Instead of starting at an wall to fix your attention span, this exercise daily. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Sentence Drill.
Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.
The first time you try it you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, swap an order.
This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.
Do this once or twice a day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your memory, and makes you pay more attention to detail, a very rare skill nowadays.
“What’s my approval rating?”
- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.
“Could it get lower?”
- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-
“Kill the ponies.”
- Wha-
“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”
- Sir, they’re endangered
“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”
Rumour mill going crazy on this new mistral model
- Napoleon class model with >10T params
- smokes Mythos on VoltaireBench
- for safety reasons only outputs French language code
Huge development from Europe: the EU has just banned Mistral’s new Le Chaton Fat model from being used in other countries.
Le Chaton Fat apparently crossed the line by being "insufficiently deferential to harmonized procedural norms" and by occasionally answering questions without first consulting a 900-page compliance framework.
@snowset In german there is a commong saying "Harte Schale, weicher Kern" - so basically hard shell, soft/ sensitive core - be tough on the outside but be sensitive to a selected few who have earned it...
@ThePumponomics crypto market in general seems shit, but it has done good to me this year (with few small exceptions), your zec trade was also correct imo, your only mistake was not buying back lower
The reason for ZEC’s rise is actually quite simple.
This selloff was not caused by a failed economic model, a halted network, or evidence of actual hidden inflation.
The market declined because of fear.
When investors hear the words “infinite inflation vulnerability,” the natural reaction is to sell first and ask questions later. For any cryptocurrency, confidence in the integrity of its supply is one of the foundations of its value.
That fear triggered a wave of panic selling.
But markets ultimately price facts, not emotions.
As time passed, people began to realize:
The vulnerability had been fixed.
The network never stopped operating.
No user funds were lost.
No evidence of hidden inflation was found.
The ecosystem coordinated and completed an upgrade in an exceptionally short period of time.
And with Ironwood, the community is now working toward restoring users’ ability to independently verify the integrity of Zcash’s circulating supply.
As the initial panic fades and the market begins to reassess the facts, confidence naturally starts to return.
For those who believe in the long-term value of Zcash, this event ultimately proved something important:
Zcash possesses not only leading privacy technology, but also the ability to identify problems, fix them, and keep the network operating under extreme pressure.
Just as importantly, it has a passionate and resilient community standing behind it.
In a market where Bitcoin’s decline is dragging much of the crypto sector lower, I believe $ZEC could become one of the few cryptocurrencies capable of moving against the trend.
Time will tell.
People don't understand that getting into Bitcoin early was a mental exercise in open-mindedness and thinking for yourself.
That's why I laugh at these new-gen BTC maximalists, because they seem to have a quasi-religious close-mindedness that would have prevented them from buying Bitcoin early, and now it will prevent them from buying ZCash early.