that was unexpected. wouldn't have happened if chatgpt remained open source. what happened though ? was it because of his sister's allegations ?
lol, nerd moments can be rather apt. Newtonian laws don't need Cartesian planes tho, not even your three dimensional space field theories. you could if you want to, but don't need to
Big hugs Pablo. You got this 🫂
The US has killed more people around the world than anyone else post WW2
Palestinians problems are not religious, but of national and US anchoring. The world makes it religions and further stamps international interference.
nerd moment - in my bit to find the optimal way to get a job done faster in the most efficient manner - Newton's laws come into play
Acceleration is rate of change of velocity (v) with respect to time (t).
a=Δv/Δt
Where:
a is the acceleration
Δv is the change in velocity
Δt is the change in time
What is velocity? Simply put, what it takes to go from point A to point B with a certain speed and direction, in a certain given time
The formula for velocity is given by:
v=Δs/Δt
Where:
v is the velocity
Δs is the change in displacement
Δtis the change in time
Key here is that you have to know where you are heading, and chug along. Hence acceleration expedites your change in velocity - where you keep progressing from one point to another in the shortest time possible.
Newton’s second law talks about force that’s applied to a certain mass resulting in the acceleration you want (F=mA).
Mass here can be interpreted as the right amount of work put in to generate the momentum to go from point A to point B. That added with force, aka a good self-driven push (or external-factor related push), you would be accelerating.
Mathematically, it is expressed as:
F=ma
Where:
F is the force applied to the object (Newtons, N)
m is the mass of the object
a is the resulting acceleration of the object
In short, if you want to get a job done real quick, you need
- the right amount of work needed to take you from point A to point B
- know which direction you are heading
- give it a good push
- and try to go between 2 points at shortest time, and replicate to all other points C, D, E
And voila! Jobs accelerated.
Beat the hell out of me if that makes sense but I'm trying all ways possible, Newton's laws included!
Nerd out
by the time i sleep and wake up, Pablo has already built something! You know how calendars sometimes comes with daily quotes and monthly pics and stuff? if we had one populated for "what was built today on Nostr", bet it would be pretty wild lol. Nostr is like your 24/7 live demo on how to build on open source protocols =)
Good morning everybody ☕Love waking to a vibrant community of Nostr that’s up and building ♥️ I think there’s something very sincere and powerful about being genuinely happy for someone else’s accomplishments even when you are struggling - you’d never know the journey it took for the person to get to where they are.
I was observing curiosity of kids earlier this week and this notion of self efficacy was strongly embedded. I hope all of us never lose these traits of curiosity and self efficacy. One and a half month to go before the year ends. I’ve still got a lot to accomplish for this year. Let’s do this 💪
Here’s a story on Queen Esther from the Bible. Esther was a Jewish woman who married King Ahasuerus of Persia during the 480 BC - 465 BC.
To set the base of the story, Persia was incredibly powerful at that time. Remember Gerard Butler, his 8 pack abs and “This is Spartaaaa!!” ?
The movie 300 was the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC between King Xerxes of Persia and King Leonidas of Sparta, Greece. Persia had 30,000 people, Sparta had 300. Persia won.
Persia continued being so powerful that during the Peloponnesian War during 430 BC - 401 BC between the Athens and Sparta of Greece, Athens sought after Persia’s assistance. The Peloponnesian war also marked the start of democracy from Greece - and it took democracy 2000 years to get here.
Persia then practiced Zoroastrianism until the founding of Islam in the 7th century. King Xerxes ruled from India to Cush (South Sudan) and had his citadel in Susa for summer and Persepolis in winter.
Persia, in today’s world, is Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Back to the story of Queen Esther. In the 3rd year of the King’s reign, one of the nights of wild partying, pissed drunk as he was, he asked his first wife Queen Vashti to strip naked for his friends. She said no, and got banished or executed for it. Queen Vashti unfortunately was portrayed by some interpretations as vile, and refused to “show her beauty” at the king’s request.
So now that the King was lonely, he had several women lined up in his harem at citadel Susa for a beauty contest. Esther’s cousin Modecai, who raised her and works as a palace guard, linked her up for the competition.
Modecai was also a member of a Jewish Community during the Exilic Period (this is another time Jews were exiled from Jerusalem during the Babylon war and settled in what is now known as Israel, Syria, Lebanon).
Esther has strict orders by Modecai to focus only on the King and not be distracted by the wealth and luxury surrounding her and to hide her Jewish background. She eventually won his affection and he made her his Queen. She won more favors with the king when she prevented a murder plot against the king, thanks to a tip off by Modecai.
Modecai took pride in his connection with Esther and considered himself Queen Esther’s advisor. The King however selected someone else as his second line in command called Haman (not Hamas, but close enough).
Modecai, who was already pissed at Persians from the Babylon war, refused to bow when he saw Haman. It also didn’t help that Jews then only recognised themselves and everyone else were called the Gentiles. And so Haman got angry for not getting his bow and decided to annihilate all Jews in Persia.
You’d think there’s be bigger reasons for genocide but nope. Ego is all you need. Quite an anti climax but it is what it is. Side track a little, fast forward to Hitler’s time, this separation of Jews and Gentiles bugged Hitler so much, that he pushed for the Aryans to be the superior race instead. You know what happened there.
Back to Queen Esther’s story with Haman being so pissed and wanted to mass murder all Jews.
Here’s where the story gets more funky.
All this while, the King had no idea Esther, whose real name Hadassah, was a Jewish woman. He was hopelessly in love with her. Modecai asked Esther to tell the King the truth so that the King would spare all of Jew’s lives. Esther was too afraid to. So she got all the Jewish people to fast for 3 days and 3 nights (likely total fast or absolute fast, abstaining from food and water for 3 whole days).
On the 3rd day of the fasting and prayer, the king saw Esther and somehow decided to offer her anything she pleased, even half the kingdom. But she said no thanks.
Instead she invited the King for a party she was throwing (in polite terms, this would be called the banquet) and invited Haman too.
On the first day of the banquet, the king again offered her half the kingdom. And again she said no thanks - and invited the king to another banquet the second day.
That night, the King could not sleep and wanted the Annals of the Kingdom to be read to him so that he could fall asleep. Likely it made a great bedtime story or was boring AF. And in it he came across Mordecai saving his life and told Haman to publicly reward Mordecai.
Quite a bummer for Haman who built a gallows for Mordecai and was looking forward to chopping off his head instead. But he did what the king asked and paraded Mordecai as a hero all day.
On the second banquet night, the king again offered Esther whatever she pleased, even half the kingdom. Here’s where the power pack lines come in. Esther says, spare her life and of her people. The King was confused and puzzled. Esther points to Haman and says he was trying to kill her.
Needless to say, Haman’s head got chopped off in the gallows. Modecai became the King’s advisor.
Moral of the story - rock a man’s boat a couple of days before asking for something or keep him waiting and wanting. Ok ok - this is not the moral of the story - but really though - given the king’s extensive carnal desires and the long list of concubines..anyway
I’ve heard some pretty nice interpretations from the pulpit all my life - Be wise when you are asking for something, fast and pray, be gentle and kind, always understand your surroundings and the situation you are in to get what you want - in that sense, Queen Esther was an incredibly wise woman. There’s also a Jewish holiday - Purim - which was the day the Jews fought. So while the king had Haman out of the picture, he could not call off the war so he let them fight, and the Jews won.
There are many versions of Queen Esther - the Hebrew version in the Christian Bible and the Jewish Torah, the Greek version in the Catholic Bible and the Eastern Orthodox. Some parts here are from the the Bible, Concordance, cross references to some interpretations of history and the wild debaucheries, and romantic pursuits were from the book below. If you have read this far and are convinced that this story should be written differently, feel free to add your version. Scholars however cannot proof the historical evidence of Queen Esther or her existence.
Note : There are 3 main Christian branches - Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox i.e.. And all of this has its own denomination based on the countries and culture that originally shaped it i.e Lutheran from Switzerland, Methodist from Anglican from England, Pentecostal from LA. The Roman and Latin rite of Catholicism. The Greek and Russian orthodox version.
Like it or not, religion has been heavily intertwined with nationalism and governance at least in the past 3000 years. Separation of church and state is as simple and complex as trying to break a really old habit.
i love that its affordable enough these days to make it a home-based equipment and a common prototype maker. And easy enough even kids use it. I favour it over CNC for prototypes although diff materials - significant ease of use in comparison. There are many types of 3D machines, the complex additive manufacturing can make homes and schools. I thought this was a cool video. But you're right, long way to go.
its not as bad as it sounds. Day to day, everyone is friendly, we are big on food and sea and sun and mountains, there's no war or shootings. Many mix cultures and everyone celebrates everything. Its a good country. But crazy governments - like everywhere else
I'm a minority so I am not impacted by the lack of religious freedom, and half the country are tribal folks who really don’t care. This is still mostly a liberal muslim country and we are smaller than the state of California. I remember meeting friends from Iran during college days who said they can’t even date in public so I am guessing it's way worse elsewhere. But minorities here do not have equal access to higher education and ~5% access to economic opportunities as the Affirmative Action is for the majorities. We eventually just learn to survive. In situations like this, free market becomes fundamentally important. We are the complete opposite of the US I think, where we have been ruled by far right for so long, and AA is for the majority.
Any extreme be it religion, left right, cult etc is really bad. Everyone should just chill - life is too short to be upset all the time lol
i think the idea was to be self sustainable? its like zapping dev, but its not enough, hence the grants. But if people were to put in 10% of their income into nostr, with tax exemptions etc i'm sure it would be more sustainable - but could lead to massive abuse of funds.
But I get what you mean. I was surprise that in the US and other large churches, pastor are millionaires - like wow lol. In the circle I am around, pastors are not paid, they are given phone and min travel allowances.
Interestingly, I'm a minority in a Muslim majority country where the majority race is socially constructed, religion is mandated upon the muslim race by constitution, there's religious police (literally) - like they would break into your house if there are unwed couples alone, and this majority race also need to pay their version of tithes, with a large gov't agency managing it, billions of funds, and makes large LP investments. And like everything in my country, it comes with major corruptions. On top of that, for the longest time, political parties were race-based. It cannot get anymore obv than that lol. A lot of the muslims in my country are nice people, a lot of liberal muslims, but the way religion is enforced into law can be at the point of madness and people don't realise it And this is not a convo i can have in my country openly as there is no freedom of opinions - there are laws that can literally silence you into mandatory detention camps. So i do understand where you are coming from when it comes to abuse and misuse of religions
the origins of 10% tithes came about to support the welfare of the church - in fact in countries like in Iceland in the 1500s if I am not mistaken, it was only 1% which got the people to agree, but churches accumulated enough wealth to buy the lands of the countries. Missionaries went in for a few decades in Africa, Caribbean, Asia etc and established infrastructure, schools, influenced young minds before global colonization of the west took place. And before that, and the separation of church and state, God was the Kingdom, and all was one. Fast forward to today's times, churches that have larger, richer congregations are filthy rich, and many abuse it - but this is not the same for all. There are many others that's separated from politics and wealth, provide some anchoring and baseline for people to rise and safety net when they fall. But religion can be easily interpreted into anything you want and manipulated no doubt.
The Bible has a lot of interesting tips and tricks - I mean Queen Esther slept with the king to get what she wanted, and not just that, she slept with him first - and with men being men, rocked his boat for 3 days, got completely on his knees - before getting what she wanted lol.
But it's also important to understand that the Bible was written when war was crude and brutal, times were different then. Knowledge was not power, only physical ability was. Even the old testament and new testaments are 400 years apart. So our learning and understanding of applying the Bible is often interpreted to today's time and era. In fact, Christian origins of denominations differ based on the country’s culture and way of practice. These days, anyone can have access to bibles, diff revisions, languages and interpret it compared to the Roman days
Torah and Quran are very much based on the old testament, and have lesser modifications and interpretations compared to the Bible. But there exist liberals and conservatives, diff ideologies, prophet's interpretations, cultural influences, political influences etc.
It’s tempting to simplify, but it's way more complex than that
decreased def if compared to the start of time, or the 400BC Peloponnesian War.
Likely, the more people communicate, the better they can understand each other and lesser friction. But - gov'ts are often opposed to unity as its easier to divide and conquer.
At some point, we will all be needing a Pablo-dictionary to understand Nostr =)
Missing a good amount of exercise this past week, i'm hoping to rush through the day and head out to play. Hope everyone has a wonderful day ahead!