How did research even happen before the internet? It seems like there was a lot more mnemonic discipline involved. Especially in botany etc: how would you intuit whether you found a new species (of any sort of artifact)?
cc @Meaningness @andy_matuschak
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A researcher told me when I was ~12 that on Fridays, he collects all the elementary functions from his papers (like cos(30deg)) so he doesn't have to wait until Monday to go to the library to check the books containing the values. It might not have been cos but you get it.
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incredible. I hope someone did an ethnography/photo archive of this kind of thing pre internet. I wonder what his workspace looked like, I'm picturing something like this:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1240841416642686977 …
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Andy MatuschakVerified account @andy_matuschakReplying to @Conaw @RoamResearchThe sidebar is a good solution to this problem for a stack size of one. I'd love to see good approaches for larger stack sizes and non-stack-ish browsing patterns. I've been struggling to find relevant prior art, other than images like this classic: pic.twitter.com/p6Rna8oOlC1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Yeah, I grew up with 5x8 index cards and spent much of my undergraduate time in windowless basement rooms of libraries trying to find books that had been mis-shelved. They got seriously creepy at night.
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Niklas Luhmann's idea of Zettelkasten impinges on this, but for a deep dive on how indigenous cultures all over the world did this in a pre-industrial setting look at Dr.
@Lynne_Kelly's work. Specifically: Knowledge & Power in Prehistoric [more...] https://boffosocko.com/2020/05/11/55770907/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
this looks amazing, thank you!
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