SetTheorist

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by SetTheorist 10mo ago
I will definitely trust a random, prima facie absurd, claim from an anonymous someone on the internet (with bad grammar, misspellings, and lack of capitalization) over peer-reviewed scientific studies. Yep.
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by SetTheorist 10mo ago
There is an inherent complexity in a lot of mathematics. The compact notation makes it much easier (or even possible) to understand what is going on. Compare something like equals(integral(divide(exponentiate(negate(divide(square(var),2)))
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by SetTheorist 11mo ago
Experimenting with LLMs, I've had examples like it providing the Cantor Set (a totally disconnected topological space) as an example of a Continuum immediately after it provides the (correct) definition as a non-empty compact, connecte
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Bad. Education and growth of children belongs to the entire country. Full stop.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Have you tried diving deeper into languages like Prolog, Haskell, Lisp/Scheme, APL, Forth? These are likely to provide some food for thought different from typical languages used in numerical analysis...
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Have you tried diving deeper into languages like Prolog, Haskell, Lisp/Scheme, APL, Forth? These are likely to provide some food for thought different from typical languages used in numerical analysis...
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
From "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" by Umberto Eco. via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism I think it is quite evident that the modern far-right movement in the US (includin
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Amusingly, even the numbers in the first example are counter-examples to the author's false claim: neither 0.1 nor 0.2 can be represented thusly.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
I have no doubt that russian media makes absurd claims like that. If you actually believe this nonsense, I pity you.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Reminds me of the playing-card based encryption system designed by Bruce Schneier for the novel Cryptonomicon . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
AI used for an unethical and immoral application.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
No, they do not. Ukrainians have not and do not deliberately target civilians in their war of self-defense against the invading russian army. Russia consistently and deliberately targets civilians. There is no "both sides" here.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
That's a very misleading description of Banach-Tarski. You need to break up the body into a few (very weird) pieces and maneuver them (via only rigid motions - rotations and translations).
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Paraconsistent logic looks into logical systems that allow contradictions. A lot of set-theory research is looking into the consequences of various axiomatic assumptions.
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
Nitpick: I think you mean that FP arithmetic is not _associative_ rather than non-commutative. Commutative: A+B = B+A Associative: A+(B+C) = (A+B)+C
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by SetTheorist 1y ago
In what possible sense can you possible mean that "all wars are defensive"? And it is absurd to claim that Russia wants peace. It can literally have peace anytime it wants by simply pulling its troops out of Ukrainian territory a
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by SetTheorist 2y ago
Generally, "equivocation" is the fallacy of using the same word with different meanings in an argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
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by SetTheorist 2y ago
Don't forget about Turbo Basic! It was a great language and IDE for a young self-taught programmer.
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by SetTheorist 2y ago
Latin Vulgate: radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas "root of all evil" or "root of all evils" would seem to be more precise translations than "root of all kinds of evils". The Russian Synodal bible gives: иб
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by SetTheorist 3y ago
You've got the subset relationships backwards: Reals are a subset of the field of Surreal Numbers which is a subset of the group of Games. (Probably better phrased as embeddings, rather than subsets, but the point remains...) Note that
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by SetTheorist 3y ago
Your example is patently silly. Do you really think that Ancient Egyptians didn't have a simple declarative statement that "the sun rises"? Don't fall into exoticism. Ancient Egyptians were human beings speaking languag
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by SetTheorist 4y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say (I'm not sure what you mean by "separate" here), but your assertions seem incorrect. Knots can have even or odd crossing numbers, that alone will not tell anything abo
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by SetTheorist 4y ago
Absolutely. I've done a lot of interviews for different companies, and it is clear when someone is asking a pre-canned list of questions vs. someone who has real questions and genuine interest. I wouldn't give a no-hire recommen
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by SetTheorist 6y ago
Chu shogi and Tenjiku shogi are other larger (not so ridiculously large) variants of shogi that are quite playable and enjoyable. Also, people do play crazy games these days, look up "monster wargames". For example "Advanced
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by SetTheorist 9y ago
An in-depth analysis of basic color terms across languages: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Color-Terms-Universality-Evolut... (Noting that different languages do have differing numbers of basic color terms.)