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/read/ - Active readers thread Anonymous 03/12/2025 (Wed) 20:00:50 No. 332 [Reply]
what books have you read recently, hikarin? what is your go-to literary interest? what's your reason for reading it? talk about fiction or nonfiction, academia or entertainment, everything in between, as long as you find it interesting. however, discussion of manga and comics should be kept to the /jp/ board. e-book resources: https://annas-archive.org/ https://libgenesis.net/ https://sci-hub.se/ https://archive.org/ https://openlibrary.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/
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>>450 I have not read much Nietzsche at the moment (I am only halfway through Genealogy) so it's not as if I have a nuanced or fleshed out understanding of his thoughts, but I so far do agree with his distinction between knightly-aristocratic judgement and priestly judgement, as well as what it actually means to be aristocratic. I do not agree with many of his critiques of Christianity (as a Christian myself) but I do agree with his critique on the veneration of weakness in Christian thought. Also I find it refreshing to read someone who understands the importance of imposing morality from positions of power. >Evola I have not actually read any Evola, although my girlfriend says good things about his works. I am very much interested in reading more about the concept of aristocracy and what it means to be aristocratic- not in a class sense but a spiritual sense- and am very interested in works expanding on this if you have them! In fact this desire to learn about aristocracy as a mindset is the reason I became interested in Nietzsche in the first place. I will keep "Fascism Viewed from the Right" in mind. I also am considering reading "Revolt Against the Modern World" by Evola, if you have any comments on that work. I do have a copy of "A New Nobility of Blood and Soil" by Darré at the recommendation of someone I know but I haven't read it yet.
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>>454 To be frank I am also a newbie on both Nietzsche and Evola, just started reading them, so I can't supply many recommendations or comments, but I definitely do share your fascination with the aristocratic. Perhaps the only work that comes to mind in regards to such matters that I've previously read is "Bushido" by Inazo Nitobe. It's an overview and analysis of the core values of the medieval samurais' code of honor which I found very interesting. As for Revolt and Blood and Soil, same as you, heard of them but haven't dived in yet. >gf that reads Evola Lucky lol
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>>458 Fair enough. In that case I will simply commend you for your interest in aristocratic, fash, and otherwise illiberal philosophy/theory. Keep up the good reads. Aristocracy is not something we ourselves will achieve in such a fallen age, but we can always try to live to those standards the best we can and impart what we learn on our children. If you haven't read For My Legionaries by Codreanu, as mentioned above, I highly recommend you giving it a read. >Bushido by Inazo Nitobe Y'know I have read the Hagakure at the recommendation of Sam Hyde, which is basically a collection of sayings written by the student of a samurai. You may have some interest in that. There's a copy on Amazon with the radiation symbol on the cover for some reason, which is the translation I have. I don't think Eastern philosophy is entirely applicable to the Western mind, so seriously take your readings of Eastern philosophy with a grain or two of salt, but you may find some use out of it if you haven't read it already. I enjoyed it at least. >Lucky lol I really am lol. Very lucky indeed. She also has read Nietzsche and says he's one of her favorite philosophers, but I don't really know to what depth she actually understands and internalizes these heavier reads. She's not dumb by any means but it's rare to see a woman who truly philosophizes like (some) men do. I am not sure what causes this, no disrespect intended. I love women.
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I've just started the first book of Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy series, Spring Snow. Normally, I read autobiographical works when I am researching different historical figures and Yukio Mishima has piqued my interest; Temple of the Golden Pavillion I thoroughly enjoyed and found fascinating! I thought I would start with his fictional works first before I read Sun and Steel.
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>>468 do you feel like judging distinguished people's lives are worth or nor worth your interest has at times made you jaded?

HALT Anonymous 07/01/2023 (Sat) 19:43:20 No. 22 [Reply]
What have *you* learned today?
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>>23 Causing a little bit of paranoia here, aren't we?
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absolutely nothing.
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Today I learned how to use an impact drill and screw a TV mount into brick. Very dusty...
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I learned about Misskey and Sharkey. It looks like Mastadon but with a cleaner UI and more functions.
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>>464 No surprising Misskey was made by a nipponese man ww

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Anonymous 07/15/2023 (Sat) 16:15:35 No. 114 [Reply]
Do you know any second languages or are learning any?
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>>447 Excited to use it once it's done Hikarin surprised
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>>114 i know dutch, arabic (hassaniya) and am improving my MSA i have been wanting to learn thai but it's been an on and off relationship, the tones were fun to learn and surprisingly not difficult to master but am a lazy piece of shit vengence
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>>455 >>448 I'm back! Unfortunately, for now it's hosted on a free hosting cry. But that's just temporary! http://2chan.vip/
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I was self-learning Russian for a bit but I am nowhere able to construct more than a few basic sentences. cry Now I'm unsure whether I want to continue or learn Spanish instead. I know some people close to me who speak Spanish themselves and it seems more practical with how widely spoken it is. I'm indecisive.

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Research Group Anonymous 01/28/2026 (Wed) 20:56:48 No. 410 [Reply]
We post about our research group meetings. >someone can't get something basic to work, the professor tries to do some light troubleshooting then and there, but this makes the presenter nervous and they start to spill spaghetti >someone went over their time and talked for hours about nothing I have my research group meeting this Friday and I've barely started on implementing the control algorithm I said I'd have done. Please shoot me.
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>>410 What exactly do researchers do on a day to day basis?
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Hikarin, nobody here is smart enough to be part of a research group. cry
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>>432 Read papers, interpolate a research project between the most recent papers, design an experiment, run the experiment, write up a paper, repeat.

Interesting Grammatical Features Anonymous 07/02/2023 (Sun) 02:22:01 No. 28 [Reply]
Personally, I like switch-reference cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch-reference
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>>42 an example: >while he did a thing, he(same person) did another thing vs >while he did a thing, he(different person) did another thing but imagine those parens were case markers
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>>43 I see now thank you very much. very intresting
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>>28 I'm too drunk to talk about linguistics but I dropped out of a masters in this so I know more about anyone else in this thread AMA
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>>431 Are there features you think English is missing compared to other languages? What about features it could do without?
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Wenis and Wagina Ex: My wagina is sore, my wenis is all flabby

Anonymous 11/25/2023 (Sat) 20:46:56 No. 281 [Reply]
What's your major /aca/? I'm in my last year of a Master's in Computer Science
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i will be majoring in political science. i want to be one of those people who write papers all day
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Currently in 2nd year of BS Information Technology; graduating by the end of 3rd Year. I only got 2 GitHub projects, both of which are crappy and nothing to show for. I don't know whether to apply for an internship early, or wait for the school to offer/assign one for us.
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>>388 >I only got 2 GitHub projects i relate to this so so much. do companies usually want 5+?
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>>335 My luck was against me when I picked my uni because they never told us we would need to grind certificates or show off some github as portfolio. I never had any well untill I finished my master's neco
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>>389 Jobbing at a tech interview is a bigger concern and would invalidate even 10 projects

Study Thread Anonymous 06/30/2023 (Fri) 22:08:16 No. 3 [Reply]
Post resources for studying any given subject here! Textbooks, online courses, etc
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I will share a list of Intro/Transition to Proof resources: >Textbooks Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox - Robert S. Wolf Bridge to Abstract Mathematics: Mathematical Proof and Structures - Ronald P. Morash Alice in Numberland: A Students’ Guide to the Enjoyment of Higher Mathematics - John Baylis, Rod Haggarty >Lecture Notes A Primer for Logic and Proof - Holly P. Hirst and Jeffry L. Hirst http://www.appstate.edu/~hirstjl/primer/hirst.pdf Modicum Mathematicum: A Swath Through The Basic Language Of Abstract Math - Paolo Aluffi https://math.hawaii.edu/~pavel/Aluffi_notes_321_Modicum.pdf Proof, Sets, and Logic - M. Randall Holmes https://randall-holmes.github.io/proofsetslogic.pdf Basic Concepts of Mathematics - Elias Zakon http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html
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>>330 hi math-anon. do you have any book recs for real variables that aren't rudin? it's extremely terse and dry and doesn't really motivate much it covers so i want to supplement it i was thinking of going through apostol or abbot but neither seem to cover lebesgue theory or multivariable functions as far as i know
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Does any anon know some resources for learning biology ?
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>>371 what level of biology?
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>>371 Depends on what you're looking for, but OpenStax textbooks are always a good place to start. https://openstax.org/subjects/science They have highschool level bio, college level bio, and microbiology textbooks available for free.

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Been working on a implementing a paper QueueSevenM!Tnq5UWtkfs 11/08/2025 (Sat) 07:28:10 No. 367 [Reply]
https://web.archive.org/web/20240731004804if_/https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/7555/tjbs.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y I've been working on reading through the paper "Voice Processing and Synthesis by Performance Sampling and Spectral Models" and have started to implement it. It seems as if most if not all of the relevant patents have expired. I will post any updates here.
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good luck op!

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Cool Organisms Anonymous 07/01/2023 (Sat) 11:42:47 No. 16 [Reply]
share cool living things here I'll start: The oriental hornet's cuticle acts as a photovoltaic cell, the electricity from which is used to power a heating organ in its thorax.
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Caracals are cute & pretty interesting While they're wild animals I would love to keep one as a pet They're pretty aggressive, but it makes for good house security The ears kind of remind me of bat ears
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>>17 El Floppa
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An Axolotl which can regenerate lost limbs like its spinal cord, even parts of its heart of brain
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Lyrebirds can mimic a large range of sounds like other living beings, but also make mechanical sounds
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Pistol shrimp can shoot water bullets so fast that they heat up to 4500°C (4 times the temperature lava) and create a loud 218dB shockwave Their bullets are so loud that WWII sonars confused them with enemy ships

Please don't kill this board Anonymous 01/24/2024 (Wed) 12:47:19 No. 311 [Reply]
/aca/ has the potential to be something good and original, don't remove it please, if you really have to you could just hide it the same way lainchan hid the /lain/ board (like you've done now), and who's in the known will go there and partecipate. If in the future there's enough action with the site in general you could bring the board's visibility back, consider it.
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yeah, i pretty much changed my mind about deleting it. i'll keep it (but delisted for now)
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>>312 Nice, hopefully the spam ends and we get more users.
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>>312 Thanks. This is a neat little board.
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This board is like Mathchan except it's just one board instead of an entire site.


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