I am pretty much addicted to physical. But would definitely do kindle if I was
with you. Europe was just as friendly and i could actually get psylocibin and
mescaline instead of mushrooms and cacti. It annoys me no end that I can get
fentanyl/heroin or opioids on any street corner but impossible
Catching up on old threads here. Hey David, these days do you mainly
read physical books, or do you e-read? Living in a Spanish-speaking
country, options for physical books in English here are severely
limited. Despite dislike for feeding the behemoth Bezos, Karen and I
are grateful to be able to b
not helping me to think or learn. At those
times, the best thing to do is to start fresh.
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From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:43 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reading
agreed.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 1:20
agreed.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 1:20 PM, glen wrote:
> OK. That's a great point. I was a voracious book reader as a kid, ~2
> books per day maybe, not including school work. And as an older kid
> (peri-college) that incorporated lots of non-fiction and long essays in
> publications like https
OK. That's a great point. I was a voracious book reader as a kid, ~2 books per
day maybe, not including school work. And as an older kid (peri-college) that
incorporated lots of non-fiction and long essays in publications like
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/et/current.
So your hypothesi
Sorry I did not explicitly mention parallelism and continuous (re)integration.
I am always reading between 2 and 4 books in parallel—often, in the case of
non-fiction, books extolling opposing viewpoints. Also a mixture of media,
print, video, F-F-t-F conversations, and Web.
It is the tapestry,
LLM or stable diffusion training will do the same thing, taken to the extreme.
From: Friam on behalf of glen
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 9:22 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reading
I actually land almost exactly opposite to Dave. Descent into authoritarianism
is
I actually land almost exactly opposite to Dave. Descent into authoritarianism
is *caused* by reading and the lack of reading facilitates egalitarianism.
That's an overstatement, of course. But Dave did it first. 8^D
As Marcus (unintentionally?) implies, inductive learning relies fundamentally
Gemini, Copilot, and Chatgpt all give responses like this:
< It’s hard to pinpoint an exact number, but the data likely encompasses the
equivalent of hundreds of thousands to millions of books' worth of text. This
figure includes a mixture of genres, lengths, and types of writing, from novels
If you put an AM radio near the processor, you'll hear that.
-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:08 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] reading the log
Some much needed levity this morning, courtesy of
https://mastodon.social/@mpir...
Thank you for that!
The protocol is the message
Mashup moshpit
Close to the metal metal
RIP Curl death metal
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, 9:07 AM glen wrote:
> Some much needed levity this morning, courtesy of
> https://mastodon.social/@mpir...@mas.to
>
> curl -v https://google.com
> https://youtu.
Perhaps the same could be said about obsessive web surfing, Second Life,
Macbook, and so on and on. But perhaps 21st century realities are so
"a-palin'"
that we need to escape? Paul
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If he lived in different times and had said, "People in general do not
willingly watch TV if they can have anything else to amuse them.", would
we say this was (1) an observation about people being reluctant to watch
TV, or (2) an observation about a collective rational response to the
low qual
I think the quote is mine (this week). It comes from that great 18th
century London dictionary compiler and writer, Samuel Johnson. It
amused me to think that people were complaining about the reluctance
to read as early as that.
P.
Recent posts included a quote - something to effect
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Of peggy miller
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] reading
Recent posts included a quote - something to effect that we don't read if we
have anything better to amuse ourselves with. I was reading A N
Recent posts included a quote - something to effect that we don't read if we
have anything better to amuse ourselves with. I was reading A New Kind of
Science this morning. I rest my case.
Peggy Miller
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