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@Scholars_Stage @zenahitz everyone wants to philosophize and no one wants to live in a barrel
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John Vining
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John Vining
@__vining
Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Email me: [email protected]
Madison, Wisconsin Se unió Aralık 2022
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@mcpark @kevinroose left recording device on, left the room, then included information from the recording while he was gone in the piece
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@kevinroose I'm dumb dumb please tell me what the first one was
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Weirdly, inventing a fake CEO interview was only the second most dubious reporting tactic in this story!
Eugenia Kuyda@ekuyda
we've reached peak journalism: Vanity Fair wanted to write a feature story about Dario but never got an interview so just asked Claude to make it up
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@norvid_studies voynich seems a ripe topic for a beginner's llm psychosis
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@norvid_studies anyone tried putting voynich in to that new translation app
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@Le_Master @zenahitz Not all of it. Specifically, First book, derivation of the cord table and the book on Venus (as I remember).
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It is the hardest of the great books, in my opinion. Also an incredible entry point into seeing the foundations of mathematical physics and what this form of thinking both offers and obscures.
Thony Christie (he/his/him)@rmathematicus
@orzelc @zenahitz For example try reading Newton‘s Principia, even in English translation it‘s impenetrable
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A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
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John Vining retuiteado
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@__vining 57.5 followers on X
posts easily checked idiotic garbage for clicks
that's weird...
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I have only a loose commitment to this approach, fwiw, but I think many would be benefitted by a smaller amount of math, approached with more conceptual understanding, awkwardness, weirdness. For others, blaze on.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege All true. One balances the depth and the distance one goes. One sort of depth is reading the words of the people who were born in to a world without calculus and died in one with it. Absly slow/awkward if one's goal is to advance to the next thing!
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BELIEVE. That's what we do @stjohnscollege .
(Although STEM is pre-professional; we practice science as a liberal art).
a ressentiment woman@ANNVYSHINSKY
Great Books in *STEM*?!
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@__vining @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I'm not sure why you keep coming back to diff eqs (which, to your earlier point, are very important for a lot of vocations), when calc is an important building block for all kinds of other mathematics.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege I come back to quoted tweet. The goal is to create a generally aware person. Oddly we need to do that in college, when others are preparing for advanced study or work. There is a mismatch there. Diff. goals.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege My defense of it is that my high school calc also did not create in me a great solver of differential equations. And in doing so, it also failed to instill in me a conceptual understanding of or a love for the math.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege Fair objection. Depends on how much techn. skill was expected. The idea here, I think, is to teach Sci/Math as terminal: If this is this last math class you take, what is the most interesting and useful. As @zenahitz says, it is essentially nonvocational.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege My synthesis of the math/science as liberal arts versus math/science as tools debate is simple: they should be considered liberal arts in high school and tools in college.
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@normal_testes @ANNVYSHINSKY @zenahitz @stjohnscollege My defense of it is that my high school calc also did not create in me a great solver of differential equations. And in doing so, it also failed to instill in me a conceptual understanding of or a love for the math.
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