a_wild_dandan

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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
I think all police should wear body cameras. Police misconduct declines. Civilian misconduct declines. Cameras are a potential source of powerful evidence. Everyone wins.
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
Nothing sterilizes a book's emotional or intellectual impact quite like being forced to read it. It's like cultivating a person's appreciation of sushi by physically shoving it down her throat. What's worse is that I can
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
Jokes which largely target/affect a specific group of people are considered more crass. So yes, murder/theft/violence are perceived as indiscriminate are thus less severe compared to rape/racist/religious jokes.
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
> "see nothing in the article about the negative consequences of surprising users with silent failure, for example." That's because the article is purely about the mathematical consistency of using 1 / 0 = 0. It exp
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
They're true statements about the mathematical system. They might have no relevance to reality.
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
> Trying to remediate that by refuting the "proof" that it's undefined He does not refute any proofs by citing that division by 0 is undefined. He refutes them by asserting that the multiplicative inverse doesn't exis
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
> Come to think of it, couldn't I define x/y as cotton candy Yes. That's the thesis of the article. Make an arbitrary choice for 1 / 0 = ?, and if it helps you, use it. It's mathematically, rigorously fine.
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
There ISN'T one correct extension of a factorial function. The properties of the standard gamma function are great, but some might prefer the properties of Hadamard's or Luschny's alternative gamma function. Like many arbitra
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
> Mathematicians define equality of fractions by stating that a/b = c/d if and only if a·d = b·c. This means that if we define 1/0 = 1 then 0 = 1. That's not implied, so far as I can tell. a / b = 1 / 0, thu
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
Look at it this way... Standard definition of division function, d: d(x, y) = x * y⁻, for all x and y EXCEPT 0 Author's modified, piecewise ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise ) definition: d(x, y) = x * y⁻, f
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
What usual properties does 1 / 0 = 0 break?
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
This is such an important distinction to actually effect change. The vast majority of folks who go from 0 to Gym Rat will quickly peter out, reverting to sedentariness. Small lifestyle changes are far more effective. Likewise for diets. Tho
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
We also don't even know how likely life is to arise at all. Abiogenesis could be a freak accident with a 1 in a googolplex probability, rendering us (Earth) a freak accident, a la the anthropic principle. We just don't know.
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by a_wild_dandan 8y ago
(Intensity) = (Power) / (Unit Area) (Sun's Radius) = 695 x 10^6 m (Sun's Power) = 4 x 10^26 W (CPU Output) = 75 W (Die Size) = 37 mm x 37 mm (Sun Intensity) = (4 x 10^26 W ) / (4 x pi x (695 x 10^6 m)^2) ~ 66 x 10^6 (CPU