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Extremely impressive decipherment results for this script, a long-standing challenge in epigraphy. The methodology seems very sound, and while allographs can make or break confiden…

I had a pair of these transceivers when I was in my teens, from a somewhat later period, thanks to my grandfather who refurbished them from his time as a telegrapher at Western Uni…

The description of play in the article corresponds most closely to (straight) carom billiards rather than a variety of pool (or even three-cushion billiards). A run of forty is cre…

Helpful, perhaps, would be James Ford's recently released "Introduction to Zen Koans": https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/introduction-zen-koans Not necessarily what you're looking fo…

Splendid! Thanks.

Can you point me to any of these writeups? We're a local government site undertaking a design refresh, and they sound very helpful.

This, indeed, hits the nail on the head. It is not an anti-technological rant, but a proper rant against technology as an end in itself. Big-picture thinking -- on the scale of the…

I think this may be exactly what the title suggests: a fixed point operator.