- Apr 2022
-
waxy.org waxy.org
- Mar 2022
-
www.popularmechanics.com www.popularmechanics.com
-
Melvin Vopson has proposed an experiment involving particle annihilation that could prove that information has mass, and by Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, information is also energy. If true, the experiment would also show that information is one of the states of matter.
The experiment doesn't need a particle accelerator, but instead uses slow positrons at thermal velocities.
Melvin Vopson is an information theory researcher at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
A proof that information has mass (or is energy) may explain the idea of dark matter. Vopson's rough calculations indicate that 10^93 bits of information would explain all of the “missing” dark matter.
Vopson's 2022 AIP Advances paper would indicate that the smallest theoretical size of digital bits, presuming they are stable and exist on their own would become the smallest known building blocks of matter.
The width of digital bits today is between ten and 30 nanometers. Smaller physical bits could mean more densely packed storage devices.
Vopson proposes that a positron-electron annihilation should produce energy equivalent to the masses of the two particles. It should also produce an extra dash of energy: two infrared, low-energy photons of a specific wavelength (predicted to be about 50 microns), as a direct result of erasing the information content of the particles.
The mass-energy-information equivalence principle Vopson proposed in his 2019 AIP Advances paper assumes that a digital information bit is not just physical, but has a “finite and quantifiable mass while it stores information.” This very small mass is 3.19 × 1038 kilograms at room temperature.
For example, if you erase one terabyte of data from a storage device, it would decrease in mass by 2.5 × 1025 kilograms, a mass so small that it can only be compared to the mass of a proton, which is about 1.67 × 1027 kilograms.
In 1961, Rolf Landauer first proposed the idea that a bit is physical and has a well-defined energy. When one bit of information is erased, the bit dissipates a measurable amount of energy.
-
-
roam.elaptics.co.uk roam.elaptics.co.uk
-
hub.jhu.edu hub.jhu.edu
-
thegrio.com thegrio.com
-
https://thegrio.com/2022/03/29/sometimes-people-get-smacked/
real stuff do be happening…
-
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjf0hCKOCE
The sky is a textbook. The sky is a lawbook. The sky is a science book. —Duane Hamacher, (1:24)
Hamacher uses the Western description "method of loci" rather than an Indigenous word or translated word.
The words "myth", "legend", "magic", "ritual", and "religion" in both colloquial English and even anthropology are highly loaded terms.
Words like "narrative" and "story" are better used instead for describing portions of the Indigenous cultures which we have long ignored and written off for their seeming simplicity.
-
-
etcanada.com etcanada.com
-
Bruce Willis has aphasia and is retiring as a result.
-
-
hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
-
reinventingorganizationswiki.com reinventingorganizationswiki.com
-
variety.com variety.com
-
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/magazine/commonplace-books-recommendation.html
An interesting essay centering the idea of a commonplace book, but without describing a particular use case.
Why did she keep it? How is she actually using it? There is an analogy of it with a diary, but it feels like the writer is keeping one, but not actively using it for anything but nostalgic purposes.
Why not get more out of it?
-
-
www.dailydot.com www.dailydot.com
-
dev.authorbuzz.co.uk dev.authorbuzz.co.uk
-
readlists.jim-nielsen.com readlists.jim-nielsen.com
-
https://readlists.jim-nielsen.com/
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jim Nielsen</span> in (Re)Introducing Readlists (<time class='dt-published'>03/25/2022 23:09:14</time>)</cite></small>
-
-
blog.jim-nielsen.com blog.jim-nielsen.com
-
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/reintroducing-readlists/
Web serendipity has struck again. I was just looking for a tool that would do this very thing and so missed Readlists as a service.
Fun to see Jeremy Keith's book featured here.
-
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
-
wvupressonline.com wvupressonline.com
-
Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we’ll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don’t have to. And when we don’t have to, we no longer can. Or can we? Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention—concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.
How much history is covered here?
Will mnemotechniques be covered here? Spaced repetition? Note taking methods in the commonplace book or zettelkasten traditions?
-
-
hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
-
http://hackeducation.com/2022/01/03/next
Good to see Audrey back in the fray!
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.rousette.org.uk www.rousette.org.uk
-
https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/lamy-2000-fountain-pen/
Sounds like it writes well, but I just don't like the look of them. Perhaps feel is more important?
-
-
www.rousette.org.uk www.rousette.org.uk
-
-
https://uxdesign.cc/the-power-of-seeing-only-the-questions-in-a-piece-of-writing-8f486d2c6d7d
I read this last week, but didn't log it. Fascinating tool here.
-
-
every.to every.to
-
A manifesto about what the Every platform is all about. They're trying to create a new(?) economic model for writers working together.
I'm not really sure how this is dramatically different from prior efforts or if the economic incentives are actually properly aligned here. Many writers without critically looking at the whole may be led here as much by marketing hype as anything else. It almost sounds like they're recreating The Huffington Post, but giving away some of the value up front instead of leaving all the value in one person's hand for a future sale.
Who owns the copyright of the created works? Are editors and proofreaders just work for hire here? What about their interests?
-
-
world.hey.com world.hey.com
-
blog.sparna.fr blog.sparna.fr
-
http://blog.sparna.fr/2020/02/20/semantic-markdown/
Some general spitballing for adding semantic markup to markdown.
-
-
adjacentpossible.substack.com adjacentpossible.substack.com
-
schoenberginstitute.org schoenberginstitute.org
-
www.mentalfloss.com www.mentalfloss.com
-
www.zotero.org www.zotero.org
-
https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-6/
Starting in version 6, Zotero will allow you to view annotations previously made in Adobe software. It will also let one extract all the annotations from within a text and save them into a note in Zotero and then export them as markdown into Obsidian or other tools.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.deephollowranch.com www.deephollowranch.com
-
rses often have some health issues, like arthritis, and can’t spend hours on the trip and keep up with speed. It is the same with re
https://www.deephollowranch.com/how-far-can-a-horse-travel-in-a-day/
An average horse in good condition can travel roughly 25-35 miles in a day with appropriate food, water, and ideal conditions.
Galloping at top speed (25-30 miles per hour) an average horse will only last about two miles. At a trot (8 to 12 miles) a horse will last for 20 miles before it tires out and needs rest.
These numbers can give an idea about travel, sending messages, and governing large empires in ancient times.
-
-
askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
-
Yes they are the same command. This part of apt's cmdline/apt.cc source file proves it:
-
-
deadline.com deadline.com
-
https://deadline.com/2022/03/discovery-sets-board-of-directors-warnermedia-merger-1234979430/
New board for Warner Bros. Discovery after $43 billion merger.
-
-
blog.jethro.dev blog.jethro.dev
-
https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/taking_srs_seriously/
And someone has actually built a spaced repetition system with Hypothesis! So it's not just me... 😄
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
Wittry, Warren L. (1964). "An American Woodhenge". Cranbrook Institute of Science Newsletter. 33 (9): 102–107 – via Explorations into Cahokia Archaeology, Bulletin 7, Illinois Archaeological Survey, 1969. ^ Wittry, Warren L. "Discovering and Interpreting the Cahokia Woodhenges". The Wisconsin Archaeologist. 77 (3/4): 26–35.
-
Cowan, Frank (2005). "Stubbs Earthworks : An Ohio Hopewell "Woodhenge"". In Lepper, Bradley T. (ed.). Ohio Archaeology : An illustrated chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press. pp. 148–151. ISBN 978-1882203390.
-
Miller, Gregory L. (2010). Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient (Masters) (Thesis). Ohio State University.
-
Gilmore, Zackary I.; O'Donoughue, Jason M., eds. (2015). The Archaeology of Events: Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast. University of Alabama Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0817318505.
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_circle
Some timber circle sites to look into: - Secotan in North Carolina circa 1585 - Poverty Point - Hopewell timber circles (Moorehead Circle and Stubbs Earthworks) in Ohio - Cahokia
-
-
www.haaretz.com www.haaretz.com
-
Cities in Israel named after Semitic gods of the ancient Near East.
Jerusalem was likely originally Ir Shalem ('The City of Shalem') because the central shrine was dedicated to the Canaanite god Shalem, aka Salem, the personification of the Evening Star.
Shahar, the twin brother of Shalem, was the personification of the Morning Star and was presumably the tutelary god of Zareth-Shahar. This town is in modern day central Jordan and was mentioned in Joshua 13:19.
While the original Zareth-Shahar didn't survive into modernity, another town dedicated to the same god may have existed on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee at a site known by the Arabic name for the morning star. A kibbutz named Ayelet HaShachar was built there after 1915. Ayelet HaShachar is a poetic biblical term for the Morning Star (Psalms 22:1).
Jericho may have taken it's name from the tutelary god Yareakh, the moon god.
Similarly the site Beit Yarekh may attest to that moon god being worshiped there as well.
The sun god Shemesh may have created the eponymous names for cities Beth-Shemesh ('House of Shemesh', Joshua 15:10), En-Shemesh ('Spring of Shemesh", Joshua 15:7), and Ir-Shemesh ('City of Shemesh", Joshua 19:41). The modern day city Beit Shemesh was established in 1950 at a site with the Arabic place name 'Ain Shems which was believed to be the site of the ancient city Beth-Shemesh.
The storm god Baal is the root of cities including Kiryat Baal (Joshua 18:14), Baal Perazim (II Samuel 5:17), Gur Baal (II Chronicles 26:7), Baal-Gad (Joshua 11:17), Baal-Hermon (Judges 3:3), and Baal-Hazor (II Samuel 13:23). There are also cities Baal-Peor (Numbers 23:28) and Ball Shalishah (II Kings 4:42).
Canaanite god El was the tutelary god of the town Bethel mentioned frequently in the Old Testament including in Genesis 12:8. The Palestinian town Beitin is thought to be the site of the ancient Bethel. Beit El, an Israeli settlement, was created near it in 1977.
Dagon was the namesake of Beth Dagon (Joshua 15:41). It continued until 1948 when the Palestinian town Bayt Dajan was depopulated leading up to the Israeli War of Independence. The site is now an Israeli town called Beit Dagan.
Reshef, an ancient Semitic god from Elba and later identified with Apollo lent his name to the todays Arsuf, which is also known as Apollonia. During the Persian period, the Phoenicians had named a town there for Reshef.
Horon, possibly a desert god with power over animals and snakes, is the inspiration of Beth Horon (I Chronicles 7:24). A modern settlement Beit Horon was founded in 1977.
-
-
www.haaretz.com www.haaretz.com
-
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-when-the-jews-believed-in-other-gods-1.6315810
References to other Semitic gods in the Old Testament. Some general basics which will require some delving into translations and further research for stronger foundations in early Semitic religions.
-
-
-
https://fat.gold/guide/
Robin Sloan's olive oil company
-
-
www.sciencefriday.com www.sciencefriday.com
-
Christie Taylor (2019). ‘Relearning the star stories of Indigenous peoples’. Science Friday. 6 September 2019. www.sciencefriday.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-astronomy/
Referenced in chapter 1 notes from Hamacher, Duane. The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars. Allen & Unwin, 2022. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professional/cultural-studies/The-First-Astronomers-Duane-Hamacher-with-Elders-and-Knowledge-Holders-9781760877200.
-
-
-
Professor Mātāmua’s 2017 book, Matariki: The star of the year.
-
-
www.haaretz.com www.haaretz.com
-
The kothon of Motya in southern Sicily had first been assumed to be an artificial harbor. It wasn’t, archaeologist Lorenzo Nigro of Sapienza proves
Overview of paper: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.8
-
-
www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
-
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/third-culture-kid
Third culture kids are raised by parents of one or more different backgrounds in a completely different culture. As a result they're not able to completely identify with either their parents' culture(s) or the one in which they're being raised.
Examples include Barak Obama, Viggo Mortensen, and Kobe Bryant.
-
-
blog.archive.org blog.archive.org
-
-
www.rousette.org.uk www.rousette.org.uk
-
https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/twsbi-go-fountain-pen/
Brief review of TWSBI Go fountain pen. Sounds relatively nice for a cheaper pen.
-
-
www.officemuseum.com www.officemuseum.comPencils1
-
david.shanske.com david.shanske.com
-
https://david.shanske.com/2022/03/14/meta-tags-to-microformats/
A pretty solid overview of meta tags from OGP, Dublin Core, et al. to microformats.
-
-
ratfactor.com ratfactor.com
-
A long explanation of how Dave Gauer takes daily notes in his life log and what he does with them. Interesting to see so many of my own practices and thoughts mirrored here.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
sanlive.com sanlive.com
-
www.cs.umd.edu www.cs.umd.edu
-
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/trs/97-21/97-21.html
A view of internet technology from 1998. It's filled with techno-utopianism, but provides some thought and admonishment against watching out for design which may have future deleterious consequences.
It's a bit amazing how many problems he highlights as relatively easily solvable are still unsolved and largely untouched: search/search engines, academic publishing workflows, democracy, and general digital humanism.
-
The design of tools for toolsmiths (Brooks, 1996)
Brooks, Frederick, Jr., The computer scientist as toolsmith II, Communications of the ACM 39, 3 (March 1996), 61-68.
-
-
www.metv.com www.metv.com
-
https://www.metv.com/stories/sgt-joe-friday-never-actually-said-just-the-facts-maam-on-dragnet
Stanley Meyer always bragged to me that he wrote this line when in fact it never existed during his time on the show.
-
-
lithub.com lithub.com
-
https://lithub.com/how-the-inca-used-knots-to-tell-stories/
If this is the extent of the quipu material in this book, it's probably not quite for me, though the broader subject is very interesting. Other direct sources may be more illustrative for me.
-
-
www.allenandunwin.com www.allenandunwin.com
-
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher, with Elders and Knowledge Holders
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>LynneKelly</span> in Un-Stupiding Myself - a Memory Training Journal - Memory Training Journals - Art of Memory Forum (<time class='dt-published'>03/14/2022 18:43:38</time>)</cite></small>
-
-
en.wiktionary.org en.wiktionary.org
-
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idle_hands_are_the_devil%27s_workshop
Proverbs 16:27 "Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire." (Oxford, NSRV, 5th Edition) is translated in the King James version as "An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire." The Living Bible (1971) translates this section as "Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece."
The verse may have inspired St. Jerome to write "fac et aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum" (translation: "engage in some occupation, so that the devil may always find you busy.”) This was repeated in The Canterbury Tales which may have increased its popularity.
-
-
-
the use of gestures to enhance verbal memory during foreign-language encoding.
Manuela Macedonia wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the use of gestures to enhance verbal memory for language acquisition.
-
-
www.manton.org www.manton.org
-
https://www.manton.org/2022/03/11/early-book-feedback.html
Manton's still working on the micro.blog book.
-
-
book.micro.blog book.micro.blog
-
https://book.micro.blog/
-
-
www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
-
https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/07/18/223800.html
Details for adding date/time microformats to Blot.im.
-
-
www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
-
https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/07/17/195200.html
Amit Gawande outlines some of his work to IndieWebify his Blot.im website.
-
-
www.amitgawande.com www.amitgawande.com
-
https://www.amitgawande.com/2018/08/02/164900.html
Overview of thinking about beginning to IndieWebify a Blot website.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
toledocitypaper.com toledocitypaper.com
-
oaktrust.library.tamu.edu oaktrust.library.tamu.edu
-
kiriska.com kiriska.com
-
https://kiriska.com/blog/2022/your-website-is-useless/
Some general discussion about the value of having a portfolio on your own website in a social media driven world. Touches on the ease of use and user interface problems that are out there.
-
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
-
www.newsletter.rikagoldberg.com www.newsletter.rikagoldberg.com
-
https://www.newsletter.rikagoldberg.com/p/40-we-need-quality
This meanders a lot and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from it...
Based on the original context:
Hey all. I have a love/hate relationship with digital gardening/zettelkasten-ing, but I understand that it's normal. More recently, my work has become very knowledge heavy, as I've started to write full time about technical things, so I've decided to try my hand, again, at a Zettelkasten. I wrote up the reasoning behind my decision here. If this post resonates with you, I'd love to hear your thoughts. https://www.newsletter.rikagoldberg.com/p/40-we-need-quality
I'm thinking she's conflating the ideas of wiki and zettelkasten, which I've seen lead many people into trouble.
-
- Feb 2022
-
www.lesswrong.com www.lesswrong.com
-
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/d9aeT3RsbZ95cHgHw/meaning-of-words-an-exercise-for-active-thinking
Active thinking for building mental models can be a good thing.
Sadly this article seems to do a lot of faffing about. Not sure what I'm really supposed to take from it....
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
ichhantik.livejournal.com ichhantik.livejournal.com
-
test note
-
-
subconscious.substack.com subconscious.substack.com
-
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Gordon Brander</span> in "Slouching toward Xanadu: a roundup of block reference mechanisms https://t.co/CxSm0bZjHu" (<time class='dt-published'>02/24/2022 17:12:12</time>)</cite></small>
Discussion of some prior art leading up to Google's text fragment links.
-
-
learningaloud.com learningaloud.com
-
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2020/08/08/designing-instruction-using-layering-services/
Mark Grabe categorizes some digital pedagogy tools in terms of how they function structurally.
- two servers/independent content
- one server, independent purchased content
- one company offering both a layering capability and content
- user can upload content
-
-
brainbaking.com brainbaking.com
-
https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/10/are-digital-gardens-blogs/
We definitely need better definitions of digital gardens (public or otherwise) to delineate them from blogs, zettelkasten, wikis, social media, and other forms of information exchange.
Wouter Groeneveld describes some of his thoughts here.
Link to notes from https://collect.readwriterespond.com/are-digital-gardens-blogs/
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
marksinthemargin.blogspot.com marksinthemargin.blogspot.com
-
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Learning Commons </span> in Annotating a text - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - LibGuides at Mater Christi College (<time class='dt-published'>02/24/2022 13:46:42</time>)</cite></small>
-
-
startgainingmomentum.com startgainingmomentum.com
-
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Learning Commons </span> in Annotating a text - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - LibGuides at Mater Christi College (<time class='dt-published'>02/24/2022 13:46:42</time>)</cite></small>
-
-
materchristi.libguides.com materchristi.libguides.com
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
-
fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
-
Some good examples of senior and well-known people who have failed to get tenure, largely because of race.
Examples of how the system is set up to exclude diversity in terms of how the game is played.
-
-
hardhistoriesjhu.substack.com hardhistoriesjhu.substack.com
-
www.baltimoresun.com www.baltimoresun.com
-
The Baltimore Sun begins grappling with its dark history.
-
-
observingleslie.com observingleslie.com
-
-
Steven Johnson indicates that the word processor is a terrible tool for writing because it doesn't have usable affordances for building up longer pieces from one's notes or basic ideas.
He discusses his specific workflow of note taking and keeping ideas in Scrivener where he arranges them into folders and outlines which then become the source of his writing.
Different from the typical zettelkasten workflow, he's keeping his notes hierarchically organized in folders based on topic keywords and only later when creating a specific writing project making explicit links and orders between his notes to create longer pieces. It's here that his work diverges most dramatically to the zettelkasten method described by Sönke Ahrens.
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)?
This was mentioned to me at an IndieWebCamp event today.
Seems interesting with respect to the meta portions of books.
Looks like the sort of thing that @remikalir and @anterobot may be interested in.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
A mathematics lecturer at UC Berkeley went against the grain and got fired for it. I'm curious what his teaching secrets were.
-
-
www.denizcemonduygu.com www.denizcemonduygu.com
-
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494102154839306240.html
On Yale not giving tenure to Michael W. Kraus...
-
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494322378142359554.html
from https://twitter.com/NeilLewisJr/status/1494322378142359554
Context:
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Some news: yesterday I learned that, by faculty vote, my bid for tenure/promotion was not approved.<br><br>I feel many things, but not shame or regret. I am so proud of our work during our time at yale, and angry that this version of that work will come to an end, this end.
— Michael W. Kraus (@mwkraus) February 16, 2022
-
-
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
-
This would appear to be a case of the emperor has no clothes, but in reality it's a useless, and overly expensive hat—one which she's sold to herself.
-
-
webseitz.fluxent.com webseitz.fluxent.com
-
This is so cool to see wikis interlinking and working together.
-
-
www.zhihu.com www.zhihu.com
-
苏轼给的建议是，一本史书，要读很多遍，每一遍都只专注于一个层面，所谓“每书数过，一意求之”。想研究政治政策，就着重于书中的奏章言论；想搞懂典章制度，就着重于书中官职升迁礼仪往来，想看明白地理建制，就着重于书中的地名沿革山河变动。
苏东坡八面受敌读书法
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
olh.openlibhums.org olh.openlibhums.org
-
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4407/
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>lbcollister</span> in Hypothesis (<time class='dt-published'>02/15/2022 23:20:04</time>)</cite></small>
https://hyp.is/92U6ZBGGEei7GnNNsuV4Uw/www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/
See also: https://hyp.is/92U6ZBGGEei7GnNNsuV4Uw/www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/
-
-
collect.readwriterespond.com collect.readwriterespond.com
-
-
Great find Aaron. Thanks for the ping.
I've gone back further than this for the commonplace and the florilegium which helped to influence their creation, though I've not delved into the specific invention or general use of indices in the space heavily. I suspected that they grew out of the tradition of using headwords, though I'm not sure that indices became more popular until the paper by John Locke in 1689 (in French) or 1706 (in English).
I'll put Dr. Duncan's book into the hopper and see what he's got to say on the topic.
-
-
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
-
The idea of the index was invented twice in roughly 1230.
Once by Hugh of Saint-Cher in Paris as a concordance of the Bible. The notes towards creating it still exist in a variety of hands. The project, executed by a group of friars at the Dominican Friary of Saint-Jacques, listed 10,000 words and 129,000 locations.
The second version was invented by Robert Grosseteste in Oxford who used marginal marks to create a "grand table".
The article doesn't mention florilegium, but the head words from them must have been a likely precursor. The article does mention lectures and sermons being key in their invention.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis</span> in 📑 Monks, a polymath and an invention made by two people at the same time. It’s all in the history of the index | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>02/15/2022 21:22:10</time>)</cite></small>
-
-
every.to every.to
-
https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam
A user talks about why they've stopped using Roam Research.
I suspect that a lot of people have many of the same issues and to a great extent, it's a result of them not understanding the underlying use cases of the problems they're trying to solve.
This user is focusing on it solving the problem of where one is placing their data in hopes that it will fix all their problems, but without defining the reason why they're using the tool and what problems they hope for it to solve.
Note taking is a much broader idea space than many suppose.
-
-
Local file Local file
-
Bjork, Robert A. 2011. “On the Symbiosis of Remembering,Forgetting and Learning.” In Successful Remembering andSuccessful Forgetting: a Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork,edited by Aaron S. Benjamin, 1–22. New York, NY: PsychologyPress.
-
Schmidt, Johannes F.K. 2013. “Der Nachlass Niklas Luhmanns –eine erste Sichtung: Zettelkasten und Manuskripte.” SozialeSysteme 19 (1): 167–83.
I'd like to read this but suspect there isn't an English translation lying around.
-
Sull, Donald and Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. 2015. Simple Rules: Howto Thrive in a Complex World. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin
-
-
www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
-
Overview and history of the Antikythera mechanism and the current state of research surrounding it.
Antikythera mechanism found in diving expedition in 1900 by Elias Stadiatis. It was later dated between 60 and 70 BCE, but evidence suggests it may have been made around 205 BCE.
Functions
One of the primary purposes of the device was to predict the positions of the planets along the ecliptic, the plane of the solar system.
The device was also used to track the positions of the sun and moon. This included the moon's phase, position and age (the number of days from a new moon). It also included the predictions of eclipses.
Used to track the motions of the 5 known planets including 289 synodic cycles in 462 years for Venus and 427 synodic cycles in 442 years for Saturn.
Risings and settings of stars indexed to a zodiac dial
Definitions
metonic cycle, a 19-year period over which 235 moon phases recur; named after Greek astronomer Meton, but discovered much earlier by the Babylonians. The Greeks refined it to a 76 year period.
saros cycle, the 223 month lunar cycle which was used by the Babylonians to predict eclipses. A dial on the Antikythera mechanism was used to predict the dates of the solar and lunar eclipses using this cycle.
synodic events: conjunctions with the sun and its stationary points
People
Archimedes - potentially the designer of an early version of the Antikythera mechanism
Elias Stadiatis - diver who discovered the Antikythera mechanism
Albert Rehm - German philologist who the numbers 19, 76 and 223 inscribed on fragments of the device in the early 1900s
Derek J. de Solla Price, published Gears from the Greeks in 1974. Identified the gear train and developed a complete model of the gearing.
Michael Wright - 3D x-ray study in 1990 using linear tomography; identified tooth counts of the gears and understood the upper dial on the back of the device
Tony Freeth - author of article and researcher whose made recent discoveries.
-
-
reallifemag.com reallifemag.com
-
https://reallifemag.com/rank-and-file/
An interesting example of someone who fell into the trap of thinking that a particular tool or tools would magically make them smarter or help them do a particular line of work without showing any deep evidence of knowing what they were doing. The discussion here flows over a number of mixed note taking domains with no clear thrust for what they were using it pointedly for. The multiple directions and lack of experience likely doomed them to failure here.
-
-
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
-
Riverside teacher who dressed up and mocked Native Americans for a trigonometry lesson involving a mnemonic using SOH CAH TOA in Riverside, CA is fired.
There is a right way to teach mnemonic techniques and a wrong way. This one took the advice to be big and provocative went way overboard. The children are unlikely to forget the many lessons (particularly the social one) contained here.
It's unfortunate that this could have potentially been a chance to bring indigenous memory methods into a classroom for a far better pedagogical and cultural outcome. Sad that the methods are so widely unknown that media missed a good teaching moment here.
referenced video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu4fulKVv2c
A snippet at the end of the video has the teacher talking to rocks and a "rock god", but it's extremely unlikely that she was doing so using indigenous methods or for indigenous reasons.
read: 7:00 AM
-
-
www.teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com
-
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-student-walkouts-oakland-chicago
Students in large public school districts across America are walking out of school to fight for better conditions with respect to COVID-19.
-
-
www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
-
In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social identity, the role of the body in developing a full understanding of the physical world and the human condition has become neglected. The potential of the human body as a knowing entity – with all our senses as well as our entire bodily functions being structured to produce and maintain silent knowledge together – fails to be recognised. It is only through the unity of mind and body that craftsmanship and artistic work can be fully realised. Even those endeavours that are generally regarded as solely intellectual, such as writing and thinking, depend on this union of mental and manual skills.
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Hand-Existential-Embodied-Architecture/dp/0470779292/
This sounds a bit like some of the physical and external memory ideas in The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.
This book came up in Dan Allosso's book club on How to Take Smart Notes.
-
-
x28newblog.wordpress.com x28newblog.wordpress.com
-
https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/inspiring-or-distracting/
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Matthias Melcher
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Matthias Melcher </span> in Matthias Melcher on Twitter: "@ChrisAldrich I agree. The simple zettelkasten is a TOOL for thought, but many people want a prosthesis for thought. See https://t.co/N9lDSM7guD" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>02/05/2022 15:27:06</time>)</cite></small>
in response to zettelkasten overreach,
-
-
thehustle.co thehustle.co
-
-
https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/16/enslaved-homewood-difficult-history/
"Enslaved at Homewood" is a project to better visualize and center the stories of those who had been enslaved at one point on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus.
-
-
www.jhunewsletter.com www.jhunewsletter.com
-
-
https://www.dirt.com/moguls/power-players/johns-hopkins-ronald-daniels-house-montecito-1203351577/
Interesting to see Ron Daniels has a home in Montecito, CA.
-
-
harpers.org harpers.org
-
What a fantastic glimpse of our current culture.
-
-
slate.com slate.com
-
boingboing.net boingboing.net
-
Tip: add "reddit" to search queries to get authentic human results untainted by SEO
-
-
learningaloud.com learningaloud.com
-
https://learningaloud.com/blog/2021/12/16/creating-storing-and-using-smart-notes/
Brief overview of Sonke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes with some ideas about using Zotero and Obsidian for note taking.
-
-
medium.datadriveninvestor.com medium.datadriveninvestor.com
-
Words matter. Don't call your personal knowledge management system a "second brain" as it others something that is a part of you and your thinking.
(Not to mention that it's a marketing term for Tiago Forte's system. See: https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/03/differentiating-online-variations-of-the-commonplace-book-digital-gardens-wikis-zettlekasten-waste-books-florilegia-and-second-brains/#Second%20brain)
-
-
words.jamoe.org words.jamoe.org
-
https://words.jamoe.org/jump-notes/
meh... similar to sketchnotes
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
interconnected.org interconnected.org
-
https://interconnected.org/home/2021/02/10/reservoirs
I like that he suggest to watch out for longevity as it's been rare for an app or set up to last longer than 20 years. Portability in note taking is key.
Editing can become a time suck, so don't do it and rely on the system to unearth the things you thought might be important in the future. Accrete ideas and make connections. They'll eventually begin outgassing new ideas (like layers of fermenting trash in the town dump).
-
-
www.teachthought.com www.teachthought.com
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
-
www.acf.hhs.gov www.acf.hhs.gov
-
The Arizona Kith and Kin Project Evaluation, Brief #2: Latina Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Provider Characteristics and Features of Child Care They Provide
Really important for our project
-
Providers in the Child Care Subsidy System: Insights into Factors Shaping Participation, Financial Well-Being, and Quality
Important
-
Lessons Learned: Strategies for Working With Kith and Kin Caregivers
Can we obtain this?
-
Characteristics of Home-Based Early Care and Education Providers: Initial Findings from the National Survey of Early Care and Education
Central to our work
-
Promising Practices in Policy for Home-Based Child Care: A National Policy Scan
Important for our work
-
Studying the Effects of Early Child Care Experiences on the Development of Children of Color in the United States: Toward a More Inclusive Research Agenda
A bit old, but important for our research.
-
New Research on Subsidized Family, Friend, and Neighbor Providers: Implications for Investing in Quality
Important to our work
-
Supporting High Quality Informal Child Care in Detroit.
This seems very relevant to our work
-
A Demographic Comparison of the Listed Home-Based Workforce and the Children in Their Care
This would be important background information for an analysis of racial-ethnic match
-
From a Parent’s Point of View: Measuring the Quality of Child Care
Not sure about this - see if relevant?
-
Hispanic Children’s Participation in Early Care and Education: Type of Care by Household Nativity Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Child Age
Really important for thinking about diversity among Latinx providers
-
Child Care Affordability Is Out of Reach for Many Low-Income Hispanic Households
Could be important for background and rationale
-
Getting Ready for Quality: The Critical Importance of Developing and Supporting a Skilled, Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Workforce
could help in rationale and background
-
The LA Advance Study: Participation, Outcomes, and Impacts of First 5 LA’s Workforce Development Programs
Skim to see if they found anything related to FFN care
-
Caughy, M.O.B., P.J. O’Campo, S.M. Randolph, and K. Nickerson. “The Influence of Racial Socialization Practices on the Cognitive and Behavioral Competence of African American Preschoolers.” Child Development, vol. 73, no. 5, 2002, pp. 1611–1625. Caughy, M.O.B., and M.T. Owen. “Cultural Socialization and School Readiness of African American and Latino Preschoolers.” Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 21, no. 3, 2015, pp. 391–399.
Really interesting - not sure it's directly related to our goals.
-
Parental Preferences and Patterns of Child Care Use Among Low-Income Families: A Bayesian Analysis
Could be important
-
Ethnographic Approaches To Child Care Research: A Review Of The Literature
might be interesting
-
Gluing, Catching and Connecting: How Informal Childcare Strengthens Single Mothers’ Employment Trajectories
important for our work (though a bit dated)
-
What Can CCDF Learn from the Research on Children’s Health and Safety in Child Care?
might be good to read
-
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
-
utcc.utoronto.ca utcc.utoronto.ca
-
The problem almost certainly starts with the conception of what we're doing as "building websites".
When we do so, we mindset of working on systems
If your systems work compromises the artifacts then it's not good work
This is part of a broader phenomenon, which is that when computers are involved with absolutely anything people seem to lose their minds good sensibilities just go out the window
low expectations from everyone everyone is so used to excusing bad work
sui generis medium
violates the principle of least power
what we should be doing when grappling with the online publishing problem—which is what this is; that's all it is—is, instead of thinking in terms of working on systems, thinking about this stuff in such a way that we never lose sight of the basics; the thing that we aspire to do when we want to put together a website is to deal in
documents and their issuing authority
That is, a piece of content and its name (the name is a qualified name that we recognize as valid only when the publisher has the relevant authority for that name, determined by its prefix; URLs)
that's it that's all a Web site is
anything else is auxiliary
really not a lot different from what goes on when you publish a book take a manuscript through final revisions for publication and then get an ISBN issued for it
so the problem comes from the industry
people "building websites" like politicians doing bad work and then their constituents not holding them accountable because that's not how politics works you don't get held accountable for doing bad work
so the thing to do is to recognize that if we're thinking about "websites" from any other position things that technical people try to steer us in the direction of like selecting a particular system and then propping it up and how to interact with a given system to convince it to do the thing we want it to do— then we're doing it wrong
we're creating content and then giving it a name
-
-
www.thewrap.com www.thewrap.com
-
rachelkatymartin.wordpress.com rachelkatymartin.wordpress.com
- Jan 2022
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/nyregion/steven-strogatz-sundays.html
Nice to see the normalization of math and a mathematician without any math shaming in sight.
I'm more curious to hear about his Mondays or Tuesdays...
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/us/cargo-ship-cookbooks-overboard.html
Book releases push when shipping containers go overboard.
There could be an interesting movie idea here...
-
-
journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
-
words.jamoe.org words.jamoe.org
-
https://words.jamoe.org/handwritten-hqa-notes/
Mostly a review of the prior article with little new.
-
-
words.jamoe.org words.jamoe.org
-
https://words.jamoe.org/highlight-question-and-answer/
A somewhat disingenuous reframing of the Cornell notes method. They've given it a different name potentially for marketing purposes to sell in a book. At least HQ&A is a reasonable mnemonic for what the process is.
They do highlight the value of modality shift from reading to thinking about how to formulate a question and answer as a means of learning. They don't seem to know the name or broader value of the technique however.
This question technique is also highlighted in the work of Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen. Cross reference: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ and their quantum mechanics course experiments.
-
-
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
-
-
eleanorkonik.com eleanorkonik.com
-
https://eleanorkonik.com/the-difficulties-of-teaching-notetaking/
A fascinating take on why we don't teach study skills and note taking the way they had traditionally been done in the past. What we're teaching and teaching toward has changed dramatically.
-
-
goodereader.com goodereader.com
-
www.pasadenanow.com www.pasadenanow.com
-
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
Tags
- racist policies
- read
- attention economy
- diversity equity and inclusion
- tech solutionism
- mental health
- attention
- move fast and break things
- #DLINQDigDetox
- diversity
- social media
- biological determinism
- marginalized groups
- psychology
- technochauvinism
- structural racism
- racist ideas
- moral panic
Annotators
URL
-
-
notesfromasmallpress.substack.com notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
-
people.com people.com
-
-
estebanmoro.org estebanmoro.org
-
english.elpais.com english.elpais.com
-
Story of a scientist trying to optimize for solutions of Wordle.
Nothing brilliant here. Depressing that the story creates a mythology around algorithms as the solution rather than delving in a bit into the math and science of information theory to explain why this solution is the correct one.
Desperately missing from the discussion are second and third order words that would make useful guesses to further reduce the solution space for actual readers.
-