FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
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> "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility"
> -- [Moravec's paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox)
> "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility"
> -- [Moravec's paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox)
@mithrandir Because real world things are about humans (which are messy, colourful, interesting, assymetric and infinitely frustrating) and not math (crisp, clear, artificial invention with a symmetric beauty in it). Took me decades to come to...
@academicalnerd Yes, it works that way. I think it's because your vocabulary is not as rich and subtle as it is in your mother tongue. That way, you are forced to express yourself not "how you want to be seen by the world" (wishful thinking and delusion there), but close to how thigns objectively are (the world almost always boils down to simple plain language stuff without adjectives). Therapy works actually very well in a foreign language 😉 .
@mathias Now you are really pushing the boundaries. Shall I really stare at it for hours just to see whether you might be up to something? 😄
@mathias Now I am intrigued 
@anthimus@nerdica.net
You forgot this:
* avatar upgrade to 2.0
# On wants and asks in human interactions and relationships
Healthy relationships in the end boild down to transactions like this: _Tell me what you want, I will tel you what I want and we either meet in the middle, or realise it won't work this time and can move on._ No need to argue in vain.
Now, I can well understand why sometimes people are unable, uneasy, or unwilling to communicate clearly what they want. Yet, I still find it stunning how often people do not even know what is it what they want, yet get angry if they don't get it.
A lot of pain and hurt could be saved if we dedicated more time to introspection and listening to our own emotions.
@jens Now that's an interesting goulash soup there. Thanks.
# Infinitely zooming picture
This is fun. Infinitely zooming generative scene. It's not the first one I encountered, but one of the most captivating. Worth storing a bookmark to brighten somebody's day...
@poderobrero
Us, the people, marching together under the banner of common good, hand in hand, towards bright tomorrows!
... in a fastfood chain restaurant.
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RT @jtannady
Re: impostor syndrome. Someone once said to me
"You think that you don't belong here and that everyone is smarter than you. But do you really believe that you are clever enough to trick all these smart people into thinking that you deserve to be here if you don't?"
@onlmaps I never noticed map of Finland looks like a dancing lady with raised arms. Well, on the contemporary map it has only one arm, but still. Nice.
(or is it just my overworked imagination today?)
> A set of brackets is a barrier to understanding between the reader and the writer.
> -- [https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/stop-defacing-quotes-with-brackets.html]
The quote in itself is a standalone reminder of presence of friction in writing. Any writing.
The linked story is also interesting, but this quote just jumped out of the text as I was reading it. Probably (am I just being apologetic?) because I tend to (BS! I do it all the time and with passion (whatever that means)) overuse(!) parentheses (and other fancy characters on my keyboard) and such (but I do not do it on purpose - well, it just feels right (sometimes, obviously)).
> “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
> ― [Mae West](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1598-you-only-live-once-but-if-you-do-it-right)
# European Space Agency (ESA) seeks new astronauts - applications open 31 March 2021
> For the first time in 11 years, ESA is looking for new astronauts. These recruits will work alongside ESA’s existing astronauts as Europe enters a new era of space exploration.
Yes, by default Mastodon emulates Twitter: no rich text formatting, just plaintext. Some instances are heavily customised, like qoto.org where I have my vista. But that is an exception.
@4ioskd@ukadon.shillest.net @sl007
Thank you both for the quick response. Well, I tried to install and run the thing and failed so far... It is just a matter of curiosity to me, so the energy I am going to put into it is limited. But I think it's a pity that project was discontinued, although I well understand what it means to run a community service.
Hey fediverse folk! Is there somewhere a map of federation/defederation of fediverse? I mean which instances see/listen to which other instances (since the relationship is asymmetrical). Does not have to be graphical, but ideally searchable (text files?).
Point is, I suspect my home instance might be blocked by some other instances I am interested in and I have no way to know whether people out there will even see my toots if I speak to them first.
Any explanations and pointers appreciated. Thanks.
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
