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by Jun8 8y ago
Whenever anyone young asks me this general question I point them first to pg's awesome essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html . This is targeted for HS students but I think also applies to freshmen and sophomores. To
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by Jun8 8y ago
The Guardian article quoted here is a bit more substantive ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/15/french-booksho... ). Basic story is: Author ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Jun8 8y ago
Talk about serendipity: I finished reading Ryunosuke Akutagawa's story "The Hell Screen" just a couple of weeks ago! I also have two other short story collections (see below) by Japanese authors. I have no knowledge of early
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by Jun8 8y ago
For those in Chicago: Darger lived for 43 years at 851 W. Webster Avenue in the Lincoln Park (the house no longer exists).
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In the Realms of the Unreal – Henry Darger's Magnum Opus(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Jun8 8y ago
Thanks for providing the term. I was surprised to find a well-organized site on this topic: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/zettelkasten-improves-thinking...
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by Jun8 8y ago
Good summary. For those who want to learn more, here's a more in-depth reply to the "Are running out of Helium?" questions. I'll just quote the definition that he uses, which in itself sheds light to teh matter: "a
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by Jun8 8y ago
Good answer from Physics SE on why there's no upper limit to temperature: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1775/why-is-ther...
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by Jun8 8y ago
The question why an alphabetic Chinese script was never developed is often asked, a good answer is here: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-China-have-no-alphabet-Why-di... . Non-Chinese speakers focus on the cumbersomeness of t
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by Jun8 8y ago
"Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. (I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library)." - Borges Libraries, as physical places, have a sanctity about them and every discussion on "re
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by Jun8 8y ago
I wondered the same thing and did a quick search. It seems that the term "1D fluid" here refers to the Luttinger fluid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luttinger_liquid ), which is a theoretical model.
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by Jun8 8y ago
Great essay, e.g. "There should be a word for the ambiguous kinship between translators who share an author. It’s a bond marked by tender antagonism or light rivalry, mixed with a uniquely intimate solidarity." It does seem intere
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by Jun8 8y ago
Mesmerizing video! A mathematician exercising predictive control over thin ice brings to mind Kislowski's wonderful Dekalog 1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekalog:_One ), which is my favorite among the set of ten
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by Jun8 8y ago
My layman's suggestion is that, rather than trying to read the ancients, start with how ideas from them and more current philosophers are relevant in today's debates. This is akin to diving into using a prog language with little u
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by Jun8 8y ago
Very good address, pretty much echoing the points from DFW's excellent speech ( https://www.fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-wat... ): "That is real freedom. That is being educated, and underst
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by Jun8 8y ago
I encountered this interesting piece in Aaronson's post ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html ), after you read it you might want to read his thoughts, too.
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Two Types of Envy(overcomingbias.com)
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by Jun8 8y ago
"To be ideological is to preconceive reality." Indeed! In his fervor to picture the Met as a racist, elitist, outdated bastion of high art the author does not care to spend any verbiage on the real problem: the Met's inaptitu
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by Jun8 8y ago
My (perhaps naive) question is: where do you get the film? What sort of film to buy?
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by Jun8 8y ago
I'm curious as to what part of the assertion that cannon superiority was one of the biggest factors in the Fall of the City is being debated, can you provide some resources? The bombards (muzzle loaded cannons) were widely known and us
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by Jun8 8y ago
Agreed! In fact, even a cursory visit to the SCOTUS page clearly shows that whoever runs it is no luddite: not only you can get scanned transcripts of cases reaching back to 80s, you can stream audio from arguments back to 2010!
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by Jun8 8y ago
This is a surprisingly well-written objective analysis of the Peterson phenomenon, surprisingly because, unfortunately most popular news outlets, even Times have become polarized.
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by Jun8 8y ago
This is a great project but I can't help say it: I don't like Scratch (and similar block-based languages). They are limited, in some cases by design (e.g. opening files in Scratch) but usually by their very nature. I very much pre
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by Jun8 8y ago
AFAIK, there's considerable debate whether she was physically exceptionally beautiful or not, but to me the important bit about her is this (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Cleopatra_VII ): In cont
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by Jun8 8y ago
HN discussion on the recent closure of Weird Stuff : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797286 To me there's a disconnect here: On the one hand one can argue we're leaving in a golden age of democratization of
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Our classic electronics surplus stores are disappearing. Can they be saved?(sparkfun.com)
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by Jun8 8y ago
Sad day! For, those who want to spend time at work to reminiscence here are some links I found interesting: * "How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe", a good profile from Vanity Fair , 2015: https://www.vanityfair.com/
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by Jun8 8y ago
My experience is that LibGen is somewhat weak in the literary space. For example, it doesn't have any book by Lola Ridge, the poet mentioned in the article.
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by Jun8 8y ago
I think a site similar to Sci-Hub to host, say, 10k orphan works is not equivalent to Google's planned scanning of very large number of books and potentially profiting from them (if not from selling them at least from using the text as
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by Jun8 8y ago
Wait, what I want to ask is: Why doesn't anyone perform Sci-Hub-like vigilantism to save these works, i.e. scan the books and put them on line? Without big-pocketed companies like Elsevier (or music labels in the days of Naspter) to fi

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