oatsandsugar's commonplace book
This is a catalogue for things worth keeping, with thoughts or half thoughts as to why. Kept primarily for re-finding and re-thinking.
Entries
- A prosthesis over a healthy limb
- Ned Beauman describes AI as a crutch that cripples.
- Quite frankly, I don't remember
- Borges on a discussion of immortality at a noisy bar.*
- A gem backed with foil
- The narrative foil comes from jewelers backing gems with foil to make them shine more brightly, and Shakespeare used the image knowingly.
- It has not escaped our notice
- Watson and Crick's quiet sentence about base pairing, copying, and the confidence of leaving the implications open.
- Rest isn't idleness
- Leo Umilio on the approved kind of doing nothing (rest, which serves work) and the suspect kind (idleness, which serves nothing at all).