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This view is a peace of mind, captured mid-hike on my own a while ago) #nofilters
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Time to press that reset button and give this blog a good old rest. See you all in September folks, have a wonderful Summer. I might post in here once in a while yet it's not guaranteed.
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Sept. 19: Decided that one must love and work, and that's it.
Sept. 20: Tired. Didn't love and didn't work.
Leo Tolstoy
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6 · 19.9K · I got offered $20,000 to sell the whole Cinemagic HD stack, but I didn't. Clearly, they were either industry giants trying to shut down the whole project after acquiring it or turning it into promotion of their own product. Two other options were: gain the how-to knowledge that took us 3 years to meticulously build, proven MVP, huge userbase or just someone trying to scam (wasn't likely from the way negotiations went). I simply couldn't trust them and it wasn't even for sale to begin with. You pour your heart into something for years and seeing it gone, I simply couldn't conceive it. At the same time I know this has been my Achilles' heel, yet someone had to do make the call anyway. If it weren't for close to ceiling pricing of CDN giants, no one would've even considered starting such project.
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📚 Faust, First Part by Goethe - 20/24 Book (2026)
This is what I call another absolute "cinema" in literature. It counts that way only when you read and so immersed in the process that you forget the outside world exists. Must-read. I haven't even started the 2nd book (2nd part) yet here I am seeing the genius of Goethe. This was ahead of its time, the lessons, morale still hold truth from the several books I've read that were published centuries later.
"O happy he, who still renews
The hope, from Error's deeps to rise forever!
That which one does not know, one needs to use;
And what one knows, one uses never."
Read those lines again. Life forces you to act on incomplete knowledge, what matters here the most is checking the output and refining your next action super fast. Everything is built around it, you act then fail, you learn from that failure and act again.
"The fairest stars from Heaven he requireth,
From Earth the highest raptures and the best,
And all the Near and Far that he desireth
Fails to subdue the tumult of his breast."
Greed (mostly) and any human wanting in general (or state) never ends, once you satisfy one's desire it instantly births the next one. Be it joy or melancholy, status or peace in simplicity, knowledge or bliss in ignorance, you will never say "This is it, I achieved this or that and it is going to last forever". Exactly what Mephistopheles tried to prove wrong about human nature in Part 1. I can go on and on forever here and I wish I could but I can't spoil too much and ruin the experience for some. The tragedy in the ending tho... the fact that it was based on what Goethe saw in his own life... Period.
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5 · 16.3K · Just registered for IELTS (late September) and this post will serve as public accountability for myself, otherwise I've been very lazy lately and this might spiral further. Target is just at least 7.0 . Not aiming for higher than that at all, as the sole purpose of booking is to register for PhD.. aahh this bureaucracy!
If it didn't have that 2 year expiry date I would use the certificate I attained 4 years ago (7.5) for a lifetime)). Saying IELTS is overrated in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would be an understatement. Cheers!
Btw, I am taking Speaking and Writing mocks via @BandBoostBot 😉
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"YouTube bros are like "wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!" No it’s not. Look at the apex predators they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day, you know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels" - unknown
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you are what you do
There's this gap between what we say and us actually following it. We have this saint level of conscience within our minds, we know perfectly what's right and what's wrong, we are thus, almost all of us are very ethical beings all inside of our minds. There's no bad or good people, there's only bad and good ideas. Speaking of that earlier gap tho, it manifests itself when we are actually being tested, when the proper answer costs us something... and that actually reveals who we really are. Bridging it takes enormous amount of discipline. Will expand on this again later on, hope you are all having a good summer)
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On Action and Intelligence
The universe is constructed in a way to humiliate you for not taking any action. The world simply doesn't care if you are smart, ambitious, or kind. You might have the perfect laid out plan for your life yet unless you take action on it, it is all useless.
Intelligence part... sometimes it is too much, pattern recognition at the highest level... I believe it is a curse. You read the room and context very well, yet if you refuse to partake in small-talk you are rendered as an outcast in a matter of seconds. Yes, just by being yourself and then you think, what's the point? Politeness? You watch them perform that exhausting "politeness" and think why even bother?
The paradox here is: your own stubbornness stops you moving through such world and take action in it. If only there was a way to turn off that stubborn voice. It is smart as we know it and it wants autonomy not someone dictating over what it does but at the same time stubborn and stupid enough to not understand that action is for its own good.
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On "Necessity is the mother of invention"
In a resource-constrained environment, a man has no choice but to extract maximal utility from the few options in his arsenal. You see him pushing above average with strict discipline because he is acutely aware of his limitations compared to those living in abundance, he has no choice but to perform. There's also a term for this in creative/engineering psychology:
"Generative Constraint" - the law that creativity, elegance, and mastery do not precede limits; they are produced by them.
Sadriddin Ayni’s reported saying (when his son and daughter studied in Moscow) is that he sent little money to his son and more to his daughter, explaining that “wealth corrupts a son, but poverty harms a daughter.”
Why does this dynamic invert between genders then? It comes down to how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs behaves under pressure:
For a daughter, abundance acts as protective armor, shielding her dignity from the predatory risks of poverty so she can grow safely without compromising herself. For a son, scarcity provides the necessary friction against the world, forging his strength and agency without the rot of softness.
Scarcity for females = External exploitation, dependence on bad actors
Abundance for males = Entitlement, softness, nihilism
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God bless science and innovation and specifically the person who figured out how to make anesthesia. I'm still under the influence of it (wisdom tooth) and literally can't speak right now.
Just imagine the pain of extracting the tooth without it, reminds me of that scene from Cast Away(2000) film.
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2 · 11.9K · ReplyGod bless science and innovation and specifically the person who figured out how to make anesthesia. I'm still under the influence of it (wisdom tooth) and literally can't speak right now.
Just imagine the pain of extracting the tooth without it, reminds me of that scene from Cast Away(2000) film.
Any super-duper way to learn sign language under 10 minutes? How do I explain this seller that I need to buy that specific product?
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>be me
>sign up on chess.com and lichess.org
>play 1 rated game on each
>fluke a win on pure vibes and illegible moves
>provisional rating jumps straight to 1680+
>close tabs immediately
>never touch chess again
>retired undefeated
>Grandmaster with 100% winrate
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ReplyJust registered for IELTS (late September) and this post will serve as public accountability for myself, otherwise I've been very lazy lately and this might spiral further. Target is just at least 7.0 . Not aiming for higher than that at all, as the sole purpose of booking is to register for PhD.. aExited from the exam. It genuinely feels like I am going to get 6.5 or even 6.0 and flop this bad. My English has degraded over the past 4 years apparently. Also tell me what kind of moron writes 281 words for Task 1 alone instead of focusing more on Task 2 (300+)?
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Two things I have learned in life:
1. Everything a child says and does is an iteration of the same question: "Am I loved? Am I *really* loved?"
2. Nobody ever grows up. - Berto
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ReplyExited from the exam. It genuinely feels like I am going to get 6.5 or even 6.0 and flop this bad. My English has degraded over the past 4 years apparently. Also tell me what kind of moron writes 281 words for Task 1 alone instead of focusing more on Task 2 (300+)?
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My results are finally out)
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- 8.026%
- 8.513%
- 9.09%
votes: 1,145
What do you think the score is?
15.4K · ReplyJust registered for IELTS (late September) and this post will serve as public accountability for myself, otherwise I've been very lazy lately and this might spiral further. Target is just at least 7.0 . Not aiming for higher than that at all, as the sole purpose of booking is to register for PhD.. a
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IELTS result itself and a few factors to mention from my end:
1. Reading was not supposed to be a 7.0 here because it was the only skill I finished with the confidence of getting at least an 8.0, which would have made the overall score an 8.0 as well. Retaking exists, I know, and it is so tempting for me to do so, which is what IDP wants here at the same time. I am not blaming them here, but my next attempt will definitely be with the British Council because of this. Speaking and Writing were fully deserved.
2. I have not prepared seriously for 4 years; never did I open any textbooks or attend any courses (my previous result was self-taught). The one thing I did was to keep my level as it was (I sharpened my English, so it didn't degrade and I was wrong to think it degraded).
3. A 7.0 was sufficient for me (to register for doctorate), as my previous certificate expired. Now that the goal has been achieved, I am not sure if I will retake the IELTS exam ever again.
4. I was using @BandBoostBot for taking Speaking and Writing mock exams, and it was consistently giving me 7 and 7.5 in both Writing and Speaking. This is proof that this bot is 99% accurate with actual exam results, so feel free to use it ;)
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"You are much too exacting and hungry for this simple, easy-going and easily contented world of today. You have a dimension too many. Whoever wants to live and enjoy his life to-day must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours—” - Hermine from Steppenwolf
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Bureaucracy after bureaucracy and finally this (completed in July, received it today), now it's officially official by the state law)
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If you can't spot the difference between a human-written content and an AI(SI) one, then you are NGMI. Not going to write a boasting post about how good I became at noticing it, the produced outputs simply have that uncanny valley vibes in them to the point that are hard to not notice and at the same time inexplicable. Europe is notorious for regulation, yet what they did with watermarking outputs of LLMs is a good thing. What I've been personally seeing on the net is slop after slop that leads to brainrot and almost no novelty over the past 3 years. You can outsource your thinking, but you certainly can't outsource your understanding and perspective.
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ReplyFound another peak.
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What a year! (one of the best ones ever since 2019)
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Let's remove the wrong ones first:
1. In English, any multiplier bigger than one must always make the next word plural with an "-s" (four bananas, four eights), so Option A (88889) is automatically out.
2. Now to the commas question. In formal written English, a list of single digits needs commas ("four, eight, one, and nine"). Why aren't there any? Because when we (humans) read 4-digit PIN or any code out loud (be it a phone number), our brain naturally group the digit into two or three pairs: [four eight] (48) and [one nine] (19). Because each pair is spoken as a single block, there is no comma between four and eight.
3. Speaking of "and", pay attention to the question, it uses the verb "has". When a verb connects two blocks in a sentence, English requires "and" between them (transitive verb grammar).
4. In linguistics, that word "and" acts like an equal sign (the law of parallelism): both sides must follow the exact same grammatical rule. 489 (D) breaks this rule (treating the left side as separate digits and right side as a multiplier), 888819 (C) does the exact opposite.
So the correct answer is option B 4819, which follows all the rules above.
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