Substrate

Logic removes all the flesh and ornaments, and gives us the underlying bones of what we know.

But seeing the shape of your ideas is not the same as having new ideas, and in fact — as with the ossification of keywords — creating a too-comprehensive portrait of your own thoughts can amount to locking yourself into a labyrinth of your own preconceptions. ​ Instead my notes were beginning to depress me. They were a visible testament of fruitless effort. ​ To my horror, it turned out to be a chaotic mess that would never have passed muster under my own dissertation director. It read, in my opinion, like something written by a sentient library catalog, full of disordered and tangential insights, loosely related to one another — very interesting, but hardly a model for my own academic work. ​ but I had to admit that once again my attempts to disrupt thinking with a technology of note-taking had only resulted in an enormous, useless accumulation of busywork. ​ I finally had to acknowledge that something had been wrong about the advice I received so many years before: a scholar’s notes were not a life’s work, but only a tool.

You could imagine a world where cartography never incorporated drawings of territories, and instead relied solely on written descriptions of land. “To the west is a mountainous range, with several large rivers emptying to a gulf in the south.” In such a world, there would no doubt be practised experts, capable of envisioning in their minds the described area. But these written maps would clearly suffer from a lack of depictions.

A look back at some of the best tracks of 2020, including Earth Trax, Kelly Lee Owens, Bella Boo, and Scuba.

Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (2020-12-30) - One of the great sufferings is turning on ourselves with judgment and/or self-aversion. This practice brings the acronym RAIN to this pain. It helps us cultivate a healing self-compassion, and the realization of who we are beyond any limiting story of self.

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i’ve always liked being in the water. immersion feels the closest i can get to equilibrium, like being held together and let go at the same time.

Senior Interaction Design Portfolio at School of Visual Arts (SVA)

I think Anna hints at something here that I’ve struggled to describe, the way that blogs were somewhat hidden and when you discovered them it was like finding a treasure map; something intentionally obscured from view.

One idea that comes up a lot in certain technology circles, especially cryptocurrency, is the idea of a “zero-knowledge” proof, or ZKP. Here’s a quick analogy that might be helpful to explain how a ZKP works. Let’s say there is a wall of 1,000 locked safes. I want to verify that you own each safe. You could do that by unlocking all the safes, but that would reveal the combination to me, and you don't want me to know the secret. We seem to be at an impasse. One way out of this dilemma is for me to leave the room. I tell you, “I’m going to leave and come back in 1 hour. Please open all the safes.” If I come back and the safes are open, it's probably because you knew the combinations to each safe. You never had to tell me the secret (the safe combination), and I don’t have to know what the secret is to be satisfied that you know it. That’s the “zero knowledge” part.

For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. We'd like to take a moment to recognize some of these achievements. 1. A landmark proof simply titled “MIP* = RE" establishes that quantum computers calculating with entangled qubits can theoretically verify the answers to an enormous set of problems. Along the way, the five computer scientists who authored the proof also answered two other major questions: Tsirelson’s problem in physics, about models of particle entanglement, and a problem in pure mathematics called the Connes embedding conjecture. 2. In February, graduate student Lisa Piccirillo dusted off some long-known but little-utilized mathematical tools to answer a decades-old question about knots. A particular knot named after the legendary mathematician John Conway had long evaded mathematical classification in terms of a higher-dimensional property known as “sliceness.” But by developing a version of the knot that yielded to traditional knot analysis, Piccirillo finally determined that the Conway knot is not “slice.” 3. For decades, mathematicians have used computer programs known as proof assistants to help them write proofs — but the humans have always guided the process, choosing the proof’s overall strategy and approach. That may soon change. Many mathematicians are excited about a proof assistant called Lean, an efficient and addictive proof assistant that could one day help tackle major problems. First, though, mathematicians must digitize thousands of years of mathematical knowledge, much of it unwritten, into a form Lean can process. Researchers have already encoded some of the most complicated mathematical ideas, proving in theory that the software can handle the hard stuff. Now it’s just a question of filling in the rest. Learn more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2020-20201223/

My friends didn't wait for me to ask. They showed up. They took over. They didn't ask. ​ When they all swept out of there four hours later, my place was a home. Not only was everything put away — but now it had a memory attached to it, a group memory, friends, laughing, dirty jokes, hard work. These are the kinds of friends I have. Be that kind of friend to others.

And I remembered a part of me that had been boxed up and filed away for a long, long time. ​ “A reminder of my capacity for feeling”: that’s what I experienced. And it’s what I wish for you, too.

When you use Δ to send a block forward in time, you are in effect sending a series of linked ideas forward to your future self. Your future self then has the ability to contribute to this evolving strand of thought and send it forward in time again ad infinitum.

These opportunities are everywhere. Notice them, pick them up, and all of a sudden, your description of yourself gains strength.

The grab-bag style is really interesting, where I just list out ideas and links to things that were interesting to me throughout the week. It’s essentially a forcing function for my attention. You have to to notice the things that you’re reading and thinking about, that are actually important, if you want to have any hope of pulling together enough interesting atoms for a functional structure.

I found my best friend in pieces: the sense of humor from the disco producer, the philosophical banter from the Twitter friend, the emotional support from the diamond maker. I found that all of the qualities I wanted in a best friend didn’t have to come from a single person.

I think one of the reasons Zoom school horrified so many people, is not because it was a big break in how education works but because it brought the reality of how education works, to the forefront it highlighted the American classroom as the consumer audience structure it is

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I didn’t (and don’t) know the answer but the question rang deep and useful. ​ It was a beautiful thing to hang out with each poem, poet, line for longer than I thought I could or should. And that’s saying something given that I set type one letter at a time.

This year’s Annual is themed “tend,” as in to care for or manage, to give your attention to, or to move toward a particular direction, an inclination or “tendency.” Contributors include Rona Akbari, Zainab Aliyu, American Artist, Weeda Azim, neta bomani, fiona carty, Juliana Castro, R.C. Clarke, Rae Dand, Shea Fitzpatrick, Melanie Hoff, Madeline Hsia, Clemens Jahn, Lucy Siyao Liu, Omar Mohammad, Onelson Nicholas, lily nguyen, Emma Rae Bruml Norton, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Alice Otieno, William Pan, Elizabeth Perez, Ingrid Raphael, Charlie Reynolds, Michael Bell-Smith, and Austin Wade Smith. Cover by Michael Bell-Smith. 4.5in x 7.7in paperback, 212 pages. Ships internationally.

I’ve arrived at myself again. The sun builds a slow house inside my house, touching the stilled curtains,

One of my biggest learnings this year was becoming aware of and starting to learn how to predict the nuance and conditionals around things that seem simple from the outside.

So, ultimately, I’ve taken the approach to not simply follow my personal preference, but to do whatever is more impactful for the company at each stage. ​ Stop coding and delegate when you can’t see the forest for the trees. ​ You want to build something bigger than yourself. I still want to help RevenueCat go public, but if we manage to do it, my responsibilities or title will not be that important anymore.

When the unique is created, it also creates the creator.

span of time when someone has lived is clearly stated, and you have to understand their lifeline through a hyphen. ​ We make the future in the now. What are we going to do now? ​ Time does work in a cyclical way. It's not as linear as we like to think that it is, and that's what astrology tends to highlight.