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bookbook.pubpub.org bookbook.pubpub.org
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annotation serves five equally important, and sometimes overlapping purposes: Providing information, sharing commentary, expressing power, sparking conversation, and aiding learning.
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And when Sam Anderson wrote his 2011 essay What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text, he recalled experiencing annotation as additive, useful, social, a means to collaborate with a text, and as “meta-conversation running in the margins.”
meta conversation running in the margins
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abqzinefest.blogspot.com abqzinefest.blogspot.com
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www.gatonegro.ninja www.gatonegro.ninja
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theeverydaypress.net theeverydaypress.net
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www.humblebundle.com www.humblebundle.com
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A good library is filled with mostly unread books. That’s the point.
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Some questions are only asked by people with a fundamental misunderstanding. The friends who walk into my office and ask, “have you read all of these” miss the point of books.
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- Dec 2019
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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renew life
Victor implies that life can be renewed from death, a theme present in biblical scripture. See Gen. 3:19, 18:27; Job 30:19; Eccl. 3:20) and in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (Burial Rite 1:485, 2:501).
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- Nov 2019
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Tea cites Chavisa Woods’s recent memoir of sexism 100 Times, Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl and Brontez Purnell’s Since I Laid My Burden Down as examples of books that have fearlessly and artfully tackled themes of power and gender relations, misogyny and sexual violence. “Right now, I think the [publishing] industry is responding to what is happening and saying: ‘Yes we really need these voices, we need these ideas out in the world.’
So true!
My review of Chavisa Woods's book is here.
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torontosun.com torontosun.com
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“Where we’re moving to is real-time data where you know everybody who’s homeless by name,”
example and possible quote for book chapter
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wordandimage.wordpress.com wordandimage.wordpress.com
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www.etsy.com www.etsy.com
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blog.reedsy.com blog.reedsy.com
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lithub.com lithub.com
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- Oct 2019
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www.iste.co.uk www.iste.co.uk
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www.iste.co.uk www.iste.co.uk
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www.iste.co.uk www.iste.co.uk
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- Sep 2019
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alumni.media.mit.edu alumni.media.mit.edu
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This phrase book is aimed to help newcomers to the U.S understand what some popular local idioms really mean.
A nice little phrase guide to US English.
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- Aug 2019
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mlpp.pressbooks.pub mlpp.pressbooks.pubAppendix1
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This textbook is a work-in-progress, so you will have an opportunity to participate in its creation
I am so pumped for this.
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- Apr 2019
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answers.microsoft.com answers.microsoft.com
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Yup, three years later, I have the exact same problem still with my otherwise great Surface Book 1. This has made me distrust Microsoft hardware, and yes, windows machines as a whole. Especially as my previous Dell laptop was also unreliable in this regard. Such a shame, because otherwise it's a fantastic piece of kit.
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- Mar 2019
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outline.com outline.com
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www.nap.edu www.nap.edu
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This page enables one to download the book "How People Learn" for free and allows one to link to related content. This book was not originally written for adult learning but is included here because it is a valuable resource, an entire book provided for free, with immediate relevance to adult learning even if every example, etc. is not based on adult learning. Rating 4/5
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- Feb 2019
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gitee.com gitee.com
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gitee.com gitee.com
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book.haihome.top book.haihome.top
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gitee.com gitee.com
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dougalmaclaurin.com dougalmaclaurin.com
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gitee.com gitee.com
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tanthiamhuat.files.wordpress.com tanthiamhuat.files.wordpress.com
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gitee.com gitee.com
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tomcritchlow.com tomcritchlow.com
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Some other interesting wikis Credit for inspiration for this whole project comes from a variety of wikis and wiki-like collections on the web: buster.wiki/ - Strong design and everything has a date by the looks of it which enables an RSS feed. Very polished and thought through. are.na - A platform that all the cool kids use for building personal knowledge libraries. Lightly social, perhaps the right answer but slightly questionable if they’ll be around for a long time. Ymmv. Brendan’s /canon - this was part of the original inspiration for me. A curated list of pure stock - things that Brendan returns to again and again. He has a template you can copy too. Worrydream’s quotes page - just a massive list of interesting quotes collected by Brett Victor. Notice how being one giant page makes it instantly searchable. daywreckers.com - from Ben Pieratt, not quite a wiki but a very minimal site designed to collect the dots. A daily visit from me. derek sivers’ daily journal - a post from Derek Sivers on how to keep a text-file long-term store for your ideas and notes. And there’s lots more too - this twitter thread has a whole bunch of interesting rabbit holes. And, you can of course find this list of wikis on my wiki :)
An interesting list here to be sure.
As I'm thinking about it I also have to think about not only my own blog cum commonplace book, but I do also keep a private digital set of structures in OneNote (primarily) as well as some data Evernote which serve a lot of the same functionality.
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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the learned think they know, or have it in their power to know every thing that it is possible for the human mind to be acquainted with.
I think we feel this way now with the internet. But its really just a certain kind of knowing and a certain kind of knowledge. It also depends on how you choose to approach that knowledge.
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- Jan 2019
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Say: Teach ye the Cause of God, O people of Bahá, for God hath prescribed unto every one the duty of proclaiming His Message, and regardeth it as the most meritorious of all deeds.
The discussion in book 6 after this quote explores what a duty is. It presents the idea that, like eating, laws in the Faith to pray or teach are not arbitrary rules, but statements about our nature, and conducive to our growth. This implies that they should also be sources of joy.
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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We must have an agency of the federal government to pMtett it.
Is a federal government, and a federal government alone, enough to do such a thing? I mean, look at what happened to the Library of Alexandria. I still get pissed off thinking about that. And is it even a good idea in the first place to let them have that responsibility? I can't help but think of all of the instances in which governments have been directly responsible for mass destructions of literature. There's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to historical book burning events, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents, and a large majority of these noteworthy burnings were done at the will of the government. What would happen if we were to give them too much agency in this matter? Is it a good idea for governments to have the final say in the well-being of our literature? How can we trust them to decide what is and isn't worth protecting?
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- Dec 2018
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reimaginingthebom.com reimaginingthebom.com
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my proceedings in my days
The Egyptian Book of the Dead as it is most commonly called today was and is also known as the Book of Breathings or the Book of Coming Forth by Day. In this last title it is strongly implied that, besides being a funerary text the book should be understood and read as a type of dreaming journal too. This very aptly applies to what we are reading here with regards Lehi's writings of the "many things" which he saw in "visions and dreams" and which he "prophesied and spake" (breathings) unto his children.
The combination of "learning of the Jews" with "language of the Egyptians" should be kept in mind throughout a reading of the BOM and will be especially plain at certain parts.
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- Nov 2018
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app.getpocket.com app.getpocket.comPocket1
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The main thing that dissuaded him, he says, is that “I wouldn’t want to sell a book to a philistine, which is what every bookseller has to do.”
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www.booksquad.fr www.booksquad.fr
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GITenberg vise notamment à permettre de renseigner de la façon la plus riche et collaborative possible les méta-données des livres, afin d’alimenter qualitativement les catalogues de bibliothèques qui souhaiteront y puiser, en plus du grand public.
Gitenberg: collaboration + open source (github + gutenberg)
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- Sep 2018
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people.inf.ethz.ch people.inf.ethz.chbook.dvi2
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2.2.1 Pinhole Camera Model
$$s\tilde{\mathbf{m}} = \mathbf{A}[\mathbf{R}\ \mathbf{t}]\tilde{M}$$
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www-chronicle-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu www-chronicle-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu
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it taught me a great deal about my reading habits
Yeah, this is what I hope our readings of Melville do: make the act of reading, in all its materiality, move to the foreground.
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I decided to read Little Dorrit four ways: paperback, audiobook, Kindle, and iPhone.
Okay, so the piece shows its age a bit here, but the broad point about the "liquid text" that can be poured into different formats/containers is still quite relevant. I note, though, that the author slips between medium and material support here. An audiobook is a medium that can be materialized various ways (as we discussed last week, wax cylinder, LP, cassette, smartphone), whereas the Kindle is a piece of plastic, a "material support" in the book history lingo.
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Classics Book Club
If you are interested in reading Classic books you can join r/ClassicsBookClub on reddit where we will be hosting groups reads and discussions.
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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2011-06-23 at OSBridge2011 having lunch with Ward, Tantek exclaimed: The Read Write Web is no longer sufficient. I want the Read Fork Write Merge Web. #osb11 lunch table. #diso #indieweb
This is what I want too!
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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I’m shocked and amazed that we still struggle to find materials.
Something about this sentence and its lead up reminds of this particularly great section of the Microformats wiki about why not email: http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-better-than-email
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It really is the ultimate garden.
I've long wanted to create my own personal wiki, and while reading this thus far have continued to think about it. Perhaps I need to just jump in and build one to supplement my stream-based commonplace book? I'll need to think about how to best dovetail the two together.
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So most people say this is the original vision of the web.
I look it and say, it's just another version of the commonplace book!
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- Aug 2018
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www.wlupress.wlu.ca www.wlupress.wlu.ca
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theamericanscholar.org theamericanscholar.org
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efficiency has come to mean accomplishing a task with the least possible human intervention—a goal that often turns out to be self-defeating, particularly when efficiency becomes almost an end in itself. Recall Thomas Edison’s famous line that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration and contrast it with our contemporary enthusiasm for machine-like efficiency
Interesting connection here between the efficiency mandate and the "talent means no effort required" attitude we see in many school settings.
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- Jul 2018
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Khaled Khalifa: „Der Tod ist ein mühseliges Geschäft“. Aus dem Arabischen von Hartmut Fähndrich. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, 224 Seiten, 20 Euro
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zettelkasten.de zettelkasten.de
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Luhmann didn’t only write a lot and developed the most complex of all theoretical bodies in the social sciences. He was known for his vast knowledge and deep thinking. He didn’t run to his Zettelkasten when you asked him something. This is because he practiced thinking through writing and processing in the context of the Zettelkasten.
I read Zettelkasten (German for “slip box”, or “card index”) and immediately think commonplace book!
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The Barbell Method takes this into account by integrating your reading habit into your knowledge work with two steps: Read the book. Read swiftly but don’t skip any parts unless they make you vomit or put you to sleep. Mark all the passages that stand out and contain useful, interesting or inspiring information. Read the book a second time. But now you read the marked parts only. This time you make notes, connect them to past notes (Zettelkasten Method!) and think about what you’ve read. Make mindmaps, drawings, bullet points – everything that helps you to think more clearly.
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kfitz.info kfitz.info
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The blog was not just the venue in which I started putting together the ideas that became my second book, the one that made promotion and various subsequent jobs possible, but it was also the way that I was able to demonstrate that there might be a readership for that second book, without which it’s much less likely that a press would have been interested.
This sounds like she's used her blog as both a commonplace book as well as an author platform.
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www.kickscondor.com www.kickscondor.com
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You see this in bookstores: staff recommendations. This is the store’s window into an infinite catalog of books. And it works. The system is: here are our favorites. Then, venturing further into the store: this is what we happen to have.
I spent some time on Wednesday chatting with the owner of a used bookstore that had a 10x10 foot "kiosk" space in a local mall next to a make up cart. He had one of the single most highly curated collections of used books in about 12 categories that I've ever seen. It was stunningly awesome.
I would never have expected this as a business to exist, but like itinerant booksellers of the 15th century, he's just doing what they've always done apparently.
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1836
I'm curious why the organizers chose 1836 as the end date for this symposium. Any thoughts?
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- Jun 2018
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wiobyrne.com wiobyrne.com
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and serve as pre-prints to work that may live later on, or always exist in their current format
Thinking of a personal site as a pre-print server is an interesting concept and somewhat similar to the idea of a commonplace book.
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bfts.5read.com bfts.5read.com
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计算机图形显示和图象处理的算法<br>
英文原版: Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing <br> see here <br> 作者: Theo Pavlidis
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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Structural Pattern Recognition
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中文翻译版为: <br> 计算机图形显示和图象处理的算法, 1987, 科学出版社
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这本书涉及了许多图像处理中经典的算法, 包括:
- 细化 Thinning
- 边界追踪 Contour Tracing
- 边界填充 Contour Filling?
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www.whaleprom.com www.whaleprom.com
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- Apr 2018
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ds.swarthmore.edu ds.swarthmore.edu
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Historia Natural
n. an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804 by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues, led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time, including what would now be called material science, physics, chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.
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- Mar 2018
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rutgers.pressbooks.pub rutgers.pressbooks.pub
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nothing was found at th
Oops. Something happened to this book.
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www.cs.indiana.edu www.cs.indiana.edu
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Scienti candEngineeringC++
Barton and Nackman, Scientific and Engineering C++
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imperfect c++
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heath.cs.illinois.edu heath.cs.illinois.edu
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Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey
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Operating System Concepts
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www.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org
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Modern Compiler Implementation in Java
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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A Richer Picture of Mathematics The Göttingen Tradition and Beyond, 2018
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Richard Szeliski, Image Alignment and Stitching: A Tutorial, 2006
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The Use of Projective Geometry in Computer Graphics
Chapter 2: 射影几何的一般性介绍
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- Feb 2018
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bryanalexander.org bryanalexander.org
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Over the past two weeks I’ve read a book about the future of American higher ed, and want to recommend it very highly. It might be the most important book on the subject published this year.
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muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edupdf1
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www.juxtaeditions.com www.juxtaeditions.com
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declining and falling off the Rooshan Empire
Dickens evidently drew this idea from a note written earlier in his Book of Memoranda: "Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The two characters, one reporting to the other as he reads. Both getting confused as to whether it is not all going on now!" (21). Boffin and Wegg are reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. Dickens had an 1825 eight-volume edition.
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- Nov 2017
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www.nybooks.com www.nybooks.com
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A stamp in the passport, Portrait, a place I must visit without ever feeling it necessary to return, though I might want to wander out now and then to drop in on Joyce’s poetry, roughly contemporary with the first novel, those curious “pomes,” wearing their spats and dandyish nosegays, occasionally taking up a putative lute to croon promises of theoretical love to unconvincing maidens in the windows of canvas-flat donjons.
This is relevant.
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- Oct 2017
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Local file Local file
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leiterreports.typepad.com leiterreports.typepad.com
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The Most Important Philosophical Books Since 1950?
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- Jul 2017
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The Great Vietnam War Novel Was Not Written by an American
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Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Lit: A Primer from Viet Thanh Nguyen
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landing.google.com landing.google.com
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In practice, this is accomplished by monitoring the amount of operational work being done by SREs, and redirecting excess operational work to the product development teams: reassigning bugs and tickets to development managers, [re]integrating developers into on-call pager rotations, and so on. The redirection ends when the operational load drops back to 50% or lower.
Ensuring that SREs spend 50% of their time doing operational work.
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The hero jack-of-all-trades on-call engineer does work, but the practiced on-call engineer armed with a playbook works much better. While no playbook, no matter how comprehensive it may be, is a substitute for smart engineers able to think on the fly, clear and thorough troubleshooting steps and tips are valuable when responding to a high-stakes or time-sensitive page.
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The business or the product must establish the system’s availability target. Once that target is established, the error budget is one minus the availability target. A service that’s 99.99% available is 0.01% unavailable. That permitted 0.01% unavailability is the service’s error budget. We can spend the budget on anything we want, as long as we don’t overspend it.
The goal of SREs is no longer "zero outages", but to allow for maximum product development velocity as long as it stays within the error budget.
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Monitoring is one of the primary means by which service owners keep track of a system’s health and availability. As such, monitoring strategy should be constructed thoughtfully.
Three types of valid monitoring input:
- Alerts: A human needs to take action immediately.
- Tickets: A human needs to take action, but not immediately, even up to a few days.
- Logging: No human needs to look at this, it is recorded for diagnostic or forensic purposes.
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Reliability is a function of mean time to failure (MTTF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) [Sch15]. The most relevant metric in evaluating the effectiveness of emergency response is how quickly the response team can bring the system back to health—that is, the MTTR.
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In general, for any software service or system, 100% is not the right reliability target because no user can tell the difference between a system being 100% available and 99.999% available.
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When they are focused on operations work, on average, SREs should receive a maximum of two events per 8–12-hour on-call shift. This target volume gives the on-call engineer enough time to handle the event accurately and quickly, clean up and restore normal service, and then conduct a postmortem. If more than two events occur regularly per on-call shift, problems can’t be investigated thoroughly and engineers are sufficiently overwhelmed to prevent them from learning from these events.
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In general, an SRE team is responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of their service(s).
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Therefore, Google places a 50% cap on the aggregate "ops" work for all SREs—tickets, on-call, manual tasks, etc. This cap ensures that the SRE team has enough time in their schedule to make the service stable and operable.
The other 50% of the time is devoted to development.
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By design, it is crucial that SRE teams are focused on engineering. Without constant engineering, operations load increases and teams will need more people just to keep pace with the workload.
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What exactly is Site Reliability Engineering, as it has come to be defined at Google? My explanation is simple: SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team.
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Google has chosen to run our systems with a different approach: our Site Reliability Engineering teams focus on hiring software engineers to run our products and to create systems to accomplish the work that would otherwise be performed, often manually, by sysadmins.
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- May 2017
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www.goodreads.com www.goodreads.com
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the asteroid mining and the cultures that sprout up
That was a good idea.
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skippy.net skippy.net
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my blog posts to be long-lived pieces of my consciousness: something I may want to refer back to, or remember in the future.
a commonplace book!
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- Mar 2017
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www.ubiquitypress.com www.ubiquitypress.com
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The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Seth Lloyd’s “Programming the Universe”
For everyone interested, I'll save you the necessity to google it: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer-Scientist/dp/1400033861
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- Dec 2016
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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endless virtual book club —
To me this is the heart of it, especially in so far as this use case overlaps with the educational/classroom one.
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- Jul 2016
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www.nxtbook.com www.nxtbook.com
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Money spent on textbooks, fall 2015
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- May 2016
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books.google.ca books.google.ca
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p. 6 On knowledge fetishisation. Note he is writing in the period 1995-2000, before it became absolutely clear that this was vanishing and that it would become a fetish:
One purpose [for acquiring information[ is simply possession and the satisfaction it gives; witness the pride some people take in their phenomenal memory for trivia, their extensive libraries, their collections of compact disks, maps, or computer programs. Possessing information also confers prestige. Erudition and especially initiation into the esoteric knowledge of a small sect or secret society--Freemasons, cosmologists, and the like--have conferred prestige and awed the ignorant throughout history.
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- Feb 2016
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Al-Ghazali launched a philosophical critique against Neoplatonic-influenced early Islamic philosophers such as Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina. In response to the philosophers' claim that the created order is governed by secondary efficient causes (God being, as it were, the Primary and Final Cause in an ontological and logical sense), Ghazali argues that what we observe as regularity in nature based presumably upon some natural law is actually a kind of constant and continual regularity. There is no independent necessitation of change and becoming, other than what God has ordained.
God as a source of secondary causes, not just a prime mover. Probability/chance, tychism
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- Jan 2016
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www.socialpsychology.org www.socialpsychology.org
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2014 Action Teaching Award: Honorable Mention
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- Dec 2015
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soundcloud.com soundcloud.com
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Neil Gaiman reads "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. (A comment says the actual reading starts at about 11:50.)
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henryjenkins.org henryjenkins.org
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we did so, we solicited questions through various social media, and we made sure to address as many of them as we could. And then, we worked through the transcripts, again and again, clarifying our concepts, refining our arguments, shuffling the pieces to insure greater clarity and accessibility
I appreciate this "explaining how we did this" as a process statement.
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- Nov 2015
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dtc-wsuv.org dtc-wsuv.org
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such that they cannot be experienced in any meaningful way without the mediation of an electronic device
Another way to say that, as they can be printed, e-books are not e-lit, even if they have never been published on paper, but just Digital Literature, isn't it?
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- Sep 2015
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Ninety-five per cent. of all our volume of business is being done with what we call exchange of bank deposits—that is simply book-keeping entries in banks against which people write cheques?
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- Aug 2015
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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“I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.”
this is fascinating to me - i had no idea of his connections with education. Makes me wonder about Tesla's thoughts on education now. And how he'd feel about filmstrips, which are in essence super cheap motion pictures.
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- Jul 2015
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mitpress.mit.edu mitpress.mit.edu
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Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy.
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data
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- Jun 2015
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www.westernlit.org www.westernlit.org
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A Thousand Acres. By Jane Smiley. New York: Ballantine, 1991. $12.00
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The Crossing. By Cormac McCarthy. New York: Random House, 1994. $13.00.
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Remember Me. By Laura Hendrie. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. $24.00.
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Plainsong. By Kent Haruf. New York: Knopf, 1999. $24.00.
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The Meadow. By James Galvin. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. $12.00.
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Strange Angels. By Jonis Agee. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. $12.00.
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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Fools Crow By James Welch
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Roughing It by Mark Twain
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www.jamesnava.com www.jamesnava.com
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Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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www.americancowboy.com www.americancowboy.com
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Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
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inktank.fi inktank.fi
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John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing (1960)
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
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