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  1. Sep 2024
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    1. don't do this experiment philosophically do it experientially it's like undressing at night we take off everything that can be taken off

      for BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira

      BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira - metaphor - Like taking all our clothes off when we are preparing for bedtime

      comment - self knowledge exercise - Rupert Spira - This exercise makes me think of my own thoughts around discovering or rather, rediscovering one's true nature - If we are to discuss the "greater self" from whence we came, then it's tantamount to discovering - the nature nature within - human nature - So anything that is recognized as human nature, cannot be the ground state - The ground state must go beyond anything that depends on the human body - Thoughts and perceptions are mediated by brains and sense organs, both depend on the human body and so - are dependent on human nature - Self knowledge is unmediated and directly experienced - It has the quality of the ground state within us, the nature part of our human nature

    2. one way to make this experiential investigation into the essential nature of our self would be to remove in fact we don't need to remove it would be sufficient to imagine removing everything from us that is not essential to us so i suggest we let's just embark do this investigation for a few minutes

      for - BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira

      BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira - Remove phenomenological experiences that are transient - that is, have a beginning or end - The fact that they do not last implies that they cannot be part of our essential, unchanging nature

  3. Jan 2024
    1. Why should this conversation be separate from other conversations about the work to be done? Design is one consideration alongside frontend and backend considerations, which often all intersect and require the same participants. Shifting this discussion to a separate work item can result in disjointed conversations and difficulty finding where a decision was made.
    1. These can then be used to develop a definition that states the essence of the living thing—what makes it what it is and thus cannot be altered; the essence is, of course, immutable.
    2. The Aristotelian method dominated classification until the 19th century. His scheme was, in effect, that the classification of a living thing by its nature—i.e., what it really is, as against superficial resemblances—requires the examination of many specimens, the discarding of variable characters (since they must be accidental, not essential), and the establishment of constant characters.
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    1. Devising a prompt (AKA a question) is the key to ChatGPT. I am still uncertain what a good question is in AI's "mind". It might be something "way strange" and "un-questionly".

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    1. Baby Playmat and Gym Buying Guide

      Babies like being amused, and they frequently learn new skills while playing. Playmats and gyms not only keep little ones entertained, but they can also aid in their growth.

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    1. Org-roam’s Design Principle

      READ

    2. Appendix D Variable Index
    3. Appendix C Function Index
    4. mathpix.el uses Mathpix’s API to convert clips into latex equations:

      OMG

    5. Org-roam provides journaling capabilities akin to Org-journal with org-roam-dailies.
    6. Org-roam provides basic graphing capabilities to explore interconnections between notes, in org-roam-graph. This is done by performing SQL queries and generating images using Graphviz. The graph can also be navigated: see Roam Protocol.
    7. If foo is a function, foo is called with the current node as its argument. Else if org-roam-node-foo is a function, foo is called with the current node as its argument. The org-roam-node- prefix defines many of Org-roam’s node accessors such as org-roam-node-title and org-roam-node-level. Else look up org-roam-capture--info for foo. This is an internal variable that is set before the capture process begins. If none of the above applies, read a string using completing-read. Org-roam also provides the ${foo=default_val} syntax, where if a default value is provided, will be the initial value for the foo key during minibuffer completion.

      Click here to get a handle on the behavior of the expansions in multiple context.

    8. Org-roam’s templates are specified by org-roam-capture-templates
    9. Org-roam capture templates are incompatible with org-capture templates.
    10. Org-roam provides extensions for capturing content from external applications such as the browser, via org-protocol.

      This simplifies things, won't have to use develop using the dbus spec initially.

    11. Emacs has support for creating and editing encrypted gpg files, and Org-roam need not provide additional tooling.

      Cool, and with capture templates, I can probably get sophisticated if I need to. Question is, how essential is it to encrypt everything??

    12. Completions for Org-roam are provided via completion-at-point. Org-roam currently provides completions in two scenarios: When within an Org bracket link Anywhere

      What exactly is this???

      Going to have to come back to this at a later time and figure out what a "completion" is, although it's probably functions as expected.

    13. Org-roam caches most of the standard Org properties. The full list now includes: outline level todo state priority scheduled deadline tags
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    1. indifference to human drivers

      Our week 8 module on Web 2.0 and the gig economy discussed this in more depth, and Barron alludes to this dynamic elsewhere in the article when describing both the typical user of an app like seamless and the typical profile of the gig economy worker who actually delivers their food - I appreciate the critiques of app design and user infantilization he is making here, but the article could have also discussed in more depth how these design choices help these companies to obfuscate and divert attention from the way they impact people besides the consumer. There is a whole class people whose primary interaction with these apps is on the back end- as struggling small business owners dependent on positive yelp reviews, delivery people, and rideshare drivers - maybe that is outside the purview of this article, but it would have been nice to see this angle explored a bit more.

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    1. there are 13 regional Public Health Networks(RPHNs), that plan, trainfor, and respondto public health emergencies based on CDC’s 15 Preparedness Capabilities

      Where are these based?

    2. there are 13 regional Public Health Networks(RPHNs), that plan, trainfor, and respondto public health emergencies based on CDC’s 15 Preparedness Capabilities

      Where are these based?

    3. October 30, 2020

      Has this been updated?

    4. October 30, 2020

      Has this been updated?

    1. Interpret at least 5 significant “events” which best demonstrate this change.
    2. Compare and contrast the conditions and consciousness of the following relative to the WASP male “winners”
    3. List and interpret the most significant issues found in the document itself and place each in a valid and revealing historical context.
    4. Is it appropriate to define the European people occupying British North America as “American” prior to 1763?
    5. Is it appropriate to define the European people occupying British North America as “American” prior to 1763?
    6. Between the first days of the European Invasion of North America and the ratification of the constitution there were both winners and losers here. List, in rank order, the most significant groups of winners and losers. What factors best explain the relative conditions of the groups on your lists? Connect causes and consequences to each. Were these outcomes inevitable? If so, why?

      Subject = American Conquest EQ = Who won and lost and why? Activities:

    1. Terrifying in its bleakness, Elegy is a record dedicated to its portrayal of loneliness, telling a story with firm roots in tension contextualised by the title’s disheartening implications.

      A dedicated sponge in the blank countenance of empty space and flat time, I'd say.

    1. reimbursements which do not exceed ex-penses actually incurred and which do not rep-resent a gain or benefit to the household
    2. all loans other than educational loans onwhich repayment is deferred
    3. all educational loans on which paymentis deferred, grants, scholarships, fellowships,veterans’ educational benefits, and the like
    4. any income in the certification periodwhich is received too infrequently or irregu-larly to be reasonably anticipated, but not inexcess of $30 in a quarte
    5. any gain or benefit which is not in theform of money payable directly to a household
    6. Household income for purposes of the supple-mental nutrition assistance program shall in-clude all income from whatever source exclud-ing only—

      This explains what income you can exclude when calculating your eligibility.

    7. the household’s income (after the exclu-sions and deductions provided for in sub-sections (d) and (e) of this section) exceeds thepoverty line,
    8. ahousehold shall be ineligible to participate inthe supplemental nutrition assistance programif—

      This is how you determine if you are eligible for SNAP.

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    1. Von Gaudecker. H. M., Holler. R., Janys. L., Siflinger. B., Zimpelmann. C. (2020). Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations. Institute of labor economics. Retrieved from: https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13158/

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