Patryk Kocielnik - Public notes (Page 4)

Happiness vs Joy

We shoot for happiness. Happiness is good, it's the expansion of self. You win a victory, you get a promotion, your team wins the Superbowl: you're happy. Joy is not the expansion of self, it's the dissolving of self. (...) Joy is a better thing

Children

Twice the size for a child

How a child sees animals.

Wisdom

Suffering

"What suffering does, is: it carves through what you thought was the floor of the basement of your soul, and it carves through that, revealing a cavity below."

Wisdom

Relationships

"A man was never much for exercise, until he started dating a woman who is."

Wisdom

Juras: Nie wszystko na jedną kartę

"To jest bardzo dobre, że akurat mogę realizować się i w muzyce, i w sporcie."

Information Science

Cryptography: This is the paper that keeps showing up

"Everywhere I go, I see this paper"

Nature

Standard Model Symmetry Group

"You’ll commonly hear that the symmetry group of the Standard Model is U(1) × SU(2) × SU(3)"

Nature

Earth: Unnaturally large active iron core

"Our Rare Earth has an unnaturally large active iron core, resulting in an unnaturally efficient magnetic field which is able to protect our waters from being blown away by Sun."

Wisdom

Wspólnota z Qumran

"Skutkiem było wycofanie się grupy esseńczyków i zorganizowanie wspólnoty Qumran."

Wisdom

Wisdom: Positive Mindset Index

"The survey found that the very biggest determinant in a man’s PMI wasn’t a factor you might expect like relationships or health. It was work."

Wisdom

Kupić drożej, ale na lata

Trochę smutno, że przyczyniłem się do zaśmiecenia planety, bo każdy z tych krótko używanych produktów trafi na wysypisko śmieci. Wolę zapłacić za coś porządnego i mieć na lata, niż kupić okazyjnie i wkrótce wyrzucić. Bernard Fruga

Category theory

Nature and Category Theory

"Computer scientists started using categories where the objects represent data types and the morphisms represent programs. They also started using ‘flow charts’ to describe programs. Abstractly, these are very much like Feynman diagrams!"

Wisdom

Invention: Brainstorming

"He still felt a strange obligation to be at his computer because that’s too often our the metal image of “working”."

Software Engineering

Git: Revert to the last working state at any given point

Have you already had this experience? Two years after graduation, I remember it all too well. The project is due tomorrow. It grew to an astounding amount of code. You're just about to fix a glitch that you noticed. In the course, you make