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"Statues from which used to drip the life-blood of a parasitic cult -
Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
"Statues from which used to drip the life-blood of a parasitic cult -
Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations." — Dec 03, 2023 02:29AM
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"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
"The late physicist and complexity pioneer Murray Gell-Mann rightly called formal models “prostheses for the imagination." — Oct 25, 2023 02:20AM
“Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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