kurosawa's comments

This is interesting: could we see it as the most exhaustive set of plausible/probable human events of a harmful nature ?

Sure it is for insurance purposes, but I’m wondering what we could use it to label human experience in general—and what applications that could help.

“Hey Chat-gpt, I’m thinking of taking a walk near that pond, what should I expect…”

Wondering how many will ever be born here, if it lasts until the sun dries out for example

This felt somehow complementary to Dr Seuss’ “Oh the places you’ll go”, specifically, part two and/or a commentary on part one. Thanks for this.

This reminded me in part of the work of Francis Su on math and the virtues: math and human flourishing https://youtu.be/FTXhj-puDgw

Mathematical practice can be a means of achieving the various virtues, and ‘show up’ (or make us more sensitive to) our vices. Meaning that there is something inherently good in the learning and practice of math, for it to lead to more good and to manifest to us what is bad.

It might be more general than that: imaginary problems are at the root of bad___

Where ___ could be something produced like software (or furniture, etc.), or theorised such as scientific theorems (as even though thought experiments are useful, if we don’t go beyond them, we are often lead to bad science), etc.

Middle-aged government worker sought to get promoted by abusing a mentally handicapped teen—probably the same age as his own kids if he had any.

On this question please check out the work of Peter Kingsley (like ‘Reality’)

Also, what if many folks set up the same so that we have full crowdsourced surveillance of aircrafts over various regions, how could this info be used i wonder?

why this edition specifically?

This is nice, it adds another dimension to the audio experience of the bridge-bay 'composite-system'

I'm wondering how as a non-blind person i can actually learn to listen at such high words-per-minute. I don't need to read the screen in general but research papers (pdfs etc.)--while i'm looking at something else; so i can basically multi-task. Or to 'format audio' so that it can be sped-up while the words are distinct and understandable even when spurted-out at high speed--which is different from just changing the playback speed.

I remember articles about echo-location, not only as a means for the visually challenged to navigate the streets but as an additional sense-enhancement tool/technique. I'm thinking of screen-reading having the same function.

I guess an ideal 'environment' for the sort of 'syntopical' style of reading that academic research requires, is something that can involve as many senses at the same time as possible according to some 'sweet-spotting' technique that makes things manageable. I'm thinking: a minority report type interface where i can arrange papers/snippets-of-papers across a large 'space', while having bits (such as the sentences before and after the bits i just snipped) of read out fast to me with some sort of screen-reading. Involving vision, 'touch', sound as well as 'movement' would be awesome. One would need to train a bit of course.

--also imagining how you can do semi-synchronous group work:

Let's think about a scenario where there are like 10 people on a conference call. Usually people speak in turn. What if we 'allowed' sub-groups of people to have their own mini conversations before 'regrouping', but as we do that each person would be played-back the conversations they may have missed in fast form. This would be quite a different dynamic for a conference. A lot more stuff could be discussed in the same amount of time. It would of course come with its own set of problems.

Reminds me of old-school emission/extramission theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)

Do something that would be orthogonal to the current sum of your life experiences.

I say dive in, don't be shy. There is so much that these specific intellectual paths lead to.

His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions:

https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni...

Short review summarizing the work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phil_Rose/publication/3...

Anyone know about similar but open-source projects that do code completion (or assist in some way) upon training on stackexchange data?

Inspiring.

Anyone know any problem-books that could match the (implied) breadth of the one indicated?

"I went back to the library and found the mathematics book with the largest number of problems. The book was in Russian, and I didn’t know Russian, but a young linguist is not afraid to pick up another language."

I find the same for books for the relationship between contemporary and classic works in other major traditions

This is no longer held by most western medievalists/orientalists/etc. let alone by the descendant of the peoples of concern.

There are too many references, but here is one to start with: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/islamic-science-and-making-eu...

his mnemotechnic devices and 'art of memory' (later to influence modern computation) derive from devices from the preceding islamic tradition in andalusia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja)

There are deep connections between the functions of geometry and geometry influenced aesthetics, the zairja tradition, and several other things.