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Build your own Apollo Guidance Computer(echoesofapollo.com)
5 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
So 'they' was used for centuries as a singular pronoun?! I've been objecting to that usage for a long time. I learned something here.
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Lawnchair Larry(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
... sinusoid, which is Greek ... On a pedantic note, sinusoid is at best half Greek. -oid is Greek ("form of"), but sinus is Latin, referring to, among other things, the fold of a toga. The English word 'sine', by the way, is rooted i
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A New Way To Pay Student Loans: Slowly or Not At All(business.theatlantic.com)
4 points by bbg 17y ago|1 comments
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A Plant That Thrives When Used as a Toilet(nytimes.com)
43 points by bbg 17y ago|11 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Somewhat related, see this recent article (6/10/09): "Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages: University of Washington software pulls facts from 500 million Web pages." http://beta.technologyreview.com/computing/22773/
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by bbg 17y ago
I agree with your point completely: just because you're fastidious about grammar doesn't mean you can accomplish anything worthwhile. And anyway, most of the 'grammatical rules' that are widely propounded are just a form of mythology: maxi
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by bbg 17y ago
For what it's worth, Aristotle was the first to make this division of the three 'modes of persuasion' or pisteis , at Rhetoric 1.2: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristot.+Rh... Or at least, this passage is the earli
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by bbg 17y ago
This sounds like what the French might call "bricolage." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage
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Machine translation: DARPA to Google(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Victorian Internet , Tom Standage http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Nineteen...
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by bbg 17y ago
Great idea. Considering the great variety of patterns they offer, I wonder if they should add aperiodic tilings! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling
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Why Has Globalization Led to Bigger Cities? (IT, in part)(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
11 points by bbg 17y ago|4 comments
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Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old(thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
21 points by bbg 17y ago|1 comments
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With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors(nytimes.com)
4 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Can't help but add Socrates' comments to Phaedrus in the Plato's dialogue Phaedrus (around section 274), to the effect that writing destroys man's faculty of memory, and bestows only a superficial sort of learning. As Socrates relates it,
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U.S. Plans Attack and Defense in Cyberspace Warfare(nytimes.com)
4 points by bbg 17y ago|0 comments
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by bbg 17y ago
Pullum makes some good points -- his objection to the irrelevant distinction between 'that' and 'which' is apt -- but I believe that his starkly opinionated denunciation reeks of silly academic spleen and ultimately mischaracterizes this co
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by bbg 18y ago
I'm 34. There's a similar poll from Dec. 2008 at Stack Overflow: "How old are you, and how old were you when you first started coding?": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973/how-old-are-you-an... Looks like that crowd is fairly young