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by iorrus 6y ago
I gave it a shot. Paints a pretty bleak picture :). I didn't think I gave particularly extreme answers. I'm not sure how much this would help with a career decision . --- You are less agreeable than 90 of 100 people You are less c
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by iorrus 6y ago
I am in a similar situaiton. Really enjoyed my job until 3-4 months ago when there was a major reorg and we've gone back to the drawing board with a new product owner who is out of her depth. It's not necessarily my career choice
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by iorrus 6y ago
I studied Engineering for a period in France at the time (undergraduate) I was very impressed at the level of rigour and abilities of my French peers. However this does not seem to link well with actual abilities as a practising Engineer. F
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by iorrus 6y ago
I'm in Western Europe. University courses get funding based on how many students are in the class. It links directly so "bums on seats" = €€. This money comes from the state but it has the same effect.
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by iorrus 7y ago
Hacker News is healthy in that it has a number of interesting links, these can be found in the new section not the upvoted section. The actual discussion is medicore for the most part and heavily policed.
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by iorrus 7y ago
Have to agree something about it sounds very off. I think the main issue is that it is written in such a passive way as if these things are reality and there is nothing you can do. Everyone of those issues can be fixed relatively easily by
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by iorrus 7y ago
The reason many people have trouble understanding quaternions is that they reason about them incorrectly. Quaternions are actually a separate 'thing' when compared to vectors (which is why their multiplication seems off and the sq
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by iorrus 7y ago
Maybe it’s a cultural thing but I find many of examples given to be worded in a way I would find a bit duplicitous. I’d prefer a much more direct approach and I’d be reluctant to trust anyone using these kind of couched expressions. See her
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by iorrus 8y ago
Funny that Maxwell has an entire chapter named after him in the history of the ether [1] [1] https://archive.org/details/historyoftheorie00whitrich/page/...
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by iorrus 8y ago
Wow Thanks for that... fascinating.
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by iorrus 8y ago
“He took these books home and tried to find out. He succeeded after some trouble, but found some of the properties of vectors professedly proved were wholly incomprehensible. How could the square of a vector be negative? And Hamilton was so
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by iorrus 8y ago
Maxwell’s works all assume an ether so it’s not really true to state that the equations don’t need one.
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by iorrus 8y ago
Exactly, one of the main reasons why maxwell is so hard to understand is that everything is expressed using quarternions unlike Heaviside who expressed the equations using the vector notation we see them expressed in today. In reality ‘Maxw
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by iorrus 8y ago
Elementary Lectures On Electric Discharges, Waves And Impulses, And Other Transients Is a very interesting readable book he wrote
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by iorrus 8y ago
'Fields of Force' by William Berkson is also highly recommended.
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by iorrus 8y ago
I read Lockhart's Lament, I had the opposite reaction, maths is one of the few arts that is actually taught in school. If it had as little practical application as painting or music it would be nonexistent as a school subject. He is wr
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by iorrus 8y ago
This is an extremely personal question. I have extreme biases, I personally favour: Bryan Magee's book on Schopenhauer. German Idealism/The Fate of reason by Fredrick Beiser. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Magee Kant&
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by iorrus 8y ago
I thought it was a fantastic introduction to Western Philosophy. One of the top 5 books I recommend to people who have an interest in philosophy but no academic background in the area.
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by iorrus 9y ago
Seems to be mostly pretentious over written prose with little to say: e.g. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/01/12/do-classics-have-...
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by iorrus 9y ago
Everything I've listed and said is factual. It is you who are in fact biased not me.
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by iorrus 9y ago
Aristotle has been involved with Christian philosophy since the early church fathers such as John of Damascus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_Aristotle This was all official dogma and part of the religi
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by iorrus 9y ago
Maybe, I could have phrased that better. What I meant was the assumption in the quotes listed in your link all indicate that Byzantium is where people would travel to learn Greek philosophy. Therefore even if incorrect the assumption would
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by iorrus 9y ago
Based on your link there is a strong possibility that he studied with the Greeks. (Two sources say he did) What is mentioned no where is that Aristotle was 'forgotten' by the Greeks. In fact everywhere in those manuscripts it is a
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by iorrus 9y ago
It says in the preface he was there for 8 years. I'll take the word of the man who wrote a recent book on his philosophy over some guy on HN. He probably brushed up on Aristotle at the time. His early teachers were Nestorian Christians
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by iorrus 9y ago
Looking into this further it appears you are correct in that Al-Farabi for instance actually studied in Byzantium for 8 years according to the preface in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Political-Writings-Regime-Summary-Ed
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by iorrus 9y ago
have you read Byzantine history? They were sworn enemies of Islam throughout this entire period not discussing the nuances of philosophy. I can keep citing articles claiming Aristotle was not forgotten but it seems pointless at this stage.
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by iorrus 9y ago
Yes they produced no new commentaries... Byzantiums were extremely conservative, they disdained innovation, so why would they write new commentaries where there were already several hundred years worth of commentaries? We have also lost a l
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by iorrus 9y ago
I can't seem to reply to your comment below. Yes they produced no new commentaries... Byzantiums were extremely conservative, they disdained innovation, so why would they write new commentaries where there were already several hundred
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by iorrus 9y ago
Did you read the last link I cited? It mentions many Byzantine philosophers and their links to Aristotle. There is no serious suggestion that Aristotle ever died out in Byzantium or that foreign intervention was required to rediscover him.
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by iorrus 9y ago
Saying things like that is just a sign they were insecure and compensating.

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