December 2011
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How to understand math more deeply and have fun...
Do you think of math as “boring” or “too hard”? Or, if you’re a parent, does your child? Maybe you like math sometimes, or even a lot of the time, but now you’re studying something that hasn’t clicked. There are too many steps to remember, and you can feel your head aching just thinking about it. Doing math by stimulus response is boring and unreliable. If what I wrote above rings true for...
Positive Vector Presents Nutrition 101: Cut...
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November 2010
3 posts
what's on my mind
If, in a dream in which you are fleeing from harm, you realize you are dreaming, you will still tend to continue escaping, even though you should now know that there is nothing to flee from. -Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Posted via email from divia’s posterous | Comment »
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“Speaking of livers,” the unicorn said. “Real magic can never be made...”
– The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
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“Which could mean that the Defense Professor was just saving Harry for later,...”
– Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 51: Title Redacted, Pt 1, a Harry Potter fanfic - FanFiction.Net
September 2010
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“Dear Noah,
We could have sworn you said the ark wasn’t leaving till...”
– Dear Noah, We could have sworn you said the ark wasn’t leaving till 5. Sincerely, Unicorns.
June 2010
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May 2010
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““How did it feel?” she repeated. It felt wonderful, but how do I...”
– The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
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“We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there...”
– Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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April 2010
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AI-Box experiment results
He let me out! Yay! I’ll write more about this later, but for now I have to go to work. Posted via web from divia’s posterous | Comment »
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AI-Box experiment
I’ve been thinking about AI boxing for a while, and just for fun I’ve decided to try playing the AI against my friend Neil. We’re starting around now, and I’ll post the results when we’re done. (Just to note, I have pretty low confidence this will work, but I think it’s going to be fun to try!) Posted via web from divia’s posterous | Comment »
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“Not so good for the rest of us, but it’s not like you’re our father...”
– Enders Shadow by Orson Scott Card
March 2010
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“On the same day Frightful caught at rabbit in the meadow. As I cleaned it, the...”
– My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
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“I also noticed that the birds would sit in the sun when it favored our mountain...”
– My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
January 2010
7 posts
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“Some choices must be made swiftly, lest the enormity of them overwhelm the...”
– Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
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“If there is anything worse than terror, it is terror and tedium commingled.”
– Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
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“‘You see?’ he asked in a pidgin argot; a tongue that owed something...”
– Kushiel’s Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
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“My envy’s not dangerous; it wouldn’t hurt a mouse. I don’t...”
– Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
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“The ego is like an involuntary muscle. You wish you weren’t so self-absorbed,...”
– Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner
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“Philippa drew a deep breath. ‘Mr. Blythe says you can read people’s...”
– Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 27
December 2009
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“All right, Ben. Attend me. Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty...”
– A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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“For Molly Grue, the world hung motionless in that glass moment. As though she...”
– The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
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Little-ciopaths (as Michael Scott might say) →
New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
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“She turned a little away from him, and the sudden starlight of her shoulders...”
– The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
November 2009
6 posts
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“She had had everything a girl could have: kindness, admiration, bonbons,...”
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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“This tower was one of a pair—square, incongruous, crenelated structures—that...”
– Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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“‘The horror of that moment,’ the King went on, ‘I shall never,...”
– Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Woman At Farscape Convention Has Dangerously... →
Thank you to Cheryl for making me aware of the best Onion story ever. You have made my week.
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“Everything the Fed has been doing over the past fifteen months makes sense if...”
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Thoughts on the Macro Paradigm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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“Joleta Reid Malett of the apricot hair was then just sixteen. Lord Culter never...”
– The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
October 2009
10 posts
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“I felt a sudden rush of the past upon me; for a moment grief pierced me like a...”
– The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
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“Molly looked closely at him, as she had not done for a long time, and she saw...”
– The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
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“But the strength of a puzzle is not just about the logical deduction necessary...”
– Ascii Dreams: The Quest for Quests: The Puzzle (Part Two)
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“The number one killer of characters in Angband is tiredness, followed by...”
– Ascii Dreams: The Rules of Game Design:The Golden rule
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“Meditation is not easy. It takes time and it takes energy. It also takes grit,...”
– Mindfulness in Plain English - 1 to 4
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Sarien.net: play old Sierra games in the browser →
I’m not really sure what to say other that this is pretty much what I’ve been waiting for my entire life.
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“It almost sounds like chairs are the refined grains of the furniture world.
...”
– Sitting is Unhealthy (and What to Do About It) | Mark’s Daily Apple
September 2009
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“Anyone want to start the bidding on what happens next? Going once, going twice....”
– Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 3: The Lost Boy
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“That was the first time I realized that my wife parses me. Like an interpreting...”
– Curbside Memories, Juice
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“In my youth I always went barefoot, as every runner ought. Coming from the...”
– The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
“Vril Society Conspiracy which suggests that a secret form of energy, called...”
– List of conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Zawinski: There was actually a point, early on in Netscape, where part of our...”
– Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
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“Philippa said, to the scandalization of priest and secretary and charge...”
– Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett, p. 544