Smaug123

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by Smaug123 13y ago
I'd be interested to know quite how they're solving the "canonical names for everything" problem [0]. They're presumably making their own ontology, rather than using someone else's. Also, best attribute name ev
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by Smaug123 13y ago
> An intelligent "layman" might watch the video and declare, "Math proves that 1 + 2 + … = -1/12" Indeed, I have seen this exactly happen, with a secondary-school student. It took me some time to explain why it&#
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by Smaug123 13y ago
They can all see everyone else's eyes. That is, person N can see person M's eyes, for all M,N. [I don't know whether it's possible or not - it feels not, but it has been hinted to me that it is possible.]
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by Smaug123 13y ago
There's an infuriating variant, which I have as yet been unable to solve: An infinite sequence of people have either blue or brown eyes. They must shout out a guess as to their own colour of eyes, simultaneously. Is there a way for the
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by Smaug123 13y ago
For me, that kind of comes under the category of "know how to answer the question": that is, "remember that you have produced an example, which does not constitute proof but merely evidence". You're right that it&#x
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by Smaug123 13y ago
Not even that - it's the kind of question that becomes dramatically easier to answer if you know how to trick your brain into thinking it's easy. "Given that all cats are animals and some animals are mice, are all mice cats?&
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by Smaug123 13y ago
You're quite close, but not in the way you think ;)