Now I’m really intrigued, an artist using these methods (especially cybernetics?!) .
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O’Rourke’s “stuff” ranges from frequent releases on Bandcamp under the “Steamroom” label, including hushed, avant-garde instrumentation and complex mosaics of sound in all its beautiful and messy forms. In that same interview, O’Rourke explained his process for creating one of those works — “Steamroom 47” — culling from a wide range of touchstones including data points in music information retrieval, cybernetics and Glenn Gould’s “Goldberg Variations.” Heady stuff. 1
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[[Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is a beautiful ballad. This 33-minute cover version takes it to a whole new place]] | syndication link↩︎
The pressure of working in public causes one to be more thorough in their thinking, even if no one will read it. The presumed publics that might see it will cause you to write more clearly and remove any inconsistencies, errors, and even typos.
This is a good description about how working in public can be beneficial to oneself, even if no one else is looking.
It also indicates why fleeting notes << literature notes << evergreen notes.
also #examples of one writing to prove to themself that they understand a concept a la Feynman Technique.
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What does this have to do with learning?
We have always made notes while studying. In the past only for ourselves. Today it is becoming more and more common to share these notes with others, which becomes easy when you take the notes digitally. If many share their thoughts, then I get a lot of suggestions. My development goes faster, see also this blog post about it .
“If I want to work on a new topic, I write a blog post about it.” I’ve heard it from quite a few. This public writing forces me to confidently verify what I have said. After all, I don’t want to embarrass myself. That means I need three times as much time for the blog post as if I just wrote it down for myself. This extra time spent working on the topic is learning time. And when I publish the post, I give others the chance to benefit from it as well - and the chance to receive feedback that will help me advance on the topic.
My contributions can be text contributions, videos, podcasts or slides. I can link to sources. And I can find it again in my domain - even after years. And when I’ve shared it, others can search for it and use it too. 1
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- related terms (RT): thought spaces blogging A Domain of One’s Own
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Perhaps there’s a third possibility not mentioned here?
Perhaps the group at Waun Mawn, traded a portion of their knowledge and database to a more powerful and potentially more central nearby group of people? The evidence indicates that many of the people buried at Stonehenge were originally from the area of Wales where some of the stones originated. The fact that some stones remained behind may mean that some of the needed local encyclopedia stayed behind.
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Firstly, an entire tribe moving from Wales to the Salisbury Plain took their encyclopaedia with them. This would require the circle to be erected in the same order as in Wales and oriented in the same direction. In effect, these people were taking their database of knowledge with them, the structure in the stones, and the data in their memories. Secondly, a different tribe conquering those in Wales might identify just how effective this memory technique is and steal only the technology. Essentially, they stole the database structure and filled it with their own data. The bluestones are particularly suited to a mnemonic purpose due to the blotches and blobs in their material makeup. 1
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Interesting to think that some of these stones may have stayed behind to represent the knowledge of the group that stayed behind. If the stones can be thought of as “books”, some of the extra empty ones were relocated with the knowledge of other books moved into them in new contexts.
Equally possible, the local Waun Mawn peoples may have knowledge that they traded to a larger site for maintenance and storage to be distributed to other sites?
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Equally, Waun Mawn did not become the core of a monument complex of the kind known around other great stone circles, such as the Ring of Brodgar, Aveburyand Stonehenge. Its development as a major centre in the earlier Neolithic (see Figure 1)appears to have been curtailed by early dismantling. Although the region was probably not entirely evacuated—the four remaining stones at Waun Mawn possibly symbolise the identities of those groups who remained local—it may have been extensively depopulated. Only further research into settlement and land-use employing other lines of evidence, such as palynology, will provide answers. 1
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==It seems more likely, however, that Waun Mawn contributed only a small pro-portion of Stonehenge’s 80 or so bluestones. This raises the question of whether multiple monuments in Wales contributed monoliths to Stonehenge and Bluestonehenge== 1
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Sort of curious that so many of these circles were around 105m in diameter on average.
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