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13 January 2020

As all Buddhas refrained from alcohol until the end of their lives, so I too will refrain from alcohol until the end of my life.

The five precepts, the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people 1

I’m writing this article on Saturday morning after a Friday night out with my Friends. We’ve hit the pub and everybody was merry. Beer was flowing and shots were had, just not by me. I came back home around midnight. Brushed my teeth and set an alarm for 8AM so I get 8 hours of sleep. In the morning I did some journaling, meditated and after nice breakfast and coffee sat to my computer to write this post. No hungover, no regrets, clear mind.

15 December 2019

What do you do when epileptic seizures take a control of your brain and large storms of random neural activity starts to spread through your brain? You cut your brain in half to limit the blast radius.

The human brain is split into two hemispheres right above the brain stem. The reason for that is not clear but I’m pretty sure it’s the same why we split CPU’s into cores. Connecting the layers of neurons is expensive and probably not necessary. (all my speculations)