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So many (snooty) people treat audiobooks like a cheap substitute for reading, when in reality, reading is the cheap substitute for oral storytelling. Sure, you've got Infinite Jest…

US colleges foresee a future where they are under attack for being absurdly selective, what some are now calling being "highly rejective". I think they want to avoid being targeted…

Bloom's 2-Sigma Problem: students getting one-on-one instruction perform 2 standard deviations better than those learning from ordinary instruction methods. https://en.wikipedia.or…

That's my thinking as well: just re-brand string theory as math. It's not as though string theory will be testable anytime soon, so the criteria of verification is just hurting the…

Why doesn't pure math get similarly attacked? Clearly math has generated lots of economic and scientific value, but it seems to me that there isn't much difference between string t…

I recommend Torkel Franzén's Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. It is readable without sacrificing rigor. It is especially good at ensuring the reader doesn…

Newton wasn't above abusing his position as head of the Royal Society to discredit Leibniz. Wolfram reminds me of Newton—a self-conscious genius, exceedingly jealous of his intelle…

“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?” -- Frank Herbert

I hope this research evolves beyond the 'Cybernetics' buzzword. It seems like a meaningful term (control, regulation etc.) but when other disciplines take it up, it often seems to …

Would have been more interested to know how the avg EEV household electricity consumption compares to offset gasoline usage (as energy). My understand is that the efficiency of pow…

I've heard numerous people reference the mythical pragmatism of programmers and hackers as a problem when idealism vs. self-interest is on the line, Kevin Mitnick being one of them…

* calibre - ebook management and conversion

all the classes have their own domains? GoDaddy is happy.