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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . The Bend in the road CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the road MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had gone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in the kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand. Something in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne’s heart. She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that. “Are you very tired, Marilla?” “Yes—no—I don’t know,” said Marilla wearily, looking up. “I suppose I am tired but I haven’t thought about it. It’s not that.” “Did you see the oculist? What did he say?” asked Anne anxiously. “Yes, I saw him. He examined my eyes. He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes, and if I’m careful not to cry, and if I wear the glasses he’s given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches will be cured. But if I don’t he says I’ll certainly be stone-blind in six months. Blind! Anne, just think of it!” For a minute Anne, after her first quick exclamation of dismay, was silent. It seemed to her that she could not speak. Then she said bravely, but with a catch in her voice: “Marilla, don’t think of it. You know he has given you hope. If you are careful you won’t lose your sight altogether; and if his glasses cure your headaches it will be a great thing.” “I don’t call it much hope,” said Marilla bitterly. “What am I to live for if I can’t read or sew or do anything like that? I might as well be blind—or dead. And as for crying, I can’t help that when I get lonesome. But there, it’s no good talking about it. If you’ll get me a cup of tea I’ll be thankful. I’m about done out. Don’t say anything about this to any one for a spell yet, anyway. I can’t bear that folks should come here to question and sympathize and talk about it.” When Marilla had eaten her lunch Anne persuaded her to go to bed. Then Anne went herself to the east gable and sat down by her window in the darkness alone with her tears and her heaviness of heart. How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend—as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. One afternoon a few days later Marilla came slowly in from the front yard where she had been talking to a caller—a man whom Anne knew by sight as Sadler from Carmody. Anne wondered what he could have been saying to bring that look to Marilla’s face. “What did Mr. Sadler want, Marilla?” Marilla sat down by the window and looked at Anne. There were tears in her eyes in defiance of the oculist’s prohibition and her voice broke as she said: “He heard that I was going to sell Green Gables and he wants to buy it.” “Buy it! Buy Green Gables?” Anne wondered if she had heard aright. “Oh, Marilla, you don’t mean to sell Green Gables!” “Anne, I don’t know what else is to be done. I’ve thought it all over. If my eyes were strong I could stay here and make out to look after things and manage, with a good hired man. But as it is I can’t. I may lose my sight altogether; and anyway I’ll not be fit to run things. Oh, I never thought I’d live to see the day when I’d have to sell my home. But things would only go behind worse and worse all the time, till nobody would want to buy it. Every cent of our money went in that bank; and there’s some notes Matthew gave last fall to pay. Mrs. Lynde advises me to sell the farm and board somewhere—with her I suppose. It won’t bring much—it’s small and the buildings are old. But it’ll be enough for me to live on I reckon. I’m thankful you’re provided for with that scholarship, Anne. I’m sorry you won’t have a home to come to in your vacations, that’s all, but I suppose you’ll manage somehow.” Marilla broke down and wept bitterly. “You mustn’t sell Green Gables,” said Anne resolutely. “Oh, Anne, I wish I didn’t have to. But you can see for yourself. I can’t stay here alone. I’d go crazy with trouble and loneliness. And my sight would go—I know it would.” “You won’t have to stay here alone, Marilla. I’ll be with you. I’m not going to Redmond.” “Not going to Redmond!” Marilla lifted her worn face from her hands and looked at Anne. “Why, what do you mean?” “Just what I say. I’m not going to take the scholarship. I decided so the night after you came home from town. You surely don’t think I could leave you alone in your trouble, Marilla, after all you’ve done for me. I’ve been thinking and planning. Let me tell you my plans. Mr. Barry wants to rent the farm for next year. So you won’t have any bother over that. And I’m going to teach. I’ve applied for the school here—but I don’t expect to get it for I understand the trustees have promised it to Gilbert Blythe. But I can have the Carmody school—Mr. Blair told me so last night at the store. Of course that won’t be quite as nice or convenient as if I had the Avonlea school. But I can board home and drive myself over to Carmody and back, in the warm weather at least. And even in winter I can come home Fridays. We’ll keep a horse for that. Oh, I have it all planned out, Marilla. And I’ll read to you and keep you cheered up. You sha’n’t be dull or lonesome. And we’ll be real cozy and happy here together, you and I.” Marilla had listened like a woman in a dream. “Oh, Anne, I could get on real well if you were here, I know. But I can’t let you sacrifice yourself so for me. It would be terrible.” “Nonsense!” Anne laughed merrily. “There is no sacrifice. Nothing could be worse than giving up Green Gables—nothing could hurt me more. We must keep the dear old place. My mind is quite made up, Marilla. I’m not going to Redmond; and I am going to stay here and teach. Don’t you worry about me a bit.” “But your ambitions—and—” “I’m just as ambitious as ever. Only, I’ve changed the object of my ambitions. I’m going to be a good teacher—and I’m going to save your eyesight. Besides, I mean to study at home here and take a little college course all by myself. Oh, I’ve dozens of plans, Marilla. I’ve been thinking them out for a week. I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes—what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows—what new landscapes—what new beauties—what curves and hills and valleys further on.” “I don’t feel as if I ought to let you give it up,” said Marilla, referring to the scholarship. “But you can’t prevent me. I’m sixteen and a half, ‘obstinate as a mule,’ as Mrs. Lynde once told me,” laughed Anne. “Oh, Marilla, don’t you go pitying me. I don’t like to be pitied, and there is no need for it. I’m heart glad over the very thought of staying at dear Green Gables. Nobody could love it as you and I do—so we must keep it.” “You blessed girl!” said Marilla, yielding. “I feel as if you’d given me new life. I guess I ought to stick out and make you go to college—but I know I can’t, so I ain’t going to try. I’ll make it up to you though, Anne.” When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to college and intended to stay home and teach there was a good deal of discussion over it. Most of the good folks, not knowing about Marilla’s eyes, thought she was foolish. Mrs. Allan did not. She told Anne so in approving words that brought tears of pleasure to the girl’s eyes. Neither did good Mrs. Lynde. She came up one evening and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door in the warm, scented summer dusk. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air. Mrs. Rachel deposited her substantial person upon the stone bench by the door, behind which grew a row of tall pink and yellow hollyhocks, with a long breath of mingled weariness and relief. “I declare I’m getting glad to sit down. I’ve been on my feet all day, and two hundred pounds is a good bit for two feet to carry round. It’s a great blessing not to be fat, Marilla. I hope you appreciate it. Well, Anne, I hear you’ve given up your notion of going to college. I was real glad to hear it. You’ve got as much education now as a woman can be comfortable with. I don’t believe in girls going to college with the men and cramming their heads full of Latin and Greek and all that nonsense.” “But I’m going to study Latin and Greek just the same, Mrs. Lynde,” said Anne laughing. “I’m going to take my Arts course right here at Green Gables, and study everything that I would at college.” Mrs. Lynde lifted her hands in holy horror. “Anne Shirley, you’ll kill yourself.” “Not a bit of it. I shall thrive on it. Oh, I’m not going to overdo things. As ‘Josiah Allen’s wife,’ says, I shall be ‘mejum’. But I’ll have lots of spare time in the long winter evenings, and I’ve no vocation for fancy work. I’m going to teach over at Carmody, you know.” “I don’t know it. I guess you’re going to teach right here in Avonlea. The trustees have decided to give you the school.” “Mrs. Lynde!” cried Anne, springing to her feet in her surprise. “Why, I thought they had promised it to Gilbert Blythe!” “So they did. But as soon as Gilbert heard that you had applied for it he went to them—they had a business meeting at the school last night, you know—and told them that he withdrew his application, and suggested that they accept yours. He said he was going to teach at White Sands. Of course he knew how much you wanted to stay with Marilla, and I must say I think it was real kind and thoughtful in him, that’s what. Real self-sacrificing, too, for he’ll have his board to pay at White Sands, and everybody knows he’s got to earn his own way through college. So the trustees decided to take you. I was tickled to death when Thomas came home and told me.” “I don’t feel that I ought to take it,” murmured Anne. “I mean—I don’t think I ought to let Gilbert make such a sacrifice for—for me.” “I guess you can’t prevent him now. He’s signed papers with the White Sands trustees. So it wouldn’t do him any good now if you were to refuse. Of course you’ll take the school. You’ll get along all right, now that there are no Pyes going. Josie was the last of them, and a good thing she was, that’s what. There’s been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last twenty years, and I guess their mission in life was to keep school teachers reminded that earth isn’t their home. Bless my heart! What does all that winking and blinking at the Barry gable mean?” “Diana is signaling for me to go over,” laughed Anne. “You know we keep up the old custom. Excuse me while I run over and see what she wants.” Anne ran down the clover slope like a deer, and disappeared in the firry shadows of the Haunted Wood. Mrs. Lynde looked after her indulgently. “There’s a good deal of the child about her yet in some ways.” “There’s a good deal more of the woman about her in others,” retorted Marilla, with a momentary return of her old crispness. But crispness was no longer Marilla’s distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night. “Marilla Cuthbert has got mellow. That’s what.” Anne went to the little Avonlea graveyard the next evening to put fresh flowers on Matthew’s grave and water the Scotch rosebush. She lingered there until dusk, liking the peace and calm of the little place, with its poplars whose rustle was like low, friendly speech, and its whispering grasses growing at will among the graves. When she finally left it and walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight—“a haunt of ancient peace.” There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover. Home lights twinkled out here and there among the homestead trees. Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur. The west was a glory of soft mingled hues, and the pond reflected them all in still softer shadings. The beauty of it all thrilled Anne’s heart, and she gratefully opened the gates of her soul to it. “Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” Halfway down the hill a tall lad came whistling out of a gate before the Blythe homestead. It was Gilbert, and the whistle died on his lips as he recognized Anne. He lifted his cap courteously, but he would have passed on in silence, if Anne had not stopped and held out her hand. “Gilbert,” she said, with scarlet cheeks, “I want to thank you for giving up the school for me. It was very good of you—and I want you to know that I appreciate it.” Gilbert took the offered hand eagerly. “It wasn’t particularly good of me at all, Anne. I was pleased to be able to do you some small service. Are we going to be friends after this? Have you really forgiven me my old fault?” Anne laughed and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw her hand. “I forgave you that day by the pond landing, although I didn’t know it. What a stubborn little goose I was. I’ve been—I may as well make a complete confession—I’ve been sorry ever since.” “We are going to be the best of friends,” said Gilbert, jubilantly. “We were born to be good friends, Anne. You’ve thwarted destiny enough. I know we can help each other in many ways. You are going to keep up your studies, aren’t you? So am I. Come, I’m going to walk home with you.” Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen. “Who was that came up the lane with you, Anne?” “Gilbert Blythe,” answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing. “I met him on Barry’s hill.” “I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him,” said Marilla with a dry smile. “We haven’t been—we’ve been good enemies. But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in the future. Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But, you see, we have five years’ lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla.” Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content. The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came up to her. The stars twinkled over the pointed firs in the hollow and Diana’s light gleamed through the old gap. Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! “‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. L. M. Montgomery (2008). Anne of Green Gables. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45/pg45-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html . The lead image was generated using HackerNoon's Stable Disffusion Al Image Generator feature, via the prompt "Anne of Green Fables".

The Bend in the road

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . The Glory and the Dream CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be posted on the bulletin board at Queen’s, Anne and Jane walked down the street together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. Anne was pale and quiet; in ten more minutes she would know who had won the medal and who the Avery. Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time. “Of course you’ll win one of them anyhow,” said Jane, who couldn’t understand how the faculty could be so unfair as to order it otherwise. “I have not hope of the Avery,” said Anne. “Everybody says Emily Clay will win it. And I’m not going to march up to that bulletin board and look at it before everybody. I haven’t the moral courage. I’m going straight to the girls’ dressing room. You must read the announcements and then come and tell me, Jane. And I implore you in the name of our old friendship to do it as quickly as possible. If I have failed just say so, without trying to break it gently; and whatever you do don’t sympathize with me. Promise me this, Jane.” Jane promised solemnly; but, as it happened, there was no necessity for such a promise. When they went up the entrance steps of Queen’s they found the hall full of boys who were carrying Gilbert Blythe around on their shoulders and yelling at the tops of their voices, “Hurrah for Blythe, Medalist!” For a moment Anne felt one sickening pang of defeat and disappointment. So she had failed and Gilbert had won! Well, Matthew would be sorry—he had been so sure she would win. And then! Somebody called out: “Three cheers for Miss Shirley, winner of the Avery!” “Oh, Anne,” gasped Jane, as they fled to the girls’ dressing room amid hearty cheers. “Oh, Anne I’m so proud! Isn’t it splendid?” And then the girls were around them and Anne was the center of a laughing, congratulating group. Her shoulders were thumped and her hands shaken vigorously. She was pushed and pulled and hugged and among it all she managed to whisper to Jane: “Oh, won’t Matthew and Marilla be pleased! I must write the news home right away.” Commencement was the next important happening. The exercises were held in the big assembly hall of the Academy. Addresses were given, essays read, songs sung, the public award of diplomas, prizes and medals made. Matthew and Marilla were there, with eyes and ears for only one student on the platform—a tall girl in pale green, with faintly flushed cheeks and starry eyes, who read the best essay and was pointed out and whispered about as the Avery winner. “Reckon you’re glad we kept her, Marilla?” whispered Matthew, speaking for the first time since he had entered the hall, when Anne had finished her essay. “It’s not the first time I’ve been glad,” retorted Marilla. “You do like to rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert.” Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol. “Aren’t you proud of that Anne-girl? I am,” she said. Anne went home to Avonlea with Matthew and Marilla that evening. She had not been home since April and she felt that she could not wait another day. The apple blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young. Diana was at Green Gables to meet her. In her own white room, where Marilla had set a flowering house rose on the window sill, Anne looked about her and drew a long breath of happiness. “Oh, Diana, it’s so good to be back again. It’s so good to see those pointed firs coming out against the pink sky—and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn’t the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose—why, it’s a song and a hope and a prayer all in one. And it’s good to see you again, Diana!” “I thought you liked that Stella Maynard better than me,” said Diana reproachfully. “Josie Pye told me you did. Josie said you were infatuated with her.” Anne laughed and pelted Diana with the faded “June lilies” of her bouquet. “Stella Maynard is the dearest girl in the world except one and you are that one, Diana,” she said. “I love you more than ever—and I’ve so many things to tell you. But just now I feel as if it were joy enough to sit here and look at you. I’m tired, I think—tired of being studious and ambitious. I mean to spend at least two hours tomorrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing.” “You’ve done splendidly, Anne. I suppose you won’t be teaching now that you’ve won the Avery?” “No. I’m going to Redmond in September. Doesn’t it seem wonderful? I’ll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation. Jane and Ruby are going to teach. Isn’t it splendid to think we all got through even to Moody Spurgeon and Josie Pye?” “The Newbridge trustees have offered Jane their school already,” said Diana. “Gilbert Blythe is going to teach, too. He has to. His father can’t afford to send him to college next year, after all, so he means to earn his own way through. I expect he’ll get the school here if Miss Ames decides to leave.” Anne felt a queer little sensation of dismayed surprise. She had not known this; she had expected that Gilbert would be going to Redmond also. What would she do without their inspiring rivalry? Would not work, even at a coeducational college with a real degree in prospect, be rather flat without her friend the enemy? The next morning at breakfast it suddenly struck Anne that Matthew was not looking well. Surely he was much grayer than he had been a year before. “Marilla,” she said hesitatingly when he had gone out, “is Matthew quite well?” “No, he isn’t,” said Marilla in a troubled tone. “He’s had some real bad spells with his heart this spring and he won’t spare himself a mite. I’ve been real worried about him, but he’s some better this while back and we’ve got a good hired man, so I’m hoping he’ll kind of rest and pick up. Maybe he will now you’re home. You always cheer him up.” Anne leaned across the table and took Marilla’s face in her hands. “You are not looking as well yourself as I’d like to see you, Marilla. You look tired. I’m afraid you’ve been working too hard. You must take a rest, now that I’m home. I’m just going to take this one day off to visit all the dear old spots and hunt up my old dreams, and then it will be your turn to be lazy while I do the work.” Marilla smiled affectionately at her girl. “It’s not the work—it’s my head. I’ve got a pain so often now—behind my eyes. Doctor Spencer’s been fussing with glasses, but they don’t do me any good. There is a distinguished oculist coming to the Island the last of June and the doctor says I must see him. I guess I’ll have to. I can’t read or sew with any comfort now. Well, Anne, you’ve done real well at Queen’s I must say. To take First Class License in one year and win the Avery scholarship—well, well, Mrs. Lynde says pride goes before a fall and she doesn’t believe in the higher education of women at all; she says it unfits them for woman’s true sphere. I don’t believe a word of it. Speaking of Rachel reminds me—did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank lately, Anne?” “I heard it was shaky,” answered Anne. “Why?” “That is what Rachel said. She was up here one day last week and said there was some talk about it. Matthew felt real worried. All we have saved is in that bank—every penny. I wanted Matthew to put it in the Savings Bank in the first place, but old Mr. Abbey was a great friend of father’s and he’d always banked with him. Matthew said any bank with him at the head of it was good enough for anybody.” “I think he has only been its nominal head for many years,” said Anne. “He is a very old man; his nephews are really at the head of the institution.” “Well, when Rachel told us that, I wanted Matthew to draw our money right out and he said he’d think of it. But Mr. Russell told him yesterday that the bank was all right.” Anne had her good day in the companionship of the outdoor world. She never forgot that day; it was so bright and golden and fair, so free from shadow and so lavish of blossom. Anne spent some of its rich hours in the orchard; she went to the Dryad’s Bubble and Willowmere and Violet Vale; she called at the manse and had a satisfying talk with Mrs. Allan; and finally in the evening she went with Matthew for the cows, through Lovers’ Lane to the back pasture. The woods were all gloried through with sunset and the warm splendor of it streamed down through the hill gaps in the west. Matthew walked slowly with bent head; Anne, tall and erect, suited her springing step to his. “You’ve been working too hard today, Matthew,” she said reproachfully. “Why won’t you take things easier?” “Well now, I can’t seem to,” said Matthew, as he opened the yard gate to let the cows through. “It’s only that I’m getting old, Anne, and keep forgetting it. Well, well, I’ve always worked pretty hard and I’d rather drop in harness.” “If I had been the boy you sent for,” said Anne wistfully, “I’d be able to help you so much now and spare you in a hundred ways. I could find it in my heart to wish I had been, just for that.” “Well now, I’d rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,” said Matthew patting her hand. “Just mind you that—rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl—my girl—my girl that I’m proud of.” He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. 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Working in computer systems on the infra layer should be illegal if you don't comprehend Greek syntactical and propositional logic. Learning Greek (even modern watered Greek for noobs) is essential for grasping the roots of many fundamental concepts in philosophy, math, and science. Take propositional logic, for instance. Ancient Greeks, with their communication protocol, laid the foundation for abstract thinking and logical reasoning in an era where most of the world was still eating from the floor, quite literally. In Greek, the word "logos" encompasses not only logic but also meaning itself, reason, and discourse. Understanding the etymology and nuances of such Greek terms can deepen your comprehension of these concepts. For instance, "propositional" logic relates to "προτάσεις" a term the Greeks used to denote statements or assertions. Moreover, Greek OGs like Plato and Aristotle made significant contributions to the philosophy of language and logic, shaping the way we think about truth, validity, and argumentation, even nowadays. So, while you might not need to be fluent in Greek, Ancient, or Modern, a grasp of its key terms and philosophical history can indeed illuminate your path in philosophy, math, computer science, and beyond. There is a reason why Bill Gates was fascinated enough with Aristotele to ensure his top-shelf writings were kept private and only accessible to him. You can also see that spill over the Windows operating system (particularly W98 and older Vs) when you get a blue screen or black screen also known as Greek screen lol, cause you see a bunch of random Greek characters that make no sense, even to Greeks. Modern computers partially think Greek, and there is a good computational reason for that. Take this group of words for example and see how they translate into Greek: disease = νόσος (nosos) hospital = νοσοκομείο (nosokomio) nurse = νοσοκόμα (nosokoma) You might say “It all looks Greek to me”, but for a computer, it makes absolute sense, and it helps limit computational resources while maintaining maximum efficiency, as the correlation between these words is not only a conceptual one but also a grammatical and syntactical, meaning the computer will spend less time and resources in searching all the possibilities across all domains to find or conclude to these relations. What am I up to (BMIs part #1) Now, enough with the never-ending Greek dive. Let’s shake our minds and I’ll explain what I am up to, how it occurred to me, and how I non-surprisingly ended up stumbling upon the usual philosophical suspects who have thought and processed everything we’re struggling with today thousands of years ago already. It’s just sometimes hard for us to believe everything they say in a literal way, as it often implies that A. we are stupid, and B. that God or a creator of this environment exists which leads to C. we are artificial or fake. Modern humans tend to avoid any reality that suggests the above. As you might already know, I am on an active quest to switch my presence, and by extent contributions, from the web3 industry into the fascinating BMI industry (brain-machine-interfaces) for a plethora of good reasons. First, after almost 8 years in blockchain, I have a 360 understanding of the industry, the hurdles, the regulatory trajectory, the underlying infra and real tech, and the unavoidable monopoly. Not even talking about the often disgusting greed that makes up 99% of the rapidly growing sector nowadays. That helped me realize that there is nothing more I can contribute to this industry at this rate, as it is already a closed loop with a fixated future that no matter how much “decentralization” they’re selling through media narratives, will end up on the opposite side of what people are taught to envision. Blockchain is made for machines, even if it’s hard to grasp as a self-centered being who must justify everything, especially manmade tech, as something that has to benefit us personally, somehow. In the end, the true power of blockchain is the ability of , and for us being able to cultivate digital twins based on immutable records of our internet behavior. machines to cultivate an essence of time On the other hand, we have Quantum Computing, Bioinformatics and Genetic Engineering, Brain-Machine or Brain-Computer interfaces, and soon-to-be Permanent Realities (PR), emerging from XR endeavors and their intersection with BMIs. These industries might sound far-fetched for the untrained mind, but I assure you, they are just around the corner, and most importantly for me, they are at the stage, where blockchain was 10 years ago, meaning that there is room for contribution, ethical debate, and the trajectory has still multiple possibilities considering anyone can touch the steering wheel (for now). Of course, having almost 0 scientific background, I had to get up to speed, so I started to study research papers, watch YouTube talks on the subject, connect with industry leaders and pioneers, and do market research in terms of startups, tech, talent, VCs, etc. in the space, and finally educate myself hands-on on some of the elements and verticals through which broader industries contribute to BMIs. Being almost married to Coursera, I jumped into a cherry-picked group of classes that I thought would help me get a better grasp of BMIs both on a theoretical and practical level. I am happy to share my list: The Brain and Space by Duke University Synapses, Neurons, and Brains by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Introduction to Logic by Standford University Computational Neuroscience by the University of Washington Introduction to Quantum Information by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Bioinformatics for Beginners by the University of California San Diego *Depending on your transferable skills, you might need to get a course on molecular biology, organic chemistry, linear algebra, statistical tables, and well, the Greek language, lol. Long story short, In multiple cases, I came across the importance of Greek syntax and philosophical principles especially when it comes to defining things, finding truths, and validating information. As for why am I doing this, as explained above, I believe that there is infinite space for experimentation, pivoting, debate, and trajectory direction, both on the infra and tech/science side of things, as well as the business, regulatory, and ethical facades of this fascinating straight-outta-movie industry. After talking with friends deep in the gov and regulatory sectors like Eva Kaili, Dimitrios Psarrakis, Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, and Dimitris Dimitriadis, among others, I realized that we don’t even have a clean regulatory picture of who is working on brain implants at the moment, who is funding them, and how is it regulated - if it is in any way (spoiler alert: it isn’t lol). There are a bunch of narrative-intensive plays like Musk’s Neuralink, and the German-heavy Blackrock Neurotech, among hundreds of genuine startups in the space that know what they’re doing, but also those who focus solely on narrative and marketing. Separating noise from facts becomes easier once you get the basics and start to understand how this tech could work and how it could never work, and it usually all boils down to information theory, syntax, security & privacy, etc. Before we dive deeper into BMIs, let’s take a side road where I explain how I believe in our brains based on a series of experiences, and what I learned from the . information is being categorized LSD Ancient Greeks LSD intel exchange and categorization Although I’d love to talk about my acid trips for days (maybe in another post), I will focus on information gathering, storage, zipping and archiving, and most importantly categorization and hierarchical relations. During my experiences while under the influence of lysergic diethylamine, I had the opportunity to attract and subtract information from and to various domains, some beyond the physical and digital boundaries of information we normally perceive on an everyday basis. If you’ve tried LSD you know what I’m talking about, and if not, When you consume LSD you get to listen to all the stations in a specific spectrum or range of frequencies, sometimes even simultaneously. imagine that you’re a radio always tuned to a specific station (physical reality), and sometimes you can switch to an alt station (digital reality, social media, metaverse, etc.) The types of information, even if they’re most of the times cloudy and nonsensical af, bear some “traits”, similar to NFTs 🤭, which help you better categorize them, even if you are not aware consciously of where the information came from and what it is about. Like trying to read an .exe file on a Mac. It won’t work out unless you wear a Windows simulator (which is the equivalent of what LSD does to your OS), but you can at least flag it and categorize it for future use. My experience, and it seems to be a universal perception, reveals that there are and be worked towards something. So, don’t take anything you’re about to read literally, but try to think of it as logical practices to understand the relation, category, and hierarchy of information inside our brains: 3 main distinguishable types of information that can be picked up by the organic processor (brain) this type of information occupies most of our intel carrying slots, and it is temporal, For instance, an ice cream brand, or a paper straw. A manmade wall. A mortgage. A police car. What makes this information Green is that it can be denied at any moment and it wouldn’t affect the bigger movement or life itself. Eg. if you forget about that ice cream or the cops, life won’t get into a threatening trajectory, no matter how important you might perceive some of these info pieces are in the short run. Green flagged information: short-term, and one could say non-essential or non-important information. this type of information is hierarchically more important than Green, and it . Fire would be the perfect example of Yellow information. Any green information combined with fire, may it be paper, cars, walls, humans, or animals, will tend to become carbon sooner or later, while fire will remain fire. It is also more important than Green information because if you forget about fire, then the chances for a trajectory that leads to devastating futures rise like crazy, but it’s still not at the top of information classes. Yellow flagged information: directly affects and influences Green information packages, without being influenced by Green information the top, or at least, what our brain perceives as the most important information are Red info packs. These packs are always occupying the exact same space in our intel slots, and there are never more or less across beings, while Green and Yellow info are liquid from person to person. For example, if all our slots of info are 10. Then 1, not less than 1, and only 1, is Red. Then 2-4 are Yellow, and the rest are Green depending on how many Yellow. A typical human would look like 1R-3Y-6G. Stuff so important that it cannot be in your discretion to influence, but it feels sort of autonomous and automatic. Red flagged information: Red information is something like the ROM of who we are. They contain information related to your species, how you walk, how you breathe, how your heart beats etc. I have attempted to recreate alt versions of selves with eg. only green only yellow or only red or mix the balance in different ways to see what happens and it never works out. The information is already pre-distributed perfectly. Eg. When I was immature, I thought that if Red is rare and the best type of info, creating a unit with only Red info would mean he would be like Superman or something. Instead, the subject looked like Magikarp out of the water. That was because it was absolutely sure that it had to walk and breathe, but also swim and take water in, but also fly, and flop its wings, all at the same time, simultaneously, causing awkward paralysis. Red information is distributed only once per unit for a good reason. Again, don’t take the above literally, but rather try to think of the relation between different types of information our brain has access to. The Greek syntactical parallelism I discussed this idea with my good friend Andronikos Koulis who has a background in linguistic psychology, philosophy, and political history, and who helped me better phrase the types of information, in accordance with Aristotelian or Platonic principles for communication. You can switch Green with , Yellow with , and Red with . Γνώμη (Opinion or Proposition) Γνώση (Gnosis or Knowledge) Πίστη (Faith or Belief) In this case, your opinions are short-term and non-important, meaning that they can change or be denied at any moment. An opinion is gossiping, or speculating about the next bull market. Gnosis represents established knowledge based on experience and accumulated opinions and mistakes that compound into solid truths. That could be for example the fact that you know when you wake up you will go to the bathroom. It’s not an opinion and you don’t debate with yourself before you fall asleep thinking “Should I go to the bathroom tomorrow”? No. It’s fixed. Not forever, but it’s long—term. Finally, your faith and belief are hierarchically the top—shelf category of information that can alter, and influence the previous two even if defying logic is at play. For example, a religious fanatic who believes he will go to heaven if he blows up taking 100 people with him, might be delusional to common logic, but in his head, since it’s not an opinion, and it’s not just knowledge but occupies faith slots, it is the subject’s sole reality. Faith comes both as true and false beliefs and both will have the same effect because what matters is the type of information and not its validity. Usually, false faith reveals its corrosion sooner or later. Eg. people who believe in money, eventually realize that money is not important. People who believe in a specific personified God and not in the notion of the creator, eventually realize that this specific figure doesn’t exist, etc. True faith is undeniable, and once you tap into it, you can never erase it, although it is extremely rare, and it doesn’t occur, you are rather tuned in a way to understand what has been already there, even before you. It is now here that you think about it, and it will be when you will not. BMIs part #2 In this context, you can analogize the importance of categorizing and understanding informational hierarchy, way before we start implanting chips inside our brains 🤖🧠. This is not just a regulatory, technical, or ethical concern, but it affects the preservational aspect of mankind as we know it. In short, the reason I boldly label Neuralink and other similar attempts a narrative-intensive scam is because not only they haven’t solved that hierarchical part, but they haven’t even thought of it, being naive and greedy af. You could simply inject information into the brain in the form of signals and action potential or spikes, or even stimulate the brain in ways that control Sodium/Potassium equilibrium in the brain to generate artificial liquidity of hormones and other stimulants. I mean you could, if you’re a money maker, but you CAN’T if you really wanna interact with the brain in a pragmatic way. An analogical example: Imagine that you have a BMI installed and you want to install a skillware (this will make more sense in the near future), eg. learn the English language or Karate in a matter of minutes or even seconds. It’s one thing to be able to translate the actual intel into mechanical signals, into electricity, into chemistry, and vice versa, and a completely different thing, to know what type of information you’re installing into the brain, and which hierarchical slot it should be occupying. If we don’t do this the correct delicate way the brain and Ancients dictated, then eg. The same if you install Karate for example, not in the appropriate channels, and instead install it with a hierarchy of faith or belief, then the user might start beating the shit out of people on the street for no reason because he doesn’t just know Karate, but he believes, and breathes Karate. if you install the English language into Green or Opinion slots, then the user might think he knows English, but he won’t really know it. This was originally posted via my Emerging Realities newsletter. Subscribe for free for more stories of this nature . here Outro For that reason, I am trying to figure out how to combine all the different puzzle pieces to ensure we don’t treat BMIs as another fancy tech, but we are aware of the long-term implications of intel displacement, and wrong categorization and hierarchy of information. We should be aware of science and tech, sure, but there are things beyond these aspects, that you can only learn if you look deeper than books and internet pages. You have to look beyond logic, philosophy, and the idea of God, and be prepared to encounter truths and faiths that might alter your entire being. Otherwise, it clearly smells like yet another cash grab with greed being the top driving force of “innovation”. Happy to elaborate further, discuss, and debate on the subject. Hit me on socials and I will most likely answer asap. Till next time, I wish you wake up every day with a passion for life and not fake consistency for money or views or muscles and glutes that will never be used outside Instagram. 🥰 I love you. Ross Peili Also published . here

Greek Syntax & Propositional Logic In Philosophy, Math, CS & Beyond

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The HackerNoon team spent a couple of hours learning about each other, what we have in common and what divides us. In a long thread on the HackerNoon Slack, we went down to the nitty-gritty of our personalities. A thread so complex with all our personality types that we almost broke HackerNoon! After careful analysis, we managed to clarify our intakes about each other and how it complements the group. Continue reading to discover what you have in common with our A-team! The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung, understandable and useful in people's lives. It focuses on determining how people perceive themselves and the world around them, and the judgments that come from it. It takes into account the following metrics: Favorite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world? Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances? Structure: In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options? Let’s review the personality categories! Starting with Analysts, these intuitive and thinking personality types are known for their rationality, impartiality and intellectual excellence. This category is divided by: Architects (INTJ): imaginative and strategic thinkers with a plan for everything. Logicians (INTP): innovative inventors with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Commanders (ENTJ): bold, imaginative and strong-willed leaders, always finding a way - or making one. Debaters (ENTP): smart and curious thinkers who can’t resist an intellectual challenge. Diplomats, on the other hand, are intuitive and feeling personality types, known for their empathy, diplomatic skills and passionate idealism. If you’re a diplomat then you probably fall under one of these subcategories: Advocate (INFJ): quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists. Mediator (INFP): poetic, kind and altruistic people, always eager to help a good cause. Protagonist (ENFJ): charismatic and inspiring leaders, able to mesmerize their listeners. Campaigner (ENFP): enthusiastic, creative and sociable free spirits, who can always find a reason to smile. Sentinels are observant and judging personality types, known for their practicality, focus on order, security and stability. If you relate to this, you may be a: Logistician (ISTJ): practical and fact-minded individuals, whose reliability cannot be doubted. Defender (ISFJ): very dedicated and warm protectors, always ready to defend their loved ones. Executive (ESTJ): excellent administrators, unsurpassed at managing things - or people. Consul (ESFJ): extraordinarily caring, social and popular people, always eager to help. Lastly, let’s talk about Explorers. This observant and prospecting personality types love spontaneity, ingenuity and flexibility. Explorers divide themselves into: Virtuoso (ISTP): bold and practical experimenters, masters of all kinds of tools. Adventurer (ISFP): flexible and charming artists, always ready to explore and experience something new. Entrepreneur (ESTP): smart, energetic and very perceptive people, who truly enjoy living on the edge. Entertainers (ESFP): spontaneous, energetic and enthusiastic people - life is never boring around them. You can take your own Myers-Briggs personality test . here Now that we covered the basics, and we’re all on the same page, it’s time we go back to the fateful day of August 24, 2022 - the day we found out we had no one in the Explorer category. Starting with the Analysts An Architect is defined by the following personality traits: introverted, intuitive, thinking and judging. If you are looking for detail-oriented creative perfectionists, then it’s the Architect you want. In the HackerNoon team, our editor, Jose, and software developer, Guy, are the architects. is our Scottish superstar developer. He join the HackerNoon team back in April of 2020 and has been building cool shit with us ever since. Guy Torbet As for his personality test, Guy scored high on the thinking scale (84%), with an inclination towards judging (54%) and turbulence (57%). Much like everyone else on the team, as you’ll see if you keep reading this post, he’s an introvert (57%) and fairly intuitive (59%). Wait to go! is a Junior Editor at HackerNoon, with a long history of prior partnerships with the company before. Jose Hernandez When it comes to Myers-Briggs testing, Jose will surely break the scale! Our introvert king is no one other than Jose, scoring an impressive 100%. He also scores high on the thinking (62%) and intuition (65%) flanks, with a flair for turbulence. Aug 24, 2022, 9:01 PM Marcos Fabian Jose Hernandez be like! You’re probably right, Marcos! It’s Logicians’ time! I guess you can say we’re very prolific in that department. We have not one, not two, but four Logistian among our team! But before we spoil their identities, let’s take a look at what being a Logistician actually means. A Logician (INTP) is an introverted, intuitive, thinking and prospecting person, characterized by flexible thinking and unconventional approaches to life. They pride themselves on their unique perspectives and robust intellect. Okay, enough foreplay! Here are our team’s Logicians! I’m not sure if being a Logician has anything to do with ’s role as HackerNoon’s CEO, but the fact is he falls into the assertive (63%) and prospecting spectrum (51%), making him the ideal candidate for a leadership role. David Smooke David also scored 57% on the introvert scale, 52% on the thinking scale and 68% on the intuitive scale, following the previous members’ suit, percentage-wise. Hey, Utsav! It’s your time to shine! graduated from India's top dental college and decided to become a writer instead. At HackerNoon, he is the VP of Business Development and Blockchain Editor. What a guy! Utsav Jaiswal I think we’re sensing a trend in leadership here: Utsav showed a 99% (WHAT?!) on the prospecting scale and a lovely 67% on the assertiveness scale. He’s also big on thinking (78%), intuition (54%) and introversion (78%). dreamt of making it in the music industry but ended up becoming a journalist instead. Sheharyar Khan He’s a turbulent logician (76%) and also scores high in the introverted (72%), intuitive (65%), thinking (52%) and prospecting (58%) scales. Now, onto our lady in green: . Daria is a digital marketing strategist at HackerNoon, where she helps the online community of hackers grow, interact and develop. Daria Kulish As for her results, like her predecessors, she exhibits a 68% score in introversion, 56% in intuition, 64% in thinking and an impressive 85% in prospecting. However, she falls into the turbulent category, with 72%. Let’s Talk About The Diplomats Oh, Advocates, how you change the world! An Advocate (INFJ) is someone with introverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging personality traits. They approach life with deep thoughtfulness and imagination. Idealistic and principled, they want to stand up and make a difference, seeking success in fulfillment, helping others, and being a force for good in the world. Truly an inspiration! But who are our real-life Jon Snows (yes, he’s an advocate)? Kicking us off, Ms. ! Our COO always makes sure the light is on at HackerNoon, growing the traffic, revenue and team quality. Linh Dao Smooke Linh is one of the assertive types of advocate (86%), falling high also in the introverted scale (75%) and judging scale (69%). Feeling (63%) and intuition (58%) also make her at one with the team. Haaaave you met, ? Limarc is our VP of Editorial and SEO Strategist, interested in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and video games. Limarc Ambalina Limarc is a turbulent advocate (Gen Z trait?) and it shows (61%). Luckily for us, he’s quite balanced: 55% introverted, 76% intuitive, 51% feeling and 53% judging. Let’s fly to the other side of the world. is a marketing and editorial assistant for HackerNoon who takes improvisation to heart. Mónica Freitas You might think her the turbulent type, but she scores high on the assertive scale (74%) and judging scale (53%). She leads with feelings (64%) and holds intuition (53%) and introversion (51%) in a thin-blade equilibrium. Mediators (INFP) are introverted prospectors with an inclination towards intuition and feelings. These personality types tend to be quiet, open-minded, and imaginative, and they apply a caring and creative approach to everything they do. Idealistic and empathetic, Mediators long for deep relationships and feel called to help others. is HackerNoon’s VP of Product. He comes from a background in manufacturing where he orchestrated various pieces of hardware to build things on assembly lines while collecting data to make charts and graphs. Richard Kubina He scored some lovely 66% introvert, 68% intuitive, 52% feeling, 72% prospecting, 57% turbulent. is our Design Lead, in charge of managing subpages, and creating designs and motion graphics. Kien Dao 57% introverted, 63% intuitive, 66% feeling, 51% prospecting and 69% turbulent - pretty much in sync with HackerNoon! is a curious wanderer. You can call her a late bloomer. She enjoys reading and editing HackerNoon stories while making sales skyrocket! Sidra Ijaz Sidra has a well-balanced inner world: 59% introvert, 57% turbulent, 53% prospecting, 56% feeling and 54% intuitive. The most zen person on the team for sure! is a full-stack developer, and he works at breaking more things than building. Jeferson Borba He is 86% introverted - maybe not as impressive after Jose’s results - 68% intuitive, 64% feeling, 67% prospecting, and 67% assertive. A Campaigner (ENFP) is someone with extraverted, intuitive, prospecting and feeling traits. These people are free spirits – outgoing, openhearted, and open-minded - but they also long for meaningful, emotional connections with other people. Introducing the first extrovert (56%)... . He has a background in Website Development and joined the team in 2021. Beni Mahat Beni is an assertive campaigner (65%), with an inclination to prospecting (68%), feeling (54%) and intuition (79%). Are you the main character? is a content writer and Editor for HackerNoon. He loves film, literature, video games, and drinks by the pier. Asher Umerie Asher is the turbulent (53%), intuitive (72%), feeling (52%) and prospecting (51%) type. Seems like extroversion really is a campaigner’s trait - Asher is not far behind Beni, with 52% on his scale. Sentinels, Your Turn! We reached our beloved Logisticians (ISTJ). They put the order in Law & Order. These creatures of habit are the ones you want to have around when it comes to organizing. They are top tier to establish a routine with structure and stability along with an unquestionable sense of duty to help others. Logisticians can’t stand missing deadlines! They guide themselves by dependability and personal integrity. Meet our All Hands boss: keeps us all on our toes and works on general operational, administrative, and financial activities. Hang Ngo Hang is 79% introverted, 62% observant, 75% thinking, 65% judging, and 76% turbulent. Quite the woman! is an Editor at Hackernoon and he loves everything from business to video games and fitness. Zaeem Shoaib Zaeem is 58% introverted, 62% observant, 58% thinking, 76% judging, and 65% assertive. Judge potential right here! Are you ready for our last Sentinel? is a typical Portuguese gal who loves true crime series. She’s fully aware that she’s an organizing maniac, and she’s working on it. Sara is 58% introverted, 60% observant, 57% thinking, 85% judging, and 65% turbulent. Sara Consul (ESFJ) is known for being a helper. They are the euphemism for positive energy and cheerfulness. This personality is the definition of a people person, and they enjoy sharing their life with their social community. Meet , a senior full-stack developer, in charge of developing and improving cool apps. Marcos Fabian Marcos is 54% extroverted, 52% observant, 67% feeling, 86% judging, and 56% assertive. Will he take the judging cake? In the end, what have we learned about the team… As a group, we’re pretty introverted, and when I say pretty I actually mean 83%! And the same goes for intuition. What this tells us is that, as a team, we prefer to exercise our imaginations and inner world as we seek new ideas and possibilities, questioning, wondering, and connecting the dots in the “bigger picture.” Our team is also big on feeling, prospecting and turbulence, meaning they tend to follow their hearts and emotions and are caring, compassionate, and warm. Moreover, HackerNoon’s team is much more flexible when it comes to dealing with unexpected challenges, which helps them seize unexpected opportunities as well. Finally, the group tends to be more anxious, self-conscious, and perfectionist. HackerNoon’s biggest percentage of personality types falls under the Diplomats category, with 4 Mediators, 3 Advocates, and 2 Campaigners. In the Analyst category, Logicians stand out with 4 members with the Architect type. This means that the bulk of the team cares about helping and connecting with others, prioritizing being kind and generous, and cooperation over competition. Empathy seems to come naturally to these personalities. As for the creme de la creme, here are the human hyperbolas: Jose Hernandez is the most introverted (100%) Utsav Jaiswal is the most likely to change his mind (99% prospecting) Marcos Fabian is the least likely to change his mind  (86% judging) and the most likely to lead with his feelings (67%) Linh is the most assertive (86%) Hang is the most turbulent (76%) Guy is the most thoughtful (84%) Beni is the most intuitive (79%) Hang and Sara tie as the most observant (62%) Asher is the most extroverted (56%) Sidra is the most balanced (50+% for all things) Marcos is the most unique personality (Consul) To our shock, we have no one in the Explorer category. My money would be on artists and performers, Linh. But I prefer to keep my eye on the immediate perks of this test, just like Hang!

HackerNoon and the Time We Took the 16 Personalities Test

HackerNoon এবং সময় আমরা 16 ব্যক্তিত্ব পরীক্ষা নিলাম

HackerNoon und die Zeit, als wir den 16-Persönlichkeitstest machten

HackerNoon y el momento en que tomamos la prueba de 16 personalidades

HackerNoon et le moment où nous avons passé le test des 16 personnalités

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HackerNoon と 16 の性格テストを受けた時間

HackerNoon과 16가지 성격 테스트를 실시한 시간

HackerNoon e a hora em que fizemos o teste das 16 personalidades

HackerNoon ve 16 Kişilik Testini Yaptığımız Zaman

HackerNoon và thời gian chúng tôi làm bài kiểm tra 16 tính cách

HackerNoon 和我们参加 16 人格测试的时间

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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine To Generations Z’s and Millennials born after the Cold War like myself, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looks like an ancient relic from a dark and chilling past in human history. Considering the prosperity that I and everyone I know personally was born into, it seems absurd to sacrifice human lives for a country to extend its land borders. With the globalization, the ubiquitous internet, and the digital opportunities that exist today, the very idea of land borders is insignificant. However, against all anticipation, the world is now witnessing a new WW2 scenario close at hand. It is playing out in my East European backyard. The NATO countries are prevented from interfering too much in the conflict due to Russia’s largest-in-the-world nuclear arsenal. The slightest risk of a nuclear battle between East and West compels countries to err on the side of caution. As a result, principles of public international law are difficult to enforce — even when we are witnessing a crime against humanity taking place. [1] Beyond imposing financial sanctions on Russia, and providing humanitarian support and military equipment to Ukraine, there are massive efforts from the global civilization to support Ukraine against the attack. Wars of the past have been broadcasted on radio transmissions and flow- tv, but web 2.0 and web 3.0 provide a two-way street communication channel with a global reach. Global society seems to agree that Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine is based on an antiquated, black-and-white world view that belongs nowhere in the 21st Century. On the other hand, Ukraine is considered to be one of the most tech-savvy nations in the world. And while Russian media outlets are changing facts about the war, and shielding their citizens from Facebook, Twitter, and international news portals , Ukraine is backed by the global community thanks to modern-day IT. [2] In this post, I will run through some of the ways that IT is being leveraged in support of Ukraine. This post was in part inspired by a tweet from Whitney Merrill How Information Technology Is Leveraged to Support Ukraine First of all, social media providers and users are helping to silence and expose Russia’s propaganda apparatus. While Russian television channels are showing chat shows, old movies, and debates with experts that down-play or deny that an invasion is taking place , the global information ecosystem helps to spread reliable information from trusted news sources. [3] State-owned media outlets like RT (Russia Today) and Sputnik are from various social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok to avoid the spread of fake news. blocked Facebook and Twitter are on systematic misinformation campaigns where post misleading content to sway public opinion. increasing their focus fake accounts with GAN-generated photos Google follows in the footsteps of Twitter and Snapchat and all advertisement in Russia. pauses The censorship of intentionally misleading information ensures a more factful news flow. But the true power that social media holds over printed magazines and other one-sided communication channels is the reach, scope, and depth of how a message can spread. Just think of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s, powerful . Or his for civilians to defend the country. Thanks to the global communication networks, these messages can reach tens of millions of people within hours. speech to the Russian people request on Twitter Other prominent examples of important messages that are spread are the Ukrainian leaders’ for an IT army, their for foreigners to join the Ukrainian defense forces, their in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USTD, and . attempt to gather digital talents official invitation call for donations plea to private companies for help Among many others, Elon Musk has answered the calls by providing Ukraine with , the world’s fastest satellite internet system, within 12 hours after by the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister. access to Starlink he was asked to Never have a war been so well-documented, from hour to hour and minute to minute. Almost everything is being tracked in full publicity. Like the to Ukraine, on a crowd-funded online map, and the whereabouts of . amount of crypto donations military incidents Russian oligarchs’ private jets The app is a platform that gathers all kinds of resources to support Ukraine, including funds, medical supplies, shelter, asylum requests, journalism efforts, technology, legal advice, and information about local peaceful protests. StandWithUkraine [4] Similarly, is helping to connect humans in tech with humans in need. On the non-for-profit organization offers border info, a map of available locations for food and shelter, missile alerts, and more. TechforUkraine LeaveUkraine.com There are so many initiatives going on. Volunteer editors to cover events as they unfold. LA Times on how to prepare Molotov cocktails. Airbnb is up to 100.00 Ukrainian refugees for free. with support music for Ukraine are being made. Russian soldiers are , and OnlyFans model to Ukrainian clients. use Wikipedia makes TikTok videos aiming to host Spotify playlists looking for love on Tinder gives out discounts Memes, GIFs, tweets, videos, images, live streams are flooding the web to bring every person’s attention to the crisis. And people are helping however they can. The so-called “attention economy” may finally serve a noble, humanitarian purpose. Private messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram are widely used for secure end-to-end encrypted communication for people in Ukraine (although Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default ). Also, the use of privacy-preserving tools such as that helps with online anonymity has recently seen a [5] Tor Project spike in Ukraine. And then we have the blockchain and Web 3.0 initiatives. As Jesus said: [6] “ ” Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. Bitcoin and other digital currencies are intangible assets that circumvent the banks. They cannot be destroyed by moths and rust or stolen by thieves. This tweet illustrates what I mean: Huge efforts from the web 3.0 community are made to raise funds for Ukrainian organizations and people. Prominent examples of initiatives are , , and . UkraineDAO RELI3F unchain.fund Conclusion In conclusion, Ukraine is supported financially, humanitarianly, and with equipment from countries, companies, and civilians. They are attracting some of the best freedom fighters of the world and have the full moral support of the international communication system. On the other side, Russia as a nation is being “cancelled”. No democratic country wants to have anything to do with them. I don’t think it’s much different from how “the woke movement” has cance                                                            led predatory celebrities, offensive comedians, and certain historical figures of the past. The phenomenon of “cancel culture” is now taking on an entire country. As a result, I believe that Russia will be ostracized and its past great achievement will be overshadowed by dread and distaste from the international community, perhaps for decades to come. Zack Beauchamp (Feb 25, 2022) Why the US won’t send troops to Ukraine -> (27–02–2022). [1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/25/22949351/ukraine-russia-us-troops-no-fly-zone-nuclear-weapons (Twitter) (28–02–2022). [2] https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/russia-ukraine-crisis-russia-blocks-access-to-twitter-facebook-news-portals-7800423/ Andrew Roth (The Guardian 26. Feb), ‘Don’t call it a war’ — propaganda filters the truth about Ukraine on Russian media -> [3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/26/propaganda-filters-truth-ukraine-war-russian-media Daria Kulish (March 2022), Tech Stands with Ukraine: Top 15 Companies Supporting Ukraine Following Russia’s invasion [4] https://hackernoon.com/tech-stands-with-ukraine-top-15-companies-supporting-ukraine-following-russias-invasion (05–03–2022). [5] https://mashable.com/article/russia-telegram-encryption Matthew 6:19–21. [6]

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In simple terms, transfer learning is a machine learning approach where a model that is already trained on a specific data set and developed for a specific task is reused as the starting point for training on a different data set for a different task. Transfer learning is a popular approach for model training, and pre-trained computer vision and natural language processing models are used commonly as a starting point for specific user applications. At Modzy, our models are designed to work out of the box for your specific applications, but we also provide the option for via CPU, utilizing transfer learning and domain adaptation so that our models are even more tailored to your specific applications. retraining What You Need to Know Transfer learning works surprisingly well in a plethora of applications focused around computer vision and natural language processing ([1]). Transfer learning and domain adaptation refer to situations where what was learned in one setting is exploited to improve generalization in another setting ([2]). There is always a distribution mismatch between the source and target data distribution, but the reason for the mismatch differs from one setting to another. Transfer learning and domain adaptation approaches are designed to address this issue. The problem to solve here is a challenging one because one of the core assumptions in the science of machine learning is that the training and test data sets the same probability distribution. However, this is not the case in real-world applications. Thus, it is important to leverage the existing source knowledge possessed by the model after training for the source task to solve a different target problem, given that the source and target may exhibit a distribution mismatch ([3]). The underlying assumption made for transfer learning and domain adaptation is that the source and target domains differ in terms of marginal data distributions, but that the labeled data sets for the two domains are the same.  There are also cases where the marginal distributions of the source and target data sets are related, but the source and target tasks have different labeled data sets. Depending on the specific application, the transferred knowledge can be in the form of data instances, feature representations, or model parameters. In our specific solution, we focus on features learned when the model was trained on the source data set for the source task, then adapt those features to a new target data set and target task. As an example, if we have a YOLO-based object detection model for detecting buildings in a specific data set, the features learned by that model can be utilized on the target data set to detect buildings in a data set with a different pixel distribution; this is done by performing a limited re-training for a few of layers in the YOLO model. Modzy Approach to Transfer Learning & Retraining At Modzy, we approach transfer learning and domain adaptation from a “learning to learn” perspective. The learning to learn ability, shared by humans and animals, implies that as a biological cognitive system gains more experience, it becomes better at learning new tasks. We train our models on large data sets consisting of data points from different probability distributions. Our objective is that our pre-trained models should have a very low generalization error. Further, we provide the opportunity for customized retraining of some of our models on the user’s data set. Our retraining option occurs under the following conditions: Limited time and computation power. Retraining of our models should take only a short time and require only limited computation resources, but should enhance performance on the user’s data set. Retraining is done according to the science behind feature-based transfer learning and domain adaptation. As an example, a deep learning model used for re-training will have most of its layers frozen, and the re-training of the model will only affect the weights in a few layers so that the features learned previously are utilized more efficiently for the new application and data set. What this means for you Continual learning or learning to learn is an important topic in the AI field. Domain adaptation and transfer learning are important emerging solutions in the field of continual learning for computer vision and natural language processing tasks. At Modzy, we develop our models to not only perform well on a range of datasets and applications, but also to transfer well to very specific applications for which large datasets may not exist.  We use limited re-training options based on transfer learning and domain adaptation to bridge the probability distribution gap between the source and target dataset to minimize the effects of domain-induced changes in the learned feature distribution. In this way, we can reduce the generalization error as we apply a model to different tasks. References Torrey, J. Shavlik, Transfer Learning (Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends: Algorithms, Methods, and Techniques) Goodfellow, Y. Bengio, A. Courville, Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) Saenko, B. Kulis, M. Fritz, and T. Darrell, Adapting visual category models to new domains. https://scalable.mpi-inf.mpg.de/files/2013/04/saenko_eccv_2010.pdf

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In this AMA, Sirisilp from Perception talks about , desktop AR, and holographic NFTs. Holo-SDK This AMA thread by Anthony Watson, Daria Kulish, Amy Tom, David Smooke, Linh Smooke, Mcsee, Katarina, Arthur Tkachenko, and Sirisilp occurred in slogging's official #amas channel, and has been edited for readability. Slogging Hey everyone! My name is Sirislip (aka Rabbit). I created an SDK for Desktop AR tech called Holo-SDK. I have been working on Desktop AR for more than 10 years (throughout my master and PhD studies). I am very honoured for being here :) So I prepare a detailed introduction about what we do for you guys! Desktop AR is a technique that enables laptop and desktop computers to produce AR effect without needing a phone or a headset. It creates the illusion of 3D objects floating in front of a screen by rendering red-blue 3D images according to a user's viewing position. User can download the play Desktop AR apps by using their computer, webcam, and anaglyph glasses. More about Desktop AR here ( ) -You get the holographic experience and seeing things floating in front of the screen. Here is a YouTube demo of what it felt like when playing a Desktop AR ( ). Yes, the colour will be a bit purple-ish because of the red-blue glasses. If that is what bothers you, you can also use an active/passive 3D display to overcome this issue. -Users do not need to have AR glasses or a headset, which tends to be pricy. Desktop AR utilizes hardware that everyone already has and red-blue glasses that are available online for a low price. This also means that more potential users for your Desktop AR applications. -More immersive than mobile AR. Mobile AR's experience is limited by small display size and lack of stereoscopic. Unlike Desktop AR and AR glasses, Mobile AR enhances the realism of a video that a user sees on a device, rather than enhancing the viewing experience of the user directly. You can make Desktop AR apps by using Holo-SDK. Holo-SDK is a unity plugin. You can download and start developing going to ( ). We do have a free developer license there, so you can play with the tech without cost. We also have documents ( ), so that you can use the SDK easier. We have been using it to improve the learning experience for students. The students were very engaged, and we had a lot of fun. Moreover, we are working with world-class museums on a holographic exhibition project. So that everyone can have a museum experience at home! Check out an article about our educational workshop on the UK government website here: You may think - great another person jumping onto the NFT bandwagon And you are right! But please let me elaborate because I really see an opportunity for improving the arts, culture, education and software sectors here :) Let's start by looking at normal NFT. Most of them are pictures and intangible. For example, NFT of a Perseverance Mars rover is just picture of the rover. Even though the image is officially minted and sold by NASA, you can google it and find it. Why pay so much money for it? Now consider an alternative use case, instead of a picture, NASA mints a holographic figurine using Desktop AR tech. You can experience the rover as if it is floating in front of your screen. You can control who access your Holo-NFT. You can lend it Desktop AR apps and receive dividend from your NFT. Your Holo-NFT is one of the kind asset and not available on the net. Users, Holo-NFT collectors and Desktop AR developers will be tapping into holographic contents and support content creators like museums and 3D artist. So that they can digitize more historical artefacts or create awesome 3D arts. Looking forward to getting to know everyone here and your question! Sorry for a long post. Here is a potato :potato: Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 5:25 AM What is Desktop AR? https://www.holo-sdk.com/how-desktopar-works What's cool about it? https://youtu.be/cuvJxsB285k How to make your own Desktop AR app? https://www.holo-sdk.com/get-started https://docs.holo-sdk.com/docs/holo-sdk-manual/overview/ What can Holo-SDK be used for? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thai-uk-augmented-reality-company-perception-codes-brings-students-on-immersive-journey-to-mars Holo-NFT??? ( https://www.morpheus.art/ ) How is your description of NFT any different from existing DRM? anthony watson Apr 7, 2021, 11:59 AM anthony watson Yes, you are right! It is a form of Digital Right Management. In a way, we are integrating into NFT. We can do so because the holographic representation is not a common file format that anyone can access publicly on the internet. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:07 PM I had the pleasure of testing some of the Holo-SDK apps your team created. Great work on those! When I found the right angle and adjusted the settings the experience was quite good. It's amazing that this technology is possible without a special computer or hardware. However, in my opinion there is room for error in the current model (IPD settings, position of the red-blue glasses, how far the person is sitting from the screen, etc.) Are you working on V2 improvements that can cut down some of this room for error? Limarc Ambalina Apr 7, 2021, 2:29 PM Does the quality of your computer display and the quality of your camera affect the desktop AR experience at all? Limarc Ambalina Apr 7, 2021, 2:34 PM Limarc Ambalina Yes, we are working on the V2 to improve the accuracy and performance. This version of Holo-SDK is a form of MVP. We are testing it with the early adopters/developers to see that there is a market for it, and to see which feature should we implement or improve. Now that we have a majors project coming up with the museums, we will be releasing an improved version soon. Regarding the quality, one of the most common issues is ghosting (seeing double image). It caused by a picture of one eye leak to another. The level of ghosting can change depending on the type of the display and type of the anaglyph glasses. For example, we find that paper anaglyph glasses produce a much better experience than more expensive plastic glasses. As for the head tracking, it depends more on the lighting environment. Using it with a light on will give much better tracking than using Holo-SDK in a dark room because the software is tracking the user from RGB images. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:14 PM Amazing project! Can you share more about Holo-SDK collaboration with museums? Daria Kulish Apr 7, 2021, 4:33 PM Daria Kulish We are finalizing the details of the project with the museums. Tentatively, we will use museums' 3D model, label text and information to create Desktop AR apps. Then we will be distributing 20,000 glasses to schools in the UK and Thailand. So that students can learn about historical artefacts as if they are floating in front of the screen. We have created multiple workshops with schools, the kids love it :) Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:18 PM Thanks for doing an AMA! Do you see a use case for this in a sales/marketing capacity? Amy Tom Apr 7, 2021, 6:02 PM Amy Tom Regarding sales and marketing, yes I do see many use case for it. In a way, the purpose of the Holo-Exhibition project with museums is to demonstrate how Holo-SDK can be used for PR and marketing. I see a similar trend with mobile-based AR in the past, where IKEA apps and Pokemon go. Those apps show the public and other brands how mobile-AR can create a new experience for the customers. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:27 PM Woah AR NFTS!?! The energy cost to mint an NFT for an image are still through the roof imho. AR files and functions are much bigger. How big do you think the energy cost barrier is to minting NFTs for augmented reality? David Smooke Apr 7, 2021, 6:20 PM David Smooke Yes, the energy required and carbon footprint that NFT created is a huge concern. The energy requires to mint Holo-NFT is about the same as traditional NFT because it is just about creating a unique reference id to a file on IPFS. This does not mean energy consumption is not our concern. There will be two chains that 3D artist would be able to mint. The first one is on Ethereum. I do not have much control over that but I really looking forward to Ethereum 2 will improve the situation. The second chain is our semi-decentralized chain. Only certain organizations such as art gallery and museums will have a node on our chain, which reduce energy consumption drastically. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:34 PM hey Sirisilp Kongsilp (i think it’s so cool that your name starts with Siri haha) - What are the most important use cases for Holo-SDK that you already implemented and what are some of the ones you look forward to do but not yet able to, and why? Linh Smooke Apr 7, 2021, 6:21 PM Linh Dao Smooke, Thanks 🙂 The most important one is education. From what I have seen, students really enjoy learning with it. I am looking forward to bring this AR/MR experience to less fortunate kids who do not have an access to VR/AR headsets in a rural area. What I want to see are games. My team are software engineers and researchers. We do not have that artistic quality to make beautiful games. ^^ Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:39 PM David Smooke Yes, the energy required and carbon footprint that NFT created is a huge concern. The energy requires to mint Holo-NFT is about the same as traditional NFT because it is just about creating a unique reference id to a file on IPFS. This does not mean energy consumption is not our concern. There will be two chains that 3D artist would be able to mint. The first one is on Ethereum. I do not have much control over that but I really looking forward to Ethereum 2 will improve the situation. The second chain is our semi-decentralized chain. Only certain organizations such as art gallery and museums will have a node on our chain, which reduce energy consumption drastically. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:34 PM Does Hollographic includes movies and sounds or just pictures? mcsee Apr 7, 2021, 6:30 PM mcsee Not just pictures. It includes interactive 3D content, sounds, movie and pictures (as sprite). You can arrange those media anywhere in the 3D space. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:43 PM Hello Sirisilp Kongsilp 👋 For artists interested in submitting to the Morpheus project: Do you have any advice they should keep in mind before submitting, considering there's a review process? Katarina Apr 7, 2021, 6:43 PM Katarina For artists that join the project, we recommend testing the art using Holo-NFT viewer before submitting. Moreover, after joining, we are reaching out to the artist one by one. So that we can facilitate them in any way that we can. As well as getting feedback on what are the important features that we need to implement next. Are you an artist? :) Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:47 PM Please forgive me for my bad English. It is not my native language and it is almost 2 am in morning here 🙂 My head is a bit slow but I am honored to be here and sharing Holo-SDK with everyone. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:49 PM Nice. Do you just work on AR o also VR ? mcsee Apr 7, 2021, 6:54 PM Sirisilp Kongsilp Not an artist myself, though I find the concept amazing. It's good to know early adopters get direct support through the process. Thanks for the answer 🙂 Katarina Apr 7, 2021, 6:56 PM mcsee I have also worked with VR int he past. Mainly looking into how VR headset can help special students learn to perform daily life better. Here is a short paper I published about it. ( ) Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:57 PM https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359996.3364721?casa_token=Dyho9zSIfGMAAAAA:s9n3nnCKi1L3WDctWA5SoqI7tBbciQHsxS-qNePdMKgEQGSj0Vy6WCsRriogYpgdywwDR9prf7mOJg I hope I'm not late to join this party. How much time do you think will has gone by, before each of us will have a VR set at home and we'll start to work "at virtual companies, workspaces". like we doing it right now, but with much more comfort? Arthur Tkachenko Apr 7, 2021, 7:44 PM Arthur Tkachenko Honestly, I don't really see a future where people put on a headset and meet/mingle in a virtual building. Unless VR tech becomes so real like in the ready player one movie. I agree with you that what we are doing right now is much more comfortable and practical. Gamify education makes sense to me but gamify works do not. My personal opinion is that in the future, we come home, sitting in front of a computer and everything comes out of it holographically. This can be done using Desktop AR with a glasses-free 3D panel (autostereoscopic display). We can shop, play, communicate or work in this holographic environment. If you like to jump into a virtual environment, then you put on the headset. That is my personal take on the future :) Thank you for asking. Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 8, 2021, 4:19 AM Thank you for having me everyone! Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:59 PM Thanks for joining us for this quick AMA Sirisilp! And thanks for doing it late night your time. Limarc Ambalina Apr 7, 2021, 7:00 PM thank you. very exciting ! mcsee Apr 7, 2021, 7:00 PM If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask away. If you like, we can also connect on LinkedIn. Here is my profile: Sirisilp Kongsilp Apr 7, 2021, 6:53 PM https://www.linkedin.com/in/rabbit/

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