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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I mean, if you can do something a simple way, it's not that surprising that you can also do it a complicated way, I'd say.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
M_1 is obviously just sigma. That's straight from the definition, you can't tell me that wasn't known. As for the higher ones, I'm having trouble finding a proper citation saying that this was known earlier, but this ma
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I'm a little confused at the significance here. Before I read the definition of the M_a, this seemed crazy, but on actually reading it, M_1 is just the sum-of-divisors function (usually denoted sigma). So, n is prime iff M_1(n)=n+1.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
So, why don't cancer treatments work here? Or would they likely work here but they largely haven't been tried yet? (See also codetweep's comment about surgery.)
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
If you don't mind me asking -- how did you find a job like this? I live in NYC, I'm looking for work, I worked briefly at Epic, I don't mind MUMPS, and honestly something involving MUMPS sounds like it's probably more m
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
AC is much stronger than excluded middle. This doesn't really say anything about what AC does.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
The axiom of choice allows you to make infinitely many arbitrary choices. You don't need the axiom of choice to make finitely many arbitrary choices. Let's say you have a pile of indistinguishable socks in front of you. You want
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
What's the CD?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Man, I thought this was going to be about a decoding tool that had some edge case incorrect, but instead it was just about incorrect entries in a database that was used in place of actually decoding...
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I thought it was 8k rather than 4k that was generally considered to be roughly equivalent to IMAX?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
I notice that there's a comment on video from Ross Scott (Accursed Farms), who started the related Stop Killing Games ( https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ ) campaign; it's not mentioned in the video itself but you ma
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
He explicitly says in the article that it's actually a DAG.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf Email: harry.j.altman
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
That's not my experience at all as a mathematician. "Maximal ideal" implicitly means "maximal proper ideal", yes, but generally ideals don't have to be proper unless specified so. If you don't include the
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
This is Polymarket, not Manifold. It's not "anyone can create a market and can resolve it however they want". Polymarket creates the markets and resolves them, so an unfair resolution could undercut their reputation and hur
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
This is in no way unmentioned in the article! It doesn't consider this a big factor, but it absolutely mentions it.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
The article does mention those things. It doesn't consider them big factors. And "the market isn't really about Jesus" is the article's whole point !
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
That's an argument in support of the article's thesis, not against it. It doesn't make sense to say that the article doesn't "address" it. It's true that it doesn't mention it, but there'
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Oh right, silly me. Wow, my own vocabulary deserted me there, huh? Yeah I think generally "sextic" is the highest you see before people stop doing that, and that one's somewhat uncommon I'd say. ("Quintic" is
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
It's rarely used, but it does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Generally "corporate death penalty" refers to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Generally the phrase "corporate death penalty" refers to revoking the charter, not bankruptcy. Which you argue is undesirable, but like, that is what the phrase normally refers to.
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
You would normally just say "5th degree" or "5th power".
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
No. Exponential growth or decay is much faster than quadratic growth or decay. You may be mixing up exponential functions, of the form x maps to a b^x, with power functions, of the form x maps to a x^b. These are very different! Annoying
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
All this manual calculation rather than just invoking the isoperimetric inequality? I mean, manual calculation isn't bad, if you want to do it also as an additional demonstration, but I think the isoperimetric inequality is worth a me
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Is this readable for free anywhere?
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> Technically correct, yes, but muonic atoms have a lifetime on the order of microseconds. They aren't really relevant to the everyday-scale physics I was discussing. But they're relevant to the particular argument you were m
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Substack link: https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/explaining-british-n...
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> It can't possibly work because of the Coulomb repulsion between nuclei is far too strong for them to come into contact at our everyday energy levels. Worth noting that (while obviously not what is normally meant by "cold fusi
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by Sniffnoy 1y ago
> What makes you say that? Has Signal posted something about it? I mean, if you want Signal's blog post where they introduced it, it's here: https://signal.org/blog/disappearing-messages/ But also, of

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