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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Whittle, Alasdair. Review of Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation, edited by Adrian M. Chadwick and Catriona D. Gibson. Archaeological Journal 172, no. 2 (July 3, 2015): 493–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2015.1040685.

      Mediocre viewpoint of the overall research, in part because claims are not logically proven.

      I'll note that the reviewer is approaching things from a Western perspective and not that of an indigenous person whose culture relies heavily upon or(primary) orality.

    1. Vintage Typewriter Office by [[Przemo Bania]]

      content farm intro to typewriters for decor and use in an office... very meh.

      Read it because it linked to my website

    1. You shouldn’t need a React-savvy front-end developer to help you make routine changes to your site.

      Yeah. Web authoring is really just desktop publishing—except in its current state, foiled by the JavaScript industrial complex.

    1. Opinion: This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education by [[Jennifer Frey]] 2025-07-17 in New York Times

      Frey argues that it's college administrators who are killing off the idea of a liberal arts education. In her experience, students are thrilled to be in these programs and participate in them.


      Me: Some of the pressure, also indicated here, is from toxic capitalism which is pressuring students to be only career-focused in their educational journeys. This pressure leaves much less space for the humanities.

      Read: Fri 2025-07-18 7:13 PM Updated: 2025-07-19

    1. Interesting articulation of evolution of beneficial genes from plasmid acquisition to domestication through chromosomal capture.

  2. Jul 2025
    1. Good Enough Is Very Fine: Royal KMG Tabulator Issue by [[maryech]]

      Carriage on a Royal KMG was grinding, so Mary disconnected the spring on the brake gear for the tabulator rack to fix the issue.

      The brake gear on Royals isn't meant to be engaged during normal typing operation.

    1. choice of the right algorithm for a given dataset has become difficult due to numerous comparative reports on these different assemblers [88, 89]

      What does the choice of algorithm depend on?

    1. Whether taxonomic or functional profiles provide a better discriminatory power in downstream analysis is subject to debate [23,24,25].

      Do you mean like a classifier?

  3. Jun 2025
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    1. VOGUE by [[Lucas Dul]]

      Lucas talks about swapping out the segment and typebars of a Royal P to transplant a Vogue typeface.

      The design changed in about 1930 for a different width.

    1. For anyone who has lost their house or apartment, we ask that you do not discard your old keys. We are establishing drop sites to collect them, and turn those many, many keys into a tribute to the devastated communities. We feel this will be a powerful visual statement that we hope will help people move forward.Caty Maxey, volunteer
    1. 🌲When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes by [[Eleanor Konik]]

      Konik seems to have realized that filing things topically can be a valuable practice as if this wasn't the mode of the day for centuries now. How did the daily note become such a thing that this was lost? Is it the focus on notebook-based bullet journals? Programmers creating daily notes?

  5. May 2025
    1. Such people may live in the same objective physical space, but their subjective experience of it is entirely different, because the ‘read’ reality in a very different way.

      for - edit - grammatical error? - "read"

  6. Apr 2025
    1. https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/4-types-of-power/#comment-122967

      Given your area, if you haven't found it yet, you might appreciate going a generation further back in your references with: Mary P. Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, ed. by E. M. Fox and L. Urwick (London: Pitman Publishing, 1940). She had some interesting work in organization theory you might appreciate. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett#Organizational_theory

    1. We show that sylph’s ANI estimation is accurate and apply it to species-level profiling through a principled 95% ANI cutoff

      Read this paper to figure out why 95% cutoff is called "Principled"

  7. Mar 2025
    1. The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot by [[James Horton]]

      Horton describes writing as a top down process rather than a bottom up one, but tries to frame it in a bottom up one. No wonder people have issues with writing, especially non-fiction stuff. Too many different processes going on all at once in too many directions.

    1. Coining a word that is as fitting as it is symptomatic of the urge it describes, Warburg spoke of his Verknüpfungszwang. This ‘compulsion to interconnect’ lies not only at the root of his research and working methods.
    1. Apps, E. A. “Typewriter Inks.” In Inks for the Minor Printing Processes and Specialised Applications, p218-221 of xix, 295. 1963. Reprint, London: Hill, 1966. http://archive.org/details/typewriter-inks.

  8. Feb 2025
    1. Begun, George M. “Making Your Own Punched Cards.” Journal of Chemical Education 32, no. 6 (June 1, 1955): 328. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed032p328.

      George Begun used a template of "heavy galvanized iron" to drill holes into his 5 x 8" index cards to create his own edge-noted card system for use in his chemistry work. Rather than using commercially made sorting needles, he recommended the use of a ice pick with a dulled point "for safety".

  9. Jan 2025
    1. We’ve always advocated that our AI processes are orders of magnitude inefficient.

      read this paper. AI improvements

  10. Dec 2024
    1. https://grammaticus.co/obscure-words/<br /> - hustings<br /> - Rodomontade<br /> - lustrations<br /> - penetralia<br /> - contumelious<br /> - weldtering - importunities<br /> - indefatigable<br /> - interjacent<br /> - ambuscade - moiety

    1. Utopian Civic-Mindedness: RobertMaynard Hutchins, MortimerAdler, and the Great BooksEnterprise

      Born, Daniel. “Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise.” In Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace, edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo, 81–100. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848_5.

    2. I had not yet read William James’stelling attack on the Ph.D. octopus in American institutions of higherlearning.’26
  11. Nov 2024
    1. How to Spot Emerging Note Clusters Without Alphanumeric Note Numbering? by [[Ton Zijlstra]] in Interdependent Thoughts

      I recall Bob Doto had a video at some point in which he used the local graph to show relationships to find bunches of notes for potentially writing pieces or articles as indicated in Tons' article.

      One of the biggest issues with digital note taking tools is that they don't make it easy to see and identify chains of notes which might make for articles, chapters, or books.

      Surely there must be some way to calculate neighborhoods of notes from a topological perspective? Perhaps if one imposed a measure on the space to create relative distances of notes?