Interested in ideas, learning, aesthetics, the classics, cell bio, endocrinology, senescence, trichology. Techno-optimist. Learning German. Eng/Spa/Lat. MD.
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23 Sep 2024
Is it possible to do scrapping of the science articles databases (such as Elsevier) and then have a LLM categorize and organize the information so that we have a map of all knoweldge there is, what has been tried and how, what results do we have and what should we try next?
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This, ehm, cringe reminds me to two instances from the Romans: when Procopius mentions that Emperor Honorius (384-423 AD) received the message that Rome had perished, he cries out "and yet it has just eaten from my hands!", believing it was his favourite pet chicken named Rome.
This is seriously the cringiest collapse of a nation in real time.
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The other instance is this classic, mentioned by both Suetonius -companion of many a childhood night- and Cassius Dio: when Caligula tried to make his favourite horse Incitatus a consul.
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Having many thoughts on Nabokov's Lolita material culture & the duality of European sophistication (Humbert, ha!) & American consumerism (Lolita, "she it was to whom ads were dedicated"). It shows Lolita/America's lack of sophistication and yet whats does it say about Europe.
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Jun 12
Monastical orders as astrological signs:
Aries = Jesuit
Tauro = Benedictine
Gemini = Carmelite
Cancer = Cistercian
Leo = Dominican
Virgo = Poor Clares
Libra = Trinitarian
Scorpio = Augustinian
Sagittarius = Salesian
Capricorn = Carthusian
Aquarius = Franciscan
Pisces = Lazarist
Jun 10
I find it incredibly funny that I got the Jesuit, given that I have been accused of being like one in at least 5 different occasions. I like it though: I share that fiery temper, love for argument, learned interests, internationalist temper and a certain weakness for casuistry.
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Jun 11
I also did the "Which Patristic-Era Thinker Are You?" quiz and lo and behold, I'm my beloved Origen of Alexandria. I was writing apologias of Origen at 15. Duly surprised at a test that gives me two results to which I feel very close (Origen and the Jesuits).
Jun 10
I find it incredibly funny that I got the Jesuit, given that I have been accused of being like one in at least 5 different occasions. I like it though: I share that fiery temper, love for argument, learned interests, internationalist temper and a certain weakness for casuistry.
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Jun 10
I find it incredibly funny that I got the Jesuit, given that I have been accused of being like one in at least 5 different occasions. I like it though: I share that fiery temper, love for argument, learned interests, internationalist temper and a certain weakness for casuistry.
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Jun 10
"The world is not to be fled but won" is very me, ngl. Anyway, watch Black Robe (directed by Bruce Beresford, 1991). One of my favourite films together with Ravenous.
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Jun 10
Something I entirely changed my mind on: the invasion of Afghanistan was good. I was mistaken in criticizing the Americans having bases and control there. "But what about colonization?!". I spit in your fake ideals. Women have a right to a normal life too.
Jun 9
Maternal deaths in Afghanistan could rise by 50% this year.
After the Taliban's ban on contraception, women are being forced to give birth without doctors, miscarrying without treatment, and losing access to even basic medicine.
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Jun 10
I don't respect any stupid leftist who thinks "colonization" is a worse state of affairs than this. You leftists defend much bs everywhere, nationalists/racists sucking doesn't excuse ALL THE BS *YOU* DEFEND AND SUPPORT.
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Jun 10
I'm always insulting nationalists & reactionaries. That doesn't make me a leftist, I will pushback against their many cheap excuses: yes, Cuba is an authoritarian regime and it is poor mostly because of its communist regime; it was a good thing to kidnap Maduro; long etc.
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Jun 9
For what I can gather, "America in the King Years" (3 vol. series on the history of the civil rights movement by Taylor Branch) was both well-regarded and popular (awarded a Pulitzer in 1989), but it's not a very mentioned work at present, which is a shame because is excellent.
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Jun 9
"Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values": an opinion with which I can't cease but to agree.
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Jun 8
Hating "reality" is the cornerstone of being human. Poverty, sickness, death, war. All these are part of reality and yet we have been fighting them since that primeval human raised their gaze to the horizon as something more than an animal and asked "what else?".
Jun 7
It is not healthy to hate reality.
Human sexual dimorphism is beautiful and an essential aspect of our lives.
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Jun 9
Men are always sensitive to women wanting to be stronger. Why? Because deep down they know that strength equality would basically put an end to their social preeminence. They will have to live as what they really are and fear the most: our equals.
what i realised about this whole thread is
>men overidentify w them being stronger than women and are sensitive to even saying "women can be stronger than present strength"
>men don't understand evolution n anthropology
>men cannot understand diff in reduced vs nonexistent
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Jun 9
Lastly, I would like to say:
1. There is nothing wrong in being a woman. I don't hate being a woman, I hate how we are treated in many cases though
2. I don't hate men nor I think they are bad by nature yet in many cases ("systemic") they'll use that physical advantage for evil
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