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- Nov 2024
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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- dactylographic monkeys
- accidental art
- Mécanique Statique et Irréversibilité
- Arthur Eddington
- William Shakespeare
- Blaise Pascal
- Jonathan Swift
- infinite monkey theorem
- Jorge Luis Borges
- On Generation and Corruption
- Émile Borel
- Aristotle
- Thomas Huxley
- De Natura Deorum
- Cicero
- statistical mechanics
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- Feb 2023
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Suppose that we were asked to arrange the followingin two categories—distance, mass, electric force, entropy, beauty, melody.I think there are the strongest grounds for placingentropy alongside beauty and melody and not with thefirst three.
Syndication link: https://boffosocko.com/2013/09/26/entropy-beauty-melody/
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Eddington, Arthur Stanley. The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press, 1928. http://archive.org/details/b29928011.
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- Nov 2021
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anagora.org anagora.org
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I want a [[community]], not an [[audience]]. Audience is stuff like reach, personality/celebrity, spectacle, anxiety, alienation, competition. Community is more like voice, discussion, comradery.
I love this sentiment.
It's an analogy that reminds me of a quote by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington:
Suppose that we were asked to arrange the following in two categories– distance, mass, electric force, entropy, beauty, melody. I think there are the strongest grounds for placing entropy alongside beauty and melody and not with the first three.
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