A Silly Mistake
Jan. 5th, 2026 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianChocolate oatmeal has become my new favorite meal. I've been having it for breakfast every day.
I got excited last night while make Mandarin flashcards because I thought that I'd come across my first non-Mandarin term: 人家. I'm studying an episode of this guy's podcast https://www.ximalaya.com/album/246092 because he's easy, even a bit pleasant, to listen to. He's based in Fujian province, I think, where Hokkien is spoken. I had mis-copied the term into the Wiktionary search bar, and the Mandarin section was completely missing on the page that loaded. The Chinese dialect at the top of the list (where Mandarin usually is) was Xiamen, a type of Hokkien, so I thought he'd slipped a Hokkien term into the episode. But today I found that it was just a typo.
This is a good thing because I really don't need to be mixing up Chinese languages. Xiaman podcaster guy's accent is enough variety. He pronounces the 's' sound like 'sh.' It doesn't bother me.
Today I found two free philosophy of science books online: https://descartes-agonistes.com/category/textbooks/
I don't think I'll read them, as I prefer to focus on the history and philosophy of physics, the breadth of which would take me a lifetime to get through. I guess I just got so excited to find free textbooks that I didn't at first notice the broadness of the subject.
I was super excited to find that Columbia University offers a Master's degree in the philosophical foundtions of physics.
https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/master-arts-philosophical-foundations-physics
But. Again we run into the problem of references, and, worse, at least two of the references must be academic references. I almost don't want to look into the program further, I feel so burned by the unfairness of this policy. It's like discrimination against anyone who's been out of school for a while. I could take a couple of philosophy courses at the community college and ask those professors for references, but the policy is just so unjust that I'd almost rather send a letter railing against it than trying to conform to it.
Oh, it can't be done online and it's in cold-ass ny. Whatever. I'm better off studying philosophy of science as a hobby and taking courses only for things that can help me in a career/earn me money.
I got excited last night while make Mandarin flashcards because I thought that I'd come across my first non-Mandarin term: 人家. I'm studying an episode of this guy's podcast https://www.ximalaya.com/album/246092 because he's easy, even a bit pleasant, to listen to. He's based in Fujian province, I think, where Hokkien is spoken. I had mis-copied the term into the Wiktionary search bar, and the Mandarin section was completely missing on the page that loaded. The Chinese dialect at the top of the list (where Mandarin usually is) was Xiamen, a type of Hokkien, so I thought he'd slipped a Hokkien term into the episode. But today I found that it was just a typo.
This is a good thing because I really don't need to be mixing up Chinese languages. Xiaman podcaster guy's accent is enough variety. He pronounces the 's' sound like 'sh.' It doesn't bother me.
Today I found two free philosophy of science books online: https://descartes-agonistes.com/category/textbooks/
I don't think I'll read them, as I prefer to focus on the history and philosophy of physics, the breadth of which would take me a lifetime to get through. I guess I just got so excited to find free textbooks that I didn't at first notice the broadness of the subject.
I was super excited to find that Columbia University offers a Master's degree in the philosophical foundtions of physics.
https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/master-arts-philosophical-foundations-physics
But. Again we run into the problem of references, and, worse, at least two of the references must be academic references. I almost don't want to look into the program further, I feel so burned by the unfairness of this policy. It's like discrimination against anyone who's been out of school for a while. I could take a couple of philosophy courses at the community college and ask those professors for references, but the policy is just so unjust that I'd almost rather send a letter railing against it than trying to conform to it.
Oh, it can't be done online and it's in cold-ass ny. Whatever. I'm better off studying philosophy of science as a hobby and taking courses only for things that can help me in a career/earn me money.
