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i think about this a lot there are a lot of things you will never do. you can only briefly touch the magic WHY DO WE LIVE

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

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chemistry, programming, and probably a few other fields of study are basically magic and if you don't do them in the real world you wouldn't do magic in a fantasy world either

5:14 AM · Oct 19, 2020Twitter Web App

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wow QC you dont need to own me so hard

acidshill

@acidshill

Oct 19, 2020

actually tho i do appreciate being owned

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Kimoto's Gravity Farewell

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This post is basically "you will never be Richard Stallman"

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Emily

@the_aiju

Oct 19, 2020

it’s only not magic if you don’t let it be magic

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Programming loses its luster after a while. It comes back periodically but not truly. The only thing that stays perpetually magical is neural networks

Berarom

@rerarom

Oct 19, 2020

curiously to me NNs were one of the things that never felt like magic I mean... what? scalar products? what do these have to do with Computers?

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Magic almost always has some somatic component or some relationship with the wizard that the sciences try their best to abstract out. Programming is almost universally bodily uncomfortable

would say, magic is an embodied skill

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tfw ur magic requires globalized colonial economic systems employing slave labor to destructively extract rare earth metals to assemble its material base... while sowing & growing plants, fermentation, & art can be practiced individually & regeneratively in any land...