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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
8 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes David Deutsch
I also had referee problems. The referee of the paper in which I presented that proof insisted that Turing’s phrase “would naturally be regarded as computable” referred to mathematical naturalness – mathematical intuition – not nature. And so what I had proved wasn’t Turing’s conjecture.
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes Dennis Hackethal (3)
judging by the passage you're at, it looks like you're still pretty early on in the book. As I'm sure you will find more issues
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes ‘A Window on Intelligence’ (6)
the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discovered that organisms are protective shields genes build around themselves.
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes ‘A Window on Intelligence’
David Deutsch, whose books were some of the inspirations for this book, for tirelessly answering my many questions over the years.
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes song lyrics
Boy My First Love Story You're so so handsome My eyes my eyes are blinded I can't breathe because I'm trembling Oh I feel so embarrassed I can't look at you I feel shy because I've fallen in love What should I do? (What should I do~) About my trembling heart (My trembling heart) (Thump thump thump thump) My heart kept thumping So I couldn't fall asleep at night My close friends tell me That I'm really a helpless fool But as I look at you~~ So tingly tingly my body is trembling gee gee gee gee gee Oh your glittering eyes (oh yeah~) Oh this sweet aroma (oh yeah yeah yeah~) I can't even say anything I'm too embarrassed Do I not have any courage? What would be the right thing to do? Thump thump my heart is anxious as I'm looking at you
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes William Godwin
let us suppose a man to be engaged in the progressive voluptuousness of the most sensual scene. Here, if ever, we may expect sensation to be triumphant. Passion is in this case in its full career. He impatiently shuts out every consideration that may disturb his enjoyment; moral views and dissuasives can no longer obtrude themselves into his mind; he resigns himself, without power of resistance, to his predominant idea. Alas, in this situation, nothing is so easy as to extinguish his sensuality! Tell him at this moment that his father is dead, that he has lost or gained a considerable sum of money, or even that his favourite horse is stolen from the meadow, and his whole passion shall be instantly annihilated: so vast is the power which a mere proposition possesses over the mind of man. So conscious are we of the precariousness of the fascination of the senses that upon such occasions we provide against the slightest interruption.
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes New Oxford American Dictionary
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own
16 days ago
Elliot Temple misquotes Dennis Hackethal
I feel the pressure of agreeing with everyone about how much we all dislike Elliot
16 days ago
Stendahl on shepherd and sheep
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
30 days ago
BoI misquote of David Albert’s review
Brilliant and exhilarating … Deutsch is so smart, and so strange, and so creative, and so inexhaustibly curious, and so vividly intellectually alive, that it is a distinct privilege to spend time in his head.
about 2 months ago
Misquote of the MDN web docs
The Window.getComputedStyle() method returns an object containing the values of all CSS properties of an element, after applying active stylesheets and resolving any basic computation those values may contain. Individual CSS property values are accessed through APIs provided by the object, or by indexing with CSS property names.
3 months ago
Harry Binswanger misquotes Ayn Rand
A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control--i.e., under objectively defined laws.
3 months ago
David Heinemeier Hansson misquotes George Gilder
TO THE MIND THAT doubts that decisive role of genius, courage, and chance in the past, the future usually seems impossible; the Western world appears doomed to decay and coercion as its growing populations press against a closing frontier, and science and technology meet the law of diminishing returns. sociology of despair is emerging, based on spurious science, incomprehension of the hardships of all human history, and blindness to the perennial sources of human triumph. While physicists begin to concede freedom for microscopic particles, social scientists still begrudge it to human beings. Atomic structure is allowed room for the random and incalculable; but social structure is supposedly under siege by mechanistic forces of en tropy and exhaustion, playing out their logic in a "closing circle" of ecological decline. These attitudes lead to systematic distortions of vision and policy. The mindset that prompts man to see the future blighted by coercion and scarcity also inclines him to believe that the present can be made as free of risk and uncertainty as the past, receding unchangeably in the lenses of hindsight.
3 months ago
True or false communist quote
the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,
4 months ago
Walker Scribd vs Walker Kindle copyright page
Scribner An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2017 by Matthew Walker […] First Scribner hardcover edition October 2017 […] ISBN 978-1-5011-4431-8 ISBN 978-1-5011-4433-2 (ebook)
4 months ago
Walker Scribd vs Walker Kindle endnotes re every species sleeping
III. Cirelli, C., and Tononi, G. (2008). “Is sleep essential?” PLoS Biology. 6, e216.
4 months ago
Walker Scribd vs Walker Kindle re every species sleeping
Yet sleep has persisted. Heroically so. Indeed, every animal species carefully studied to date sleeps.III This suggests that sleep evolved with—or very soon after—life itself on our planet.
4 months ago