User:Openlander
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[edit] misc
- interesting word from gibson's pattern recognition: apophenia
- starting points for exploring the forgetting of names: mnemonic, nominal aphasia
- inventor of mouse: Douglas Engelbart
- nice graph-paper generator, and also this canned triangular graph paper
- musical and graphical converter for abc notation
- earn out is a business term relating to acquisition of start-ups
- karoshi = japanese word for salary-man sudden death
[edit] aesthetics/philosophy
- Liane Gabora "Origin of the modern mind through conceptual closure", etc.
- aesthetics of non-ornamentation: Adolf Loos (came upon via wittgenstein (who i came upon via kirkegaard))
- supervenience is a kind of dependency relationship, typically held to obtain between sets of properties.
[edit] math
- handy reference: table of logic symbols; for more detail, see table of mathematical symbols
- cool: cauchy sequence
- pointless topology
- diagram chasing
[edit] physics
- minkowski diagram could be a good way of teaching special relativity without math
- is the relativity of simultaneity for real?
- light cone was in lee smolin's three roads to quantum gravity
[edit] body
- triphala = indian herbal supplement, supposedly healthy
