RockofStrength

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by RockofStrength 12y ago
Reading deeply vs. reading widely- an interesting debate question.
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by RockofStrength 12y ago
It's important to be aware that the original has a very intricate rhyming structure that is never preserved in the translations.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
Interesting that I repeatedly saw quartet and not quintet- probably because the assumption is so strong. He only wrote one of them, so the piece clarification was unnecessary.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
It's odd that the author does not specify what string quartet he is referring to, just calling it "The String Quartet"- Schubert had 15 of them.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
http://i.stack.imgur.com/bGpfy.png You're right, thanks. So if the inner space is shaded, it produces the "Sierpinski pentagon", and this can be iterated indefinitely.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
I was thinking about Sierpinski triangles recently, and trying to relate it to the 3 4 5 triangle. The 3 side has a Sierpinski triangle, with 9 segments, equaling 3^2. The 4 side has an equivalent "Sierpinski square", with 16 segm
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdJyafSBCb0 Howard Bloom's "Big Bagel" theory hand waves an entire scheme for everything. Pretty interesting.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
The interplay of micro and macro reminds me of Go. I also like how offense and defense are so connected in a Yin Yang fashion. Perhaps it should be called "TictIctaC TactActaC ToetOetoE". Another possibility: "Tic Frac Toe&qu
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
The Twin Prime conjecture is probably the most elementary unsolved mystery in math.
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by RockofStrength 13y ago
He's saying that gravity is an emergent property, just like temperature or the marble in a stack of envelopes.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Brilliant. The fish segment is comic gold.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Chords: G/D G6 (with jumpy voice leading), can be approximated nicely on the 12th fret harmonics of the guitar.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I consider the fundamental chords in progressions to be tetrads (seventh and sixth chords). Triads are nice in their ambiguity as to where they are going (and their sonic simplicity), and when a seventh or a sixth note is added, it generall
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"The particle's existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with a key particle, the Higgs boson. The more they attract, so the theory goes, the bigger their mass will
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
There are reasonably priced sunlamps that I hear good things about in the treatment of depression. Also, use common sense: pursue positive people (and avoid negative), exercise (no matter how lightly), eat healthy, pursue goals (no matter h
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Quantum tic-tac-toe is an engaging way to get a feel for superpositions and cyclic entanglements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tic-tac-toe
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Here's my "e bookshelf" http://imgur.com/YBB33 , which uses the 1/n! definition. It only goes up to 1/3!, but ideally would approach 1/infinity!. e grows as the total area of the clear books on the left. For example, for the bottom shelf,
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Of course everyone is freshly aware of the neutrino fiasco, so this anomaly will probably be handled with extra skepticism and timidity. Without more data we can only make conjectures based on Occam's razor, etc.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
The circle is a Procrustean bed - the real way to derive the scale is to use a line of fifths that never returns to the starting pitch. Circle any group of seven consecutive fifths, and the group's major scale tonic is the one second from t
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I agree - kids need intelligent role models. The modes of entertainment kids engage in (tv, movies, videogames) do not glorify intelligence - books are much better for that.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
This is an interesting approach for a beginner, but eventually one must commit in order to have subconcious command of the syntax. It could be argued that multilingual children have greater command over the essence of language.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” ~John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Graphical visualization of composite and prime numbers (reddit crosspost)(reddit.com)
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"Happenings are sometimes organised at which thousands of people hold hands and form a human chain, say from coast to coast of the United States, in aid of some cause or charity. Let us imagine setting one up along the equator, across the w
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
That one is Vonnegut's sleeper masterpiece - the choice of narrator was especially clever. How can you have a narrator narrate a million-year-spanning story? Vonnegut figured it out.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Failed entrepreneurs are like wounded soldiers.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I've read many books on happiness. My favorite was the one by Desmond Morris: http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Happiness-Desmond-Morris/dp...
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I find it ironic that in the midst of accusing me of the straw man fallacy you blatantly appeal to authority ("would you put yourself against giants?"). Galileo took Augustine's stance, and that "giant" did not stand a chance against a hord
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"Aside from the fact this is factually incorrect..." I shall supply a snippet of the Galileo affair that corroborates my hand-wavy statement: "One of the first suggestions of heresy that Galileo had to deal with came in 1613 from a professo

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