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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by mckirk »

joeyrideout wrote: post #528

I quit my job recently to work on AGI. I have some unique insights that I wanted to put into practice. The past month has been the most intellectually stimulating, challenging, and rewarding period my life. Some interesting utility has already appeared. I won’t discuss the details but I will say it does not involve statistical learning. And don’t worry, I’ve read Bostrom :)

That sounds pretty fascinating. I wonder though, with all the dangers inherent in AGI, what makes it still personally worthwhile to work on for you?

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Post by lvturner »

blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

I'm so pleased to read the comments in all this thread. Thank you everyone.

I've recently decided that I can't deal with hangovers when I over-indulge or even the negative impacts on my sleep of a single beer.

It's a real societal struggle to be completely dry, but when I break it down logically the pros to having a drink or two don't outweigh the cons.

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Post by motohagiography »

_jcrossley wrote: post #745
motohagiography wrote: post #673

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BWV 999 was my first, it's such a pleasure, then 846 (wtc 1), and this year's project was 1007 and have it down as well, but after hearing Mearns' version with a whole bunch of the implied counterpoint filled in, it's almost embarrassing to play the original now. I'm thinking my next project is his bwv 847, and I have been warming up to it by slightly rearranging bwv 846 by adding an alberti bass note via a sort of t…

Excellent!! I'll have to look into that Mearns arrangement of BWV 1007. I worked on that one for my RCM 8 exam - shameless plug, but a "final" recording from this time period is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTm_J8p9eU It's far from perfect, but I'm proud of where I got it Would love to connect over YT / Twitch / whatever and follow your journey! Happy trails to you too

That's fantastic. I don't do anything recorded and this HN account is the extent of my social media presence. Is that the RCM arrangement by McFadden? It has some additional cool ornamentation I didn't have in the version I got from the Wener edition. Yours has a few additional bars near the crescendo and the addition of some bass counterpoint on the low D that I am missing in my version. Mearns takes it to a totally different place to where it's a very different piece. I also really liked your glissando as it sustains and reveals the symmetry of the whole piece really well. Humbling and intriguing! Thank you for sharing it!

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Post by fillipvt »

I find my self being very passionate about trying to start my own business. I'm currently building an offline-first budgeting app using the zero-based envelopes model.

This has taught me a lot about new technologies, and although I haven't been able to launch it, it feels like the biggest thing I've worked on.

My current problem is I don't know how to simplify it in order to launch something quicker. I'll be working slowly on it, chipping away at it, line by line.

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Post by kirso »

jdsleppy wrote: post #542
kirso wrote: post #448

I found a passion in understanding oneself (thyself?) and trying to understand one's emotions and thoughts, distinguishing them, breaking down and then finding root case + future next steps that help people move or transition their life further. Perhaps its philosophy or some sort of self-authoring programme that helps with inaction, tough situations and The cause is mostly because I felt stuck for too long without n…

Has this all been introspection, or are there external resources (like books) you used?

Overall tonnes of reading and articles over internet. Some of them very shallow, some of them quite thoughtful. I am working on a prompt based email sequence to basically invoke some of the thoughts that are targeted at this.

One external resource you can take a look at is Jordan Peterson's Self-authoring program. Otherwise, all it takes is really just 20 minutes with a blank markdown editor and type out how are you feeling today, what is bothering you and any other thoughts that you have :)

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Post by daretorant »

HellDunkel wrote: post #737
daretorant wrote: post #678

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Fascinating! Perhaps the woodcut illustrations of Mantegna, a renaissance Italian painter? I did not find a book of fables of Mantegna’s illustrations, but I did find a painting of a fable (The Boy and the Filberts). It is possibly credited to Aesop, but not confirmed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_and_the_Filberts Also worth nothing: During the same period and area, another artist named Verona illustrated…

I recall seeing the goose and the golden egg. The illustrations were more 17th centuryish. The name Jean de La Fontaine has been suggested to me a couple of times and this would certainly be fitting but strangely i cannot find the book following this name anywhere. It was a very fine print, hardcover, very elegant with full page illustrations. Thank you for the link, wonderful illustrations.

Ah! The plot thickens. The Fables of La Fontaine are well known, but I hadn’t heard of Montaigne before. Apparently there is a link!

First there is this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/458505 “Montaigne as a Source of La Fontaine's Fable: La Mort et le Mourant” It notes major similarity and possible link between Montaigne’s philosophical essay and Fontaine’s fable.

But even more interesting is this: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1659-essays-michel-de... It’s two books—essays of Montaigne side by side with illustrated (by Hooghe) fables of Fontaine. Not a single book as you described, but interesting to see that there is clearly some connection between the two!

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Post by tobbob »

senorsmile wrote: post #680
tobbob wrote: post #623

I'm a night owl, always have been, always will be, but we live in an early bird world, and fitting in with that is worth a lot. So at the moment I'm passionate about fixing my daily routine to finally get enough sleep, and get to work early, leave early, and hopefully have energy to do things in the evening. I've changed all my clocks back one hour so that psychologically it's easier to stomach. I have a light set on…

I highly recommend listening to this specific episode of the Peter Attia podcast: https://pca.st/episode/eafed9b7-a673-4b84-8dc3-46684eeba9ad

Thanks, I'll give it a listen.

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Post by tobbob »

mckirk wrote: post #749
tobbob wrote: post #623

I'm a night owl, always have been, always will be, but we live in an early bird world, and fitting in with that is worth a lot. So at the moment I'm passionate about fixing my daily routine to finally get enough sleep, and get to work early, leave early, and hopefully have energy to do things in the evening. I've changed all my clocks back one hour so that psychologically it's easier to stomach. I have a light set on…

Oh man, I can relate to that a lot... have you experimented with melatonin? A really low dose (0.3mg) of it at around 11-12pm helps me tremendously with keeping my rhythm somewhat in check. I still make liberal use of option to work whenever I want, but at least I'm not in "get up at 2pm" mode anymore. But it seems you've found a pretty good way of managing your sleep already, arriving to work at 6:30 sounds like an…

I've not tried anything like melatonin. I originally believed that if I normally go to bed at 1am, trying to sleep at 10pm would have me just lying awake, and the only way to change my sleep cycle was to force myself to get up early, so that I'd be tired earlier. That turned out not to be the case.

It was more a psychology thing. Before, I'd wake up absolutely exhausted, be tired at work all day, come home, fall asleep on the couch, make dinner. Then, I wouldn't want to go to bed because the idea of that being all my day was, was just too depressing. I wanted a few hours of actual life where I could just relax and watch TV.

They say the first step to beating alcoholism is admitting you're an alcoholic. Well, the first step to beating my problem was accepting I'm a wage slave. Yes, I sell a significant proportion of my waking life to a company in exchange for money. Until I can win the lottery that's the constraints of my life, so I could carry on as I was, or work within those constraints and make the best of things.

There is no better feeling than waking up needing the loo, and you still have four more hours before your alarm goes off instead of four more minutes. Getting to bed early is 90% of it.

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Post by chr15m »

saperyton wrote: post #199
proton_9 wrote: post #105

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Didn't think I'd find something like this on hn. Good luck to you mate. I'm on the journey too. Almost 2 years now, was on the verge of brink and posted something on hn to which Dan, the moderator emailed me and told me to hang in there. At the time had no one, still keep a small circle and no immediate family. His words gave me strength to survive and possibly how I ended up in recovery instead of the other side.

Dang is an unappreciated treasure of HN who does not get enough credit. Thank you dang.

Yes he is.
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