#comprehension — Public Fediverse posts
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MARY: I don’t grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can’t pick out the verbs.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Mary, Mary, Act 3 (1961)More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/85266/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #marymary #comprehension #early #grogginess #groggy #morning #sleepiness #wakening
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La Vérité est un pays sans chemin (Krishnamurti)
Krishnamurti La Vérité est un pays sans chemin Aucune organisation, aucune foi, nul dogme, prêtre ou rituel, nulle connaissance philosophique ou technique de psychologie ne peuvent y conduire l’homme. Il lui faut la trouver dans le miroir de la relation, par la compréhension du contenu de son propre esprit, par l’observation et non par l’analyse intellectuelle ou la dissection introspective. L’homme s’est construit des images religieuses, politiques ou […]https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/la-verite-est-un-pays-sans-chemin-krishnamurti/
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Indications de méditation
On pourrait dire que la méditation n’a besoin ni de raison ni de but.
Ainsi envisagée, elle se situe à l’opposé de toutes nos activités, exceptées peut-être la danse et la musique.
Quand nous faisons de la musique, ce n’est pas pour atteindre un certain point, qui serait, par exemple, la fin du morceau. Si tel était le but de la musique, le meilleur exécutant serait évidemment le plus rapide.
Et quand nous dansons, nous ne nous déplaçons pas pour atteindre un certain endroit, un lieu donné, comme en voyage. Quand nous dansons, c’est le voyage même qui est le but; quand nous faisons de la musique, c’est la musique qui est à elle-même sa propre fin.
Il en est exactement de même pour ce qui est de la méditation.
La méditation est découverte que le but est déjà là, dans le moment présent.
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Le mot « personne » en français comme en anglais, vient du latin persona, ce qui signifie ; ce au travers de quoi (per) le son (sona) passe. Il s’agit aussi des masques portés autrefois par les acteurs du théâtre classique. Ces masques étaient dotés de larges bouches faisant offices de mégaphone, ce qui permettait de porter le son plus loin. Ainsi le persona, la personne, c’est le masque, c’est à dire le rôle que vous jouez.
L’image que vous avez de vous-même est une institution sociale au même titre que, par exemple la division des jours en vingt-quatre heures ou du mètre en cent centimètres ou que le tracé purement imaginaire des latitudes et des longitudes à la surface de la terre.
Exactement de la même manière l’image que vous avez de vous-même est un concept imaginaire, pas autre chose en réalité qu’une caricature
Alan Wilson Watts (1915 – 1973) est l’un des pères de la contre-culture en Amérique. Philosophe, écrivain, conférencier et expert en religion comparée.
La conscience humaine est une forme de sensibilité et de compréhension, c’est aussi une forme d’ignorance. Notre conscience ordinaire de tous les jours élimine plus que ce qu’elle garde, des choses qui sont terriblement importantes.
Alan Watts dans L’envers du néant : Le testament d’un sage
Une pièce musicale de Peter Gabriel – Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6Iac4AANc&list=OLAK5uy_mSwaG0kKJilN3R9tQkBQFgIsuKfHHZgC0
#24Heures #acteur #AlanWatts #AlanWilsonWatts #attention #écrivain #être #But #caricature #compréhension #conceptImaginaire #conférencier #conscience #conscienceHumaine #contreCulture #danse #découverte #division #endroit #entrainementDeLEsprit #envers #institutionSociale #latitude #masque #méditation #mégaphone #momentPrésent #musique #néant #persona #personne #philosophe #philosophie #Raison #rôle #Sage #testament #théâtre #théâtreClassique #tracé #Vivre #voyage -
Rester calme
La philosophie stoïcienne est un chemin vers la tranquillité et la paix intérieure. Il se concentre sur la compréhension et le contrôle de nos émotions et de nos désirs plutôt que d’être contrôlés par eux. Grâce à la pratique de la tempérance, nous apprenons à vivre selon nos valeurs et à répondre plutôt que de réagir aux défis de la vie. « Le bonheur de votre vie dépend de la qualité de vos pensées », comme disait Marc Aurèle.
10 leçons du stoïcisme pour rester calme | La philosophie stoïcienne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6I1803OW2Y
#acceptation #apprendre #attention #émotions #êtreContrôlé #bonheur #calme #compréhension #concentrer #conscience #contrôle #contrôleémotions #contrôleDésirs #défi #défisDeLaVie #dépendre #désirs #entrainementDeLEsprit #Grèce #GrèceAntique #MarcAurèle #paix #paixIntérieure #pensée #philosophe #philosophie #philosophieStoïcienne #pratique #pratiqueDeLaTempérance #qualitéQulitéDesPensées #resterCalme #stoïcien #Stoïcisme #tempérance #tranquilité #valeurs #Vivre -
Information = Comprehension × Extension • Preamble 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/06/16/information-comprehension-x-extension-preamble-a/Perhaps the best perspective from which to bring the connection between the theory of signs and the theory of inquiry into its proper focus is Peirce's own Theory of Information, which he began setting forth in lectures at Harvard and the Lowell Institute in 1865 and 1866. Peirce encapsulates the elements of his theory in the following formula.
• Information = Comprehension × Extension
In the Resources below I link to my study of Peirce's 1865–1866 Lectures on the Logic of Science, with selections from the lectures and my commentary on them.
Ten summers ago I hit on what struck me as a new insight into one of the most recalcitrant problems in Peirce's semiotics and logic of science, namely, the relation between “the manner in which different representations stand for their objects” and the way in which different inferences transform states of information. I roughed out a sketch of my epiphany in a series of blog posts then set it aside for the cool of later reflection. Now looks to be a choice moment for taking another look.
#Peirce #Logic #Inference #Inquiry #Abduction #Induction #Deduction #LogicOfScience
#Information #Comprehension #Extension #InformationEqualsComprehensionTimesExtension
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The Decline In Reading Cuts Across Age Groups Gender and Education Levels
Shafkat Anowar / The Dallas Morning News / Getty Images Americans, once members of a proudly literate society, read much less than they used to, says Rose Horowitch. Even demographics that traditionally read the most retirees, women and college graduates have seen a collapse, and the books that people do read are simpler than they used to be. People are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension. America isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate. The people who make a living from […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/09/the-decline-in-reading-cuts-across-age-groups/
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I look at patterns in LLM output. The tell is more than simple orthographic tics.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/07/ai-language-patterns/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #llms #ai #artificialintelligence #patterns #comprehension #writing #training #history #english #learning #blog #video #critique #commentary #spelling #pronunciation #content
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Peak (and yet very, very average) social media: extremely angry replies agreeing with what you said, apparently under the mistaken belief that you disagree with them.
Sigh.
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What happens when you #read with your ears -
Is Listening to an #Audiobook as Good as #Reading?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202605/is-listening-to-an-audiobook-as-good-as-reading -
College Freshmen Are Showing Up Unable to Read a 20-Page Document
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-students-losing-ability-read #education #reading #comprehension -
Le Sûtra du Cœur
Pour ceux qui lisent le “Sûtra du Coeur” – le Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo – la première fois ils peuvent être désemparés par une logique qui semble être contre-intuitive. Dans cette introduction je donne quelques points de repères essentiels – entre autre une approche de la vacuité, notion centrale dans l’Hannya Shingyo – pour une bonne compréhension de ce sûtra.
Le Sûtra du Coeur: une introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWrthTWrlU
#acceptation #attention #Bouddha #bouddhisme #compassion #compréhension #conscience #contreIntuitive #Cœur #désemparé #entrainementDeLEsprit #HannyaShingyo #interdépendance #introduction #logique #MakaHannyaHaramitaShingyo #notionCentrale #repères #repèresEssentiels #Sûtra #SûtraDuCœur #Vivre -
To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition
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Interesting article about the similarities and, more importantly, the differences in comprehension and experience of reading versus listening to text. Includes lessons for the classroom on the importance and uses of both.
https://theconversation.com/does-listening-to-audiobooks-improve-learning-267817
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"Linux Is Hard — Until You Understand These 7 Things
The beginner mistakes nobody warns you about"#Linux #Documentation #Tutorial #Tech #Comprehension #Apprentissage ...
https://medium.com/codex/linux-is-hard-until-you-understand-these-7-things-555e53bc516a
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision
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The Power Of Using A Story For Better Data Comprehension And Hence Decision Making
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2021.2016151 <-- shared book review, “Data Story: Explain Data And Inspire Action Through Story”
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[I encountered this excellent graphic from @saurabh Rai, and went and explored the ideas put so succinctly here; I found, well, a technical story overview (link above) to ‘match’; however, this should not be considered an endorsement of this book]
#data #storytelling #data #comprehension #presentation #story #frameworks #context #setting #dataquality #communication #usecase #robustness #insights #correctness #decisionmaking #narratives #decisions -
A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81972…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adult #comprehension #facade #grownup #pretending #pretense #understanding
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In #Python `any` and `all` are global functions that work on any `Iterable` producing elements that can be converted to `bool`. If you wanted (semantically) `find` #Find or `first` #First, they are less obvious (though specific types can provide them, such as `str.find`). `first` implies the underlying `Iterable` promises some predictable order, and there might be duplicates, and you might care about the position of the found element in the larger sequence.
So let’s talk about the idea of `find`: you do it all the time and for ordinary `Iterable`s, there aren’t one-word answers. Let’s start with (the not always) "bad" answers (I don’t want you to do them, so I won’t show code).
You could use a `for` loop and `break` on a match (remember, maybe, that `for` does have an `else`). Worse performing, you could produce a filtered list (with a #Comprehension or with the actual `filter` function), then just grab the first element. You’d test of course, for an empty list. Unlike the `for`, here you look at the whole list.
Here’s another way. I consider it more Pythonic. Given an ordered sequence `s` and a predicate `p` (or you can imagine a simple expression instead) then
`elem for elem in s if p(elem)`
…is the machinery of a comprehension or #Generator depending on what you surround it with. Parens or using it as an argument, will make it a generator.
`next(elem for elem in s if p(elem))`
Gets an iterator from the generator; initializes it, and causes it to find and return the first element of `s` that meets the requirements. If there is no match, then it raises a `StopIteration` exception. `next` takes another argument: a default. If you call it like this, instead of an exception it returns `None`:
`next(elem for elem in s if p(elem), None)`
It’s as efficient as the `for` (actually, a little better because `for` loops are slightly slower in general and also would have to save the found element for use afterwards. It reads better, to me anyway.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
SLARTIBARTFAST: Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 4th” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-29)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/34927/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #slartibartfast #comprehension #keepbusy #meaningoflife #meme #mystery #occupation #purpose #understanding #universe #carryon #staybusy
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A quotation from George Carlin
Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Sometimes A Little Brain Damage Can Help”More about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/80730/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #comprehension #confusion #reaction #uncertainty #understanding
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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding …
[καὶ ἡ εἰρήνη τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ ὑπερέχουσα …]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Philippians 4: 7 [KJV (1611)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/17699/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #philippians #comprehension #God #peace #tranquility #understanding
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19-Nov-2025
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Perplexity is the moment the mind meets its limit and still tries to continue.
It’s the flicker between knowing and not-knowing — the instant before surrender.
It signals that a structure is cracking, that comprehension can’t contain what’s arriving.
If you don’t rush to fix it, it becomes clarity’s doorway.
#Perplexity #Clarity #Mind #Surrender #Comprehension #Knowing #NotKnowing
