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Fascinating list that I thought yall would enjoy! If you’re not yet aware, https://plato.stanford.edu https://plato.stanford.edu is as close to “philosophical c
by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating list that I thought yall would enjoy! If you’re not yet aware, https://plato.stanford.edu https://plato.stanford.edu is as close to “philosophical canon” as it gets in modern American academia.
Shoutout to Gödel and Neumann taking top spots despite not really being philosophers, at least in how they’re remembered. Comparatively, I’m honestly shocked that neither Bohr nor Heisenberg made the cut, even though there’s multiple articles on quantum physics… Turing also managed to sneak in under the wire, with 33 citations.
The bias inherent in the source is discussed in detail, and I would also love to hear HN ideas on how to improve this project, and how to visualize the results! I’m not the author, but this is right up my alley to say the least, and I’d love to take a crack at it.
- defrost 2y ago> and how to visualize the results! There's bound to be something to be teased out from who referenced whom and when. Eg: (random example) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Priest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Priest had a great many students from the 1980s onwards, coinciding with the rise of plato.stanford.edu personal computers and the internet. He's come in at #51 or so likely on the back of a generation of philosophy students with technology crossover writing up early articles on plato and throwing in a citation to Priest. I'm in no way implying this is undeserved, just as an example of some of the weighting bias coming from the era when many plato stub articles originated.
- westurner 2y agoFrom "Show HN: WhatTheDuck – open-source, in-browser SQL on CSV files" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836220 : > datasette-lite can load [remote] sqlite and Parquet but not yet DuckDB (?) with Pyodide in WASM, and there's also JupyterLite as a datasette plug-in: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net JSON-LD with https://schema.org/Person https://schema.org/Person records with wikipedia/dbpedia RDF URIs would make it easy to query on whichever datasets can be joined on common RDFS properties like schema: :identifier and rdfs:subPropertyOf sub-properties, https://schema.org/url https://schema.org/url, :sameAs, Plato in RDF from dbpedia: https://dbpedia.org/page/Plato https://dbpedia.org/page/Plato Today there are wikipedia URLs, DOI URN URIs, shorturls in QR codes, ORCID specifically to search published :ScholarlyArticle by optional :author, and now there are W3C DIDs Decentralized Identifiers for signing, identifying, and searching of unique :Thing and skos:Concept that can be generated offline and optionally registered centrally, or centrally generated and assigned like DOIs but they're signing keys. Given uncertainty about time intervals, plot concepts over time with charts for showing graph growth over time. Maybe philosophy skos:Concept intervals (and relations, links) from human annotations thereof and/or from LLM parsing and search snippets of Wikipedia, dbpedia RDF, wikidata RDF, and ranked Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy terminological occurrence frequency.
- westurner 2y ago- "Datasette Enrichments: a new plugin framework for augmenting your data" (2023) by row with asyncio and optionally httpx: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/1/datasette-enrichments/ https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/1/datasette-enrichments/