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I visited the Hathi trust, and downloaded a lot of images, not available on the Internet Archive. So, the project is going to be larger than I had guestimated. Right now, I have just been OCRing the images to make a pdf just to check to see if the works have all the pages. So far, so good. Even the...

Niggardly, which there is no excuse for, it means parsimoniously, or stingy. Julian Bond, then chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, deplored the offense that had been taken at Howard's use of the word. "You hate to think you have to censor your language t...

I do a lot of editing in making my versions of other's work How does my editing differ? First of all, the older translators imposed, at times, Solemn English, Well, Greeks never heard of it, Chinese never heard of it, so why is it in the translations? I remove it. And, with one author, Taylor, in h...

To put it simply, relation to self is inadmissible. Arithmetic is also a binary grammar Who would claim that one can find a result that arithmetic cannot, itself find? You can make the math so complicated that a human would not put for the effort to duplicate it, but that does not make it secure ag...

Back in '23, I did Chinese Classics, most of which is on the ISO file in the directory, I only put one pdf of that collection accessable from the directory page. https://archive.org/details/the-chinese-classics/page/n31/mode/2up Anyway, I decided to put an intro to the Doctrine of the Mean with a g...

What if you found out there is no god and people are absolutely not obligated to do anything... that they have nothing to do with each other and are none of each other's business. This is a ridiculously stupid premise. Take it down to its simplest form, cause and effect. Now apply it as the definit...

I would use "math" to prove this rather than gibberish about grammars (unclear how related to any specific cyber security issue). Thus: "it is impossible to have a "virus checker program" that will answer correctly (for ALL programs) "if run, will this program act like...

I would use "math" to prove this rather than gibberish about grammars (unclear how related to any specific cyber security issue). Thus: "it is impossible to have a "virus checker program" that will answer correctly (for ALL programs) "if run, will this program act like...

Although it is possible to make security improbable to breach, due to complexity, it is, by first principles of information, impossible to make anything secure using grammar. Why is that? Let me lay it out for you, and see if you can see the conclusion. There are two, and only two types of identity...

If one wants a very clear, mathematical and visual demonstration of the fake math called trigonometry, I did that work up a long time ago. .......... It is why Trig is not mathematics, as it has traditionally been based on pages of tables, i.e., not presented as a formal math. It is not "based...

It seems this site is hanging badly today.

So, cannot delete its mistake of double posting.

If one wants a very clear, mathematical and visual demonstration of the fake math called trigonometry, I did that work up a long time ago. I later posted the demonstrations of it on the Archive in 2014. In my teens, when I was first introduced to trig, I immediately knew it was not real math. It st...

Damn, where has the time gone? I posted this essay in 2014 https://archive.org/details/TheAncientDoctrineOfDoow The Ancient Doctrine of Doing our Own Work. Can any life support system of a living organism, choose what its work is? Can any cause choose what effect it will have? Does Free Will mean f...