That was one of the most interesting developments in the already fascinating saga of Elm. Czaplicki gets a lot of flak, but it's almost all about how he keeps tight control of his language & ecosystem. No one duns him for brains, because he's clearly very smart. So when he says, "everything related to signals has been replaced with something simpler and nicer", it's news, eh?
> Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better.
Along with these, sustainability. Imagine finding balance and peace, but seeing clearly that the tools and techniques used to get and stay there are temporary. Pretty unsettling. We have to get there in ways that are long lasting and unlikely to change radically.
Appreciating and creating beauty isn't contingent on peace. Often art comes from a place of passion. I think freedom from emotional turmoil in the general sense would be enjoyed by everyone, I can agree in that capacity. However, that list of synonyms is rather ambiguous and to me elicits an imperative for impassivity, antithetical to striving towards anything. I guess it's a valid path if that suits your nature, but I'm getting more out of the human experience by evoking passions.
Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.
I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago.
Most schools today are still stuck into the factory model of 200 years ago. They are still trying to take uneducated peasant children and discipline them to mindlessly follow a 9-to-5 factory work schedule. Applying Montessori principles would be an improvement to most.
Regular people severely underestimate how outdated and unscientific the current model is. Everywhere.
And we know about this for more than 50 years and we've done very little to improve things.
One of my sisters made sure that my nephew was in a Montessori kindergarten. He went to a regular school afterwards but those Montessori years can still be felt. There is a kind of emotional stability that still permeates his behavior. A level of presence and calm that brings me joy and gratefulness.
Cool project and name. Ive always been curious if domes like this become problematic in hot weather though or if they have some dynamic that makes them beneficial then too. Not sure how to google that but maybe someone knows.
Long ago I found an approach to 3D modeling [1] that used a morphable model that was then morphed into the desired shape. Would something like this be possible for voice? A voice model obtained from a gigantic set of samples, that can be manually tuned to sound more masculine/feminine, higher/lower pitched and that can be morphed into the timbre of various samples.
> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco
Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as feasible. Other brands ignore a lot of these needs and then they wonder why people don't buy their products when, on some details, they are much better than Apple at a lower price.
I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale.
The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from something like Psychological Self-Help[1] to the entire field of Positive Psychology.
If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becoming easier when they went away.
[1] https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp