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Book: 20251115 to 20260102, "Breath" by James Nestor

20251115 - Introduction xiii Is one hour meditation that different from 20 minutes meditation? Yes, based on AI(GPT-5.1). Part 1 The Experiment 20251116 - Chapter 1 The Worst Breathers in the Animal Kingdom 3 20251116 - Chapter 2 Mouthbreathing 19 This process(anaerobic respiration) explains why the first few minutes of an intense workout are often so miserable. p24 Does this mean that we may use deep breath to partly replace warming up exercise? Part 2 The lost Art and Science of Breathing 20251116 - Chapter 3 Nose 37 The right nostril: logical decisions, language, and computing. Less hallucinations. The left nostril: imagination, creativity, negative emotions. 3M Nexcare Durapore "durable cloth" tape. p51 Worth trying! 20251201 - Chapter 4 Exhale 53 The key to breathing, lung expansion, and the long life that came with it was on the other end of respiration. It was in the transformative power of a full exhalation. p59 The stories from Carl Stough are suspecious, in...

Book: 20251126 to 20251210, "AI Rising" by Randy W. Kirk & Brian Wang

This book is boring. Nothing new in it. 20251126 - FOREWORD 20251126 - Introduction 20251126 - Chapter 1 - What is Super Intelligence and Why Does it Matter To some extent, I think that the point of singularity was passed 300 years ago, with James Watt's steam engine. 20251126 - Chapter 2 - Real-World Applications and Niches The author is quite naive about the effect of AI. AI and human both are part of the system. If AI is so smart and powerful, that would make human weak. Good times create weak men. Extremely good times create extremely weak men. 20251126 - Chapter 3 - The Economic Boom of Super Intelligence 20251126 - Chapter 4 - Life in an SI World. 20251126 - Chapter 5 - The Dark Side of AI: Navigating the Shadows in an Abundant Future 20251126 - Chapter 6 - Individual Survival Strategies 20251126 - Chapter 7 - Become Unrecognizable or Disappear The ASI Disruption It's large companies vs small companies. The importance of asset will keep rising. That's why huge compani...

Book: 20250930 to 20251209, "The Big Picture" by Sean M. Carroll

Part One: Cosmos 20250930 - 1. The Fundamental Nature of Reality 20251001 - 2. Poetic Naturalism 20251002 - 3. The World Moves By Itself 20251003 - 4. What Determines What Will Happen Next? 20251003 - 5. Reasons Why Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. p41 The book tries to analyze philosophy using psychology. That's amazing. 20251004 - 6. Our Universe Astronomers estimate that the last dim star will wink out around 1 quadrillion(10^15) years from now. p52 After about 1 googol(10^100) years, all of the black holes in our observable universe will have evaporated into a think mist of particles, which will grow more nad more dilute as space continues to expand. p53 If we build a Dyson Sphere to absorb the radiation around a black hole, that could provide enough energy to support our civilization. 20251004 - 7. Time’s Arrow In equilibrium, time has no arrow. p58 Is this the reason that we age slower if eat less? If we can easily make a pile of ash bac...

Book: 20250724 to 20251115, "Catch-22" by Heller, Joseph

20250725 - Chapter 1: The Texan Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name. p9 Is this what this book about? No one monitor the ones who are in charge? 20250725 - Chapter 2: Clevinger 20250725 - Chapter 3: Havermeyer 20250725 - Chapter 4: Doc Daneeka "Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do." Dunbar told him. p44 It's boredom vs pain. Boredom is worse than pain, as pain may some potential benefit to us later on, while boredom is always futile. 20250725 - Chapter 5: Chief White Halfoat Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy. p52 True. Just like that any cell in our body is on duty if it works. Or else, it will be disolved. There is no way to run away. The only thing we can do is to run away in advance. 20250806 - Chapter 6: Hungry Joe 20250806 - Chapter 7: McWatt 20250806 - Chapter 8: Lieut...

Book: 20250830 to 20251106, "Average is over" by Tyler Cowen

PART I: Welcome to the Hyper-Meritocracy 20250831 - 1: Work and Wages in iWorld Marriages, families, businesses, countries, cities, and regions all will see a greater split in material outcomes; namely, they will either rise to the top in terms of quality or make do with unimpressive results. p4 Well said. How about our health, including physical health and mental health? Technological progress slows down when there are too many people who have the right to say no, but software in general gets around a lot of the traditional veto points. p17 This is a real problem for self-driving cars, but is it a problem for humanoid robots in factories? It sounds a little silly, but making high earners feel better in just about every part of their lives will be a major source of job growth in the future. p23 A lot of wealthy people will like that. But that's dumb. Budda was wealthy, and didn't need anyone to make him feel better. 20250904 - 2: The Big Earners and the Big Losers It sounds a l...

Book: 20251007 to 20251102, "Same as Ever" by Morgan Housel

20251007 - Introduction Our characteristics will not change. At least to most of people. 20251007 - Hanging by a Thread "And then what?" p14 This is the critical part to tests the limits of our perception. 20251008 - Risk Is What You Don’t See The fact that you can't see it coming is exactly what makes it risky. p18 Black Swans. Only extra buffer can intimigate the problem, and only deep understanding of the world can make us choose the right position. Expectations and forecasts are two different things, and in a world where risk is what you don't see, the former is more valuable than the latter. p21 20251008 - Expectations and Reality "If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are." p23 Investor Charlie Munger once noted that the world isn't driven by greed; it's driven by envy. p24 20251008 - Wild Minds 2...

Book: 20250726 to 20250924, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre

20250726 - Chapter I - 3 This half fictional story is about  Jesse Lauriston Livermore,1877 - 1940. The price changes have pattern, but occasionally break the pattern, and the abnormality may last for quite long time. That make the stock traders go broke. 20250726 - Chapter II – 14 ......but the fact remains that in A.R. Fullerton's office the tape always talked ancient history to me. p14 It was full of cheating and violence back to early 20th century. Latency(information gap) caused by technology disadvantage is also a big obstacle for normal people. That information gap is much narrower now, which means modern society is more fair and more friendly to normal people. Unfortunately modern society also has more traps than before, such as all types of screen. 20250726 - Chapter III – 27 20250726 - Chapter IV – 35 When you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. p44 I doubt it. In different situation, same strategy may stop workin...