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Reading Notes - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
When you are offered a small gift, mostly likely you are being manipulated. Doing business with people is not about
playing Psychological tricks on them, but to genuinely offering values for them
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Why Did the Christianization of the Roman Empire Had to Suppress All the Pagan Schools of Philosophy?
A little dig on this history teaches us why Aristotle became the super star during western's medieval period, reveals
why the work of of Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, was such a genius monumental masterpiece, and most importantly -
the enduring power of synthesis
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Determinism - The Future Has All Been Pre-Computed
Having been constantly cognized by the feeling of Lucky Streaks and the notion of Buddhism's idea of Karma prevailed
in many aspects of our lives and works, I found this would have also become a philosophical subject known as
"Determinism"
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Oliver Twist - A Moral Determinism
15 years have passed though, the movie "Oliver Twist" (2005) keeps resonating inside my heart. I watched that movie
several times 15 ago for the purpose of improving my English while I was a high-school student. Looking back at it in
the AI-era today, I had learnt much more beyond language
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A Lesson from AI Code Review - Exploring Human Psychology & Machine Determinism
2025-08-08
A code review session sparked my new approach toward working with different types of people
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George Berkeley - A Great Philosopher and Mathematician But Unfortunately A Radicalism
2025-07-28
George Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher who is regarded as the founder of "immaterialism". As a leading
empiricism, he had a profound influence on the views of other thinkers, especially Immanuel Kant and David Hume.
Berkeley argued against Isaac Newton's doctrine of absolute space, time and motion in De Motu. His arguments were a
notable precursor to those of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein. Interest in Berkeley's ideas and works increased greatly
after World War II because they tackled many of the issues of paramount interest to philosophy in the 20th century,
such as the problems of perception, the difference between primary and secondary qualities, and the importance of
language
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Continuous Delivery
Continuous delivery is an approach where teams release quality products frequently and predictably from source code
repository to production in an automated fashion.
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CHEF v.s. Ansible
2025-06-23
Chef generally utilizes a
centralized
management approach while Ansible operates primarily in a decentralized manner:
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