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i think i've read this at some point but taking a quick look to refesh myself, i was struck on the first page by the word procrustean, which apparently means something like "rigidly but arbitrarily specified"[0], possibly obliquely related to hard-shelled sea creatures. neat word.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes#Cultural_references

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It's from Procrustes, the guy who chopped your feet off to make you fit in the bed in greek myth. You find Procrustean analysis in mathematics, where you try and find the closest approximating matrix with a certain property to another given matrix (like it is a rotation matrix etc).

Procrustes was really one of the first slasher horror villains.

Try reading AntiFragile. You will be very sick of that word by the time you finish the book.

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