Identifying power law distributions: MLE/WLS "Listen to your body"
Identifying power law tails: Hill estimator (Extreme value theory) "Let the tail do the talking"
We have been taught that the Gaussian distribution is "normal" because of the Central Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers. But the CLT we're taught in school is incomplete.
"Portals": lists of links (graph start-points)
Topic-tags (graph endpoints)
Good idea for people with #adhd to do incremental writing and incremental reading. In other words make a personal wiki!
Every time I have an idea for a post I hurry to open a new file and write something – I feel I'm shouting what I can into each post like trying to throw a package through an open door on a speeding train for fear I will be distracted by a new thought—
See: Lindqvist Ch 1.
Hermeneutik: Tolkning av helhet.
Hevristik: Analys.
In antiquity, heuristic rhetoric (ability to find arguments and create texts) was the emphasis. In modern times, hermeneutic rhetoric (the arts of interpretation) has been viewed as more important and defines the academic discipline.
Lindqvist's choice of the term heuristic emphasises that it's not about shaping a message to convince an audience – and it's questionable if it's the job of academia to teach that sort of thing – but about finding different approaches to a problem so that we and our audience can make more well-grounded decisions.
(Sounds to me like bullshitish to cover that it really is about convincing audiences.)
Not the job of even hermeneutic rhetoric to analyze how a piece of rhetoric will impact a given audience, that's more for experimental linguistics, psychology and anthropology. Instead, hermeneutics is about understanding or critiquing a text or speech.
Heuristic rhetoric could be called creative rhetoric, but it's not always about creating speeches, it could be about solving a problem or pass a private judgment.
Both heuristic and hermeneutic rhetoric are both practical and theoretical.
On a different but not orthogonal axis, we have sometimes made a distinction between Rhetorica docens (the doctrine) versus Rhetorica utens (the use of it).
Even writing a text means you are analyzing the situation you are in. Because of this, rhetoric is always both an analytical study and a practiced art; they presuppose (create the conditions for) each other.
The dichotomy is a modern invention. In antiquity, the rhetoricians interested themselves in other things.
Lindqvist takes inventio, particularly the finding and analysis of topoi, to be the core of rhetoric. He also gives a lot of room to elocutio.