the keyline.

shrthndon 'Be' is nice, end of story

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/timing_is_everything

shrthndon Kenning

What jumps out at me here is how this measurement is used in agriculture/food production. Suppose, etymologically speaking, all language is a derivative of humans living, working, and managing the landscape... it seems the chicken crosses the road when we identify and "label" (with a codified sound) what behaviors in the environment are useful to our mutual interdependence (positive/rebounding feedback loops, enforced through language, learning and worldview--influence how humans operate as individuals and within groups. Furthermore, how groups use language creates positive/rebounding feedback loops in the environment and reinforces useful behavior.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/science/birds-bees-honeyg...

shrthndon What You (Want to)* Want

Suppose there are n number of hidden, indeterminate variables in your environment... "You," the individual observer, are free to choose the important variables to navigate life. Your "mind" is the thing which assigns value to hidden variables in your environment but "the mind" is not you... the "mind," from my perspective, is the mirror upon which we witness/experience every day reality/waking life, etc.

If you think rolling dice is important, it is. If you think randomness will effect and experiment, it will. If you don't think randomness is important, it probably is... (a thing is defined by what it is not.)

When you assign an indeterminate (X) value to randomness, this is chaos. If/when you think or realize chaos is an important part of free will... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you personally unable to select new variables or assign different "weights"? If so, I contend, you don't exist.

shrthndon Brian Eno reveals the single purpose behind all art

"I’ve wanted to write a book for a long time: Why does art exist? Why do we have aesthetic preferences? There are all sorts of ways of explaining this. Some of them are biological: We like things that are red because it’s the same color as blood and sex organs and that sort of thing. But there are much more interesting ways of saying what the role of art is in the maintenance of a society. I don’t want to die before I get that done. [Laughs.] What I want to say is that culture — art, if you like — has an important set of functions in preparing us for the future. [When] you read a book... you’re surrendering to a world with certain values and attributes and seeing what it feels like. Then, when you see something a bit like that starting to exist, you have a way of understanding it and how that might feel.

"When you go and look at something new, what you’re saying is, “What’s different about this experience?” In many instances, there won’t be anything different, in which case you’re not that interested. But if you can look at it and say, “That’s more angular. That’s fuzzier. That’s much more this, much more that” — we’re very good at understanding differences in feeling within our own long narrative of looking at pieces of work. But what does it mean, for example, when a picture is scratchier than another? You read that as, This is urgent. The artist didn’t have time to make it pretty.

"One of the epidemics of now is the inability to focus or concentrate. [...]watching someone at lunchtime today[...] She had a book and was on her earphones and on the phone. There could be a postmodern argument for saying that this is a new way of absorbing and collaging material together. I personally find that quite hard to do. I’m addicted to the idea that you put yourself in a place and surrender to it. It’s about making space for a kind of attention that you’re not normally offered by entertainment media."

"I think we’re in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity with a different set of ideas about who we are and where we belong and how we must relate to things in order to survive. _I see this point at which we either really fail or we start to succeed._*

"What happens to humans when they multiply their feelings together? We’ve been so atomized over the last 50, 100 years and told that we have to have our own completely independent lives and that the real human is the one who can stand alone. The real human, to me, seems like the one who can support his neighbors and work with them. That’s a feeling that I pursue. Whenever I see it, I want to encourage it."

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

shrthndon Siegel Zero

A philosopher, a psychologist, and a religious teacher walk into a bar... they find a scientist drowning his sorrows and ask how they can help.

What is the point of resolving the Riemann hypothesis?

The reason it's an important question is not because we don't (philosophically) already know the answer, but rather that we don't have a bloody clue how to prove it. It means that there are fundamental issues in computability (which is a hell of an important subject these days) that we just don't understand. Solving P≠NP will be important not for the result but for the techniques that will be used. (Of course, in the unlikely event that P=NP, enormous consequences will follow. But that is about as likely as it is that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is based on true events.) (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/404624/what-does-pr...)

Qualified proof of Riemann hypothesis can be demonstrated by any living or non-living system learning to play a game or exploit an environment of which it was not previously aware. Systems exhibit emergent properties when conditions are sufficient. The zero point or, the proof in the proverbial pudding, is observable when the system becomes conscious of it's awareness in the environment and begins to exhibit emergent or novel behavior.

Label me a fool or, is this proof consciousness can bootstrap itself?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel_zero
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polygon
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(particle)
  https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/The_Ghost_in_the_Machine  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_revolution
  https://commons.trincoll.edu/macecourses/james-consciousness-of-self/

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shrthndon Emergence

Good question. As told: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At the same time, everything we see or feel must emerge from a greater whole--the thing that allows all of this/us to co-exist.

In a lexical sense, the only "system" without a greater whole is the space between the system. This, I reason, is the system itself. Our sense-impressions and organs emerge or are generated from this whole-self, a non-system-system that is "mind" or consciousness.

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My philosophy is terrible but it appears to me that what causes the chicken to come into existence proceeds the chicken in itself. Whatever is in the egg is unknown until it hatches. This is an example of Schrodinger's box observable as a natural process.

What's wrong with this thought? Where/when/how does the chicken's awareness of itself as a chicken arise? Is the chicken aware of itself as a chicken before it hatches?

If consciousness, sentience, sapience, awareness/feeling, memory, and all the good stuff that makes an individual actually exist is _knowable_ then at what point does individual consciousness not exist?

Wherefore am I/you/us?

shrthndon Spontaneous beat synchronization in rats: Neural dynamics and motor entrainment

Here be dragons.

shrthndon Does imagination matter more than reason?

Axiomatic truth is either/or in essence.

shrthndon Ask HN: Why is Hacker News not interested in defense technology?

Go fish!

shrthndon A rash of nearly lethal mushroom poisonings in Ohio

Milk thistle...

shrthndon Ask HN: What supplements did you take that have improved your productivity?

Consume sugar, processed grains, and alcohol in moderation (especially bottled beer and wines high in sulfites.)

If you're having trouble being productive because of physical discomfort, turmeric or curcumin extracts and black pepper are great for inflammation. (Inflammation seems to be the root of the symptoms noted above.) NB: powdered turmeric/black pepper tastes great in coffee.

Powdered lion's mane, powdered fruit/vegetables (high in vitamin C, folates, etc.)... any/all of these things help with brain fog.

To answer your original question: I've found fish oil (and vitamin D) helps with depression/anxiety.

P.s. there's no magic pill and trying to force it will break you the moment you can't keep up the pace... Step back and relax that mind-muscle or, sharpen the saw on something you enjoy to put you in a flow state.

shrthndon Imperceptible delays in soloists’ timing contribute to the jazz's signature

Tempo rubato? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo_rubato

shrthndon My Trip to Space Filled Me with Overwhelming Sadness

> I learned later that I was not alone in this feeling. It is called the “Overview Effect” and is not uncommon among astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, Sally Ride, and many others. Essentially, when someone travels to space and views Earth from orbit, a sense of the planet’s fragility takes hold in an ineffable, instinctive manner. Author Frank White first coined the term in 1987: “There are no borders or boundaries on our planet except those that we create in our minds or through human behaviors. All the ideas and concepts that divide us when we are on the surface begin to fade from orbit and the moon. The result is a shift in worldview, and in identity.”

shrthndon Kenning

You have got to be kenning me!

shrthndon Java reflection-based GUI builder/generator library

"The generation of the GUI (graphical user interface) requires no other information that the object itself. Its structure is discovered at run-time through Java reflection. The generated GUI can be customized in a non-intrusive way by overriding some key methods of the generator objects."

shrthndon Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

If you visit the main domain there's a link to view the material: https://github.com/snori74/linuxupskillchallenge

shrthndon Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

this is great! thanks for all your hard work and for sharing, snori74!

shrthndon How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?

"Field studies suggest that higher frequency of task switching is associated with lower perceived productivity [34, 38]. Several explanations have been proposed for this relationship, including the depletion of cognitive resources used in attending to interruptions, the redundancy of work when reorienting back to the task [34], and that a polychronic workstyle may be contrary to what most people prefer [5]."

shrthndon Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

"If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050 (1.36 billion acres to 1.9 billion acres), Drawdown estimated carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015, according to NOAA — and could return $206 billion to $273 billion on investment."

shrthndon My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

Thank you for sharing!

shrthndon A Static Future: The magic of compile-time workflows

Agreed.

shrthndon A startup is building computer chips using real neurons

Donated my body to science... woke up as a living computer.