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This is a "general knowledge" sharing website inspired by Big Historical disciplines. The website has a very ambitious goal: we want to make connections between ALL knowledge.
The site is currently non-profit and is founded by Claude He.
"Big History" is a relatively new subject. If you haven't heard of it, you can learn about David Christian and his works:
Big History by David Christian
Big History is an emerging discipline and a social studies course that spans 13.8 billion years. It brings together knowledge from many disciplines and connects them organically to help us better understand humanity, civilization, and everything around us.
The website is inspired by Big History, but there are no boundaries to what it wants to include: the author wants to dabble in "all" general knowledge.
The so-called "general", it is an abstract concept and "professional" corresponding. You can also simply think of them as "useless" knowledge. However, this knowledge without specific use is very important and very interesting. It can include those universal knowledges in human civilization. The process of learning general knowledge can let us know more about our interests and talents.
This website is a platform for learning and sharing such knowledge.
Of course, there are many similar websites, but this one is not quite the same; it has been said before that the author of the website wants to establish a connection between ALL knowledges. Because:
- If not related, knowledge is only scattered memory
- A single-disciplinary perspective is like a blind man touching an elephant. Only by connecting can we see the overall situation.
- Breakthrough innovation often occurs in the "blank area" of knowledge intersection"
- Lack of knowledge of connections will lead to "know a lot and understand very little"
- The richer the connection, the more efficient the extraction
- People who can make connections are likely to embrace AI
For example, it is not difficult to remember the formula E = MC², but what we need to know more is how this formula subverts classical Newtonian mechanics? It is also more necessary to connect it with nuclear energy, the expansion of the universe, and the origin of the world; without these connections, this formula is just a scattered memory, which cannot be sublimated into an insight into the nature of the world, and of course it is difficult to understand the great ideas behind the formula.
The value of knowledge is not in the amount of inventory, but in the density of connections. Isolated knowledge is data, connected knowledge is wisdom.
The website is still in its infancy. The author sincerely invites content creators from various fields and with a spirit of sharing. I hope you can join the content construction of this website.
Contact email: Claude-He@safover.com
Thank you again for your visiting and attention!
Please note that the original content of the website is Chinese, and the multi-language content is all machine translation, for reference only.
You can also contact the author if you wish to create an independent website in another language or even in your own country.
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