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Jeremy Cherfas

Just finished putting together the latest Eat This Newsletter, looking at label as a form of truth, ruined bread as a metaphor, tree-planting as a menace, crop-modelling as a pipe-dream and cheese as surplus.

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Jeremy Cherfas

[T]he simplest drop-in replacement for a feed is a “recently updated” list. Instead of a list of posts, have a list of users who have posted recently. This neatly solves both the problem of prolific posters drowning out quiet ones and the problem of decontextualization, while being simple and easy to understand.

Jeremy Cherfas

@mikewilliams_v I am today reminded of a blog post I wrote on this day in 2007, about this study: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute. https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498.full

Time for a replication, don't you think?

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

@drgarethmottram I'm not convinced, mostly because the host didn't ask the questions I want answers to. The delivery mechanism does nothing for farmers not using an elaborate seed drill. N washes away, but the presence of N downregulates these microbes? Happy to be wrong, but ...

Jeremy Cherfas

The Problem with Seeing the Zettelkasten as a Note Storage System

Interesting article, raising clearly the point that because a ZK needs time to accumulate enough ideas and connections to be interesting, a lot of the recent enthusiasm has not yet reached that sort of maturity.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

In the nick of time, I wrote up my celebration of Fornacalia 2022. Looking forward to another year of unburnt grain, and more besides.