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Zhendan 震旦 is one of the Chinese renderings of Sanskrit Cīna-sthāna ('Chinastan'), often unterstood by folk etymology as 'dawn of the east. Also written 震丹、真丹、真旦、振旦、神丹.
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Codex Arundel is a bound collection of pages of notes written by Leonardo da Vinci, mostly from between 1480 and 1518.
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'Temporis filia Veritas' is an ancient proverb expressing with Roman succinctness the notion that truth often reveals itself only after the passage of time
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Lots of comparisons are being made between Cisco and Nvidia. Cisco provided the backbone to the internet, and Nvidia is doing the same for AI today. Cisco's products got commoditized, and margins went to zero over time. The current expectation is that the same thing will happen with Nvidia.
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Gnostic History
Source: Logan, Alastair. 2004. Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy. London; New York: T&T Clark.
Source: Williams, Michael A. 1996. Rethinking “Gnosticism”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category. Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester: Princeton University Press.
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Seven Sermons of the Dead, by Carl Jung (under the pseudonym of Basilides of Alexandria)
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Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein
"In December 1923, before his agony in Munich, Dietrich Eckart said a very personal prayer in front of a black meteorite of which he said, "It's my stone of Kaaba." He left it to one of the founders of astronautics, Herman Oberth." - Andre Brissaud (Source)
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Veni Vidi Vici: Julius Caesar was a Freemason? Masonic doctrine of the ancient Roman empire? Below from “Bi-Centenary of the Foundations of Modern Masonry – Official Paper of the International Bureau for Masonic Affairs” Chapter by, Th. G. G. Valette.
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Albert Einstein awarded the inaugural Einstein Prize to Kurt Gödel and Julian Schwinger during a presentation ceremony, c. 1951. Photographed by Alan Richards/Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, IAS, Princeton.
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The City of Rome unveiled a new statue of Emperor Saint Constantine the Great; after centuries, St. Constantine overlooks Old Rome once again. Constantine the Great, was emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first emperor to convert to Christianity.
Empires don't fail, they transform: The Roman empire became a church. The British empire became a bank. The American empire became the internet.
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One of the first examples of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ca 1974. Made by the research group of Richard Ernst in Zurich, acquired by Anil Kumar in July 1974. Read more...
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The old world that Norbert and János helped create is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
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The PROMIS of AI was perceived to be in the trillions since at least the early 1980s. (Excerpt Source)
