burtonlang

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   by burtonlang 12y ago

   I would say there are 10 states. Any square can be empty or have an ant, and if the ant is there its direction is known. That gives 5 states of ant presence and direction, and since a square has 2 color states, that's 10 total states.
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   by burtonlang 12y ago

   >English spends a lot of characters on structure - words that are required grammatically but don't change the meaning of the sentence. Chinese's famously simple grammar doesn't do that. I admit that I only got as far as Ma
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   by burtonlang 13y ago

   My understanding of the No True Scotsman fallacy involves changing a definition during an argument in order to hold on to some assertion. This is not the same thing as a person feeling that a particular word should have a particular meaning
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   by burtonlang 13y ago

   Well, "blue-reddish" might be a bad example; that'd be magenta.