Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Understanding that people have a really good bullshit indicator is the most important part of being an artist.
— Dan Reynolds, "Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons | Lex Fridman Podcast #290"
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
If I draw on a piece of paper, a little sketch of something that is called the Necker cube. It's just a little line drawing of a cube, right on a flat piece of paper. If I execute it well and I show it to you, you'll see a 3D cube and you'll see if flip. Sometimes you'll see one face in front, sometimes you'll see the other face in front. But if i ask, you know, which face is in front when you don't look, the answer is well neither face is in front because there's no cube, this is just a flat piece of paper. So when you look at the piece of paper, you perceptually create the cube, and when you look at it then you fix one face to be in front and one face to the other, so that's what I mean when I say it doesn't exist. Space time itself is like the cube, it's a data structure that your sensory systems construct.
— Donald Hoffman, "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293"
Monday, June 13, 2022
They're finding new ways of computing these scattering amplitudes that turn literally billions of terms to one term. When you do it in space and time, because it's the wrong framework, it's just a user interface, that's now from the evolutionary point of view, it's not a deep insight into the nature of reality.
— Donald Hoffman, "Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293"
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Shooting an arrow and painting a bullseye around it afterwards.
— Dan Carlin, "Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136"
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Artist Sophie Calle's HERE LIE THE SECRETS OF THE VISITORS OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY stands silent and ready to accept whatever secrets of which you might seek to unburden yourself.
— @historicgreenwood
Friday, June 10, 2022
Long ago in Vienna, as we have seen, he had learned from the tactics of Mayor Karl Lueger the importance of bringing "powerful existing institutions" over to one's side.
— William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Tippy Tappy
— Title of hammer Haley made*
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
All Bank of England notes now carry a copyright message on the face as a direct result of Boggs' activities, the idea being that if they cannot secure a counterfeiting charge, then they can at least secure a copyright violation.
— "J. S. G. Boggs," Wikipedia
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
It's good. You're alive.
— JeeYeun on how it's good that the water is so cold*
Monday, June 6, 2022
Snails.
— Raul*
Sunday, June 5, 2022
In Mein Kampf Hitler discources at length on the art of reading.... "On the other hand, a man who possesses the art of correct reading will ... instictively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either becasue it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing ... The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. ... Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose."
— William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Saturday, June 4, 2022
How much do you need war to legitimize warriors?
— Dan Carlin, "Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136"
Friday, June 3, 2022
We Miss You!
— Email from Pavement Coffeehouse
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Just let me go where.
— Yusuf / Cat Stevens, "Trouble"
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
The bobbin.
— Sophia teaching me how to sew*
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
You essentially become archival.
— Nicholas on cremataion*
Monday, May 30, 2022
Molasses Cookies
— Sign over the molasses cookies
Sunday, May 29, 2022
He is not concerned about privacy regulators, he said, because PimEyes operates differently. He described it as almost being like a digital card catalog, saying the company does not store photos or individual face templates but rather URLs for individual images associated with the facial features they contain. It’s all public, he said, and PimEyes instructs users to search only for their own faces. Whether that architectural difference matters to regulators is yet to be determined.
— Kashmir Hill, "A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate," The New York Times
Saturday, May 28, 2022
The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
— @depthsofwikipedia via @eli8527
Friday, May 27, 2022
RIP Wassily Kandinsky
You would've loved Uber Eats
— @dank.lloyd.wright
