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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
This poll is giving me flashbacks to the time I tried to synthesize para-toluene sulfonic acid (p-TSA) and ruined it after days of effort by trying to use acetone to dissolve it to get it out of its flask... needless to say i wound up with something else entirely. Solvents arent too useful when they actually react with that which it solves :)
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What is your favorite solvent? #Chemistry
Forgiving people who have wronged you, and even going so far as to apologize for your own lesser mistakes, can be quite powerful for your own mental health I find. Now to be clear, this doesnt mean you let them get away with it or hurt you again, distance yourself as needed and dont stand for a repeat, but you can do that and still forgive.
You cant control how they act, and perhaps they had little real control, perhaps its just the illusion of control. Either way, thats not your problem, thats for them to grow from or not, to learn from their mistakes. The only thing you are responsible for is learning from **your** mistakes, and admitting them is not admitting a greater guilt. No matter how much they may have done wrong, focus on how you responded to it, how you provoked it, how you caused wrong, worry about learning to improve your actions and let go of the rest.
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I mean... Pharmaceutical drugs are meant for treating the ill- but are used for recreation. Genitalia are meant for procreation but we have porn. Lightbulbs were meant to light up rooms- but we have blacklights to add glow to dark rooms. Computers were not meant for gaming- but these days it's one of the main reasons people get one. Certain venoms are meant to kill/paralyze prey, but modern science has re-applied them for medical treatment.
Supposedly Nazis invented the microwave. If that is true- I don't think it was made with all the people that use it today in mind...
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“Einstein struck a more serious pose when he addressed the Caltech student body near the end of his stay. His sermon, grounded in his humanistic outlook, was on how science had not yet been harnessed to do more good than harm. During war it gave people “the means to poison and mutilate one another,” and in peacetime it “has made our lives hurried and uncertain.” Instead of being a liberating force, “it has enslaved men to machines” by making them work “long wearisome hours mostly without joy in their labor.” Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science. “Never forget this when you are pondering over your diagrams and equations!”” —Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
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I am probably one of very few people who can be driven to happy tears from Einstein quotes...
Damn my music player's shuffle is on point today. Apparently it finally found the magickal psudorandom seed it needed to make my life perfect :)
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I have always strongly said guns dont kill people anymore than spoons make people fat.
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+1 to that, on a similar note, not sure if this my view here is right.
Even though I am no way a gun expert, i would argue guns don't kill people , people kill people with guns, either intentionally or through misuse.
Same as cars, leave the hand break off, car rolls down hill and kills someone,
I think in San Francisco it is a requirement to turn the wheels in a certain way when parking so that does not happen on hills should the breaks fail.
> Who's to know if your soul will fade at all?
> The one you sold to fool the world
> You lost your self esteem along the way, yeah
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> You should know that the lies won't hide your flaws
> No sense in hiding all of yours
> You gave up on your dreams along the way, yeah
-- Seether, Fake it
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Seems like it kinda goes down to how people use social media,
which going by this thread is probably linked to countries, culture and the attitude of that countries population generally.
if we in the UK have the issue with people sexually harassing people, racist abuse towards football (soccer) players online, then the issue is deeper down.
The internet just lets people be nasty to people and hide behind a screen as you would probably get a massive punch if you said it to most people to their face.
When asked of Einstein:
"Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"
he replied
"That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics"
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There seems to be a different attitude to sex / nudity too, which I guess comes with the idea that you don't just people on what they look like.
Apparently within naturist communities there is far more respect for each other.
Hence here in the UK we seem obsessed with what people look like, to the point where people take ever more steps to look what they consider perfect (as in like some model or social media celeb who is mostly make up and software filters)
Platforms such as Instagram take advantage of this and send people who are less body confident pictures of people who apparently look a lot better, result is people people worse about them selves. Hence the rising mental health issues trying to reach something that is probably not reachable but accepting who you are is perfectly fine.
"So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth." - Einstein
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
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- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
