Why the demoniac stayed in his comfortable corner of hell “In Kierkegaard’s words: ‘One may hear the drunkard say: “Let me be the filth that I am.”’ Or, leave me alone with my bottle and let me ruin my life, thank you very much. I heard this first from my father, and then from an […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
New Gilgamesh Fragment: Enkidu’s Sexual Exploits Doubled
2019.02.19 – 11:48
New Gilgamesh Fragment: Enkidu’s Sexual Exploits Doubled “What is interesting about this is that the epic tells that becoming human is a two-step process. First, one must learn to think like a human being, and second, one must learn to think like a member of society. After the first week of sex Enkidu may have […]
Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic
2019.02.19 – 11:33
Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic “Gods are here depicted as the opposite of animals, they are omnipotent and immortal, whereas animals are oblivious and destined to die. To be human is to be placed somewhere in the middle: not omnipotent, but capable of skilled labour; not immortal, but aware of […]
The Trouble in Getting to Denmark
2019.02.13 – 09:54
The Trouble in Getting to Denmark “In our argument it was not that the Wars of Religion simply exhausted confessional and doctrinal disputes. Rather there was a transformation at the institutional level. The leading European states shifted away from identity rules towards more general rules. This shift was related to 19th-century historian Henry Sumner Maine’s […]
Tweet by jonworth
2019.02.13 – 09:52
Right. Take a deep breath. 🥵 After the #NoConfidenceVote I have reworked my Brexit flow diagram. 🚨 The events of the last two days have made this more complex, not less. And there are more loops than before. I *think* the chances of #Article50 extension are now up though. pic.twitter.com/jlcqDJq4i0 — Jon Worth (@jonworth) January […]
Tweet by harvardmed
2019.02.13 – 09:52
In the largest study of U.S. twins, researchers used insurance records to tease out the effects of genes and environment in hundreds of diseases https://t.co/c0084meW5L — Harvard Medical School (@harvardmed) January 14, 2019 via https://twitter.com/harvardmed
Tweet by OppenheimerEvan
2019.02.13 – 09:52
Here's my 4th tutorial in my "R for Hockey Analysis" series, where I show you how you can use #rstats for hockey data. This tutorial is centered around the basics of RegEx and the stringr 📦, which can help you immensely with cleaning your data.https://t.co/PheKvkFz7r — Evan Oppenheimer (@OppenheimerEvan) January 9, 2019 via https://twitter.com/OppenheimerEvan
Tweet by NicolaGrissom
2019.02.13 – 09:52
I'm beginning to question the assumption that exploration is a quality of good decision making. In human work, it assumes that people have lived safe lives where seeking information has resulted in good outcomes. This is not a valid assumption for much of humanity. — Grissom Lab (@NicolaGrissom) January 4, 2019 via https://twitter.com/NicolaGrissom
Tweet by NicolaGrissom
2019.02.13 – 09:52
For essentially every being *other* than powerful people, life is nasty, brutish, and short, and shorter if you mess up. In light of this, choosing to *change* strategies, particularly after finding one that works well enough, goes against "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". — Grissom Lab (@NicolaGrissom) January 4, 2019 via https://twitter.com/NicolaGrissom
Tweet by annehelen
2019.02.13 – 09:52
This piece began with me trying to figure out why I had "errand paralysis" and ballooned into this much bigger thing. I was convinced I didn't have burnout. But that's because I was convinced that burnout was something you could fix with a vacation: https://t.co/hGHgNX3uSE — Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) January 5, 2019 via https://twitter.com/annehelen
Tweet by jamesmh_dev
2019.02.13 – 09:52
Thread for Junior Developers/Engineers: Bad news – the ability to be a master/elite coder is only the first step in your career 😞 You'll soon find that coding is the easy part. Some of the hard parts – if you want to progress as a software engineer/developer – are: — James Hickey 🇨🇦 (@jamesmh_dev) January […]
Tweet by JamesFallows
2019.02.13 – 09:52
2/2 – Also true that *other* extremely hard part of the job, apart from making decisions, is persuading others to go along with you. That *generally* requires seeing them in person — Rep/Sens, foreign leaders, crowds that don't already agree w you. Time alloc crucial part of job — James Fallows (@JamesFallows) February 4, 2019 […]
Tweet by JamesFallows
2019.02.13 – 09:52
1/2 Two contradictory truths about "executive time" for presidents:– It's really true that, in normal circumstances, a prez's time is *most* precious commodity, and must be ferociously guarded to allow chance to think, second-guess, recharge. So "blank" time. is precious time. — James Fallows (@JamesFallows) February 4, 2019 via https://twitter.com/JamesFallows
Book Review: Zero to One
2019.02.01 – 00:12
Book Review: Zero to One “There’s a lot more to this book, but it all seems to be pointing at the same central, hard-to-describe idea. Something like “All progress comes from violations of the efficient market hypothesis, so you had better believe these are possible, and you had better get good at finding them.” The […]