goodjam

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by goodjam 9y ago
I love this friendly jab at Flaubert from Nietzsche “On ne peut penser et écrire qu’assis - One cannot think and write except when seated (G. Flaubert). There I have caught you, nihilist! The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy
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by goodjam 9y ago
Let's imagine one note as a point on a plane, then an interval (2 notes) as a line connecting those notes. Next we have a chord (3 notes) and we get a triangle. By inverting the notes of the chord (135, 351 etc) we get a ring that repr
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by goodjam 9y ago
"How to talk about books you haven't read" by Pierre Bayard is another interesting book on this subject. I presume Derrida is not much liked around here but this excerpt is pure gold from the Derrida documentary https:/
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by goodjam 9y ago
related but off-topic: Would it be nice if we could just go meta and share newsletters as "self-updating" bookmarks on something like pinboard(just a happy user here)? Next step - implementing machine-learning so that we have con
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by goodjam 10y ago
How far are we from paying people to play a programming game, while using their code/solutions for solving problems?
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by goodjam 10y ago
There is a wonderfull joke in talmud when two rabbis argue about some problem. One says: Let's call Jehova and ask him directly! So Jehova comes but the other rabbi tells him: God go away, you did your thing now let us wise men discuss
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by goodjam 10y ago
German is very suitable for abstract thinking because you can form compound words with ease and put the function at the end of the sentence. These compound words are hard to translate (aufhebung - sublation is a famous example). Hegel wrote
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by goodjam 10y ago
I feel somewhat similar.. on a side note Hegel's way of thinking is very "algorhythmical". For example the art of the metaobject protocol explores common lisp in a similar way as Hegel explores the absolute spirit. Hegel is a
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by goodjam 10y ago
“This concern with aim or results, with differentiating and passing judgement on various thinkers is therefore an easier task than it might seem. For instead of getting involved in the real issue, this kind of activity is always away beyond