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  1. Nov 2024
    1. Stronglyinfluenced by the Comtean and Spencerian versions of positivism that he hadimbibed in his youth, Otlet was concerned with the progress of the sciences(in the widest sense of the term), believing that a holistic integration of humanknowledge into a single, well-articulated system of sciences could form theintellectual basis for the universal amelioration of human life [15, pp. 20,26–29, 354].
  2. Sep 2024
    1. Der Konfliktforscher Vincent August führt die Angst vieler Jungwähler vor den Grünen auf eine Strategie der Gegeneskalation zurück, bei der die Gegenseite als Gefahr geframet wird. Sie gehört zur Klimaobstruktion - ein neues Forschungsfeld - durch die Machtgruppen wirksame Klimapolitik verhindern wollen. https://taz.de/Methoden-der-Klimaschutzverhinderer/!6034674/

      Website von Vincent August: https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/allgemeine-soziologie/vincentaugust/index#aktuelles

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  4. Oct 2022
    1. It was Ranke, too, who set the historian’s task: to find out wie eseigentlich gewesen ist, what really happened, or, literally, how itreally was. His goal is one that will remain forever just beyond ourgrasp for reasons I explained in a “Note on Sources” in The Guns ofAugust (a paragraph that no one ever reads but I think is the bestthing in the book). Summarized, the reasons are that we who writeabout the past were not there. We can never be certain that we haverecaptured it as it really was. But the least we can do is to stay withinthe evidence.
  5. Aug 2022
    1. In the text of what follows the writer has profited much fromsuggestions by two friends on whom it seemed possible to impose ,Professors A. C. McLaughlin, University of Chicago, and A. C.Krey, University of Minnesota. They are not chargeable, however ,- eit

      Dow's methods were profited by advice from historians Andrew C. Mclaughlin and August C. Krey.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._McLaughlin

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_C._Krey

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  6. Nov 2021
    1. In 1795, the German philologist Friedrich August Wolf published a book, “Prolegomena to Homer,” arguing that the Iliad and the Odyssey could not have been composed all at once in the form we know them now.
  7. Aug 2021
    1. A neural network with a hidden layer has universality: given enough hidden units, it can approximate any function. This is a frequently quoted – and even more frequently, misunderstood and applied – theorem. It’s true, essentially, because the hidden layer can be used as a lookup table.
    2. t-SNE visualizations of word embeddings.
  8. Sep 2020