“The main goal of this thesis was to not be derivative garbage like the works of Big Name et al.”
Thank you for the warning. I almost received free and convenient access to a large catalog of academic articles, and no one wants that.
How pedantic are you?
If I rotate this picture 180°, it looks pretty much the same as the one in the OP.
Yeah, but can the 6am friends stay up all night browsing increasingly obscure websites, while reflecting on the poor state of the world and feeling helpless to change anything?
I think not.
This is a good sword.
It’s a piece of shit, Aragorn, and you know it. Stop gaslighting people.
Except for those flat-earth guys who started doing actual research with lasers and gyroscopes, proving that the earth really is round and rotating, too.
Fun fact, the Mandelbrot set is a 2-dimensional set (because it’s defined in the complex plane). However, its boundary line is a fractal, which can be understood as having a non-integer dimension (i.e., between 1, the topological dimension of a line, and 2, the dimension of a plane). There are multiple ways to define fractal dimensions such as the Hausdorff dimension. For example, the Sierpinski triangle has a Hausdorff dimension of 1.58. But the Mandelbrot set is special here, too, as it seems to have a Hausdorff dimension of 2, meaning that its boundary is so curly that it fills “a plane’s worth of space” despite its line-like topology.
Alright, that explains.
According to Wikipedia, the Neandertal (the valley) was named after 17th century priest and composer Joachim Neander. Where does the “new man” come in?
The district you’re referring to is called Eixample (literally “extension”), which is a planned district that was built as a large scale construction project in the 19th and 20th century to expand the city and make room for more/more modern apartments.
This is a good and nuanced take, thank you for taking the time to write it down. Piggybacking on this, if anyone wants to dive more deeply into the subject of psychological measurement, there’s an excellent book by Derek Briggs about this: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences: Credos & Controversies.
I think I already posted this at some point, but Software Disenchantment is always worth mentioning in this context.
The Brave Little Toaster is still giving me the feels decades later.
Classic case of OWPITTS (only white people in the training set).
Chk-a chk-a chk-a chk-a DUN chk-a DUN DUN DUN chk-a DUN DUN DUN chk-a DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN
Many people I know get into it because of their idealism and desire to change the academic system for the better. They invest into this career, year after year, because it’s always one more step until they can finally use their influence to change the system from the inside.
Yup. “Strike Russian targets” is not the same as “strike targets in Russia”. Huge difference.
Doing the Lord’s work. The longer I work in academia, the more radical I become about keeping it simple.