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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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iwishyouroses

1 year ago

Game log layout is completed! I haven't finished populating it with info but I'm happy with it so far!

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iwillneverbehappy updated index

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cherrylotus 1 year ago

THE CHRISTMAS UPDATE IS SO CUTE <3

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pizzacatdelights 1 year ago

@cherrylotus Thank you! ^_^

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

Started working on the media logs ideas. I'm also going to rework the navigation page as well cause I'm starting to hate it.

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sousyunkanon updated Toromi Moe ~ ♪

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pixelatedpeachjuice updated The juice

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goooby updated Hey, do cobras kiss carefully?

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transbro 1 year ago

OMFG UR BATMAN PAGE LOOKS PERFECT??? LOVE THE CSS MORE THEN AIR

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transbro 1 year ago

TELLTALE BATMAN MENTION OMFG. I've been into ttbm since like 2018 this is changing my life, the shrine page is BEUTIFUL IM LOSING MY MIND

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goooby 1 year ago

BROOO THANKS SO MUCH... IVE BEEN PLAYING BOTH TELLTALE THEYRE SO CRAZY GOOD my first playthrough i tried to be as kind as possible without being overly fake but on my second one im just an asshole it hurts so bad but its fun regardless

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goooby 1 year ago

THIS PAGE IS GEN MY FAVORITE THING IVE EVER CODED EVER its dedicated to the one thing spinning around in my head who knows when i'll finish but im enjoying it SO MUCH.. GAWD TELLTALE IS SO UNDERRATE

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nerpa 1 year ago

Looking at ur neocities page layouts arent enough I NEEEED them injected into my body

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goooby 1 year ago

thank u the most i remember being sooo inspired by you early starting out 😭😭😭🌷

opalunicorn 1 year ago

YOUR BATMAN LAYOUT OMG

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1 year ago

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ribbondoll 1 year ago

srry for the late reply but aaa tyy ♡♡ your site is super cute too

sweet-pea

1 year ago

okay so i managed to set up vscode awhile ago.. but the live preview thing isnt working ☹️ it just displays as if all the links i use for my images and stuff are broken

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sweet-pea 1 year ago

nvm i think i figured it out actually LOL

sweet-pea 1 year ago

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pixelatedpeachjuice

1 year ago

hopefulllyyyy ill get to update the site more over winter break, its not that im particularly busy right now if i lock in i can get most of my schoolwork done in max 5 hours i just have been doomscrolling and sewing (making a messenger bag right now :3)

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1 year ago

Nice!!!

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iwishyouroses 1 year ago

Thanks!

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1 year ago

500 FOLLOWERS LETS GOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much for the support on my site, its a little overwhelming but im so eternally grateful, thanks for being interested in my art

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