Thoughts Findings
I ve been thinking about death a lot recently. I m not suicidal, and I m not looking forward to death, but it s been on my mind lately. With news every day about people dying, with incidents I ve seen, and with everything going on around me, death keeps coming up. Then I saw a video of Mohammad Eghbal [ ]
I saw a video of a reporter, or at least someone holding a microphone, whose whole trick was quoting something and asking people whether Trump or Hitler had said it. If you re a friend, or at least follow this blog, you know I m not fond of Trump. I don t care for him. I believe he [ ]
Two days before the end of the world, he suddenly realized he had never truly lived. His calendar was full, except for two untouched days. He panicked. Restless and furious, he went to the angel of death to ask god for more days. He shouted and cursed. He raged at the heavens and the earth. [ ]
Curiously, the failures of Communism are more often treated as a joke than as a tragedy. (As in the current jollity: What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.) William F. Buckley Jr.
There s a site called IN THE WEIGHTS that I came across through Kev Quirk s blog post. It checks whether you re someone who lives on inside certain LLMs. Large language models encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called the weights. The amazing capabilities of AI come through adjusting those weights to better represent [ ]
Have you ever seen a video of people talking or expressing opinions and you think to yourself what kind of idiocy is this? How dumb can you be to say such meaningless things? Certainly not dumber than you look. You must forgive my language, as I m writing this with complete disgust toward some people online. [ ]
Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?
During the internet blackout, one of the main sources of entertainment for me was watching movies. Between sounds of bombs near our house and being completely cut off from the world, one thing that could keep me sane was starting to watch movies and series I had on my hard drives. This way I could [ ]
This is just a notice that this blog is moved to a new URL. Everything has been moved. I plan to keep the previous domain forever so there won t be any broken links. If you ve linked to this blog, please update it.
I regret a lot of things. Small and big decisions. It s part of growing up. I try to keep an open mind so with new evidence, my ideas change. There s no shame in that. I change my ideas because I m not just another hard-headed person who sticks to what he believes in forever. Something I [ ]
This is an scheduled post, written when I had a slow internet connection during the nationwide internet shutdown here in Iran. You re reading this post because I didn t have internet connection to delete this, meaning we re still living in digital darkness. It should be the 60th day of the blackout and I wrote this post [ ]
It s the 22nd day of complete internet blackout here in Iran and I just could get connected with a help of a friend for some time. Never thought we would experience such situation. Just hope everything ends well for the people. Happy Nowruz everybody.
You’re being lied to! (YouTube)
When I was a child, I used to be influenced by movies I watched. Pretending to be a superhero with a cape, a gangster smoking a cigarette, an old wise man drinking beer and living happily with his family, an army guy who saves the country and wins the war. I believe a lot of [ ]
For a long time, I used to write my name as Ali Reza, which I believed was the correct way and form of writing it. Now I switched back to Alireza, which is the current standard of writing it. I updated my blog and every online presence I could think of. Please, if you link [ ]
The internet censorship and filtering in Iran is now in another level. We re now living behind a firewall. Not long ago, before the 20-day full blackout, we had a blacklist-type internet filtering system. If you re not familiar with it, living in a normal country, a blacklist filtering system means everything is open to people unless [ ]
Aside from being unable to contact your loved ones abroad, updating your computer programs and operating systems, getting new or needed software, or simply getting music and videos/movies, being disconnected from world makes you mentally unstable. It’s the 20th day of internet blackout here and the frustration is making me crazy. It’s some new feelings [ ]
The internet situation is beyond bad. Calling it “the internet” hardly makes sense anymore. Nearly everything is cut off. A few VPNs, made available by free-internet activists, work sporadically and only for short periods. There is no real access to anything: no email, no international websites, nothing reliable. Verification SMS messages don’t arrive. All we [ ]
Words can’t explain our suffering here. Nothing can express the pain we are in. You have no idea what has happened to us. This to remember those days. No internet, no SMS, and no phone calls. Absolute silence, cut off from everything. Hopeless. Helpless. My lost brothers and sisters, may you rest in peace. You’ll [ ]
It’s strange how people know something is pointless, yet they keep doing it anyway. Feeling sad is one of them. Sadness does nothing except for draining our energy. Worse than that, it actively makes our problems feel bigger than they are. Sadness is a snowball. Once it starts rolling downhill, it keeps growing. You don’t [ ]