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AI Engineer Claims to Have Deciphered Linear A - GreekReporter.com

An AI engineer working outside academia says he has deciphered Linear A, a Bronze Age writing system from Minoan Crete.

ink - inkle's narrative scripting language

As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.

Interpreting Pangram

What is AI generated text anyways?

Pappus of Alexandria Book 7 of the Collection

The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later mathematicians, among them Viete, Newton, and Chasles, to original discoveries in their pursuit of the lost science of antiquity. This presentation of it is concerned solely with recovering what can be learned from Pappus about Greek mathematics. The main part of it comprises a new edition of Book 7; a literal translation; and a commentary on textual, historical, and mathematical aspects of the book. It proved to be convenient to divide the commentary into two parts, the notes to the text and translation, and essays about the lost works that Pappus discusses. The first function of an edition of this kind is, not to expose new discoveries, but to present a reliable text and organize the accumulated knowledge about it for the reader's convenience. Nevertheless there are novelties here. The text is based on a fresh transcription of Vat. gr. 218, the archetype of all extant manuscripts, and in it I have adopted numerous readings, on manuscript authority or by emendation, that differ from those of the old edition of Hultsch. Moreover, many difficult parts of the work have received little or no commentary hitherto.

Writing as a thinking tool

In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...

Writing as a thinking tool

In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More

This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans w…

an elegy for the pencil

how computers changed the way we write

L’histoire par les textes - APHG

Antiquité Moyen Âge Période moderne Période contemporaine Thèmes transversaux Historiographie Liens utiles N.B. Les documents portant sur les séquences intermédiaires entre plusieurs ères (antiquité tardive, transition Moyen Âge / première modernité, période révolutionnaire) peuvent se trouver dans les deux pages concernées. Principes du projet et avertissements Pour valoriser et partager ces efforts conséquents, cette page […]

Notes on writing

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction

This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have…

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Easily generate Lorem Ipsum placeholder text in any number of characters, words sentences or paragraphs. Learn about the origins of the passage and its history, from the Roman era to today.

3 Enoch

Modern scholars describe this book as pseudepigraphal, as it says it is written by "Rabbi Ishmael" who became a "high priest" after visions of ascension to Heaven.[2] This has been taken as referring to Rabbi Ishmael, a third-generation Tanna and a leading figure of Merkabah mysticism. However, he could not have been a High Priest of Israel, as he was born after the Siege of Jerusalem and associated destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. An alternative attribution would be the earlier Tanna Ishmael ben Elisha, who lived through the Siege of Jerusalem.[citation needed] Although 3 Enoch contains several Greek and Latin words, the book appears to have been originally written in Hebrew.[2]

1 Corinthians

Lightly dotted blank pages and 130+ elegant hand-lettered gold ink illustrations throughout the full text of books of the Bible invite you to creatively engage with God's Word alongside specific passages.