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readbeyondthestars updated Beyond the Stars [星の彼方]

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sophistry updated "pop the bubble"

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faoggot

6 months ago

got cooked so hard my opps writing 2ar rn I totally lost T-T

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faoggot 6 months ago

c'est la vie maybe I can work on my math IA

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faoggot

6 months ago

since I mostly use mobile, compatibility is a huge issue for me. I think the site probably looks fine on desktop but i'll be working to expand and make it suck less ass on mobile. it's a relief that not a lot of other people are doing this, since it means the problem isn't so urgent

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faoggot 6 months ago

t minus two weeks until winter break. I know I previously said two, a week ago, but I was wrong, so we still have two weeks to go. I have the mental forditude to both continue caring about this project and also not work on it at all. because I'm not gonna kms if I get a B in history but I'm seriously going to consider it for like at least five minutes uninterrupted

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mortesubitaesuja 6 months ago

I only use mobile, but the site looks good on mobile too, I think you should just use the desktop option in the Chrome browser when on mobile.

faoggot updated hellscape

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avantgardefartstories updated The web site of avantgardefartstories

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saddleblasters iwillneverbehappy

6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago

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

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saddleblasters 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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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goose6000 ranfren

6 months ago

If you wash your hair with dog shampoo, it will have more volume.I ran out of money to buy human shampoo so I've been doing this for a week now

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poopley142 6 months ago

Interesting to let howdie know 🤔....

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ranfren updated world of randal and his friends

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starlitseas updated starlit seas. a blue horizon info site by n...

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starlitseas 6 months ago

Notable changes: Added the primary light novel summary that will be on GR and Storygraph when I finally submit it in those places. Added two iconic Nightwish songs to the unofficial playlist.

pon-lacarney

6 months ago

put up the christmas decoration

readbeyondthestars updated Beyond the Stars [星の彼方]

6 months ago

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