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  • Re: Analysis - Using "AI" Kinda ROTS Human Skills

    From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Jun 22 14:11:20 2026
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    On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:28:32 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

    Ah, would be interesting to have a look. This reminded me of how Feynman talks about some books in his first memoir, at least, what was it,
    "Calculus for the Practical Man"?

    While I remember the physics texts were by Resnick and Halliday I
    mistakenly remembered the calculus text was by Thompson.

    Thompson did indeed write a calculus book that I later bought, 'Calculus
    Made Easy'.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy

    If I ever remember the author of the college text it definitely wasn't
    made easy. One of the the authors of the 2 volume physics text, Resnick,
    was a professor at the school so that was a given although it was widely
    used.

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  • From Charlie Gibbs@cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Jun 22 17:07:24 2026
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    On 2026-06-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:50:29 -0400, c186282 wrote:

    Oh, we DID reach "the point" with knowledge. The so called
    "Renaissance Man" can no longer exist - cannot even remotely put
    *everything* into a single brain. Some of the Nature/Science articles
    - they are SO hyper-detailed/focused on obscure chem/physics/math
    that often the abstracts were as far as I could get. Specialists and
    sub-specialists and sub-sub-specialists now and forever more until
    the next big meteor hits.

    I have a book on computational neuroscience that is headache inducing. I know something about neurophysiology but when you try to turn it into math
    I get lost. Heidegger can also be headache inducing but as far as I can understand it he thought philosophy went to hell when the Pythagoreans
    tried to turn everything into math.

    I have a book titled "Information Mechanics". The description was
    interesting enough that I bought it; it's a description of information
    theory from a quantum mechanical point of view. I didn't get far with
    it - the math was much like the dreaded math textbooks that introduce
    a few basics on page 1, then on page 2 say "From this it is obvious
    that..." and leap into the next universe.
    --
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    \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | intelligence was
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    / \ if you read it the right way. | of this post.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Jun 22 21:01:16 2026
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    On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:07:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    - the math was much like the dreaded math textbooks that introduce a few basics on page 1, then on page 2 say "From this it is obvious that..."
    and leap into the next universe.

    Been there. I did find out who wrote my college calculus text -- Thomas,
    not Thompson who wrote one for humans. Oddly my dentist has her old
    textbooks on a shelf in the waiting room. Thomas himself died 20 years ago
    and the 15th edition lists 4 editors. Maybe they improved it.
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