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Groundhog Day 4

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師奶是怎樣煉成的 2

Phil: What if there were no tomorrow?

Gus: No tomorrow? That would mean there would be no consequences, there would be no hangovers.

— Groundhog Day (film)

If there were no tomorrow, there would be no consequences.

If there were no consequences, there would be no tomorrow.

— Me@2011.06.12

If what you do had no consequences, you would have effectively no tomorrow.

— Me@2013.12.18

2013.12.18 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

師奶是怎樣煉成的

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I think the important thing about the real world is not that it’s populated by adults, but that it’s very large, and the things you do have real effects. That’s what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. They have no function for their form to follow.

— Why Nerds are Unpopular

— Paul Graham

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2013.11.19 Tuesday ACHK

Infinite loop 2

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Recursion 12.3 | Paradox 6 | Life as a recursion, 3

Paradox is due to the mixing of para-level (meta-level) and original level.

— Me@2012-09-29 02:22:14 PM

The mixing of levels creates a causal/reasoning loop, resulting an infinite long chain.

In short, infinite loop is due to mixing levels.

— Me@2012.10.15

If there is no progress or no terminating condition, a loop cannot stop.

With progress (change of some values of some variables), each iteration is different. In this sense, each iteration is at a different level.

Without progress, all iterations are at the same level, creating a mixing-level problem, aka “a paradox”.

— Me@2013-11-16 5:55 AM

Level 1: Life is a repetition.  /* an infinite loop */

Level 2: Life is an iteration.

Level 3: Life is a recursion.

— Me@2011.12.24

— Me@2013.11.16

2013.11.16 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Discovery

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厭倦 5 | 心懷混亂 3

being tired of something

~ no difference

~ nothing new

No distraction, no discovery.

— Me@2011.05.28

Sometimes, a little bit of distraction is a good thing, because it prevents your daily life from being 100 percent repetitions.

— Me@2013.11.15

2013.11.15 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Consciousness 4

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Event Realism 3.2 | 事件實在論 3.2 | Cumulative concept of time, 17.2

being conscious

~ having one’s own past information

~ having memory

~ having self-interaction

~ entanglement between past states and the present state

~ some of the past states keep existing through memories and records

~ past-self-and-present-self entanglement

— Me@2013-11-01 7:02 AM

2013.11.03 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Amazing Gags 6.2

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對牛彈琴 3.2

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「搞 gag」（弄笑話）可以，連繫起「超能人」和「平民百姓」的原因是，一方面，大部分人也沒有這種才華，只有「超能人」，才有能力創作笑話；另一方面，講出來的笑話，又一定要令，佔大部分人的「平民百姓」，都能毋須思考地，立刻明白。否則，那只是一個「冷笑話」。

「搞 gag」是一項要求苛刻的活動。

「搞 gag」的另一個不好處是，見光即逝。同一個笑話，不能向同一個人，講第二次。笑話不能回味，導致沒有前途可言。

面對同一個道理，你可能隨著年紀的增長，瞭解得越來越深刻。但是，面對同一個笑話，你不會因為時光的流逝，而覺得越來越有趣。簡而言之，笑話不可發展。

除非，你的笑話帶有道理 —— 笑話只是包裝，其真身是「人情」或「物理」定律。

— Me@2013.11.02

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2013.11.02 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Citizen of the universe

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[The happy] man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joys that it affords, untroubled by the thought of death because he feels himself not really separate from those who will come after him. It is in such profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found.

— Ch. 17: The happy man

— The Conquest of Happiness

— Bertrand Russell

2013.10.27 Sunday ACHK

A state of confusion

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Mathematics: What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?

You are comfortable with feeling like you have no deep understanding of the problem you are studying. Indeed, when you do have a deep understanding, you have solved the problem and it is time to do something else. This makes the total time you spend in life reveling in your mastery of something quite brief. One of the main skills of research scientists of any type is knowing how to work comfortably and productively in a state of confusion.

— Anonymous

— Quora

2013.10.17 Thursday ACHK

無限旅程 3.3

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厭倦 4

The main difference between humans and other animals is that humans have academic activities.

— Me@2011.05.08

人類和其他動物的主要分別是，人有學術活動。　

— Me@2013.10.14

2013.10.14 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK