"The SNSC notes that Aryanism is out of trend. But any transliteration from ancient language to modern global terms is trivial, so we are leveraging on the secular funding cycle's commitment to synth vibes. We've learnt from the Chinese the social importance of names that start with A. Moving forward, A-Iran will cement its leadership on administrative rosters everywhere."
The White House has signaled its intention to rebrand as A-America, in response.
It's time. I'm free enough today, and the industry is mature enough ( though still full of inefficient methods ) that I am starting to catch up on popular ML terminology.
It'll be interesting to see how much of this I will brain in a decade, so 2036.
The US has seven hostages on the world stage : Ukraine and the GCC.
Ukraine, the whipping boy, shields Europe from Russia. Grunts of indignation are heard, but annoyance with the US hasn't yet risen to a level resulting in its defenestration. It will take some time for the EU to bring itself to arms.
Having tired of playthings in East and South-East Asia, the US has been on a romp in West Asia for the past 35 years. The GCC are old friends, so they still have their phones, and are expecting to pay their regular installments for protection.
Back home, trouble is brewing. It would be remarkably theatrical to have regime change happen, Trump scapegoated, having been fed healthily by the GOP for a term and a half, and causation projected upon Iran's thirst for vengeance, with cabinet officials taking minor rebuffs for incompetence. The valley's puppet masters would have their chosen king, at least for a little while.
In all of this, the only party with obvious material capability to deter the US from causing more loss of human life is the GCC.
I've many friends and some family in the US, and I'm probably more culturally American than Malaysian. But in in objective terms, the moderate way forward for the world is with the GCC taking the initiative to realign the global axis of conflict, by discarding American influence, or at least tempering it down by 50-80% from the norms of the last fifty years. It's a snowball's chance in hell, of course.
What shall we see, this April? Stay tuned!
21 hours after posting this, I'm contemplating the hilarity of Europe cosying up to Iran in an attempt to woo the latter away from Russian influence. Situationships remain unfolding.
Market moves when money moves.
If you get cost-push inflation ( from reduced oil infra : it multiplies up the logistics chain ) you'll still be ok as long as there are jobs on the market - govs can print, and run the economy hot for a bit.
If at the same time financiers get cold feet and no one, not even govs want to spend, then you get mortgage collapses, and some real PE deflation. But this typically comes from popped bubbles - so for example, an AI paradigm shift, which hasn't happened yet.
Threads chat :
Well, you surely understand that in business, money follows trust. Trust follows people who want to appear to be trustable.
If you are a hermit, then you may not seek to appear to be trustable, even if it happens from time to time by accident.
LOL
AI governance and economic development in Malaysia, is said to be improved in formality soon. This will be good for business and public end-users and appliance innovators.
Unfortunately, nothing I have seen in Malaysia indicates that core R&D is happening around here. For that, the AI sector will need something like 2024's National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS) which is a matter of moving as far upstream as is reasonably possible, within a global context.
Malaysia wasted the early decades of semiconductor development. Hopefully it will not waste decades flopping around AI.
Awake again. Back at my desk. Year 4 begins today!
My struggle in recent months has been holding space for the crowds of idiocy that I surround myself with for anthropological purposes.
That is what happens if you allow compromises between caring for people, and learning how to be smart. The people will always consume more computation because there are too many of them, and they exponentially decay resource efficiency, because they are only interested in a small number of dimensions.
The popular ones of course are bread, circus, family, friends, and god. People who pursue these things are the reason the species persists at all, but as a side effect, the species produces wandering cells with limited empathy for the muscles.
Policy map
Geography
Play
- random thoughts of a cipher
We the majority, living and working outside of geopolitical professions, usually dwell on trade, civil justice, and daily life technologies, conveniently ignoring the greatest scope of force projections. The cope is understandable. Most of us barely have time to think beyond family and friends, about city and state, let alone regional and global politics.
Every few years we are reminded by a few niggling inconveniences, such as the halving of purchasing power, that a few dozen men and their few hundred lackeys work - without pause, over decades - subjecting millions to disease, famine, physical pain, and their subsequent cognitive effects.
But as soon as our inconveniences subside, say next year, or in five, we the majority will once more forget about life beyond the next Netflix'n'chill, family dinner, business deal, or rave.
Such is the state of education in this point in history. Incomprehensive.
RDF study : so far it seems to be a problem of verbosity, and overallocation of significance to the concepts of subject, predicate, and object. Since there are no fixed definitions for { S, P, O }, it follows that there can be no fixed definitions for the relationships { SP, PO, } ( and by extension, SPO ). So the whole thing is just pointers, as binary functions, stacked to the 1st and 4th degrees.
( informal syntax scribling )
OK, back to reading. Now I have to try and falsify my hypothesis about this.
Well, there are only two things in consciousness. Consciousness is information processes + qualia, and for this kind of discussion we can ignore qualia.
If mathematicians had a robust, quantified, understanding of how creativity works, from a phenomenological point of view, I am sure they might disagree that LLMs are not creative. Arguably, creativity is all LLMs do. ( Set union operations, associated with the Default Mode Network, synthetic thought. ) LLMs are simply bad at logic. ( Set intersection operations, associated with the Central Executive Network, analytical thought. ) But we have ATPs for that, so the parts are on the table, but they are not always put together nicely.
But what is the data? Well the data operated on by pure mathematicians is basically language ... the ability to discuss properties of language, and to identify unnamed behaviours of language, and to create new names and new grammar to discuss those.
If we go to applied mathematics, then we are simply back in the realm of physics, and we need to talk about machines have sensors, sensory data types that match human sensations, and then the ability to put that data in planes of space-time, and then to form and test hypotheses about that data.
I have not known impressive people, most of my life; but I have listened to many speak about their lives, and been friends with a few.
I have little interest in the political history of my country and planet, but I have spent now some months studying such things in public.
I have not been a foodie since decades past, but I would, and I did serve food in business. I do not think much of cars or clothing, but others do so I have studied such forms of thought and speech.
I find that life has little to offer, so it is in making a grandiose exhibit of nothing, that we partake of it in its fullness.
Check out these two pro-inflammatory ( immune-response stimulating ) and somnogenic ( sleep inducing ) cytokines ( signalling molecules ) :
Consider :
Oh fuck, nitric oxide helps sleep. I didn't note this before. I guess citrulline intake should be so-timed.
In parallel, I reviewed hydrogen sulfide (also a gasotransmitter). I have hadyears of allium consumption for therapeutic effect, without studying the mechanisms.
So they both sustains infrastructure for breath control, inflammation, immunity, sleep, and clock genes in muscle ... indicating the link between sleep and hypertrophy.
Fantastic.
US monetary policy studies :
CW : sexual heteronormativity
Men and women reject prospective partners in different ways.
In both situations, we find reactions which range from graceful to chaotic. So it is meaningless to pin fragility in relationships on either gender.
So ... in the general study of governance ( same root word as cybernetics ... both referring to control systems ) : auditability is a big deal.
If you don't have time to check everything a population of staff is doing, then you need a way to maximise proof of correctness. That's where various systems and system maintainers come into place. That's just what peoople will shift work to, since the lower level work is getting automated.
We don't lose jobs, we raise productivity ... if, and only if, work at the bottom level is increased fast enough, and safe enough, to grow the pyramid.
Frontend architecture drafts are coming together. On today's walk,
... this design probably implies a lot of bugs I haven't though about.
But I did think it would be cute, since the test is called Jonwik ( because it's not Qwik ), to call the broke Charon.
Do you think the { COR, PM } asks the muftis their opinion, or tells the muftis what to do? And do you think the muftis consider themselves legal servants of the former, or independent spiritual assessors of national order?
I think this is a fair, and polite question, that all Malaysians can benefit from in terms of understanding the formal structures of governance, and the distinction between what is culture from the top-down, and what is culture from the bottom-up.
As a proper noun ( kata nama khas ), Tanah Melayu is not literally "tanah milik Melayu", and does not have the semantic import of the latter.
This might sound controversial, but it's quite a conservative introduction to the topic :P I don't want to get into details here.
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Makin lama saya mengembara di medsos, makin saya sedar ada orang pikir nama Tanah Melayu membawa maksud tersurat, dan bukan hanya sekadar kata nama khas. Tapi rumit lah benda ini ...
Political maturity in Malaysia will happen when the majority can discuss things as follows, without catching feels.
( Habermas passed : a reverberation )
( still catching up here )
This is great ... in 2025, React and Vue, major brands both moved towards more build-time compilation of logic, imitating Svelte ( 2016 ). Vue Vapor is basically Svelte, and there is no Virtual DOM. React Compiler meanwhile automates caching of UI code ... which was very tedious because ( they just never bothered to auto-nuance it before, and UI components would frequently thrash the virtual DOM ).
Also, Qwik framework ( 2023 ) optimises mainly for lazy-loading JS based on what's on-screen. So I guess everyone's under pressure to work towards doing it now.
The last time I reviewed FE frameworks was 2020 ... and I must say, in theory, the 2026 situation no longer makes me immediately think the frameworks are stupidly written.
If you were intrigued by Marc Andreessens's recent Freudian slip, where he claimed to have no "introspection" yet defined it as "guilt", do consider the attached model of conscious and subconscious interaction, for amusement.
It's not that complicated.
Kubernetes :
mainly Linux :
orchestrates node pools ( roups of hosts, with the same configuration ), and pods ( groups of containers, on the same host ) :
/ smallest overheads /
: control plane, [ 600 MB ],
: data plane, per-host agent, [ k0s, k3s @ 150 MB ], [ EdgeCore @ 80 MB ]
: applications get run IN data plane CONTAINERS
OpenTelecomPlatform/Erlang :
application platform is OS agnostic :
orchestrates P2P clusters ( OTP VMs on any host, which are linked to each other ) :
/ smallest overheads /
: BEAM VM [ minimal startup flags @ 16 MB ], [ stripped compilation @ 5 MB ]
: AtomVM [ microcontroller scale, e.g. ESP32 @ 100 KB ]
: these register-based VMs run INTERPRETED bytecode applications, though there also exists BeamAsm which does JIT compilation
Design a virus. Not exactly, but I think I need computers to be able to grow and shrink their hardware infrastructure. Typically nowadays we just refer this as scaling out a CLUSTER, by increasing or decreasing its number of hosts. Yes, hosts, the pun is real.
Anyway, that being done, new hosts need to be running relevant cluster orchestration applications. Cluster orchestration then federates hosts, into fabric, thereby enabling the cluster to increase its function as a single brain / network.
I shall need to get down to this. Once I am comfier with provisioning and orchestration, I will feel comfier about writing the actual applications for general computing.
( My comment on Marc Andreesen saying he has "zero introspection". )
It's not that complicated. In 2026, it's called using the DMN, which is part of the Triple Network Model of the brain.
;) YMMV
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It's a tell, that he associated "introspection" with "guilt/ social anxiety" 🤣
Too obvious
Until 2020, I mostly ignored studying IETF protocols in detail. In 2009 I hired a physics graduate off Facebook ads ( client had a limited budget ) and he became our CTO, introducing me to Model-View-Controller ( MVC ) web application architecture. Later I learned there was a whole cluster of variations about such architectures, mostly trivial. Today I'm studying HTTP caching, and revising what I understand.
An initial HTTP Request, from a HTTP User, is expected to go via a HTTP Client, to a HTTP Server, which Responds in the heuristic of HATEOAS, to provide the client with Hyperlinks to Resources. Conventionally, the client's initial request is a GET ( verb ).
REQUEST HEADERS USED IN CACHING
RFC 3986 defines Internet resources ( the "R" in URL ) as *nouns*. Theoretically, a single URL should respond with a resource at a single Path, but it may present that resource differently based on Query Parameters. A client's initial HTTP Request : may or may not specify, a demand for raw- or rendered-data. If this context is not specified, the server may have its own reasons for deciding how to Respond.
In 2026, to optimise memory hierarchy, we have the noun phrases : SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR, ESR, SWR, etc. This leads us to seek optimal caching mechanisms for both raw- and rendered-data. A vaguely defined resource might correspond to a complex set of raw-data, and correspondingly a complex set of rendered-data.
( Singaporean Malays started a trend, lol. )
What a healed Malay community means to me ( a Chinese Malaysian )
Life in general is boring. Here are some daily adventures, in search of aha-moments, which demonstrate what is commonly called patience.
Group 1 : C, Java, Rust :
{ Expensive, Fast, Preemption } :
kernel-space "OS" thread scheduling :
Single-box-optimised : best raw performance potential under such limitations : scaling-out requires some reinvention, lacking best-in-class-reliability.
Group 2 : BEAM/OTP, Haskell, Go :
{ Cheap, Slow, Preemption } :
user-space "green" thread scheduling :
Web-scale-optimised : BEAM/OTP has best-in-class-reliability, but trails in raw performance until scale-out overtakes scale-up. ( Go has a generalist position; Haskell is more for research; neither of these have BEAM/OTP's unique quality. )
Group 3 : Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, WebAssembly :
{ No Preemption i.e. Only Cooperation } :
global interpreter lock :
Beginner-optimised : best for prototyping : quickest to learn : good-enough for single-box setups : scaling-out requires some reinvention, and lacks both, best-in-class-reliability, and raw performance potential.
Or, in business we simply say we cannot manage what we cannot count. ("Do what?", depends on "what exists?".)
Of course here, I'm referring to the constitution of Malaysia as the point of introduction of [ ethnic economic discrimination ].
In case it wasn't clear : my point is that Malaysia is stuck with this [ kedukaan sebangsa Malaysia ] , so you can't fix the little legal microaggressions like daily coloured-treatment, unless you fix the constitution altogether.
Too bad. Malaysia boleh!
Successful date : paraphrased
1. This is modern dating : not all conversations involve meeting up.
2. A date is great, if the outcome establishes information.
As I was explaining to a critic : the point of dating is not to close deals, but to close the better deals.
If Malaysia raised hospital prices from RM 1 -> 10 : 20.26 MM * RM 9 / 45300 MM = 0.4% of KKM's budget
The structural problem :
( dari ulasan FB, mengenai mutu pendidikan STEM di Malaysia ) saya ada prasangka besar terhadap penggunaan bajet KPN lol. Ia memang terpulang kepada kaedah operasi dan pengatucaraan logistik - adanya cekap atau tidak. Kecekapan dalam setiap sekolah mempunyai faktor yang berbeza, maka senibina pengajaran keselurahan adalah rumit.
Memang saya tidak turun padang - rakan sekelas sekolah menengah saya yang terasa dengan masalah ini, pernah membuka program TFM, contohnya, tapi itu bukan kerjaya saya.
Memang saya seorang yang kurang bersifat nak menyusahkan diri bagi menyelamatkan negara. LOL. Tapi bagi tujuan persediaan pendirian saya sahaja, saya buatlah kajian sendiri mengenai kecekapan pelbagai aspek senibina pendidikan.
Kesimpulan saya yang mungkin salah : KPN sejak dulu-dulu sudah berbajet tinggi. Tapi kesannya berjuta-juta MYR telah songlap melalui perbelanjaran operasi dan modal yang tidak wajar, tapi benda ini susah di-MACC-kan.
Local test enviroments :
SAM uses (RuntimeInterfaceEmulator|RIE), SLS uses ... buttfuckall, no one has a name for it, it's not RIE, but it does the same thing.
- (ServerlessApplicationModelSAM),
- (ServerlessFramework|SLS)
Alternatives are LocalStack, et al.
Deployment tools :
... they are all wrappers for CF ... and CF is just a wrapper for the AWS API, so the most minimalist approach turns out to be to script against the AWS API directly.
- SAM,
- SLS,
- (CloudDevelopmentKit|CDK),
- (CloudFormation|CF)
Alternatives are Terraform, Ansible, et al.
A tangent on the personality-skew of Malays.
Upon this post, a Threads friend, a practicing Muslim, said they weren't fond of support for the conservative legal system. To which I joked,
"I think it's a personality thing. Regardless of choice of creed ...
- a) some people like jerking themselves
- b) some people like to be whipped
:D"
To which they said they suspected it was a "... Malay thing because the way they put themselves beneath everyone else ..." etc.
To which, I responded, not-intended as a joke :
"Being subby + mengamok in Malay culture has had anthropological attention.
- 1. Hypothesis that living in the non-hurricane + non-ring-of-fire + non-desert has setup a comfortable environment and thus culture.
- 2. The introduction of Islam as an ideology of self-restraint has a deep interaction with 1., which may of course have both healthy and pathological modes.
- 3. The pathological mode of 2., is excessive restraint without reasonable support structure, increases risk of explosive release."
Then we talked further about downstream public policy, and how it has shaped knowledge, culture, and daily tendencies for all Malaysians.
"- "common sense" is a notion that disregards cultural structure- going into the structures, it seems you prefer a different culture- structures are built from various factors ( discussed above in our chat )- a lot of the structure in Malaysia is authoritarian, which aligns with the Mahathir era of Malaysia's development ( he wasn't a cleric, but clerical developments advanced in parallel with his public policies )"
Malaysian public narratives are on edge with religious political polemic. From 30,000 feet, you should have in mind that :
A robot that does science needs to have :
It'll be a while ... but we'll get there :) I have no doubt about it.
Ok, I figured out what is unclear about AWS IAM policy grammar. It is about the implementation of the { subject, { predicate, object } } triple /triplet /3-tuple.
TIL / TIAR : POSIX Kernel's Virtual File System : VFS
While [ reading ] and [ writing ] to [ files ] are abstract operations, the file's [ inode : index node ] has metadata , which tells the kernel to [ handle the file in one of 7 standard ways ] :
in RAM :
elsewhere DRIVEN :
Apology :
Sorry : c. 1200
... I need to remember this the next time people start discussing the philosophy of apologies lol.
TOTALLY VALID TO SAY SORRY TO EXPRESS SADNESS WITHOUT REMORSE
LOL
Bab budaya Malaysia. Bagi saya, seorang yang lebih mementingkan hak individu daripada keseragaman masyarakat, budaya Malaysia hanya cantuman semua kegiatan warganegaranya. Termasuklah yang bercanggah antara satu sama lain.
Selalunya orang yang tak suka perangai ini akan kata, lebih baik saya keluar Malaysia. Sebenarnya ramai orang macam saya duduk di sini bukan kerana cinta, tapi hanya kerana malas.
Penyumbangan orang macam saya kepada budaya Malaysia berdasarkan ciri kemalasan itu. :P
My comment below is a response to this : I will post the original text below in case the image gets lost :
You need to slow down a bit. Let me break it down to a structural approach for you.
1. We live in a constitutional ethnocracy, with constitutional guarantees for unequal access based on ethnicity, and we define the privileged ethnicity as a subset of a certain religion. All this is weird ( see other country constitutions ) but it's simple legal fact.
2. You can only change this by parliamentary 67% majority ... and for some items you can only change this with the approval of the COR / council of rulers. In politics there is no such thing as impossible. It is business. You give something, you get something. So next we can go and ask who wants what, and what are they willing to give.
3. But before that, some structural stuff is changing : Sabah and Sarawak are OTW to getting 35% of parliamentary seats ... this is in order to guarantee that they can block any constitutional amendments ( 100 - 35 = 65 < 67 ). That further means that you need another ( 67 - 35 = 32 ) percent of support from Malaya for any changes which are also 100% supported by Borneo. That's 50% of Malaya + 100% of future Borneon parliamentary seats can change the Constitution. Implementation will surely be messier than that ... bit more here, bit less there etc.
4. Back to what parliamentarians want. If we adopt the fiction that parliamentarians represent the marhaen, then the real question is what do the marhaen want. Well Malaysia has been poor forever. Literally SINCE BEFORE MALAYA ... and we are STILL POOR. You can't sugar coat this with a few shiny towers ... quality of life in Malaysia is POOR. And this is why ... PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY AND ANGRY IN POLITICS.
Until we fix endemic poverty and structural barriers to economic growth ( party A will say it's too much religion, party B will say it's too many pendatang, whatever ) ... people will not agree. Not because of facts, but because poor people are stupid, and easily angered, and it's not their fault ... they are being abused.
5. We can leave 'what does the COR want' to a longer fantasy discussion. But of course, they have constitutional duties to protect Malay imperialism. But even that changes over the arc of history ... what Malays want will change ... every 50 years ... we don't know what it'll be like. But if you are interested in nation building, it's certainly the sort of thing you should have DEFINITIVE MODELS for.
Hope this helps. I hope folks will teach their kids this from the ages of 8-18, it would give us a lot more informed voters who are interested in structural study of the nation.
🙂
Original post which I commented on :
Anon :
Malaysia is getting from bad to worst everyday.
problem stems from the fact that we, as a country, never had a rountable of discussions regarding all these issues at the highest levels. All of our problems, which leads to more structural problems, can be traced to:
- the status of NEP and special rights of bumiputera. This needs review urgently. They have been abused, time and time again, to enrich cronies in the name of "bumiputera equity" - which leads to insolvency of many politically connected companies, and complete embezzlement of state funds.
- enforcement of quota for non-bumis and lack of meritocracy in public sector as well as public education.
- the status of SJK schools, that are allegedly counterproductive towards racial unity. They need not be abolished, only reviewed. Nons are concerned with lack of quality as well as creeping islamism in national schools, malays are concerned with creation of fifth column/lack of integration in the society. These problems are not mutually exclusive.
Why we suck, as a nation, is because we never want to DEAL with these problems openly like mature adults. Every time these topics is brought up, they are completely shut down by two words: isu sensitif. Mengganggu sensitivit agama, mengganggu sensitiviti kaum. They will never be solved so long as they remain sensitive issues. These are codewords for sweeping all these shit under the rug. Also, most damningly, issues 1 & 2 will never be allowed to be tabled/discussed/questioned openly, since they are the very pillars that created the power structure that we have in Malaysia. It is in a lot of powerful people's interests (royalties, politicians, state apparatus) that issues 1&2 remain isu sensitif and swept under the rug for all eternity.
Unfortunately you cannot ask politicians to solve these issues for us. What happens when you ask them to do so? Well they will find a way to line their pockets whilst giving you empty sweet promises, like they have been doing for decades. The people must come forward and discuss this themselves, at the highest possible public forum, and get it sorted with a referendum. If you ask the politicians, they will simply shut it down by labelling it isu sensitif. At best, they will just delay real reforms and they have a lot of excuses to do so, chiefly not having enough parliament supermajority to pass legislation (even if they do, no one is gonna table it, it will be political suicide, remember, MPs are mostly self-serving). It's very much in their best interests to keep the status quo. That applies for SJK schools as well, which probably needs some kind of review/update/expansion. However in my opinion, issues 1&2 are the most important and urgent to prioritise, since they affect almost everyhing in Malaysia.
We have the politics that we deserve, because we suck as a people. We are like kids, not mature adults. We cannot discuss these issues without someone threatening violence, 13 may, and keris and parang (just mentioning it will make people lose their shit, how childish is that?). And because of this, we will forever remain backwards. You can thank the majority who want to keep it that way. You have to wait until they grow the fuck up, which might take decades judging from facebook, threads, and tit tok comments.
I was talking to a friend of mine ( a self-identified bleeding heart ), about their work, in the care of other emotional wrecks. It made me think about the nature of emotional triggers, and the skew which is commonly observed. Here are some common ones. Each of these is expressed differently in women and men.
etc.
This is a good launchpad for a broader study, later.
The fun thing about consciousness is that people throw the word around like it means a lot ... well it doesn't unless you spec a def ... it has like three of four major definitions which are wildly different based on the context.
Roughly :
2025 Working paper by BNM on Syariah ontology of modern money, and relevance to CBDC
https://www.bnm.gov.my/documents/20124/826852/ahmad-et-al-2025-wp325.pdf
Here, BNM appears to take an EITHER-OR stance on the ontology of money :
** THIS IS INCREDIBLY NAIVE **
In modern monetary use, each transaction is a CONTRACT between THREE parties.
I skimmed the paper, and may go back for a deeper read later.
Ini merangkumi perdagangan, STEM, dan kesenian.
Pendapat saya sahaja.
- pendakwah kekasaran
On 50% sleep today. Most operations were as usual, being rather unviolent activities. No running, no gym. Just clearing the backlog of reading at the desk, food, and a walk. The walk is a recently imposed routine - for DMN exercise.
During higher resistance activities, I think the CEN is dominant - jogging is not done in a safe place, so it is essentially an hour of risk management. Walking, apparently I can manage at a lower risk-level. I schedule in 8k steps per day, per conventional guidelines. I think I can do some other things during DMN time : I can do twisty puzzles and study knots while walking, or replace walking with skateboarding or cycling. I have been back at this for a few days, and I am still thinking about how it works.
I was raised in a tradition of doing daily "quiet times" for religious practice - I don't practice that now. In college, I walked a lot, and had plenty of time to think about things without risk. 2005 to 2015 was a mixed bag : a lot of CEN drills, with weekends, in a sense. Work between 2015 and 2020 was highly focused on CEN stuff, being on foot all shift, from 8 to 36 hours at a go, and on-call 24-7. So I suppose it is appropriate to force this sort of thing back into my schedule, for balance of mental conditioning.
From what I can tell the "quiet time" or more concretely, DMN exercise, is helping to normalise dopaminergic tonality, the baseline signal. This makes it easier to exercise active/phasic dopaminergic activities during CEN work for the rest of the day. Proper dopaminergic form vis-a-vis CEN helps with the rate of reading and integratign new information, to a non-trivial degree.
Rather hypothetical at this stage.
CENSORSHIP has been a grand government of Malaysia tradition ( at least during my life which began in the 80s ), which continues!
What Malaysia NEEDS is a publicly auditable PROCESS ( accompanied by an easily-understood flow-chart ) ... which illustrates the steps taken between :
This is so that JUSTICE maybe EFFORTLESSLY SEEN to be DONE, not merely done.
( - taking a brief moment, to comment on current affairs, though I'm in the middle of some history of linguistics thing rn )
Good, but historically, the EPF doesn't seem to have provided the sort of basic security net available in more robust economies. We continue to rely on C2C aid, which exacerbates parochial family / race / sub-group polarity, rather than putting a focus on collective national wealth, which fuels permanent social security payouts.
SARA etc. type helicopter money programs are hopeful experiments, but certainly not a comprehensive plan. I look forward to more expansive policies integrating
Kebanyakan orang tersalahfaham peranan perundangan dalam masyarakat.
Perundangan bukan paksaan mencapai persefahaman dalam semua hal, dan tidak bertujuan untuk memupuk apa-apa perasaan seperti kasih sayang ataupun kesetiaan.
Sebagaimana pun perundangan adalah mekanisme yang membolehkan pelbagai pihak yang berbeza, yang saling kejahilan, yang takut/ benci/ kecam antara satu sama lain ... dapat bersefahaman pada tahap yang minimum bagi perpaduan tanpa kebinasaan, sahaja.
Jadi, perundangan menjadi dasar kemasyarakatan, dan akar ini tidak bergantung kepada sebarang kepercayaan, harapan, perasaan, pendirian, kejiwaan, intuisi, ataupun ketidaksengajaan yang berasal sebelum kewujudan perjanjian ( dikatakan kontrak ) sebegini.
Unpopular opinion : "punish everyone who offends a religion" <- this is a protocol for settling playground disputes.
Everyone who becomes emotionally disregulated as a result of someone else's speech lives in a sort of disabled space ... and what we are condoning as a society, is the normalisation of disability, and mitigations for it, instead of focusing on how to enable the population to be emotionally regulated.
I grew up in this society expecting to go to jail for this lol
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Probably why I will never fit into Malaysian society haha.
It's like living in 28 days later. Every day you kinda just wander out and try to figure out how to interact with the infected.
Some will say "you should leave Malaysia". I think, we are all here as pendakwah. It's just that tujuan dakwah kita semua berbeza.
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On the topic of chauvinism : being a pendakwah of any sort implies you are a chauvinist. It's material implication :P
Unpopular opinion : new Malaysian towns are often designed wrong, because the two prime examples of Py and Cy set poor standards for usability.
Symptoms
( It's ok to have unpopular opinions which are also wrong, as a starting point for discussions on what the right answer should be. )
A comment on this post.
UK : ... summary, PM controls AG + PP, and Parliament controls Judges
[ PM -> AG -> CPS -> PP ]
and [ Parliament -> JAC&O -> LC's power to deny recommendations -> Crown stamps judges ]
MY, proposed : ... summary, PM controls AG + Judges, and YDPA controls PP
[ PM -> JLSC -> PP candidates ], [ YDPA -> PP selection ]
and [ PM -> 5/9 majority of the JAC and power to deny recommendations -> YDPA stamps judges ]
Seems like an improvement in power for the Malaysian YDPA/COR - whose role and responsibilities in the Malaysian constitution are starkly different from those of the Crown in the UK. The COR in Malaysia represents intra-Malaysian Malay imperialism, which a uniquely Malaysian phenomenon. ( I defer comment on whether this is good or bad for the rakyat. ) The COR is always a sort of fourth branch of government, thought it is more formally the root, via its traditional { listen, encourage, warn } role.
My personal feelings are that the COR hasn't done enough over the years, and hasn't been active in reconciling issues with the PM, before they hit the public. This is of course speculation from my unprivileged point of view, informed only by public communications.
Stopping here before I prattle on lol
Sebenarnya, para ateis & agnostik
Yang lebih bersifat fizikalisme
Ada juga yang lain sifatnya. Mestilah satu pos tak menyeluruh. Nak mengaji budaya ini, boleh start lah dari sini.
Asalkan kita bermuhibah dalam kepelbagaian rakyat kita, demi penyelenggaran negarakita.
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Started amping up the reverse dakwah pressure on medsos. Will see how loud it can go before it gets swatted by EUBI or something like that. LOL
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Responding to a query about the definitions above for right and wrong :
"My friend in legal studies, this is literally a test post to see if how sensitive EUBI enforcement is. I think I can defend posting this in court. I don't know how the government wants to handle it - there are so few tests!
Back to your question : that leads us to the general study of secular ethics, which is greatly documented. Can chat more. Unrelated to my post, there are NGOs for philosophy in Malaysia also ..."
Governance long game :
And before AI is granted legal personhood :
( These notes were in response to a comment that we should test AGI by seeing if it can reinvent general relativity. )
That's noT how it works, however. You need to give the system access to empirical inputs, not just library sources.
Scientific theory development is based on both
1. an existing theory
2. empirical observations that appear to falsify 1, leading to calibrated attempts that produce new theories with or without further experimentation
"GR was hypothesised from thought experiments, not empirical experiments"
2.1. Thought experiments are done with spatial processing, not with stochastic parrots. The processing algorithm has to actually do physics, including spatial simulations in thought. LLMs don't do that, LLMs only process data structures which are semantic, not spatial. You need spatial data structures in thought, to do spatial simulations in thought. Industry will do more soon.
2.2. All of the former is based on reflection on empiricial observations
1. I was waiting for public clouds to launch them, and was very happy when Lambda GTM-ed. I developed on it for a bit, just for fun.
2. The quickest roll-your-own seems to be : k0s + kNative + alpine, or something like that. I had a brief look at this last year, without getting very far into tests. The overhead for such a system is also non-trivial ( 1+ vCPU, 1+GB ) compared to an application-level system such as in Erlang/OTP.
3. At this point I might actually need to go lower, in order to brain the resource minimisation limit. Maybe it is a matter of building a toy with Rust + cgroups.
Sometimes I feel that life is wasted on little things. But I can't find any big things worth doing, so the little things have it.
Oi, "liberal arts" bermaksud
✅ "kemahiran bebas" lah
... iaitu persekolahan bagi wargakota bukan hamba yunani kuno ... bukan
❌ "sastera bebas"
❌ "kesenian bebas"
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✅ "kemahiran kebebasan"
✅ "kemahiran warga bebas"
probably more accurate
TIL : the GABA neurotransmitter is greatly involved in suppressing the [ Default Mode Network, DMN ], an operation which is required for control to pass to the [ Executive Control Network, ECN ] ... hence the link between GABA boosters like barbiturates and executive function disorders, such as those of the Autism spectrum.
In college I figured out how to quantify conscious experiences. Now I get to learn about how the experiences are controlled. Fun.
Studying complicated structures, with multiple overlapping control planes, such as the nervous system : I find it is useful to read first
Resolved tasks from over two decades ago :
Today perhaps, to read about calcium's interaction with everything else.
First interesting find of the day : the atherosclerotic contributions of Ca2+ are due to its intracellular action resulting in vasoconstriction. In a functional feedback loop, the intracellular Ca2+ concentration THEN triggers NO release which antagonistically leads to vasodilation. So to some degree, the athletic benefits of NO's vasodilatory effects, actually require Ca2+ to function properly.
Second interesting find : Ca2+ moderation is also essential for optimal functioning of the raphe nuclei's serotonergic neurons, affecting wakefulness, sleep, and the overall serotonergic system, associated with diseases of mood ( depression, anxiety, OCD, schizophrenia, etc. ) and CO2 sensitivity ( normal : panic if CO2 is too high ).
Third interesting find : Ca2+ competes with Mg2+ for gut absorption, so I should just park Mg2+ in the bread recipe, and Ca2+ in the kimchi recipe, separately.
Fourth : Ca2+ contributes in mitochondrially complicated ways to energy production. When Ca2+ levels are normal, calcitriol ( final form of vitamin D ) will increase fat burning, but if Ca2+ levels are pathologically low, more calcitriol will lead to fat accumulation instead.
( Also today, after yesterday's supplementation of ~500mg Ca2+ I found that there was less need for caffeine upon waking. That makes sense. I will continue to monitor this. )
