RanaldClouston
RanaldClouston@fediscience.org
<p>Lecturer in Computer Science at Australian National University.</p><p>See my introduction post <a href="https://fediscience.org/@RanaldClouston/111372747473214344" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediscience.org/@RanaldClousto</span><span class="invisible">n/111372747473214344</span></a></p><p>He/him.</p>
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Post #4385657
Finished reading this collection of short stories and critical and philosophical essays by Borges, mostly from the 1940s, and unfortunately bounced off it pretty hard. His very short stories are written (and translated) in a style that I found dry and laborious, stuffed with literary, philosophical, and religious references, leaving little room for the usual pleasures of reading fiction, like engaging characters. This is in line with his intentions I think, as he focuses squarely on astounding t...
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Post #1973456
My daughter was trying to describe an object to me, and came up with &quot;the washing-up stick with one end that looks like a Hungarian puli&quot;. The word she was failing to bring to mind, was &quot;mop&quot;.
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Post #1973455
Nod your head and break your neck! https://youtu.be/W7FfCJb8JZQ?&amp;t=85 Break Ya Neck by #BustaRhymes ; song starts at 1:25 into the video. #JukeboxFridayNight #UseYourHead
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Post #1707534
Brombær is trying out sitting like a human today. #DogsOfMastodon
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Post #783308
Finished an interesting romp through the scientific and technological history of the representation and transmission of information, from talking drums to Wikipedia, with Claude Shannon&#39;s information theory taking the star turn. I appreciated that the author isn&#39;t afraid to look beyond hype and offer mild scepticism: on Norbert Wiener&#39;s more grandiose tendencies, or attempts to turn memetics into an academic field (also, any serious discussion of memes in a 2011 book is a...