interiorchurch

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by interiorchurch 2mo ago
Former classicist here. When I taught Homer in translation, I always used Butler's prose versions. You have to turn Homer inside out to render him in English verse like most of the popular translations do, and I don't consider the
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by interiorchurch 6mo ago
I remember reading in Courtenay Harding's (now very old) book, Recovery from Schizophrenia: Evidence, History, and Hope, that populations with a higher prevalence of bipolar tended to have a lower prevalence of schizophrenia, and vice
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by interiorchurch 6mo ago
There used to be a roguelike game called Angband, which was written in C. There was a vibrant community around it, many of whom produced Angband variants by hacking the text config files and the C code. One developer got the idea of making
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by interiorchurch 6mo ago
> However, I don't think that's the ask, here. You don't have to choose MEGASUPERTROPOLIS or remote solo farm. There's a huge gradient between the two. The gradient is where you start to consume a lot of carbon unnece
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
HN is full of people with a) probably decently good homes and b) a high level of self-motivation on work and hobbies. I suspect sentiment here doesn't generalize well to the population at large.
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
> With more DNA data, we wouldn't necessarily need linguistic characteristics to chart language ancestory, we could also look at the DNA evidence. DNA evidence tends to favor the Steppe hypothesis. > We know that the romans borro
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
As a former philologist (but not a historical linguist) I think for me the primary argument for a shallow (Steppe) as opposed to deep (Anatolian) dating of PIE is vibes-based. I agree with the other counterarguments raised in the article ab
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
"Muslim empires preserved Greek learning" is a half-truth, because the medieval Latins traded more with the Arabs than they did with Byzantium. Thus when they got Aristotle etc. it tended to be from Arab sources, even though Const
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
This would be sort of a death blow to much of postmodernism, no? "Reality is structured like a language and the free play of symbols reigns over all"-style thinking was very popular at one time, but this would rule against it.
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by interiorchurch 2y ago
> As a layman who's only familiar with Hilbert's work as it pertains to Godel and CS, I'm curious what makes expressing these proofs using some sort of formal logic so difficult. For one thing, they'd be much longer
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by interiorchurch 3y ago
Question: TASP, a related summer program, has recently gone through some painful convolutions related to race and inequality[1]. How much if at all has Deep Springs been affected by currents like this? [1] https://www.tabletmag.c
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by interiorchurch 3y ago
Seriously, if stoicism is so good for mental health why did so many of them suicide? And why was Marcus Aurelius specifically such a poor father? Seems like a bad track record to me. I'd rather party with the Nietzscheans.
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by interiorchurch 3y ago
As my mother used to say, we'll see...