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archiving for my own future purposes + i don't know if this is replicated anywhere else on the web. round 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20210512150518/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/03/sbs2021results round01.pdf round 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217124144/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/04/BHAU-61424-Sydney-Boulder-Series-Round-2-Results DC03.pdf round 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217124126/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/04/BHAU-61424-Sydney-Boulder-Series-Round-3-Results DC02-3.pdf round 4: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217124114/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/05/BHAU-61492-Sydney-Boulder-Series-Round-4-Results DC02.pdf combined 1,2,3,4: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217124059/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/05/BHAU-61424-SBS-Combined-Round-1 2 3 4-Results DC02.pdf combined 1,2,3: https://web.archive.org/web/20211217124859/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/04/BHAU-61424-SBS-Combined-Round-1 2 3-Results DC02-2.pdf participant info pack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210512144534/https://syd.blochaus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/03/sbs2021info-1.pdf

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e.g., governor) - relevant to learning - redlining in a controlled env can be useful for like measuring progress or something, but that shouldn't be the norm - by maintaining excap one can ensure there's room to move -- buffer. that's important while learning b/c you're focusing on creating new organization of knowledge and reorganizing existing knowledge. trying to learn without excap is like trying to do tetris with no v-space. with lots of v-space tetris is manageable, but it gets hyperbolically harder as you approach the top. re long-running learning conflict: the more exploratory side means exhausting excap quickly (manageable when surveying, but not when trying to complete a project).

Climbing gyms (and everything else) have just reopened (for the vaccinated) in Sydney, following a 3.5 month lockdown. Now that climbing is frequent and regular again, I've been reconsidering climbing goals. Before lockdown, my goal was to send every new grade 3[^1] (out of 6) problem, every week, for 6 weeks (I'd done 5 weeks when lockdown started). 6 weeks is a full rotation, so achieving this means that I would have consistently been able to project any purple in 2-3 sessions. The purpose of this goal was to emphasise consistency over results (better to do be capable of any grade 3 problem than some grade 3 and some grade 4). The current goal I've settled on is to send every grade 3 climb (in the gym) in a week -- there's about 24 or so (give or take depending on what gets set). I sent 10 this morning (over…

I think freedom and universality must have some deep connection. If you have the freedom to do something, that means -- wrt that context -- you can do whatever you like. You're unconstrained ; that aspect cannot (or at least should not) be a bottleneck . That gives you some unboundedness wrt method, or content, or whatever the freedom relates to. Freedom of speech removes a bound on speech. Freedom of thought removes a bound on thought. Freedom enables universality; and without certain freedoms, you cannot have certain universalities. I thought that freedom and thinking were like orthogonal; both necessary for philosophy and good life, but neither sufficient. Now I suspect there's more there than I realized.

I like a lot of Louis Rossmann's videos and his thoughts. This topic is for discussing and collecting good ones. Here's two; one recent, one old (2021-09) Rossmann vid on covid+society; seems good - perspective on being a business owner, masks, lockdowns, etc. (2013-07) The $30,000 pocket dial - a story from Rossmann's early days

This is a repost of a post I made to reddit on June 13th 2017. I found it again recently and wanted to document it here. The Problem (what's the optimal encoding?) You have a known list of n candidates on a ballot. In the act of voting, the voter must number each candidate from 1 to n, using each number once. The voter is thus describing a transformation on the list of candidates into a particular permutation. What is the minimum number of bits needed to exactly describe any order, and the method? My naive approach is to count (from the left) the number of 'jumps' each candidate must take to arrive in their ranked position skipping any previously ranked candidates . So if we had 3 candidates: and a list of ranks we'd do this (where matches candidates to ranks): First, should be in the 2nd position, which…

I started doing outdoor bouldering about a week ago (we've been in lockdown for the last 2 months). I found an unclimbed wall that's close enough to home (for current exercise-distance restrictions) and have been working on that recently. I've posted some videos of this to my max's bouldering playlist on YT. I've also documented the wall on theCrag: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/new-south-wales-and-act/sydney-metropolitan/area/5156697663 Before lockdown I was 4-5 weeks in to my 'send all the purples' goal at my gym (purples are bouldering routes of a particular grade) -- my gym resets a few sections of wall every week and has a 6 week cycle.