Category Archives: Philosophy
Just train tired
Justin Sung’s D-F-U-Z method for Thought Action Defusion helps to decouple your productivity from your motivation:
- Distinguish (between feelings, thoughts, and actions)
- Fake (pretend you’re not feeling tired or lazy, even if you are)
- Uptime (increasingly spend longer and longer in the thought-action defusion state)
- Zone (create a distraction-free environment you can be focused in)
Homework
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always. Can’t wait to do it all again soon!
A film to check out is Materialists, it’s a bit of fun. Another interesting film is Conclave. And also The Green Knight.
The video where I explain my maths homework is here: Channel News #10: Happy New Year! | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay.
This song by the Sex Pistols from back in 1978 is Friggin’ in the Riggin’. Everyone should know this one!
You mentioned Blue Velvet by David Lynch.
I thought it was Cars that was by The Wachowskis but the film I was thinking of was Speed Racer.
You explained lens speed to me.
You mentioned about the film Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I created a bunch of applets to help me practice my arithmetic:
I mentioned about Chase Hughes. He has a bunch of interesting videos. I particularly enjoyed this one: How to WIN the Game of Earth. If you have more time this one is also good: How They Broke us All.
I mentioned I am reading the “classics”. In this case classic open source software, the details are here: Classics.
I mentioned about Ryan Bush who is the person behind Designing the Mind.
The word superordinate means both “of higher rank, status, or value” and “of or being the relation of a broader category to a narrower category that it encompasses, such as metal in relation to iron.”
I mentioned this comic about David Hume: David Hume on Creativity. The idea is that all ideas are combinations and relations of antecedent ideas and there isn’t any genuine “creativity”. Of course that would imply some type of axiomatic ideas or else you could never break into the system…
How to WIN the Game of Earth
In this one Chase Hughes talks about this game we’re playing on Earth.
How A True Polymath Like Benjamin Franklin Learns
In the video we learn about Franklin’s learning principles:
- Reconstruct from memory
- The Socratic method
- Utility first learning
- Argument mapping
- Polymathematics
- Sociable learning
- Read constantly
- Follow your interests
And how to think like Benjamin Franklin:
- Follow your interest
- Think very deeply into it
- Strengthen all sides of an argument
- Experiment like an inventor
Number: our greatest invention?
Number is right up there with our greatest inventions along with language, the internet, and brie cheese!
Truth
This is brilliant:
[Yang-Hui He] Presents To The Royal Institution About AI And Mathematics
I have a new post on Hackaday: [Yang-Hui He] Presents To The Royal Institution About AI And Mathematics.