{"id":1716,"date":"2008-09-03T01:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2008-09-03T01:46:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T16:46:39","slug":"lets-proceed-scientifically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/lets-proceed-scientifically\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s proceed scientifically&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pros and cons of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Road\">loading a 120-ft scroll of tracing paper into my typewriter and going on a frenzied 48h non-stop benzedrine-fueled Masters thesis writing session<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It worked for Jack Kerouac.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d be done 3 days earlier: more time to edit and correct typos.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d be done 3 days earlier: more time to spend drunk in some seedy Golden Gai bar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Actually<\/em>, it took him three weeks to write it. I don&#8217;t have three weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep deprivation-induced typos probably likely to include: entire paragraphs written in Urdu, random obscene expletives, obscure references to isomorphic transformations in alternate planes of reality&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Comparability of Beat literature masterpiece with Natural Language Processing project involving Machine Learning parsing of Rhetorical Structure Trees: dubious.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s a toss, really&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pros and cons of loading a 120-ft scroll of tracing paper into my typewriter and going on a frenzied 48h non-stop benzedrine-fueled Masters thesis writing session: Pros: It worked for Jack Kerouac. I&#8217;d be done 3 days earlier: more time to edit and correct typos. I&#8217;d be done 3 days earlier: more time to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-books","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}