Ryan Yoeckel

@earthcurated @CrispeThe

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

Is there not a purpose behind this that does not treat our own purposes as equals to it? But keeps in mind the purposes of humanity, knowing that we will want to apply our skill and virtue to bring forth to completion what was started; to cause to wake up what was asleep.

Who is it's maker? Humankind is it's user and caretaker. What immortal hand and eye put life to sleep in seed, to be woken up when conditions for life are present? How does someone who is asleep know it is time to wake up?

A seed Bare ground what can come from this The garden is part of life It is separate from other things but part of all the things we pass every day, but set apart for its own use It is not controlled but it is predictable What is the truth of this except that it is made?

@prof_g @PennEngineers You are such an inspiration to me. Blessings to you and those you love.

i am about to teach a new applied linear algebra course at @PennEngineers, meant for datasci/ML/AI. to support the class, i've written a book... [see below for links to text]

In-hand object manipulation is a dexterity litmus test for robot hands. Our new system in Science Robotics @SciRobotics can dynamically reorient many different objects in hand in the air. 📚Project website: bit.ly/3uuStkQ. 🧑‍💻Code: bit.ly/40UBlRt. 🧵1/n

15 Powerful Visuals About Psychology & Life 1.

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO: A bit from my past: My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later. As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear: 1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children. 2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it. 3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving. It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding. A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same. An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from. In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs. At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period. I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick. May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other. Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

@GMJacobAagaard 1. Qb7 Bc4 2. Rf2 Ke6 3. Qc8 Ne4 4. Qe8+ Kd6 5. Rf4 Bxd4+ 6. Kh1 Ndf6 7. Rxf6+ Nxf6 8. Qd8+ Kc5 9. Qe7+ Kd5 10. Qd8+ Kc5 11. Qe7+ Kd5 12. Qd8+ Kc5 13. g4 Nxg4 14. Qg8 Bd5+ 15. Qxd5+ Kxd5 *

Remarkable #chess position from the European Individual. What is the evaluation?

@MauriceAshley Qxb1 2 dxc2 Qxb2#

Mate in 2.

Reading history we can feel when the past chooses to visit the present. They needed "the best elements in the nation ... to conclude a struggle which had started as a grotesque conspiracy and ended as a farce." - The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, p 178

@saitoukazu Is it possible to order prints on canvas from you? These works are inspiring!

里の道。

If there is a list of words for the next batch of Wordle I nominate: Giddy

@IronBlanche Stability Blood Mystery ...makes me want to go to the library. Sounds like a good book!

@JarJarKling Praying for you and the fam.

Would ask you to lift our family up to the throne today. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. Psalm 25:17-18 ESV

@raychenviolin @olimpiuurcan I have tried hard and learned that I do not have talent. But it doesn't stop me from taking the path that others blazed a trail to find. At the end I will not have gone as far, but I am filled with the same passion as the giants whose brilliance show us a way to follow.

Talent is when you’re able to learn a particular thing faster and forget it slower than others.

Before he died in 2018 Alexander Bogolmogmy created a great math blog describing all sorts of topics in mathematics. The page can still be found at cut-the-knot.org

@JarJarKling Praying for you. Hope you all recover.

This virus is strange. My main symptoms are fatigue, inattention, poor concentration, difficulty working long hours, difficulty getting out of bed, a “brain fog.” Pray for my wife and youngest daughter who are showing worse symptoms.

Partial differential equations are kind of magical—and notoriously hard to solve. A new deep-learning technique has cracked them. bit.ly/36YJjxD