Ibrogym

Sacrifice

Alhamdulillah, my childhood went well. Studied in a decent school for free, study in a good uni for free.

But one thing I lacked, imo, was the sacrifice. I (almost) never made a sacrifice to reach to the point where I am now. It was mostly my parents.

My first “sacrifice” was paying money for gym (shuyam ota-onam bergan pul). Money was one of the incentives I kept going, even if I didn’t want to.

It is very hard to not take for granted something that comes without sacrifice.

That’s why I’m against the concept of giving something for fully free. Pay-what-you-can should be the default option. Sacrifice makes us appreciate the thing we’re given more. I like to bring the example of Letovo school for this argument. They have the financial aid program similar to the US colleges, where they evaluate your family income and expenses, and set the price based on that.

I think piima should implement this method for presidential schools (or all specialized schools in general). Too often have I seen students not appreciating the opportunities they have (primarily talking about myself here).

Additionally, sacrifice makes us set our priorities straight. Are we ready to sacrifice what is dear to us to get it?

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This feels like something from George Orwell's books

Lyrics in english:

See on your path
Boys, forgotten, lost
Give them your hand to lead them
To a different tomorrow

Give them your hand to lead them
To a different tomorrow

Feel at the heart of the night (Feel at the heart of the night)
The wave of hope
Ardor of life (The wave of hope)
Path of glory

Ardor of life, of life
Path of glory, path of glory

Childish happiness
Forgotten too soon, erased
A golden light glows without end
At the very end of the road

Feel at the heart of the night (Feel at the heart of the night)
The wave of hope
Ardor of life (The wave of hope)
Path of glory

Ardor of life, of life
Path of glory, path of glory

See on your path
Boys, forgotten, lost
Give them your hand to lead them
To a different tomorrow

Btw Yandex Plus subscription is one of the most insane offers ever.

10k/month or 80k/year (yearly one I'm not sure), and you get 10% off the Taxi, kinopoisk and yandex music. Best offer out there from the price/quality perspective.

Yandex Music is amazing, but it has a couple of flaws.

Firstly, not all songs are there. There are workarounds - you can upload songs from your device, but it's kinda shady.

Idk how, but my plus subscription is still active, and the money is deducted from the card that got blocked and doesn't work anymore - I'm not complaining but that's also a bit weird.

But I think compared to Spotify, it nails two things perfectly - introduction of new music you like and the randomizer algorithm.

"For you" album it creates every day makes a good blend of songs that I never heard about, but are similar to the ones I like. Idk, seems like spotify does the same thing, but it tastes fake. And spotify mixes are too specialized for me - I don't want "pop mix" or "rock mix". I want Sherali Jo'rayev appear next to Mobb Deep, and Skrillex next to Chopin. But maybe that's a matter of subjectivity.

On the topic of randomizing algorithm, I think Yandex Music keeps the good balance between the old songs that you listened to a lot and the recent songs. Idk how, but it's so much better than Spotify. Yandex often catches me with something I didn't know I wanted. But yandex too sometimes drops a couple of songs I'm bored of back to back, so I thought about my perfect randomizing algorithm.

I think I'd assign each song a value. The higher the value, the higher is the probability of it being played next. Here are the criteria I would consider:

- How many times I've listened to this song (more times -> higher value, because I love this song)

- When I listened to this song the last time (the more recent the last played date, the lower is value. listening to the song I haven't listened to in a while is fun)

- At what point have I skipped the song the last time (if I listen to the song until the end, means I like it more and would like to hear it again)

- Randomizing factor to prevent the case of several songs being stuck in a loop.

What other criteria would you consider?

The french adding 2x more letters to the language just to make 50% of them silent

Vladimir Vapnik.

Studied at School no. 18 (Close to New Uzbekistan University), in 90s moved to US, worked in Bell Labs. Co-invented the support vector machines. It could be compared to a compass in our world, or to a transistor - basically made it infinitely(not much of an exaggeration) easier to create algorithms to classify data.

You can read more about Vapnik here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vapnik

What I wanted to say: if a guy from Uzbekistan (a jewish btw) can revolutionize the world, why can't you?

Btw, why no one blames the fans of RM for being glory hunters?

The biggest, the most notorious, the most soulless team that sucks in all the best players from all around the world and makes money off of their fans. And their fans comfortably support the team that can only win UCLs

Unlike Arsenal/Manutd/Tottenham, our next season is truly gonna be the one

I think there is a connection between Für Elise and Pushkin’s К***.

Both talk about love that has once drowned the author, and then how the muse has left the author’s life, and then how they came back (or memories about them)