Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

@DavidCorn yet, he didn't cede to Israeli demands for further bloodshed. Something that contemporary US politicians have failed
https://www.timesofisrael.com/henry-kissinger-prominent-cold-war-diplomat-dies-aged-100/amp/

@nervous_jesse ok, I get it. Sure, just used the reference to pass a complex idea quickly. One gets inspired, then needs to grow out of the shadow of others

@nervous_jesse ...but I don't understand what "the Escher estate is very litigious" means. Is it about IP? Surely, there's no copyright on tiling patterns, and if one is after a related effect, it is all about transitive textures, which can be made procedurally. Then one gets into fractals... Even simple ones are difficult to conceive without at least a piece of paper :) Sorry, an amateur here fantasising in front of a professional, but you really got me way back into combinatorics

@nervous_jesse I love it. As you can see I'm a bit slow to follow through what you did, but it is genius

@nervous_jesse probably exactly the jump - from what is a conceivable next step (Möbius strip, torus) to skipping several steps in order to get the mind perceiving it as an impossible magic - is what made the difference for the wow-bang effect

@nervous_jesse I wonder why did you go for a Klein bottle when a Möbius strip has a similar flip effect and is actually constructable. Then Möbius+Escher is a ready classic. I have it cut and glued from paper somewhere in the basement
https://www.weedist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Escher_Metamorphosis_II.jpg

@chrisamaphone what does "dependently typed" mean? Not a term from the topology I know

@ECONdailycharts Tashkent in Eastern Europe is a remarkable achievement

@alfiekohn since we are talking of rote learning (which is typically measured by assessment focused of factual knowledge), the finding seems to repeat to premise: yes, one memorises through repetition

@Daojoan hi Joan, your offer does look very generous and I'd like to take advantage. Thank you for putting it out.

This paper has already been accepted, but it is an early presentation of an ongoing project. I wonder if it might interest you:

Title: "Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data"

Abstract: "A recurring challenge when studying history of translation is interpreting catalogue metadata. On one
hand such interpretation is limited by the fact that data present in catalogue records is tabular and nominative, and not quantitative. On the other hand, such research is guided by tacit knowledge of scholars
in the humanities, and thus it could be challenging to reproduce its results. We take inspiration from phenomenography, a discipline within educational research that examines how students perceive the
phenomena being learned. We adopt the view that scienti昀椀c inquiry is a collective form of learning.
By doing this, we turn to the phenomenographic theory that variation is necessary to understand the
phenomena being studied, and is achieved through three distinct patterns of variance: contrast, generalisation and fusion. We propose an approach to visualise the combination of nominal data and tacit
knowledge by subjecting it to these three patterns. We illustrate our approach with two case studies
from literary translations between Italy and the UK in the post-war 20th century. Our claim is that on
one hand this guides scholars on how to analytically approach their research questions, on the other
it drives them to externalise and validate hidden assumptions. Our approach offers a way of doing
reproducible science not only when conducting literature research with bibliographic data. It is also
applicable in the wider cases within the humanities when tabular data are available."

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper774.pdf

An extraordinary reflection on the societal challenges of social networks (and not simply usability affordances).

This is the blog post that writes it up all together, the post is part of thread which keeps getting insightful comments also from others.