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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Good afternoon. Announcment: I truly love UI design, like this is great.

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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Fighting for my life trying to find all of these achievements on LilithDev

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chattable 1 year ago

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hillhouse updated welcome to hill house

1 year ago

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silkworm-moth updated memento bombyx mori

1 year ago

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abbys-notebook updated WAIT A MINUTE!!!1!!

1 year ago

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moshball updated (⁠つ⁠≧⁠▽≦⁠)つ🌷

1 year ago

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pizzacatdelights updated Pizzacat Delights' Cozy Home

1 year ago

Pizzacat Delights' Cozy Home

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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Most of the bugs should be fixed but I spotted a few with the music player (I moved to a new system and apparently broke some things). It works, there's just some weird interactions with the UI that are annoying. I'll patch it when I feel up to it.

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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Christmas update is here!!!!!! Hopefully fixed a bunch of bugs in this one as well but as with all updates, please let me know if something is broken!

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

Spotted a mfn bug IMMEDIATELY I hate it here. (Anyways if the phone decides not to give you it's christmas theme, just go to the themes app and toggle it. I will have a hotfix out shortly.)

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sugarfantasies 1 year ago

Ahhh!! It's so cute!!!

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brainunits 1 year ago

It’s really cute 🥰

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

Thank you, both of you!

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iwishyouroses updated I Wish You Roses

1 year ago

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arkymarble mimikitty49

1 year ago

Your website is so cute X3

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mimikitty49 1 year ago

thank u so much X3

pinkprairie updated strawberry fields forever. . .

1 year ago

strawberry fields forever. . .

saddleblasters iwillneverbehappy

1 year ago

responding a little late re: rote learning. a lot of the people in the classical chinese study discord i'm in, especially the ones that are most generally knowledgable, often post pictures of long texts they've copied, all with very careful and neat handwriting. i think copying, especially by hand, is very much a comprehensive learning method: you're not necessarily conscious of all the things you learn doing it

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

copying is essentially a very slow kind of reading. back when the literary language was often very different from the spoken language, comprehension wasn't some immediate thing that could be taken for granted. even the surface grammatical meaning of a sentence might not be obvious. struggling with all of that leads not just to the thoughts the author intended, but all sorts of other alternate possibilities

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

the same thing happens when i read mathematics (esp. research papers). for close readings, you treat the written proofs as a "cookbook recipe" for reproducing the argument in your own brain. often there are steps that are unclear at first and which require deep thought, but in the course of trying to understand those, you learn other things the author perhaps didn't intend, or didn't find worth writing

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

e.g. many of the developments in algebraic geometry up to the 80s or so could essentially be characterized as ideas people had while reading EGA and SGA.

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

I guess what I'm trying to say is simply that reading is a much slower and more complicated process than we might give it credit for, so rote methods of learning like copying and memorizing are ways to trick ourselves into slowing. of course this only works when one is doing it willingly. when forced to memorize or copy by a teacher, many people manage to learn to do so without actually paying attention to the text

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

(sorry for writing so much -- in retrospect this probably should have been an email...)

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

Also, rereading these now, I realize I was basically doing some version of "redoing" by writing these: taking the ideas you wrote about and reworking them into my own words. I guess this is the particular sort of "copying" that a modern university education generally trains it's students with (as you noted with your reference to "the last few hundred years of scholasticism")

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iwillneverbehappy 1 year ago

Thank you for the thoughtful comments and no need to apologize, these are all great. What is interesting to me is how pointless (close) reading is if you don't apply yourself to it 100%, yet how useful it is in learning something. And there's no external way to tell the two apart; it's even difficult for the learner themselves to tell if they are in fact learning something. The "inefficiency" of rote learning (1/2)

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iwillneverbehappy 1 year ago

and how easy it is to make it an utter waste of time, plus the fact that the yields aren't immediate or quantifiable, might all be part of the reason why it's looked at so negatively in American schools nowadays, but we lose a lot if we banish it entirely. (2/2)

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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Nav has been modified a bit (now has a dark mode!)

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

And now to actually start the christmas index because I will not do it otherwise.

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

Might do a christmas phone hompage as well but I definitely won't do every page!

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