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Attempt at networking post!

Hi! I would love to meet and talk to more people in #dataScience #statistics #stats #pydata #dataViz etc etc

I have a Phd in #appliedMath and I work in #productAnalytics

I attend my local American Statistical Assoc meetings sometimes, but they are rare.

I also helped start an R User Group once, (but haven't used R in more than 10 years), and ran a Big Data reading group in #pdx

Please boost 😀

@Oozenet @bibliolater @philosophy Excellent article!

@bibliolater @philosophy That's because it's "a meditative practice developed over the last two millennia or so by Buddhist monks and nuns in south and southeast Asia. In its native habitat, it forms one part of a well-polished toolkit". Stripped of those other parts its dangerous.

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-flight-from-thinking/

#theology #pagan

@SteveCooke @naciketas @bibliolater @philosophy But to be clear, none of this is to deny that there's a lot of "mindfulness" work that is shallow and lacks that kind of nuance - no doubt that's the sort of thing the original author is familiar with and responding to, and to that extent I agree. 3/3

@SteveCooke @naciketas @bibliolater @philosophy There's a lot of discussion about, eg, how to use emotions like anger at injustice to fuel efforts at change without allowing that anger to become toxic and unproductive. Learning to master that anger, rather than allowing it to master you, is an essential part of that process. 2/

@SteveCooke @naciketas @bibliolater @philosophy There's a healthy debate within Buddhism about the proper way to deal with such emotions, but I don't get the sense the author of the original author has really engaged with that debate/literature. I don't intend to try to substitute for that, but briefly, seeing emotions as ephemeral is a teaching tool, not the final analysis of their importance in Buddhism. 1/

@naciketas @bibliolater @philosophy I’m not sure that claim bears scrutiny. Emotions like anger, grief, disgust etc. are fitting attitudes to injustice and resist it. Similarly emotional responses like compassion, pity, friendship, solidarity can all also motivate us in the right way. Maybe pure reason can motivate us to pursue the right policies, but I doubt it.