That's orthogonal to the way I think about it.
What's important is that some emotion is the opposite of another one. Otherwise things will get way too confusing.
Requiring us to cancel out confusion with the sort of baselessly dogmatic certainty only achievable in blog comments.
(hate*36.25)/cos(angst)= strong yearning for some chips.
"Opposite of" really doesn't seem to me to mean "orthogonal to." Left is the opposite of up?
Since emotions clearly don't occupy a true metric space, per Ffej, this thread is going to require some serious differential geometry.
I'm still trying to get an intuitive grasp of the emotional-gustatory life described by the formula in 4.
Most of the differential geometry I'm familiar with does work with metric spaces, but I guess more general things are differential geometry too? "Love is a symplectic form."
"Love is a symplectic form."
"It's the open rose, that only grows, where it's nice and warm..."
Well, I was thinking about this kind of stuff, which as far as I know (not very far) you can sorta-kinda do differential geometry on.
Love is a battlefield. Hate is also a battlefield, but that's not a very catchy chorus.
Oddly in 10 I was forgetting the case of pseudo-Riemannian metrics which don't induce metrics in the "metric space" sense but are kind of, like, the thing that general relativity works with. You'd think I would remember that.
I was never good at lyrics, and spent literally years thinking Pat Benatar was singing "Love is a pineapple." Or, at least, I was pretty sure that was wrong, but never came up with a better theory.
14: I was thinking of the Kullback-Liebler divergence in probability, which is kind of but not really like the distance between two probability distributions.
"It's the open rose, that only grows, where it's nice and warm..."
"Love is nature's way of giving a reason to conform..."
16: Yeah, being asymmetric and all, definitely unlike the usual metric-space metric. But: how does one do differential geometry with it? Sounds like fun.
3: My baseless dogmatic certainty is vast and respects no bounds, digital or otherwise ... laydeez
"Love is nature's way of giving a reason to conform..."
Right, you want to preserve the inner product with apathy.
But: how does one do differential geometry with it? Sounds like fun.
That is exactly what I said to my undergrad TA who told me about it, followed by "maybe I should take differential geometry!" to which he replied "No. No you should not."
10, 12, 14, 16, 18: I was thinking about your mother.
I want to know what love is...
Isn't differential geometry without a metric differential topology?
And for that, the Kullbak-Liebler divergence provides a topology.
Hmm, a quick scan of the Wikipedia article on differential topology suggests I'm wrong, unsurprisingly.
22: I think he took a ton of math in the hope that it would give him a leg up in studying machine learning, and was kind of down on the helpfulness of the math at that particular moment in time.
LOVE & RAGE are four-letter words. So are HATE & HOPE.
I love and I hate. You ask me why this is so;
I do not know, but I feel it, and it torments me
2: That nails it. Any further thinking about it means one has too much time on their hands and instead needs to get into Crossfit, some exotic martial art, or biking on busy city streets.
and spent literally years thinking Pat Benatar was singing "Love is a pineapple."
She wasn't?
33: She was. It was a response to that song about piña coladas and cheating on your partner with your partner.
29:
LOVE
LAVE
LATE
HATE
RAGE
RATE
ROTE
ROPE
HOPE
HATE
RATE
RAGE
HOPE
LOPE
LOVE
The circle is unbroken.
15 is great.
The opposite of love is the internet.
The internet is the web, and Unfogged is the spider which feeds on love-bugs.
The white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.
The opposite of love is Jonah Goldberg.
I walked past Sifu a short while ago and nodded toward him but he didn't notice. I should have shouted something about Kullback-Leibler.
42: huh! I was engrossed in mentally complaining about the heat and tourists, I guess.
Kullback-Leibler
This keeps making me think of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. I have no joke to offer.
Arg, the tourists. I keep trying not to walk right in front of cameras while they're taking photos but it really isn't possible.
46: I do wonder sometimes how many photos of tourists from around the world I'm in the background (and sometimes foreground) of.
46: I have recently decided that the advent of digital photography means that bit of etiquette no longer applies. Especially when they're blocking the whole goddamned path.
I still struggle a little bit with living that conviction. The social pressure is strong.
I take my dog swimming at a spot in a nearby park that's popular with professional photographers. I can only guess at the number of wedding photos that have him splashing happily in the background.
I think about that during graduation ceremonies. So many people film us walking slowly in and sitting down. I'm sitting in a lot of stranger's hard drives, IYKWIM.
I'm in any number of movies (or on cutting room floors) 'cause the motorcycle would get me past the cars and cameras on trailers used to make "driving" look realistic. Look for a black jacket, white helmet, and red bike.
You can't see me in the background of the closing credits in Blade Runner, but I'm there. Way in the background.