Category:Journal
my on-going, mostly unedited stream of thoughts
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About happiness
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/ JournalRead More →: About happinessHappiness is not so much about what is happening today, what is happening now. I mean, everyone bumps into an obstacle sometimes, or has doubts about what to do at a certain moment… everyone is subject to have a bad day. And that’s normal. That’s life. Happiness is more about looking at the big picture.…
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LLMs em 1984
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/ JournalRead More →: LLMs em 1984Enquanto fazia minha releitura de 1984 hoje pela manhã, me deparei com o seguinte trecho: Foi virtualmente impossível para mim não pensar que George Orwell, sempre à frente do seu tempo, ao criar em sua ficção o versificador — um dispositivo capaz de produzir conteúdo criativo sem que nenhum membro do partido tivesse que se…
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The Schilda horse
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/ JournalRead More →: The Schilda horseI love this story. The citizens of Schilda possessed a horse with whose feats of strength they were highly pleased and against which they had only one objection — that it consumed such a large quantity of expensive oats. They determined to break it of this bad habit very gently, by reducing its ration by…
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What if words cost money to write?
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/ JournalRead More →: What if words cost money to write?I’ve never made a secret of how much I love to write. The fact I’m keeping this site for as far back in past as 2002 is proof of it. I write my thoughts, my opinions and ideas. I write short stories, and even notes and journal entries here. And I write all of these…
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Para ler quando estiver estressado ou ansioso
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/ JournalRead More →: Para ler quando estiver estressado ou ansiosoNavegar um mar de problemas pode parecer mais difícil do que realmente é. Se você está em um momento estressante, testa reduzir o zoom: 🔎 — afasta, afasta, afasta 🌎. O mesmo momento, um outro ângulo. Qual o tamanho do problema a longo prazo? Perspectiva pode transformar uma tsunami em uma gotinha — Podemos sempre brincar de mudá-la 🙂
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O homem injusto
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/ JournalRead More →: O homem injusto“Me encontre aqui no centro”, diz o homem injusto. Você dá um passo em direção a ele. Ele dá um passo para trás. “Me encontre aqui no centro”, diz o homem injusto. Traduzido do post do escritor A.R. Moxon. Fantástico.
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Overheating
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/ JournalRead More →: OverheatingWhen I mentioned in my latest weeknote, that the interior of the São Paulo state — where I live — was about to experience the second heat wave strike this year, and that the temperatures would be skyrocketed, I could never imagine this. By this, in both italics and bold, I mean temperatures coming up…
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Saudades of my grandmother
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/ JournalRead More →: Saudades of my grandmotherWith the All Souls’ Day way behind us now, I do regret not having taken the time to talk about my grandmother Amélia. She was by my and my sister’s side during our whole childhood, taking us to and bringing us from schools, the doctor and pretty much everywhere else while our parents worked. She…
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Persistent technology
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/ JournalRead More →: Persistent technologyI came across the Skeptics’ Guide to the Future, by Steven Novella, totally by chance this week. This book discusses how past futurists foresaw the future, arguing about what they got right or wrong, and this made me instantly start reading it. Among other things it argues how much people tend to underestimate how long…
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Infoxication
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/ JournalRead More →: InfoxicationWander around the web long enough and the chances are you’ll end up coming across the latest buzzword, the coolest terminology of the week, sometimes even of the day. Today I came across infoxication, a term I had never heard before. Infoxication, according to what I briefly learned, refers to the state of being overwhelmed…