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Hacker News<p>Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]</p><p><a href="https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_book.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_book.pdf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LearningTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>I posted to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedIn</span></a>, the hashtags of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a>, and the video of Chris Murphy speaking about a U.S. permanent resident being “disappeared”, with text saying:</p><p>“The U.S. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> protects the right to free speech. </p><p>“It is enshrined in the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> of the Bill of Rights.</p><p>“It even protects speech you don’t like.</p><p>“Especially speech you don’t like.”</p><p>Based on the post analytics after 9 hours, it appears shadow-banned.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/panini%E2%80%99s-daily-bread_firstprinciples-corevalues-activity-7305950826781384707-a4Et?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios&amp;rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/panini%E2%8</span><span class="invisible">0%99s-daily-bread_firstprinciples-corevalues-activity-7305950826781384707-a4Et?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios&amp;rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs</span></a></p><p>C’mon fam</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.io/@tarheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tarheel</span></a></span> </p><p>This is an oblique way of saying “we can’t be anti-fascist”, without actually articulating the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a> they do stand for, such as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a>.</p><p>Weak sauce.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WordsMeanThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordsMeanThings</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>, what is it good for?</p><p><a href="http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/09/education-what-is-it-good-for/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/09/e</span><span class="invisible">ducation-what-is-it-good-for/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MaryAustinBooks</span></a></span> </p><p>If the Creepy Weirdos are going to invoke original <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> patriotism, let’s shove Thomas Paine’s narrative down their throats and let them choke on it: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/10/it-doesnt-paine-me-to-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/10/i</span><span class="invisible">t-doesnt-paine-me-to-say/</span></a></p><p>The entire ethos of our nation is oriented around <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a> which are skeptical of God-Kings, so their construct of corporate monarchy can die a quick death: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/s</span><span class="invisible">keptical-of-god-kings/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whknott" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whknott</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ErickaSimone</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://podvibes.co/@evoterra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evoterra</span></a></span> </p><p>The founding <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> are noble and rooted in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a>, which was the only thing sons of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> valued in the late 1700’s.</p><p>Reputation is a function of promise and delivery.</p><p>The delivery has fell short since inception.</p><p>But the promise?</p><p>Huge upside.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@flyhigh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>flyhigh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flexghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> </p><p>The U.S. is a republic modeled after <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a> from Ancient Greece and Rome.</p><p>Direct democracy is mob rule.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> <br>My personal ethos and one my <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>At some point, we have to be real with ourselves and acknowledge that you can only <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PointAndLaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PointAndLaugh</span></a> at people, calling them hypocrites, IF they have actual <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>. </p><p>Unprincipled people don’t have ethics or morals. </p><p>They are shameless, spineless, and unhinged.</p><p>It’s a whole ethos 🤷🏻‍♂️ (pun intended)</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/thryse.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thryse.com</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jhamby" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jhamby</span></a></span> </p><p>Which is why the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/joy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joy</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resilience</span></a> are so important to adopt ahead of then.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@talia_christine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>talia_christine</span></a></span> </p><p>They are aggressively denying all of the above, because cognitive dissonance, pretending to adhere to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>, and evading responsibility is exhausting.</p><p>Nobody wants to admit being the mark of a psy-op.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://posts.dumb.stuff.donaberger.xyz/@mitch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mitch</span></a></span> </p><p>That’s cuz you have <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> and adhere to them.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@benda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benda</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>YKantRachelRead</span></a></span> </p><p>Being tacitly against American empire, but passively enabling an emperor to gain power is a choice.</p><p>It’s not a choice I made.</p><p>Other people did.</p><p>Being introspective is a choice.</p><p>Not everyone wants to or feels the need to adhere to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>, especially fundamentalists: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/27/say-what-you-will-about-the-shameless-spineless-and-unhinged-its-a-whole-ethos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/27/s</span><span class="invisible">ay-what-you-will-about-the-shameless-spineless-and-unhinged-its-a-whole-ethos/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Paramatma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paramatma</span></a>, the universal soul or supreme consciousness in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hindu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hindu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>, parallels <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Neoplatonism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoplatonism</span></a>’s concept of “The One”.</p><p>In Neoplatonism, emanation from “The One” mirrors the dynamic interplay of prakāśa (<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/illumination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumination</span></a>) and vimarśa (<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reflection</span></a>) in Paramādvaita philosophy, emphasizing a cyclical process of outflow and return. </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nous</span></a> is compared to Paramatma but aligns more closely with Hiranyagarbha in Hindu thought due to its subordinate role to the ultimate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>“All the major philosophical schools in antiquity regarded <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/eudaimonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eudaimonia</span></a> as the highest good, often even the very aim and purpose of philosophy, although the various schools, such as the Cynics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, may have conceived of it in somewhat different terms.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Stoicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Epicureanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epicureanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/eudaimonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eudaimonia</span></a><br><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/202006/what-is-eudaimonia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hi</span><span class="invisible">de-and-seek/202006/what-is-eudaimonia</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://macaw.social/@mergesort" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mergesort</span></a></span> </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> challenge of data product management is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/infohygiene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infohygiene</span></a>.</p><p>Lots of bad choices have already been made and launched into production environments.</p><p>•Some• models will collapse because those bad choices •will• be unsustainable, methinks 🤔</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>“Among the 2025 top incantations, one phrase stood out: ‘enduring eternities of modern <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a>.’ (Deloitte) For those who still doubt that technological discourse is metaphysical ('the study of being and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>' [Aristotle, Metaphysics]), I invite you to reconsider your myopia.”<br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gilbertpaquet_interaction-information-computation-activity-7283852059576008705-wb8I?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/gilbertpaqu</span><span class="invisible">et_interaction-information-computation-activity-7283852059576008705-wb8I?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/gwensnyder.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gwensnyder.bsky.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dgoldsmith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dgoldsmith</span></a></span> </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> ethos, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> promote <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/egalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>egalitarianism</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/regicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regicide</span></a>.</p><p>And always have: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/s</span><span class="invisible">keptical-of-god-kings/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Institutions are designed to propel themselves into the future.</p><p>It’s part of their defining <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a>.</p><p>Ironic.<br><a href="https://flipboard.com/@politico/politics-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-QS3zoe2tT42wrEYLOcFHhg%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@politico/politi</span><span class="invisible">cs-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-QS3zoe2tT42wrEYLOcFHhg%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@CassandraVert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CassandraVert</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JoshuaHolland</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@csstrowbridge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>csstrowbridge</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/egalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>egalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ParticipatoryLeadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParticipatoryLeadership</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DigitalPamphleteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPamphleteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a></p>