#tolstoy — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117276486477901044
Tolstoy's "How much land does a man need?" but $ and the greedy man is the military industrial complex
https://www.cooperative-individualism.org/tolstoy-leo_how-much-land-does-a-man-need-1886.pdf
Which reminds me, did you know that the original title for "War and Peace" was "War: What is it good for?"
😅#Tolstoy #War #Seinfeld #USA #military #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #TTJ
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TEI markup of Tolstoy's 90-volume collected works → metadata extraction, social network analysis from 16K+ named entities, and Textograph for manuscript digitization. A landmark project for Russian digital humanities.
PDF: https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/tolstoy-edition.pdf
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“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
https://russian-world-citizens.blogspot.com/2023/04/selected-books-in-russian-google.html - Selected books in Russian - #GoogleTranslated into English in 2023 - Lev Nikolayevich #Tolstoy- Complete Works. Volume 58 Diaries and Notebooks 1910.epub - #russianLife #russianHistory #russianEmpire #diaries #notebooks #nonfiction "1910-October 31. Astapovo"The more the manifestation of God in man (life) is combined in the manifestations (lives) of other beings, the more he exists. The union of this one's life with the lives of other beings is accomplished by love"
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https://rusa-esperanta.blogspot.com/2023/01/esperantigita-de-guglo-en-2023-google.html Esperantigita de Guglo en 2023- #GoogleTranslated into #Esperanto - Milito kaj Paco - Lev Tolstoj.epub - Anna Karenina- Lev Tolstoj.epub - ĈEĤOV.Volumoj 7-10. Rakontoj-Romanoj-1888-1903-tradukita al Esperanto de Guglo.epub -
"Ĉiuj feliĉaj familioj estas similaj; ĉiu malfeliĉa familio estas malfeliĉa laŭ sia maniero. ..
"Nu, princo, Ĝenovo kaj Luko fariĝis ne pli ol la bienoj de la familio Bonaparte..