Brandon Hall ๐ @bthall@scholar.social
Economics undergrad @ CSU Sacramento. Christian. Philosopher. Interested in pursuing a PhD.
I should keep a daily tally of how frequently I catch myself thinking in terms of Cartesian planes but without an idea of what's on the axes involved.
#Ideas: The more time sensitive that a society/culture gets, the more mythical the notion of capital becomes.
โAncient Walled Gardens Designed to Nurture a Single Citrus Treeโ
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pantelleria-gardens-giardino-pantesco.amp
@bthall Whoops that meant to be on the same thread as those posts.
https://floss.social/@downey/100290376881946709
And I was attempting to thank @downey & @vmbrasseur
Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
"What Is Improbable Research?
Improbable research is research that makes people laugh and then think.
We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that's maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless." https://www.improbable.com/about/
I might have a research article to write, but it'd be more theoretical / philosophical than I'm used to seeing in #economics journals. I will attempt to write it and then see if my professors think it's worth publishing / able to be published. I know there's an econ journal for #undergrads, so that might be good.
So my need for a new ereader is mounting...
Looking for suggestions on a decent hackable/FOSS friendly reader, mainly synced via Calibre, ideally with built-in backlight.
I hear Kobo is a good fit, but which model? Any experiences fedi-folks would care to share? Other devices/brands to check out?
Newsflash: The business model of the Internet isn't ads.
It's bait-and-switch.
O.O I left some very important paperwork somewhere, and it had docs with my SSN on them. Do any of you know if there's a way to monitor over time whether someone might have taken photos of them and started to take my identity? I have heard that they've been turned in to a lost-and-found, but I'm still worried.
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But you can also weight changes according to historical knowledge you have. So if I know that v is b in one language, I can assign v > b alternations a weight of 0. I don't want to penalize the changes that I expect to occur when switching from one language to another.
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Another name is levenstein distance. It's a measure of how many characters you have to change to go from one word to another.
Because and necause have an edit distance of 1. In this case, it indicates that they're probably supposed to be the same word and one is just a misspelling. Sometimes people do weighted edit distance. For the example with misspellings, you could give lower weights to letters that are adjacent to eachother on the keyboard. Maybe b -> n is only .2.
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Daughter: Daddy, why don't you use the other three quarters of your brain?
Father: Oh, yes-that-you see the trouble is that I had school teachers too. And they filled up about a quarter of my brain with fog. And then I read newspapers and listened to what other people said, and that filled up another quarter with fog.
D: And the other quarter, Daddy?
F: Oh-that's fog that I made for myself when I was trying to think.
โ"Metalogue: How Much Do You Know?" in G. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
#introduction Undergraduate student in Anthropology and Philosophy interested in Environmental, Urban and Public Anthropology as well as Moral, Political and Intercultural Philosophy and politics/economics in general. Used to be on a another instance, just switched for a fresh start. Any suggestions on who to follow?
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?
Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.
"This California Democrat is single-handedly ruining our best chance to save net neutrality" https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/this-california-democrat-is-single-handedly-ruining-our-best-chance-to-save-net-neutrality-47158972781f
If a service dog approaches you by itself, it's trying to get you to follow it. I didn't know that until today but now I do!
George Smith suggested use of the term to identify those libertarians who believed that political action and political parties (especially the Libertarian Party) were antithetical to their ideas. In their "Statement of Purpose" in Neither Bullets nor Ballots: Essays on Voluntaryism (1983), Watner, Smith, and McElroy explained that voluntaryists were advocates of non-political strategies to achieve a free society.
Learned something new. This is called voluntaryism...
