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BTW, try taking portraits with a camera mounted on a tripod or just somehow fixed in place, eith Christmas lights for illumination. The results are quite magical, although a large portion of the photos are too dark.
(It is, of course, unimportant, but I think I know what I was thinking about—continued fractions, and what do people even do when the fraction has functions, not numbers, for terms.)
Thank you. We definitely had to learn about attractors in college, this is familiar...
(A random question—what can be said about the behaviour of a function like y=cos(y1), where y1=cos(y2), …? Sorry for spam, too much work makes me wonder more and think less.)
The first question is—what kind of diabetes?
But how do you know it applies to some people and not others? Post-hoc?
Thank you. I should have realised that.
(And is it not weird, how two questions of the same, well, validity, give two different answers and perhaps—in a situation, where it matters—lead to different formulations?)
We lost nomads’ WOS (compared to ye good old times), including most people who spent months travelling not for the simple pleasure of it but just to get to certain places on Earth. (I don’t think relief workers think like that, there have to be huge differences). All those different kinds of WOS of all those different kinds of slaves of the past. Alchemical WOS (I started typing why I think this would be educational, but it seems I need a whole-length post to do it:). Radio operators’ WOS (largely, and not fully), etc.
Why 1/3?
The Ides of March by Wilder
I am a Ukrainian-born Russian-ethnic Ukrainian citizen :D
...I’ll have to read it myself first. Probably, yes:)
...and Leonid Andreyev’s The Black Masks. (I’m on the phone, so have not Googled it, sorry.) ‘The God our Lord placed the sword in my hands, and with death I punished the mad Lorenzo, and yet he was a knight’...
‘Persisto’ is a supervillain in the guise of a window cleaner. I think.
(Was considering two answers: “I am” and “It is”. “It is” seems to be fitting:)
It’s going very slowly, because I hate propaganda, my official job is in the state of “wtf is the central office THINKING?!”, & akrasia. Shouldn’t forget akrasia.
OTOH, I agree I am simply confused by what ‘self-improvement’ actually means. Do we define it ‘by motive’, ‘by result’ or in any other way (similarly to the recent SSC post on racism)?
Maybe I have just never really tried the lone-wolf style; I like brushing up some things like simple bits of math on my own, but I wouldn’t call it improvement—just upholding the baseline.
Hey, I am a normie. And college was full of drama and stuff—more so, I think, than the job I now have.
OTOH, I would say drama and stuff easily improve people as well as classes do—many (most?) of us had been sheltered kids before that. My own specialty (botany of vascular plants) just happened to include classes, drama (angry landlords, poachers, etc.), and stuff (expeditions) - a very natural combination...
But… if lone wolf self-improvement doesn’t work… how come it worked so well before I married, had a kid and got a regular job?..
Huh. We have lawn storks here. Or, rather, roof storks. Don’t know what they are made from, but possibly metal, from the look of those necks.