> Flywheel motors have often been compared to capacitors, capable of quickly storing and releasing energy. Proponents cite weight, cost, and environmental advantages over traditional chemical-battery hybrids.
> The drop in quality and rise in quantity of papers published makes keeping up with the scientific literature both expensive and inefficient in terms of time and energy, which slows down acquisition of knowledge and leaves less time for reflection and gaining experiences that are prerequisites for wisdom. So what incentives are there for a scientist or engineer to aspire to be wise given the lack of prizes and career rewards for wisdom? In Chinese thought wisdom is perceived as expertise in the art of living, the ability to grasp what is happening, and to adjust to the imminent future (Simandan, 2018). All of these attributes seem to be advantageous to a career based on solving problems but you need the sagacity to realise that the rewards are indirect and often intangible.
> dialogue can be considered as a free flow of meaning between people in communication, in the sense of a stream that flows between banks.
> These "banks" are understood as representing the various points of view of the participants.
> ...it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated. – David Bohm
> Gould played Bach the way it is written, perfect tempo, minimal ornamentation, that may come across as 'robotic' to you but it's actually the style that most people that are into baroque favor.
Indeed! These compositions were ...composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study".[1], which I don't think is directly mentioned in the article except maybe from this quote by Gould:
> ...“according to the musical disposition of that day, he was generations behind it”.
It takes skill to play these compositions the way they were written. Piano is not my forte but what effort I have put into learning these tunes was well worth it.
> If you don't like Gould for Bach may I suggest Dinu Lipatti?
When I compare the two different performers, Gould sounds like he's playing to a metronome and Dinu Lipatti is playing to a pendulum.
> And if you had not heard about him maybe dive a bit deeper and see what else you like, he's an amazing pianist that unfortunately was born before really great quality recordings were made but what's there is well worth listening to. Enjoy!
> Yi Yi tore his gaze from the Cloud of Poems and picked up a crystal chip off the ground. These chips were scattered all around them, sparkling like shards of ice in winter. Yi Yi raised the chip against a sky thick with the Cloud of Poems. The chip was very thin, and half the size of his palm. It appeared transparent from the front, but if he tilted it slightly, he could see the bright light of the Cloud of Poems reflect off its surface in rainbow halos. This was a quantum memory chip. All the written information created in human history would take up less than a millionth of a percent of one chip. The Cloud of Poems was composed of 10^40 of these storage devices, and contained all the results of the ultimate poem composition. It was manufactured using all the matter in the sun and its nine major planets, of course including the Devouring Empire.
> "What a magnificent work of art!" Bigtooth sighed sincerely.
> "Yes, it's beautiful in its significance: a nebula fifteen billion kilometers across, encompassing every poem possible. It's too spectacular!" Yi Yi said, gazing at the nebula. "Even I'm starting to worship technology."
> Li Bai gave a long sigh. He had been in a low mood all this time. "Ai, it seems like we've both come around to the other person's viewpoint. I witnessed the limits of technology in art. I--" He began to sob. I've failed...."
> "How can you say that?" Yi Yi pointed at the Cloud of Poems overhead. "This holds all the possible poems, so of course it holds the poems that surpass Li Bai's!"
> "But I can't get to them!" Li Bai stomped his foot, which shot him meters into the air. He curled into a ball in midair, miserably burying his face between his knees in a fetal position; he slowly descended under the weak gravitational pull of the Earth's shell. "At the start of the poetry composition, I immediately set out to program software that could analyze poetry. At that point, technology once again met that unsurpassable obstacle in the pursuit of art. Even now, I'm still unable to write software that can judge and appreciate poetry." He pointed up at the Cloud of Poems. "Yes, with the help of mighty technology, I've written the ultimate works of poetry. But I can't find them amid the Cloud of Poems, ai..."
> My mild guess is when resolve is called .then part happens, and when reject is called .catch part happens.
Yes, calling `resolve` or `reject` will "fulfill" the Promise (that is, the control-flow then returns to the context in which the Promise was invoked.)
Your example is missing a detail which makes Promises useful. Both `resolve` and `reject` accept an argument which is passed to the callback function (`example.then(handleSuccess)` and `example.catch(handleCatch)`):
const handlePromise = function(resolve, reject) {
let x = 20;
let y = 20;
// return "Promises will not 'return' a value, they must be resolved or rejected";
if (x == y)
resolve(true);
// reject(false)
reject(new Error("x != y"))
}
const handleSuccess = function(value) {
console.log(value);
}
const handleCatch = function(err) {
console.log(err);
}
const example = new Promise(handlePromise);
example
.then(handleSuccess)
.catch(handleCatch);
