There's a book I've read recently, "Sanity and Sainthood", that talks about meditation and psychotherapy. The idea is something like, imagine your mind is you sitting next to a pile of stuff that stinks, meditation builds the skill of tolerating the smell, psychotherapy removes directly some of the things that smell. Both of those can lead you to being fine in your mind.
As a concrete example, Shinzen Young says that he wouldn't trade a day of his life now, after lots of meditation, for a year before he started meditating, but also he didn't manage to deal with his procrastination through meditation and used psychotherapy here.
Another example of "not everything has to be dealt on during meditation", regular exercise, eating well, acting in a more honest/moral way (whatever those mean to you) all help meditation.
Riichi City gives you the score you'll make when you declare riichi or declare winning, and also shows which tiles were discarded just after being drawn in the discard piles. Mahjong Soul doesn't do that.
Riichi City the app is better than Mahjong Soul, but the matching/rating system sucks.
It's also like, straight up softcore porn with the avatars. Which is fine I guess, but I feel gross playing it in public, which is annoying. Mahjsoul is not a lot better there, but a little.
If you want to read manga for mahjong I'd say go straight for Akagi and Ten, by the same author. Akagi has a great anime adaptation that covers the first third. Both are excellent mangas in their own right, with or without understanding mahjong.
Mahjong to me feels faster paced, a bit more luck based, with higher highs and lower lows. Rummikub to me feels slower paced, less luck based. The scoring system in mahjong allows for way bigger differences in score than how I usually play Rummikub. Rummikub is easier to learn than mahjong.
I personally prefer mahjong, I'd say both are sufficiently different to be worth trying. If I want to play a game I'd play mahjong, if I want a physical game I can play at home with diverse people I'd pick rummikub.
I think it could make sense to not want to own the stack if you think it's going to cost you velocity/focus? Which is probably the play here. But I'm not certain at all.
I was wondering the same thing. I think it's something like, they're going to pay for infra anyways, so Amazon pushes them to allocate their spend to AWS in exchange for 5B.
Very interesting! For limitations, I'd add stated vs revealed preference. Currently the system assumes than what people say is what they actually prefer, but that's not always the case. If that is already addressed in your tool, I think it would be nice to mention it!
Thank you. The purpose of having the LLM interview the user is to try to surface those unstated preferences by exploring aspects of the agreement that the user may not surface themselves.
- He previously posted on X on the 2025/10/17 the following:
> Hi, as the owner/maintainer of http://erdosproblems.com, this is a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of. The 'open' status only means I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it. [1]
> GPT-5 has been a very useful tool in searching the literature, and this has been a valuable addition to the website. Its literature searching ability is already useful and impressive enough, no need to describe it as something it's not! [2]
>Sure, but the alternative the author proposes not only allows for time for those scanners to run but explicitly models that time as a formal part of the release process.
This is true but that doesn't make "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider", the title of the article and the subject of the first part, true.
As a concrete example, Shinzen Young says that he wouldn't trade a day of his life now, after lots of meditation, for a year before he started meditating, but also he didn't manage to deal with his procrastination through meditation and used psychotherapy here.
Another example of "not everything has to be dealt on during meditation", regular exercise, eating well, acting in a more honest/moral way (whatever those mean to you) all help meditation.
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