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by User23 2y ago
One thing that many mathematicians today don’t think about is how deeply intertwined the field has historically been with theology. This goes back to the Pythagoreans at least. That survives in the culture of mathematics where we continue t
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by User23 2y ago
I wonder if he’s familiar with Peirce’s alpha existential graphs. They are a complete propositional logic with a single axiom and, depending how you count them, 3-6 inference rules. They use only negation and conjunction. They also permit s
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by User23 2y ago
Could this have anything to do with the differences in the two country’s migration policies?
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by User23 2y ago
For those that didn’t get the memo: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/children-higher-fluori...
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Next do fluoride. That’s been “debunked” though right?
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by User23 2y ago
Intel's Board is going full Kodak.
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by User23 2y ago
Hence n-grams rather than documents. Also what's with using "semantics" as a dismissal when the technology we're talking about is the most semantically relevant search ever made.
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by User23 2y ago
LLMs are, at their core, search tools. Training is indexing and prompting is querying that index. The granularity being at the n-gram rather than the document level is a huge deal though. Properly using them requires understanding that. And
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by User23 2y ago
Even more fun, once you abandon isotropy you don't even need to posit matter inhomogenities. It could just be that spacetime itself has irregular topology. Which, incidentally, is probably a better theory than dark matter. For example
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by User23 2y ago
Einstein's wonderful book Relatvity clarified (sort of) this for me. It's not too hard to develop an intuition about special relativity, but GR is a whole other ball of wax.
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“I chose… Rapture!”
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by User23 2y ago
GR says that you can pick any frame that you want. The Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system happens to be really convenient practically, for things like navigation satellites.
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by User23 2y ago
Calculation is harder in a world of functionally limitless compute is sort of interesting. Where do we go from here?
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by User23 2y ago
There are enough scare quotes here that I can’t actually tell what you’re getting at.
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by User23 2y ago
Fun fact: a lot of that “sciency pseudocode” is actually Algol.
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by User23 2y ago
It's not the children who are paying.
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It's not mutating state, it's defining a transition function from one immutable state to another!
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This decomposition is especially fun!
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Truly a perineal problem.
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by User23 2y ago
Interestingly there is an entirely licit charismatic subsect within Catholicism called Catholic Charismatic Renewal. And yeah they’re basically Catholic Pentecostals.
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I think it’s probably a case of both? In any event it appears that reunification is essentially inevitable and the only question is when. China doesn’t appear to feel especial urgency about it.
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by User23 2y ago
> If you have multiple chain restaurants in your town, you're almost assuredly not "rural". By this standard, there are no rural communities east of the Mississippi. Is that congruent with what you intend to say?
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by User23 2y ago
I think C.S. Peirce's distinction between corollarial reasoning and theorematic reasoning[1][2] is helpful here. In short, the former is the grindy rule following sort of reasoning, and the latter is the kind of reasoning that's a
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With rare unsustainable exceptions, the bottom of the population pyramid will always be the largest demographic. Thus it’s no surprise that astute creators would target it.
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I always view it as a very good sign when senior leadership is aware of Conway’s Law.
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Of course, but at the scale of a responsible retail options gambler (think a high six to low seven figure bankroll, properly managed), you can pretty reliably find people willing to take the other side of your seeming long shot. The temptat
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Well it's true, you do need an idea. But good ideas aren't hard to come by when you understand basic risk management. Take for example recent events. Say your idea is if this election goes one way, it's neutral/slightly
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A 3k bankroll isn’t remotely close to enough working capital to employ any kind of useful risk management strategy and get any kind of return worth the bother.
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This is a position commonly referred to as "Social Darwinism." The same logic can get you to "drunk women out by themselves _have_ to be sexually assaulted" and so on. No, it's not OK to victimize people just becaus
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It’s fun how the runtime in seconds for the naive Fibonacci is 36: 14930352 (1.2s) 37: 24157817 (2.0s) 38: 39088169 (3.2s) 39: 63245986 (5.2s) 40: 102334155 (8.3s) 41: 165580141 (13.5s) 42: 267914296 (21.8s) What a famili

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