Recent content by baire

this isn't too bad to answer. we can't count to infinity but we can sidestep this by describing 'size' in terms of 'cardinality' one of the most famous results is that there are different sizes of infinity, I think most people are familiar with countably/uncountably infinite - comparing a...

I also think reading shorter novels at first might be beneficial, just because you can choose a wide variety of works to try and see what you like... for horror, "House of Leaves" by Danielewski is one I've heard consistently good things about but I've never read it myself so idk, and it is...

I'm a bit late, but I'd like to join this challenge. I started the year quite well, but my reading pace seems to have really slowed down, I think I'll aim for 10 books currently: 4/10 read currently reading want to read later

early in january of 2020 my mental state took a nosedive and I spent weeks on end absolutely furious, just waking up every morning feeling like I couldn't breathe; the only tune I knew of at the time that I could actually enjoy thanks to my mood was prokofiev sonata 6, probably the angriest...

chimp test is rigged :'( also I feel like my visual memory percentile used to be higher?? either I've been getting dumber or everyone's getting smarter, but on the whole I guess my scores are OK

Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 is my favourite piece of music ever written so that'd be my answer but it's a very dark and angry work - for a more conventional view of 'beautiful' I'll say Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe suite 2. The opening, especially, with the flute/clarinets underpinned by the harp's...

I keep forgetting what I read over the year but luckily goodreads has me covered currently reading Mason & Dixon by Pynchon as well as The Tempest by Shakespeare, both have that older style of English which has been really fun, even though Pynchon wrote Mason & Dixon in 1997. I always wonder...

I haven't watched it yet but I'm interested to hear how it gets recieved! the original comics spent a lot of time exploring how childish and overly simplistic the whole idea of 'superheroes' was. for example Rorschach had this Kantian-like approach to ethics, but realistically what ends up...

the CEO of renaissance technologies, peter brown, is one of geoffrey hinton's (the "godfather of deep learning") earliest students which was a random piece of trivia I thought was pretty interesting he got poached from an IBM speech recognition team into joining renaissance tech. (many others...

I finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle today, what a bizarre and fun read. there are still a ton of Murakami books I want to go through but I'm just a bit tired of his typical tropes/themes so I'm gonna read some other stuff atm. but yeh Wind-Up Bird nets two bingos among the Murakami tropes...

always wondered why there wasn't a thread like this, am reading: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami love Murakami way too much. shoutout to Aslan for recommending this author Abstract Algebra - Dummit and Foote my algebra textbook this year! reading through the sections which weren't...

just discovered this guy, what a legend lmfao ('allegory of the cave' reference, for those who haven't taken intro to phil)

not competitive at all! I used to be very competitive when I was younger but nowadays in university I'm fairly average compared to peers/friends so it mostly seems futile. I still put lots of effort in stuff I'm passionate about for the sake of enjoying myself especially thanks to my horrid...

huh, they completely changed the quiz INFP seems v typical!

this hasn't touched any nerves for me, but yes I think it's very problamatic. I also think it extends far beyond just being unsympathetic to different, unfamiliar cultures. Peter Singer has made one of the most famous arguments along this line in recent times, and while I disagree with...