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Piotr Migdał
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Oct 15, 2022

Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance

Capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is a substance found in chili peppers that causes a burning sensation. It binds to the vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (TRPV1), responsible for burning pain stimuli. Isn’t calling it a psychoactive substance a stretch? Well, let’s look up a mainsteam definition as found on Wikipedia: “A psychoactive drug…

Chili

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Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
Chili

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Sep 30, 2022

Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD

Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się odpowiadać jak najlepiej. A, że jestem leniwy i nie chce mi się powtarzać — spisałem najczęściej poruszane punkty. …

Adhd

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Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD
Adhd

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Jul 17, 2022

DALL·E 2 and transcendence

Hint: end prompts with “religious art”, “stained glass”, “esoteric art” There is a common misconception that machines are good with dry facts and logic, but clueless at emotions and incapable of creativity. Sure, it may be true for algorithmic systems. But for generative deep learning, like GPT-3 or DALL·E 2…

Dalle 2

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DALL·E 2 and transcendence
DALL·E 2 and transcendence
Dalle 2

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Sep 18, 2021

Embodiment for nerds

Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions. During my first free improv workshop, I was asked what motivated me to participate. I don’t want to treat my body as a foreign tissue on my brain. It was taken as a grim joke. Yet…

Body

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Embodiment for nerds
Embodiment for nerds
Body

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Feb 25, 2021

Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions

See the Hacker News discussion thread When a deer sees an incoming car, it freezes. For us, it looks stupid. But for the deer, this instinctive reaction seems to be the best. And it would be the best reaction if the car were a predator: too big to fight, too…

Psychology

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Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions
Psychology

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May 19, 2020

ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking

A few tips on automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback, for actions, not guilt. tl;dr: Qbserve when I was on macOS, now RescueTime + Custom New URL Tab (Chrome extension) pointing its report, so I get immediate feedback on my productivity (motivates me…

Productivity

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ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking
Productivity

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Mar 23, 2020

Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side

Demons invaded Earth and ruined Doom HUD. Some alternative titles: A devilishly minimalistic style vs death by Candy Crush glitter. An immersive vs casual game. A dark journey vs demon piñata. Impressions Autumn 2019 I played Doom 2016 for the first time, and immediately fell in love. Everything was exactly in…

UI

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Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side
Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side
UI

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Published in Quantum Photons

·Mar 2, 2020

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Types & Tests

On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspiration from the Zen of Python) It is fun to write fast without constraints, and run code in a flash. That is why I fell in love with Python and the Jupyter Notebook environment, a great tool for prototyping and interacting…

Software Development

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Types & Tests
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Types & Tests
Software Development

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Oct 25, 2019

“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered But in each shard of bronze in each shrapnel of stone There lingers a trace of the spark that once fluttered In the one that was thrown from the throne …

Poetry

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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski
Poetry

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Published in Quantum Photons

·Sep 26, 2019

To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” — stolen from a few sources When our Quantum Game v2.0 team first got together to work on the game, we realized we were all quite different — a physicist, a designer, a writer, and a…

Gaming

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To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
Gaming

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Piotr Migdał

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PhD in quantum physics, deep learning & data viz specialist. Founder at Quantum Flytrap. https://p.migdal.pl/ / https://quantumflytrap.com/

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