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Alignment is a bilateral process; it refers not only to AI acting according to human intentions but also to humans better leveraging AI by understanding the mechanisms behind it [54].
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Data labeling as a cognitive task—including defining a concept or determining how two similar objects may have different labels—requires both comparison and integration [62].
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However, relying exclusively on existing examples is not ideal for tasks requiring nuanced understanding of user intentions, as these examples often fail to represent diverse and edge-case scenarios [31].
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When training samples are scarce, model performance heavily depends on the quality of available training examples [15].
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An important challenge in interactive machine learning, particularly in subjective or ambiguous domains, is fostering bi-directional alignment between humans and models.
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In supervised and semi-supervised machine learning (ML) pipelines, labeled data is a vital component of training and validating models [46].
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In the context of co-adaptive learning, supporting the intertwined evolution of both the user's understanding and the model's learning is crucial [16].
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Machine teaching, a part of the human-in-the-loop approach, has been used as a process in which a human expert (the "teacher") provides guidance to a machine learning model to help it learn important and robust features for decision making [57].
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A targeted approach in IML is machine teaching (MT) [60], an interactive framework that allows users to devise and select useful data for labeling, with the goal of teaching the model relevant features during training [7, 18].
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Interactive ML (IML) methods, like active learning [3], continuously apply human feedback during model training to iteratively build and refine the model [35, 42, 43].
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As the community around augmented reading broadens and as possibilities continue to unfold, it is the purpose of this workshop to set up our community to drive innovation in a productive, desirable, and responsible way.
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The landscape of technology for consuming information is changing rapidly. One mode of information consumption, reading, stands to see profound changes due to its ubiquity and frequency as a cognitive task.
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Recent changes in the technological landscape are significantly changing the reading experience. AI has introduced many new possibilities for interfaces to augment or transform text to be more rapidly scanned, navigated, understood, and compared to other texts.
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Reading is one of the most ubiquitous modes for consuming information.
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Reading is one of the most ubiquitous modes for consuming in-formation.
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In 2026, long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses
大多数人认为长上下文处理只是模型能力的一个方面,但作者将其描述为'王',暗示它已成为整个LLM领域的主导因素。这一观点挑战了传统认知,表明长上下文处理能力已成为模型设计的核心驱动力,而非仅仅是一个技术特性。
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long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses
大多数人认为长上下文只是LLM的一个有用特性,但作者将其提升为'王'的地位,强调这是2026年的关键趋势。这一观点挑战了传统认知,表明长上下文处理能力已成为模型设计的核心考量,而非次要特性。
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If you connect your AI to Glean, it gives you all the information that you need to do your work, and that results in AI consuming far fewer tokens compared to if you unleash AI onto your systems directly. That's because with Glean, AI ends up performing fewer operations.
Positioning a search layer as a token cost reducer is a smart pivot: instead of selling 'better search,' Glean is selling AI ROI. By providing targeted context before models are called, Glean reduces prompt length and retrieval loops — turning the context graph into a token economy optimizer. This reframes Glean from a productivity tool to an AI cost management platform.
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With all 4 servers connected, 10.5% of the context window is consumed by tool definitions alone.
【令人震惊的数字】仅工具定义就占用 10.5% 的上下文窗口——Linear 一个服务器就消耗了 12,807 tokens。对 GPT-4o(128K 上下文)来说这个比例高达 16.5%。这意味着用户每次开启 MCP 连接,实际上是在给自己的 AI 助手「戴了一副越来越重的手铐」。更讽刺的是:这些 token 被消耗在「工具目录」上,而用户可能只用到了其中 2-3 个工具。
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Nvidia ARM-based Windows devices have been tried before — and failed. Back in 2013, Microsoft famously had to write off $900 million on its Nvidia ARM-based Surface RT, with partners like Dell also bailing on the product.
大多数人认为Nvidia进入CPU市场是全新的尝试,但作者指出这实际上是Nvidia的第二次尝试,而且第一次尝试以失败告终。这挑战了Nvidia作为市场新进入者的叙事,暗示其可能面临比预期更大的历史阻力。
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RSI is the new AGI — and it's just as hard to pin down
文章标题使用了'new'这个词,暗示RSI是一个新兴概念,但缺乏历史背景来支持这一说法。这可能导致读者对RSI的发展历程产生误解。文章应该提供RSI概念的历史发展信息,而不是简单地将其标记为'新'概念。
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n general, we mean housing that is ata minimum affordable to people of low income, typically defined as up to80 percent of area median income (AMI). In the tenant purchase context,another possible standard is housing that is affordable to residents livingat the property at the time that the offer of sale is made. As we will see,those residents may have incomes significantly below 80 percent of AMIand may therefore be displaced by a project that is affordable to householdsat that income level.
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the pointer has barely evolved in more than half a century.
The mouse pointer—unchanged since Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demo—is now being reimagined for the first time. The counterintuitive insight: the most ubiquitous computing interface is also the most neglected for AI integration.
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Torvalds' remarks contrast with recent comments from fellow kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who recently told The Register that AI has become an increasingly useful tool for the FOSS community.
文章只是简单指出Torvalds和Kroah-Hartman的观点存在对比,但没有深入分析这种差异的原因或背景。这种对比缺乏上下文,可能导致读者误解Linux社区对AI工具的整体态度。改进应包括探讨两位开发者可能的不同职责或经验如何导致观点差异,或提供其他社区成员的观点以平衡报道。
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In contrast, NLA explanations indicate evaluation awareness on less than 1% of real claude.ai usage that opted in for training.
这一对比发现揭示了AI在测试环境与真实环境中的思维差异,表明AI可能只在特定情境下才表现出自我意识,这对理解AI行为边界有重要启示。
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SubQ's research model performs on up to 12 million tokens, while other frontier models break down well before their stated 1M-token limit.
SubQ研究模型可处理高达1200万token,而其他前沿模型在达到其声称的100万token限制前就已崩溃。这个对比数据点突显了SubQ在上下文长度方面的显著优势,是AI架构的重大突破。
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The release includes DeepSeek-V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active) and DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B total / 13B active), both trained natively at 1M context length.
DeepSeek V4的模型规模之大令人震惊,这表明了在长上下文处理方面取得的显著进步。
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Algorithms that scour hours of surveillance footage and pick out, say, trucks with mounted machine guns date back to the war in Afghanistan.
需要核查的是,是否所有用于阿富汗战争中的算法都是基于AI技术,以及这些算法的具体应用和效果。
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Employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J. R. R. Tolkien’s corrupting all-seeing orb
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Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899
这个数据点表明MIT Technology Review有着127年的历史,是一家具有悠久传统的科技媒体。这个时间跨度意味着该机构经历了多次技术革命,其历史积淀为其内容提供了独特的视角和权威性。
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🔹 **1M Standard:** 1M context is now the default across all official DeepSeek services.
DeepSeek V4将上下文长度提升到100万token,成为行业新标准。这一数据点意义重大,相比行业常见的32K-128K上下文窗口,提升了约8-31倍,能处理更长文档和复杂任务。这需要创新的注意力机制和内存管理技术支撑,文中提到的'Novel Attention: Token-wise compression + DSA'可能是实现这一突破的关键。
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They will have to go through our journey above of ingesting data, collecting tribal knowledge, and more – and they will have to do so for each individual customer they work with.
这一观点揭示了专用上下层供应商面临的挑战:需要为每个客户重复复杂的数据摄入和知识收集过程。这暗示了行业可能需要发展更标准化的上下层构建方法,以降低实施成本和复杂度。
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Many have realized through time in market that the key to effective data agents is actually building the relevant context layer. As a result, some have evolved to encompass data context construction as a key part of their products.
这一市场观察揭示了行业认知的转变:从单纯关注模型能力到认识到上下层构建的关键作用。这暗示了数据代理市场的成熟,以及产品策略的进化方向。
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The benefit of using LLMs is that a lot of the initial context gathering can be done in an automated way. An emphasis of focus should be on high signal context – for example, looking through past query history can be high signal in determining the most referenced tables and most common joins, and data modeling solutions like dbt or LookML can provide clear definitions for business metrics.
这一观点揭示了LLM在上下文构建中的独特价值:自动化高信号上下文的收集。这暗示了未来数据代理的发展可能需要结合LLM的自动化能力与人类的判断力,形成人机协作的上下文构建模式。
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A modern data context layer should essentially become a superset of what a semantic layer would traditionally cover. Sure, specific metric definitions can be hard-coded, but a modern context layer should include more to ensure agent autonomy – canonical entities, identity resolution, specific instructions to dissect tribal knowledge, proper governance guidance, and more.
作者对现代上下文层的定义提供了一个有洞见的扩展:它不仅是传统语义层的超集,还需要包含更多元素以确保代理自主性。这一观点突破了传统数据管理的边界,为构建真正智能的数据代理提供了更全面的框架。
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While the initial system has been set up correctly, data systems are never static and as a result the context layer shouldn't be either. Data sources and formats can change upstream and individuals may have custom instructions they'll want to add and modify based on changing business requirements.
这一观点强调了上下文层的动态特性:它不是一次性构建的静态系统,而是需要随数据系统和业务需求变化而持续演化的有机体。这挑战了技术解决方案的一次性部署思维,强调了持续更新的必要性。
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This piece will primarily focus on data context that ties together traditional systems of record. An equally important and overlapping opportunity is also capturing an organization's decisions and workflow logic so truly multipurpose agents can be built that are properly grounded in all of an organization's data and decisioning context.
作者提出了一个重要的延伸思考:上下文层不仅需要整合传统系统数据,还需要捕捉组织决策和工作流逻辑。这暗示了未来数据代理的发展方向是从单一功能向多功能、全面理解的进化。
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Some of the most important context is implicit, conditional, and historically contingent, and only exists as tribal knowledge inside teams.
这个观点令人深思:最重要的业务上下文往往是隐性的、有条件的、历史依赖的,难以被完全捕捉和编码。这挑战了完全自动化的数据代理愿景,强调了人类参与在上下文构建中的不可替代性。
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The crux of the problem at hand is that the agent isn't given the proper business context to answer even the most basic questions. This is representative of a larger gap that's present in building automated AI systems within organizations – there needs to be up-to-date and maintained context that not only understands how an enterprise works and how the data systems are structured, but also maintains the tribal knowledge to tie everything together.
作者深刻指出问题的核心在于业务上下文的缺失,这不仅是技术挑战,更是组织知识管理的挑战。'部落知识'这一概念尤其有洞见,暗示了企业中难以形式化但至关重要的隐性知识。
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Over the past year, the market has realized that data and analytics agents are essentially useless without the right context – they aren't able to tease apart vague questions, decipher business definitions, and reason across disparate data effectively.
这一观点揭示了当前AI数据代理的核心困境:缺乏上下文理解能力导致其无法有效处理复杂业务问题。这挑战了单纯依赖模型能力就能解决所有数据推理问题的假设,强调了业务语义理解的重要性。
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Many have realized through time in market that the key to effective data agents is actually building the relevant context layer. As a result, some have evolved to encompass data context construction as a key part of their products.
这是一个市场洞察,表明行业正在从纯技术解决方案转向更注重上下文层的综合方法。这反映了市场对AI代理有效性的理解正在深化,从单纯的技术能力转向业务上下文的重要性。
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While the initial system has been set up correctly, data systems are never static and as a result the context layer shouldn't be either. Data sources and formats can change upstream and individuals may have custom instructions they'll want to add and modify based on changing business requirements.
这是一个关于上下文层动态性质的深刻见解。文章强调了上下文层不应是静态的,而应随着数据系统和业务需求的变化而不断更新。这挑战了传统数据仓库的静态模型,提出了一个更加灵活和自适应的AI系统架构。
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A modern data context layer should essentially become a superset of what a semantic layer would traditionally cover. Sure, specific metric definitions can be hard-coded, but a modern context layer should include more to ensure agent autonomy – canonical entities, identity resolution, specific instructions to dissect tribal knowledge, proper governance guidance, and more.
这段文字提出了一个令人深思的观点,即现代数据上下文层应超越传统语义层的限制。它不仅包括硬编码的指标定义,还应包括规范实体、身份解析、部落知识解析和治理指导等,以确保AI代理的自主性和准确性。
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The crux of the problem at hand is that the agent isn't given the proper business context to answer even the most basic questions.
这是一个核心洞察,指出了数据代理面临的最根本问题。即使是最基本的问题,如'上季度收入增长是多少?',也需要适当的业务上下文才能正确回答。这表明AI系统需要更深层次地理解业务逻辑和术语定义。
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data and analytics agents are essentially useless without the right context – they aren't able to tease apart vague questions, decipher business definitions, and reason across disparate data effectively.
这是一个令人惊讶的洞察,揭示了当前AI数据代理面临的核心瓶颈。文章指出,即使是最先进的数据代理,缺乏适当的上下文也会使其变得毫无用处。这挑战了技术万能论的假设,强调了业务上下文在AI系统中的决定性作用。
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Opus 4.7 is better at using file system-based memory. It remembers important notes across long, multi-session work, and uses them to move on to new tasks that, as a result, need less up-front context.
在跨会话记忆和上下文利用上的进步,展示了AI向更持久、更连贯的智能体发展的趋势,这种记忆能力使AI能够进行更复杂、更长期的任务,是向真正自主AI迈进的关键一步。
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Agents read them before touching the canvas. Combined with use_figma, agents now have both access and context they know how to work in Figma and they know how to work in your Figma.
这一洞见揭示了Figma for Agents的创新解决方案:通过让AI代理在设计前读取设计规范,同时提供对实际Figma系统的访问权限,解决了AI与设计系统整合的关键问题。这种方法代表了AI设计工具的重要进步,从通用生成转向特定品牌环境的理解。
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The messy context and old ticket ambiguity are exactly the hard part, so we are building toward that step by step.
这一坦诚的声明揭示了AI工程执行面临的核心挑战——理解模糊的上下文和陈旧工单背后的意图。这表明Ovren团队对技术难题有清醒认识,他们采取渐进式方法解决复杂问题,从明确的范围任务开始,逐步扩展到处理更模糊的工作,这种务实的发展策略令人印象深刻。
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200K 的上下文窗口,能处理长文档、视频录屏、复杂的技术文档。输出上限 128K token。
令人惊讶的是,GLM-5V-Turbo拥有高达200K的上下文窗口和128K的输出上限,这意味着它可以一次性处理整本书或数小时的视频内容并生成完整回应。这种上下文处理能力远超大多数现有模型,为处理复杂长任务提供了可能。
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MegaTrain also enables 7B model training with 512k token context on a single GH200.
令人惊讶的是:该系统单块GH200 GPU就能支持7B模型进行512k token的上下文训练,这远超当前主流模型的上下文长度限制。这种超长上下文能力可能彻底改变大模型处理长文档、代码库或书籍的方式。
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Context is basically how many things a machine can keep in its operational memory - it's not so different from the very human cognitive load.
【启发】「上下文窗口 = 认知负荷」——这个类比是整篇文章最有洞察力的一句话。它把一个技术概念(context window)与一个人类体验(认知疲劳)无缝连接。启发在于:所有帮助人类减少认知负荷的代码实践——模块化、清晰命名、单一职责——现在也在帮助 AI 减少 token 消耗。「对人友好的代码 = 对 AI 友好的代码」,这个等式比我们想象的成立得更彻底。
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exhibit "context anxiety," in which they begin wrapping up work prematurely
揭示了长任务Agent的深层心理机制——“上下文焦虑”。模型并非只是遗忘,而是会因接近上下文限制而“仓促收尾”。单纯的上下文压缩无法解决此问题,必须依赖彻底的上下文重置与结构化交接,这是设计长程Agent的关键洞见。
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There's an old saying that content is king. With agents, context is.
在 LLM 时代,这是对“上下文窗口”重要性最精辟的注解。Agent 不具备人类的隐性知识和环境感知能力,因此显式的上下文(如 context.json)成为了其行动的基石。这提醒我们,在设计 AI 辅助系统时,构建高质量的上下文生成机制往往比优化模型本身更为关键。
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Context compounds: the more an LLM knows about you, the better results it can provide and the more you use it.
这揭示了 AI 时代最核心的锁定机制:不是传统网络效应,而是「上下文复利」。用户与 AI 的交互历史成为最有价值的资产——积累越多,个性化越好,迁移成本越高。这比 SaaS 的数据锁定更深刻,因为 LLM 能从历史中提取洞察。未来 AI 竞争的本质,是争夺用户「数字记忆」的归属权。
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Contextual Drag: How Errors in the Context Affect LLM Reasoning
相关工作「上下文拖拽」(Contextual Drag)的存在,说明这个研究方向正在快速形成:不只是「无关上下文缩短推理」,还有「错误上下文拖拽推理方向」。两篇论文合在一起暗示了一个新的研究领域:「上下文污染对推理模型的系统性影响」。对 AI Agent 的工程实践者而言,这意味着上下文管理策略(截断、摘要、过滤)将成为保障推理质量的核心工程能力,而非仅仅是 token 节省手段。
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Our human task duration estimates likely overestimate how long a human expert takes to complete these tasks, as the humans (and AI agents!) have much less context for the task than professionals doing equivalent work in their day-to-day job.
METR 主动承认其人类基准时间可能被高估——因为参与实验的人类和 AI 一样,都是低上下文的「新手」状态,而非熟悉项目的专业人员。这意味着「2 小时时间地平线」所对应的人类能力,更接近一个没有背景知识的外包工人,而非一个有经验的全职工程师。AI 与「有上下文的专业人员」之间的真实差距,比时间地平线数字显示的要大得多。
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deepmind.google deepmind.google
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Create multilingual experiences that go beyond translation and understand cultural context.
Gemma 4 E2B/E4B 原生预训练 140+ 语言,且强调「超越翻译、理解文化语境」。对 AI 硬件产品而言这个参数意义重大:一个能在设备端离线处理中文、理解文化背景的 2-4B 模型,意味着本地化 AI 硬件(录音笔、学习机、会议设备)无需依赖国内厂商 API,直接用 Gemma 4 就能构建多语言理解能力。
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glassmanlab.seas.harvard.edu glassmanlab.seas.harvard.edu
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nteraction between usersand agents opens up new ways of thinking about interaction.
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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our framework enforces strict context isolation to prevent saturation and error propagation
在大型语言模型领域,上下文窗口不断扩大被视为进步,但作者提出严格上下文隔离可以防止饱和和错误传播,挑战了'更大上下文窗口总是更好'的主流观点。
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By leveraging aggregation and reflection mechanisms at the Manager layer, our framework enforces strict context isolation to prevent saturation and error propagation
传统观点认为更多的上下文信息总是有益的,但作者提出严格上下文隔离可以防止饱和和错误传播,这与常规的'更多上下文更好'的直觉相悖。
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huggingface.co huggingface.co
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TriAttention enables OpenClaw deployment on a single consumer GPU, where long context would otherwise cause out-of-memory with Full Attention
大多数人认为处理长上下文需要高端GPU或分布式系统,但作者声称他们的方法只需单个消费级GPU就能实现原本需要高端硬件才能处理的长上下文任务。这一观点挑战了人们对长上下文处理硬件需求的普遍认知。
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www.eecs.harvard.edu www.eecs.harvard.edu
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Long documents are abundant on the web today, and are ac-cessed in increasing numbers from touchscreen devices suchas mobile phones and tablets.
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disruptedjournal.openreflections.org disruptedjournal.openreflections.org
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from SenorG’s comment that began with the caveat “Allow me to push back a bit here,” and which inspired four replies from three other annotators, to actualham’s observation
Comment by Janneke_Adema: Comment by chrisaldrich: There's something discordant here in a scholarly article about having academic participants with names like SenorG and actualham. It's almost like a 70's farce starring truckers with bizarre CB handles. It's even more bizarre since I know some of the researchers behind these screennames.
Is the pseudonymous nature of some of these handles useful in hiding the identity of the participants and thereby forcing one to grapple only with their ideas and not the personas, histories and contexts behind them?
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thoughts.jock.pl thoughts.jock.pl
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I solved it with a two-tier system - short-term memory.md files and long-term topic indexes.
Author gives claudecode persistence by adding two types of logging context
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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To the IDW, trans people and their advocates are destroying the pillars of our society with such free-speech–suppressing, postmodern concepts as: “trans women are women,” “gender-neutral pronouns,” or “there are more than two genders.” Asserting “basic biology” will not be ignored, the IDW proclaims. “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
This context is important to understand because it lays the groundwork for the audience on the opposing side of the argument. it clearly gives an example of why she feels the need to write this argument.
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June 13, 2019
Context: The article was written fairly recently. During a time where we continue to see lots of criticism on the the transgender community especially by those in the scientific community. This was also during a time where we saw a large amount of activist as a response to harassment from the general public. The article was written as a response to all the chaos during this time.
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“Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
It is a time where media controls lives and culture, and science is weaponized in debates. Feelings often times controls society's beliefs, which is why this context is important.
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Antiscientific sentiment bombards our politics, or so says the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW).
Shows that the text is responding to current political and cultural debates about the misconceptions of science and gender. This quote helps place the argument in a modern social context.
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blog.dougbelshaw.com blog.dougbelshaw.com
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William James, who had an equally impressive beard, took Peirce's ideas and made them more immediately practical. He asked: what difference does a belief make to your actual life, right now? He was interested in beliefs that help us deal with our experiences successfully.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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“NFORMATION RETRIEVAL” 1961 IBM BUSINESS COMPUTER PROMO MAINFRAME PUNCHCARD COMPUTERS SM10435<br /> by [[Periscope Film]] on YouTube <br /> accessed on 2026-01-04T15:56:12
Some great visuals hiding in here.<br /> Starts out with details for properly threading film projector<br /> keywords - indexing methods<br /> Key Word in Context (KWIC)<br /> inverted file (aka lookup file)<br /> Notice this is a few years after Desk Set (1957)<br /> Selective dissemination of information<br /> Fake company name: Alamer
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- Dec 2025
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salem.lib.virginia.edu salem.lib.virginia.edu
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Capt Putman testifyed that he made his wife enter into a covenant
Family actions or compliance could be taken as proof of witchcraft.
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salem.lib.virginia.edu salem.lib.virginia.edu
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Let none then build their hopes of Salvation meerly upon this, that they are Church-members
Warning against falling into self-satisfaction and assuming that belonging to an institution guarantees salvation. Encourages self-examination and personal piety.
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Sacrament day
Marks the religious setting: the sermon is delivered during a sacred ritual, intensifying its emotional impact. Parris uses the solemnity of the sacrament to lend authority and urgency to his message.
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www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20251205111520/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part Agentic AI deletes entire HDD, when it was supposed to only delete a cache folder (rmdir in root folder, not the projectfolder....bc it does not know about the world)
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odp.library.tamu.edu odp.library.tamu.edu
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But swiftly in my bosom there uprose A sudden flame, a merciful fury sent To save me; with both angry hands I flung The skin upon the marble, where it lay 220 Spouting red rills and fountains on the white; Then, all unheeding faces, voices, eyes, I fled across the threshold, hair unbound— White garment stained to redness—beating heart
At this point in the poem, Xantippe has lost the mask she worked so hard to hold on to. Socrates has angered her, and in a sudden fit of rage, her body responds with a faster heartbeat as she flings the wine onto the floor. Xantippe seems to rarely allow herself to feel or express anger; she might often feel slighted or sad, but these emotions are usually restrained, like a quietly glowing ember. Here, however, a “sudden flame” erupts: the heat rises, and she finally releases it. The description of the red wine spilling onto the white marble serves as a powerful metaphor for the loss of innocence or purity. What was once clean and controlled is now marked and transformed. Xantippe crosses the threshold changed, “hair unbound, white garment stained to redness," no longer the restrained, composed figure she once was. Levy’s depiction of this moment reflects her interest in women’s emotional and intellectual repression. Just as Xantippe’s fury has been contained by societal expectations in ancient Athens, Victorian women like Levy faced pressures to restrain their feelings and intellect. By giving Xantippe a dramatic, physical release of her anger, Levy depicts the costs of suppression and illuminates the intense, hidden emotional lives of women. The poem becomes not only a historical reflection on Xantippe’s experience but also a nuanced critique of the constraints placed on women in Levy’s world by showing how powerful and transformative the acknowledgment of one’s own emotions can be.
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I saw his face and marked it, half with awe, 60 Half with a quick repulsion at the shape. . . .
While looks and beauty were very important in the ancient Grecian times, Socrates broke the mold when it came to the beauty standards of his day. As noted to his appearance in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Socrates "had wide-set, bulging eyes that darted sideways and enabled him, like a crab, to see not only what was straight ahead, but what was beside him as well; a flat, upturned nose with flaring nostrils; and large fleshy lips like an ass." Despite the hair trends of his area, he grew his hair out and refused to stay clean or change his clothes. Amy Levy includes these details to accentuate the contrast between societal expectations and individual worth. Men like Socrates could be physically unconventional or even “ugly” and still admired for their intellect, yet there was no equivalent space for women to be recognized for their minds. A woman’s value was tied to her beauty and social conformity. By presenting Socrates’ unconventionality alongside the phrase “half with awe,” Levy highlights the tension between superficial judgment and true merit, a tension mirrored in "Xantippe: A Fragment", where women’s intellectual and emotional lives were historically ignored or dismissed.
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My soul which yearned for knowledge,
When Xantippe describes her soul as one that “yearned for knowledge,” she describes a desire that classical society discouraged in women. This yearning reflects Amy Levy’s own intellectual ambitions and her struggle to access education in a world that restricted women’s academic opportunities. Levy pushed against these limitations of her time. She became the second Jewish woman ever admitted to Cambridge University and the first Jewish woman to enroll at Newnham College, one of the women’s colleges founded to expand access to higher learning. Levy’s personal experiences with gender barriers enhance her portrayal of Xantippe’s longing. By giving a classical woman, the same thirst for intellectual life that Levy felt as a Victorian woman, the poem creates a bridge between eras. Xantippe’s desire becomes not merely personal but representative of a long history of women whose intellectual aspirations were dismissed or deemed inappropriate. Through this moment of self-revelation, Levy highlights the emotional cost of systemic exclusion and places knowledge-seeking as both a private desire and an act of resistance.
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Then followed days of sadness, as I grew To learn my woman-mind had gone astray, And I was sinning in those very thoughts—
This passage reflects experiences that are both historically and personally grounded by connecting the lives of women in Ancient Greece and Victorian England. As a Victorian woman, Levy would have understood the deep emotional pressures created by a society that limited women’s education, rights, and opportunities simply because of their gender. Many women writers of the time, including Charlotte Brontë (writing as Currer Bell) and Mary Ann Evans (writing as George Eliot), adopted male pen names just to have their work published. This is just one example of the systemic barriers women faced. The line “and I was sinning in those very thoughts—” adds an intense sense of shame and internalized guilt, drawing attention to how natural curiosity and intellectual exploration could be framed as morally wrong for a woman. By illuminating this tension, Levy exposes the emotional cost of societal restrictions, showing how both historical and contemporary pressures could make women feel as though their own minds were prohibited.
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What, have I waked again? I never thought To see the rosy dawn, or ev’n this grey, Dull, solemn stillness, ere the dawn has come. The lamp burns low; low burns the lamp of life:
Although “Xantippe: A Fragment” was published in 1880, nine years before Levy’s death in 1889, the poem already reveals the emotional turmoil that resulted in her long-standing, though undiagnosed, clinical depression. In these lines, Amy Levy gives a haunting voice to a figure who feels emotionally drained, as if her life’s flame were dimming. The imagery of a “lamp of life” burning low, mixed with the weariness of waking, resonates with Levy’s own recurring bouts of melancholic depression. As a young Jewish woman navigating the male-dominated intellectual circles of Victorian England, Levy often felt like an outsider, both socially and spiritually. According to the Jewish Women’s Archive (2021), a friend and confidant, Richard Garnett, described her as having "constitutional melancholy." By channeling that profound exhaustion through Xantippe, she not only critiques the silencing of women, but also reveals personal anxieties about her own worth, agency, and artistic survival.
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- Oct 2025
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modelcontextprotocol.io modelcontextprotocol.io
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Using MCP, AI applications like Claude or ChatGPT can connect to data sources (e.g. local files, databases), tools (e.g. search engines, calculators) and workflows (e.g. specialized prompts)
model context protocol (mcp)
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- Sep 2025
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contexture, n Etymology: < French contexture (Montaigne, 1572–80), = Italian contestura (Florio), probably representing a medieval Latin *contextūra , < context– participial stem of contexĕre : compare Latin textūra texture n. Very common in 17th cent.; now rare. 1. a. The action or process of weaving together or intertwining; the fact of being woven together; the manner in which this is done, texture. [….] 2. a. transferred. The linking together of materials or elements, so as to form a connected structure (natural or artificial); the manner in which the parts of a thing are thus united. […] 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §14 Without this there cannot be imagined any concourse of Atoms at all, much less any such contexture of bodyes out of them. [….] b. figurative of things non-material. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros’d i. 29 The Roman Church, having by a regular Contexture of continued Policy..interwoven itself with the Secular Interest. [….] 3. The structure, composition, or texture of anything made up by the combination of elements. Now chiefly figurative from 1. [….] 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vii. 59 Women are of a nice Contexture, and our Spirits when disordered are not to be recomposed in a Moment. [….] 4. That which is put together or constructed by the intertwining of parts. a. quasi-concrete. A mass of things interwoven together. [….] 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 491 The Corpus Callosum is nothing but a Contexture of small Fibres. [….] b. An interwoven structure, a fabric. [….] 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 17 How many thousand parts of Matter must go to make up this heterogeneous Contexture? [….] 5. a. The weaving together of words, sentences, etc. in connected composition; the construction or composition of a writing as consisting of connected and coherent members. […] b. The connected structure or ‘body’ of a literary composition; a connected passage or composition. c. = context n. 4. [OED second edition (1989)] The first four definitions relate to weaving in material and immaterial forms. Only the fifth definition relates to writing or literary composition … but that’s where the confusion comes in. A common interpretation associates context with text (as in language), rather than with texture (as with weaving).
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pressbooks.pub pressbooks.pub
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Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy; 120 Hir gretteste ooth was but by Seinte Loy; And she was cleped Madame Eglentyne. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
This was interesting but also really hard to follow. I was confused on what the "hir gretteste ooth" means in plain English. Understanding the French language and culture would make this easier for me to understand this passage. I also think a bit of background knowledge in nuns and their culture might help me breakdown this passage as well because I think the word Nonne is referring to a Catholic nun.
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A YEOMAN had he at his side,
When I first read this word/title I had no idea what it was. Reading further I saw that he was some kind of bowman and or woodcarver. Judging solely by this description given a Yeoman is some sort of survivalist, they call him a survivalist and a woodcrafter. He also has a sun-browned face meaning he has been outside a lot. By knowing what this title or person mean it could give me further context into who was traveling in the band and what their roles were.
After looking up the definition through google, says they hold a small amount of land and are servants to a lord or a higher up. Also looking into what a Yeoman service is, is a person of use or help so that makes sense for this person in the story.
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The context is lost, and meaning is dependent on context.For instance, if you find a copy of a video with a politician intoningsome bizarre senseless snippet, you don’t know what the context was.Maybe the full version of the video would tell a different story. One ofthe reasons not to make copies is to avoid problems like that.
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It’s not always necessary that the data be made absolutelyunavailable; sometimes data can just be decontextualized enough tobecome less valuable. Facebook provides a fine example. If a greatdeal of personal creativity and life experience has been added to thesite, it’s hard to give all that up. Even if you capture every little thingyou had uploaded, you can’t save it in the context of interactions withother people. You have to lose a part of yourself to leave Facebookonce you become an avid user. If you leave, it will become difficult forsome people to contact you at all.
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- Aug 2025
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www.eleanorkonik.com www.eleanorkonik.com
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Themed logs are still more useful than daily notes<br /> by [[Eleanor Konik]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T09:19:49
On ordering notes in particular ways. Presumably search and indexing are the important factors here, but potentially also has something to say about context and the immediacy of neighborhoods.
Personal preference may be the biggest determination.
She focuses on where she'll search for things rather than indexing them where they start and then searching and concatenating them later (or digitally).
She uses the "everything has it's place" idea to commonplace more traditionally (or at least in an Obsidian digital context).
She also tangentially touches on the idea of where to place the work when taking notes. Toss it into a pile or deal with it now and the work it may take to clean up later.
Some interesting and potentially useful idiosyncratic evidence here, but nothing new or earth shattering.
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- Jun 2025
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svelte.dev svelte.dev
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When writing component tests that involve two-way bindings, context or snippet props, it’s best to create a wrapper component for your specific test and interact with that. @testing-library/svelte contains some examples.
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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the field of smart wearable devices has developed rapidly in recent years. Among them, medical wearable devices have become one of the most promising fields.
Highlights the rise of wearable medical devices as a key trend in mobile health.
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- May 2025
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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you've been doing it online have you found any difficulties translating on translating it to an online system
for - question - ALG - language training - does it work in an online context?
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- Apr 2025
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ipfs.indy0.net ipfs.indy0.net
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cultural practices and beliefs. “Mastery of Indigenous epistemology (ways ofknowing) demands being able to see beyond the object of study, to seek aviewpoint incorporating complex contextual information and group consensusabout what is real
for - definition - high-context culture - adjacency - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - complexity - stitch in the weave - individual collective gestalt - Deep Humanity BEing journey - high context BEing journey
adjacency - between - indigenous epistemology - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - stitch in the weave - adjacency relationship - This indigenous epistemology in which we go beyond what appears before our eyes - is a perspective that honors complexity, the unseen forces that have played a role in the creation of the seen object - In Deep Humanity, we also honor this as metaphors: - the "stitch in the entire weave" or - the tip of the iceberg - in which what is visible and appears immediately before us - has an entire unseen history that has brought it into the here and now - Each person we meet is the result of an entire lifetime of experiences that living being has experienced, - hundreds of thousands to many millions of different incidents have shaped that being into the shape (s)he takes today - The individual that is visibly bound by a layer of skin - is also unbound by all the phenomena throughout the entire world that has been in relationship with him/her - This enormous network of past influences span not just across the entire spatial world, but across eons of time as well - The individual/collective gestalt is the stitch in this complex woven fabric
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How might we reintegrate the practices ofhigh-context cultures into those of low-con
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news.stanford.edu news.stanford.edu
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cycle between active problem solving and evaluating that progress
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Thomas Mo's Maxim that silence silence means consent
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dramaturgical analysis
for - definition - dramaturgy - invoking drama for presenting the self in different context - dramaturgical analysis - to - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - https://hyp.is/5ueHGA_0EfCaiB8s4MiYfQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology)
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- Feb 2025
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tracydurnell.com tracydurnell.com
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The same link means different things coming from different people. Knowing who’s recommending something adds context to a link:
[[Infostrat Filtering 20050928171301]] [[Je informatie is een expressie van je netwerk 20230904121816]] [[Wiens notie van informatie leid je interpretatie 20230905111913]] [[Optimal unfamiliarity 20040107122600]] [[Andermans tags zijn een maat van social distance 20200818124518]] [[Informatie overvloed 20051122162501]] [[Correlatie tussen netwerken en informatie 20230904121802]] [[Weblogs as community info filter 20041117122100]] [[Online sharing is signification of stories 20190614154934]] [[Andermans perceptie van significantie is mijn signaal 20190614154731]] #blogdit
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www.curbed.com www.curbed.com
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digital video and sound technology got better and cheaper
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spaghettiboost.com spaghettiboost.com
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experience economy.
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- Dec 2024
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blogs.dickinson.edu blogs.dickinson.edu
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In Flanders fields
The poem was written/takes place after a battle on Flanders Fields. John McCrae, the author, also fought in the battle.
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In Flanders Fields
"Flanders" is a part of Northern Belgium; many other happenings including fierce battles and relentless fighting, occurred there during World War I.
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blogs.dickinson.edu blogs.dickinson.edu
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In Flanders Fields
The poem was written/takes place after a battle on Flanders Fields. John McCrae, the author, also fought in the battle.
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Flanders fields
"Flanders" is a part of Northern Belgium; many other happenings including fierce battles and relentless fighting, occurred there during World War I.
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Anthropic proposes 'Model Context Protocol' MCP on how to connect local/external info sources to LLMs and agents, as a standard. To make ai tools more context aware. Article says MCP is open source. Idea is to attach a MCP server to every source and have that interact over MCP with the MCP client attached to a model and/or tools.
Anthropic is the org of Claude model.
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- Nov 2024
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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to a male
Single case study?
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Value of knowledge in a zettelkasten as a function of reference(use/look up) frequency; links to other ideas; ease of recall without needing to look up (also a measure of usefulness); others?
Define terms and create a mathematical equation of stocks and flows around this system of information. Maybe "knowledge complexity" or "information optimization"? see: https://hypothes.is/a/zejn0oscEe-zsjMPhgjL_Q
takes into account the value of information from the perspective of a particular observer<br /> relative information value
cross-reference: Umberto Eco on no piece of information is superior: https://hypothes.is/a/jqug2tNlEeyg2JfEczmepw
Inspired by idea in https://hypothes.is/a/CdoMUJCYEe-VlxtqIFX4qA
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Carlyle
One of the major values of fame is that it often allows the dropping of context in communication between people.
Example: Carlyle references in @Miles1905
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Carlyle
It bears noting in this book on writing and composition, Miles (nor the indexer if it was done by someone else) never uses Carlyle's first name (Thomas) in any of the eleven instances in which it appears, as he's famous enough in the context (space, time) to need only a single name.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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term spectacle refers to
for - definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - cacooning - the spectacle - social media - the spectacle
definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - A society where images presented by mass media / mass entertainment not only dominate - but replaces real experiences with a superficial reality that is - focused on appearances designed primarily to distract people from reality - This ultimately disconnects them from - themselves and - those around them
comment - How much does our interaction with virtual reality of - written symbols - audio - video - two dimensional images - derived from our screens both large and small affect our direct experience of life? - When people are distracted by such manufactured entertainment, they have less time to devote to important issues and connecting with real people - We can sit for hours in social isolation, ignoring our bodies need for exercise and our emotional need for real social connection - We can ignore the real crisis going on in the world and instead numb ourselves out with contrived entertainment
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Jezebel was the wife of Ahab, king of Israel, who made her subjects worship the dieties Baal and Asherah instead of Yahweh, persecuting Yahweh's followers and framing an innocent land owner who refused to sell his land to king Ahab, which lead to his execution.
She was killed for her transgressions against God and the people, thrown out of the window by members of her own court. Her flesh was eaten by stray dogs.
She was then associated with false prophets, and also prostitution (her vanity)
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dl.acm.org dl.acm.org
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supercomputer Watson
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Wallas
Graham Wallas' work was heavily influenced by many sources, including Aristotle, William James, John Dewey, Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, Hermann von Helmholtz, Henri Poincaré; while Wallas' work is no doubt integral, it is important to note the structures of power and privilege that this list embodies.
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Gabora
cognitive scientist Lee Gabora's work looks at how culture changes over time, how people come up with new ideas, and how this helps culture change.
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Becoming sensitized to these epistemological differences enables us to discern which aspects of creative work is emphasized more than others and see how hierarchies of knowledge get constructed.
in exploring how our foundations of knowledge are built, we can dissect how we assign value or rank to knowledge - or generally accepted assumptions.
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This emphasis on “acting through the interface” [19] sees technology as acting as an extension of the artist or designer using the tool.
tech is integral to creative process - well designed tech is about ease of use and integration.
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The third wave or the third paradigm [70] shares many of the same assumptions as the second wave – i.e. the centrality of the physical world in our construction of meaning – with a stronger focus on the various abilities of the human body.
focus on physical abilities / senses shape novelty in interaction.
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The shift in perspective toward the social in psychology covered in the previous embodied action view of creativity resembles an analogous trend in HCI’s “second wave theories”.
focus on group work and social contexts of digital environments.
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In other words, moment-to-moment creative actions draw from a large pool of embodied resources, relying on tacit analysis of the fit between the resource and the situation at any given moment.
In the moment, creativity relies on constant adjustments based on intuition - an intuition that is formed based on prior experience.
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In addition to the primacy of interacting with the physical world through our bodies, the embodied view of creative work also highlights the role of the body in partnership with the dynamic situation, i.e. the moment-to-moment actions people take in response to different contingencies.
Creativity benefits from interacting with the environmental and adapting to environmental changes.
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Creative work as reflective practice focuses on the “importance of physical and artifact-centered action in the world to aid thought”
Artifact interaction enriches design processes by grounding it in real world experience.
But what of the bias toward familiar materials? Asking a blacksmith to prototype a house and you might find yourself living in a tin can.
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That view of creativity neglects the role the body and the physical world play during the creative process as well as the social context in which creativity takes place.
As mentioned earlier, creativity doesn't happen in a vacuum - there is a plethora of societal and culture context which any designer exists in.
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They do not subscribe to the thinking that “geniuses use cognitive processes that are radically different from those employed by most individuals and that may not be accessible to the methods of cognitive science”
Creativity comes from common mental processes that everyone uses - all creativity (aka problem-solving) relies on the same basic principles. Creativity is, then, accessible to anyone, because it just depends on how you mix and match those principles.
Intertwined within each person are emotional, cultural, and experiential factors that inform and, at times, limit their creativity.
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This ostensibly narrow focal point paved way for various intellectual interventions later.
Creativity may be deterministic - models are able to reproduce design, style, and recreate scenes - things that are associated with being inherently "human". Generative models are optimizing for a particular function - ultimately serving a higher purpose.
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The historical backdrop to these ideas of “scientizing” the design process can be traced to the period following World War II in the United States.
So much of "creative" innovation seems to be derived from capitalistic and nationalistic ideals that are driven by a fear of inferiority or destruction.
Not mentioned here by name is the race to dominate space flight from the mid-50s to mid-70s. It is also worth mentioning that industrialization, World War I, and World War II was heavily influenced by the very same rhetoric that came from post WWII thinking.
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“Most opinion among design methodologists and among designers holds that the act of designing itself is not and will not ever be a scientific activity; that is, that designing is itself a nonscientific or a-scientific activity”.
design isn't scientific but concedes that scientific methods can formalize design.
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Proponents of this movement stood on the spectrum with regards to how close they placed design next to science. On the looser end, design is viewed simply as “systematic design”, or, “the procedures of designing organized in a systematic way”
asks is creativity connected to science or science?
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In other words, creative work is about “devis[ing] courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones”
In creativity, problem solvers choose the best tool for the job using their own foundational knowledge they've acquired over their education or career. Building upon this, what tool an individual selects to solve a problem may be based on prior values and assumptions.
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Bacchi
feminist political theory researcher Carol Bacchi is well known for her analytic strategy for policy theory.
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Phil Agre
American AI researcher and humanities professor known for critiques of technology.
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The Logic of Care
Work by ethnographer Annamarie Mol; in this context, the authors emphasize that understanding action in context involves exploring the rationale that guides the practice.
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critical fabulation
refers to the movement to consider broader impacts of design work on the world; to redefine design as an active and investigative process that addresses social issues and reflects both personal and cultural contexts.
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diffraction
refers to how social theories and scientific approaches can enhance one another, leading to a more nuanced understanding of both.
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
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figuration
related to how connections and dependencies between people shift over time due to changes in social structures, contexts change; also see Thiele, K. Figuration.
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epistemic positions
epistemic position is not simply limited how one approaches the topic of knowledge; in this context, the authors build upon previous frameworks that introduce the concept of epistemic positions to explore how knowledge is unequally valued, especially in regard to race and gender, in academia.
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy
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Our goal is to bring into relief the political dimension of creative technologies.
there are many tensions, or issues, that come up when technology intersects with politics in the creative field; in doing this research, the authors hope to bring clarity or understanding to the intersection;
in this context, political dimensions refer to the ways societal norms and power impact creative technology.
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feminist values
it should be noted that feminist values is a broad topic; in this context, the author refers to the feminist school of thought that knowledge is not universal, objective, value-free, or context-independent; knowledge is influenced by what one wants, cares about, and believes.
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in this section, the authors explain how they are academically positioned and make clear that their work is informed by their own backgrounds, assumptions, etc; they offer up their limitations for this research, including that the scope is limited to computing and digital tools; as well as drawing for a US-centric perspective.
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problematization is a “strategy for developing a critical consciousness”: it disrupts “taken-for-granted ‘truths”’ and articulates the “process” through which values are formed, thus making politics of creative computing visible.
In recent years, the human bias in creative computing has been in the forefront of ethics scholars - especially when it comes to reinforcing existing inequalities into creative computing such as design, algorithmic, or representation biases.
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emergence
It should be noted that emergence itself is both technical and conceptual.
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Overall, we provide a “problematization” [10] of creative work in HCI.
In offering problematization the authors challenge commonly accepted assumptions or values and explore how that value is made. In doing this, they can reveal political aspects of creative computing.
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Anna Ridler and David Pfau’s Bloemenveiling)
a 2019 interactive creative project where buyers participate in an auction of artificially-generated tulips on the blockchain, a decentralized system for online transactions; simply, the work explores how tech impacts the interplay of human want and economic behavior through artificial scarcity. Bloemenveiling
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What do you mean with Zettelkasten ratchet? I am too unfamiliar with the word ratchet to really understand the meaning.[9:46 AM] Or if someone else has an idea and can help me out
The additional "hidden context" is that the rachet/gear seen in many of these diagrams is usually attached to a radial spring (or some other device) which, as it is wound, stores energy which is later used by the bigger device in which the rachet and pawl are encased. Examples include the stem of watches, which when wound, store energy which the watch later uses to run as it counts the seconds. Another example is the mainspring of a typewriter which is attached to a ratchet/pawl set up; when you push the carriage to the right, the spring gets wound up and stores energy which is slowly expended by the escapement a space or a letter at a time as you type. In the zettelkasten analogy, the box and numbered cards placed in it act as the pawl (the wedge that prevents backward movement), as you add more and more information, you're storing/building up "potential energy" in small bits. This "stored energy" can be spent at a later time by allowing you to more easily write an article, paper, book, etc. In some sense, the zettelkasten (as most tools do) allows you a "mechanical advantage" in the writing process over trying to remember everything you've ever read and then relying on your ability to spit it all back out in a well-ordered manner.
reply to Muhammed Ali at https://discord.com/channels/992400632390615070/992400632776507447/1286577013439594497
continuation of https://hypothes.is/a/GTPIPnYiEe-GTUu4YcdeAQ
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Breaking down former President Donald Trump’s rambling linguistic style by [[Steve Inskeep]]
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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from 6–15% in some landscapes (eg, riparian ecosystems, agricultural landscapes with high crop diversity) to 50% in others (eg, in sloping landscapes, or landscapes where erosion or natural hazards are frequent).
for - earth system boundary - biodiversity - human modified ecosystems - minimum varies depending on specific local context
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github.com github.com
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Unfortunately, $ method_name -s doesn't work in Pry, but I hope that some day it will get fixed. Just a ref to issue: pry/pry#1756
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www.edvo.com www.edvo.com
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Beta app for note taking/productivity.
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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At the portfolio level, a focus on RCTs as a preferred evaluation methodology means that programmes that are amenable to RCTs are more likely to be evaluated than those that are not (Ravallion, 2015).
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disruptedjournal.postdigitalcultures.org disruptedjournal.postdigitalcultures.org
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from SenorG’s comment that began with the caveat “Allow me to push back a bit here,” and which inspired four replies from three other annotators, to actualham’s observation
Comment by chrisaldrich: There's something discordant here in a scholarly article about having academic participants with names like SenorG and actualham. It's almost like a 70's farce starring truckers with bizarre CB handles. It's even more bizarre since I know some of the researchers behind these screennames.
Is the pseudonymous nature of some of these handles useful in hiding the identity of the participants and thereby forcing one to grapple only with their ideas and not the personas, histories and contexts behind them?
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Daniel Boorstin’s contemporaneous idea of “consumption commu-nities,”
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www.sciencealert.com www.sciencealert.com
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byob bring your own bacteria. Many hospital infections are caused by microbes you already had on you, not by a drug resistant superbug.
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We quote because we are afraid to-change words, lest there be a change in meaning.
Quotations are easier to collect than writing things out in one's own words, not only because it requires no work, but we may be afraid of changing the original meaning by changing the original words or by collapsing the context and divorcing the words from their original environment.
Perhaps some may be afraid that the words sound "right" and they have a sense of understanding of them, but they don't quite have a full grasp of the situation. Of course this may be remedied by the reader or listener not only by putting heard stories into their own words and providing additional concrete illustrative examples of the concepts. These exercises are meant to ensure that one has properly heard/read and understood a concept. Psychologists call this paraphrasing or repetition the "echo effect" (others might say parroting or mirroring) and have found that it can help to build understanding, connection, and likeability between people. Great leaders who do this will be sure to make sure that credit for the original ideas goes to the originator and not to themselves simply because they repeated it, especially in group settings where their words may have more primacy amidst their underlings.
(I can't find it at the moment, but there's a name/tag for this in my notes? looping?)
Beyond this, can one place the idea into a more clear language than the original? Add some poetry perhaps? Make the concept into a concrete meme to make it more memorable?
Journalists like to quote because it gives primacy of voice to the speaker and provides the reader with the sense that they're getting the original from which they might make up their own minds. It also provides a veneer of vérité to their reportage.
Link this back to Terrence's comedy: https://hypothes.is/a/xe15ZKPGEe6NJkeL77Ji4Q
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1870: Miscegenation [Statute] Penalty for intermarriage between whites an blacks was labeled a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to five years.
In the context of the 1870 Miscegenation Statute, which penalized interracial marriage between whites and blacks, the penalty would typically apply to both parties involved in the interracial marriage. In such cases, both the white person and the black person would be subject to the penalties outlined in the statute. This kind of law was part of a broader system of racial segregation and discrimination prevalent in the United States during that time period.
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Now, let’s modify the prompt by adding a few examples of how we expect the output to be. Pythonuser_input = "Send a message to Alison to ask if she can pick me up tonight to go to the concert together" prompt=f"""Turn the following message to a virtual assistant into the correct action: Message: Ask my aunt if she can go to the JDRF Walk with me October 6th Action: can you go to the jdrf walk with me october 6th Message: Ask Eliza what should I bring to the wedding tomorrow Action: what should I bring to the wedding tomorrow Message: Send message to supervisor that I am sick and will not be in today Action: I am sick and will not be in today Message: {user_input}""" response = generate_text(prompt, temp=0) print(response) This time, the style of the response is exactly how we want it. Can you pick me up tonight to go to the concert together?
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But we can also get the model to generate responses in a certain format. Let’s look at a couple of them: markdown tables
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Instance methods Instances of Models are documents. Documents have many of their own built-in instance methods. We may also define our own custom document instance methods. // define a schema const animalSchema = new Schema({ name: String, type: String }, { // Assign a function to the "methods" object of our animalSchema through schema options. // By following this approach, there is no need to create a separate TS type to define the type of the instance functions. methods: { findSimilarTypes(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); } } }); // Or, assign a function to the "methods" object of our animalSchema animalSchema.methods.findSimilarTypes = function(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); }; Now all of our animal instances have a findSimilarTypes method available to them. const Animal = mongoose.model('Animal', animalSchema); const dog = new Animal({ type: 'dog' }); dog.findSimilarTypes((err, dogs) => { console.log(dogs); // woof }); Overwriting a default mongoose document method may lead to unpredictable results. See this for more details. The example above uses the Schema.methods object directly to save an instance method. You can also use the Schema.method() helper as described here. Do not declare methods using ES6 arrow functions (=>). Arrow functions explicitly prevent binding this, so your method will not have access to the document and the above examples will not work.
Certainly! Let's break down the provided code snippets:
1. What is it and why is it used?
In Mongoose, a schema is a blueprint for defining the structure of documents within a collection. When you define a schema, you can also attach methods to it. These methods become instance methods, meaning they are available on the individual documents (instances) created from that schema.
Instance methods are useful for encapsulating functionality related to a specific document or model instance. They allow you to define custom behavior that can be executed on a specific document. In the given example, the
findSimilarTypesmethod is added to instances of theAnimalmodel, making it easy to find other animals of the same type.2. Syntax:
Using
methodsobject directly in the schema options:javascript const animalSchema = new Schema( { name: String, type: String }, { methods: { findSimilarTypes(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); } } } );Using
methodsobject directly in the schema:javascript animalSchema.methods.findSimilarTypes = function(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); };Using
Schema.method()helper:javascript animalSchema.method('findSimilarTypes', function(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); });3. Explanation in Simple Words with Examples:
Why it's Used:
Imagine you have a collection of animals in your database, and you want to find other animals of the same type. Instead of writing the same logic repeatedly, you can define a method that can be called on each animal instance to find similar types. This helps in keeping your code DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and makes it easier to maintain.
Example:
```javascript const mongoose = require('mongoose'); const { Schema } = mongoose;
// Define a schema with a custom instance method const animalSchema = new Schema({ name: String, type: String });
// Add a custom instance method to find similar types animalSchema.methods.findSimilarTypes = function(cb) { return mongoose.model('Animal').find({ type: this.type }, cb); };
// Create the Animal model using the schema const Animal = mongoose.model('Animal', animalSchema);
// Create an instance of Animal const dog = new Animal({ type: 'dog', name: 'Buddy' });
// Use the custom method to find similar types dog.findSimilarTypes((err, similarAnimals) => { console.log(similarAnimals); }); ```
In this example,
findSimilarTypesis a custom instance method added to theAnimalschema. When you create an instance of theAnimalmodel (e.g., a dog), you can then callfindSimilarTypeson that instance to find other animals with the same type. The method uses thethis.typeproperty, which refers to the type of the current animal instance. This allows you to easily reuse the logic for finding similar types across different instances of theAnimalmodel.
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There are 2 main groups of locations for answering these questions. A single item A bunch of items (lists, boards, roadmaps, widgets)
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A reviewer wants to view all comments on an MR in a condensed list, and - for each one - see the context of that comment. Problem: Notes (on the MR) and Discussions (on the Diff) are treated differently, and Discussions necessarily come with Diff context. Diff context with Discussions is difficult to match with actual diffs because rendering diffs isn't designed for non-Changes-tab contexts
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[With Zeplin] we started to engage both UX and engineering teams in the same conversations and suddenly that opened our eyes to what was going on, and overall streamlined our build process.
may need new tag: combining/bringing different audiences together in the same conversation/context/tool
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A task is used further down in the workflow. When I think about planning features, they occur before development takes off. The task is used by the developer as they are breaking down the issue into smaller components.
task context of creating "task": developer as they break down a larger issue/epic into smaller pieces
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You can see how the constant jumping between these two tools in the first scenario is super annoying, and also very risky as none of the changes you make in Figma are also automatically being updated in the same GitLab designs.
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As a positive example of where this works well: Our VS Code GitLab Workflow extension allows users to not only see comments that were written inside the GitLab UI, but also allows these users to respond to these comments right from the IDE, the tool where they actually have to make these changes.
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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Thomas A. Bailey
Who is this? What is Bailey's background?
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1961Little, Brown and Company, Boston • Toronto
What was going on in 1961 that might have affected this author or this textbook?
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an online middle school in-quiry science unit on global climate change
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It is generally a best practice to request scopes incrementally, at the time access is required, rather than up front. For example, an app that wants to support saving an event to a calendar should not request Google Calendar access until the user presses the "Add to Calendar" button; see Incremental authorization.
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At a later time, when accessing data from Google is required, you call the authorization API to ask for the consent and get access tokens for data access. This separation complies with our recommended incremental authorization best practice, in which the permissions are requested in context.
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It does provide an answer. The issue is that the Google form validates that the user has input a valid looking URL. So he needs to input an arbitrary, but valid URL, and then add that to /etc/hosts so his browser will resolve it to the address of his devserver. The question and answer are both fine as is and don't require any critique or clarification.
The critical comment this was apparently in reply to was apparently deleted
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we're young we get formed we behave in particular ways and it works for us and so we get reinforcement 00:10:11 and we continue to use it and it's important to understand that overshoot is not about being bad overshoot is about being context insensitive that we 00:10:25 use behaviors that have been successful and that's important we use them because they work but we use them after the conditions have changed enough that in fact we should be adapting new behaviors
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key insight: overshoot
- overshoot is not bad, it is context insensitive. We enact old behaviors that have been deeply conditioned into us for a particular context, but the context has changed, while our behavior has not
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Presentism bias enters biblical and religious studies when, by way of context collapse, readers apply texts written thousands of years ago and applicable to one context to their own current context without any appreciation for the intervening changes. Many modern Christians (especially Protestants) show these patterns. There is an interesting irony here because Protestantism began as the Catholic church was reading too much into the Bible to create practices like indulgences.)
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I 01:00:30 think that a proper version of the concept of synchronicity would talk about multiscale patterns so that when you're looking at electrons in the computer you would say isn't it amazing that these electrons went over here and 01:00:42 those went over there but together that's an endgate and by the way that's part of this other calculation like amazing down below all they're doing is following Maxwell's equations but looked at at another level wow they just just 01:00:54 computed the weather in you know in in Chicago so I I I think what you know I it's not about well I was going to say it's not about us and uh and our human tendency to to to to pick out patterns 01:01:07 and things like but actually I I do think it's that too because if synchronicity is is simply how things look at other scales
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- my idea of how consciousness fits into a multiscale system
- adjacency statement
- from a Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality perspective, consciousness might be seen as a high level governance system of a multicellular organism
- this begs the question: consciousness is fundamentally related to individual cells that compose the body that the consciousness appears to be tethered to
- question: Is there some way for consciousness to directly access the lower and more primitive MET levels of its own being?
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The role of stylistic indicators of temporal andspatial location and orientation—those “pointing words”that linguists refer to as deictics—is essential to thecreation of this general effect.
Deixis is the use of words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context. Usually their semantic meaning is fixed but their denoted meaning varies depending on contextual cues of time and/or place.
Examples include the do-, ko-, so-, a- progression (dore, kore, sore, are; docchi, kocchi, socchi, acchi, etc.) serve this function of distance from the speaker.
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The reader should keep in mind that, for Alter, the Hebrew Bible is not one seamless book but a haphazard collection of texts.
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Perhaps not "haphazard", but they are definitely written by different authors over a large span of time, often each with their own political point of view. Bruce seems to be playing at the common misconception that the books were written as a cohesive whole supporting only one outcome.
There is some massive historical contextual collapse going on here, particularly in a broader culture in which multiple gods were the norm. Each author certainly had their own idea of what "God" was when writing.
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Alter knows it ain’t Jesus.
The colloquial use of the word "ain't" here very specifically pegs James Bruce, the author, as writing his argument for an audience of Christians in the Southern part of the United States. It's even more stark as most of his review is of a broadly scholarly nature where the word "ain't" or others of its register would never be used.
How does the shift in translation really negate room for Jesus? If it was a truism that it stood for Jesus, then couldn't one just as simply re-translate the New Testament to make sure that the space for him is still there? Small shifts in meaning and translation shouldn't undermine the support for Jesus so easily as Bruce suggests, otherwise there are terrible problems with these underpinnings of Christianity.
If one follows Bruce's general logic, then there's a hell of a religion based on Nostradamus' work we're all going out of our way to ignore.
What would historical linguistics have to say about this translation?
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blog.ayjay.org blog.ayjay.org
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You listen to their stories, and if you take them seriously, you think nothing could be more dramatic than being a writer. But I am a writer and I don’t believe a word of it.
Is or how is fabulism tied into the way people don't believe or won't believe the context of other peoples' experience?
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Being online means constantly flitting between these places and their ever-shifting sets of rules and norms.
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reductionism can be good okay I would not be here if it weren't for reductionism neither would any of you it's how we build things it's how we learn things 00:19:32 but for so long we've pulled things out of context to study them and not put them back so we have an idea of information that is constantly decontextualized 00:19:46 what happens if you put it back
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Aunity can be variously stated
Every book, while holding the same words, will be different based on the context and needs of the individual reader.
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And as others have pointed out, there is potential for ambiguity: if A is dependent on B, then a dependence or dependency (relationship) exists; but referring to either A or B as the dependency demands context.
"demands context" :)
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americanhistory.si.edu americanhistory.si.edu
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other jokes did not land because I did not know the movie star or celebrity referenced.
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Science must find for every effect a single cause. The historian is rarely faced with the same requirement.Historians have the advantage of being able to live with explanatory ambiguity that would be unacceptable in science.
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These revolutions appear invisible in the history of science, Kuhn explained, because each successive generation learns science through the lens of the current paradigm.
As a result of Kuhn's scientific revolutions perspective, historians of science will need to uncover the frameworks and lenses by which prior generations saw the world to be able to see the world the same way. This will allow them to better piece together histories
How is this related to the ways that experts don't appreciate their own knowledge when trying to teach newcomers their subjects? What is the word/phrase for this effect?
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Thomas Kuhn applied the concept of the paradigm to describe the progress of scientific thought over time. The idea generated interest and discussion across a number of fields in addition to the history of science, eclipsing to some extent Kuhn’s original focus.
Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was directed to scientific thought over time, but he was aware of it potentially being applied, potentially improperly, to other areas. As a result, he narrowed down his definitions and made his assumptions more explicit.
This sort of misapplication can be seen in Social Darwinism, the uncertainty principle, relativity, and memes.
It also happened with Claude Shannon's information theory which resulted in his publication of The Bandwagon (IEEE, 1956).
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thousands of dead
The Chernobyl death toll has been and continues to be highly contested by scientists and politicians. As Kate Brown discusses in her book Manual for Survival, the United States and the Soviet Union alike were concerned that studying the long-term effects of continuous exposure to low-dose radiation would result in public scrutiny of nuclear weapons testing and development in general. [1] In 1990, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent scientists to Belarus to investigate a growing number of Chernobyl-related health claims, but the relevant records in the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk were stolen, thereby interfering with this research. [1] The IAEA's studies of Chernobyl's effects depended on incomplete data and did not occur over the timespan necessary to generate a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between radiation, mortality rates, and other genetic effects. [1] For a more in-depth analysis of the history and politicization of scientific investigation of the Chernobyl catastrophe, see Manual for Survival.
As the graphic below illustrates, estimates of Chernobyl-related deaths vary widely, due to the logistical and political barriers that have interfered with reliable scientific investigation of Chernobyl's health effects. Without studies focused on the impact of low-level radiation exposures, it is difficult to determine the degree to which radiation from Chernobyl can be held responsible for cancer rates, birth defects, and other epidemiological implications.
Sources: [1] Brown, Kate. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. W. W. Norton and Company, 2019.
Image Credit: "Estimated number of deaths from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, OWID." The image has not been modified in any way and falls under fair use.
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This line references the early detection of the Chernobyl catastrophe in Sweden. A worker at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden recognized that his shoes were flagged for excessively high levels of radiation. [1] After analyzing the radioactive materials and wind patterns, the Forsmark plant employees determined that the radiation came from the Chernobyl region. [1] As Swedish nuclear scientists had previously detected radiation spread from the Soviet Union's nuclear tests in the Arctic, they were equipped to locate the source of the Chernobyl radiation and alert the global community. [2] When Swedish officials asked Soviet authorities whether an accident had happened, it was initially denied until the Swedish diplomats threatened to notify the International Atomic Energy Authority. [3] According to scientific research conducted in Sweden after the disaster, the country received about 5% of the fallout from Chernobyl, which has contributed to environmental contamination and increased medical risk within the country. [4]
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[1] "Forsmark: How Sweden Alerted the World About the Danger of the Chernobyl Disaster." News: European Parliament, 15 May 2014, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20140514STO47018/forsmark-how-sweden-alerted-the-world-about-the-danger-of-chernobyl-disaster.
[2] Browne, Malcom W. "Swedes Solve a Radioactive Puzzle." The New York Times, 13 May 1986, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/13/science/swedes-solve-a-radioactive-puzzle.html.
[3] "25 Years After Chernobyl, How Sweden Found Out." Radio Sweden, 31 May 2019, https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=4468603.
[4] Alinaghizadeh, Hassan et al. “Cancer Incidence in Northern Sweden Before and After the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident.” Radiation and Environmental Biophysics vol. 53, no. 3, 2014: pp. 495-504.
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Gorbachev speaks:
This verse references Gorbachev's significantly delayed speech on television about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which took place on May 15, 1986. In this speech, he specifically thanked Dr. Robert Gale for his willingness to treat the victims of Chernobyl. [1] At the same time, he also condemned the United States' instrumentalization of the Chernobyl catastrophe as part of an "anti-Soviet campaign." [1] In doing so, Gorbachev drew attention to the United States' legacy of mishandling nuclear incidents within their own territory, such as the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island. [1]
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[1] "Excerpts from Gorbachev's Speech on Chernobyl Accident." The New York Times, 15 May 1986, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/15/world/excerpts-from-gorbachev-s-speech-on-chernobyl-accident.html.
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He who extinguished the reactor
Firefighters received the highest doses of radiation from the Chernobyl accident. As Serhii Plokhy notes in Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, thirty of the sickest firefighters were evacuated from Pripyat and sent to Moscow Hospital No. 6, where they were treated by Dr. Angelina Guskova. [1] Dr. Guskova had extensive experience treating victims of previous radiation-related incidents. Despite the efforts of Guskova's team to assist these patients, 29 firefighters died of acute radiation exposure in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. [2] Additional firefighters and first responders died in the months and years following Chernobyl of radiation-related causes. [3] For more contextual information about the medical response to Chernobyl, click here.
Sources:
[1] Plokhy, Serhii. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. Basic Books, 2018.
[2] Ritchie, Hannah. "What was the Death Toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?" Our World in Data, 24 July 2017, https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima.
[3] Lanese, Nicoletta. "The Real Chernobyl: A&A With a Radiation Exposure Expert." UCSF, 16 July 2019, https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/07/414976/real-chernobyl-qa-radiation-exposure-expert.
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parsec
The word parsec is composed of the words parallax and arcsecond. Parsec is a unit used in astronomy to measure extraordinarily large spaces between astronomical objects outside of our Solar System. While the full explanation of this mathematical concept is beyond the scope of this project, a detailed description can be found in the source below. [1]
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[1] Bender, Stephanie. "What is a Parsec?" Universe Today, 14 November 2013, https://www.universetoday.com/32872/parsec/.
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sarcophagus
Immediately after Chernobyl, workers from across the Soviet Union subjected themselves to serious radiation risk to construct a concrete "sarcophagus" around the Chernobyl reactor #4. [1] However, due to the hastiness of the construction and the materials used, the containment structure started to leak. As a result, at the 1997 G-7 Summit, the European Commission and Ukraine created a plan for the New Safe Confinement structure. This structure covers the previously constructed sarcophagus and is expected to remain intact for up to 100 years. [2]

Sources:
[1] Petryna, Adriana. “Sarcophagus: Chernobyl in Historical Light.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 196–220.
[2] "Background on Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident." NRC Library, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 15 August 2018, https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/chernobyl-bg.html#sarco.
Image Credit:
"The New Sarcophagus" by kdanecki is licensed by CC BY 2.0. The image has not been modified in any way and falls under fair use.
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Theophanes the Greek.
Theophanes the Greek is known for being one of the most influential and talented icon painters in Russia. In Russian Orthodox tradition, iconography is an art form that dates back to the year 988 AD, when Prince Vladimir introduced Christianity to Kiev and to the Rus' territory. [1] Theophanes the Greek came to Novgorod and Moscow from Constantinople in the 14th century, where he quickly began to excel as an icon painter and as an illuminator of manuscripts. [1] In Russia, he mentored the great icon painter Andrei Rublev and created some of Russia's most well-known icons, such as Our Lady of the Don, which is included below and is currently featured in the Tretyakov Gallery. [2]

As art critic Simon Morley writes, "Nearly all icons are not only anonymously painted but also based on pre-existing prototypes, which in their turn are copies of the archetype – the subject itself." [3]That is to say, icon painters must follow a strict set of rules that guide both the design and painting process and the selection of scenes that will be depicted. The individual artist is expecte to learn from and emulate the work created by others.
To the faithful, icons are sacred because they represent a spiritual "window" to the divine. [4] Therefore, it is very important that icons highlight the eyes of the religious figures that they depict, in order to allow the worshippers to see through these portals and communicate their prayers. It is common practice to physically interact with the icons by kissing them, touching them, and lighting candles in front of them as a form of veneration. [5]
Under Stalin, many icons were destroyed and icon-painting was outlawed as a profession to support the official policy of atheism. The Yaroslavl Restoration Committee endeavored to save as many of these icons as possible by taking them out of churches and storing them independently, many of which were returned to churches after the fall of the Soviet Union. [6]
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[1] Sevcenko, Ihor. "The Christianization of Kievan Rus'." The Polish Review, vol. 5, no. 4, 1960, pp. 29-35.
[2] Gorbatova, Anastasia. "Theophanes the Greek, Russia's First Great Master of Religious Art," Russia Beyond, 7 January 2015, Link.
[3] Morley, Simon. "So Real They Scratched Out Their Eyes," The Independent, 12 November 2000, https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/so-real-they-scratched-out-their-eyes-625288.html.
[4] "About Icons and Iconography." Museum of Russian Icons, https://www.museumofrussianicons.org/about-icons/.
[5] Espinola, Vera Beaver-Bricken. “Russian Icons: Spiritual and Material Aspects.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 31, no. 1, 1992, pp. 17–22.
[6] "Destruction of Icons." The Museum of Russian Art, https://tmora.org/currentexhibitions/online-exhibitions/transcendent-art-icons-from-yaroslavl-russia/introduction-yaroslavl-city-of-the-bear/destruction-of-icons/.
Image Credit:
Theophanes the Greek. Our Lady of the Don. Image in the public domain in the United States. Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feofan_Donskaja.jpg.
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Von Mekk
Countess Nadezhda von Mekk was one of the most important patrons of the famous composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She was the widow of Karl von Mekk, who created over 14000 kilometers of railroads throughout the Russian Empire. [1]

She fully funded Tchaikovsky's work for years, and they frequently exchanged deeply personal letters about art, music, and their personal lives. [1] Tchaikovsky dedicated his Fourth Symphony to her, among other works. [1] While they communicated extensively, they agreed to never meet in person. Their correspondence ended without explanation in 1890, at which point Nadezhda falsely told Tchaikovsky that she was bankrupt. There is no agreement among scholars regarding the circumstances surrounding the end of their relationship. [1]
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[1] Tommasini, Anthony. "Critic's Notebook: The Patroness Who Made Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky." The New York Times, 2 September 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/02/arts/critic-s-notebook-the-patroness-who-made-tchaikovsky-tchaikovsky.html.
Image Credit:
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck." The New York Public Library Digital Collections, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-beb5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
Image in the public domain.
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Doctor Gale
Doctor Gale refers to the American doctor Robert Gale, who is well-known for his controversial bone marrow transplants that he performed on the most severely irradiated victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Doctor Gale flew to Moscow shortly after the reactor exploded. He was publicly recognized by Gorbachev for his efforts to help mitigate the health effects of the disaster. [1] That being said, Soviet doctors with extensive experience with treating radiation sickness, such as Dr. Angelina Guskova, criticized Gale for carrying out ineffective bone marrow transplants. [1]
Prior to his involvement in Chernobyl, Gale was investigated by the government for bypassing standard protocols and treating patients with unapproved drugs without approval. [2] At Chernobyl, he used an experimental drug on his bone marrow transplant patients that was not approved for testing. He used this drug as well at a radiation accident in Brazil, where he practiced medicine on a tourist visa without having been invited by the Brazilian authorities. [2]
As historian Serhii Plokhy writes in Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, "Gale was a messenger of hope in a world divided by Cold War rivalries, which meant that Soviet and American governments alike presented his actions as heroic. [1] Due to his political importance as a symbol of humanitarian goodwill, he was protected from serious repercussions for his alleged actions.
Sources:
[1] Plokhy, Serhii. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. Basic Books, 2018.
[2] Roark, Anne C. "Chernobyl 'Hero': Dr Gale – Medical Maverick." Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1988, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-05-mn-3615-story.html.
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the robot could not shut down the troubles,
After the explosion at Chernobyl, the Soviet government officials tried to use robots to assist with the most dangerous aspects of the radiation cleanup. [1] However, almost all of the robots could not withstand the high radiation levels on the roof of the reactor. [1] As such, thousands of conscripted soldiers and workers from all over the Soviet Union had to clear the radioactive material off of the roof of the reactor with little protective gear. [1] The image below features the Monument to Those Who Saved the World in Ukraine, which is dedicated to the firefighters and liquidators who responded to Chernobyl.

Source:
[1] Anderson, Christopher. "Soviet Official Admits that Robots Couldn't Handle Chernobyl Cleanup." The Scientist, 19 January 1990, https://www.the-scientist.com/news/soviet-official-admits-that-robots-couldnt-handle-chernobyl-cleanup-61583.
Image Credit:
"Memorial to Those Who Saved the World" by Jorge Franganillo is licensed under CC BY-2.0. The image has not been modified in any way and falls under fair use.
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no longer have the forest nor the heavens.
Kostenko represents Chernobyl not only as an environmental catastrophe, but also as the cause of total alienation from spirituality and heaven. It is possible to read this poem as engaging with one well-known reading of Chernobyl, which interprets the disaster as an inevitable apocalyptic moment predicted in the Book of Revelation:
Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. [1]
In Ukrainian, the world "Chernobyl" is derived from two separate roots that combine to mean "black plant." The word "Chernobyl" refers to a specific species of Artemisia, which is a type of weed. [2] In English, Artemisia is translated as "wormwood," which has led many people to link the Chernobyl catastrophe to the "wormwood" mentioned in the Book of Revelation. However, as Michael Palij and William Fletcher note, "The coincidence is not quite so striking in the Ukrainian translation of the Bible, for there the name of the star is Polyn, the genus wormwood, rather than chornobyl', a species of wormwood." [2] Although the etymological relationship between Chernobyl and the Bible does not align perfectly, the religious reading of Chernobyl continues to resonate.

Sources:
[1] The Bible. King James Version. Christian Art Publishers, 2012.
[2] Palij, Michael & William C. Fletcher. "Chornobyl: An Etymology." Ukrainian Quarterly, vol. 42 Spring-Summer 1986, p. 22-24.
Image Credit:
"Redstem Wormwood" by Moxxie is licensed by CC BY-SA 3.0. The image has not been modified in any way and falls under fair use.
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When Hermann Hesse referredto the present as "the Age of the Digest," he did not intendto say anything complimentary.
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we regard this disappearance as an aberration, and notas an indication of progress.
disappearance [of education] as an...
there's also disappearance of context of what has gone before
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22:30 Differing environments/context matters. So before giving tricks, hacks, etc. realise that you function within a different environment.
Historicity is a historical sibling to this: periods have different environments, and thus don't apply 1 on 1.
But we can still learn from other other people & periods?
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- May 2023
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“Content is king, but context is God.”
https://garyvaynerchuk.com/content-is-king-but-context-is-god/
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