AspiringAlchemist

@ArtirKel In a healthy culture, the sound of a crying baby would be considered a blessing

Hearing a baby crying at the airport, these little guys used to bother me so much but now not so!

@dampedspring It still gets 7-9 % during most 10 year windows. I don't sleep well at night with a 50% drawdown so I'm fine leaving some risk premium on the table. If the world is ending and I'm only down 15% I'll roll over and go back to bed.

@radicalagnostic It's gonna maintain purchasing power but it's not going to generate much risk premium accumulation or absolute nominal return.

If you didn't own commodities and gold in your portfolio the last two years your portfolio missed the big moves in those assets which blew away SPX. GLD, TLT, GSG, and SPY are all gonna have shitty 10 year windows. If you know what they are going to do the next ten years great. If you don't you should own some of each

Sometimes you are so divinely protected. That you do not get what you want.

@jamiewheal So, it turns out that In the long run, we're all dead. But In the short run, we're also dead.

“Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment problems in the short run. What is rarely noted is that the short run can be a lifetime.” –Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey

@UKDecline They paved paradise and put in a parking lot?

Decline.

@dampedspring What's the actual payout if your puts are in the money?

23-1 pays in the Derby! My 6900 puts in June think.

@growing_daniel *and* meet a nice girl

all i wanna do is *gunshot* *gunshot* *gunshot* *gunshot* *click* *cash register noise* meet a nice girl

A mirror in the trash

@cognitivecarbon @maxmarchione Thank you for your service <3

@maxmarchione I helped design a supercomputer that had a small part to play in the sequencing of the first whole human genome in 1999 by Dr. Craig Venter. Astonishing pace of innovation we are seeing

The cost of sequencing a human genome dropped from $100M to less than $100 in about 25 years. That's a million-fold decrease, which outpaces even Moore's Law. We're about to enter the era of personalized medicine.

@Meaningness Love it. This is deeply moving but funny while also being helpful — rare trifecta

Moving and helpful. José on being with his mother as she died. “I’m broken” ended up sounding like something silly, like saying “I’m made of cheese” x.com/ArtirKel/statu…

@scitechgirl Me immediately after the experiment

🚨 Scientists Just Revealed a Colour Humans Were Never Meant to See Imagine seeing a colour that no screen, photo, or paint could ever show you. Sounds impossible, right? In a strange experiment, scientists used a precise laser to stimulate specific cells inside the human retina. When they did, a few participants reported seeing a completely new colour experience — something beyond normal human vision. The researchers called it “Olo.” Those who saw it described an extremely intense blue-green shade, far richer than anything our eyes normally perceive. The mystery is that this colour cannot exist on phones, TVs, or printed images. The only way to experience it is through this special laser method in a lab. It raises a fascinating question: If one hidden colour can appear this way… how many more might exist just beyond what our eyes can see? Source: Rosenholtz, R., & Gegenfurtner, K. (n.d.). Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color “olo.”

There is no solution to this tension/dilemma. The best we can do is to hold it in awareness and strive for balance. Is someone shooting wildly off course merely deviant, or are they (a genius) hitting a target we can't yet see??? To know the answer in advance would require seeing the target, which by definition precludes the act of genius...

God, grant me the serenity to tolerate the negative deviants, the courage to embrace the positive deviants, and the wisdom to know the difference 🙏

There is no solution to this tension/dilemma. The best we can do is to hold it in awareness and strive for balance. Is someone shooting wildly off course merely deviant, or are they (a genius) hitting a target we can't yet see??? To know the answer in advance would require seeing the target, which by definition precludes the act of genius. God, grant me the serenity to tolerate the negative deviants, the courage to embrace the positive deviants, and the wisdom to know the difference 🙏

culture, school, society, etc all are basically designed to reduce negative deviance– and we're not yet advanced enough collectively to do that without simultaneously suppressing positive deviance. this is why most things are dull and drab. deviance is punished, discouraged, etc

some people get very mad when someone outside their social reality speaks candidly about their experience of their own reality. this discourages a lot of people from speaking openly about their experience. the minority of people who aren't discouraged are more or less ~insane

Anger at evil must burn itself away into sadness and love or else it flares out as a counter-evil that is also evil.

The way appears

@visakanv Running 4:34 per mile (2:50 per KM) for over 26 straight miles is unbelievable and not normal whether they both did it or not. Absolutely insane

it’s always interesting to me what gets framed as normal or abnormal, believable or unbelievable. “In an unbelievable twist, 2 guys broke the barrier at the same time”. To me that seems perfectly believable. ~“In an unbelievable twist 2 guys invented calculus at the same time”