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chung van gog

chung van gog

@umbralcuboids.com

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bluesky is my private diary. on a journey to gain courage and align heart mind body and soul. he/him. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🗝️🕊️ 🦢 🤍

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chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 19d

Updated version: I post about my life experience, nerdy math and physics things, amateur philosophy takes, books I'm reading, politics, good music, occasional blog posts, games & game variants, and whatever else catches my fancy

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · Jul 22

i post about my life experience, abstract or concrete, about poker variants & theoretical analysis, amateur philosophy takes, good music, and occasional blog posts <3

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

highlight reel. why do i keep spelling things phonetically:S

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 14h

it’s not an instagram highlight real with all that shit. But it’s a highlight real of 10/10 moments with beautiful people music food ideas activities and all that

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 15h

I am happy. There are just so many incredible and beautiful moments….

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 15h

I am happy. There are just so many incredible and beautiful moments….

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 17h

What a life

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2d

I have decided I will be absolutely shameless in learning whatever the hell catches my fancy

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2d

I am feeling annoyed.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

Or, if understood as part of histsci, in the sphere that includes Max Planck.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

“planck length” and “planck time” themselves have sphere [[0]], because they can be found within the sphere of radius 2^0 = 1 planck length/time

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

In my dream world, the “present” monent for an observer is used as epochal. And the spheres derive from that.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

I think I like “center of Earth, 06:00 a.m. 2100 CE” as an epochal light cone. I will likely not really care about much after that point. I won’t need to adjust it anytime soon.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

(Obvs not saying they’re real.)

Cinema should also belong in a similar sphere of r = 150 years.

Maybe I should use powers of 2? I like 2 better. It’s much more fundamental then 10.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

On the other hand, “alien kidnappings” belong in a sphere of maybe r = 100 years

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

Eg, the “zebra” is filed under the sphere that has a radius of at least 2 million years, since that’s when zebras first evolved.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

I will need to define my spheres at some moment.

Basically, defining a “nice” epochal light cone and then defining orders of magnitudes of numbers of planck lengths and planck times of distance wrt that epoch, giving them “nice” names, and then using this to structure any and all topics.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

You will now have comprehended more than each of these two brilliant minds has on their own. Unless one is aware of the other - but then you just haven’t read broadly enough.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

Here is a secret.

Read one brilliant book by a brilliant author. Then another completely different brilliant book by a completely different but equally brilliant author.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

Much more concise than lectures would be pointers. But then the context would be lacking, and they would come without my thoughts.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

to even properly communicate the scope of my generalist vantage point would require 120+ lectures

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

hey! i’m a generalist, not a specialist. and that’s fully ok. generalism is great :)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

Also in every single domain there are people with vastly superior knowledge. Not to mention that there are generalists whose scope dwarfs mine.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

I could easily imagine preparing a dozen lectures on cinema. And finding a dozen other domains in which I have explored more.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

There are critics I care about. I know of obscure movie discussion groups that have a depth that gives you vertigo and that allows you to easily spend 10,000 hours on cinema. There’d are intersections between cinema and 20th c. philosophy.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

I’m not joking. For example: take cinema. There are hundreds of movies that have been influential for me.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

to even properly communicate the scope of my generalist vantage point would require 120+ lectures

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

hey! i’m a generalist, not a specialist. and that’s fully ok. generalism is great :)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

cf. the specialist who’d require the informational equivalent of 120 lectures to properly communicate certain specialist views

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

to even properly communicate the scope of my generalist vantage point would require 120+ lectures

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

hey! i’m a generalist, not a specialist. and that’s fully ok. generalism is great :)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

JPEGMafia is a genius

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3d

hey! i’m a generalist, not a specialist. and that’s fully ok. generalism is great :)