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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-01-04 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 04-01-2018

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Here’s what the evidence shows about the links between creativity and depression

[personal profile] jack 2018-01-04 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, that's interesting. The idea that there might be a link from creativity to depression and other things, but not vice versa, seems persuasive as soon as I saw the title.

In fact, I think I vaguely had the idea that creative types often did have something wrong as well, even though I thought it was just possible that problems were only noticed or taken seriously in people who stood out as successful some of the time.

But I *also* had the idea from many creative types saying "some people think you have to be depressed to be a great artist, fuck that, I've been both and the depression was hell, bad for art, and shouldn't be romanticised"

And I knew there was a tension there, but I didn't really put it together that that they might both be true.
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I looked into the face of the abyss and, you know, didn't feel as much equanimity afterwards

[personal profile] jack 2018-01-04 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
As to *why*, this is inevitably going to be a lot of raw guessing, but it seemed like the ideas which immediately sprang to my mind weren't the same guesses highlighted in the link. My guesses would have been:

* Creativity is the brain doing something unusual or with fewer bounds. Having a brain that pushes itself into less usual states is likely to find bad states as well.
* To express creativity requires a certain amount of ambition; people who repeatedly smash themselves into the ceiling are more likely to feel bad about it than people content to fit in with people around them
* Creativity involves deliberately thinking about things in new ways, letting all sorts of disturbing thoughts into your head ("OH GOD, *NOBODY* IS RUNNING SOCIETY")
* Creativity can involve deliberately doing things you don't know if they'll succeed or not (Staring at a blank sheet of paper crying, why can't I write a book as good as my first one)
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Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?

[personal profile] jack 2018-01-04 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, that's fascinating. It's funny how something you'd think would be so clear can be so ambiguous.
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Intel Kernel bug

[personal profile] channelpenguin 2018-01-04 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Meine Götte!! That could make the next couple of week *very interesting* almost everywhere...

A potentially 30% slowdown is going to have a TON of impact. On the plus side, could make Intel stock a bargain - if you reckon that they ever recover from this!
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Re: Intel Kernel bug - .... and relax??

[personal profile] channelpenguin 2018-01-05 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Early adopters finding it a non-issue (at least in Azure)

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/948877694271451137
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[personal profile] heron61 2018-01-04 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades That's definitely awesome news, but looking at the article, I remain utterly baffled that people prefer paid streaming to purchasing digital music (and that digital music is by far the smallest category. As with DRM-stripping my ebooks, I want to own and possess the data I like, not to have its availability dependent upon the willingness and capability of someone else to allow me access to it. OTOH, unpaid streaming is, from my PoV at least, an awesome way to encounter new music.
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[personal profile] rmc28 2018-01-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
As someone who pays for streaming ... it massively lowers the barriers for trying new music and finding stuff I like. If I really like something then I'll buy it, but I usually need to listen to things a couple of times to decide if I want to listen to it forever or that was a pleasant enough experience but I don't feel the need to have more. And paying the cost of one album per month to 'try out' a lot more than one album per month seems like a good deal.
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[personal profile] naath 2018-01-05 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't buy music mmuch but with books I'm a read onnce person. I don't want the storage costs, and don't care if I can read it again next year.
Edited 2018-01-05 12:56 (UTC)
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2018-01-05 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, I hadn't seen this quote when I first saw this story:

> "It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery," Singh said. "If it sits around too long, it'll turn green. People don't even realize that because all their water's dead, so they never see it turn green."

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