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Full translated English text: https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/

My favorite passages:

“This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:”

“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.”

“So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”


What does "conditioned" mean in that sentence?


conditioned in buddhism refers to the fact that anything that exists, originates from something else.

so any one thing you examine will be “conditioned” on the previous things that cause it to appear

cause and effect basically

this has some philosophical implications, since all you are as a person is a bundle of emotions, mental patterns, etc that are ultimately conditioned

this leads to the buddhist view of no self, where there isn’t something that makes you “you”. just a bunch of responses to stimuli. some of those responses are thoughts of a self.


After 2500 years, an idea still ahead of the times


no self is still a self

the diamond sutra's point aiui is that what we call a self isnt a self in that a true self does not exist independently (from the causes, such as its essential nature, its foundation, and its environment)

i might even say a self has an essential nature defined by an origin which is composed of relationships. you can find all examples in nature if you look a little.


https://tricycle.org/beginners/buddhism/dependent-originatio...

Dependent origination (Skt: pratityasamutpada, Pali: paticca-samuppada) is also known as conditioned co-arising and several other terms. Buddhism teaches that everything that exists is conditioned—dependent on something else. This applies to thoughts as well as objects, to the individual as well as the entire universe. Nothing exists independently. Everything is conditioned.

This concept is illustrated in the Buddhist teachings of the chain of dependent origination, which describes the factors that perpetuate the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The twelve links in the chain are sequential, each factor causing the following one: Because of this, that arises. When this ceases, that also ceases.

The links form a never-ending cycle that binds us to suffering, and the goal of Buddhist practice is to escape from this vicious cycle. Though there is more than one version of the sequence of links, they commonly run this way:

- Ignorance - Mental formations - Consciousness - Name and form - The senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and mind - Contact - Feeling - Craving - Clinging - Becoming - Birth - Aging and death


One thing I got wrong about this for a long long time was that this chain isn't linear and it's not (necessarily always) local.

Many people will argue that it's either:

  - a cosmological system (which largely contradicts the intentions of Buddhism, where most cosmological questions are waved away as being irrelevant to the goal of eliminating suffering)

  - an immedate series of one-after-the-other events describing the overall process of mind (which doesn't hold up to basic observational scrutiny).
In reality it's more of a graph of influencing factors that depend on each other. Tuning one's handling of each factor leads to the reduction of suffering in the whole system.

By FAR the best discussion, with textual backing, is https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/ShapeOfSuffering/Contents....


In reality it's more of a graph of influencing factors that depend on each other. Tuning one's handling of each factor leads to the reduction of suffering in the whole system.

Thich Nhat Hahn also wrote a lot about interdependence in an accessible way (I read a lot of his books when I was 18 or 19).

Indra's net is a vast, cosmic lattice that contains precious jewels wherever the threads cross. There are millions of jewels strung together to make the net, and each jewel has many facets. When you look at any facet of any jewels, you can see all the other jewels reflected in it. In the world of the Avatamsaka, in Indra's net, the one is present in the all, and the all in the one. This wonderful image was used in Buddhism to illustrate the principle of interdepedence and interpenetration.


This reminds me of light cones and quantum entanglement.


So a neural indras net?


One can get an easier-to-grok version in the book The Middle Way by Dalai Lama.

In that book, the cycle of twelve elements is easily explained.


Just to add to this excellent explanation - the specific Buddhist text being referenced here is the Vipassana Bhumi Patho from the Abhidhamma.


Everything that is experienced except for awareness itself.


conditioned by mind. see dependent origination/ emptiness. Everything other than pure awareness.


Texas government powers practically unlimited; it’s Big Government. The government bans numerous books, see https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/banned-books-i...


That’s incorrect, in practice, in Texas. There are states where the government has full power over bodies and does not permit an abortion under any circumstance. A woman cannot get an abortion in a medical facility. The government does not allow it, at all. A woman may request permission from a judge so that government may permit an abortion, but highly unlikely given the woman’s medical circumstances. And, when a woman does request judicial and government approval for her medical procedure, TX Supreme Court has upheld the government’s power to deny it, e.g., see https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsu....


The Texas case is a great example of the hysteria. The risk was to the child, which had a low likelihood of survival after birth, but not a zero chance. There is a woman in her 40s with the condition. Drs. Could not show how it would reasonably harm the mother to carry to term. The abortion guaranteed the death of the child.

I don’t mean to make light of the situation, and knowing your child will have a serious condition prior to birth is devastating and heartbreaking. Learning your child has a serious condition after birth is the same. Only in one of those situations is the option given to end the child’s life without further care.


Is TSMC the exclusive manufacturer for this unit? I can’t find the info.


it wouldn't be uncommon for the fab not to be announced or not announced up front. it's not really a consumer-facing spec, and it's not NVIDIA's announcement to make.

samsung and intel foundry services are both serious possibilities imo, NVIDIA is incredibly portable across nodes and will take advantage of anything that's cheap and makes sense as a product.

for example pascal used samsung 14LPP for the 1050 and 1050 Ti, and the A100 was taped out on TSMC 7nm (not samsung 8nm), etc. They are actually quite diversified, they have a product foothold on almost every node that matters, if Samsung suddenly becomes a blazing deal they're ready to go. Etc.

they also already signed a semicustom licensing deal with Mediatek last year, this is part of an overall trend of NVIDIA pivoting towards licensing and platform. ARM wasn't a play to sell more Tegras, it was a play to have GeForce be the default IP for the base tier ARM licenses.

https://corp.mediatek.com/news-events/press-releases/mediate...

in a world where software innovation is replacing hardware innovation... platform is king.

He's struck gold, now he is trying to convert it into platform. And with Sony pivoting towards AI/ML and RT upscaling with PS5 Pro, they will be essentially on par with Ada in broader feature set. And the Playstation API is a platform worthy to rival his own, Sony is uniquely positioned to go after him in the AI market and leverage studios into creating some value for them (especially with CPU speeds not increasing - use the tensors or don't, I guess!). Apple is surging ahead with Metal too - they have an excellent platform as well. His time is not unlimited here.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tom-henderson-ps5-pro-specs...


Trademarked potatoes, but not trademarked...


If you're looking for modernizr CDN, see https://cdnjs.com/libraries/modernizr


I believe this is an old version. For new versions, i think you have create a custom build.


YouTube Music is a separate offering and with its own music recommendation algorithm


Similar experiences and I quit coffee ~ 6 months ago. I switched to cacao; initially ground cacao beans and settled on cacao powder. For ground beans, I tried Choffy and Crio Bru through a coffee maker and then a french press. I liked it but wanted a deeper cacao flavor, moving to powder. To drink cacao with powder, I fill my travel mug with water, pour the water into a single cup coffee maker (no grounds in the filter) and place 1 1/2 - 2 T of cacao powder (usually Viva Labs or TruVibe for criollo cacao) into the mug, which mixes with the dispensed hot water. The cacao provides a boost, in a different way than coffee, and health benefits. 


See Bloggy for Jekyll Rails integration: https://github.com/zbruhnke/bloggy Will be interesting to compare how your approach varies.


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