Aye. I was at my friend's grandparent's house (he grew up in his grandparents house) as a youth, probably 11 or 12, and his grandfather mentioned he was offered to join the masons by a work buddy. He promptly told us he…
Yes and no. Yes in the sense that there was a formal pattern for learning that developed from 3k bc - end (right around 1800bc) which typically included a combination of math (fractions, pemdas, etc, administrative…
"In short, machine learning methods are in place, but accessible data is not." "Finally, one must address the concerns of various commercial stakeholders." "A few chemical databases of reactions do exist, but these are…
How do you arrive at 10%?
Heidegger, Hitler, and Wittgenstein were all born in 1889 Hitler and Wittgenstein attended the same school even The Wittgenstein family also had all of their funds invested in America before the outbreak of WW2
IIRC he had started this diet (eating only raw carrots and strawberries) before he founded apple with woz
You have some very detailed reasons why Thucydides would side with the Athenians; I appreciate that. > Finally, if you want to argue that he'd say the Athenian empire was dangerous, I'd need a good reason as to why.…
> but the river is gone too. The Sumerians were well known to forcibly reposition the local rivers of which there were many in the flood plain. There are probably plenty of areas with long lost boats, areas today that…
A healthy chunk of the Sumerian texts we have today are training tablets. Scribes would copy these tablets much in the same way we copy sentences today to learn to write today, with more of an emphasis on hand writing.…
Because there were so few people. The inverse of your question is why did technology seemingly explode beginning around 10k years ago? And the answer to that is simple: the Milankovitch cycles had brought about a…
And yet Zizek offers himself as that exact contradiction: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/zizek-has-a-lot-to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II Zizek is certainly a madman, being both an atheist…
Because of Egyptian inscriptions. If it was only one group, why do Egyptian inscriptions list 5+ groups? Here's the relevant article section: "The Philistines (known to the Egyptians as the Peleset) were among several…
Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there machine learning algorithms which learn…
If you aren't using stablecoins then you are paying with volatile assets. If the assets are more volatile than usd, and if the cost of said volatility is greater than potential savings with transaction fees, then you…
If I'm not mistaken, the source for Columbus visiting Iceland was by his son Ferdinand (who said his dad left notes laying around and his son figured out he was talking about Iceland) in his biography of his father,…
Columbus made a voyage to Bristol in the UK and certainly came across merchants who had travelled in the northern reaches, Iceland in particular. It is suggested that he did indeed travel to Iceland although the source…
> Real problem and solutions: - energy -> Need hydro or nuclear. Everything else is just marketing bullshit. Agree in general, yet from what i've read most of the worlds hydro (read: river) resources are already being…
this 100% 1 hour each morning when your mind is the sharpest and most ready is so much more valuable to me than 3 hours late at night when i am tired from the work of the day
This is a rideshare capital vs opponent capital legal battle. Any claims to doing this for the drivers is absurd; different drivers want different things, and for that, you would have to design an environment whereby a…
https://www.schneier.com/
>>In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age. I applaud your breadth. The vast majority of instructors I've had prefer not…
>>These are words that you can imagine coming out of the mouth of a figure like Lincoln or FDR. Pericles reaches into many of the same ideals we still venerate today. I've never seen anything chiseled into some Egyptian…
>>We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period. Agreed. As robbiep mentioned, this is probably because of Alexander in general. >>The period of time where Egypt…
>the breadth and detail of history makes generalisations such as ‘western history begins with the Greeks’ a more palatable launchpad for consumption than breaking down the nuance that inevitably unfolds on more profound…
Thanks for posting this!
Aye. I was at my friend's grandparent's house (he grew up in his grandparents house) as a youth, probably 11 or 12, and his grandfather mentioned he was offered to join the masons by a work buddy. He promptly told us he…
Yes and no. Yes in the sense that there was a formal pattern for learning that developed from 3k bc - end (right around 1800bc) which typically included a combination of math (fractions, pemdas, etc, administrative…
"In short, machine learning methods are in place, but accessible data is not." "Finally, one must address the concerns of various commercial stakeholders." "A few chemical databases of reactions do exist, but these are…
How do you arrive at 10%?
Heidegger, Hitler, and Wittgenstein were all born in 1889 Hitler and Wittgenstein attended the same school even The Wittgenstein family also had all of their funds invested in America before the outbreak of WW2
IIRC he had started this diet (eating only raw carrots and strawberries) before he founded apple with woz
You have some very detailed reasons why Thucydides would side with the Athenians; I appreciate that. > Finally, if you want to argue that he'd say the Athenian empire was dangerous, I'd need a good reason as to why.…
> but the river is gone too. The Sumerians were well known to forcibly reposition the local rivers of which there were many in the flood plain. There are probably plenty of areas with long lost boats, areas today that…
A healthy chunk of the Sumerian texts we have today are training tablets. Scribes would copy these tablets much in the same way we copy sentences today to learn to write today, with more of an emphasis on hand writing.…
Because there were so few people. The inverse of your question is why did technology seemingly explode beginning around 10k years ago? And the answer to that is simple: the Milankovitch cycles had brought about a…
And yet Zizek offers himself as that exact contradiction: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/zizek-has-a-lot-to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II Zizek is certainly a madman, being both an atheist…
Because of Egyptian inscriptions. If it was only one group, why do Egyptian inscriptions list 5+ groups? Here's the relevant article section: "The Philistines (known to the Egyptians as the Peleset) were among several…
Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there machine learning algorithms which learn…
If you aren't using stablecoins then you are paying with volatile assets. If the assets are more volatile than usd, and if the cost of said volatility is greater than potential savings with transaction fees, then you…
If I'm not mistaken, the source for Columbus visiting Iceland was by his son Ferdinand (who said his dad left notes laying around and his son figured out he was talking about Iceland) in his biography of his father,…
Columbus made a voyage to Bristol in the UK and certainly came across merchants who had travelled in the northern reaches, Iceland in particular. It is suggested that he did indeed travel to Iceland although the source…
> Real problem and solutions: - energy -> Need hydro or nuclear. Everything else is just marketing bullshit. Agree in general, yet from what i've read most of the worlds hydro (read: river) resources are already being…
this 100% 1 hour each morning when your mind is the sharpest and most ready is so much more valuable to me than 3 hours late at night when i am tired from the work of the day
This is a rideshare capital vs opponent capital legal battle. Any claims to doing this for the drivers is absurd; different drivers want different things, and for that, you would have to design an environment whereby a…
https://www.schneier.com/
>>In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age. I applaud your breadth. The vast majority of instructors I've had prefer not…
>>These are words that you can imagine coming out of the mouth of a figure like Lincoln or FDR. Pericles reaches into many of the same ideals we still venerate today. I've never seen anything chiseled into some Egyptian…
>>We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period. Agreed. As robbiep mentioned, this is probably because of Alexander in general. >>The period of time where Egypt…
>the breadth and detail of history makes generalisations such as ‘western history begins with the Greeks’ a more palatable launchpad for consumption than breaking down the nuance that inevitably unfolds on more profound…
Thanks for posting this!