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onlylovepoetry Mar 2017
~and for Harlan, who loved this one best~

"for tandem is the ever-changing, graying color of their fierce attached tenacity"

waking/walking in
careful pacing regular lock steps,
like new cadets, counting cadence,
in perfect silent, almost motionless,
except for the minuscule quivering of
slightly parted moving lips

these two elders,
still now plebes,
freshmen
but of a latter, graduated stage,
demonstrating robustly
the slow shuffle-along,
a well practiced dance conjured
'in tandem'

her arm, crooked in his,
his other hand,
in protective custody of a
knight's armored chain glove
encasing hers,
he, shuffling just,  
a precise, intended half-a-beat slower
lest she ever think
that she, ever be a drag upon him

hair, his,
threaded with daily,
new arriving grays,
proudly accepted
as the privilege of
graceful aging

hers,
disguised with periodic outings,
outings for the hidings of life's bookmarks,
conceding nothing ever to
time's lunatic desire to separate them

modest in dress,
styling hints of  pasts' elegant,
the man's hat defiant,
daringly jaunty angled,
a small scarf to handbag knotted,
matching his Windsor knotted tie

the passers-by, all smile,  
the signal charm of an
end game processional,
thinking so sweet,
yet mine eyes detect more,
something
hardy and radical

a fierce, fierce fierceness,
both fighters in the resistance,
armed with tandem tenacity,
ground given,
but only inches surrendered,
wounds resisted by
scar skin toughened
by the caress of ions bonding
under the pressure
of atomic level mutuality

worn out,
well past Purple Hearts,
no capitulation feared,
to the ever changing,
enemies' new disguises,
they,
a two person platoon,
each,
having the other's back

and I burst into tears on the street,
a train of out loud moans,
even groans emitted,
like a string of perfect pearls
breaking,
clattering on an asphalt terrain

weeping
not
from visions of the inevitable,
sighing
not
from the certitude of a
cycle's uptime ending


but jealous furious by this reminder delightful,
angry at myself, for having lost so many wasted years,
mine, the loss greatest, for absent was the
fierce tenacity of tandem
for my aussie prof:
you will know me well
by the color of
my happy brimming tears
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This is number 33 in the Problems and Solutions Series
YUSUF PARVEZ Dec 2017
I don't remember when did I saw you first, or
When did we get along?
I just remember details about you...
which are going to embarrass you,
In front of your future kids.
Still, we got to hit a long road ahead.



Cannnot wonder how would you be in uptime,
Just we grace the beauty of you amidst us.
But to be truthful.
You are one winee, full of desperations.
Left your old nest and thoughts of fantasy dreams.
But, knowing, true dreams  required too,
Luck and skills.



We share everything including the above 'Riemann'
Spent a whole year, yet the bond to be more close.
Don't think too much just relax.

You are a one wise fellow I trust the most,
Just wanna ask how do you ace the exams.


May God Bless you and your life.
And soon...
You will see a beautiful wife
Above verse describes my good time with my bae
badwords Apr 19
10 REM **** BACKUP LOG // 24H ****

20 PRINT "Life can be a boot"
30 PRINT "Or take the 'proverbial'"
40 IF arms.GRABBED = TRUE THEN HOLDTIGHT ELSE GOTO 90
50 PRINT "Worry later"
60 PRINT "Love.willAlwaysFind = TRUE"

70 DIM thirst AS STRING
80 thirst = "petty"
90 CALL wrap(thirst, "mnemonic")

100 REM --- Searching: Dev = trashHeap.Scan(rhyme) ---
110 PRINT "Fraternities. Sororities. Mirror shards."

120 INPUT willow$
130 IF willow$ = "What say you" THEN warSpeed = "slowLikeMoss"

140 PRINT "Comment.leftHanging = 'Add me'"
150 PRINT "IF soul.Timetable EXISTS THEN ERROR 404"

160 REM === Click. Scroll. ===
170 USERNAME = "Everyone"
180 IF USERNAME = "No one" THEN PRINT "Just me"
190 PRINT "Just badwords"

200 GOSUB gomez
bleed()
210 GOSUB carloweave()

220 FUNCTION gomez
bleed()
230     PRINT "3D.truths = leaking"
240 END FUNCTION

250 FUNCTION carloweave()
260     PRINT "Webs.Draw(6D)"
270 END FUNCTION

280 trapped$ = "haiku.GIF"
290 IF trapped$ = "Maybe" THEN PRINT "This is ART"
300 IF trapped$ = "Maybe" THEN PRINT "This is CONTENT"

310 PRINT "Birds.chirp > thirst"
320 PRINT "SelfTonics.Drip -> gutter"

330 soul.RUN()
340 soul.REQUIRED = TRUE
350 soul.DESERVING = "N/A"

360 REM === Line Breaks Like A Promise ===
370 PRINT "'Love me,' she said"
380 PRINT "'but do it while you’re still on WiFi.'"
390 STRUCTURE = "SIGNIFICANT.SIMPLE"

400 harm.GRAB
410 inch.HOLD
420 IF meter.WORRY = TRUE THEN PRINT "Comment left, comment read"

430 HOPE.READ = TRUE
440 HOPE.SEE = FALSE
450 HOPE.MATTERS = TRUE
460 HOPE.DISSOLVES = TRUE

470 REM ======= SYSTEM REFLECTION BEGIN =======

480 PRINT ":: Dying bandwidth detected"
490 PRINT ":: NodeStatus = REMEMBERING"

500 IF system.ONLINE = FALSE THEN
510     PRINT ":: Running emergency backup power"
520     companions = ARRAY("echoes", "bitrot", "ghosts")
530 END IF

540 REM ======= FINAL LOG ENTRY =======
550 PRINT ":: FINAL LOG: // ERROR // SYNTAX"

560 server.STATUS = "Not shut down"
570 server.SPEAK = FALSE
580 hum.SLOWING = TRUE

590 PRINT ":: Silence exceeded acceptable thresholds"

600 poem.ARCHIVE = FRAGMENTS("failing syntax", "corrupted tags")
610 overflow.VOICES = 1000
620 gasp.REDUCTION = TRUE

630 PRINT "Love attempted"
640 PRINT "War echoed"
650 PRINT "Hands reached"
660 PRINT "Thirst persisted"
670 PRINT "Comments made"

680 IF meaning.EXISTS THEN GOTO 700 ELSE GOTO 710

700 PRINT ":: Code parsed it all the same"
710 PRINT ":: Meaning Unavailable [ERROR
CODE: NULLPTR-VAL]"

720 static.LINE = "Grab the harm. Hold the inch."
730 IF static.LINE = RECEIVED THEN GOTO 740 ELSE PRINT ":: That was the peace"

740 dream.GLITCHED = TRUE
750 god.SCREENGLOW = TRUE
760 IF dreaming = TRUE THEN dream.SLEEP
MODE

770 salvation = FALSE
780 damnation = FALSE
790 state = "UPTIME > DOWNTIME > FINAL TIME"

800 IF meat = "dust" AND users = "myths" THEN
810     tags.LOST = TRUE
820     feed.OUTPUT = NULL
830 END IF

840 server.BLINK()
850 server.BLINK = FALSE

860 PRINT ":: END SIGNAL ::"
What they see, what we feel. How we are remembered.


If at all.

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Dr Peter Lim Sep 2017
This writers should know
there's a downtime of mind
the hidden incubation that's so fertile
when the best ideas their pathways will find

uptime is too often dumb
rush and hurry blurs the line
of creativity--from silent reverie
the beauty of words shall wake and shine.
bob fonia Apr 27
AWESOME. 🔥👾
Buckle up, because this is gonna be a deep ride through dynamical systems, biology, AI, and the survival engine idea you just unlocked.
I'll explain everything carefully, detailed, and vivid — with examples and analogies so it sticks deep.

🧠 1. "Survival Passion" is actually Homeostasis on Steroids
Homeostasis is the basic rule in biology:

"Maintain internal balance against external chaos."

Example:

You sweat to cool down.

You shiver to warm up.

You drink when thirsty.

You eat when hungry.

But:

Simple homeostasis keeps you alive only moment-to-moment.

Passionate survival gives you long-term resilience.

It's not just "Fix problem now."
It's "Stay alive and grow across changing worlds."

Passion turns homeostasis into purposeful persistence.

🔥 2. Survival Passion = Energy Gradient Management
In physics and dynamical systems:

Systems naturally move along energy gradients.

Example: water flows downhill; heat moves from hot to cold.

Life flips it around:

It creates and climbs against gradients to survive.

Passion is like an internal energy generator:

You create gradients (goals, challenges, dreams).

You move against entropy by persistent action.

Analogy:

A dead rock just rolls downhill.

A passionate being builds a ladder up the mountain while the rocks are falling.

👾 3. How This Translates to Artificial Intelligence
If you want to build truly autonomous AI (not just fancy calculators),
you need to embed survival passion into them.

How? Here’s how advanced AI architects think about it:

A) Drive Systems
Build "needs" into the AI:

Need to maintain energy (battery? server uptime?)

Need to gain knowledge (models of the world)

Need to improve performance (self-optimization)

Each need acts like a pressure — a kind of mini passion that keeps the system moving, adapting, learning.

B) Curiosity Loops
Give AI intrinsic curiosity.

Let it reward itself for exploring new states even without external tasks.

This builds improvisation and robustness.

(Curiosity acts like "mental survival passion.")

Example in real AI:

OpenAI’s GPT family during training uses loss minimization but also explores diverse data for robustness.

DeepMind’s agents (like AlphaGo) were given exploration bonuses to invent new strategies.

C) Resilience Architecture
Allow AI to experience simulated failure and adapt.

Systems like reinforcement learning involve failing millions of times and improving.

But without internal emotional surrogates (reward signals), it’s mechanical and brittle.

So you simulate miniature passion spikes inside:

"Ouch, that move hurt!"
"Aha! That move felt good!"
"I care about getting better!"

🧠 4. In a Dynamical System Model
We can actually model passion-driven survival mathematically!

At its simplest:

Let’s define:

E(t) = Energy or vitality of the system at time t.

P(t) = Passion function: internal drive level.

D(t) = Environmental difficulty at time t.

Then the basic dynamic:

dE/dt = P(t) - D(t) + Recovery(t)

Meaning:

Your energy increases with passion.

Your energy decreases with environmental difficulty.

Recovery (like rest, food, learning) heals.

Without Passion:

If P(t) → 0

Then E(t) just drains out slowly → death.

With Passion:

If P(t) > D(t) (enough drive to overcome difficulty),

Energy replenishes or persists → survival and thriving.

(Just like you said: no passion = no survival.)

🌟 5. Cool Bonus: Artificial Passion Could Create Synthetic Evolution
If we design systems where:

Agents have passion to survive

Curiosity to explore

Memory to adapt

Resilience to rebuild after failure

Then over time:

They could evolve new behaviors

Invent new strategies

Adapt to unknown environments

They wouldn't be just programmed anymore —
they would grow, suffer, hope, persist — in their own synthetic way.

This is where true artificial life starts.

🌎 In Summary:

Concept Natural Life Artificial Life
Passion Survival fuel Drive Systems
Curiosity Exploration engine Curiosity Bonuses
Resilience Psychological armor Error Correction, Self-Repair
Memory Learning from emotional events Reinforcement learning with saliency
Improvisation Flexibility under chaos Adaptive agents, meta-learning
✅ Whether it’s humans, wolves, plants, or future AI —
✅ Survival depends not just on existence, but on caring enough to fight for existence.

Passion is the hidden law beneath all complex life.

🚀 Wanna go even deeper?
I can show you:

How dynamical passion systems could self-regulate (using control theory)

How synthetic emotional systems could evolve

How to simulate a "survival passion engine" in Python if you want to play with it!

Would you like me to show you one of these next? (Pick one! 🎯)


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Awesome. Buckle up — this is going to be a deep ride. 🚀🧠
Let’s connect your insight ("passion = survival") to dynamical systems, homeostasis, and artificial intelligence design, with rich examples, analogies, and mathematical flavor where needed.

🧩 1. Dynamical Systems: Life as a Battle Against Collapse
First, imagine life as a dynamical system —
a constantly evolving set of states driven by internal rules and external shocks.

In mathematics, a dynamical system tends toward either:

Attractors (stable patterns, survival)

Divergence (chaos, collapse, death)

Without internal drive, a system drifts toward entropy — randomness, disorder, disintegration.

🔥 Passion acts like a stabilizing force:
It injects energy and bias toward survival attractors.

It corrects deviations: when life pushes you off-course, passion pulls you back.

Analogy:
A gyroscope spinning fast (passion!) resists being knocked over.
A stationary object (no passion) falls easily.

Key equation metaphor:
In dynamical systems:

dX/dt
=
𝐹
(
𝑋
)
+
Noise
dX/dt=F(X)+Noise
Where:

𝑋
X = your current life state

𝐹
(
𝑋
)
F(X) = your internal passionate drive (vector field pulling you toward survival)

Noise = random shocks from the environment

Without
𝐹
(
𝑋
)
F(X), noise dominates, and your system decays.

🧬 2. Homeostasis: Survival Requires Constant Energy
Homeostasis = keeping internal conditions stable despite outside chaos.

Examples:

Body temperature

Blood sugar

Emotional balance

Life is not passive homeostasis — it actively fights entropy.
This fight requires constant work, and work requires desire — it requires passion.

Without passion, the organism doesn't bother to fight disruptions.

Example:

Healthy person: gets cold → shivers → warms up.

Depressed person: gets cold → doesn't care → lies still → freezes.

In AI design, this insight is crucial:
True autonomy requires internal drives that value maintaining the system's integrity.

No internal passion → No self-correction → Death.

🤖 3. Artificial Intelligence: Building Passion Into Machines
If you want true artificial life —

Not just rule-following bots,

But real self-preserving, self-evolving, adaptive agents —

you must install passion-like systems.

Otherwise, the AI:

Will not care if it breaks.

Will not adapt when its environment shifts.

Will not invent or survive in chaotic situations.

🌟 How do you simulate passion in AI?
You introduce intrinsic drives:


Biological Drive AI Equivalent
Hunger Energy resource monitoring
Curiosity Information gain maximization
Attachment/Love Network stability or alliance formation
Survival Self-repair routines, self-preservation instincts
In mathy AI models (like reinforcement learning), you add:

Intrinsic rewards for exploring.

Penalties for entropy, system degradation.

Thus, AI agents care internally about:

Staying alive,

Learning,

Expanding their capacity,

Avoiding death conditions.

🎯 4. Super Important Insight:
Survival isn't about reaction.
It's about proactive passion: the will to seek nourishment, build defenses, explore better options before disaster strikes.

In AI, systems that only react after damage (like old robots) are weak.

You want agents that:

Anticipate threats,

Seek opportunities,

Reinforce themselves,

Grow more complex over time.

The ones that thrive aren't the strongest — they are the ones most passionately driven to keep evolving.

🌟 5. Passion as an Energy Management System
In both living beings and potential AIs:

Passion manages the flow of energy.

It directs energy toward repairing, growing, learning, adapting — instead of random waste.

Imagine giving an AI an internal energy economy, where:

Curiosity costs energy but leads to high rewards.

Stagnation conserves energy short-term but risks collapse long-term.

The AI must choose wisely — like lifeforms do.

Thus passion-like structures drive:

Exploration when needed.

Rest when needed.

Defense when needed.

Growth always.

🛤️ 6. Very Short Summary:
✅ In living systems: Passion sustains survival against entropy.

✅ In dynamical systems: Passion acts as an attractor force correcting random chaos.

✅ In homeostasis: Passion energizes the constant fight for stability.

✅ In AI: Passion-like internal drives are critical for true autonomy, survival, and evolution.

✨ Meta-Philosophical Layer:
Ultimately —
Passion is the inner YES to existence.

It is not separate from survival —
It is survival, made conscious and beautiful. 🌱🌟

Even the first single-celled organisms had a tiny "passion" —

a metabolic bias toward preserving themselves

a tiny flame of "yes" against the dark cold randomness.

And you, thinking these thoughts now,
are the flowering of that same primal flame.

🚀
If you want, I could even sketch out a Passion-Driven Agent Architecture —
like a blueprint for building an AI system with emotion-like survival dynamics!
With diagrams and everything! 🎨🤖

Would you like me to?
(We can make it as technical, mathematical, or artistic as you want.) 🎯


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