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He was a promising young scientist who worked in the team.

And although the bomb was used on the Japanese, it was meant primarily as a weapom against Hitler.

Feynman was an American Jew. Imagine yourself in the same situation. There's a dictator who hates all Jews and basically any race which is not Aryan enough for him. He wants to kill them all. A gigantic war machine which is fighting the rest of the world alone is also possibly building something similar.

You get the opportunity to work on something that undermines the devil, that will buy you and your country protection against it. Will you not work in it?

I use 30-6-20(after 4 cycles) pattern. You have to find yours through trial and error.

The goal is to not switch context. Social media is awfully bad in this.

If in work, I reply to Slack messages or message from family/friend- if any. They know to call in an emergency and not expect immediate reply to messages.

I have found drinking water and taking a quick stroll being the most effective pomodoro gap actvity. Although it is not always possible.

Haven't reached the optimum yet, so using an online notes app, and a physical journal (cheap yearly planner, not using Moleskin yet) as well. I think I will stick with the later, and maybe an online version of the final draft.

The key is to spend a significant amount of time in writing and formatting it. Think tens of minutes in what is roughly a five day period. This really works for me.

By that, I mean I am always aware what I need to do.

By no means I am in a perfect shape. I slack off sometimes, I don't do anything and waste some time.

Your comment is so convoluted. Not really related to what is said.

I am just talking about paying your credit card bills on time. Many people I know do this successfully without fail.

I am not writing a thesis on bigger implications of debt.

Apples and oranges.

Being forced to be in debt which you can manage if you are mature enough is nowehere comparable to having to agree to and behave in the line the autocratic rulers want.

Having good credit and paying bills in time is only a small part the Chinese social score system. These two are, in no way, meaningfully comparable.

Forest (Pro) and Loop Habit Tracker.

I don't use the Deep Focus stuff in Forest which require elevated permissions.

Yes, I found that a weird argument as well. It is not an argument at all.

Feynman drank, played bongo, womanised, slept with some of his friends' wives.

But that does not mean everyone who does that is a great Physicist. Neither all great Physicists do these.

Taking an outlier and using him for justification of something seems obtuse.

I love Feynman, and have a picture of him on my wall. But that does not mean I idealize or even like everything he did in his life.

1, I use Pomodoro within a paid app. It works quite well. It has graphs and other analysis. I don't need Pomodoro in tasks that are overly exciting for me.

2, Todos have no value in my life unless I block a chunk of time for tasks explicitly. I block some time for one task and I do only that thing at that time.

3, No social media outside of a 30 minute window per day. Not even when waiting in a queue, or Pomodoro rest gaps.

4, No-email/Slack blocks of 2 hours each. 30 minutes in special cases.

5, I plan my day the night before.

6, Habit-tracking. I plan to a handful of tasks everyday without fail like exercising, reading, and some work/study related stuff. I use a free app for this which does everything I want.

7, I keep a journal where I jot down my long-term, intermediate, and immediate goals. I like to think that it works.

I have tried a hundred things, and these work well.

In a PR quote, some bigshot from a conventional car company said,

"We will produce cars for the millions instead those that cost millions".

Let's see how far they go.

Not really the case. You don't need to build a Jekyll blog from scratch. Really good and fully functional templates are floating around. Just fork something like Beautiful Jekyll or AcademicPages, and edit YAMLs, and .md's to get started. Really easy to do.

I recently started to look into Cloudflare Pages. Worth a look.

> real artists

Who decides that?

GPT-2 could and can write disinformation that can dupe human readers.

India is not a part of NATO. India was one of the leaders of the Non-Alignment Movement, but did certainly bend a little towards the USSR.

USSR and post-USSR Russia has solidly backed India in many issues. When the US imposed bans on export of vaccine raw materials even after a month of assurances of special waivers for India, Russia agreed to supply and produce Sputnik V in a heartbeat.

Historically, here's one example- when US Ally Pakistan was committing a genocide and ethnic cleansing on its own people [0] (now the country of Bangladesh), and India was funding and training the rebels, the US sent Task Force 74 to deter India. And Russia sent cruisers, destroyer, and a nuclear armed submarine to balance the situation.

India won the war of 1971. And the independent country of Bangladesh was born.

See- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_74

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide

I really dislike how USA bullies people trying to buy Russian S400 anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems.

S400s are effective against their best aircrafts. And they don't want other countries to have it.

So they threaten sanction and people have to play along.

Yes. Deng was more concerned about growing silently. He cared about his people, and did not want to draw too much attention to China.

I knew Xi was a textbook dictator when I heard about him banning Winnie The Pooh in Chinese internet [0].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...

We use "machines" to kill people. Guns, grenades, flamethrowers are all machines much more advanced than their predecessors. But people batted their eyes on the advent of these weapons.

People are going to bat eyes in the advent of these weapons as well. That is not going to stop Pentagon, China, or Russia from using these weapons.

One issue could be that they are not as reliable as target seekers as they are good as target destroyers. And plenty of mistakes have been committed by humans in charge.

Whether autonomous weapons system will be better than seeking and killing enemy combatants rather than innocent people is something to observe.

Right now, autonomous systems are very very unreliable at this.

I have many problems with my postures thoughout the whole day (bad habits and WFH), but I exercise semi-regularly.

I do stretching, running, or swimming- one or multiple of these all year.

I guess that is what saves me from back pains and other trouble despite bad postures.

Even when I didn't exercise (before age 14), I did not have any back pains despite sleeping on a very hard mattress.

Talk to your doctor and/or do a little exercise regularly. That should help. Don't start exercising with existing back pain without consulting an expert, though.

Thanks. That makes sense.

Actually I have been sleeping on a hard mattresses for years. They are/were barely softer than the floor.

Never had any back pains.

And my father's doctor agrees with your doctor, and I have had this kind of bed since my early childhood.

I have trouble sleeping in soft beds of hotels and other places.

Not a DB expert.

Why write a DB program in Python? Wouldn't it be slow?

Your point is fair.

Your communication metadata, your choices, you age, gender, location, and many other things are indeed products of companies like Facebook. But in a way, you are, too. Because the mere presence of yours draws some other people to that platform.

And celebrities who are famous outside of social media, are definitely more products themselves rather than the data associated with them.

On the other hand, on dating apps like Tinder, you yourself are the product in addition to any other information they might monetize in numerous ways.

A shamelessly copied and posted post was circulating LinkedIn a few days ago, and someone shared screengrabs how these bottom-feeders are copying and posting content. The content of the post makes matter worse.

A bunch of recruiters posted like this- "generic name was a recent college grad he/she was really talented. they asked for X amount of money. But I gave them Y (Y quite > X). This is the time for human solidarity and being honest and rewarding people for their talent, blah blah blah."

In some screenshots, the name, tech stack, and amount of money were all same.

How low can these people stoop?

I find LinkedIn really cringy. And I haven't seen ONE post there that actually added value to my life.

It is also toxic as hell.

But I know people who got employment offers from LinkedIn. So it adds value in that sense.

I just mute and block those influencers. And check LinkedIn maybe twice a week.

One of the things I cannot find any excuse for is how fake people are. They are behaving in a fake manner even when they don't have to.

Like, someone makes an IoT project (usually copied from GitHub), and markets it like this- "I was having X problem. I though why not solve it with modern technology? So I made this innovative blah blah copy of something".

Yuck. So cringy!

> where you are the product

Isn't this true for all major social media platforms?

Out of date? Sure.

But it still adds very valuable insights, and new perspectives. Feynman Lectures are great. Especially Vols I and II.

Just because something has a community fetishizing it, it does not lose its value because of that.

I read most of Feynman Lectures in my undergrad, and the experience was profoundly rewarding.

It is not about gaining up-to-date knowledge of the topic. It is about learning the core and crux of the subject, and how to think about the subject.

> It’s pretty awful.

I will not talk about the ethics and privacy issues of Twitter but about user experience and quality of content on feed.

The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow. Choose selectively, block and mute liberally. Keep doing this, and your feed will be fantastic.

I use Twitter only for work. I set my Trending country to some country I have never heard the name of outside of trivia books containing nation capitals.

And my Twitter experience is fantastic. Have meaningful discussions, learn new things, gain new perspectives.

I keep away from politics and such.

This was my exact thought after seeing this. Selling Deep Dives? Who would pay for that?

I would always trust open, free deep dives under open scrutiny and criticism more than something behind a paywall.

Even if this is from Mozilla.

A premium chat room/forum would have been miles better.

Hamas could have chosen areas that are not civilian areas.

They want death to Israel and genocide of Jews. Israel wants a two-state solution.

This is just one example [0].

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/ha...

Yes. "AI" (read Deep Learning/LogReg/SVM models) do indeed perform better given more data. I can vouch for this myself. And there was also a paper regarding this.

Everyone is an expert in AI now!

I should mention that the American High Comission in Kolkata, India is located at Ho Chi Minh Sarani (street).

I find it contunously hilarious. Always gives me a chuckle.