Kranar

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by Kranar 4y ago
Yes people, including those on HN, use the word infinite to mean very very large as opposed to the mathematical definition of infinite as a set that contains a proper subset with equal cardinality. Doing a Google search for uses of infinite
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That's correct and it's precisely what the author states, and I quote: >this doesn’t mean that the sets of real numbers and natural numbers have different sizes
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Most of the dictionaries I just Googled disagree with your assessment. It looks like unique has multiple definitions and while unique can definitely refer to something "being without a like or equal", other definitions include &qu
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by Kranar 4y ago
The author specifically states, and I quote: >no matter how close any two distinct real numbers are to each other, there will always be infinitely many real numbers in between ... this doesn’t mean that the sets of real numbers and natur
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What's hilarious is that jasonpeacock didn't just avoid reading the article, but it's clear that he also avoided reading the very comment he replied to. It's like people just want to get outraged over nothing.
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The opposite of simple is not difficult, it's complex. The opposite of difficult is not simple, it's easy. Simplicity has to do with the effort needed to understand something, difficulty has to do with the effort needed to perform
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Yes I definitely agree with that overall.
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That's not a NYTimes article. Furthermore "vast majority" does not mean every single instance, it means significantly more than 50%. Google results will vary from person to person, but for me only 2 of the first 10 results ar
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That's an airflow issue, not a heat issue.
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>When did the norms change? Given that the vast majority of the search results you linked to are from articles 20-30 years old, I'd imagine sometime around 1990-2000.
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Yes my examples are old because the entire point I'm making is that this outrage over "C/C++" is a relatively recent phenomenon. People 10-20 years ago didn't really care or take issue with that term.
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Not seeing evidence of your claim. A simple search on comp.lang.c for C/C++ turns up plenty of results and no one, not a single person, is calling it out. Infact there's plenty of discussion on an almost daily basis discussing the
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That's a fairly recent thing that some people do as a kind of virtue signaling. The "C/C++ Users Journal" was a very popular publication and no one took issue with its name. Nor do people take issue with Dr. Dobbs which
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unique_ptr does not require that move semantics to be added to the language. Boost has a full implementation of boost::unique_ptr that is identical to std::unique_ptr but works with C++98 [1]. https://www.boost.org/doc/
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It wasn't written by Vitalik. I don't think anyone praises the original Bitcoin paper because of the quality of its prose, but because it introduced the world to an incredibly innovative idea and did so in such a simple and straig
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Do you have specific examples, preferably of something within the past 5 years? I think his writing and speeches are very well thought out and insightful. Often the criticisms people make of him are superficial and because he approaches top
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That could be true, but it has nothing to do with what was being discussed.
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2018 was an exceptionally bad year for influenza. Typically influenza deaths in the U.S. are between 20-30k. COVID deaths in the U.S. over a two year period amounted to over 1 million.
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There is no paradox in the statement "This sentence has no proof."
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Whether something is practical to compute is a very different matter from what OP stated was their concern, namely logical knots, potential inconsistencies/contradictions of the "this sentence is false" type, and unbounded co
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The barber's paradox can not be expressed in Principia Mathematica (PM). PM defines a theory of sets, classes, 2-classes, 3-classes, etc... so that members of an N-class can only contain elements that are of type K-classes where K <
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In that case I'd argue the objection has nothing to do with "for all" or "there exists" but rather reasoning about infinite sets.
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There's no overreach whatsoever and you can eliminate "there exists" altogether without any loss of expressivity. "There exists a number X such that P(X) is true." is nothing more than a short hand for "It is f
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>"This statement is false". Close but not quite as that's an inconsistent statement. "This statement is unprovable." is the approach Godel takes and eliminates the inconsistency. Either that statement is true, in
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I feel like you may have some good intention behind your post but it comes off as really condescending, as if all Mr. Bellard accomplished is some sexy compression algorithm.
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I think that's part of the myth of Ramanujan, that he could just see these things and pull them seemingly out of thin air, and in fact Ramanujan himself has said that math comes to him in visions from a Hindu goddess, but a closer insp
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As someone on the other side of the coin (I've paid contractors on the order of 15-20k a week), your post couldn't be further from the truth. The reason I have to pay that much money is because that person's skills are in suc
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But the article does go over the utility and explicitly states that for many people the utility of a guaranteed 1 million dollars is greater than a 50/50 chance at 50 million, so I'm not sure what "people" you're ta
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This is a much more profound statement than it seems at first and I wholeheartedly agree with it. Not only that but the gains compound over time. It's not about the expected value of any one opportunity, it's about the expected va
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Yes, paying customers and advertisers are a very important part of that calculus, I agree. We know from the work done by Soley and Craig [1] that newspapers will refrain from publishing unflattering stories that could jeopardize major spons

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