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  1. Aug 2021
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva_rerum

      Presumably these are the same sylvae mentioned by Earle Havens on page 10 of his book Commonplace Books (Yale, 2001).

      Where do these fit into a historical commonplace tradition? From a timing and logical perspective they certainly could be a transplant from other parts of Europe in modified forms.

      I'll note that some of the pattern is similar to printed bibles in the 1900's (and perhaps going back earlier) in the United States which held pre-printed pages for adding this sort of historical personal family data that would likely be handed down from generation to generation.

      Compare and contrast this form to the idea of the Relatio chronicle in Jennifer Paxton's essay Forging Communities: Memory and Identity in Post-Conquest England.

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammelband

      Sammelband (/ˈzæməlbænt/ ZAM-əl-bant, plural Sammelbände /ˌzæməlˈbɛndə/ ZAM-əl-BEN-də or Sammelbands), or sometimes nonce-volume, is a book comprising a number of separately printed or manuscript works that are subsequently bound together.

      Compare and contrast this publishing scheme with the idea of florilegium and commonplace books.

      Did commonplace keepers ever sammelband their own personal volumes? And perhaps include more comprehensive indices?

      What time periods did this pattern take place? How does this reflect on the idea of reorganizing early modern information management practices? Could these have bled over into the idea of the evolution of the Zettelkasten?

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomnema

      Hypomnema (Greek. ὑπόμνημα, plural ὑπομνήματα, hypomnemata), also spelled hupomnema, is a Greek word with several translations into English including a reminder, a note, a public record, a commentary, an anecdotal record, a draft, a copy, and other variations on those terms.

      Compare and contrast the idea of this with the concept of the commonplace book. There's also a tie in with the idea of memory, particularly for meditation.

      There's also the idea here of keeping a note of something to be fixed or remedied and which needs follow up or reflection.

    1. In 1963, Ted Nelson coined the terms 'hypertext' and 'hypermedia' as part of a model he developed for creating and using linked content (first published reference 1965).[7] He later worked with Andries van Dam to develop the Hypertext Editing System (text editing) in 1967 at Brown University.
    1. The confession-book, I suppose, has disappeared. It is twenty years since I have seen one. As a boy I told some inquisitive owner what was my favourite food (porridge, I fancy), my favourite hero in real life and in fiction, my favourite virtue in woman, and so forth.

      The form of some of these questions in confession albums is similar to modern day security questions asked by banks and personal accounts as a sort of personal password or shibboleth.

    2. By the end of the decade, the printed and bound confession book had been introduced. The earliest currently known example with a printed publication date is Mental Photographs, an album published in New York in 1869, which contained place for a photograph as well as the set of questions (a combination already found in Jenny Marx's album).[9]

      This seems like something that could be profitably published into children's school yearbooks for being filled out by friends. They've already got names and photographs, and usually are autographed with quotes or notes already.

      These could be tied into personal websites as well.

    1. its logical (semantic) structure and communicative functions, and (b) the grammatical procedures that are available in the language for the expression of these meanings.
      • about : meta model

      logical semantic structure communicative functions grammatical procedures available for expression of these meanings

    1. Role and reference grammar, developed by Robert Van Valin employs functional analytical framework with a somewhat formal mode of description. In RRG, the description of a sentence in a particular language is formulated in terms of its semantic structure and communicative functions, as well as the grammatical procedures used to express these meanings.[34][35

      role and reference grammar

  2. Jul 2021
    1. In computer science, a recursive descent parser is a kind of top-down parser built from a set of mutually recursive procedures (or a non-recursive equivalent) where each such procedure implements one of the nonterminals of the grammar. Thus the structure of the resulting program closely mirrors that of the grammar it recognizes

      TDPL

    1. elope

      We can derive the meaning of this word from the context very easily because we have been exposed to this situation so many times: a forbidden relationship forces a couple to run away in secrecy. This is what LaPolla has termed "habit"; in this case the habit of a narrative we have been exposed to so many times.

    1. Doxography (Greek: δόξα – "an opinion", "a point of view" + γράφειν – "to write", "to describe") is a term used especially for the works of classical historians, describing the points of view of past philosophers and scientists. The term was coined by the German classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels.

      doxography

    1. Minto is the originator of the MECE principle pronounced "ME-see",[6][3] a grouping principle for separating a set of items into subsets that are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE).[7] MECE underlies her Minto Pyramid Principle,[3] which suggests that people's ideas should be communicated in a pyramid format in which summary points are derived from constituent and supporting sub-points:[8] Grouping together low-level facts they see as similar Drawing an insight from having seen the similarity Forming a new grouping of related insights, etc. Minto argues that one "can’t derive an idea from a grouping unless the ideas in the grouping are logically the same, and in logical order.”[3]

      Saw this mentioned/described in the first session of Roam Book Club 5 [video].

    1. Due to licensing agreements certain parts of the apps including access to the network's live simulcast and most episodes of their shows require the viewer to use their subscription-television provider or OTT-platform username and password to authenticate their right to access such content.

      A business model to take note of.

    1. Artificial intelligence and the technological singularity[edit] The concept of the technological singularity, or the ultra-rapid advent of superhuman intelligence, was first proposed by the British cryptologist I. J. Good in 1965:

      singularity

    1. 查莫斯·约翰逊(Chalmers Ashby Johnson),这个人一开始做学术研究,后来被CIA雇佣去搞东亚分析,做日本产业政策研究非常厉害。他后来退休了,出了四本书讲美帝国主义的崩塌。出于一个老白人知识分子的道德感,他要讲美国人在控制日本的过程中,搞了太多坏事,早晚要出问题。

      在1998年,查莫斯·约翰逊写了一篇报告。他大概意思就是说美国人受理性选择理论的影响太深,压根不知道在东亚日本人靠产业政策、靠政府和社会的关系,能够走出这样一条路,而美国人不知道这背后的机理到底是怎么样的。美国人再不了解这个情况,日本现在还能够应对,因为美日好歹是一个阵营还能解决,但中国现在正在沿着这条路狂飙猛进。

      因为日本类似产业政策,中国也是政府主导经济方向发展,如果美国不处理好这个问题,20年后美国跟中国之间的纠纷,那就不是一个简单的经济纠纷,他直接用了trade war这个词,它的规模是1980年代美日纠纷和广场协议完全无法匹敌的。这就是约翰逊讲的朴素道理:美国人当年干下的事,现在要还了。

    1. Raygun早已消失,但成为乐迷、平面设计师们追忆往昔蓬勃生机的坐标;印报纸的速度比不上互联网,主业是传播新闻的NME,纸质刊已停刊两年,网站经营有方;近来或许人们重新发现杂志的可取之处,但本已停刊的 The Face 于2019年重新回归,现已发行到第7期,顺应着潮流,发现新人的场所从小酒吧变成了TikTok。

      90年代的 Raygun 有着最大胆最混乱的设计,它作为一本音乐杂志,在平面设计界也起着重大的影响。

      关于Raygun短暂但辉煌的历史,出版社Rizzoli出版过一本追根溯源的回顾集 Raygun, The Bible of Music and Style,细数全部七十多期杂志中离经叛道的设计与报道。

    1. The Karakoram is situated in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. It has more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (23,000 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world 8,611 m (28,251 ft). K2 is just 237 m (778 ft) smaller than the 8,848 m (29,029 ft) Mount Everest. The range is about 500 km (310 mi) in length and the most heavily glaciated part of the world outside of the polar regions. The Siachen Glacier at 76 km (47 mi) and the Biafo Glacier at 67 km (42 mi) rank as the world's second and third-longest glaciers outside the polar regions.[23] Just to the west of the northwest end of the Karakoram, lies the Hindu Raj range, beyond which is the Hindu Kush range. The southern boundary of the Karakoram is formed by the Gilgit, Indus and Shyok rivers, which separate the range from the northwestern end of the Himalayas.

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    2. Cratons are a specific kind of continental crust made up of a top layer called platform and an older layer called basement. A shield is the part of a craton where basement rock crops out of the ground, and it is relatively the older and more stable section, unaffected by plate tectonics

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    3. The border with Burma (Myanmar) extends up to 1,643 km (1,021 mi) along the southern borders of India's northeastern states viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.[17] Located amidst the Himalayan range, India's border with Bhutan runs 699 km (434 mi).[1] Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are the states which share the border with Bhutan.[18] The border with Nepal runs 1,751 km (1,088 mi) along the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India.[1] Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim are the states which share the border with Nepal.[19] The Siliguri Corridor, narrowed sharply by the borders of Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh, connects peninsular India with the northeastern states.

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    4. The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the effective border between India and the People's Republic of China. It traverses 4,057 km along the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh

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    5. BordersTotal land borders:[1] 15,200 km (9,400 mi)Bangladesh:4,096.70 km (2,545.57 mi) China (PRC):3,488 km (2,167 mi)Pakistan:3,323 km (2,065 mi)Nepal:1,751 km (1,088 mi)Myanmar:1,643 km (1,021 mi)Bhutan:699 km (434 mi)

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    1. Mawsynram (/ˈmɔːsɪnˌrʌm/) is a town in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in Northeastern India, 60.9 kilometres from Shillong. Mawsynram receives the highest rainfall in India. It is reportedly the wettest place on Earth, with an average annual rainfall of 11,872 millimetres (467.4 in),[1][2][3] but that claim is disputed by Lloró, Colombia, which reported an average yearly rainfall of 12,717 millimetres (500.7 in) between 1952 and 1989[4][5] and López de Micay, also in Colombia, which reported 12,892 mm (507.6 in) per year between 1960 and 2012.[6][7]

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    1. A katabatic wind (named from the Greek word κατάβασις katabasis, meaning "descending") is a drainage wind, a wind that carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. Such winds are sometimes also called fall winds; the spelling catabatic winds[1] is also used. Katabatic winds can rush down elevated slopes at hurricane speeds, but most are not as intense as that, and many are 10 knots (18 km/h) or less. Not all downslope winds are katabatic. For instance, winds such as the föhn and chinook are rain shadow winds where air driven upslope on the windward side of a mountain range drops its moisture and descends leeward drier and warmer. Examples of true katabatic winds include the bora in the Adriatic, the Bohemian Wind or Böhmwind in the Ore Mountains, the Santa Ana in southern California, the piteraq winds of Greenland, and the oroshi in Japan. Another example is "the Barber", an enhanced katabatic wind that blows over the town of Greymouth in New Zealand when there is a southeast flow over the South Island. "The Barber" has a local reputation for its coldness.

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    1. Kuttanad (Malayalam: കുട്ടനാട്‌) is a region covering the Alappuzha, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta Districts, in the state of Kerala, India, well known for its vast paddy fields and geographical peculiarities. The region has the lowest altitude in India, and is one of the few places in the world where farming is carried on around 1.2 to 3.0 metres (4 to 10 ft) below sea level.Kilimanjaro in Africa is the another place [1][2] Kuttanadu is historically important in the ancient history of South India and is the major rice producer in the state. Farmers of Kuttanad are famous for Biosaline Farming. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared the Kuttanad Farming System as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS).

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    1. India holds a 20% market share in the global supply of generics by volume.[262] The Indian pharmaceutical sector also supplies over 62% of the global demand for various vaccines.[263]

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    2. Petroleum products and chemicals are a major contributor to India's industrial GDP, and together they contribute over 34% of its export earnings. India hosts many oil refinery and petrochemical operations, including the world's largest refinery complex in Jamnagar that processes 1.24 million barrels of crude per day.[257]

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    3. India has a coastline of 7,500 kilometres (4,700 mi) with 13 major ports and 60 operational non-major ports, which together handle 95% of the country's external trade by volume and 70% by value (most of the remainder handled by air).[253] Nhava Sheva, Mumbai is the largest public port, while Mundra is the largest private sea port.[254]

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    4. The Indian railway network is the fourth-largest rail network in the world, with a track length of 114,500 kilometres (71,100 mi) and 7,172 stations.

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    5. India has a road network of over 5,472,144 kilometres (3,400,233 mi) as of 31 March 2015,[update] the second-largest road network in the world only behind the United States.

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    6. After crude oil and petroleum products, the export and import of gold, precious metals, precious stones, gems and jewellery accounts for the largest portion of India's global trade. The industry contributes about 7% of India's GDP, employs millions, and is a major source of its foreign-exchange earnings.[244]

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    7. India became the world's third-largest producer of electricity in 2013 with a 4.8% global share in electricity generation, surpassing Japan and Russia.[226]

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    8. Oil and natural gas fields are located offshore at Bombay High, Krishna Godavari Basin and the Cauvery Delta, and onshore mainly in the states of Assam, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

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    9. Primary energy consumption of India is the third-largest after China and the US with 5.3% global share in the year 2015.[221] Coal and crude oil together account for 85% of the primary energy consumption of India. India's oil reserves meet 25% of the country's domestic oil demand.[222][223]

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    10. India has the second-largest amount of arable land, after the US, with 52% of total land under cultivation. Although the total land area of the country is only slightly more than one-third of China or the US, India's arable land is marginally smaller than that of the US, and marginally larger than that of China. However, agricultural output lags far behind its potential.[207]

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    11. Imports $474 billion (2019–20)[29]Import goodsAgricultural products 5.5%Fuels and mining products 38.6%Manufacturers 47.9%Other 8%[30]Main import partners China 14.3% European Union 8.9% United States 7.3% United Arab Emirates 6.3% Saudi Arabia 5.6%Other 57.5%[30]

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    12. GDP by component Household consumption: 59.1% Government consumption: 11.5% Investment in fixed capital: 28.5% Investment in inventories: 3.9% Exports of goods and services: 19.1% Imports of goods and services: −22% (2017 est.)[12]

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    13. The service sector makes up 50% of GDP and remains the fastest growing sector, while the industrial sector and the agricultural sector employs a majority of the labor force.[71]

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    14. In 2019–20, the foreign direct investment (FDI) in India was $74.4 billion with the service sector, computer, and telecom industry remains leading sectors for FDI inflows.[68]

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    15. In 2020, India's ten largest trading partners were the United States, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia.[67]

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    16. Nearly 60% of India's GDP is driven by domestic private consumption[55] and continues to remain the world's sixth-largest consumer market.[56] Apart from private consumption, India's GDP is also fueled by government spending, investment, and exports.[57]

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    17. The long-term growth perspective of the Indian economy remains positive due to its young population and corresponding low dependency ratio, healthy savings, and investment rates, increasing globalisation in India and integration into the global economy.[12

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    18. It is the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[44] According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on a per capita income basis, India ranked 145th by GDP (nominal) and 122th by GDP (PPP).[45]

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    1. The Cappers Act of 1488 forbade, on penalty of a fine, the wearing of foreign-made caps in England and Wales. A further Act of Parliament in 1571, during the reign of Elizabeth I, stated that every person above the age of six years (excepting "Maids, ladies, gentlewomen, noble personages, and every Lord, knight and gentleman of twenty marks land") residing in any of the cities, towns, villages or hamlets of England, must wear, on Sundays and holidays (except when travelling), "a cap of wool, thicked and dressed in England, made within this realm, and only dressed and finished by some of the trade of cappers, upon pain to forfeit for every day of not wearing 3s. 4d." This legislation was intended to protect domestic production, as caps were becoming unfashionable and were being challenged by new forms of imported headgear. It was repealed in 1597 as unworkable

      Example of legislating fashion as protectionism.

    1. "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest [number] of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."[9]

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    1. Reminded by Connor of Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon. I'm pretty sure I've got it in my list of encyclopedias growing out of the commonplace book tradition, but... just in case.

      If I recall it was compiled using index cards, thus also placing it in the zettelkasten tradition.

      (via Almay)

      If you’re generalizing Zettelkasten to “All Non-Linear Knowledge Management Strategies” You should include Mortimer Adler and the Syntopicon, and John Locke’s guide to how to set up a commonplace book<br><br>This isn’t a game of calling “dibs”<br><br>it’s about 🧠👶shttps://t.co/sH3JO6d9Jq

      — Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇸🇻 (@Conaw) July 8, 2021
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    1. Some individuals maintain that it is in the best interests of individuals and of humanity as a whole that all people adhere to a specific model for society or specific aspects of such a model.

      The author of this sentence draws attention to the generalized claims of "Some individuals" but fails to explicitly name or cite those who indeed hold such views, which are themselves too vague to be informative on the topic.

      Ironically, this contributor also makes vague reference to "a specific model or specific aspects of such a model" but does not present any clear examples of what such models or aspects might entail in the context of cultural diversity.

    1. Mac 的灵魂 macOS 就脱胎于 NeXT ComPuter 的系统,世界首个应用商店 AppWrapper 也是在 NeXT 电脑上构建的。

      当时电脑还是个时髦的玩意,使用的人并不算太多,人们获取软件也并不方便,甚至于只能开车前往像 Egg Head 这样的软件零售店购买软件,费时又费力。

      AppWrapper 解决了这个问题,根据参与构建 AppWrapper 的开发者 Jesse Tayler 介绍,起初他们也是用杂志目录加邮寄 CD 的方式分发应用。

    1. After the drying process is complete, raisins are sent to processing plants where they are cleaned with water to remove any foreign objects that may have become embedded during the drying process.[

      to remove any foregin objects

    1. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

      Scenario: students follow lesson links to this page, having

      • easy tagging, posting and sharing of webpages
      • bookmarking and annotation
      • chat/IM, wiki-blog-forum, notification options, online indicators for notices and assignments, online availability of mentor(s), classmates, course outlines, resources...

      ...and, all bundled in one tool [or a new browser]...

      ...then plug content from another space (i.e., Canvas, or maybe WebQuests) and sky's the limit.

    1. 当时苏联唯一的国营跨境旅游机构“Intourist”,相当于“苏联国旅”。通过投放在海外市场的海报,我们看到了一个不同的苏联——不是苏联官方对本国人宣传的样子,也不是西方主流媒体宣传的样子。一个美丽、富饶、热情好客的大国。

      Intourist 成立于1929年,出于商业和意识形态的原因,它构建了一套特别的外宣审美体系。在吸引国外游客的同时,又不让他们被过强的政治元素“吓到”。

      Intourist 在海外开设了30多个办事处,致力于宣传苏联的温泉度假村、文化活动和苏维埃生活方式的乐趣——尽管完全是乌托邦式的,但很诱人。

    1. it is clear to both that it is just as she feared. Her usefulness to him, and thus their relationship, is now over

      Gosh this is such a real statement.

      Found this movie in Girl Land (book).

    1. 有明确史料记载的第一辆实用自行车出现在 1817 年,距今恰是 200 年。德国巴登公爵领地上的一名林务员 Karl von Drais 制造出 celerifere 的升级版 Laufmanschine,同样是两个尺寸相同的车轮,装在一个木制车架上,骑行者可以坐在位于车身中间的鞍座上,身体前倾,两脚轮流大步蹬地推动自己前行。一年之后,Karl von Drais 为他的设计注册了专利,也奠定了现代自行车的基本轮廓。

    1. 1956 年,弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特(Frank Lloyd Wright)做客美国 CBS 著名电视娱乐节目《明星猜猜看》(What’s My Line?)。

      他先是在一个黑板上写下自己的名字,然后回答蒙着眼睛的社会名流(包括专栏作家、演员、诗人等)组成的讨论小组提出的一系列“是与不是”问题——他只能回答 Yes 或 No,然后由提问者猜测身份。

      赖特接到的问题,包括“您的声音那么好听跟您从事的职业是否相关”,“您的工作是否涉及法律”,“您会不会画画”,“人们是不是常去找您”等等,当被问到“既然您会画画您是不是设计师或是建筑师,就像弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特那样”时,现场观众爆发出热烈的掌声,而这时距离赖特上场不过 7 分钟时间。

    1. The chronostratigraphic term "Jurassic" is linked to the Jura Mountains, a mountain range mainly following the France–Switzerland border.

      oh interesting — just read about belloc's journey across these

    1. The Earth is expected to continue to transition between glacial and interglacial periods until the cessation of the Quaternary Ice Age where it will enter another Greenhouse state.

      technically, we are in an ice age — and when people say "last ice age" they actually mean the last "glacial period." the opposite of an ice age is not a temperate europe — it's jurassic humidity and heat

    1. As a methodology, its aim is to nurture emergence of the previously unthinkable as possibilities or prospects through the collaboration of designers within interdisciplinarity 'metadesign' teams.

      methodology, nurture emergence, unthinkable as possible

    2. an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining and creating social, economic and technical infrastructures in which new forms of collaborative design can take place

    1. While not referred to specifically as Zettelkasten by their non-German speaking users, there is a tradition of keeping similar notes in a commonplace book-like tradition in other countries. American comedians Phyllis Diller (with 52,000 3x5 inch index cards)[10] [11], Joan Rivers (over a million 3x5 inch index cards)[12], Bob Hope (85,000 pages in files)[13], and George Carlin (paper notes in folders)[14] were known for keeping joke or gag files throughout their careers. They often compiled their notes from scraps of paper, receipts, laundry lists, and matchbooks which served the function of waste books.

      While not referred to specifically as Zettelkasten by their non-German speaking users, there is a tradition of keeping similar notes in a commonplace book-like tradition in other countries. American comedians Phyllis Diller (with 52,000 3x5 inch index cards)[10] [11], Joan Rivers (over a million 3x5 inch index cards)[12], Bob Hope (85,000 pages in files)[13], and George Carlin (paper notes in folders)[14] were known for keeping joke or gag files throughout their careers. They often compiled their notes from scraps of paper, receipts, laundry lists, and matchbooks which served the function of waste books.

  3. Jun 2021
    1. In publications, "crunk" can be traced back to 1972 in the Dr. Seuss book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!. He uses the term "Crunk-Car" without any given definition

      I love this

    1. Supermassive black holes are classically defined as black holes with a mass above 0.1 million to 1 million M☉.[9] Some astronomers have begun labeling black holes of at least 10 billion M☉ as ultramassive black holes.[10][11] Most of these (such as TON 618) are associated with exceptionally energetic quasars. Even larger ones have been dubbed stupendously large black holes (SLAB) with masses greater than 100 billion M☉.[12] Although they noted there is currently no evidence that stupendously large black holes are real, they noted that supermassive black holes almost that size do exist.[13] Some studies have suggested that the maximum mass that a black hole can reach, while being luminous accretors, is of the order of ~50 billion M☉.[14][15]

      this is going to make a big difference in the light of other worlds

    1. Language Oriented Programming in MetaLisp Gyuri Lajos's thesis 1992 University of Leeds The system used the very same Top Down Parsing Language algorithm that powered Tree-Meta

      Language Oriented Pro-Gramming Paradim

      But Need Graph Grammars as Meta Graph

      It is not Abstract Syntax Trees we need but Abstract Graphs Forget about (knowledge)representation. Abstract Syntax Graphs are Universal. Think about Intents and Their Presentations as Abstarct Syntax Graphs (MindGraph) for Human Comprehension first Instead of Syntax we can mark intended semantics with Trail Marks

    1. Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy (Russian: Ядерные взрывы для народного хозяйства, romanized: Yadernyye vzryvy dlya narodnogo khozyaystva; sometimes referred to as Program #7[1]) was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs).

      If I needed a band name, "Nuclear Explosions for the National _" would be it. ("for National Agriculture"? "for National Ergonomics"? "for the National Spirit")

    1. The x86 "PC" version GNU GRUB 2 has a vbeinfo command for printing out available video modes and vbetest for trying a specific mode. They use a built-in table instead of Funcion 01h. For other platforms, including x86 EFI, they are replaced by the more generic videoinfo and videotest.

      The commands vbeinfo and videoinfo can be used to print all supported resolutions. To exit vbetest or videotest in grub, need to send "ctrl+alt+delete" to go back to grub menu list.

    1. It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others – the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting. (Kahneman, 2003, p. 417)

      My god... I don't even know what to make of this. That's a hell of a story.

    2. Daniel Kahneman (/ˈkɑːnəmən/; Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן‎; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli psychologist and economist

      Interesting that he is notable for these two separate subjects. They're not subjects I expect to see together.

    1. Contents

      The remainder of the entry provides a more in-depth examination of the following topics:

      • The uses (continued examination of definition)
      • Historical evolution of the topic
      • Contemporary issues
    2. Rhetoric typically provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric or phases of developing a persuasive speech were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

      The initial definition continues with an overview of the essential topics and additional keywords most closely associated with in-depth study of rhetoric.

    3. (/ˈrɛtərɪk/)[note 1] is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic – see Martianus Capella), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.[5] Aristotle defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law, for passage of proposals in the assembly, or for fame as a speaker in civic ceremonies; he calls it "a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical branch of politics".[6]

      Most Wikipedia entries start with basic definition. You'll note these significant features:

      • 1st sentence describes the class of thing ("ancient arts of discourse") and its common members (grammar, logic, and rhetoric)
      • 2nd sentence offers a list of specific concerns, or the distinguishing characteristics of rhetoric: "techniques ... to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audience in specific situations."
      • 3rd sentence provides a direct reference to an credible source and authoritative perspective from the Greek philosopher Aristotle that further situates the definition by emphasizing the point of focus for its exercise and application.
    1. *COLORS杂志:每季出版一次,以世界各地的年轻人为对象,分为三种版本,通过四种语言在40个国家发刊。COLORS最初构想由Luciano Benetton 与 Oliviero Toscani提出,1991年由Tibor Kalman负责创立,编辑方针上尊重文化歧异、所有文化价值均等。该杂志于2015年停刊。

    1. Narcotizing dysfunction is a theory that as mass media inundates people on a particular issue, they become apathetic to it, substituting knowledge for action.

      Correct posture towards an issue substituting for responsibility of doing something

    1. Measure theory was initially created to provide a useful abstraction of the notion of length of subsets of the real line—and, more generally, area and volume of subsets of Euclidean spaces. In particular, it provided a systematic answer to the question of which subsets of ℝ have a length. As later set theory developments showed (see non-measurable set), it is actually impossible to assign a length to all subsets of ℝ in a way that preserves some natural additivity and translation invariance properties. This suggests that picking out a suitable class of measurable subsets is an essential prerequisite.

      Not all sets can be ascribed with the attribute of length on the real line.

      • #Question What's the difference between the length in the measure sense as compared to in the metric sense?
    2. This means that a measure is any function μ defined on a certain class X  of subsets of a set E, which satisfies a certain list of properties. These properties can be shown to hold in many different cases.

      The largest possible subset of $$E$$ is always the [[power set]]

    1. POMDP's policy is a mapping from the observations (or belief states) to the actions

      将策略定为从当前观测到动作的映射是不合适的,因为观测序列不是markov的,最优动作不能仅由当前观测所确定。 正确的说,应该是从观测历史到动作的映射,或者说是内部状态到动作的映射

    1. Saint John's Fires, explained the monk of Winchcombe, were to drive away dragons, which were abroad on St. John's Eve, poisoning springs and wells.

      I would love to read more about how wells were talked about -- holy, poisoned...

    2. In England, the earliest reference to this custom occurs on in the 13th century AD,[17] in the Liber Memorandum of the parish church at Barnwell in the Nene Valley, which stated that parish youth would gather on the day to sing songs and play games.[17] A Christian monk of Lilleshall Abbey, in the same century, wrote:[17] In the worship of St John, men waken at even, and maken three manner of fires: one is clean bones and no wood, and is called a bonfire; another is of clean wood and no bones, and is called a wakefire, for men sitteth and wake by it; the third is made of bones and wood, and is called St John's Fire.[17]

      Does bone mean literal bone here?

    3. If Christ's conception and birth took place on the 'growing days', it was fitting that John the Baptist's should take place on the 'lessening days' ('diebus decrescentibus'), for the Baptist himself had proclaimed that 'he must increase; but I must decrease' (John 3:30). By the late sixth century, the Nativity of John the Baptist (24 June) had become an important feast, counterbalancing at midsummer the midwinter feast of Christmas.— Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin

      By the late sixth century is early enough for me!

    1. Since it is a single dose vaccine, it has been a popular vaccine to distribute to the homeless,[125][126][127][128] the incarcerated,[129][130][128] and refugee

      homeless incarcerated refugees

    2. That same month, human error at a plant run by Emergent BioSolutions in Baltimore resulted in the spoilage of up to fifteen million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

      spoilage?

    3. The interim analysis was based on 468 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among 43,783 adult volunteers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and the United States. No deaths related to COVID-19 were reported in the vaccine group, while five deaths in the placebo group were related to COVID-19.[63] During the trial, no anaphylaxis was observed in participants.[63

      size of a trial

    1. Heath Robinson 1872 年出生于英国伦敦一个艺术家世家,经历了两次世界大战,看着科技如何急速改变世界。他父亲及兄长都从事美术和插画工作,在耳濡目染下,他在皇家艺术学院主修美术,希望成为风景画家 ,不过现实是他在出版社当插画家展开了一生事业。

      刚开始是为爱伦坡诗集、安徒生童话、一千零一夜和莎士比亚的著作绘制插画。在1902年他开始为他自己的第一本儿童读物《鲁宾叔叔历险记》作画,故事里这位与他同名的英雄的任务是照顾他的侄子彼得,一天侄子被一只大鸟带走了。随后,鲁宾开始了一系列机器辅助的冒险,他自行建造了一系列飞艇和潜水船来寻找他:开始了成为“小玩意儿人”的旅程。

      从这里开始,Heath Robinson 打开了一个真正属于他的世界,开始“发明”一系列复杂的机械装置来“解决”普通生活中的日常问题,比如不妨碍楼下睡觉的“静音party”,把人直接打造成形的“减肥引擎”,向前一步往外扩展的折叠花园……

    1. SvalSat卫星站是一个巨大的白色圆形球体,外表面又被切割成一个又一个神秘的三角形,顶部的红色小灯一直闪烁,每一秒,它都在接收距地面约840公里的轨道上的卫星传来的数据。这些卫星被称为“极轨卫星”,它们的轨道与太阳同步,每天,会两次飞越地球表面上的同一个点,而且总在同一个时刻。

    1. 建筑师巴克敏斯特·富勒 (Buckminster Fuller) 在自己的作品“曼哈顿上空的穹顶”(Dome over Manhattan)中构建了乌托邦——一个将部分城市置于网格穹顶之下的计划。虽然该方案仍旧停留在纸上,但富勒的结构却被广泛应用于温室,以提供植物生长繁衍所需要的人工性气候。

    1. Donald Shoup在其《The High Cost of Free Parking》一书中指出,表面上“免费”的停车——想想杂货店、购物中心、公寓楼和其他地方——只是以其他方式转嫁了无形的成本,让整个社区,包括司机,都肩负重担。

    1. 在当年出版的The Digger Papers上,有这样的描述:

      “‘挖掘者’认定免费商店是为了解放人性。首先是释放空间、商品和服务。让经济学理论遵循社会事实。一旦免费商店被证实有用,人类想要的和给予的,需要的和接受的,都会向即兴转变。”

    1. A study accepted for publication in May 2021 postulates that the centre of Sgr A* may actually be a consolidation of dark matter rather than a black hole, as is currently held. This was derived from the observation of S2 and G2 objects' orbits.[

      Noting that there is a published article arguing that it's dark matter an not a black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

    1. According to Cattell's psychometrically-based theory, general intelligence (g) is subdivided into gf and gc.

      G is divided into crystalized versus fluid intelligence according to Cottrell.

    1. Journalist and writer Paul Barker points out that "irony is a dangerous freight to carry" and suggests that in the 1960s and '70s it was read "as a simple attack on the rampant meritocrats", whereas he suggests it should be read "as sociological analysis in the form of satire".

      "irony is a dangerous freight to carry" —Paul Barker

      a great aphorism

    2. Michael Young coined the term,[1] formed by combining the Latin root "mereō" and Ancient Greek suffix "cracy", in his essay to describe and ridicule such a society, the selective education system that was the Tripartite System, and the philosophy in general.

      Meritocracy was coined to describe and ridicule a society and its selective education system.

    1. "fallibilism" has been used to describe the claim that:
      • No beliefs can be conclusively justified
      • Knowledge does not require certainty
      • Almost no basic (that is, non-inferred) beliefs are certain or conclusively justified
    1. Sir Francis Drake's famous raids on Panama in 1572–73 and John Oxenham's crossing to the Pacific Ocean were aided by Panama cimarrons, and Spanish authorities were only able to bring them under control by making an alliance with them that guaranteed their freedom in exchange for military support in 1582.[26]

      They could only control them by making them alliances with them, which guarenteed them freedom for military

    2. Silver cargoes were landed at Panama and then taken overland to Portobello or Nombre de Dios on the Caribbean side of the isthmus for further shipment. Asides frrom the European route, there was also an Asian-American route, which led to traders and adventurers carrying silver from Peru going through Panama to reach Acapulco, Mexico before sailing to Manila, Philippines using the famed Manila Galleons.[25]

      So Panama actually was a huge part to spain, because of how big Panama's transships were.

    3. Spanish authorities had little control over much of the territory of Panama. Large sections managed to resist conquest and missionization until very late in the colonial era. Because of this, indigenous people of the area were often referred to as "indios de guerra" (war Indians) who resisted Spanish attempts to conquer them or missionize them.

      What exactly did the spanish authorities have control over?

    4. Panama was under Spanish rule for almost 300 years (1538–1821), and became part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, along with all other Spanish possessions in South America.

      Whats the spanish rule?

    5. Gold and silver were brought by ship from South America, hauled across the isthmus, and loaded aboard ships for Spain.

      I never knew that the isthmus was used to ship gold and silver

    6. Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed westward from Venezuela in 1501 in search of gold, and became the first European to explore the isthmus of Panama.

      first European to explore the isthmus of Panama.

    7. When Panama was colonized, the indigenous peoples fled into the forest and nearby islands. Scholars believe that infectious disease was the primary cause of the population decline of American natives.

      Scholars believe that infectious disease was the primary cause of the population decline of American natives.

    8. The monumental monolithic sculptures at the Barriles (Chiriqui) site are also important traces of these ancient isthmian cultures.

      I looked up some pictures of the sculptures, and they look really intresting.

    9. The earliest discovered artifacts of indigenous peoples in Panama include Paleo-Indian projectile points. Later central Panama was home to some of the first pottery-making in the Americas,

      I didnt know that Panama was one of the first to start pottery making.

    10. The official definition and origin of the name as promoted by Panama's Ministry of Education is the "abundance of fish, trees and butterflies".

      Does this mean that the actual orgin of the name is still unknown, and they all agreed to a end agreement?

    11. In 1519, Pedrarias Dávila decided to establish the Spanish Empire's Pacific port at the site.

      In 1519, Pedrarias Dávila decided to establish the Spanish Empire's Pacific port at the site.

    12. The definite origin of the name Panama is unknown. There are several theories. One states that the country was named after a commonly found species of tree (Sterculia apetala, the Panama tree). Another states that the first settlers arrived in Panama in August, when butterflies are abundant, and that the name means "many butterflies" in one or several of the indigenous Amerindian languages that were spoken in the territory prior to Spanish colonization. The most scientifically corroborated theory by Panamanian linguists, states that the word is a hispanicization of the Kuna language word "bannaba" which means "distant" or "far away".[18]

      Overall the name Panama has no solid orgin, but there are many theories people have came up with. Some say it has something to do with A tree, or when the butterflies are abundant, or it can be apart of indigenous Amerindian languages that were spoken in the territory prior to Spanish colonizatio

    13. inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia,

      inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia,

    14. Covering around 40 percent of its land area, Panama's jungles are home to an abundance of tropical plants and animals – some of them found nowhere else on earth.[17]

      What kind of plants are in Panama's jungles that aren't anywhere else?

    15. In 2019 Panama ranked 57th in the world in terms of the Human Development Index.[9]

      I didn't even know that the world had a ranking to "Human Development" but i find it intresting that Panama ranked 57 in the world.