[Foundation-l] Stategic planning : Sharing textbook knowledge

Andrew Gray andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
Thu May 7 22:12:12 UTC 2009


2009/5/7 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:

> Certainly not zero.  Perhaps 10%?  Neither textbooks nor wikipedia are
> normally designed to give a total soup-to-nuts explanation of how to
> do something.

Ha.

[[Wikibooks:Constructing an Industrial Civilisation from Scratch]].

==Chapter 1: on flint nodules==

(...)

==Chapter 307: smelting copper==

(...)

==Chapter 87,823: the basics of nuclear fission==

(...)

I love it as an intellectual exercise, but the plausible *utility* of
the whole thing might be open to question!

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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