@thedevs · Post #2094 · 12/26/2023, 09:44 AM
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@thedevs · Post #2094 · 12/26/2023, 09:44 AM
Paul Graham: Superlinear Returns. #essay @thedevs https://thedevs.link/YomCfL
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@economist_martin · Post #1306 · 01/26/2025, 03:56 PM
#essay Differensial Tenglamalar va Sevgi: Murakkablik, Muvozanat va Cheksizlik Sevgi — inson qalbining eng chuqur, eng nozik va bir vaqtning o'zida eng murakkab tug'ularidan biri. Differensial tenglamalar esa tabiat qonuniyatlarini matematik nuqtai nazardan ifodalash uchun xizmat qiluvchi vosita. Tashqi dunyo va ichki olam o'rtasidagi bu kutilmagan bog'liqlik, aslida, hayotning o'zi kabi murakkab va go'zal. Ushbu ikki tushunchani qiyoslash orqali biz sevgining falsafiy mohiyatini anglashimiz mumkin. Murakkablik: Differensial tenglamalar va inson qalbi Differensial tenglamalar hayotning har bir o'zgarishini ifodalashda ishlatiladi. Tabiatda sodir bo'ladigan kichik o'zgarishlar, kuchlar, dinamikalar — bularning barchasi matematik tenglamalar orqali tahlil qilinishi mumkin. Sevgi ham xuddi shunday murakkab va ko'p qirrali: inson qalbidagi his-tuyg'ular, orzular, qo'rquvlar va quvonchlar doim bir-biriga bog'langan holda o'zgaradi. Sevgi birinchi qarashda "aniq" yoki "mantiqiy" ko'rinmaydi. Lekin uning murakkablik darajasini ifodalash uchun tasavvur qiling: ikki qalbni, ikki shaxsni o'zaro birlashtiruvchi munosabatlar qanday qilib o'zgaradi? Bu munosabatlar differensial tenglamalarning (nonlinear)aks-chiziqli tizimlariga o'xshaydi: kichik bir xatolik yoki e'tiborsizlik butun tizimni o'zgartirishi mumkin. Muvozanat: Stabillik va harmoniyaning izlanishi Differensial tenglamalar ko'pincha muvozanat nuqtasini izlaydi — biror tizim barqaror bo'lishi uchun qanday sharoitlar talab qilinadi? Sevgi ham muvozanatni talab qiladi. Har bir munosabatda bir tomonning boshqa tomondan ko'proq sevishi yoki e'tibor qaratishi tizimning barqarorligini buzishi mumkin. Shu nuqtai nazardan qaraganda, sevgining muvozanati ikki shaxs o'rtasidagi o'zaro hurmat, ishonch va bir-birining ehtiyojlarini tushunishda namoyon bo'ladi. Xuddi differensial tenglamadagi stabillik nuqtalari kabi, sevgida ham muvozanatga erishish uchun doimiy harakat talab qilinadi. Cheksizlik: Sevgi va vaqtning o'lchovsizligi Differensial tenglamalarda cheksizlik tushunchasi juda muhim. Ba'zi tenglamalar vaqt o’tishi bilan o‘zgarishlarni abadiy davom ettiradi yoki biror aniq nuqtaga yaqinlashadi. Sevgi ham shunday — u vaqtning cheksizligida yashaydi. Sevgi nafaqat hozirgi onni, balki o'tmishni va kelajakni ham qamrab olishi bilan e'tiborga molik. Bir qarashda, sevgi ikki shaxsning bir lahzada tug'ilgan hissiyotidek tuyulishi mumkin. Ammo, aslida, bu hissiyotning ildizlari o'tmishda yotadi va u kelajakda qanday shakllanishi ko'pincha hozirgi harakatlarga bog'liq. Xuddi differensial tenglamalar vaqtga nisbatan o‘zgaruvchan jarayonlarni ifodalagani kabi, sevgi ham doimiy o‘zgarish va rivojlanishda. Nima demoqchiman: Matematik go'zallik va insoniy hislar Differensial tenglamalar tabiatning go'zalligini va murakkabligini ochib beradigan vosita bo‘lsa, sevgi — inson qalbining shunday murakkabligining ko‘rinishi. Ikki shaxs o‘rtasidagi munosabatlarni matematik tenglamalar orqali to‘liq tushuntirish, albatta, imkonsiz. Lekin ularning o‘xshashliklari bizga shuni ko‘rsatadiki, hayotning har bir murakkab jihati o‘z ichida mukammal bir uyg‘unlikni yashiradi. Sevgi xuddi bir differensial tenglama kabi — murakkab, lekin hal qilishga arziydigan sirli masala. Balki inson qalbining go‘zalligi va boyligi ham aynan shu murakkablikda yotgandir. Dilshodbek Ikromov 22.01.2025 Toshkent, O'zbekiston.
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@instrumentality · Post #1089 · 05/17/2024, 05:52 PM
Вторая часть выпуска подкаста «The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna» о распространённых проблемах сценария, которые могут сломать всю историю, и способах их решения. ● Нехватка подтекста Проблема Рассказывание вместо показывания. Решение Не озвучивать эмоции персонажей, а демонстрировать их через действия. Не объяснять метафоры и эмоциональные арки до их [как можно более позднего] разрешения. ● Скучный дизайн сцен Проблема Отсутствие баланса в содержании сцен. Решение Развивать эмоциональные качели и не повторяться. Не перегружать сцены событийностью. Следовать нарративу. ● Слишком много диалогов Проблема Скучные диалоги. Решение Использовать узнаваемые языковые паттерны. Использовать диалоги для развития характеров и/или нарратива. Попробовать написать историю без диалогов вообще. Попробовать написать спек для любимого шоу. Сокращать диалоги. ● Незнание жанра Проблема Незнание отличительных черт жанров. Решение Ознакомиться с классическими тропами жанров и использовать их по-своему. Вот здесь есть хорошая библиотека. ● Незнание, о чём история Проблема Отсутствие противоборствующих идей. Решение Сформулировать тему конкретным предложением (хорошо об этом в своё время рассказывал ещё Крейг Мейзин). Определить центральные конфликты и эмоциональные арки. Переписывать. #essay | #listen
@instrumentality · Post #1086 · 05/11/2024, 10:26 AM
В новом выпуске подкаста «The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna» ведущие обсудили пять распространенных проблем в сценарии, которые могут сломать всю историю, и способы их решения. ● Избыток экспозиции Проблема Экспозиция не являются частью нарратива. Решение Подать экспозицию через действие, использовать экспозицию в качестве «награды», использовать экспозицию как разрешение установленной ранее интриги. ● Недостаток конфликта или ставок Проблема Слабый или недостаточно ясный конфликт и/или ставки. Решение Добавить ставки уровня «жизнь или смерть», объяснить эмоциональные ставки как можно раньше (и как можно яснее), определить протагониста и антагониста и найти ответ, почему они по разные стороны. ● Пассивный герой Проблема Поступки героя не определяют сюжет. Решение Найти ответ, почему именно этот персонаж является героем истории. Определиться, кто создает сцены и зачем они нужны. Создать самые необычные пассивные реакции и сделать их как можно более уникальными. ● Слишком бережное отношение к герою Проблема Неуверенность в силах своего героя. Решение Сделать жизнь героя сложнее, позволить ему активно действовать, а не только реагировать. Создать последствия для его действий и, самое главное, бездействия. ● Повторение Проблема Недостаточное количество драфтов. Решение Перечитывать целиком весь сценарий и его структуру, каждую сцену. Определить, что происходит с персонажами в каждой сцене, как они меняются, чего достигают, и избавиться от повторов. #essay | #listen
@dementiaetsinopsis · Post #513 · 11/20/2022, 08:48 AM
Вокруг только и разговоров, что о полезных писательских привычках. А что там насчет вредных? Недавно открыл для себя канал канадской писательницы Шейлин и в новом видео она делится привычками (хотя по-моему в данном случае уместнее определение «установки»), которые мешают ей совершенствовать писательские навыки. Главная из них: необходимость в оценках. Причем проблема, как верно заметила Шейлин, даже не в том, что мы нуждаемся в «объективном» взгляде со стороны или привыкли к оценкам еще со школы. А в том, что зачастую именно положительная оценка со стороны формирует первую уверенность в себе у начинающих авторов. Так что мозг запоминает: «ага, вот где источник моей уверенности в себе и в моей работе» — и оценка со стороны становится чуть ли не главным образующим якобы объективного (на самом деле нет) представления о себе как о писателе и о своей работе. А помимо того что с объективностью такой фидбэк имеет мало общего, из этой негативной установки вытекает еще и целая пачка остальных, озвученных Шейлин: отсутствие доверия к собственным инстинктам, бесконечные правки (в том числе каждого замечания со стороны) и невозможность определить самостоятельно, когда история закончена. #essay | #watch
@fluencyinenglish · Post #7714 · 06/22/2020, 10:26 AM
@fluencyinenglish #essay #writing_task_2 Many people try to balance work and other parts of their life. However, this is very difficult to do. What are the problems associated with this? What is the best way to achieve a better balance? People today are increasingly concerned with individual happiness and work-life balance. The main problem for most people is that work takes up too much time and causes mental health issues and the best way to achieve this balance is to work more efficiently. The primary issues associated with work-life balance are the amount of time people must spend working and how this impacts their mental health. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the job market around the world has become increasingly competitive. This means that old workers may get pushed out of their jobs by younger graduates willing to work for less and that new graduates have to put in enormous extra hours to catch up. The end result is more work, which eats away at a person’s private life. Once your free time becomes restricted there are a variety of related mental health problems that can appear. For example, someone who is overworked can suffer from excessive stress, some forms of depression, and obesity because of the lack of time available to exercise. That is why there has been a sharp rise in the last decade in these problems. The best way for people to combat being overworked and get more time for their personal life is to work more efficiently. In an ideal world, there would be ways to alleviate the burden that put less stress on individuals but making the most of your time is a more pragmatic solution. For example, smartphones allow people to get a lot of work done in what were previously wasted hours in the past. You can send emails, make phone calls, and use productivity applications when waiting for the bus, train, or standing in line. People will have to make the choice not to scroll through Facebook or read the news but that is a small sacrifice to have some extra time at the end of the day to do their hobbies or spend time with a loved one. In conclusion, the problems associated with poor work-life balance are especially apparent because of the current economic climate and the best solution is to find ways to maximise efficiency. If more people changed their daily habits related to social media and using the internet, then they might be able to find more worthwhile passions and not feel as though their life is passing them by. @fluencyinenglish
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@fluencyinenglish · Post #6522 · 10/15/2018, 03:55 AM
LikeBot: #essay #task_2 @fluencyinenglish @ieltsstrategies The question: In the past, when students did a university degree, they tended to study in their own country. Nowadays they have more opportunity to study abroad. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this development? The essay: Precedently, university students used to to have a tendency to do their academic programs in their own country when they decided to proceed with their further education. Notwithstanding, they are given more opportunities to do so in foreign countries. This essay will discuss both benefits and pitfalls of this phenomena and draw a conclusion. @fluencyinenglish @ieltsstrategies Studying an academic subject abroad provides positive points for candidates planning to seek for life changing and opening options. Firstly, they have the privilege to own an access to a sea of information and data as they need a holistic reference. For instance, in Harvard University, its students are in touch with first-hand articles in order to educate themselves with the most advanced and updated research-based journals published in ISI. Additionally, since job opportunities may always be open to graduates, landing on a job is no longer a herculean task for them. Thus, the need for leaving one's country and extending the level of education in reputed and high-rank universities is now vastly growing based on the aforementioned reasons. @fluencyinenglish @ieltsstrategies The downfall of this approach is inevitable given the fact that candidates encounter some hardship, on the contrary. A pivotal vortex in which most international students get involved in could be the homesickness caused by being away from their motherlands. A typical example would be that most Middle East students go through a depression and feel estranged or alienated from citizens of the host country; as a result, they fail to fully focus on their lessons and programs. Not only this, neither are they financed by their parents nor they are allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. In this way, they are only able to live hand to mouth, which results in another level of disheartening condition. Therefore, the said negative effects both mount up to their hardship and hinder them to continue their education triumphantly. @fluencyinenglish @ieltsstrategies As a recapitulation, as students of other countries are passionate about and fond of doing their university programs in other countries, we can witness that there are some negative and positive aspects contributing to their life during the time of their studies. @fluencyinenglish @ieltsstrategies
@exploreclassical · Post #119 · 12/09/2020, 01:25 AM
下午稍微读了一下Alfred Brendel的essay “Must Classical Music Be Entirely Serious”的第二部分,专门讲的今早分享的Diabelli Variations。这篇essay的主题就是音乐的“不正经”,幽默、讽刺等等,所以这篇文章也是主要从Diabelli Variaion的幽默性出发~essay信息量太大了,我也没完全读明白,这里就写几条我印象比较深的抛砖引玉一下吧~感兴趣的朋友非常推荐这篇essay,我们可以在群里一起讨论! 1. 和贝多芬其他的变奏曲相比Diabelli Variations是非常不正统的。比如一般情况下第一首变奏曲都会和主题十分相近(这里可以参考Mozart的小星星变奏曲),但是这里贝多芬非常意外的放了一首和主题不仅不相近,可以说是反义词的变奏,一首4/4的march跟在3/4的waltz后面,出人意料。有趣的是,有研究发现这第一个variation是最后才加上去的。 2. 大多数变奏曲可能有一个变奏的“标准”,比如哥德堡是基于bass的变奏,小星星是基于旋律的变奏,贝多芬的大多数变奏曲也有这样的一个“变奏标准”,但是这首Diabelli Varitions并没有一个统一的标准,很自由。 3. 这首变奏曲的不正统还体现在对主题结构上的改变,经常删掉几个小节或者加几个小节,变奏22更是直接“换了旋律”,用了Don Giovanni里的Notte e giorno faticar来模仿主题,作者认为这是在make fun of the theme~ 4. 主题在这套变奏曲里起的角色可能就是引出了幽默,变奏曲们都“超越”了主题的控制,后面的变奏曲中更像是我们要在变奏中去找主题,而不是主题中创造出变奏的感觉。 5. 除了让人发笑的主题以外,变奏曲里也有很多非常sublime的主题,比如variation 14,20, 24,但紧跟着这些sublime之后的都是幽默的变奏,对比强烈。作者这里引用了Jean Paul的一个说法,他认为幽默是“the sublime in reverse”~另外还有一个对比是从var 29-31和var 32. Var 29-31是C minor的集中区域,最后以var 32的一首欢快的fugue结束。 6. Essay里还总结了变奏中的motivic elements,比如upbeat embellishment,重复的和弦,dance rhythm等等,这里贴一张截图。 7. Brendel还给每首变奏取了名字~看着名字听了一下感觉都蛮合适的!其中有很多蛮有趣的,比如var 1他起的名字是gladiator,flexing his muscles,var 15是cheerful spook等待~这里也贴张截图~ 8. 另外关于为什么是33首变奏也蛮有趣。Diabelli来催贝多芬交作业的时候,贝多芬问他手里已经有多少首变奏了,Diabelli说有32首,然后贝多芬说那你去发表吧,我一个人要写33首。另外33也和贝多芬的Piano Sonata有联系,32首Piano Sonata之后跟着33首变奏,有点crowning achievement的感觉,而且第33首变奏也和第32首Piano Sonata的Adagio联系紧密。 完整版的essay可以在这里读,是这本书里的第二篇essay:https://archive.org/details/musicsoundedout00alfr 另外也可以看这个视频,好像是Brendel的朗读版lol:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmxFrzIxFqA #beethember#beethoven#brendel#essay
@mountstorm · Post #242 · 06/15/2022, 01:29 PM
#essay#ielts#topics Task 2. It’s important for children to learn the difference between right and wrong at an early age. Punishment is necessary to help them learn this distinction. To what extent do you agree or disagree? What sort of punishments should parents and teachers be allowed to use to teach good behavior to children?