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I read a book titled Elevator Music by Joseph Lanza and am sad to say that I don't remember much about it other than that slaughterhouses played elevator music for the cattle to calm them before the slaughter, and an anecdote about a
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The Mayans may or may not have been first, but due to their isolation their use of zero was unknown to the rest of the world. By the time Europeans and Mayans met, the Hindu-Arabic numeral system was well established and that was the system
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Maybe. It would be odd, though, not to find any Indian examples of zero from earlier than ~200 years after the oldest Khmer one if the invention came from India. That area first came under Indian influence centuries before these dates. Some
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WyldCard: A clone of Apple's Hypercard and HyperTalk scripting language(github.com)
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I'm not so optimistic about Larkin's replacements, whoever they are. I'm not British but it makes me sad to think that young people won't be shown "The Whitsun Weddings."
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This lends some credence to Thomas Nagel's remark that Dennett's work is basically Gilbert Ryle plus Scientific American .
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I don't have any kind of system for notes, but I've found the "tagmash" feature on LibraryThing to be useful: https://blog.librarything.com/2007/07/tagmash/
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I think what the discussion around "narcissism" and "shamelessness" in recent years (apparently occasioned by the rise of Trump) consistently misses is that narcissism as understood by psychologists isn't characteri
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The KHL, Russia's top hockey league, is known for its cavalier treatment of injured--even dying--players: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/paul-kariya...
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One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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After reading that Wikipedia article I'm reminded of a episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent that was almost certainly inspired by Ungar's life: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0799186/ . The character ap
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There's a lot of overlap between the Montage and the Genos. A lot of the "Performances" and "Arpeggios" in the workstation are derived from Yamaha's arranger keyboards. Arranger keyboards, though, are anathema
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This uses accompaniment styles from Yamaha arranger keyboards, which have been around for ages. It's a much simpler format (really just a special kind of MIDI file) than the BIAB one, and more open. This project has details: https:&#x
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I looked at a couple of math books several years ago that used Logo, and was quickly turned off by the fact that it didn't have first-class functions--a pretty big limitation for a lisp. I ended up translating the code to either Python
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That's right, I was forgetting serialized novels. They were big, too. That method of Dumas was how Dostoevsky worked, at least some of the time--not knowing exactly what he was doing in a novel until after its first chapters had alread
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Short stories used to be the more lucrative form. Writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald made most of their income from selling short stories to magazines like Collier's or Esquire, not novels.
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> As far as "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object"... You just described Christianity. Yes. Christianity is, in the scholarly sense of the word intended by the article, a c
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The fingering question is being researched in ML. One such project is linked here: http://eita-nakamura.github.io/
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Or a hockey fan. It seems like every Canadian NHL team has one of those companies (or ScotiaBank) as their main sponsor.
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A lot of archetypal Western stories originated in India and Persia and entered Europe by way of Muslim Spain in the middle ages, through collections like Kalīla wa-Dimna. For example the taming of the shrew (I think) first appears in writte
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The problem is that if you're going to have the reader follow a particular detective around for several books, the reader will eventually want to see more sides to the character than just the professional one; treating the detective as
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"With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states." https://www.salon.com/2013&
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> You can take the bums off the street (and put them in shelters) There's your problem, I think. In the US, at least, the elements of our polity that favor "taking the bums off the street" are mostly unwilling to pay for t
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I don't believe Ecclesiastes presents one central and unambiguous argument. Like a lot of books in the Bible, it may well have more than one author, too.
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I wrote a script recently that identifies chords from MIDI input, and, even though I'd have preferred not to use a game framework, Pygame turned out to be the easiest way by far of handling the MIDI stuff.
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Lionel Trilling gives a really good account of this change in Sincerity and Authenticity; near the beginning of the essay he makes special reference to Polonius's speech: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~kangchan/translati
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NeutralinoJS supports this, apparently: https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/issues/249
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I probably shouldn't have used the word "non-specialized." I mean that in comparison with the armies of early Iron Age Greece the hoplite army of democratic Athens was relatively non-hierarchical, without such heavy dependenc
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I think they're wrong about modern Switzerland, but they raise an issue that's crossed my mind occasionally: that Athenian democracy followed the emergence of the phalanx, a technology that favored the use of large, non-specialize
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I wouldn't expect to see a link, unless the article was occasioned by the publication of a new edition. This author probably is in the habit of referring to the original Greek, and may have found older, public-domain translations of it

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