notes on 20240919

lung-gom-pa You must be curious about what lung-gom-pa is. It is an ecstatic state: running in a trance, just like lungs-on-legs. Albert Camus: In the depth of winter I learned that there lay within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus: what if Sisyphus is happy? La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d’homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. The struggle itself towards the summit is enough to fill a man’s heart; you have to imagine Sisyphus happy....

September 19, 2024 · 4 min · un01s

who win?

Hope it will be proved wrong in the due time. The source is from Kate Manne. Three types of programming:

September 11, 2024 · 1 min · un01s

evolutionary biology: MS and ESS

Changes in assumptions: modern synthesis extended evolutionary synthesis the pre-eminance of natural selection reciprocal causation (organisms shape, and shaped by, selective and developmental environments) genetic inheritance inclusive inheritance random genetic variation non-random phenotypic variation gradualism variable rates of change gene-centred perspective organism-centred perspective micro-evolution macro-evolution For classical MS, the major directing or creative influence in evolution is natural selection, which alone explains why the properties of organisms match the properties of their environments (adaptation)....

September 8, 2024 · 2 min · un01s

rustup

Update rust $ rustc --version rustc 1.78.0 (9b00956e5 2024-04-29) $ rustup update $ rustc --version rustc 1.81.0 (eeb90cda1 2024-09-04) Start to play with Tauri: node.js + rust => GUI App. There are examples of deno and tauri. Another interesting thing is WebUI in C with WebSocket, that uses browser as the GUI.

September 7, 2024 · 1 min · un01s

the world versus me

This is from a tweet: knowing about architecture means buildings are legible in a different way; knowing about plants and birds makes hikes more stimulating, playing music makes listening to it richer, etc. However, it clicks with me from another perspective. To understand or to know the world better, we have to know some details and have to know it in one or many more abstracted ways. Yes, the world (so vast in both time and space) to us (so tiny, life is so short) is always abstracted one way or another for us....

September 6, 2024 · 2 min · un01s