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Playing around with AI (not using, playing), I didn’t see much issue with the AI danger aspect. I am entering my eighth decade, so the emotional/intellectual developmental aspect i…

If you are prepared to go down a very deep rabbit hole, you should start with the Monroe Institute, who have been studying binaural beats for 50 years or so. It’s legitimate, bough…

For context, 739 people died during a five-day heat wave in 1995 in the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois in the United States.

I’ll throw in my pet theory. American football is rooted in infantry maneuvers Civil War through WWII. Soccer is closer to cavalry, a Second Millennium European experience. Cavalry…

Then again, there is more to life than increasing its speed. (Gandhi). When I read a physical book, especially an early (hardback) edition, I’m reliving the experience of all the e…

Boy, that’s not just a “data-driven” view, that’s a purely transactional view of “romance”. A few decades ago, sales training made the distinction between transactional connections…

And be homeless, if you are truly not thinking (and assuredly acting) about it. It’s not “just another subscription” in many ways. The idea of renting being the “peace of mind” cho…

35 years, .75% per year, newish home when bought, high desert

But at varying rates determined by use, design and location. I recommend desert living if you want low maintenance, or even a graceful manageable decline. Maybe not true adobe that…

Maintaining your own home is a great hobby for guys 40 years old and older. The house may age, but your engagement and knowledge of your house steadily grows. Even contracting out …

And having a grass lawn is actually quite expensive (water) and borderline illegal/immoral (water) in the American Southwest. Having a grass lawn is only mandatory in a few gated c…

The student learns by daily increment. The Way is learned by daily loss, Loss upon loss until At last comes rest. By letting go, it all gets done; The world is won by those who let…

You can do better with corn in bulk at a grain elevator. Takes about 8 bushels (56 pounds, 25.4 kg) to provide the calorie requirements for an adult for a year. Current price for c…

To a college friend from a Canadian academic family who was in senior management in a large tech firm, a period copy of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Canadian professor…

US nuclear power whispers to solar: welcome to the club.

This is a book review about a book about a book reviewer who reviewed books. Essentially writing about writings about writings, some of those writings presumably are themselves wri…

You touched on a pet idea of mine and, since you made the mistake of actually intelligently responding to online forum comments, now I get to make a pitch for it. Thesis: every stu…

The OP title isn’t clickbait. The actual article has a title that is somewhere between clickbait and excessively biased. The positive correlation between high vitamin intake and lu…

Looks vaguely like the Karmarkar algorithm idea for Linear Programming where you rescale the feasible region to look spherical to make the search more efficient.

The death of boarding schools is not an absolute good. Boarding schools helped my uncle in educating and caring for his children when his wife suffered from schizophrenia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/a-fertilizer-shortage-worsen... Let me vu that déjà for you. Prior recent experience makes potential impacts easier to forecast, understand and mana…

“the production of critical thought – what is collectively referred to as the “humanities”” This is a rebranding of the humanities, but a good one. When people continue to talk of …

But it is one objective indicator in the right direction.

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Agápē, érōs, philía, philautía, storgē, xenía…