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    <title>Chimamanda Adichie: The daughter of postcolonial theory | France | Al Jazeera</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-05T15:55:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But postcolonial artists and theorists alike face an intractable challenge: the burden of representation, which American literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr defines as "that homely notion that you represent your race, thus that your actions can betray or honor it". 

While Gates Jr has in mind the eight, remarkable Black men he profiles in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, his concept resonates with the literary world. Because the global literary marketplace can only celebrate a few writers of colour at a time, such writers become laden with the responsibility of representing their people.

The stakes are high. Under this pressure, there is little room for decontextualised humour. The risks of erasure of entire intellectual histories and hard-earned victories are real. Perhaps the lesson is not that we should joke less.

If we are to dismantle the inequalities that limit the possibilities of art and ideas from the postcolonial world, the lesson is clear: we should all embrace postcolonial thought.

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    <title>[1310.0919] On the Parameterized Complexity of Associative and Commutative Unification</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This paper studies the unification problem with associative, commutative, and associative-commutative functions mainly from a viewpoint of the parameterized complexity on the number of variables. It is shown that both associative and associative-commutative unification problems are W[1]-hard. A fixed-parameter algorithm and a polynomial-time algorithm are presented for special cases of commutative unification in which one input term is variable-free and the number of variables is bounded by a constant, respectively. Related results including those on the string and tree edit distance problems with variables are shown too.
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    <title>[math/9404236v1] On proof and progress in mathematics</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What is it that mathematicians accomplish?"
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    <title>Computational Complexity: Trading Money for Computation</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Computational complexity has in the past adapted well to new computation models from the PRAM to biological and quantum computers. But we are seeing new computing paradigms in multicore and cloud computing and theory seems late to the party. There was a nice SODA paper on MapReduce, the basic cloud computing operation, but for the most part theorists haven't tackled the cloud computing model and only a few have looked at multicore. Theory can say much about new computational methods, both in how we can take advantage of them and what they can't do, but only if we make the effort to develop the proper models to capture these new approaches."
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    <title>Model Selection</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In statistics and machine learning, "model selection" is the problem of picking among different mathematical models which all purport to describe the same data set. This notebook will not (for now) give advice on it; as usual, it's more of a place to organize my thoughts and references..."
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While demurrage is a natural feature of private commodity money it has at various times been deliberately incorporated into currency systems as a disincentive against hoarding of money, as well as to achieve other perceived benefits. In particular, with regards to long term investment financing it has the effect of changing the dynamics of net present value (NPV) calculations. All else being equal, a currency system with demurrage places an increased emphasis on the value of long term returns on an investment. As such it may create an incentive to invest in initiatives which offer more in the way of longer-term returns."
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fortunately, we are not yet “perfected” consumers but if we are not vigilant, our attention span will continue to shrink, and those available conveniences that help us force more and more material through our tiny pinhole of focus will proliferate. (Just as road-building worsens traffic problems, media-management and organization tools tend to exacerbate our attention problems. Hence, I spend as much time editing metadata as I do concentrating on music I’m listening to.)"
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    <title>The Valve - A Literary Organ | Darwinolatry and Literary Criticism</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In fact, their dismissal of history is a direct consequence of their version of Darwinism, which is focused on demonstrating how the actions of literary characters provide illustrative examples of human biological nature. While they give no end of homage to the idea that actual human behavior is subject to environmental influence – as far as I can tell, no one seriously doubts this – they seem to have no interest in investigating how behaviors and environments amplify into history. Literary Darwinism is paradoxically static, the examination of flies caught in amber, and Darwin himself has become a Platonic fetish to ward off the evils of change, of history."
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    <title>Joho the Blog » Philosophical problems with folksonomies</title>
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    <title>Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think the thesis of the Monetary History has just taken a hit."
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    <title>Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Fact and Theory in Science</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good summary
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