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Blockchain: a slow database
Crypto: an expensive slow database
NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs
AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms
LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way
Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results
"In her despair she had resorted to desperate measures. She had read philosophy in the original German, and the more she read, the more she was disheartened that so much culture should lead to nothing—nothing. After talking of Herbert Spencer for an entire evening with a very literary transcendental commission-merchant, she could not see that her time had been better employed than when in former days she had passed it in flirting with a very agreeable young stockbroker; indeed, there was an evident proof to the contrary, for the flirtation might lead to something—had, in fact, led to marriage; while the philosophy could lead to nothing, unless it were perhaps to another evening of the same kind" -Henry Adams, *Xdemocracy*
Finally sitting down to subscribe (like, PAID) to some writers. I'm sorry I'm taking so bloody long hahaha. It's just been an uncertain job year, #Tech industry wise, and I wasn't sure if I could splurge. I'll take a chance now and hope for the best.
I mean, eating is overrated especially I have like 100000 calories stored in my fat right now. I got like, backup.
PS: I'm being hyperbolic here, I'm fine financially, just want to be careful.
Some new proofreading marks to help your writing really jump off the page this year.
#proof #proofreading #comics #grantsnyder #humor #humour #writing #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #WIP
”So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.”
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928): Freedom and Society, p. 153
Through his language theories, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed the idea of a stable link between words and their meanings. Post structuralist analyses of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé shows that the decontextualized sign is unstable and that it's possible to create a game of shifting meaning through manipulation of context. Metaphor theorists have later observed that experienced basic concepts like up and down are stable, and that we use concepts related to these to emphasize analogous dynamics in more diffuse experiences like emotions and love. The anchor of meanings has gone from being the language to the experience.
I'm Diggin' Kovacs https://youtu.be/T24OXwxm-rc?t=3 #music
I am looking for quotes relevant to what we may call the War of the Reading Intention. Here is an early one:
"You say to yourself that the work before you is not of its own creation. It is simply a mold like a fossil shell, an imprint similar to one of those forms embedded in a stone by an animal which once lived and perished. Beneath the shell was an animal and behind the document there was a man. Why do you study the shell unless to form some idea of the animal? In the same way do you study the document in order to comprehend the man; both shell and document are dead fragments and of value only as indications of the complete living being. The aim is to reach this being; this is what you strive to reconstruct. It is a mistake to study the document as if it existed alone by itself." --Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) in the Introduction to his *History of English Literature*
The main thing about formal correspondence that has changed in my working life is that the rule about when to say “Yours sincerely” or “Yours faithfully” has been replaced by the hierarchy of “Regards”.
This allows you to respond to an over friendly “Kind Regards” or even “Best Regards” from someone with an ice-cold, stripped-down “Regards”.
And no-one’s allowed to mention it!
The assumption that everything is action was, of course, refuted together with Aristotelian physics. If we limit the scope to that of human and academic discourse, it starts to make sense. It has the advantage over everything-is-language that it encompasses interactions with the world.
Modern discursive theory seems built on the assumption that everything is language. Unlike saying, for example, that everything is state in flux, the assumption is obviously reductionist and can be discarded off hand. It would be interesting to formulate a discursive theory based on the less counter-intuitive assumption that everything is action instead.
EXACTLY.
Wish I had made this comparison, but since I didn't, gotta share it here.
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