📜 Histories of Spiritual Belief

Textual criticism, historical jesus, patristics, gnosticism, synoptic problem, apostolic fathers, pali canon analysis, sutra philology, buddhist material culture, quranic exegesis, early islamic sects history, comparative mythology, ritual studies, religious secularization theory, religious syncretism

Jeanne Gang on the David Rubenstein Treehouse and the Future of Sustainable Design
gsd.harvard.edu·13h
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Marsden Fund backs Massey scientists for research of global significance
massey.ac.nz·23h
🚀Technology
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The hard work of optimism
humbledollar.com·1d
🚀Technology
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See What AI Wrote
ia.net·23h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔬Curious Science
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Give Up: A Meditation Technique
sashachapin.substack.com·2d·
Discuss: Substack
🚶Contemplative Practices
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What are computers for, anyway?
forum.merveilles.town·1d
🚀Technology
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Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein
bigthink.com·9h
🔬Curious Science
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The case for compatibilism.
reddit.com·4d·
Discuss: r/freewill
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Navigating the Social and Political Divide
psychologytoday.com·5h
☀Optimism
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St Paul the Confessor of Constantinople
orthocal.info·20h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time
phys.org·1d·
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🔬Curious Science
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When Modalities Conflict: How Unimodal Reasoning Uncertainty Governs Preference Dynamics in MLLMs
arxiv.org·1d
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Parleying with the Principled
lesswrong.com·3d
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Medieval treasure was found under the center of Berlin, but no one knows who buried it
earth.com·1d
🏺Deep History
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Code That Writes Itself: The Era of Example-Driven Programming by Arvind Sundararajan
dev.to·23h·
Discuss: DEV
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Systematizing LLM Persona Design: A Four-Quadrant Technical Taxonomy for AI Companion Applications
arxiv.org·23h
💡Conceptual Design
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How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
phys.org·2d·
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🕰Niche historical facts
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Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models
arxiv.org·2d·
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📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Every October, the dead knock politely on our doors. We answer in costume. We hand out candy. We flirt with ghosts and skeletons and zombies. Halloween is the o...
threadreaderapp.com·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Regularization Through Reasoning: Systematic Improvements in Language Model Classification via Explanation-Enhanced Fine-Tuning
arxiv.org·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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