This is interesting. No doubt talking about their platform.
What’s the state of the industry now? What’s the community using and happy with? Any strong open source contenders? With what tool or framework should a person new to this start?
Evidently itself is an open-source ML monitoring tool with 3m+ downloads so it's fairly popular https://github.com/evidentlyai/evidently. The course will show it but also other OSS tools like Mlflow and Grafana.
Disclaimer: I am one of the people working on Evidently.
The Jungians have much to say about daydreams. It is an active form on exploration on topics the subconscious is wrestling with. They have techniques to induce and explore daydreams in a directed way.
“Inner Work” by Robert Johnson is a very approachable text. It focuses on using two technologies for personal growth: dream analysis and active imagination (basically day dreaming but you write it down and have a convo with your subconscious).
He warns the imagination one if you really get into it can be all consuming. Reminds me of MD as this guy is going thru it.
Might be worth talking to a Jungian therapist (or any therapist really). A Jungian might want to lean more onto the day dreaming to uncover a message if there is one as opposed to trying to “manage it”.
I daydreamed heavily when I was younger. A combination of isolation and ways to process hormones and unresolved trauma - what I discover many years later.
Every time someone says that therapy is worthless, I have to remember that Jungians (and Neo-Freudians) exist. Whereas whenever someone says a therapist has really helped, it's because they've been introduced to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for the first time.
I’ve found both to be very helpful at different times of life. There is such variety in the human experience-I don’t think one style of therapy can be beneficial for all.
I’ve been guilty of using timer apps but to squeeze in a session before work but it never works. That little anxiety stops me from going in all the way. Modern compromises I suppose.
My quality of life did greatly improved when I started waking up very early and invested in some hourglasses!
I was always a bit surprised to see these. At work, we used to have your classic Nespresso plasticy-cardboard coffee cups. They could be reused during the day, but you'd basically throw them away after a few uses.
Now we get some "eco" "compostable" ones. To my untrained eye, aside from the different color, they look and feel exactly the same. They even have a drawing on them that I interpret as "we kill turtles". Not sure how these can be considered "green". I'm also curious how healthy it is to drink a hot beverage out of them.
The eco cups are PLA. They are derived from a completely different source from the petrochemical plastics. While that doesn't on it's own make them completely safe, they likely have massively different properties from other plastics.
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The Allahabad high court was acting on a public interest petition filed by Sudhir Kumar, an activist, who said he had learned from media reports that the documentary Who Lit the Fuse? portrayed India’s 172-million Muslims as living in fear of the Narendra Modi government. He also alleged that it showed state agencies acting against the interests of Muslims.
On this basis, Kumar argued, the documentary should not be broadcast as it would disrupt social harmony.
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This documentary will “disrupt social harmony”, but numerous movies with a strong anti-Muslim sentiment (The Kashmir Files, Pathaan, and more…) do not? All movies must receive explicit permission from the government censor board in order to be released to the public. None of these movies had issues with disrupting social harmony?
And the reply from the court?
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“Considering the evil consequences that are likely to occur on the broadcast of the film … we are of the view that the broadcast be deferred pending consideration of the cause in the present petition,”
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What a sad state of affairs for a country that benefits so much from diversity.
Do you have any data you can reference to? Not every method to alter your mind is harmful.
And hypothetically, if there was a way to improve mental health at the expense of physical health, what is the right call here? Is there one globally optimal call? Who better to make this decision than the individual?
How much of inflation can be attributed to rent seeking and profit maximisation?
Economic theory suggests competition facilitates optimal pricing in the market. Given our landscape of mega-corps this factor is only going to become larger. In fact higher interest rates might even accelerate it by making it harder for startup’s and small businesses to compete.
There’s a book called “Excellent Sheep” that explores this idea as well. It’s been a while since I read it but roughly the premise was that all these “prestigious” organisations (they focused more on McKinsey et al) are another, maybe final, stage on a long ladder of structured excellence. AP/Extracurricular -> Ivy League College -> Consulting (or PE/IB) -> MBA -> ?
The path is well defined and optimises for essentially racehorses. The path is defined at each step, you bring the sweat and hours. Hope to make it through the filter to the next level.
The book ends with the question of what to do after the last rung of the ladder? How do deal with the existential crisis? To be on the ladder is to adopt an external value system. How to find yourself now? Liberate yourself from the golden handcuffs?
The professor who wrote that book, interestingly, ended up being denied tenure and was subsequently unable to get another academic job despite years of trying. Here's a recent podcast with him: https://www.persuasion.community/p/deresiewicz
It may not be the best thing in the world to be an "excellent sheep," but perhaps it's better than being a lone ram.
