Tolkien accurately describes how I feel about science fiction (and I guess to a lesser extent, fantasy). I'm looking for an internally consistent rational universe, which behaves differently and follows a different set of rules than my own. The most satisfying part is the lead-up, slowly piecing together an understanding of this universe, and what rules it contains.

"Not all authors believe that suspension of the disbelief adequately characterizes the audience's relationship to imaginative works of art. J. R. R. Tolkien challenges this concept in his essay "On Fairy-Stories", choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief based on inner consistency of reality. Tolkien says that, in order for the narrative to work, the reader must believe that what he reads is true within the secondary reality of the fictional world. By focusing on creating an internally consistent fictional world, the author makes secondary belief possible. Tolkien argues that suspension of disbelief is only necessary when the work has failed to create secondary belief. From that point the spell is broken, and the reader ceases to be immersed in the story and must make a conscious effort to suspend disbelief or else give up on it entirely."

remember when Star Wars had internally consistent rules?

"...these successfully imagined realities do have an underlying logic to them. They are internally self-consistent. That’s part of the reason we can happily suspend disbelief, because in these fictional worlds things do make sense; because of A, then B happens, and that means C will occur in another context.

Most of us have an innate feel for that kind of self-consistency. It’s part of the physical logic that operates around us on a daily basis. We don’t expect random outcomes for phenomena that have shown themselves to be repeatable time and time again.

In that sense, a tale like Star Wars, with its own rules..."

It is possible to configure nvcc to use the correct version of gcc without passing any compiler parameters by adding softlinks to the bin directory created with the nvcc install.

The default cuda binary directory (the installation default) is /usr/local/cuda/bin, adding a softlink to the correct version of gcc from this directory is sufficient:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc

that hipster audio cred? cringe like RGB or fat dope like uhh NH-D15?

"There are lots of reasons people buy external DACs, but the most common is because they are pretty cool. You are unlikely to find many of your friends that have a DAC. Nothing screams, "I know more about audio than you," than having a device that has your friends scratching their heads. While there are a number of reasons to buy a DAC, the best two are to eliminate noise from your source and to combat systemic jitter. If these are your issues, an external DAC is the solution."

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
source https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/tutorials/nvidia.html

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

"it achieves state-of-the-art results in 12 summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories, instructions, emails, patents, and legislative bills, and that it shows “surprising” performance on low-resource summarization, surpassing previous top results on six data sets with only 1,000 examples."

right way to teach reading