I'm not a huge fan, at least if I try to treat him as a philosopher rather than just like a write or something. Often when I read Watts I feel like he's mistaken the form of deliberate vagueness for the actual content of the zen tradition. To be fair he has presumably read more primary material than I ever will but like other translators of eastern texts seem to be able to pull a coherent thesis together instead of Watts' kind of metrical writing on and on without ever actually saying anything. Like maybe there's an argument that Watts not actually saying anything is supposed to be an instructive device ala the gateless gate or something but that's really not a very productive mode of writing when transplanted to a different time and culture.
In the end though he's pretty benign. Sometimes I can just be like "alright, let's just not think and listen to some pretty things and listen to a recording of Alan Watts" and it's alright I guess but any time I try to engage with him critically it just grates on me.
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I print out papers sometimes. I have a comfy chair and reading light set up and will sometimes make a cup of tea or something. It's nice to be away from my desk for a bit and it's easier to get to sleep if you're reading paper rather than a screen late at night
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wut? You should eat before drinking. Like sure you might save a few bucks in booze but it's a lot more enjoyable to drink after a hearty meal. Like you're just in chillin with a full stomach and getting a little drunk mode, not "I've had nothing to eat and my body is trying to run on alcohol calories and not doing a very good job" mode.
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When I was in highschool there was this girl I had a crush on. We'd walk home in the same direction after school but go separate ways after a while. One time we were walking home together and talking about some shitty local band we both liked and ended up following her all the way to her house and when we got there she was like "don't you live over that way?" and I had to make up some story about how I was going to some store that was in the direction of her house instead of just admitting I enjoying talking to her and didn't want to end the conversation.
Man, being a teenager sucked
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Yeah, when you say "dualist" people start thinking Descartes and souls and "because God lol".
But that's part of why there's a distinction between substance and property dualism.
Specifically I don't think there's some mind substance floating around somewhere that's somehow bound to my physical body. I think minds are a non-physical product of physical systems, the state of my body determines the state of my mind but mind and body are fundamentally different kinds of things.
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Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING V: A Cat-Girl/Boy Under Every Bed
That's like 10x more than I would have guessed.
Well there's are lot of posts, 600k, and another ~100k in PMs so that's like 1.5KB per post? I mean obviously not all that data is in the posts and PMs table, and it's after compression, but I wouldn't say it's outlandish. I imagine a lot of that space is in the thread flags table which is theoretically the Cartesian product of users and threads (although in actuality it's sparse because not everyone has a thread against every thread, just the ones they've viewed, which is still quite a lot).
Oh and there's houston data in there too which is probably significant.
Originally posted by gadzooks
Hey, do you mind if I do a full archive of the site?
You can name the throttle interval per request (right now I'm thinking either 1 thread a second - which would take about 10 hours if my math is right… although ideally 4 requests a second would be nice, but I'll let you call the shots on this. I don't want to DDoS the site or some shit lol).
I have a script set up and ready to go that sequentially reads each thread (from thread 1 to thread 35213)…
It's ready to parse all the data relevant to each post (timestamp, user who posted it, thread it was posted in, etc).
It's a one time procedure, then I can reconstruct it however necessary/desired in the future from the archived data and won't have to burden the servers again…
What say you, Lanny?
Yeah, go for it. If you want to write a management command (django's mechanism for scripts that don't happen as part of the request/response cycle) to pull it straight from the DB and dump it into some CSV files or something I wouldn't mind running it and just sending you the output instead of you having to scrape everything. Obviously it would have to only output publicly available data but that's probably cleaner than parsing the markup and trying to extract content that way.
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"Backpropagation is a method used in artificial neural networks to calculate a gradient that is needed in the calculation of the weights to be used in the network. Backpropagation is shorthand for "the backward propagation of errors," since an error is computed at the output and distributed backwards throughout the network’s layers. It is commonly used to train deep neural networks.
Backpropagation is a generalization of the delta rule to multi-layered feedforward networks, made possible by using the chain rule to iteratively compute gradients for each layer. It is closely related to the Gauss–Newton algorithm and is part of continuing research in neural backpropagation.
Backpropagation is a special case of a more general technique called automatic differentiation. In the context of learning, backpropagation is commonly used by the gradient descent optimization algorithm to adjust the weight of neurons by calculating the gradient of the loss function. "
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I'm reading Huxley's Doors of Perception. It's better than I was expecting.
Originally posted by gadzooks
Okay, On Topic:
I am an habitual / pathological multitasker, so I have a lot of books I'm currently reading…
One is "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Chemistry". It's pretty much just for review, because it's been a few years since I took any chemistry classes, but I wanna brush up.
I'm also itching to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach", but it's long and I have a short attention span so I keep putting it off, but it's at the top of my books-to-read stack.
The last book I read any significantly long sequences from without reaching maximum ADD mode and putting it down was Heidegger's "Being and Time". Damn that book is a trip. Pretty fucking dense, though. Not exactly light reading.
Admittedly, it was mostly for a class, but I read a bit past the required reading sections because it's some heavy shit.
I've been "reading" GEB for years lol. It's not as super mega dense and technical as people make it out to be, there are sections that are just comedy and aside from a couple pages of proofs here and there it's not like you need to grind through. But it's not a book you want to read in 10-30 minute chunks on the bus which is how I get most my reading done, so the only time I pick it up is when I go on vacation or something.
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