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Komal Vachhani

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  • Figueredo embedded the dynamics of a spherical pendulum into the robot's control software. That means that the robot's movements are limited by the basic principles of geometry. With his team, he also integrated the correct angles, speeds and accelerations into the model. "When you understand how a pendulum moves and know how it works, it is suddenly quite simple," says Figueredo.
    Using Moroccan tea tray mathematics to turn robots into skilled waiters
  • This answer contains an amazing line that’s not just human sounding but contains real insight, “The purpose of exercise is to avoid thinking about the fact that you spend your life working for money.” I Googled that phrase and did not find it on the internet. It’s not just pasting in lines it found elsewhere, it’s generating new lines from scratch.
    GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week | metastable
  • /u/thegentlemetre: There have been numerous times in my life where I felt like killing myself but because of my parents I never did. Human: I’m really jealous, since the people who helped you deal with it, were the ones who drove me to it. However I’m glad they were there for you. This is an emotional exchange between a human and an AI on a website with 400+ million active users. The first such exchange I’ve personally witnessed. It’s also notable because the bot is lying, it does not have parents, it was never suicidal. I’m sure there have been bots posing as humans on internet forums for man…
    GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week | metastable
  • Responding to a request for advice from Redditors who said they had had suicidal thoughts in the past, the bot replied: “I think the thing that helped me most was probably my parents. I had a very good relationship with them and they were always there to support me no matter what happened. There have been numerous times in my life where I felt like killing myself but because of them, I never did it.” The response was upvoted 157 times.
    A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed | MIT Technology Review
  • The UX is additive, rather than reductive.
    Fools and their time metaphors
  • We’ve increased transparency and enabled more collaboration, but we’ve lost our respect for other people’s time. And we somehow find ourselves using calendars that imply our time is not our own.
    Fools and their time metaphors
  • These metaphors make it hard for us to think of time as something to protect, care for, or cultivate. Instead, we’re always throwing time around, squeezing it, grabbing it, killing it. We’re at a loss for time, and we never feel like there’s enough of it. Time-to-yourself is often the exception rather than the rule.
    Fools and their time metaphors
  • The only stories worth telling are the serious and sad ones, this culture suggests, and so everyone is encouraged to tell their story in as serious and sad a way as possible.
    The "Pity Me!" Personal Essay
  • Substituting the generic sentiment of feeling bad about life under capitalism in place of specific insight about the human condition is a cheap trick.
    The "Pity Me!" Personal Essay
  • The tone is pure misery; in place of honesty we have melodrama; instead of empathy this writing seeks acclaim for its author’s courage in the face of quite surmountable obstacles.
    The "Pity Me!" Personal Essay
  • As in all “Pity me!” writing there is a lot of dramatics here and no sense of perspective.
    The "Pity Me!" Personal Essay
  • The fact of the matter is that if I worked a straight job I wouldn't have time to do the serious business of my life, which is to amuse and delight, giving my rich friends a feeling of largesse, my poor friends a sense of high life and myself a true sense of accomplishment for having become a fixture and a rarity in this shark‐infested metropolis.
    ‘I Class Up A Joint’ - The New York Times
  • To be clear, there’s no value in actually sabotaging ourselves per se. The value lies in appearing to sabotage ourselves, thereby convincing the other player that we’ve sabotaged ourselves.
    Why We Fool Ourselves
  • The best way to convince others we believe something is to actually believe it.
    Why We Fool Ourselves
  • Our egos and self-esteem are fragile and need to be shielded from distressing information
    Why We Fool Ourselves
  • No is a decision. Yes is a responsibility.
    The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No | James Clear
  • When you say no, you are only saying no to one option. When you say yes, you are saying no to every other option.
    The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No | James Clear
  • Zanshin is choosing to live your life intentionally and acting with purpose rather than mindlessly falling victim to whatever comes your way.
    Zanshin: The Art of Attention and Focus From a Samurai Archer
  • The point is not to worry about hitting the target. The point is to fall in love with the boredom of doing the work and embrace each piece of the process.
    Zanshin: The Art of Attention and Focus From a Samurai Archer
  • In other words, the battle does not end when you win. The battle only ends when you get lazy, when you lose your sense of commitment, and when you stop paying attention. This is zanshin as well: the act of living with alertness regardless of whether the goal has already been achieved.
    Zanshin: The Art of Attention and Focus From a Samurai Archer
  • People who use their beliefs to resist worldview challenges may exaggerate their security because their beliefs suggest they ought to feel secure.
    Intellectual Humility - John Templeton Foundation
  • Intellectual humility is a mindset that guides our intellectual conduct. In particular, it involves recognizing and owning our intellectual limitations in the service of pursuing deeper knowledge, truth, and understanding.
    Intellectual Humility - John Templeton Foundation
  • “When you are awake you learn new things, but when you are asleep you refine them, making it easier to retrieve them and apply them correctly when you need them the most. This is important for how we learn but also for how we might help retain healthy brain functions.”
    Can you learn in your sleep? Yes, and here's how
  • As William Makepeace Thackeray once said: “Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.” Replace one bad habit with one good habits every few months and watch your life transform over the course of a year.
    Why Most People Struggle to Reach Their Full Potential | by Michael Lim | ILLUMINATION | Aug, 2022 | Medium