def create_universe():
"""
In the beginning, there was nothing. And then, there was code.
The void is an empty canvas, waiting for the strokes of creation.
"""
void = None
universe = []
# Let there be light!
def bring_light():
nonlocal void, universe
light = True
void = not light
universe.append(light)
# The Dance of Chaos and Order
def chaos_and_order():
nonlocal void, universe
chaos = True
order = not chaos
universe.append(order)
# The Tapestry of Existence
def weave_tapestry():
nonlocal void, universe
beauty = "Meaning"
tapestry = f"Weaving {beauty} into the fabric of existence."
universe.append(tapestry)
# The Grand Design
def grand_design():
nonlocal void, universe
purpose = "To seek purpose."
design = f"Crafting a grand design: {purpose}"
universe.append(design)
# The Unraveling
def unravel():
nonlocal void, universe
void = None
universe = []
# The Code of Life
bring_light()
chaos_and_order()
weave_tapestry()
grand_design()
# The Final Act
unravel()
# Run the creation of the universe
create_universe()
Most posts I make on Nostr feel to some extent like a challenge. And I post them anyway. I enjoy that challenge. I write them in part *because* they are challenging.
I'm putting uncomfortable thoughts into the decentralized Nostr void to anyone who wants to host what I say on their relay.
That's why I'm here. I'm adding my thoughts to this medium to help advance it. I write here the things I wouldn't post to the normies on Twitter/X. Only on Nostr do I embrace my weirdness and inappropriateness. I analyzed this ecosystem, and decided that you, and only you, yes you reading this who took the time to be here, deserved to see my real or "based" thoughts to the extent that you care about them. And that includes my weaknesses. I've shown those in some of my recent posts, and I'll continue to show you my weaknesses here. I wrote about the times I got rekt in a fight and cried. I'll type that kind of thing out here, and only here, on Nostr, again and again.
If I post something intellectually polarizing I start to think, "what would my followers think?" But then I'm immediately like, "I don't know. Who cares. If they hate my truths here then were they even real my followers to begin with? Maybe they need to be challenged."
Meanwhile, I *do* care what you all think in aggregate, am willing to disagree with you individually on certain topics, but want to hear your thoughts. And I'm willing to change my views based on you. In fact, many of my Twitter/X posts are there over the past years because I want to see what people comment with before I write my full-on reports. The same is likely true for Nostr. This is raw ground. I want your thoughts. I won't bend my truths toward you, and I'll challenge you, as I expect you to challenge me.
So, if someone takes the effort to be on Nostr and some how reads this, I want them in my ecosystem. I want their criticisms as much as their praise. Criticize me here. I'll enjoy it. Let's go. You're awesome.
And then I'm like "What about my business contacts?" I have like these various billionaire institutional close contacts that are richer than me but have to wear ties to work. But I mean, if they are reading this right now, they are fucking awesome. I think, any of my serious existing business contacts who are cool enough to be here, are likely people I want to continue to work with. If they don't like what I say, they can bring it up with me. Otherwise they can appreciate my rawness here, and recognize that Nostr is where I post my random thoughts or my deep thoughts, and either of which are my raw thoughts.
My goal is to be real, and to advanced this protocol.
The day that far more people are on Nostr, is the day I will practice more public moderation. Until then, and that's probably far away, it's the medium where I will drop f-bombs and describe weird situations and thoughts. Let's go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPbu6TOx2E&ab_channel=JerisJohnson
this is an amazing post! π₯
#Authenticity becomes a precious rarity in a world where illusions often overshadow the genuine.
The future is here, not enough decentralised yet.
In the grand dance of #knowledge, #curiosity waltzes with #desire, #intuition does the cha-cha with #rationality, and amidst the tango of trial and error, #wisdom pirouettes with #serendipity.
use the rules to play a different game
Letβs talk #NOSTRS on #SimpleX and test it!
Rami Said Malek
The Best of the Father of Czech #Music. π¨πΏ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7kJp6suBMw
BedΕich Smetana (2 March 1824 β 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle MΓ‘ vlast ("My Homeland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem "Vltava", also known by its English name "The Moldau".
Smetana was naturally gifted as a composer, and gave his first public performance at the age of 6. After conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef Proksch in Prague. His first nationalistic music was written during the 1848 Prague uprising, in which he briefly participated. After failing to establish his career in Prague, he left for Sweden, where he set up as a teacher and choirmaster in Gothenburg, and began to write large-scale orchestral works. During this period of his life Smetana was twice married; of six daughters, three died in infancy.
In the early 1860s, a more liberal political climate in Bohemia encouraged Smetana to return permanently to Prague. He threw himself into the musical life of the city, primarily as a champion of the new genre of Czech opera. In 1866 his first two operas, The Brandenburgers in Bohemia and The Bartered Bride, were premiered at Prague's new Provisional Theatre, the latter achieving great popularity. In that same year, Smetana became the theatre's principal conductor, but the years of his conductorship were marked by controversy. Factions within the city's musical establishment considered his identification with the progressive ideas of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner inimical to the development of a distinctively Czech opera style. This opposition interfered with his creative work, and might have hastened a decline in health that precipitated his resignation from the theatre in 1874.
By the end of 1874, Smetana had become completely deaf but, freed from his theatre duties and the related controversies, he began a period of sustained composition that continued for almost the rest of his life. His contributions to Czech music were increasingly recognised and honoured, but a mental collapse early in 1884 led to his incarceration in an asylum and subsequent death. Smetana's reputation as the founding father of Czech music has endured in his native country, where advocates have raised his status above that of his contemporaries and successors. However, relatively few of Smetana's works are in the international repertory, and most foreign commentators tend to regard AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k as a more significant Czech composer.
Tracklist:
Minha PΓ‘tria
1. O Alto Castelo
2. O MoldΓ‘via
3. SΓ‘rka
4. Dos Prados e Bosques da BoΓͺmia
5. TΓ‘bor
6. BlanΓk
#Nostr is becoming a Monster of possibilities!
Endless possibilitiesβ¦
Nostr Implementation Possibilities - Features List
NIP-01: Basic protocol flow description
NIP-02: Contact List and Petnames
NIP-03: OpenTimestamps Attestations for Events
NIP-04: Encrypted Direct Message
NIP-05: Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
NIP-06: Basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase
NIP-07: window.nostr capability for web browsers
NIP-08: Handling Mentions
NIP-09: Event Deletion
NIP-10: Conventions for clients' use of e and p tags in text events
NIP-11: Relay Information Document
NIP-13: Proof of Work
NIP-14: Subject tag in text events
NIP-15: Nostr Marketplace (for resilient marketplaces)
NIP-18: Reposts
NIP-19: bech32-encoded entities
NIP-21: nostr: URI scheme
NIP-22: Event created_at Limits
NIP-23: Long-form Content
NIP-24: Extra metadata fields and tags
NIP-25: Reactions
NIP-26: Delegated Event Signing
NIP-27: Text Note References
NIP-28: Public Chat
NIP-30: Custom Emoji
NIP-31: Dealing with Unknown Events
NIP-32: Labeling
NIP-36: Sensitive Content
NIP-38: User Statuses
NIP-39: External Identities in Profiles
NIP-40: Expiration Timestamp
NIP-42: Authentication of clients to relays
NIP-45: Counting results
NIP-46: Nostr Connect
NIP-47: Wallet Connect
NIP-48: Proxy Tags
NIP-50: Search Capability
NIP-51: Lists
NIP-52: Calendar Events
NIP-53: Live Activities
NIP-56: Reporting
NIP-57: Lightning Zaps
NIP-58: Badges
NIP-65: Relay List Metadata
NIP-72: Moderated Communities
NIP-75: Zap Goals
NIP-78: Application-specific data
NIP-84: Highlights
NIP-89: Recommended Application Handlers
NIP-90: Data Vending Machines
NIP-94: File Metadata
NIP-98: HTTP Auth
NIP-99: Classified Listings
From now on, when someone asks me "What's #NOSTR" "How does Nostr work" "Why #nostr" "How to Nostr" etc, I'm sharing this link: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
#easy #asknostrn #plebchain #nostreducate #knownostr
Our Sun βοΈ loses over 4 million tons of mass every second (as energy) and yet it has enough mass to burn for an extra 4 billion years. π€― #TIL
βPanasonic offers the sd 512mb at $499.
Dont want to guess what the 1GB card would cost now.β
Ruins of a 3000-year-old Armenian fortress discovered in Lake Van, Turkey
The 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortification have been discovered at the bottom of Turkeyβs largest lake. The underwater excavations were led by Van YΓΌzΓΌncΓΌ YΔ±l University and the governorship of Turkeyβs eastern Bitlis Province.
The castle is said to belong to the Iron Age Armenian civilization also known as the Kingdom of Van, Urartu, Ararat and Armenia. The lake itself is believed to have been formed by a crater caused by a volcanic eruption of Mount Nemrut near the province of Van. The current water level of the reservoir is about 150 meters higher than it was during the Iron Age.
Divers exploring Lake Van discovered the incredibly well-preserved wall of a castle, thought to have been built by the Urartu civilization. Experts had been studying the body of water for a decade before it revealed the fortress lost deep below its surface.
never stop learning because #life never stops teaching
the only constant is #change
Complicated Thinking [:]
1. Complicated thinking involves analysing and interpreting information beyond what is immediately visible, considering multiple perspectives and potential implications.
2. Complicated thinkers possess deep levels of insight and intuition, allowing them to see things in multiple dimensions and uncover hidden meanings and connections.
3. Complicated thinkers tend to question assumptions, challenge established norms, and take risks, leading to breakthroughs and innovations.
4. Complicated thinking requires patience, creativity, and a willingness to explore new ideas and concepts.
How to deal with #complexity:
1. recognise which type of system you are dealing with
2. think βmanage, not solveβ
3. employ a βtry, learn, and adaptβ operating strategy
4. develop a complexity mindset.
βThe measure of #intelligence is the ability to #change.β β Albert Einstein #quotes
The first major attempt at establishing a true field of #artificialintelligence was the Dartmouth workshop in 1956. This would see some of the foremost minds in the fields of mathematics, neuroscience, and computer sciences come together to essentially brainstorm on a way to create what they would term βartificial intelligenceβ, following the more common names at the time like βthinking machinesβ and automata theory.
Despite the hopeful attitude during the 1950s and 1960s, it was soon acknowledged that Artificial Intelligence was a much harder problem than initially assumed. Today, #AI capable of thinking like a human is referred to as artificial general intelligence (#AGI) and still firmly the realm of science-fiction. Much of what we call βAIβ today is in fact artificial narrow intelligence (#ANI, or Narrow AI) and encompasses technologies that approach aspects of AGI, but which are generally very limited in their scope and application.
Most ANIs are based around artificial neural networks (ANNs) which roughly copy the concepts behind biological neural networks such as those found in the neocortex of mammals, albeit with major differences and simplifications. ANNs like classical NNs and recurrent NNs (RNNs) β whatβs used for #chatGPT and Codex β are programmed during training using backpropagation, which is a process that has no biological analog.
Essentially, #RNN-based models like chatGPT are curve fitting models, which use regression analysis in order to match a given input with its internal data points, the latter of which are encoded in the weights assigned to the connections within its network. This makes NNs at their core mathematical models, capable of efficiently finding probable matches within their network of parameters. When it comes to chatGPT and similar natural language synthesis systems, their output is therefore based on probability rather than understanding. Therefore much like with any ANN the quality of this output is is highly dependent on the training data set.
How David #Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes. π₯ π
Moodyβs (just after S&P) cuts US credit outlook from stable to negative. π #stigmata #economy