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by montefischer 5mo ago
Boethius was a Christian. He wrote a book explaining the Trinity, for example (De Trinitate). The work for which he is most famous today, the Consolation of Philosophy, does not mention Christ by name, which have led some to speculate that
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by montefischer 10mo ago
This could be a great thesis topic for a Main’s degree in sociology.
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by montefischer 11mo ago
Very nice! I’ll check it out.
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by montefischer 11mo ago
One feature I would love is the ability to automatically generate the table of contents / “outline” metadata for a pdf. I run across a lot of old book pdfs without that metadata, which makes navigation annoying. Kybook3 has a version
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by montefischer 1y ago
Islamic fundamentalism and cult rationalism are both involved in a “total commitment”, “all or nothing” type of thinking. The former is totally committed to a particular literal reading of scripture, the latter, to logical deduction from a
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by montefischer 2y ago
I have wondered this too. I think there are regulatory constraints.
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by montefischer 2y ago
Do you have links to the text only news sites?
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by montefischer 2y ago
And despite the huge size of 52!, it is possible with basic motor skills to produce a random deck. For those with the background and interest, there is a great book: The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards by Diaconis and Fulman, published 2023.
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by montefischer 2y ago
Those interested can read Mark Conger's thesis to learn about the mathematics of repeated cards: https://websites.umich.edu/~mconger/thesis.pdf
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by montefischer 2y ago
For an example of this, I recall reading a proposal that acts of Congress be strictly limited to be at most (say) 5 pages in length. This would be a natural form of regularization of the legislative power.
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by montefischer 2y ago
What do you think about Ellul's arguments in that book?
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by montefischer 3y ago
If you're interested in things like this, you might like to read the paper of Diaconis, Holmes, and Shashahani on sampling from a manifold. https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6913
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by montefischer 3y ago
A far more practical idea is to internalize the practice of 'metacognition' so you can apply it to the vast corpus of books that already exist. It is also interesting to consider previous attempts to wrap a cognitive model around
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by montefischer 3y ago
What is your favorite alternative medium?
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by montefischer 3y ago
The thrust of this article is its final sentence: "that's why I think you should always be wary of SF writers bearing ideas." Be careful of non-approved thinking! Also strange is how caring about the future is dastardly &#x27
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by montefischer 3y ago
I'm not sure we would be any more advanced. Anyone to whom binary conversion is relevant has sufficient intelligence to not need the convenience of base 8. For practical needs, convenient representation of repeated doubling and halving
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by montefischer 4y ago
I use Dvorak, although I regret the choice to learn it instead of Qwerty. If you don’t remap, and I don’t, then you need to use two hands instead of one to navigate. Not a dealbreaker for me though, since by coincidence the places hjkl ende
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by montefischer 4y ago
It would mean, however, that the state should not be explicitly backing the 'religion' in e.g. public universities, even though that's not the immediate issue at hand in the article.
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by montefischer 4y ago
After you root out these reprehensible people, what do you suggest doing with them?
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by montefischer 4y ago
In fact, Postman went to great lengths to detail the ways in which "print culture" (including books, newspapers, and even public oration) with its great commitment to complex argumentation shaped society in ways consonant with the
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by montefischer 4y ago
My favorite passage from that essay: > From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way, one
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by montefischer 4y ago
From Schopenhauer's essay, "On reading and books": > No literary quality can be attained by reading writers who possess it: be it, for example, persuasiveness, imagination, the gift of drawing comparisons, boldness or bitt
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by montefischer 4y ago
Also biblio.com, which is not.
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by montefischer 4y ago
Excellent video. Bill Heinemann, one of the three guys who created the original Oregon Trail game, taught me the basics of the umbral calculus when I was in middle school for the purpose of math competitions. Fitting polynomials to data via
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by montefischer 4y ago
It took over a half-century (<=1801 to >=1858) to get France onto the metric system, Wikipedia estimates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metric_system . The systems it replaced were forgotten, but wh
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by montefischer 4y ago
True. I don't argue for the English imperial system just as I do not argue for the Napoleonic imperial system (metric). I only point to the rich cultural patchwork that has been lost to various administrative imperial projects: https:
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by montefischer 4y ago
Yes, but we could have decided as a civilization to count in base 12 just as we decided to measure things in the metric system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal , so that decimal (dozenal) shifts still work conv
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by montefischer 4y ago
How often does one need to convert miles into yards? Of course I know about the SI base units, which effectively remove the ability of ordinary people to tinker with, use, and reason about measurements by placing the system in the hands of
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by montefischer 4y ago
I argue fervently against the metricizers, for they chose the wrong base for their rationalization of everything. They tried to eliminate "arbitrary" measurements and ratios, based on vernacular day-to-day objects (hands, feet, pa
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by montefischer 4y ago
Casual boxing rings in forests at night with suit-and-tied refs seem to belong more to the old, weird America of Desolation Row than the worn out Walmartland of today.

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