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19:25, 24 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Unnatural Voices (Created page with "== 1. Introduction: Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator == * == 2. "At First You Feel a Bit Lost": The Varieties of Second Person Narration == * == 3. Class and Consciousness: "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction == * == 4. I etcetera: Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators == * == 5. Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability == * == 6. Unnatural Nar...") Tag: Visual edit
13:33, 10 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page How the World Made the West (Created page with "== Introduction == == 1. A Single Sail == == 2. The Palace of Minos == == 3. The Amber Routes == == 4. The Erupting Sea == == 5. Band of Brothers == == 6. Alphabet City == == 7. Regime Change == == 8. I Am Not Your Servant == == 9. Through the Pillars == == 10. The Invention of Greece == == 11. The Assyrian Mediterranean == == 12. He Who Saw the Deep == == 13. The Bitter River == == 14. The King of Kings == == 15. The Persian Version == == 16. Continental Thinking == ==...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
10:35, 5 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Created page with "== 1. Narrative and Life == == 2. Defining Narrative == == 3. The Borders of Narrative == == 4. The Rhetoric of Narrative == == 5. Closure == == 6. Narration == == 7. Interpreting Narrative == == 8. Three Ways to Interpret Narrative == == 9. Interpretation Across Media == == 10. Character and Self in Narrative == == 11. Narrative and Truth == == 12. Narrative Worlds == == 13. Narrative Contestation == == 14. Narrative Negotiation ==") Tag: Visual edit
07:55, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 6.png
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06:09, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 1.png
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06:00, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Coding Experiments (Created page with "== Setup == This was surprisingly easy. I already had a personal github, but needed to install the iOS app. Once that was done, Claude Code walked me through linking to it. CC will create a branch and do its work, but then I need to manually create a PR to merge that branch to main. This is probably a good guardrail for real development work == Triangle Generator == I started in a very informal manner, getting CC to generate a random right angled triangle and to provide...") Tag: Visual edit
14:21, 17 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page How Life Works (Created page with "* Prologue * 1. The End of the Machine: A New View of Life * 2. Genes: What DNA Really Does * 3. RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message * 4. Proteins: Structure and Unstructure * 5. Networks: The Webs That Make Us * 6. Cells: Decisions, Decisions * 7. Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop * 8. Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern * 9. Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purpose * 10. Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine * 11. Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life * Epilogue") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
19:47, 14 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Created page with "== Origins, Scope, and Organization == * Chemistry exploits quantum mechanics and thermodynamics from physics. * Biology is merely an elaboration of chemistry. * Chemistry can be divided into: ** Physical Chemistry - At the interface between physics and chemistry. ** Organic Chemistry - Concerned with compounds of carbon. As a result of its mild and unaggressive character, Carbon is able to form chains and rings of startling complexity., which is exactly what organisms...") Tag: Visual edit
10:26, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Orthocenter.png
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10:25, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Centroid.png
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10:24, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Incenter.png
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10:23, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Circumcenter.png
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10:19, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Geometry (Created page with "Lines and Points == Triangles == * Triangles have three sides and three angles, which add up to 180 * Congruent Triangles - have the same size and shape (and remain congruent even if they are flipped, turned, or rotated * Circumcenters, Incenters, Centroids, and Orthocenters {| class="wikitable" |+ !Circumcenter !Incenter !Centroid !Orthocenter |- | | | | |- | | | | |- | | | | |} *") Tag: Visual edit
18:22, 6 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Les Rougon-Macquart (Created page with "== Liste des vingt romans == {| class="wikitable sortable" !N° !Parution !Titre !Date de l'action !Personnages principaux des Rougon-Macquart !Génération !Ordre de lecture recommandé par Zola<ref name=":0"></ref> |- | style="text-align:right" |1 | style="text-align:center" |1871 |''[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortune_des_Rougon La Fortune des Rougon]'' | style="text-align:center" |1790 - 1851 |Pierre Rougon, Antoine Macquart, Silvère Mouret |1 et 2 |1 |- | sty...") Tag: Visual edit
10:22, 6 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Literal Calculation (Created page with "== Developing and Factorizing Equations == For any real numbers: * <math>a(b + c) = ab + ac</math> * <math>a(b - c) = ab - ac</math> * <math>(a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd</math> == Remarkable Identities == For any real numbers: * Square of a sum: <math>(a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2</math> * Square of a difference: <math>(a - b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab + b^2</math> * Difference of two squares: <math>a^2 - b^2 = (a + b)(a - b)</math> == Powers and Exponents == For any non-nul...") Tag: Visual edit
10:30, 25 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Man from the Future (Created page with "== 1. Made in Budapest == == 2. To Infinity and Beyond == * Von Neumann rigorously defines a class as a collection of sets that share a property. In his theory it is no longer possible to speak meaningfully of either a "set of all sets" or a "class of all classes"; only a "class of all sets". His formulation elegantly avoids the contradictions of Russell's paradox without all the restrictions of type theory. There is no "set of all sets that are not members of themselves...")
10:12, 22 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Practice of Not Thinking (Created page with "== A Thinking Disease == * By thinking we can become ignorant * Withdrawing into our brain decreases our power of concentration * The three disturbing emotions: desire, anger, and uncertaintly * Keeping your sense active helps maintain a balanced state of mind * Satisfying your mind by responding to your senses == How to Control Your Body and Your Mind == * Steps to eliminate frustration and uncertainty === Speaking === * Observe the tone of your voice as a basis fo...") Tag: Visual edit
11:32, 19 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Created page with "=== 1. Inside Information === * Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. * We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience - a new feeling of what it is to be "I" * Just as sight is something more than all things seen, the foundation or "ground" of our existence and our awareness cannot be understood in terms of things that are known. * In the Vedanta philosophy, nothing...") Tag: Visual edit
17:57, 15 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Everything is Predictable (Created page with "=== Introduction: A Theory of Not Quite Everything === === 1. From the Book of Common Prayer to the Full Monty Carlo === === 2. Bayes in Science === === 3. Bayesian Decision Theory === === 4. Bayes in the World === === 5. The Bayesian Brain === === Conclusion: Bayesian Life ===") Tag: Visual edit
10:24, 14 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Gödel, Escher, Bach (content was: "== Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering == * Notice that every type of "copy" preserves all the information in the original theme, in the sense that the theme is fully recoverable from any of the copies. Such an information-preserving transformation is often called an isomorphism * The strange loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through the levels of some hierarchical system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started... Sometime...")
13:19, 12 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page La Curée (Created page with "* I: Renée Saccard is riding with Maxime, her stepson au bois, is bored with her life as a beautiful rich society woman, and begins to be attracted by the idea of sleeping with Maxime. At a party, she spies on Maxime and Louise de Mareuil, a strange, tragic girl who is expected to die young, and whose father seeks political advantage in exchange for a dowry of a million francs. * II: Back in time, Aristide Rougon arrives in Paris, changes his name to Saccard. He works a...")
21:26, 4 November 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Emperor of All Maladies (Created page with "* Leukemia - discovered in 1845 * Pernicious anemia is caused by a lack of vitamin B * More than 300bn blood cells are produced per day, but if there is a lack of folic acid then production in the bone marrow halts. * Metastasis - "beyond stillness" * Cancer asphyxiates us by filling bodies with too many cells. It is an expansionist disease, it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking "sanctuary" in one organ and then immigrating to anothe...") Tag: Visual edit
11:48, 26 October 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Understanding Media (Created page with "== Part I == === 1. Medium is the Message === 2. Media Hot and Cold 3. Reversal of the Overheated Medium 4. The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis 5. Hybrid Energy: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 6. Media as Translators 7. Challenge and Collapse: The Nemesis of Creativity Part II 8. The Spoken Word: Flower of Evil 9. The Written Word: An Eye for an Ear 10. Roads and Paper Routes 11. Number: Profile of the Crowd 12. Clothing: Our Extended Skin 13. Ho...") Tag: Visual edit
09:10, 26 October 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page La Bête Humaine (Created page with "# In Paris, Roubaud discovers that his wife, Séverine has been raped and abused by her "protector" Grandmorin, an executive of his train company. Roubaud plans to murder Grandmorin, forces his wife to write to suggest they meet in Le Havre, and they all board the train. # Jacques Lantier visits his aunt Phasie, married to Misard, who she is convinced is poisoning her. Jacques has urges to murder a woman. While out walking, he meets his cousin Flore, they embrace, but as...") Tag: Visual edit
10:21, 5 October 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Society of Mind (Created page with "== 1. Prologue == * The Agents of the Mind * The Mind and the Brain * The Society of Mind * The World of Blocks * Common Sense * Agents and Agencies == 2. Wholes and Parts == * Components and Connections * Novelists and Reductionists * Parts and Wholes * Holes and Parts * Easy Things are Hard * Are People Machines? == 3. Conflict and Compromise == * Conflict * Noncompromise * Hierarchies * Heterarchies * Destructiveness * Pain and Pleasure Simplified == 4. The Self...") Tag: Visual edit
11:02, 30 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Damed to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (content was: "Paris Addresses: * [https://share.google/VgrmXfaURJMm2Xqoy 6 rue des Favorites, 75015] * [https://share.google/qEbuIUv7SwquW2DkQ 38 Blvd Saint-Jacques, 75014] * EHPAD Le Tier temps, [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5PeTVHuxqF3nhhC9 24-26 Rue Rémy Dumoncel] * Cottage at [https://share.google/ZDtkNGytCIZVgrTzu Ussy-Sur-Marne] * 122 - True art has nothing t...", and the only contributor was "Robert.adlington" (talk))
09:02, 21 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Real Numbers (Created page with "== Number Sets == * N: Natural Numbers - ie all whole numbers - 0,1,2... onwards * Z: Integers - ie all N plus negative integers - -2,-1,0,1,2... * D: Decimals - ie all Z plus fractions that * Q: Rationals - ie * R: Reals - ie all Q plus the irrationals, which are decimals that neither terminate nor recurr")
08:45, 21 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Maths (Created page with "I'm following the French "Seconde" maths curriculum to fill in the gaps in my maths knowledge, translating it all here into English: * Real Numbers * Arithmetic * Literal Calculation * Vectors * Geometry * Lines * Reference Functions * Functions * Quantitative Data * Probability * Sampling?") Tag: Visual edit
11:42, 14 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Le Bilan de L'intelligence (Created page with "* L'interruption, l'incohérence, la surprise sont des conditions ordinaires de notre vie * Nous ne supportons plus la durée. Nous ne savons plus féconder l'ennui. Notre nature a horreur du vide, - ce vide sur lequel les esprits de jadis savaient peindre les images de leurs idéaux, leurs Idées, au sens de Platon. * 1800 - la découverte du courant électrique. * ...quel effort d'adaptation s'impose à une race si longtemps enfermée dans la contemplation et l'utilisa...") Tag: Visual edit
10:38, 13 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Gravity's Rainbow (Created page with "* What the dossiers call Pirate Prentice is a strange talent for - well, for getting inside the fantasies of others: being able, actually, to take over the burden of managing them..." * ...the images often changing scale so quickly, so unpredictably that you're apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say. The scenes are highlights from Pirate's career as a fantasist-surrogate, and go back to when he was carrying, everywhere he went, the mar...") Tag: Visual edit
17:21, 8 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Created page with "Paris Addresses: * [https://share.google/VgrmXfaURJMm2Xqoy 6 rue des Favorites, 75015] * [https://share.google/qEbuIUv7SwquW2DkQ 38 Blvd Saint-Jacques, 75014] * EHPAD Le Tier temps, [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5PeTVHuxqF3nhhC9 24-26 Rue Rémy Dumoncel] * Cottage at [https://share.google/ZDtkNGytCIZVgrTzu Ussy-Sur-Marne] * 122 - True art has nothing to do with the Cartesian clear and distinct and that ultimately it tires in the murky waters of the inexplicable. * 146 - Co...")
16:35, 6 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Damed to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Created page with "* 122 - True art has nothing to do with the Cartesian clear and distinct and that ultimately it tires in the murky waters of the inexplicable. * 146 - Coherence, artifice, unity were regarded by Beckett as belonging to the "chloroformed world" of Balzac's novels, where, he claimed, characters are turned into "clockwork cabbages" on whom the novelist can "rely on their staying put wherever needed or staying going at whatever speed in whatever direction he chooses". * 147...") Tag: Visual edit
10:50, 28 August 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Reading for the Plot (Created page with "=== Preface === * Plot as I conceive it is the design and intention of narrative, what shapes a story and gives it a certain direction or intent of meaning. * Our common sense of plot - our capacity to recognize its common forms and their characteristics - derives from many sources, including no doubt the stories of our childhood. * Most of all, perhaps, it has been molded by the great 19th C narrative tradition that, in history, philosophy, and a host of other fields a...") Tag: Visual edit
08:17, 7 August 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Created page with "* Part I: Metalogues ** Why do Things Get in a Muddle ** Why do Frenchmen? ** About Games and Being Serious ** How Much Do You Know? ** Why Do Things Have Outlines? ** Why a Swan? ** What is an Instinct? * Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology ** Culture Contact and Schismogenesis ** Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior ** Morale and National Character ** Bali: The Value System of a Steady State ** Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive A...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
14:17, 26 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Alan Turing: The Enigma (Created page with "== Part One: The Logical == === 1. Esprit de Corps (to 13 February 1930) === === 2. The Spirit of Truth (to 14 April 1936) === === 3. New Men (to 3 September 1939) === === 4. The Relay Race (to 10 November 1942 === == Bridge Passage (to 1 April 1943) == == Part Two: The Physical == === 5. Running Up (to 2 September 1945) === === 6. Mercury Delayed (to 2 October 1948) === === 7. The Greenwood Tree (to 7 February 1952) === === 8. On The Beach (to 7 June 1954) ===") Tag: Visual edit
09:01, 26 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Intriguing Words, Expressions, Phrases (Created page with "* Over-simplification - We must at all costs avoid over-simplification, which one might be tempted to call the occupational disease of philosophers if it were not their occupation.") Tag: Visual edit