Syzygies

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by Syzygies 6y ago
We need a version of Little Snitch that allows these reports to reach Apple, modified so the app appears to always be "Go fuck yourself".
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by Syzygies 6y ago
I hiked with Arnold once, in New Hampshire. He at one point described walking far enough out onto a frozen lake to watch the ice crack around him, to see if the pattern matched his intuition. He was very hands-on.
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Exactly. The book can't trademark the name in general use, but it's still crappy hygiene to reuse the exact name. This has to be taken as deliberately drafting the wake of the book, which I cannot respect. Nor can the authors feig
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Functional programming appeals to many of us for reasons other than these practical considerations: Functional programming feels like reasoning in algebra. As in Modern Algebra for math majors (groups, rings, fields) and beyond. There'
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Why do?
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by Syzygies 6y ago
You win Risk by starting in Australia. What's a smaller problem with the same properties? User interface. Our phones should learn a private language with us. My dog learns after one repetition; Zoom should learn to arrange my windows a
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by Syzygies 6y ago
This book takes an historical perspective. When I bought my first computer in 1980, an Apple II, lower case required a hardware mod. Lisp had already been around for decades. In every major system one can now hide upper case conventions, bu
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by Syzygies 6y ago
This needs a decent preview image, for example for posting to facebook.
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by Syzygies 6y ago
They're missing a killer feature they have the hardware to implement: Ad skipping. Within a fraction of a second they could notice that the audio feed exactly matches a fragment in memory, and mute audio till the feed diverges again fr
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Duf doesn't understand MacOS APFS volumes. I have two such volumes sharing my primary SSD. For those accustomed to more primitive file systems, one doesn't have to arbitrarily divide a drive into volumes of separate fixed sizes. V
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Hmm, someone beat me to it: "Sorry, f___yougodaddyforstealingthesesearches.com is unavailable"
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by Syzygies 6y ago
"Turn your head" means turn your head 45 degrees, and look at the half of the squares you haven't colored green. You see a board of uncolored diamonds. Recursively checkerboard that. Like Huffman coding, green gets one bit, r
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Yup. I owe any sense of simplicity in my work to my Dad.
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Digital photography still uses my father's filter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter ). How did it survive? He made an inevitable choice, this is bit like asking why the number two is so prevalent. Frame t
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by Syzygies 6y ago
As a math grad student in 1980, I took out a student loan for $3,000 (equal to my annual stipend) to buy an Apple II computer. (Eventually, computation established my career, just not on this machine.) I recall making a "shift key mod&
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by Syzygies 6y ago
I've been using ExternalDisplayBrightness for this: https://www.nesveda.com/projects/ExternalDisplayBrightness/ With my LG 32UL950-W, I've found that whether it responds depends on the cable choice. I ha
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by Syzygies 6y ago
I'm a mathematician who scripts everything I can. I've been thinking about mind-mapping for decades. My breaking point: I have DropBox folders for 1770 math papers, that I periodically read on computers and tablets. The significan
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by Syzygies 6y ago
We're inside a balloon together, poking at it with a needle. You're off on some philosophical discourse about falsifiability. And all I'm trying to say is we've never poked that hard before, are you sure you know what yo
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by Syzygies 6y ago
Igniting the atmosphere was merely the most obvious candidate for an unintended consequence. Countering this possibility does not address the underlying problem of what we do not know. My other scenarios are obviously far less likely. Yet,
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by Syzygies 6y ago
The most important kind of intelligence is knowing what one does not know. There's a mindset counter to this, that substitutes a model for reality and then fervently believes the model. Math and physics exerts a very strong selection f
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by Syzygies 6y ago
The Trinity test remains the most intellectually arrogant moment in history. The bomb could have ignited the atmosphere, turned us into another sun for reasons we didn't understand. They worried about this, and were fairly confident in
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by Syzygies 6y ago
The mayor of Nagasaki reported that the bomb was a dud, and only then realized he'd heard nothing from the north half of the city. Same statistical paradox as the Brits reinforcing the parts of planes that returned with bullet holes, u
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by Syzygies 6y ago
I use sanebox.com for approximately this behavior, and I'm happy with their service. Sanebox works by logging into my mail server, not replacing it. I have three "send" addresses, and I've learned the hard way that I mus
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by Syzygies 6y ago
As does Nim. There's a thrill to monadic parsing of text in Haskell. That thrill hasn't been extended in any language to algebraic data types. To me, "full" in any full power macro system I've seen means they'v
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by Syzygies 6y ago
I use my own preprocessor for Chez Scheme. Comments begin flush left, code is indented. Indentation implies the parentheses that it can. "|" opens a group that self-closes at the next unbalanced ")" or the end of the lin
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by Syzygies 6y ago
As a math professor, I'm amazed that our students learn to answer exam questions about damped, driven systems without internalizing anything about the idea. Now, our pandemic is a damped, driven system and no one gets it. I love multip
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by Syzygies 6y ago
> Symbol guidelines: You should use lower case Like flipping through for the soft porn in a friend's "romance" novel, I must confess I searched straight for this guideline. It astonishes me that Lisp systems still default
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While a PhD is short for a Doctor of Philosophy, at universities such as Princeton or Stanford the title "Dr." is reserved for medical doctors. At less secure schools one sees the title imposed by administrators. It's a wonde
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by Syzygies 6y ago
"Everyone should build GHC from source at least once...You will learn a lot about how the sausage gets made." A decade ago a friend paid a local company to build him a many-core compute server. I was fairly certain they'd und
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atomic = Name .git atomic = Name *.sparsebundle Search for atomic in: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases...

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