I re-stumble upon this question again regarding the purpose of my life last year mainly because a lot of things around me has changed. It was a very challenging year for me. Intense inner conversation pushed me to rethink about my whole life seriously. I asked myself a lot of questions ...
Your life may feel important to you, but does it have meaning? It's the biggest of all questions – and it has more than one answer
This chapter is devoted to an analysis of the main theoretical issues explored in Adorno's Negative Dialectics. In particular, it examines the way in which Adorno rethinks materialism by theorising the "primacy of the object". It also analyses the Adornian concept of the "non-identical", ...
But inflation isn’t all bad. In a healthy economy, annual inflation is typically in the range of two percentage points, which is what economists consider a sign of pricing stability. When inflation is in this range, it can have positive effects: it can stimulate spending and thus spur dema...
The advent of ERP systems allowed companies to centralize and standardize their financial functions. Early automation was rule-based, meaning as a transaction occurred or input was entered, it could be subject to a series of rules for handling. While these systems automate financial processes, they...
For some, Duchamp is the father of conceptualism, the so-called art of ideas, for other, he is a charlatan responsible for the demise of traditional Artistry.对于一些人来说， 杜尚是概念主义之父，即所谓的观念艺术； 而对于另一些人来说，他是一个导致传统艺术消亡的骗子。But maybe we should ...
Without these foundational elements, stablecoins are little more than speculative instruments masquerading as safe harbors. In 2022 alone, billions in valueevaporated when supposedly “secure” stablecoins lost their pegs, meaning their market prices diverged significantly from their intended 1:1 ratio wi...
Is it hard to take apart?“Design for disassembly” is a component of recyclability. Sustainable design looks for fixed and moving pieces that can be easily dismantled into their component parts, to facilitate recycling and repurposing of parts or raw materials. ...
Outer beauty fades,but the beauty within is timeless.As noted by A Conscious Rethink, when asked about what traits(特性) they look for in a potential long-term partner, most people name things that have nothing to do with physical appearance. Some of the features we seek the most are ...
We’ve applied similar techniques to natural-language processing, where you can process blocks of data and interpret and learn meaning out of them. That kind of progress in patterning and in machine learning has been applied to machine vision. Also, because of techniques like machine learning ...