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Melancholy Yuga
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Dec 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@natfriedman A lot of Wyclif's stuff remains untranslated into English. Here's a fn from an article from 2020 that attempts to catalogue all of the English translations, as compared to his Latin bibliography: Image
Image @natfriedman So, to pick one (1) concrete example, it looks like 95% of De Civile Dominio remains untranslated as of 2020.
Jan 11, 2024 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
So I finally indulged my curiosity about l'affaire Oxman and spent five minutes browsing her dissertation. The problems with it are, if anything, way worse than seem to have been reported. (And to lay my own cards on the table I think it's basically fine what happened to Gay, save that it would have been better for all parties involved if it had been nipped in the bud years earlier.)
Jul 17, 2022 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
My favorite book on drawing, Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, makes a convincing argument by demonstration that drawing is mostly about learning to unsee all of the visual processing that stands between your eyeballs and "you" Visual perception is strongly influenced by both prior expectations and decision-theoretic salience (attract / avoid / ignore), and these filters start working before the signals have even left the retina. Perception is basically Heideggerian, not Cartesian.
Nov 30, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Don't want to push too hard on this because people buy vehicles for all kinds of dumb reasons, but... It's probably a lot easier to believe that you could only want a truck for status reasons if you've never lived in a rural area, worked in the building trades or so on.
Jul 19, 2020 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
When I lived in DC I would hang out with my neighbor from Saudi who grew up in international schools and spoke perfect English with an NYC accent. Nice guy, very Snow Crash timeline vibe. I got to hear a little about what it's like over there. He pointed out that there are a lot of American engineers who move there to make bank for a few years, then go home. Mormons do especially well-- the lifestyle is a little closer to Saudi defaults, and the mission trips instill confidence with living abroad.