Tomorrow is the Sámi national day, this is an indigenous nation spanning Norway, Sweden and Finland. I learnt very little about them growing up, and still am ignorant. I would like to learn more. In the meantime, I share some amazing music.
Checking out Sami children programs at the national broadcaster. Very infectious.
Do you want to count to ten in Northern Sami? You know you do.
My son came home from school where they spent the whole day celebrating the National day, learning about history, reading stories, listening to music. Very happy-when I went to school we never talked about it at all.
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#RoamGames submission: Roam Inter. Create streams anywhere in your graph. Other Roam graphs can easily subscribe to any feed, at any place in their graph. Streams are updated in near-real time, and support block-references and embeds!
R-Inter Conversations: Chat/async brainstorm done right, the Roam way... Inspired by how @Conaw pairs with people in a multiuser db, and RBC conventions, what if we could do the same, but across DBs, bringing in our own material, but only what we chose?
To start, just type
conversation:: globally-unique-convo-name
It immediately inserts your name below, giving you a space to type.
When sb. else subscribes in their db, they see your posts, and their own name is immediately appended, and shows up for everyone else who has joined
Minerva Project is hiring a full-stack engineer (JS and Django) to work on our Forum platform - fully active learning with very carefully thought out lesson plans, and integrated curriculum. We started with Minerva Schools, currently we have a high school program, exec ed...
I've been working at Minerva for two years, and I deeply believe in what we are trying to achieve (I spent ten years researching collaborative learning with technology before joining). Amazing team - work closely with faculty to develop technology that fits pedagogy.
You guys have got to stop encouraging me... I've got actual work to do :( Demo of RSS feed reader inside @roamresearch, reads a list of URLs from your graph, fetches RSS, parses, and inserts title and content of three lasts posts. Total proof of concept...
If you actually wanted to build this as a real thing, would want to think about checking which articles already exist, to add new ones only, as well as parsing of content (right now just dumps a blob of HTML), and many other things.
Also not convinced it's a good idea to import tons of content into your Roam graph at the moment. But some day it will be (I'm pretty sure, I want to keep my life there), so worth it to begin playing.
Hm, implementing an RSS reader inside Roam, built on top of new write API. Actually seems very doable. Can use iframes as well - or the latest hypothesis SmartBlock trickery...
As we start writing more to blocks, becomes more important to be able to separate raw material from stuff we want to appear when we search...
If there was a global filter which still let me see stuff where I put it, but hid it from all search/block ref autocomplete, back links...
Up early on a Sunday to read for my book club on Sapiens📒, enjoying the calm. Asking myself some qs ahead of reading to prime myself, keeping track of when I read, looking up some relevant info in Wikipedia, and adding an SRS to keep track of it.
I know a lot of people are critical of this book, and I found a bunch of links that I'm also looking forward to going through. One thing that we discussed a lot around the first section is how the cognitive revolution/upper paleolithic transition actually happened.
Harari seems to suggest "we don't know but probably a random brain mutation". Vervaeke suggests we developed psycho-technologies, possibly through shamans, related to existential thread ([[Toba catastrophe]])
. Have about 45 cards, going to work through them and start adding more. Still experimenting but generally happy with the quality of my cards and underlying notes.
Doing it in Roam is great because you have context. Because answer is a reference, shift+clicking gives so deep context in the sidebar - where it's from, the bigger story. Often, reviewing a card, I will add to my notes, look something up.