meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt
Joined Jan 2021
RT @sigfig
another not well appreciated thing, the "winters" of an engineering field seem to be when all the useful foundational work is done, sorta like the basic ideas underpinning a field only change when people can work quietly https://twitter.com/sigfig/status/1379229195767844868
RT @sigfig
a not well appreciated thing, the role of spaceflight wrt to society isn't very gradual, there's a lot of slow engineering and operations buildup, but the way the world at large thinks about it has always changed suddenly and severely https://twitter.com/sigfig/status/1379214515892596740
Possibly dumb microeconomics question: heuristically, when is expected utility theory a good model, and when do you need to bring in something like prospect theory? I get the idea that people are never "truly" rational, but when does it tend to be a decent approximation?
RT @roguewpa
from Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay, _In the Beginning Was the Command Line_ https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1374589809344266243
RT @SamuelGWalters
Writing the electromagnetic field as a complex function we can rewrite Maxwell's equations more simply and thereby better see its invariance under the gauge group U(1) (which is the unit circle in the complex plane). #physics #math #electrodynamics #calculus
I found it confusing at first, but FreeCAD is growing on me.
RT @lopp
Freedom from trusted third parties
Freedom from arbitrary authorities
Freedom from biology
Freedom from gravity wells
Freedom from spacetime
seeing a fresh resurgence of people talking about how transhumanism is bad/satanic
once again have that awful feeling that if I'd peered deeply enough into the Vigilant Citizen blog in 2012 I would have been able to predict the entire decade, but would have shattered my psyche
subjectively it feels like a relaxation of tension, something moving downward from my solar plexus to my diaphragm
I've been doing 2-2:30 breath holds lately- just focusing on arousal control, not doing deliberate CO2 tolerance training (no apnea tables) and I'm getting better at relaxing deliberately, without the breathing cue
but freedivers put a lot of emphasis on stress/arousal control during a breath hold, and that seems really interesting as well.
these are really helpful, as it's one of a couple of places you can hook into your autonomous nervous system
question to the void: does anyone know much about breathing practices/breath holds for stress/anxiety management? most of the techniques I know focus on breathing itself- breath rate control, nasal breathing as a mental point of focus, etc.
going to find out this gives me lip cancer or some shit in 20 years
man, three rounds of wim hof breathing is always a trip
rolling partner caught me in some kind of modified bow and arrow choke last night that was about 75-80% of the way in, but not quite there, and I started essentially snoring while awake trying to breathe while I fought free
related: my throat hurts today
Once again, I am reminded how much of business/admin is just doing small, boring, straightforward tasks reliably.
(and how bad I am at that)
RT @noampomsky
"Everyone knows that the way to get good is to be prolific. But it’s incredibly hard to be prolific."
Boss grabs me and the other millennial employee at 4:30 PM, pulls out a couple of lukewarm beers
"We need to work on our outreach.
What are your favorite memes?"
Joined Jan 2021
