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đŽđłđŹđ§ peripatetic space technologist
Space Engineering Lecturer @qmul.ac.uk
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Herman Hesse?
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Very nice!
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Effing love cursor
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h/t to @stephango.com for his post on integrating Obsidian with Jekyll etc. Decided it would be a good way to spend a weekend.
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Great article! Thanks for sharing.
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Never say ânever ever ever everâ again
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
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The value is maybe seen in the legacy of these practices and their creators? Again, hard to quantify but âfeelsâ unquestionable as i catch myself saying: âyes- that was one of the most valuable things i have done as it make me question the notion of selfâ.
Maybe I have gone off topic?đ
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The question of value, i think, is followed by âto whomâ. I think itâs hard to quantify the value of expanded self-awareness/consciousness. Itâs hard to measure how youâre improving anotherâs life or oneâs own; itâs easier to feel (not measure) that there is an impact on the practitioner.
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IMO meditation and classical (i.e. celestial) mechanics are inward and outward practices that, for some, lead to a reduced ego sense. Is this the same as expanded awareness?
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Out of curiosity: which popular conceptions say thereâs supposed to be more than peace?
I sense the repetitive messaging of equanimity over knowledge/intellectual stuff is cos learning could be involuntary+inevitable? information has been plentiful thru time so some of itâs bound to be âlearnedâ.
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PoucH2O? Too many syllables
But less than the more neutral âwater pocketââand âwater pouchâ
Wateroo could be another great brand name.
Yes, this kicked my brain into overdrive this morning.
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CamelBak solved for this.
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Indian universities in the 2000s: 'Write perfect code without ever touching a computer'
Google interviews in 2024: 'Write perfect code on a whiteboard'
Indian unis were just 20 years ahead in making students suffer efficiently đ
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Let us C đ
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Also, how much of what students pay in đŹđ§/đşđ¸ for could be redirected towards setting up a more dynamic physical space/lab? something like what @dynamicland.org is doing but for advanced engineering things in the world of robotics etc..? But all of this needs a shift in value of credentialing too.
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Exam scale has plagued academia for a while now. hereâs a vague soln: smaller decentralised schools with classes of 20-30; was this size a feature of Greek learning? Students use LLMs with teachers to make/solve new stuff/problems. LLMs used in admin keeps staff lean. A new personalised education?
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Donât see this âlive debatesâ version working. This idea works for a PhD defense/exit seminar but I donât see how this scales for 100-500 undergrads without increasing personnel. Even if that scaling happens, it would be impossible to maintain consistent evaluations.
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Totally.
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Oh I agree they want to use them.
Sadly, IME as an educator, itâs to answer questions in/for exams. This is a failure of the (higher) ed system and weâve never needed better ways to incentivise learning more.
As long as the system incentivises getting right answers, there will be no real learning
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LLMs canât really be tutors because they donât really address the issues of kids having shorter attention spans and poor reading skills. So LLMs are walls of text donât really help but even something like voice mode doesnât help with engagement/attention. Still a lot to be done at a non-AI level
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I never anticipated that AI would increase my teaching load at university but I now have to also instruct kids on how to to use ChatGPT better/correctly. Whoâd have thunk it!
Excellent observation in your main post!
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Related- I found myself making a âutopicâ justification for space (or clutching at straws, you tell me).
Cheaper and routine commercial spaceflight, esp if it replaces air travel, could incentivise populations to prioritise exercise/be fitter (orbital flights). ;)
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Your book makes many think you oppose their âprogress-centricâ views. So they throw any positive/utopian spins to counter. FWIW I see the book indicating areas of work.
And ya- life in space is painful, Mars life will be sucky, not spectacular.Thatâs how it is but we do many other sucky things! :-)
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Your lavatory point reminded me of something else I read todayâŚ
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Do we âuse more energy on computation than the actual rocket wouldâ?
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And finally got irked enough to write: angadhn.com/opinions/Pos...
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And then I also read: unherd.com/2025/01/why-...
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Graeber asked âwhereâs my flying carâ before the book (which ChatGPT says is from 2018)
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More riffing:
Perhaps thereâs too many essences that cannot be captured irrespective of the technology and data volume. eg, the essence of being at live music versus listening to its recording. perhaps our humanity/personality lives in these cracks. Itâll be hard to replicate that anytime soon.
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To replace them, when theyâre gone, in their full depth and splendor.
*Until we solve longevity
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Where am I going with this?
I want a world (like most do/have) where we have used all this data in addition to these fancy voice tech to manifest something more. Data that captures the complexity of personality to recreate the sound/conversation of someone we will eventually lose*.
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Hey @bsky.app, please give us edit buttons- pretty please!!
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I imagine that could be part of him to figuring out how to start a city first at Starbase?
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Sigh- I know youâre right.
The days when I thought of Netflixâs interface as a glorified advertisement wall of interactive digital posters (like the streets of Bangalore) are going to seem harmless compared to the future of GenAI movies described by GenAI movie summaries with GenAI posters.
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A follow on thought that I had is that this is taking a leaf out of Graeberâs idea of BS jobs. We are at peak bullshitization of streaming content (I hope!)
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That said, the article could have replaced Netflix with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it would have been pretty apt. Indicative of where movies have been heading over the last 8 years or thereabouts.
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Itâs not too hard (for me) to see that Nâs data+superstars model is used to create something that possesses the aesthetic/stats that might get people to start something. And once started, Netflix chooses to not compete with Hollywood but with podcasts/YT. The idea of being left on in the background.
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Fast and furious feeds the true auteurs tho.
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