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Boethius was a Christian. He wrote a book explaining the Trinity, for example (De Trinitate). The work for which he is most famous today, the Consolation of Philosophy, does not me…

This could be a great thesis topic for a Main’s degree in sociology.

Very nice! I’ll check it out.

One feature I would love is the ability to automatically generate the table of contents / “outline” metadata for a pdf. I run across a lot of old book pdfs without that metadata, w…

Islamic fundamentalism and cult rationalism are both involved in a “total commitment”, “all or nothing” type of thinking. The former is totally committed to a particular literal re…

I have wondered this too. I think there are regulatory constraints.

Do you have links to the text only news sites?

And despite the huge size of 52!, it is possible with basic motor skills to produce a random deck. For those with the background and interest, there is a great book: The Mathematic…

Those interested can read Mark Conger's thesis to learn about the mathematics of repeated cards: https://websites.umich.edu/~mconger/thesis.pdf

For an example of this, I recall reading a proposal that acts of Congress be strictly limited to be at most (say) 5 pages in length. This would be a natural form of regularization …

What do you think about Ellul's arguments in that book?

If you're interested in things like this, you might like to read the paper of Diaconis, Holmes, and Shashahani on sampling from a manifold. https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6913

A far more practical idea is to internalize the practice of 'metacognition' so you can apply it to the vast corpus of books that already exist. It is also interesting to consider p…

What is your favorite alternative medium?

The thrust of this article is its final sentence: "that's why I think you should always be wary of SF writers bearing ideas." Be careful of non-approved thinking! Also strange is h…

I'm not sure we would be any more advanced. Anyone to whom binary conversion is relevant has sufficient intelligence to not need the convenience of base 8. For practical needs, con…

I use Dvorak, although I regret the choice to learn it instead of Qwerty. If you don’t remap, and I don’t, then you need to use two hands instead of one to navigate. Not a dealbrea…

It would mean, however, that the state should not be explicitly backing the 'religion' in e.g. public universities, even though that's not the immediate issue at hand in the articl…

After you root out these reprehensible people, what do you suggest doing with them?

In fact, Postman went to great lengths to detail the ways in which "print culture" (including books, newspapers, and even public oration) with its great commitment to complex argum…

My favorite passage from that essay: > From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has…

From Schopenhauer's essay, "On reading and books": > No literary quality can be attained by reading writers who possess it: be it, for example, persuasiveness, imagination, the gif…