29 MAY 2025 by ideonexus
Este es el Sol
Este es el brote que crece de la semilla y se oriente al Sol...
Esta es la semilla que viene del arbol y cae en la caca
que cayo al suelo a los pies de la zorra
que callada achecha a la incauta serpiente
que abre su boca y caza la iguana
que lanza su lengue y apresa a la arana
que teje su tela para atrapar al bicho
que se sienta en la hoja y come la flor
que epieza a brotar creciendo en el arbol
que hace su comida con la luz del Sol. 1 
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noteshis is the sprout that grows from the seed and faces the sun...
This is the seed that comes from the tree and falls into the poop
that fell to the ground at the feet of the fox
that silently stalks the unsuspecting snake
that opens its mouth and hunts the iguana
that darts its tongue and catches the spider
that spins its web to catch the bug
that sits on the leaf and eats the flower
that begins to sprout, growing on the tree
that makes its food with the light of the Sun.
16 OCT 2021 by ideonexus
Sports are Minimaxed to the Point of Boredom and Predicta...
Outcome maximalization across sports has created "smarter" games with less variety and more all-or-nothing play. The fixation with quantifiable success can lead to a collective flattening of the human experience. Perhaps we need to include more randomness in the game. Each home field or home court should have distinctive features, different playing surfaces, or outdoor elements. Think of how fun the wrigley field ivy is, or the boston green wall. Maybe put a dog or cat on the playing field.
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notesBasketball players only take 3-point and slamdunk shots based on science. Baseball players no longer steal bases. Science has made sports boring.
10 MAR 2019 by ideonexus
The Chess Stress Response
Another aspect of chess as a sport is the intense psychological and physiological exertion involved in a competitive chess game, and the crisis after the game. What sports science calls the "stress response process" is at least as powerful in chess as it is in more physical sports. When I say exertion, I am not referring only to the mental gymnastics of moving the pieces in our minds, but also the huge nervous tension that fills you before and during the game, tension that rises and falls wit...
1 04 NOV 2018 by ideonexus
Degenerate Strategies and Cheating
Why isn't using a degenerate strategy considered cheating? Degenerate strategies take advantage of weaknesses in the rules of a game, but do not actually violate the rules. What kind of player would play in this way? The answer is both a dedicated player, who is overzealously seeking the perfect strategy, and an unsportsmanlike player, who has found a hole in the rules to exploit, even though he understands that he is not playing the game the way it was intended. These two kinds of players ca... 1 notes
notesIs the same true of memorizing algorithms to solve the rubiks cube?
04 NOV 2018 by ideonexus
Player Types and Rule-Breaking
The Standard Player: This player type is a "standard" and honest game player that plays the game as it was designed to be played, following the rules and respecting their authority.
The Dedicated Player: This close cousin of the standard player studies the formal systems of a game in order to master and perfect his or her play of the game, often finding and exploiting unusual strategies in order to win. Examples: professional athletes, hardcore gamers.
The Unsportsmanlike Player: This third... 1 notes
notes20 MAR 2018 by ideonexus
20% Drop in Gun-Related Injuries During NRA Conventions
Among 75,567,650 beneficiary-period observations in the claims analysis, 14.3% occurred on NRA convention dates. The unadjusted rate of firearm injuries was lower during convention dates than during control dates (129 beneficiaries with a firearm injury among 10,883,304 persons [1.19 per 100,000] vs. 963 beneficiaries with a firearm injury among 64,683,254 persons [1.49 per 100,000]; P=0.004; relative difference, 20.1%; 95% confidence interval, 6.7 to 34.0). The findings were unaffected by ad...
1 20 MAR 2018 by ideonexus
1.8% of Gun Related Deaths in the Home Due to Self-Defense
To study the epidemiology of deaths involving firearms kept in the home, we reviewed all the gunshot deaths that occurred in King County, Washington (population 1,270,000), from 1978 through 1983. The medical examiner's case files were supplemented by police records or interviews with investigating officers or both, to obtain specific information about the circumstances, the scene of the incident, the type of firearm involved, and the relationship of the suspect to the victim. A total of 743 ...30 MAY 2016 by ideonexus
The Universe is a Dark Forest for Civilization
The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire a... 1 notes
notes28 OCT 2015 by ideonexus
The Old Ones
As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was “those ones”, or “the old ones”, though other terms had a local and transient use. Perhaps the bulk of the Puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation. Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth...Folksonomies: otherness
Folksonomies: otherness
09 APR 2015 by ideonexus
Humans are Like Deer in the Anthropocene
I asked Rooney about the remarkable ability of deer to thrive in their home range—most of the U.S.—while producing ecosystem simplification and a biodiversity crash. In his own studies of deer habitats in Wisconsin, Rooney found that only a few types of grass thrive under a deer-dominant regime. The rest, amounting to around 80 percent of native Wisconsin plant species, had been eradicated. “The 80 percent represent the disappearance of 300 million years of evolutionary history,” he s... 1 notes
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