I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose โ which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981)
@SeffSaid "The school of adversity and stress what a school" wherein challenges and adversity make you better while the occational small success Pavlovian conditions your mind.
@pickover Kelvin is often better than Celsius because of wide use in thermodynamics etc. America could leapfrog europe in temperature units by widely adopting Kelvin. The other direction would be to start measuring temperature in "football fields" and "cow tails"... ๐ณ
@archi_tradition@AlexisLinant63 Would be interesting to see a psychological study comparing the happiness of people living in some soviet style block house vs great looking place like this. Like there is gotta be a difference. ๐ข๐ค
@PhilosophyDose_ Another high school math prof. Would get little bit mad when my "lazy" solution was just 2 lines of calculation because of just runing the magic factorization of: axยฒ+bx+rax+rb => (ax+b)x+(ax+b)r => (ax+b)(x+r) ๐คฌ๐
@PhilosophyDose_ My high school math professor would always say that great mathematicans are lazy - not lazy as in skipping learning - but rather as in doing the task the easisest way possible.