bitdizzy

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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Why, the 5th dimension is your imagination of course!
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
The use of marijuana for chemo patients is to manage the extreme nausea that accompanies the treatment. It's not about the munchies per se.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
While a useful metric must be implementable, not every implementable metric is meaningful. Is the metric being discussed here meaningful? What is it useful for?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
While yours are important questions they're somewhat outside of the scope of the topic. The submission is about a measurement of Britain's carbon footprint and the post you were replying to was talking about how that measurement
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
If the standard of living in the UK depends on imports from countries that heavily emit CO2's, then in what sense has the UK achieved a modern standard of living at a low rate of CO2 emissions? How did you turn a comment on method of a
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
There was a whole scandal about this, wasn't there?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I'm not downvoting you. I can't downvote anyone. I don't think I have enough points to downvote. If I didn't want to talk to you I wouldn't be replying!
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> This is the garbage pedantry that I warned you about earlier. I'm choosing the generally accepted academic definition. Hopefully you're not one of those people who can't comprehend "generally accepted" without
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I don't take wikipedia to be authoritative about anything but I'll bite. > Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming which treats all functi
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
You chose a definition among many and then dismissed the submission as "confused" because it does not meet your definition. I noted that your definition would preclude ML functions from being called functions. Your response was th
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
If you decide to dismiss a position by saying that it chose the wrong definition, you're not contributing anything useful. "Pure" functional programming is not more functional programming than "Functional programming&quo
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
That is a very interesting claim on their part considering that they hold the private PGP keys used by their service. I'll have to figure out what they mean by this. Edit: Ok I see. They store the PGP keys encrypted with your password.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> No I'm using the mathematical definition of a function. Which mathematical definition? A "box" is not a mathematical definition. There are multiple mathematically precise definitions of "function" possible. Y
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
You're making an argument from definitions that would exclude ML from being a functional language, which is absurd.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> The problem is that ProtonMail could violate your privacy by sending you Javascript that gave them your keys and you'd never know about it. I think we don't agree on how proton mail works. As I understand it, they already hav
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
To be clear, I am connected enough to security-conscious social media that I think I would hear about it if someone found it out. I agree with you that someone who isn't at least a little bit diligent would miss news like this. Let me
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
PGP isn't any better on the first point and on the second point, I would bet the money in my pocket that GPG (being the most dominant implementation of PGP) is far more complex and bug-ridden than Signal's cryptography or implemen
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I use proton mail just for the privacy guarantees enforced by social pressure on their brand. They hold your PGP keys (you can't give them a subkey of your own private master key) so there's no reasonable security there. In genera
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
What is RoW?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Microwaving frozen bread slices for 30-60 seconds (depends on how much bread and how powerful your microwave is) works like a charm too.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
This language of matching brackets is also called the Dyck language and its syntactic monoid is the bicyclic semigroup, which is an interesting example of an inverse semigroup. Edward Kmett gave a talk on programming with these sorts of alg
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A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender (Book Review)(nytimes.com)
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> Astute observers will see some parallels with other groups. I'm a little naive and curious about this. The examples that come to mind are HR departments I've worked with. What were you thinking of?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I should have demonstrated my picks. I didn't just look for citation but also looked for at least some nontrivial review of the results of the paper^. I pick these two papers. The first is literally about adjunctions pertaining to comb
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> Respectfully, I disagree. The question of what's mainstream and valued by the community is empirical and can be answered by looking at what's published in the leading combinatorics journals. And anyone can check those out and
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
This all hinges on "mainstream". For example, in combinatorics, combinatorial species are a vast organization of the all-important concept of generating function . They were developed by category theorists and are most tidily org
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I have the Remarkable 1. It's the kind of jank hardware whose flaws you come to find endearing because the device as a whole is so good to you. I immediately ordered a Remarkable 2 when I caught wind of it. I'm going to give my Re
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Oh good call on the oxalate content! I'll be on the look out for that now, though it seems that I've been using low oxalate varieties of kale by preference. I've been having a salad either as a whole meal or as a side every d
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
You can keep a journal of your wellbeing to establish a baseline and then start making changes to your diet. For example, adding a green smoothie (mostly leafy greens, some fruit and nuts) to my breakfast every day seems to have ameliorated
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Nutritional yeast, tamari, and dried mushrooms goes a long way for me.

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