Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
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Engineer and essayist: @palladiummag, @mansworldmag_, @im_1776, @unherd, @AntigoneJournal, @TheSideViewCo. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined October 2012
I shake my head when I see otherwise smart people refer to the academic discipline of philosophy as “philosophy” unqualified. What the average professor of philosophy does has little to do with what Plato and Aristotle were up to.
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Hedera’s architecture routes activity through its Hashgraph consensus, enabling high throughput and low-latency finality Core services—Consensus, Token, and Smart Contracts—support Payments, DeFi, NFTs, and Decentralized ID All governed by the Hedera Council
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RT @SamoBurja: Hollywood and academia fight a perpetual a perpetual propaganda war against the past, depicting it as drab and primitive, di…
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Introducing: PALLADIUM 19: Long History Our recent prehistoric ancestors were not cavemen grunting over campfires. They were monument-builders, explorers, traders, and conquerors. Shipping in December. Become a member to receive your copy (link below!):
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RNA has now been recovered and interpreted from permafrost-preserved mammals up to about 40,000–50,000 years old. Using optimized extraction and alignment strategies, particularly Bowtie2, ancient RNA from ten woolly mammoths was sequenced and rigorously authenticated through
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” –– T. S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.
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Like all writers, I have written the Quixote; like all, I have written the Iliad.
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Schools should issue bound notebooks in which students’ assignments must be recorded and which can be collected and inspected by teachers & parents at any time.
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Some readers of commercial fiction refer to literary fiction (of any genre) as “clunky.” They don’t like anything written in a style not pre-chewed.
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The best for “Modernity,” by far: — Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis — Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Henry IV p 1 & 2 — Lucretius On the Nature of Things (esp 5-6) — Machiavelli’s Prince (esp 3 and 15), and Mandragola — Plato’s Symposium (esp Eryximachus’s speech)
This is not engagement bait. What is the best book, article, PDF, etc, about modernism or the history of modernism.
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“Money is a bubble that never pops.” Except it *can* pop. That’s exactly what hyperinflation is.
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” –– T. S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.
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Like all writers, I have written the Quixote; like all, I have written the Iliad.
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@DissidentRight Excellent observation that the UFO thing is a leading indicator of loose screws.
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Schools should issue bound notebooks in which students’ assignments must be recorded and which can be collected and inspected by teachers & parents at any time.
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The thing about duties-based censorship regimes like the UK Online Safety Act is that everyone is potentially in violation of them all the time, so the regulator gets to pick and choose the least cooperative - or most politically desirable - targets for fines and penalties.
As with other UK regulatory regimes, navigating Ofcom's rules for compliance with the Online Safety Act is more about game theory than legal interpretation. Service providers are starting to figure out that they don't have to outrun the bear, they just have to outrun each other.
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It is good to reflect on the reasons for the superiority of Singapore over Kuala Lumpur.
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RNA has now been recovered and interpreted from permafrost-preserved mammals up to about 40,000–50,000 years old. Using optimized extraction and alignment strategies, particularly Bowtie2, ancient RNA from ten woolly mammoths was sequenced and rigorously authenticated through
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@VICE “Let’s pathologize normal sexual relations as much as we can. Yes, that will help!”
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Pre-existing, siloed large datasets (verifiably protected from early 'AI drip') will be the low-background steel of a future AI economy.
it's already very difficult to filter large model datasets for noise. it will be even more difficult to filter them for synthetic content - the better models get, the harder it is flooding public data with generated examples will drive models into a self-limiting fixed point.
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