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by Tainnor 1y ago
That's a very outdated text that is mostly irrelevant for modern maths except for its historical importance.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
You can add any axiom you want in Lean and then see what follows (although what follows might be that you prove a contradiction). See the article for details. I don't know if there's a way to remove axioms, nor do I think you ca
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> so are we basically compiling a dictionary of proofs all stemming from a handful of self-evident truths I would say, "from a handful of axioms". It's certainly true that when Euclid started this whole enterprise, it was
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I think for that kind of thing, Prolog would be sufficient. Lean is more powerful, but it requires you to supply proofs - Prolog can just automatically run inferences. (Although I wouldn't be surprised if somebody had already recreated
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> There's plenty of empirical evidence to indicate that language influences thought, and that syntax is therefore important. Are you talking about natural languages here? The so called Sapir Whorf thesis - in its strong or weak form
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I honestly think there's a certain number of people whose insecurities get triggered when they encounter something that they don't immediately understand and instead of concluding that it's not for them or that they lack prer
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I feel this comment is already much more constructive than your original one. Btw I'm not affiliated with Pony in any way, so I have no influence on what and how things could be improved in the docs.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> There really is no equivalence with anything that has happened recently - it is a crime unique in its depravity. With no intention of downplaying the particular scandal that you're referencing, I don't think this is correct.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> Syntax is probably one of the single most important things in any language. It matters for writing, but especially for reading. That appears to be your position (and maybe even that of a majority of developers), but it apparently isn&#
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I'm not necessarily a fan of the original wording "shitty behaviour", but I do find it disappointing that half of the comment section is people complaining about the lack of code examples. It's just not very interesting
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> Most people visiting such websites are programmers who are more often than not busy as all hell. Apparently not too busy to visit HN and post shallow dismissals. I agree with GP. Not everything is for everyone and expecting every proje
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> Functional languages can do this too, of course, using some combination of abstract types, the module system, and factory functions as convention In Haskell: 1. Create a module with some datatype 2. Don't export the datatype'
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by Tainnor 1y ago
It's true that it might be unexpected that there is no real solution. I also wouldn't have intuited that from the problem statement itself. However, it's not like you have to go out of your way to look for the complex numbers
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> those definitions of exp are all immediately obvious no
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by Tainnor 1y ago
It's "not interesting" because no novel insight has to be used in order to solve this. It's immediately obvious how to solve it, just follow the textbook procedure. This is distinct both from other typical IMO problems t
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by Tainnor 1y ago
This is slightly tedious to do by hand but there isn't really anything interesting going on in that problem - it's just solving a quadratic equation over the complex numbers.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Supermarkets and most stores where you'd buy everyday stuff (clothes, electronics, books, ...), especially if they're chains, will take card. It's really mostly independently owned kiosks, bars and restaurants that are holdou
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> All the layers of abstraction are well intended and often useful. But they by no means eliminate the need to understand in detail the hard facts underlying computer engineering if you want to build performant and reliable software. Agr
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> were basically occupied for 50 years by multiple foreign powers what a bunch of nonsense
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Mathematics cannot be "solved", that's a consequence of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem. It can already be "cheaply verified" in the sense that if you write a proof in, say, Lean, the compiler will tell if
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> Germany is infamously almost cash-only. Let's not exaggerate. While I am often enough exasperated at how often certain restaurants or bars will still only accept cash (or sometimes EC card), I'm still able to do about 90% of
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> That’s why many teams now offload this to specialized services like Vartiq.com It would be nice to add a disclaimer that this is a system you're working on.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
This is literally what they did in the study.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
> > assume that a woman won't push back as hard or because they just feel uncomfortable with a woman earning that much (or more than her colleagues). > Exactly. They are seen as less valuable in the marketplace I'm really
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by Tainnor 1y ago
If the model statistically significantly returns a different number for men and for women when controlling for all other factors, then it's a bias. I don't understand how this is even contentious.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
Why is this flagged? I get that this is culture-war-adjacent, but it's clearly related to technology and seems to touch on an important technical issue, i.e. biases in LLMs.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I find this argument unconvincing as it assumes perfectly rational actors in a transparent marketplace. But it's unlikely that some sexist hiring manager who trusts women less is going to hire a woman just because she is slightly cheap
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I think you could make your point without resorting to rhetoric like "overzealous leftists", which usually doesn't make discourse better.
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by Tainnor 1y ago
that logic only makes sense if you assume that women compete against other women but not against men who apply for the same position which... yeah it might be true for some very sexist managers but I still wouldn't recommend it as a ne
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by Tainnor 1y ago
I'm not sure if "mansplaining" is the correct word, but the comment is a poster child of looking at an example of reported bias and saying "it's actually not that bad because ...".

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