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Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, Cyrillic was closer to Greek, that's why it stuck better. Just edited to make it clear.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are Byzantine Armenian dimensions to this story that I suspect not many people know. Cyrill and Methodius were taught by Leo the Philosopher and Photios, in the University established by Bardas, all Greek-Armenians who clearly knew the transformative effect of having your own writing system (it saved Armenians from assimilation just a few centuries prior to these events). It took Hellenic culture of Byzantine period and Armenian experience to give birth to the first Slavic writing of Moravia and Bulgaria, and later most of Eastern Europe.
Incidentally, the first writing system (Glagolithic) didn't stick nearly as well as the subsequent iteration (Cyrillic) because the latter was so much closer to Greek, and every educated person already knew how to read/write Greek so it was a much easier sell. Regardless, this invention and its promotion was very much a planned and well-understood Byzantine project.
> Thus Bardas founded the Magnaura School with seats for philosophy, grammar, astronomy and mathematics, supported scholars like Leo the Mathematician and promoted the missionary activities of Cyril and Methodius to Greater Moravia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Mathematician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_VII_of_Constantinople https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photios_I_of_Constantinople
(these further cite primary sources)
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh he's "solving the problem efficiently", just not the problem he purports to be solving. It's all about misaligned incentives in large orgs: people act out of their own self interest, and if the incentive mechanisms are designed incorrectly (or evolved over time into a misaligned framework), you get situations like these. The higher-levels in big orgs typically do play an outright zero-sum game for positions of power, with the object-level problem/domain being mostly a nuisance.
Comment · 2 years ago
I use this (should be the baseline I think): https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec
Comment · 3 years ago
Also, when have people not followed "false narratives"? The entire human civilization sits on a stack of false narratives.
Comment · 3 years ago
This looks great! What are some of the verticals you think this will be most immediately applicable in, and are you integrating with any? I am thinking a lot of ads/marketing work can be jump-started with these notebooks.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, you can ask yourself what is "real value". In fact, more likely than not, it's just some imaginary stuff you ascribe value to, just like "prestige".
Comment · 3 years ago
> what are the chances they already publish photos taken on devices that apply by default some form of AI-based generative/corrective algorithms
100%?
Comment · 3 years ago
> In my experience with children, one of the easiest-to-grasp concepts of infinity is provided by the transfinite ordinals
Things people say on HN :)
Comment · 3 years ago
> The author is basically a crank
Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics?
He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin
Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...