Rerarom

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1. 91.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   "Number" is not a mathematical term. "Natural number", "real number", "complex number" are. The fact that they all contain the string "number" is completely irrelevant.
2. 92.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   First read this as "dwarf star" and was really excited
3. 93.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   I generally use(d) link shorteners on messengers like Facebook just so that the link doesn't take all the conversation space and the previous lines can still be visible.
4. 94.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   This is the kind of stuff I expected to study in my CS degree
5. 95.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   > string theory for programmers This is gold, I'm gonna steal it
6. 96.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   I agree with that, but in set theory the symbol {} is used. I have nothing against it, I just think it should be emphasized more.
7. 97.▲
   Architects believe communal living is the way of the future(edition.cnn.com)

   2 points by Rerarom 5y ago|1 comments
8. 98.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   My initial problem with parentheses wasn't the stacking of them -- that's inevitable even in elementary arithmetic -- but with the fact that x is not the same as (x), which doesn't happen in math and doesn't get emphasis
9. 99.▲
   by Rerarom 5y ago

   > there was also dial-up on mobile/GSM Yeah, it was called CSD. HSCSD was high-speed CSD.
10. 100.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    Thanks for the answer!
11. 101.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    Please name one.
12. 102.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    I live in a 90% Christian country and everyone says "Happy Holidays" and it doesn't have anything to do with religious tolerance but rather with the fact that there are multiple Christian holidays around Christmas time.
13. 103.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    The article (and the theorem) says "there’s EITHER a group of three who all know each other, OR a group of three who have never met"
14. 104.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    https://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-dig...
15. 105.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    1946-7, just after his Manhattan Project work, before his work on quantum electrodynamics.
16. 106.▲
    by Rerarom 5y ago

    "The flagship industry of the definite optimism of the 1950s was engineering. The flagship industry of the indefinite optimism of the 2010s is finance. Finance is about “making money when you have no idea how to create wealth”. While t
17. 107.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    I once asked a FP enthusiast and the answer was it makes formal reasoning about the code easier.
18. 108.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    Not the parent poster, but thanks, I had missed that.
19. 109.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    Basically they are no longer risks
20. 110.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    What do you mean by Stoll, Codd and others?
21. 111.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    Superb!
22. 112.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    I thought it plausible since a lot of people pronounce the k as a t (I used to when I was a kid) and this would just formalize it.
23. 113.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    Archived version here: https://archive.ph/Q4wlO
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    After Covid, get ready for the Great Acceleration(spectator.co.uk)

    2 points by Rerarom 6y ago|1 comments
25. 115.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    This is just set theory, not category theory.
26. 116.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    There was also this some years ago https://wittgenstein-network.gitlab.io https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04336
27. 117.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    People say "sliced bread" for "bread sold pre-sliced".
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    HTML Centering(kompx.com)

    1 points by Rerarom 6y ago|0 comments
29. 119.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    Yeah but this would to me be an argument against chess in general, whether pre- or post-AI. Math is better, I feel like I can really contribute stuff that no one else would otherwise.
30. 120.▲
    by Rerarom 6y ago

    "Haskell is Lisp's missing M-Expression implementation."