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"Letting numbers take us where we can't go in person – whether that's to the top of a windmill or to the origin and borders of the universe – has been and still is one of humankind's favorite intellectual adventures." – Kitty Ferguson (1941–)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths

solution to fix the education system found at last:
19-JUL-2023
Teaching robots to teach other robots
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/996134 #science #ai #dystopia

Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge | Royal Society Open Science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

Some #linguistics / #ethnomathematics

In most Eurasian languages, the numbers from 21 to 99 folllow the general pattern "X tens [and] Y".

In Finnish: 42 = neljä·kymmentä·kaksi 'four tens two'

However, in Finnic and Sámi languages (and probably in other Uralic languages as well), there used to be another system that used ordinals for the tens (and sometimes even for the hundreds):

42 = kaksi·viidettä[kymmentä] 'two of the fifth [ten]'

This approach would make it possible to have an unambiguous place-value number system without a zero symbol:

III I II III
'three of the first ten of the second hundred of the third thousand'
= 2103

Amazing to know that we may have finally cracked ancient Roman concrete formula and recipe, giving us a possibly more environmentally friendly concrete with elf healing properties! Ancient knowledge has been recovered. #Roman #concrete #chemistry

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-stood-the-test-of-time

🌡️📈 Europe has been experiencing some of the hottest temperatures of summer 2023 so far.

But what is influencing this #heatwave, what are its potential consequences, & is #ClimateChange affecting it?

Find out in our new article 👉 https://climate.copernicus.eu/european-heatwave-july-2023-longer-term-context?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=ma&utm_campaign=news-heatwavejuly23

@bibliolater @bookstodon they are different sorts of pleasure

@bibliolater @bookstodon pseudoscience, which arguably is both.

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Depends on my mood really. Am I in the mood to learn (non-fiction), or am I in the mood for wisdom (fiction).

@pattacakek @bibliolater same, almost entirely fiction, mostly novels.

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Fiction. Only very occasionally a non-fiction.