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I recommend everyone goes and spends a shitload of time reading things on wikipedia. I've been there the last two hours.. it has been ferociously glorious. that is all. zermelo-fraenkel |
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wanna give us a hint where to start? |
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i just clicked off the wikipedia page i had open to open this up. wikipedia is the biz. I read for ages about Feynmann and linked articles a while ago, tolstoyed. started off on perpetual motion, and worked from there. I was just reading about MAX/MSP. interesting. |
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it's great but I always worry that the information is wrong |
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stunning post |
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thank you this was helpful indeed. reading about Max/MSP is a good idea, as well as about PD. |
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just take anything you want to know about and keep following links. I worry that it's wrong too, but for instance right now I'm reading math, so if anything is fallacious, I can catch it. The worst that can happen is that something is mislabeled; not a big deal. for the most part it is insanely accurate. I've known a few people that troll it, but yeah |
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For example, it makes WATTM sound like a music discussion forum. I read the Arafat article I think it was and it said 'this article has been flagged as biased' or something... that makes me less trusting as well |
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Either way, it's still definitely the best prolonged activity I perform on the internet. my english rules. |
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it's good there's messages like these at the top though. It means there's intense discussion going on amongst wikipedia contributors about specific articles - their wording and content. brilliant. i love it. don't see why it would make you feel less trusting: an encyclopedia you buy, or is not "open", is going to be far more biased (since people can't argue over the content, and reach a happy medium) than wikipedia. |
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I have to say I'm a big fan of Wiki. Nothing to add past that tho! |
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this came in real handy as i need some info about various music scenes and wikipedia is perfect for that info! |
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wtf |
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you must have played The Game? |
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i do this sometimes.. its a good way to learn, however the credibility is very questionable, nevertheless good fun if your bored or stuck. |
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Yes it is my first port of call when I need to know 'stuff' |
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dammit |
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i have never read any scientific error or something like that over there. it's just politics which is a problematic field, naturally. |
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I regard this as a very profound and important achievement of humans. The knowledge of a group is vastly superior to any single individual and the content tends to reflect this. The only way I can imagine it being better is if entries were allowed to be infinitely long and detailed instead of encyclopedicly brief (it could still be organized in a hierarchical way so one isn't bogged down with information) If anyone knows some bizarre obscure thing they can add it, and bogus information really does get weeded out quite quick. I liked reading about bloods and crips recently. Also a good place to start is "free content", a wonderfully altrustic concept at the heart of wikipedia (and at the heart of doom2 sorta, hence the huge awesome assortment of level editors and things). |
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"no legal restriction has been placed that significantly interferes with people's freedom to... improve" That's the thing.. improving culture. The potential of this altruistic group strategy is awesome. |
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Also it's interesting that google orders their search results with sites with the most links or something first, and since wikipedia is hella linked it really got a google "bomb" burst. |
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who are you and what have you done to ian? |
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The internet is so young and this is really the most interesting thing on it right now in my opinion, with potential to evolve. Next robots will be taught on it etc. Fuck all schools should be replaced by wikipedia. |
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man, ian noll sure does like him some encyclopedias. |
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HEY! Everyone knows which moderator isn't pulling their weight around here. You had better shape up. |
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yeah, it's really interesting to do this... just keep clicking links and learning about stuff. i came across one or two things that were definitely incorrect, but i didn't do anything about it. |
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Those incorrect things were probably things I contributed. |
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yeah, come to think of it, it was the entry about ian knoll's shirt... and it said that the shirt was purple. that was you, eh? |
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I said incorrect information. The purpleness of my one and only shirt is generally accepted as fact by all modern scholars who take themselves seriously. |
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those scholars were all laughed out of their respective positions for their butterfly-devolution theories. with good reason. this information is controversial at best and disputed by several. in short, we need real, tangible proof! hard evidence. |
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You have seen the evidence of a picture of my foot. In this picture, the shirt was not orange, yellow, red, or anything other than purple. Of course it was not purple either and, in fact, there was no visual reference, real or metaphorical, to any shirt at all whatsoever. Therefore the shirt must be purple. |
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well... i can't argue with "science". |
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