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A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history. His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain. He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway. In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra. Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language. Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules. Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it. For 83 years, the book sat there. Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't. He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before. An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches. That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made. After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago. The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end. He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly. He died a few days later. He was 49. He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules. His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying. The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

@LizardWizardBTC So how do we learn?

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When you have taken impermanence to heart, there is no encouragement to depend upon apart from that. When you realize all that appears and exists to be your mind, there is no path of enlightenment apart from that. ~ Padmasambhava

@LizardWizardBTC Always appreciate you. Hope this fails miserably ;)

Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Mantra Namo buddhaja Namo dharmaja Namo sanghaja Tadyathā om muni muni mahā munaye svāhā Namo bhagavate trailokya prativiśiṣṭāya buddhāya bhagavate. Tadyathā: om, viśodhaya viśodhaya, asama-sama samantāvabhāsa-spharaṇa gati gahana svabhāva viśuddhe, abhiṣiñcatu mām. Sugata vara vacana amṛta abhiṣekai mahā mantra-padaiḥ. Āhara āhara āyuḥ saṃdhāraṇi. Śodhaya śodhaya gagana viśuddhe. Uṣṇīṣa vijaya viśuddhe sahasra-raśmi saṃcodite. Sarva tathāgata avalokani ṣaṭ-pāramitā-paripūraṇi. Sarva tathāgata mati daśa-bhūmi pratiṣṭhite. Sarva tathāgata hṛdaya adhiṣṭhānādhiṣṭhita mahā-mudre. Vajra kāya saṃhatana viśuddhe. Sarvāvaraṇa apāya-durgati pari viśuddhe, prati-nivartaya āyuḥ śuddhe. Samaya adhiṣṭhite. Maṇi maṇi mahā maṇi. Tathatā bhūta-koṭi pariśuddhe. Visphuṭa buddhi śuddhe. Jaya jaya, vijaya vijaya. Smara smara, sarva buddha adhiṣṭhita śuddhe, vajri vajragarbhe vajraṃ bhavatu mama śarīram. Sarva sattvānāṃ ca kāya pari viśuddhe. Sarva gati pariśuddhe. Sarva tathāgata siñca me samāśvāsayantu. Sarva tathāgata samāśvāsa adhiṣṭhite. Budhya budhya, vibudhya vibudhya, bodhaya bodhaya, vibodhaya vibodhaya samanta pariśuddhe. Sarva tathāgata hṛdaya adhiṣṭhānādhiṣṭhita mahā-mudre svāhā. English Translation Homage to the Buddha. Homage to the Dharma. Homage to the Sangha. Thus: Om, Sage, Sage, Great Sage, Svāhā. Homage to the Blessed Buddha, the Supreme One exalted above the three worlds. Thus: Om. Purify, purify! Completely purify! O incomparable radiant one shining in all directions, whose nature is pure like the vast sky. Consecrate me with the nectar blessing of the sublime speech of the Sugatas. O great mantra words, draw in, draw in! Sustain and uphold life-force. Purify, purify! O sky-like purity! O Victorious Crown of the Buddha, utterly pure, radiating thousands of rays of light. Observed and blessed by all Tathāgatas, perfecting all pāramitās, established in the wisdom of all Buddhas and the ten bhūmis. Empowered by the heart essence of all Tathāgatas, the Great Seal. Purify the vajra body. Purify all karmic obscurations, all lower realms and suffering destinies. Reverse decay and untimely death. Purify lifespan itself. Established by sacred samaya. Jewel! Jewel! Great Jewel! Reality itself utterly pure to the very limit of existence. May awakened wisdom blaze forth in purity. Victory! Victory! Great victory! Great victory! Remember! Remember! Established in purity by all Buddhas. O Vajra One, womb of the vajra! May my body become vajra-like. May the bodies of all sentient beings likewise become purified. May all realms of existence be purified. May all Tathāgatas comfort and sustain me. Awaken! Awaken! Fully awaken! Fully awaken! Bring enlightenment! Completely awaken enlightenment! Perfectly pure in every direction. Empowered by the heart essence of all Tathāgatas, the Great Seal. Svāhā.

"In the Dharma-ending age, the greatest asceticism will be bearing arms to protect scripture-carriers." -Bhadrakalpika Sutra

𝙉𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙙 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 @nomadaesthetic

a month ago

Hazaras guarding buddha statue

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Most of you know the Delphic maxim "ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ" (Know Thyself). In the grammar of the Greek language, the verb is in a tense no longer used today: the Aorist (past) Imperative (and on 2nd person singular, active voice). The question now is: how is it possible to command someone in the aorist (past) tense? Commanding someone in the aorist is very powerful, yet quite common in "Ancient" Greek. It is a deliberate choice that changes the very nature of the exhortation. In Greek Philosophy, the Delphic maxims are considered "commands of Apollo." Through these maxims, the philosophers demand that you, the student, become better. So when it commands you to know yourself: 1. It is not interested in duration, but in the result or the beginning of the action. 2. "Begin to know" - "Come and know." 3. Do it. Now. Do not postpone it. They did not want a mild, philosophical piece of advice like "try to know yourself a little every day." The Delphic maxim commands you and says: "Wake up. Finally realize who you really are YESTERDAY." Proclus writes: "Just as the inscription at the entrance to the Eleusinian sanctuary announced that the uninitiated and the unperfected should not enter the inner sanctum, so too the inscribed ‘Know Thyself’ at the entrance of the Delphic temple declared the way of the upward journey toward the Divine and the most beneficial and effective path that leads to purification. It says, almost plainly to those who can understand, that the one who knows himself, beginning from his own hearth, can come into contact with the god who reveals the whole truth and is the leader of the purifying life. On the contrary, the one who is ignorant of who he is, being uninitiated and unperfected, is unfit to partake in the providence of Apollo." - Proclus, Commentary on Plato’s First Alcibiades, Book I, 5.3–5.12 And we also have this passage from Xenophon, where Socrates, the main teacher of the maxim "Know Thyself", says the following: SOCRATES: Tell me, Euthydemus, have you ever visited the Oracle at Delphi? EUTHYDEMUS: Yes, by Zeus, I have visited it twice. SOCRATES: So when you entered the temple, you had the opportunity to see the inscription "Know Thyself"? EUTHYDEMUS: Of course I saw it. SOCRATES: And after that, what did you do? Did you take care to follow the command of the inscription, or did you make no attempt at all to approach yourself, so as to see who you really are? EUTHYDEMUS: By Zeus, not at all. For I am not so childish or ignorant as to not know who I am. I assumed that I knew myself. I mean, is it possible not to know oneself? SOCRATES: But perhaps what you know is only the name of yourself, that is, your external characteristics, while you remain ignorant of your real abilities (those hidden in your soul). Shouldn’t you examine yourself in the same way one does when wanting to buy a horse? Besides its external appearance, one must also be interested in a series of particular traits and qualities: whether it is obedient and disciplined or disobedient and unruly; whether it is strong and manageable or weak and difficult to control; and also whether it can run fast or tires easily. For just as one would want to learn all these qualities of a horse, in the same way one must want to learn the corresponding expected qualities of one’s own self. Do we really know, then, what our own worth and power are? EUTHYDEMUS: It seems, Socrates, that whoever does not proceed to apply "Know Thyself" will necessarily remain ignorant of his own inner powers as well. - Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book IV, 24 Thanks for reading me, Homer Pavlos

Ānanda, the Tathāgata does not appear to all sentient beings, but spiritual friends will appear and teach the Dharma, planting the seed of liberation. For this reason, you should consider spiritual friends as superior to the tathāgatas. ~ Sūtra of Untainted Space

Pictures from a vanished civilization

Historyland @HistorylandHQ

a month ago

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in the White House greenhouse in 1902.

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We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption.

Jacob King 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (Comms Open) @jacobpking

a month ago

The fact we have this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

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A whole view of life is captured in the Old English word dūstsċēawung, which meant ‘dust-watching’ or ‘contemplation of dust’. People would watch motes of dust float in the sunlight, and think about how the dust used to be other things. A book, a tree, the walls of a city—a people, when it ceases to love itself—all will fade like the shouts of children on a summer day, or vanish like the memory of a dream. (IPA: [ˈduːstˌʃæɑ̯.wʊŋɡ])

彫刻家ピヌッチョ・ショーラ (1942-2016) がサルデーニャ島の岩を削って制作した音響彫刻を擦って音を出す様子

Paschen’s law: V_b = (B p d) / [ln(A p d) - ln(ln(1 + 1/γ))] Pull the plunger on a syringe next to a live Tesla coil and watch physics lose its mind. The instant pressure drops, that p d term collapses; breakdown voltage craters, the field ionizes the rarefied air, and violet plasma arcs flood inside the barrel like lightning bottled in glass. No more jumping to the needle. Just pure glowing discharge channels forming in vacuum. This is the exact reason vacuum tubes, neon signs, and Crookes tubes exist.

Quando se sentir sozinho, lembre-se que o ácaro Demodex vive no seu rosto e, para ele, você é tudo.

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Napoleon on Just Moving Forward: “The truth is, I never was master of my own actions. I never was entirely myself. I might have conceived many plans; but I never had it in my power to execute any. I held the helm with a vigorous hand, but the fury of the waves was greater than any force I could exert in resisting them… I never was truly my own master, but was always controlled by circumstances. Thus, at the commencement of my rise, during the Consulate, my sincere friends and warm partisans frequently asked me… what point was I driving at? and I always answered that I did not know. They were surprised, probably dissatisfied, and yet I spoke the truth... In fact, I was not master of my actions, because I was not fool enough to attempt to twist events into conformity with my system. On the contrary, I moulded my system according to the unforeseen succession of events.”

Homer's Iliad Book 1 Lines 1-27 in Restored Ancient Greek Meter, Pitch Accents & Pronunciation with English translation.

#現代音楽 スティーヴ・ライヒ 手拍子の音楽 ミニマル派の代表格ライヒの初期作品。厳密にはフェイズ・シフティングによる作品、と紹介されるべきでしょう。 同じパターンのリズムやメロディが時間差でズレを来していくというもの。 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPU5Xr…

🚨 Le mythe du racisme systémique s'effondre sous nos yeux avec la bombe nucléaire qui vient de paraître dans la revue NATURE. David Reich, généticien de Harvard, avait lancé en 2018 une mise en garde dans le New York Times : il fallait sortir du déni car la génétique allait prouver l’existence de différences biologiques réelles entre les populations. Il affirmait que refuser de s’y préparer était une erreur qui nous disqualifierait face à la réalité scientifique à venir. Pour avoir brisé le tabou de la « page blanche », Reich a subi un désaveu massif et une condamnation publique. Aujourd'hui, l’étude la plus massive de l’histoire (15 836 génomes anciens) vient de lui donner raison. La science confirme que l’évolution humaine ne s’est pas arrêtée : elle s’est ACCÉLÉRÉE MASSIVEMENT depuis 10 000 ans, provoquant une divergence biologique réelle dans l’intelligence et les comportements. Nier ces faits pour maintenir l'illusion d'une intégration possible face à l'immigration de masse et continuer d'entretenir des mythes comme celui du racisme systémique est désormais un déni de science pur et simple. Une civilisation qui ignore la réalité biologique se condamne à l’effondrement. Le temps des faits est arrivé. J’ai mis en commentaire quelques segments traduits de son avertissement de 2018 et le lien de l’étude pour ceux qui veulent comprendre l'ampleur du séisme.

Robert Lassonde @RobLassonde

2 months ago

Affirmer que le QI est une mesure « biaisée » relève d’une méconnaissance des faits. La psychométrie est la discipline la plus robuste des sciences humaines. Elle quantifie le facteur G, soit l’intelligence générale. Cette capacité à traiter la complexité et l’abstraction repose

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If you have not recognized the nature of mind yourself and are hoping for a result sometime in the future, you are not a Dharma practitioner. ~ Padmasambhava