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)?
— Max Krieger (@maxkriegers) May 11, 2020
cc @Meaningness @andy_matuschakA 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.
— adjoint +/- norm (@adamnemecek1) May 11, 2020incredible. 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://t.co/EJE6rg7e5H
— Max Krieger (@maxkriegers) May 11, 2020Yeah, 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.
— David Chapman (@Meaningness) May 11, 2020
They got seriously creepy at night.
Her TED talk shows quickly how she did something similar, but with birds and bird identification. Her work has examples of how many other cultures did this as well.
this looks amazing, thank you!
Very flattered. Thank you.
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