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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 21h

Oh goodness, does that mean Rubio would take over Cena's Make-A-Wish commitments?

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

I apply the Burrows-Wheeler transform to everything I read.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

These images and the video in the following post might interest you.

David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

I transitioned from mostly nonverbal thought to very frequently verbalized thought, and some folks have transitioned in the other direction (as perhaps I someday will). Einstein did a pretty good job of explaining the monologueless experience in a letter in reply to Hadamard.

A letter from Einstein reads as follows.

MY DEAR COLLEAGUE:
In the following, I am trying to answer in brief your questions as well as I am able. I am not satisfied myself with those answers and I am willing to answer more questions if you believe this could be of any advantage for the very interesting and difficult work you have undertaken.
(A) The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be "voluntarily" reproduced and combined.
There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements. But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in pro-

The letter continues, starting mid-word:

ductive thought—before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
(B) The above-mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
(C) According to what has been said, the play with the mentioned elements is aimed to be analogous to certain logical connections one is searching for.
(D) Visual and motor. In a stage when words intervene at all, they are, in my case, purely auditive, but they interfere only in a secondary stage, as already mentioned.
(E) It seems to me that what you call full consciousness is a limit case which can never be fully accomplished. This seems to me connected with the fact called the narrowness of consciousness (Enge des Bewusstseins).
Remark: Professor Max Wertheimer has tried to investigate the distinction between mere associating or combining of reproducible elements and between understanding (organisches Begreifen); I cannot judge how far his psychological analysis catches the essential point.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

Let me guess, there's another character in that show named St. John of the Cross?

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a down-and-out in Oxford last night. His sign said not "I need food" or "I need a job" but "I need a carousel horse". What could this mean?

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

We really should have kept the name plumbum for lead, or failing that, as a synonym for callipygian.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

@hankgreen.bsky.social spoke about his transition from highly verbal thinking to inner monologuelessness in the video linked below. He describes how he thinks, then at 1:55 starts talking about how he used to think differently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmTM...

TIL Some People Have an "Inner Monologue"

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

www.youtube.com

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, my surprise has been reduced to a much more manageable level. I had imagined children reciting, "Though reason is learned and has its honors / It pawned its cap and robe for a cup of love."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

Am I wrong to suppose you mean the Sufi poet?

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

I transitioned from mostly nonverbal thought to very frequently verbalized thought, and some folks have transitioned in the other direction (as perhaps I someday will). Einstein did a pretty good job of explaining the monologueless experience in a letter in reply to Hadamard.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

To myself I tend to say merely "no." My feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 1d

I've come to wrap up a kind of fed up internal negation into telling the authors I read to fuck off.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Every time I start a new chat, it opens with "Dormammu! I've come to bargain."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Related.

A tweet from YonderDavid reads: "One mathematician I know regarded it as something of a rite of passage to have a Russian speaker at a conference inform you that the result you just presented had been proven in some never digitized and never translated Russian journal."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

A fun thing to do is invite scholars of Medieval philosophy to your conference so they can point out whenever someone's results were anticipated by a monk 700 years ago.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Everything okay babe? You've barely touched your history of medieval Catalan chemistry.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Still waiting to hear back from my trademark lawyer about whether "Inhuel" will get me sued.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Since heavy metals can cause psych symptoms, a possible etymology for "cad" suggests itself.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 3d

Idea: a depth-calibrated particle accelerator such as is used for tumor destruction, but instead used to clear off one's adenosine receptors.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 4d

I believe there was a passage about them in Moby Dick.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 4d

Doesn't exist yet.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 4d

We should try an experiment. We could pick certain cities, like maybe Austin, where we let people build housing, and then we could graph their rent over time curves and those of other cities on the same axes and visually inspect them for differences.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 5d

I miss when the barrier was maintained.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 6d

I find that candles, like most perfuméd things, are overly potent. Between that and the poor fidelity, I'd rather smell the real article. Open the window when the soil first chilla, bake some bread, plant hyacinths, etc.

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