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by User23 2y ago
The appellation is in some part due to his custom of writing monographs for himself titled EWD-n[1]. They are a fascinating mix of deep mathematical and philosophical insight and curmudgeonly reflective essaying. [1] https://www.
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by User23 2y ago
I do find it amusing reading hundred year old stories where characters walk into a pharmacy to buy a pint of whiskey, a sandwich, and a vial of cocaine and it’s just an everyday normal thing.
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by User23 2y ago
It's rather annoying that the only actually effective nasal decongestants are amphetamines or otherwise closely related compounds. Sudafed is great for daytime relief, but there really is no good sleep time decongestant. Sure Nyquil is
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by User23 2y ago
This article is attacking a straw man. The reason why the halting problem is of minor importance for pragmatically minded programmers has nothing to do with machine memory size. It's of minor importance because while it's intracta
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by User23 2y ago
No, probably not. It’s a somewhat plausible notion so far as it goes, but the complete lack of primary or even secondary evidence for the existence of a Q document is a major problem for the conjecture.
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by User23 2y ago
Indeed. For example "Why don't you just use Boyer-Moore or Knuth-Morris-Pratt?" It's straightforward way to say don't reinvent the wheel.
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by User23 2y ago
No, it’s definitely changed. As tech has become bigger and bigger the demographics of the field have approached the demographics of the overall population. Back in the 90s the tiny subset of self-selected people involved were almost all mis
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by User23 2y ago
Update your resume immediately. If you want to remain at the company then start looking for an internal transfer before he inevitably gives you a bad rating for your next review (and a PIP will inevitably follow). Also start looking externa
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by User23 2y ago
Someone in Long Beach did.
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by User23 2y ago
That does sound a bit like Peircian semiotic so I’m with you so far as the general concept of meaning being a sort of iterative construct. Where I don’t follow is how a bitmap approximation captures that in a semiotic way. As far as I can t
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by User23 2y ago
> We've hit on a mathematical construct that seems to be able to capture understanding I’m admittedly unfamiliar with the space, but having just done some reading that doesn’t look to be true. Can you elaborate please and maybe poin
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by User23 2y ago
There is no such thing as “celtic” culture. Celtoi is a word of precision roughly on par with “barbarian.”
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by User23 2y ago
The bonfires are a Catholic thing dating to when they were outlawed in England. They couldn’t light candles in churches so they lit bonfires in fields instead.
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by User23 2y ago
Which is quite remarkable, because up until less than a century ago when women “entered the workforce” virtually every woman who had ever lived somehow managed to care for her 3+ children. Incidentally, large families do scale sublinearly w
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by User23 2y ago
Interesting diagrammatic notation. Does the author give inference rules for truth preserving transformations of diagrams?
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by User23 2y ago
As an aside you can avoid the vast majority of unnecessary rebase tedium with proper use of git rebase —onto
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by User23 2y ago
This looks like spooks did spook stuff, got caught, and NIST fixed it? Is there evidence NIST colluded or is the NSA just good at its job?
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by User23 2y ago
It’s certainly got an element of know it when you see it. Nonetheless it’s pretty easy to figure out. One good piece of evidence to consider is whether or not process chemistry is involved in its making.
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by User23 2y ago
Why is there cause and effect? Oh, right, for no reason at all. That doesn’t sound like a rational position to me.
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by User23 2y ago
Yes
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A belief being dogmatic isn’t about adequacy of evidence or lack thereof. It’s about that belief being one that must be held to be in fully good standing with the organization for which it is a dogma. I think we can reasonably say the FSF’s
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by User23 2y ago
My understanding from Einstein’s book Relativity is that the four dimensions of general relativistic spacetime do not correspond to any one of the time or space dimensions of special relativity or classical physics. It’s a great read, and s
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by User23 2y ago
The limitations of science say nothing about atheism or theism. However, the metaphysics of science firmly rest on the notion that things do happen for reasons and that those reasons are potentially knowable. The rationalist view says that
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by User23 2y ago
I made a point, but you got defensive and missed it. I’m not defending theism, I’m pointing out what I find to be an amusing irony about supposedly rationalist atheism. I’m not pointing out open questions, I’m presenting offered answers. To
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by User23 2y ago
> But what's the issue with defining life? All of the working definitions beg the question in some form or another. And then there's stuff like this[1]. > If you can get from deism, based on an argument about order, to belie
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by User23 2y ago
Which is funny, because atheism is fundamentally and quite literally irrational. It rests entirely on the premise that reason plays no role in the existence or structure of the universe. That, for no reason at all the big bang happened. The
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Distributed systems are famously hard to get right and mathematical formalism is pretty much the only way to do so at scale. Amazon found that out with S3[1]. TLA+ exists for very good reason! That’s not to discount the reality that mapping
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by User23 2y ago
Well for one when someone’s AC is out during the summer, heat is out during the winter, their water doesn’t work, or worse yet is flooding, then that person has a pretty poor negotiating position. Plumbers and HVAC can basically name their
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by User23 2y ago
Jewishness by matrilineal descent was a later Rabbinic innovation, probably around the third century. In Paul’s day it was still patrilineal. Even today your tribe is patrilineal.
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by User23 2y ago
Right, so there is some reason and there always must have been. If you think there is a symmetry, there isn’t, because no reason would be required if nothing existed.

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