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- Nov 2024
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- Jonathan Swift
- Émile Borel
- Mécanique Statique et Irréversibilité
- Blaise Pascal
- On Generation and Corruption
- Aristotle
- accidental art
- statistical mechanics
- dactylographic monkeys
- infinite monkey theorem
- R. G. Collingwood
- Jorge Luis Borges
- De Natura Deorum
- Cicero
- Thomas Huxley
- Arthur Eddington
- William Shakespeare
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- Jul 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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As Jorge Luis Borges pointed out, a library without an index becomes paradoxically less informative as it grows.
Explore why this is so from an information theoretic perspective. Is it true?
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- Apr 2021
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (Spanish: "El idioma analítico de John Wilkins") is a short essay by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges originally published in Otras Inquisiciones (1937–1952).[1][2] It is a critique of the English natural philosopher and writer John Wilkins's proposal for a universal language and of the representational capacity of language generally. In it, Borges imagines a bizarre and whimsical (and fictional) Chinese taxonomy later quoted by Michel Foucault, David Byrne, and others.
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- Apr 2020
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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The Garden of Forking Paths
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