Ahmed FASIH @22@octodon.social
I like languages (spoken & programming) and live in the Midwestern US but enjoy all places and cultures. Favorite genre: slice of life. https://fasiha.github.io
This book is INSANE. Look at the quality and amount of the analysis (the commentary goes on for another page).
Alexander Vovin, “Man'yōshū: A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary”.
Map of major south/southeast Asian rivers and their mountain sources, via “Climate change: Melting glaciers bring energy uncertainty" by Javaid Laghari: http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-melting-glaciers-bring-energy-uncertainty-1.14031
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“When you forget to turn off location sharing for your #troll factory” (https://imgur.com/fVzvOMM)
Brb hiring a consultant from House Harkonnen to decipher the layers of deceit here. https://octodon.social/media/HJU9WcO9kndQUOGyHMU
Here’s a tidbit from Duncan Watts’ “Everything is obvious: once you know the answer” showing what this looks like in the wild, with a real review of Harry Potter:
‘Although it is rarely presented as such, this kind of circular reasoning—X succeeded because X had the attributes of X—pervades commonsense explanations for why some things succeed and others fail. For example, an article on the success of the Harry Potter books explained it this way: …’
I don’t know anything about Buddhist cosmogony or mythological religiosity, and this book is filling in those gaps—the better to appreciate Kyoto art.
Here’s the ten Buddhist realms. Clockwise from the top:
- Buddhas
- Bodhisattvas
- Arhats
- Humans
- Ghosts
- Hell-beings
- Animals
- Asuras (um, like, demons?)
- Gods
- Enlightened ones
(So, 12 o’clock is the highest world, of Buddhas, then alternating right/left until the bottom, of hell-beings.) #TIL
They did something amazing with this book: instead of photographs, which are frequently forbidden, they had someone paint these brilliant, crushingly-evocative scenes. I am in love with this book and everything in it and everything it talks about.
From Kerr & Sokol’s “Another Kyoto”.
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“I’d been a solider for four years. I had never dreamed I would make it home alive.” —Shigeru Mizuki, in “Showa 1944–1953” describing PTSD. Anyone living through that has my eternal sympathy and support. Anyone sending others to that accrues bad, terrifying karma.
I hit jackpot. Mizuki Shigeru’s award-winning nonfiction semi-autobiographical manga. (First volume in transit.)
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Revenue growth under a variety of circumstances (high and low growth as a function of network effects, replacement, and adoption) converge to long-term economic growth rate. Via https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170821.htm
Ultra-high-precision camera obscura factory (aka alt-right eclipse goggles).
The main story is not tech’s gender imbalance.
The main story is that women *most professions* are mistreated by men & women in them—cf., Nicole & Marty’s story https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/839910253680553988 ➜ https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266 but visible to anyone working a job.
The main issue is gender imbalance among full professors, executives, legislators &c., i.e., middle and upper levels of most professions.
Tech’s imbalance steals all of our porous attention, but it’s just a freak sideshow.
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"I live and work with three basic assumptions.
"1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.
"2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.
"3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women."
—Vera Rubin (photo: Lowell Observatory, 1965).
To live in this time, in this place, with these people, with these stories. Voyager 1 & 2, friends.
Via http://www.nature.com/news/voyager-outward-bound-1.13040 https://octodon.social/media/X01reBrnd3k08JSsz1c
Any #Kentucky-ians in the house? What’s this big bowl that #Lexington and #Louisville are inside, and ringed by hills to the east, south, and west? Is it the Bluegrass region, ringed by the Cumberland Plateau on the east and the Mississippi Plateau to the west?
I… you know how there are books that you start and then become afraid to leave the house before finishing? Yeah. James C Scott’s “The Art of Not Being Governed”, about #Zomia, is one of those books. So much of the party line I ate up like tripe, that Scott shreds. https://octodon.social/media/jZaraloKf03ONz8dUlI https://octodon.social/media/gR2zLHsuKcnumZhKqzM
Asia from the north. WIP.
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The conventional way to show terrain is hill-shading, per this Google Terrain map. For many use-cases, like preparing to walk a terrain, or understand its drainage systems, or trace the ridges of its hills, texture-shading is way better 😌. (10 meters per pixel USGS NED data, #Cleveland, #Ohio, USA).
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#Kyoto, ASTER v2 and SRTM v3 again, but this time accompanied by texture-shaded render.
(Super-rough Julia code at https://github.com/fasiha/Texshade.jl/blob/master/src/Texshade.jl)
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