To me, the best feeling is flowstate.
It's when you get so lost in something for a few hours that you lose track of time.
You've all experienced it while playing video games.
I try to get into flowstate with my work. It feels like you're inching closer to an egoless state where it's just you and your work, no boundaries.
The thoughts are flying and you're in the zone.
It's a beautiful feeling and something that makes you hate interruptions and pointless meetings.
Success, to me, is about getting in the zone, getting into flowstate, as often as possible.
It's when you get so lost in something for a few hours that you lose track of time.
You've all experienced it while playing video games.
I try to get into flowstate with my work. It feels like you're inching closer to an egoless state where it's just you and your work, no boundaries.
The thoughts are flying and you're in the zone.
It's a beautiful feeling and something that makes you hate interruptions and pointless meetings.
Success, to me, is about getting in the zone, getting into flowstate, as often as possible.
So I've had this telegram channel now for about 2-3 weeks.
I've been writing about tech, society, mentality, and also using it as a means to vent.
I've gotten 800+ subscribers and really appreciate you all reading my posts.
So my question to y'all is what do you think of my channel? What do you want more of or less of? What do you think of my writings and my mind?
I've been trying to take part in the discussions and am appreciative of all the free thinkers who have found me here.
I've been writing about tech, society, mentality, and also using it as a means to vent.
I've gotten 800+ subscribers and really appreciate you all reading my posts.
So my question to y'all is what do you think of my channel? What do you want more of or less of? What do you think of my writings and my mind?
I've been trying to take part in the discussions and am appreciative of all the free thinkers who have found me here.
Starbucks and McDonalds using the Lightning Network in San Salvador to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
This is pretty cool.
https://twitter.com/AaronvanW/status/1435236902274220040?s=19
This is pretty cool.
https://twitter.com/AaronvanW/status/1435236902274220040?s=19
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Aaron van Wirdum
Just walked into a McDonald's in San Salvador to see if I could pay for my breakfast with bitcoin, tbh fully expecting to be told no. But low and behold, they printed a ticket with QR that took me to a webpage with Lightning invoice, and now I'm enjoying…
"Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
~Benjamin Franklin
I have no problem with the vax. The science seems mostly fine, if perhaps little wonky and suspicious with profit-thirsty BigPharma, and unknown long term effects.
But that aside, it's probably fine for most people.
My whole family got it, and I don't care.
People should make their own choices.
I am not taking it myself, but I'm also not a zealot or fanatic about it (despite making some posts here about it).
Your body your choice.
But I refuse to allow them to trigger my limbic system and make me get too emotional about it.
Was out to dinner in NYC last night, wasn't allowed to sit inside the restaurant so we sat outside. But other restaurants don't give a shit.
It's a fun decade if you learn to play the little games - is life not a puzzle, a game, a labyrinth?
I have more important things to focus on, like my medical AI experiments running on Amazon cloud.
However, that said, I do have a problem with government totalitarianism, mandates, camps, control, and manipulation!
I will always fight for freedom.
I will speak out loudly against government overreach, and be a beacon to others who need to be reminded they have a choice.
Now back to my AI experiments.....
~Benjamin Franklin
I have no problem with the vax. The science seems mostly fine, if perhaps little wonky and suspicious with profit-thirsty BigPharma, and unknown long term effects.
But that aside, it's probably fine for most people.
My whole family got it, and I don't care.
People should make their own choices.
I am not taking it myself, but I'm also not a zealot or fanatic about it (despite making some posts here about it).
Your body your choice.
But I refuse to allow them to trigger my limbic system and make me get too emotional about it.
Was out to dinner in NYC last night, wasn't allowed to sit inside the restaurant so we sat outside. But other restaurants don't give a shit.
It's a fun decade if you learn to play the little games - is life not a puzzle, a game, a labyrinth?
I have more important things to focus on, like my medical AI experiments running on Amazon cloud.
However, that said, I do have a problem with government totalitarianism, mandates, camps, control, and manipulation!
I will always fight for freedom.
I will speak out loudly against government overreach, and be a beacon to others who need to be reminded they have a choice.
Now back to my AI experiments.....
https://optuna.org is an implementation of an AI technique known as "hyperparameter optimization".
It involves cleverly changing the parameters of your neural network each time you run a new experiment, to hone in on the best parameters.
For instance, you may not know how many neurons to add to your neural network, and how to connect those neurons.
Optuna (and other similar frameworks) will automatically figure out the optimal numbers of neurons and connections for you.
It allows your code to automatically and intelligent find the right neural architecture and configuration that best predicts whatever you want (e.g. if a patient is healthy or not).
Click on "Paper" on their website and download the PDF for more details.
It involves cleverly changing the parameters of your neural network each time you run a new experiment, to hone in on the best parameters.
For instance, you may not know how many neurons to add to your neural network, and how to connect those neurons.
Optuna (and other similar frameworks) will automatically figure out the optimal numbers of neurons and connections for you.
It allows your code to automatically and intelligent find the right neural architecture and configuration that best predicts whatever you want (e.g. if a patient is healthy or not).
Click on "Paper" on their website and download the PDF for more details.
Optuna
Optuna - A hyperparameter optimization framework
Optuna is an automatic hyperparameter optimization software framework, particularly designed for machine learning. It features an imperative, define-by-run style user API.
Boy oh boy people are not happy about today's speech.
Rightfully so.
Stay on target, anon.
Think for yourself.
Cultivate uniqueness and don't let politics distract you from your own life, for your have grand goals which cannot be stopped at this point.
Rightfully so.
Stay on target, anon.
Think for yourself.
Cultivate uniqueness and don't let politics distract you from your own life, for your have grand goals which cannot be stopped at this point.
This whole shitshow is just begging for wizards and warlords to rise.
When they burn their own society down, those who rise will be very unique interesting powerful individuals.
Like a Phoenix.
When they burn their own society down, those who rise will be very unique interesting powerful individuals.
Like a Phoenix.
I decided to not take it.
Not because no disagree with the science,
But because I believe people need to be reminded that they have a choice.
Not because no disagree with the science,
But because I believe people need to be reminded that they have a choice.
This is a most glorious time of our species.
It's polarizing people who thought they could focus on their own lives.
It's solidifying the elites' power.
It's scaring people with crypto's potential.
It's forcing people to try to wake up to narrative warfare.
It's inspiring us all to paint a glorious vision of tomorrow to move towards, lest we sink into their pessimism on the virus and climate change.
Stand strong, anon.
It's polarizing people who thought they could focus on their own lives.
It's solidifying the elites' power.
It's scaring people with crypto's potential.
It's forcing people to try to wake up to narrative warfare.
It's inspiring us all to paint a glorious vision of tomorrow to move towards, lest we sink into their pessimism on the virus and climate change.
Stand strong, anon.
I have to admit, I've been holding back on my posts here.
I have more in my mind which should be expressed, but I don't want to be judged.
I have more in my mind which should be expressed, but I don't want to be judged.
Forwarded from The Uncommonist
Turned up or turned off.
That’s how I’d describe my behavioral tendencies, and also my experience of the world as felt by my body -I’m talking cognitive and visceral, ya dig?- in an all or nothing frenzy of experience and being experienced. I keep searching for God everywhere to test whether this God founded by my forefathers within me that I might ascend into the eternally growing Kingdom of Heaven, or any God so conceived and so dedicated who have already long endured, can move mountains if I lend my faith and my strength into his hands and my life be unto his vessel. I keep finding God any and every place I look, and I keep expecting not to.
Obsession comes in waves of fire that burn distractions into ash.
Obsession paints with single hairs in broad strokes.
Obsession dives deep and forgets it must return to the surface if it is to survive.
Obsession is the means by which you test the limits of a truth you do not want to trust.
Obsession means you burn away the shadow that you might catch a glimpse of what is real.
Obsession means you lose a finger when the rabbit hole turns out to be a badger’s den.
I learned to keep God in my mind and in my heart so that he might live in my hands as well.
If you’ve ever burned yourself to the ground; if you’ve ever actually reached a point where you lost the capacity to continue -failed without quitting- then you’ve learned that your limits were much further down the road than your mind’s eye was able to see. I learned that a laser beam focus can be applied for shorter periods and then an habitual but purposeful short digression into another fascination helped to curb the obsession. Break it down before it breaks you down, daddy-o. Ask me how I learned this.
One day I ran until I met the end of my span. I vomited as I fell to the ground, and the blackness was fuzz in my eyes closing in while the air wouldn’t move for my lungs wouldn’t heave and I thought I could die as the world swam in colors of brown and green as my face pressed into the soil. Then I breathed again, and I turned over, and the sky was a mass of geometries in impossible synesthetic mathematic colors and the heaving fractal inside the breath of existence rippled through my world in a pulsing display of the acoustics of creation.
I’m gonna tell you a secret. People try to read between the lines, especially when they’re confused. Take a leap with me, we’re circling on memeplex. How can you narrate a conglomeration of narratives other than to let them play as they may? I’m writing to people who take the leap, intuitive leap, I know I am thus I have this speech. I sometimes question, I sometimes preach, and sometimes I test then and sometimes beseech.
My method is to turn a mirror towards the light that you’re already shining, so that you can see where it is. If you can see where it is, then you can see what feeds it and what feeds upon it.
I’m learning with you.
Cheers
That’s how I’d describe my behavioral tendencies, and also my experience of the world as felt by my body -I’m talking cognitive and visceral, ya dig?- in an all or nothing frenzy of experience and being experienced. I keep searching for God everywhere to test whether this God founded by my forefathers within me that I might ascend into the eternally growing Kingdom of Heaven, or any God so conceived and so dedicated who have already long endured, can move mountains if I lend my faith and my strength into his hands and my life be unto his vessel. I keep finding God any and every place I look, and I keep expecting not to.
Obsession comes in waves of fire that burn distractions into ash.
Obsession paints with single hairs in broad strokes.
Obsession dives deep and forgets it must return to the surface if it is to survive.
Obsession is the means by which you test the limits of a truth you do not want to trust.
Obsession means you burn away the shadow that you might catch a glimpse of what is real.
Obsession means you lose a finger when the rabbit hole turns out to be a badger’s den.
I learned to keep God in my mind and in my heart so that he might live in my hands as well.
If you’ve ever burned yourself to the ground; if you’ve ever actually reached a point where you lost the capacity to continue -failed without quitting- then you’ve learned that your limits were much further down the road than your mind’s eye was able to see. I learned that a laser beam focus can be applied for shorter periods and then an habitual but purposeful short digression into another fascination helped to curb the obsession. Break it down before it breaks you down, daddy-o. Ask me how I learned this.
One day I ran until I met the end of my span. I vomited as I fell to the ground, and the blackness was fuzz in my eyes closing in while the air wouldn’t move for my lungs wouldn’t heave and I thought I could die as the world swam in colors of brown and green as my face pressed into the soil. Then I breathed again, and I turned over, and the sky was a mass of geometries in impossible synesthetic mathematic colors and the heaving fractal inside the breath of existence rippled through my world in a pulsing display of the acoustics of creation.
I’m gonna tell you a secret. People try to read between the lines, especially when they’re confused. Take a leap with me, we’re circling on memeplex. How can you narrate a conglomeration of narratives other than to let them play as they may? I’m writing to people who take the leap, intuitive leap, I know I am thus I have this speech. I sometimes question, I sometimes preach, and sometimes I test then and sometimes beseech.
My method is to turn a mirror towards the light that you’re already shining, so that you can see where it is. If you can see where it is, then you can see what feeds it and what feeds upon it.
I’m learning with you.
Cheers
"Because nobody tells me what to do" is the only acceptable answer.
On the Bullshit of Internet Machiavellians:
Lots of people on social media like to talk a big game about Machiavellianism, manipulation, power games, and the like. They do it to feel important.
How many actually are basing their analyses on real world situations? How many are larping?
One of my best friends is an orthopedic surgeon, my age (mid 30s), ambitious, and learning how to play the game. He's not giddy about it, he's kind of sad because he wishes it was all about the medicine.
But alas it's not. And he got into this career partly for the money.
A given spine surgery procedure may get billed at $120,000. Medicare may pay the surgeon $2,000 for it, and private insurance like Blue Cross may pay $6,000 for it. But if the claim comes through Workman's Compensation Insurance (getting injured on the job), it may get paid at $20,000. If it goes through a car insurance company and the victim has a high PIP, it may get billed at $80,000.
So the low end surgeons, who have no relationship with the workers comp companies (experienced surgeons will say no to more surgeries, but get more deal flow funneled to them at higher rates) may personally get $300,000 per year in salary. The surgeons who are experienced partners in their early 40s may pull $2,000,000 per year by being buddies with insurance companies. Academics who do complex surgeries but refuse to play the game may make a stable $800,000/year. Those with special relationships with "out of network" patients (where wealthy patients pay out of pocket like 50% of $120,000-$500,000 surgeries) can pull $5,000,000 per year in their mid 40s.
It's sad because it's not about medicine - the care is often the same for the patient and the doctors are often equally skilled. But the wealthier doctors learned to game the system better by intelligently choosing which patients to see.
Now to bring it back home, I have a real disdain for the autistic sounding self-proclaimed Machiavellians who think they got the world figured out but don't actually know the nuts and bolts of what happens in real life.
My actual friends are legit ambitious and learning the games to be played. They're not self employed; they're trying to play the system. And good for them.
Don't make broad pronouncements without real world experience, and actually put numbers to what you talk about!
Until next time, later.
Lots of people on social media like to talk a big game about Machiavellianism, manipulation, power games, and the like. They do it to feel important.
How many actually are basing their analyses on real world situations? How many are larping?
One of my best friends is an orthopedic surgeon, my age (mid 30s), ambitious, and learning how to play the game. He's not giddy about it, he's kind of sad because he wishes it was all about the medicine.
But alas it's not. And he got into this career partly for the money.
A given spine surgery procedure may get billed at $120,000. Medicare may pay the surgeon $2,000 for it, and private insurance like Blue Cross may pay $6,000 for it. But if the claim comes through Workman's Compensation Insurance (getting injured on the job), it may get paid at $20,000. If it goes through a car insurance company and the victim has a high PIP, it may get billed at $80,000.
So the low end surgeons, who have no relationship with the workers comp companies (experienced surgeons will say no to more surgeries, but get more deal flow funneled to them at higher rates) may personally get $300,000 per year in salary. The surgeons who are experienced partners in their early 40s may pull $2,000,000 per year by being buddies with insurance companies. Academics who do complex surgeries but refuse to play the game may make a stable $800,000/year. Those with special relationships with "out of network" patients (where wealthy patients pay out of pocket like 50% of $120,000-$500,000 surgeries) can pull $5,000,000 per year in their mid 40s.
It's sad because it's not about medicine - the care is often the same for the patient and the doctors are often equally skilled. But the wealthier doctors learned to game the system better by intelligently choosing which patients to see.
Now to bring it back home, I have a real disdain for the autistic sounding self-proclaimed Machiavellians who think they got the world figured out but don't actually know the nuts and bolts of what happens in real life.
My actual friends are legit ambitious and learning the games to be played. They're not self employed; they're trying to play the system. And good for them.
Don't make broad pronouncements without real world experience, and actually put numbers to what you talk about!
Until next time, later.
Forwarded from 🌞 Sol Brah ⚡️
LIVING TRUTHFULLY
just be who you are - any act or facade eventually gets found out - and you will suffer mental dissonance in the meantime
What are those things that constantly come to mind but you are too scared to express? They must eventually be uttered into the world, lest they fester in the halls of your mind and become toxic.
honestly expressing your thoughts leads to more magic in every situation - even if it is tough to say. ESPECIALLY when its tough to say.
A Fun experiment: for one whole week - if it’s in your head, it has to come out your mouth
You will be shocked at how much you’ve made a habit of suppressing what you actually think
Two people can interact, both putting up a facade that they believe the other person will like more.
It’s a fake performance because neither are secure in just being themselves.
Rather than letting go of the idea of who they think they should be, they cling to an idea of what they think is cool or acceptable.
The result is that neither person interacts with their true selves, and misses out on true connection
It is HARDER to put on the act, to carefully measure your words than it is to speak from the heart.
Literally it requires more energy to constantly monitor what you are saying, worrying about ramifications or social standing if you say this instead of that and so forth.
Some people will reject this and say “ahhh I can’t say what I want because XYZ”
Then maybe you should look at the circumstances of your life that are ‘forcing’ this.
Over time, constantly living life limited in this way has negative ramifications for the soul.
There of course is a level of social decorum that we must exhibit in our community - being honest does not mean talking shit about people. If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say it. But withholding your truth, your passions and your interests or your personality because of any reason ends up decaying our spiritual selves inside, and is unsustainable long term.
Perfect health is impossible unless your actions are aligned with your thoughts
The honest man eating dog food is healthier than the liar having wheatgrass shots.
just be who you are - any act or facade eventually gets found out - and you will suffer mental dissonance in the meantime
What are those things that constantly come to mind but you are too scared to express? They must eventually be uttered into the world, lest they fester in the halls of your mind and become toxic.
honestly expressing your thoughts leads to more magic in every situation - even if it is tough to say. ESPECIALLY when its tough to say.
A Fun experiment: for one whole week - if it’s in your head, it has to come out your mouth
You will be shocked at how much you’ve made a habit of suppressing what you actually think
Two people can interact, both putting up a facade that they believe the other person will like more.
It’s a fake performance because neither are secure in just being themselves.
Rather than letting go of the idea of who they think they should be, they cling to an idea of what they think is cool or acceptable.
The result is that neither person interacts with their true selves, and misses out on true connection
It is HARDER to put on the act, to carefully measure your words than it is to speak from the heart.
Literally it requires more energy to constantly monitor what you are saying, worrying about ramifications or social standing if you say this instead of that and so forth.
Some people will reject this and say “ahhh I can’t say what I want because XYZ”
Then maybe you should look at the circumstances of your life that are ‘forcing’ this.
Over time, constantly living life limited in this way has negative ramifications for the soul.
There of course is a level of social decorum that we must exhibit in our community - being honest does not mean talking shit about people. If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say it. But withholding your truth, your passions and your interests or your personality because of any reason ends up decaying our spiritual selves inside, and is unsustainable long term.
Perfect health is impossible unless your actions are aligned with your thoughts
The honest man eating dog food is healthier than the liar having wheatgrass shots.
Sometimes I purposefully wait to see how much pressure the clients put on me for results, in order to gather information about the relative power dynamics.
Not exactly the most ethical approach, since I ideally should just plow ahead for them. I should just build great things for them as fast as I can do we all win. That's the kumbaya we're in this together approach.
But I'm thinking long term strategy here. I need to know how much leverage I have over them, and how much leverage they have over me in terms of my business's cashflow.
They can pull the plug at any moment and fuck me over. I need to know which clients are closest to doing that.
I want to know where their breaking point is. I want to know when they'll turn into the frantic urgent professional who starts trying to pressure me.
You know the type. Always rushed, always panicked, never seem to get ahead, but always seem to be successful.
Those people are not powerful.
Because once I pull back yet still charge them, then I'll know how much pressure they have on them from their overlords for results.
It's, in a way, milking the client. I understand the ethical issues with me being a slimey git and trying to play little games. I don't want to lose integrity and be a nasty snake. That's why every week, I always show some significant progress with the medical AI results for them.
And maybe my language is not the kindest, but honestly I need to know where the pressure points are in my business. This is crucial for me to know who's gonna be a frantic pain in the ass. They play games with me, albeit subconsciously - I'm just better at playing the games intentionally.
Not exactly the most ethical approach, since I ideally should just plow ahead for them. I should just build great things for them as fast as I can do we all win. That's the kumbaya we're in this together approach.
But I'm thinking long term strategy here. I need to know how much leverage I have over them, and how much leverage they have over me in terms of my business's cashflow.
They can pull the plug at any moment and fuck me over. I need to know which clients are closest to doing that.
I want to know where their breaking point is. I want to know when they'll turn into the frantic urgent professional who starts trying to pressure me.
You know the type. Always rushed, always panicked, never seem to get ahead, but always seem to be successful.
Those people are not powerful.
Because once I pull back yet still charge them, then I'll know how much pressure they have on them from their overlords for results.
It's, in a way, milking the client. I understand the ethical issues with me being a slimey git and trying to play little games. I don't want to lose integrity and be a nasty snake. That's why every week, I always show some significant progress with the medical AI results for them.
And maybe my language is not the kindest, but honestly I need to know where the pressure points are in my business. This is crucial for me to know who's gonna be a frantic pain in the ass. They play games with me, albeit subconsciously - I'm just better at playing the games intentionally.