“After you’ve nodded the head forward a bit to open the throat, work to lift the head toward the sky as you also try to move it toward the wall behind you…without lifting the chin.”
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
― Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time
“When we make a neural net to distinguish cats from dogs we don’t effectively have to write a program that (say) explicitly finds whiskers; instead we just show lots of examples of what’s a cat and what’s a dog”
― What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?
― What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?
“As Joshua Jelly-Schapiro said one day, every map is a story, and by implication every story contains a map. I loved maps for a long time, but it wasn’t until I made them and put them out in the world that I discovered how not alone I was. People love maps. There is a special incandescent joy to how they respond to a good map that is different from the way I’ve seen people to respond to any other art form. They light up. They get greedily engrossed. They start tracing possibilities, thinking, interpreting, measuring: maps demand work, and this kind of cerebral work can be exhilarating. By a good map I mean an aesthetic one, a map that is an invitation to the imagination, a map that offers a fresh view of the familiar or an introduction to the unfamiliar or finds the latter in the former. If every map is a story, most of them are mysteries that invite you to solve them while remaining forever unresolved, in that they indicate more - more past, more future, more adventure, more travelers. They have an openness, indicating more than they depict.”
― Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
― Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
“A map is great if you’re the kind of person who prefers to walk roads that already exist.”
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“We can reflect on the fact that each of us is, in Otto Rank’s lovely words, a “temporal representative of the cosmic primal force.” We are all directly descended from, and consequently related to, the first living organism, as well as to every earth-dwelling creature that has ever been alive or will live in the future.”
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
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