Wondering if anyone has any little known (i.e. not the pantheon) suggestions for places to visit in Rome. I’m spending two weeks there soon.
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maryamishausman
4 days ago
Ostia Antica is great and about 25 km out of Rome. Same with Hadrian's Villa. I'd recommend them both!
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duvarki
4 days ago
Ostia Antica was definitely the highlight of my trip! I was there when it wasn't too busy, I think, and I wish I had a lot more time to look around and to enjoy the feeling of walking around in a Roman town
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orison
4 days ago
There is an old saying that I quite like: "God writes straight with crooked lines." In my experience, God does that in the micro and the macro.
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Congrats on 10,000 views!
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discreteideas
1 week ago
New "treatise" (essay). I have attempted to argue in favour of a physicalist understanding of the mind whilst not contradicting creedal Christianity. Bit of a long read tbf
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discreteideas
1 week ago
Thanks rainight, really appreciate the chance to think about these ideas (or am I just simulating thinking about these ideas). I was slightly obsessively typing away at this on my phone notes app all weekend.
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duvarki
1 week ago
Great article! I have some comments of mine own, but I think I will keep them in case you have any elaboration you plan to make in the future
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New post on my Chronicles page addressing the qualia in the room :)
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discreteideas
2 weeks ago
Oh yeah your post had me really thinking! Probably procrastinated too long today writing my post
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Nice site! I'm curious what's the technology that powers the simulations for your research? I'm assuming you're ssh-ing into some shared compute and editing something?
discreteideas
2 weeks ago
Thanks! I mainly run GPU accelerated simulations. Some people run massively parallel simulations on CPU research clusters (e.g. Archer 2). However accessing GPU clusters is expensive and difficult (you need a large budget) and funders tend to prioritise AI related work. With my limited budget then I run my simulations on two desktop GPU workstations which works well enough for up-to several hundred thousand particles
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rainight
2 weeks ago
Very cool! I once worked on a simulation project and I can relate to the pain of having to wait for computations to finish xD
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Always a pleasure to read from Saint Augustine's works :) Also, I loved the term "anachronistic cosplayer" hehe