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In secret we met -- In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? -- With silence and tears.
Lord Byron, When We Two Parted
人間事常難隨人願， 且看明月又有幾回圓. - Nhân gian sự thường nan toại nhân nguyện, Thả khán minh nguyệt hựu hữu kỉ hồi viên - Chuyện đời thường khó toại lòng người, Đành ngắm vầng trăng sáng đã bao lần tròn.
Đông phong nhật dạ động giang thành, Nhân tự tiêu điều thảo tự thanh. - 東風晝夜動江城， 人自悲悽草自青。
Nguyễn Du, Thanh minh ngẫu hứng (阮攸, 清明偶興)
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In Zen circles, people say: "Before I became a practitioner, I saw mountain as mountains and rivers as rivers. When I began to practice, I no longer saw mountain as mountains and rivers as rivers; I began to see their interbeing nature. After I atttained the Path, I again saw mountain as mountains and rivers as rivers, but now my view is clearer, my understanding is brighter. I'm no longer caught in the view that the mountain is only the mountain and the river is only the river. Now I really see them, I see their true nature."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Battles: Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master Linji
Hands according to composers
Credit to Redditor NeokratosRed !!
Idea explanation:
Chopin: mixer because he reminds me of one sometimes. Example. Scriabin: he has written a lot of pieces for the left hand alone and he injured the right hand. Rachmaninoff: He had really big hands. Really big. Liszt: he sometimes reaches notes at the other side of the piano. Ravel: he has delicate, water hands and very often the left and right hand play on top of each other. Beethoven: he is powerful and this is also a reference to the hammerklavier Satie: his touch is very gentle and it sounds like he is playing with gloves. Boulez: Just to give you an idea. Cage: the 'no hands' is a joke for 4'33'' and the objects on the keyboard are a reference to his prepared pianos. Feldman: most of his compositions use just a few notes. Mozart: Rolling pins because of all the scales. Schubert: A lot of his pieces have very articulated right hand passages that go back and forth like a wheel and really easy left hand ones. Bach: robot hands because he was so structured and calculating in his pieces. (Side note: amazing book) Debussy: really soft touch, just like feathers. Glass: Pendulum and metronome because of his style that led him to be very technical, a bit like Bach, but it's more complicated than that. Bartok: drum beaters because of the power of some of his compositions.
Hoàn khố bất ngạ tử Nho quan đa ngộ thân. - 紈褲不餓死 儒冠多誤身.
Đỗ Phủ, Phụng tặng Vi Tả Thừa (杜甫, 奉贈韋左丞)
“If all else fails, use "significant at a p>0.05 level" and hope no one notices.”
The wise delight in water; the benevolent delight in mountains. The wise take action; the benevolent remain still. The wise are joyful; the benevolent are long-lived. - “Trí giả nhạo thủy, nhân giả nhạo sơn. Trí giả động, nhân giả tĩnh. Trí giả lạc, nhân giả thọ.” - “知者乐水，仁者好山； 智者欲发，仁者静； 智者乐，仁者寿。
Confucius / Khổng Tử / 子曰
Vivienne Westwood on sex appeal.
Lavaan cheat sheet
Lavaan Cheat Sheet
Assumptions
Data is data frame
model is the lavaan model syntax character variable
fit is an object of class lavaan typically returned from functions cfa, sem, growth, and lavaan
m1_fit and m2_fit are used for showing model comparison of lavaan objects.
Documentation tips
Introduction: http://users.ugent.be/~yrosseel/lavaan/lavaanIntroduction.pdf
Basic model commmands: ?cfa ?sem ?lavaan:
Extracting elements: ?inspect
Model fitting
Name Command fit CFA to data cfa(model, data=Data) fit SEM to data sem(model, data=Data) standardised solution sem(model, data=Data, std.ov=TRUE) orthogonal factors cfa(model, data=Data, orthogonal=TRUE)
Matrices
Name Command Factor covariance matrix inspect(fit, "coefficients")$psi Fitted covariance matrix fitted(fit)$cov Observed covariance matrix inspect(fit, 'sampstat')$cov Residual covariance matrix resid(fit)$cov Factor correlation matrix cov2cor(inspect(fit, "coefficients")$psi) or use covariance command with standardised solution e.g., cfa(..., std.ov=TRUE)
Fit Measures
Name Command Fit measures: fitMeasures(fit) Specific fit measures e.g.: fitMeasures(fit)[c('chisq', 'df', 'pvalue', 'cfi', 'rmsea', 'srmr')]
Parameters
Name Command Parameter information parTable(fit) Standardised estimates standardizedSolution(fit) or summary(fit, standardized=TRUE)
R-squared | inspect(fit, 'r2')
Compare models
Name Command Compare fit measures cbind(m1=inspect(m1_fit, 'fit.measures'), m2=inspect(m2_fit, 'fit.measures')) Chi-square difference test anova(m1_fit, m2_fit)
Model improvement
Name Command Modification indices mod_ind <- modificationindices(fit) 10 greatest head(mod_ind[order(mod_ind$mi, decreasing=TRUE), ], 10) mi > 5 subset(mod_ind[order(mod_ind$mi, decreasing=TRUE), ], mi > 5)
Teaching yourself about latent variable modeling using R is so much exhausting but exciting at the same time, especially when you're neither a programmer nor a statistician.
A pure psychological marketing student
An analysis of Pokémon GO created with R. OMG They’re so beautiful!!
“I see nice things here:
The cluster are determined by the type of pokemon.
The algorithm keep the chain evolution side by side. You can see charmander, charmeleon, charizard together.
Put steelix, onix and wailord (the most heavy pokémons) together.”
Trời khuya, vui bước bên đường Catinat Người đi, còn năm ba khách không nhà Ngàn mây sao chiếu trên trời đầy mơ Hàng cây lặng im nghe gió dưới trăng mờ Còn kia, vài ba búp bê đang nhìn Ngồi im và vương mắt trông xa mơ hồ Tình duyên say đắm trên lầu đèn trèo Tỉnh mê, còn ai đang đứng bên lề Hồn tôi vi vút đi tìm hồn thơ
Trần Văn Trạch, Đêm khuya trên đường Catinat
Một bài hát về Sài Gòn thời Pháp Thuộc rất đẹp, rất sang.
Đường Catinat được nhà báo Lucien Bodard ví như cái cuống rốn của Sài Gòn thời Pháp Thuộc [1]. Thời Việt Nam Cộng Hòa, đường Catinat đổi tên thành đường Tự Do. Sau The Fall of Saigon, đường Tự Do trở thành đường Đồng Khởi (mà đến ngày nay nhiều người hay truyền miệng câu thơ châm biếm: "Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa tiêu Công Lý, Đồng Khởi lên rồi mất Tự Do.”) Chứng kiến nhiều biến cố của Sài Gòn, đường Catinat - đường Tự Do ngày xưa, hay đường Đồng Khởi ngày nay - vẫn “thảnh thơi nằm nghe”[2] cái nhịp sống rất riêng của mảnh đất này.
Ít ai biết “quái kiệt” Trần Văn Trạch là em ruột của Giáo sư Trần Văn Khuê.
Nguồn:
[1]: http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/thoi-su/con-duong-duoc-menh-danh-cuong-ron-cua-sai-gon-xua-3440852.html
[2] “Hỡi người tình xa xăm, có buồn ra mà ngắm. Con đường thảnh thơi nằm nghe chuyện tình quanh năm.” (Phạm Duy, Con đường tình ta đi)
I need help from Pokémon GO players!! I'm doing a study on the game and will be very grateful if you can take a brief moment to answer this survey. Do feel free to forward it to other PG players.
Thanks a ton in advance!
A Zen Master said: "Before practicing Zen, rivers were rivers and mountains were mountains. When I practiced Zen, I saw that rivers were no longer rivers and mountains no longer mountains. Now I see that rivers are again rivers and mountains are again mountains."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys
Body artist paints a circle of life on her face, by Emma Allen. This is pretty much one of the core beliefs in Buddhism.
One fundamental belief of Buddhism is often referred to as reincarnation - the concept that people are reborn after dying. In fact, most individuals go through many cycles of birth, living, death and rebirth. A practicing Buddhist differentiates between the concepts of rebirth and reincarnation. In reincarnation, the individual may recur repeatedly. In rebirth, a person does not necessarily return to Earth as the same entity ever again. He compares it to a leaf growing on a tree. When the withering leaf falls off, a new leaf will eventually replace it. It is similar to the old leaf, but it is not identical to the original leaf.
After many such cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self, they can attain Nirvana. This is a state of liberation and freedom from suffering.
Source.
As long as you’re going to be writing anyway, write impressive.