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0xBABAD00C commented on Inventing Cyrillic historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/drdee

hoseja · 2 years ago

Did you mean the second paragraph as Cyrillic being closer to Greek? That makes sense but I was confused at first and thought you meant Glagolitic being closer, which makes very little sense.

0xBABAD00C · 2 years ago

Yes, Cyrillic was closer to Greek, that's why it stuck better. Just edited to make it clear.

0xBABAD00C commented on Inventing Cyrillic historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/drdee

0xBABAD00C · 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)

0xBABAD00C commented on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution effectiviology.com/shirky... · Posted by u/walterbell

thr0way120 · 2 years ago

I had same experience at a large company.

Guy had a very simple project. He came to me and asked for "help." I found an external vendor who specialized in solving that problem (building a basic product extension) and got it done in two weeks.

When I gave him the solution, he immediately stopped talking to me and wanted nothing to do with me.

It turned out he had gone to a VP, cleared a 50 person team to work on this problem. He had a weekly call with like 10 people (tiger team he called it) to do nothing but this and nine months later they released the solution and had a giant party.

Everyone got credit, high fives all around.

AT that point I realized that work is a huge scam at large corporations. He was optimizaing for a "promotable event" that "spreads the credit far and wide."

Nothing to do with solving the problem efficiently.

0xBABAD00C · 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.

0xBABAD00C commented on Stock Market Today trystockstack.com/stock-m... · Posted by u/mxsjoberg

0xBABAD00C · 2 years ago

I use this (should be the baseline I think): https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec

0xBABAD00C commented on Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’ wired.com/story/generativ... · Posted by u/pseudolus

azangru · 3 years ago

> Michael Graziano, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University, says he thinks AI could create a “post-truth world.” He says it will likely make it significantly easier to convince people of false narratives, which will be disruptive in many ways

Significantly easier? I would have thought that it would get harder to convince people of anything.

0xBABAD00C · 3 years ago

Also, when have people not followed "false narratives"? The entire human civilization sits on a stack of false narratives.

0xBABAD00C commented on AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models lastmileai.dev/workbooks/... · Posted by u/Flux159

saqadri · 3 years ago

Hey folks! I'm Sarmad from the LastMile AI team. We'd love your feedback on this as you try it out. Here's a video example of using AI Workbooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vRQQNZLFo

Example Workbook from the video: https://lastmileai.dev/workbooks/clj530sqs000znztcmd5qr7v6

0xBABAD00C · 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.

0xBABAD00C commented on Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates theverge.com/23758492/pri... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

JohnFen · 3 years ago

> Prestige is a powerful motivator.

I know this to be true because I've seen so many people given BS titles instead of raises and be happy about it as if they got something of real value.

But I don't understand it at all. Apparently, I lack the "prestige" gene.

0xBABAD00C · 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".

0xBABAD00C commented on Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/geox

throw101010 · 3 years ago

> Nature will not be publishing any content in which photography, videos or illustrations have been created wholly or partly using generative AI, at least for the foreseeable future.

Allow me a bit of a rhetorical question, what are the chances they already publish photos taken on devices that apply by default some form of AI-based generative/corrective algorithms like the "AI detail enhancement engine" by Samsung (the one they use to enhance photos of the moon)?

0xBABAD00C · 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%?