Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo

@_awbery_

Talk with me about adult STEM learning, meta systematicity, martial arts, meditation.

Joined December 2016

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  1. Garuda, British museum, c. 18th century Via

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    I’d forgotten anout that thread, nice reminder. Also timely: I was watching this earlier today - you might find it relevant:

  3. I like Chernoff’s appealing and self deprecating humor. He’s still active, age 96!

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  4. The whole interview is delightful and funny and well worth reading for an understanding of the early days of statistics, how the field developed out of the second world war and into the 50s and 60s at Stanford and MIT:

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  5. Reading Chernoff in interview with Bather in 1996 and I learned that he attributes the Chernoff bound (exponentially decreasing bounds on tail distributions of sums of independent random variables) to Rubin.

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  6. Useful piece here on technical research, including good use of spikes in preparation for product change: from

  7. Thinking about preserving invariants rather than preventing problems makes you more systematic: Via

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    Dialecticus bananus

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  10. TFW totally engrossed in Hodges’ Turing biog, got to Bletchley Park and reading in horror about the rubbish state of 1930s British cryptanalysis and the doorbell rings and a book about female cadavers influencing the history of Tibetan buddhism arrives

  11. Some interesting stuff about the Gandharan manuscripts, from Richard Solomon

  12. How do you move from interesting ideas to substantive output? on the shitpost-to-scholarship pipeline:

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    Are you maybe remembering the snow death revenge scene in Kill Bill?

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  15. I'm surprised! I guessed the results would be different, with tech mindset and meditation more popular. I thought that way because 'Sutra to Tantra' seems more niche than meditating and working in tech.

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    Also the gear, I mean, I just love the gear. Especially the

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    @MAKETHUD might be able to help, I’ve only researched superficially so far. I found this video helpful: This guy seems to be the/a lead proponent:

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    Some photos from Iceland in the winter. These are quite old (shot on fast film).

  19. Finally killed the caretaker in Hearts of stone and phew, that’s a relief. Unpleasant personality, to say the least.

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