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The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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Re: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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The 'cleaner' copy of the same article: http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article435036.ece

A small piece of my weekend project that I'm working on is extracting text from articles. You can try it on this one: http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindu.com%2F...

Nice. Readability does that too - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Re: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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The 'cleaner' copy of the same article: http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article435036.ece

A small piece of my weekend project that I'm working on is extracting text from articles. You can try it on this one: http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindu.com%2F...

Nice. Did you just recreate the Readability algorithm or are you trying your own approach?

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A small piece of my weekend project that I'm working on is extracting text from articles. You can try it on this one: http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindu.com%2F...

Nice. Readability does that too - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Yup, that was the basis of my code. With some modifications, I basically ported the javascript to C#.

Re: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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I'm tempted to point out that we evolved emotions for a reason. They're basically sugar methods for typically socially beneficial reactions.

Too much rejection of emotions may at best lead one to be a Buddha, or perhaps just dull, or maybe even worst, a sociopath.

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A small piece of my weekend project that I'm working on is extracting text from articles. You can try it on this one: http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindu.com%2F...

Nice. Did you just recreate the Readability algorithm or are you trying your own approach?

In large part I ported over Readability. Although It's not exactly the same since I'm doing some additional processing. I started it on Friday and had it finished up yesterday so it's still pretty rough, but working pretty well.

You can try more here: http://toadjaw.com/article

Re: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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I'm tempted to point out that we evolved emotions for a reason. They're basically sugar methods for typically socially beneficial reactions. Too much rejection of emotions may at best lead one to be a Buddha, or perhaps just dull, or maybe even worst, a sociopath.

Just to be clear, Buddhism is not about the elimination of emotions. It's about recognizing that feelings are not real things, to believe and rely on, or to be afraid of.

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Nice. Did you just recreate the Readability algorithm or are you trying your own approach?

In large part I ported over Readability. Although It's not exactly the same since I'm doing some additional processing. I started it on Friday and had it finished up yesterday so it's still pretty rough, but working pretty well. You can try more here: http://toadjaw.com/article

This is great and very useful. Are there plans to add unicode support? http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http://www.tdkterim.gov.tr/bt...

Re: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha

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I'm tempted to point out that we evolved emotions for a reason. They're basically sugar methods for typically socially beneficial reactions. Too much rejection of emotions may at best lead one to be a Buddha, or perhaps just dull, or maybe even worst, a sociopath.

Just to be clear, Buddhism is not about the elimination of emotions. It's about recognizing that feelings are not real things , to believe and rely on, or to be afraid of.

Interesting. This sounds quite similar to transcendental idealism, then. Or even Stoicism, or Vedanta. I think Plato would agree with this idea too, seeing his cave metaphor: We are prisoners in a dark cave, facing the wall. A fire burns behind us, casting off shadows from object passing between our backs and the fire. The shadows aren't real (actually, they're the absence of light), but to us, they _seem_ real. Same idea in The Matrix.

Nice.

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In large part I ported over Readability. Although It's not exactly the same since I'm doing some additional processing. I started it on Friday and had it finished up yesterday so it's still pretty rough, but working pretty well. You can try more here: http://toadjaw.com/article

This is great and very useful. Are there plans to add unicode support? http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http://www.tdkterim.gov.tr/bt...

That's horrible, I'll get that fixed. Shouldn't be a problem.

Edit: It's fixed now.

Edit: And maybe not, since my change broke other pages. I'll have to think about this.

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