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after learning and re-learning linear algebra for past 2 years, I’m finally in awe of the SVD. why did it take so long? Do I just read things to get by and not really really understand and appreciate them? Ah, I think it finally became clear what I want Rce-blog to be. I want it to be like Cosma’s notebooks. A repository of people’s haphazard notes on things they care about. Do good writers feel more too? I thought good writers are just better at articulating their thoughts. But it seems to me that being articulate also changes your subjective experience? Steven pinker refutes this thought though. Like I can’t for the life of me describe a perfume’s scent like sasha chapin does here. I guess the first reason why is I’m not so weirdly interested in perfumes. second is even if I was I don’t have the skills to grasp what I’m feeling, or probably wouldn’t feel that way cause I don’t have his literary skills. Does he feel so vividly a thing as trivial as a perfume’s scent just because he ca

a_bhiman's stream 2026-04-23 18:30 I love oil paintings. I should learn to start making them --> 2025-12-09 08:36 To watch: objectified 2025-12-05 05:35 It’s so hard to put in care because in this scaffolded world you can get by without it. 2025-10-24 19:04 https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ 2025-10-22 19:12 https://www.shipsltd.co.jp/pages/sp_50th_anniversary.aspx 2025-10-13 18:31 As we sit here to think and write about you, the emotion that wells up is that of "Thank you". Thank you for being the person you are. Without you we'll ju

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