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If I trust Wikipedia, even today the term "Erdapfel" is used to refer to topinambour in some regions: "Mancherorts in Baden wird Topinambur als Erdapfel bezeichnet." https://de.wik…

While I prefer expressive type systems by a long shot, I would be much more careful about it "guaranteeing correctness". Types can act as good documentation and as a safeguard for …

I would go one step further: why would the question be irrelevant for a janitor? Let's say you search for a janitor for a high school. You have three good candidates. One just appl…

My feeling is that people with a more mathematical background tend to like developping DSLs that look more like math than code, and is typically written once and then thrown away; …

Note that "insight" meditation without Samadhi/Jhana practice is sometimes called "dry insight", and a lot of "insight" focused teachers still emphasize Smadhi/Jhana as an importan…

They are the same, but in a different language. Jhana is Pāli, Dhyana is Sanskrit. Pāli ist the language of the oldest collection of discourses of the Buddha, on which Theravada bu…

In the case of the Pali canon, the Buddha always re-orients the questions whenever asked about the nature of the universe or of reality, to teach the "noble truths" of suffering, i…

Not even need for drugs. Just give a good, intense, long stare at your hand. I bet before long, a weird sense of "this is not mine/me" or it being very uniquely unique, rather than…

I guess you mean "the entire eastern philosophy" in your last sentence. I absolutely agree that there is a lot of parallels with Buddhist descriptions of "co-dependent arising", bu…

As other commenters said, what you describe could actually be considered a secret code. But in the specific german case, the code is not even that secret. This is a formal document…

Thank you, it is great to have the opinion of someone actually practicing this. I was indeed wondering if regular lectio of a text would lead almost automatically to memorizing it,…

I actually came here to comment on how this memorization "technique" or "strategy" reminded me of what is done in some religions. Catholic meditation, for instance, is structured a…

I will not comment on the technical part, as others already did it better than I could, but it just reminded me of an anecdote that reminds of the importance of such trivial things…

I agree that the citation does sound cold and coercitive, but actually this is already kind of how streets and urban developments are designed. Human drivers are limited, so if you…

In my experience (10 years in academia), people who understand statistics enough do look at effect size rather than significance levels. But unfortunately, even in one of the top e…

This is, fortunately, not my experience. In all of my jobs, the most highly regarded people, including by management, were/are those who have an informed opinion and are confident …

I cook for a 5 persons household, and I fill 4 to 5 1L Ziplock bags with vegetable peels, tips/tails and other "garbage", which I then turn into 1 to 2L of stock. We also eat a lot…

This actually the opposite: he sees it as a positive, which might be sensible on a first look. But there are various problems with it, which completely counterbalance the initial b…

My main problem is not someone disagreeing with the consensus in the field. I actually love when someone sheds a new light on something everyone agrees on. I also have no problems …

I usually try to be respectful, but here I have to say it: this article is junk. I did transportation research, and taught it at the masters level, for more than 10 years. His "arg…

Indeed, I wonder what is the reason. The only explanation I can think of would be that the event is already widely advertised by "authorized" partnering media - who thus have an in…

"Rock climbing is the new golf": I never thought about it in this way, but it makes a lot of sense. In both sports, most of the time is spent waiting/resting. This makes golf clubs…

I was indeed something more in the line of this, where a building was excavated, put on rails, and moved 60m in order to make way for an extension of a train station: https://youtu…

Thank you, I find it interesting to read the "back cover" now that I know about his writing method: one can see how it emerges from the various steps he described. Also, it manages…