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I wasted my entire life because nobody told me this as a kid

Origin of life folks always say the first cell membrane is a mystery. I heard they say it was the bubbles but droplets as chemical incubator to make the membrane seems pretty convincing.

We removed the paywall from our Stargate piece, if you’re interested check it out here: citriniresearch.com/p/stargate-a-c…

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I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.

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So my clown teacher has this aggro approach that younger generations hate. Starting day one of her workshop, she calls out your bs. In particular, she calls out l things that everyone else is probably also thinking about you but too polite to voice. Example types of things she will say: • “It’s like you have a pane of transparent glass between you and the entire world” • “That’s weird. That thing you’re doing with your face is weird.” • “What’s with this smile? That’s totally fake.” She doesn’t follow this up with any immediate aftercare for people who get triggered/frozen/angry. She mostly leaves it up to the person to process Students younger than boomer often get very offended at this approach, even when it’s directed at other ppl. The vibe from many classmates – who, again, typically *agree* w the teacher’s takes – is “that’s just not how you treat ppl.” My clown teacher’s immediately-call-out-bs approach is a huge departure from the therapeutic paradigm we’re used to. It does not feel “trauma informed” I was also critical of this approach when I first encountered it. I thought “if you take people off-center, you should at least return them to equilibrium after.” But then I changed my mind. A person’s equilibrium is often *the exact thing at the root of their problems.* For example, my equilibrium used to be that I would automatically distrust everyone’s ability to understand me. It made me feel safe (I was secretly worried that if they understood me, they’d want to run away or mess w me). It also made me unable to fully connect to people, bc I was applying auto-distrust before even checking whether trust was possible. When this pillar of my personality was thrown into crisis, on some level, it would have been unkind to then make me feel safe and return me to equilibrium. It was necessary to let the crisis fully play out (over days) for me to find a new equilibrium Initially I had assumed this “unbalancing” approach would make students weaker. Initially it did. But then I’d watch the way ppl would be trusted to catch themselves – like adults – and become stronger/freer by the end While this approach seems to work, it’s also ripe for abuse in the wrong hands. Cult leaders will often break ppl down by voicing the sort of honest perceptions that ppl don’t want to hear. So I don’t think there’s a hard and fast truth about whether the aggro approach is “good” or not. In each case, you have to use judgment to decide whether the teacher using it is well-intentioned I’ve encountered other teachers who use an aggro approach and it definitely made me worse off long-term Some questions worth asking: • Scan their vibe. Do you get the ick? What does your gut say? • Meet their followers. Do you admire them? Do they feel like full and trustworthy people? Or is something subtly “off?” (Again, check gut) • Do you feel alienated from friends/family/normal ppl after engaging the teaching? Often a bad sign. (IMO good psychospiritual stuff will ultimately make you feel closer to ppl who r different than you) • Before throwing yourself into any further workshops/retreats/etc, do a gut check on whether you’re actually better off. Also pay attention to how your friends/fam are reacting to you

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@lookoutitsbbear The waveguides are coming! computationalimaging.org/publications/h…

@whoaboard yeah it's mostly based on the pepper's ghost illusion and the wollaston prism with a little ambisonic encoding and quantum state manipulation

lol i know how to solve this problem

@lookoutitsbbear This is a little like googles project starline. Holographic displays like looking glass also doing this like this. Also peppers ghost illusion

by setting up a two-dimensional plane with an infinite horizon inside of the physical plane of the viewer, you only have to deal with the angle of light up to the boundary of the screen this preserves the logarithmic perception scale so you just have to equalize the light

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

Slowly slowly

@amirvaxman_dgp Oh oops. I sent you some scratch Mathematica notebook on discord from when I implemented something like this before in case it’s useful.

@whoaboard This is spherical I was referring to...

Is there a Python implementation of getting Wigner D-matrices from rotation matrices which is stable and doesn't require complicated packages? (spherical doesn't compile...) I'd literally appreciate just an implementation of that function as a standalone.

@amirvaxman_dgp Maybe something like this pypi.org/project/spheri… But it’s not too bad to just get a symbolic package like Mathematica to generate the expression for you.

I tried chatGPT it gives nonesense.

@DrPhiltill webmd.com/osteoporosis/o….

Any advice on what to do when you have broken ribs? I had a hard fall over the weekend. I think three are broken. Ugh. My last broken rib was from Taekwondo. My school’s master was demonstrating how to pull a kick just before making contact, but her kick still hit too hard. 1/N

I’m on a shipwreck in the Florida Keys, 6 miles offshore and 100 feet underwater. All the megafauna are maimed and mangled with hooks. This reef shark has one in her cheek. She’s dragging at least 10 feet of fishing line.

@kgensou_ @lookoutitsbbear Software engineer brain

another person who has yet to realize that i started out compressing the file but stopped when i realized the data was 80% garbage and optimizing the signal was a better approach if i’m gonna waste a day on hypotheticals id rather solve the actual problem instead