the-mitr

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by the-mitr 3y ago
Some points resonate, some don't. By this definition I am physical books hoarder (4-5k). But I can surely tell each book apart and where/when I got it. I definitely don't have enough space to store all of them well, yet new b
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Is Now a Good Time to Do Nothing? (2021)(psychologytoday.com)
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Lee Smolin: Science Works Because We Care to Know the Truth [2019](daily.jstor.org)
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Two students built an A-bomb (2003)(theguardian.com)
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by the-mitr 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/mir-titles
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by the-mitr 3y ago
I am the curator/maintainer of the mirtitles.org blog and the typesetter of the books. Thanks for the comment and putting in the perspective. The project started with the idea of preserving this knowledge about 15 years back. I grew up
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by the-mitr 3y ago
Thanks for linking Calculus book. His book on school physics also use the dialogue approach: Questions and Answers in School Physics (Dialogues between students and teacher) https://archive.org/details/questions-and-ans
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The World is Built on Probability (1984)(archive.org)
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Gordon Moore (1929-2023)(tikalon.com)
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by the-mitr 4y ago
Even if you know a lot many things, you cannot predict for sure how the system will behave on another level. See this classic paper by Anderson titled "More is different" on this topic which considers hard science and its inabilit
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Embodied Cognition(en.wikipedia.org)
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We'd likely have to liquidate Jupiter to build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun(engadget.com)
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Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience(aeon.co)
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HINT: Hint Is Not TeX(hint.userweb.mwn.de)
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Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko's parallel historical universe(bigthink.com)
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by the-mitr 4y ago
very cool project!
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How Hubble images are made(aeon.co)
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The Tyranny of Science over Mothers(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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Weber–Fechner Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake(scientificamerican.com)
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How two students built an A-bomb (2003)(theguardian.com)
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by the-mitr 4y ago
I curate/maintain a blog (for more than a decade now) to preserve books published during Soviet era. http://mirtitles.org This blog though does not generate any revenue, I see it as a personal achievement which will perhaps
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What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known? (2017)(edge.org)
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Milky Way stars found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy(astronomy.com)
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by the-mitr 4y ago
It is not a bug, it is a feature
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Metaliteracy Framework(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ozempic is changing the definition of being thin(thecut.com)
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RecipeDB: A Resource for Exploring Recipes(cosylab.iiitd.edu.in)
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Where Digital Payments, Even for a 10-Cent Chai, Are Colossal in Scale(nytimes.com)
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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?(technologyreview.com)
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