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by foxes 5y ago
Why is a few snippets of code so valuable anyway? We don't GPL scientific research, you expect people to cite you, and then build off your work, the licensing in a sense is far more permissive. You don't GPL maths text books and t
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by foxes 5y ago
That is not a problem with the drill style per say but toxic teachers and parents. You can make someone drill without tormenting them for failing. I think doing drills is good if done in a supportive setting, but it is also and should not b
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by foxes 5y ago
Yes, the stack of papers at my desk with random scribbles are a far cry from a verified proof written in lean. There is lots behind a proof that you don't necessarily see reflected in a piece of code/proof. So I agree, something f
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by foxes 5y ago
I think the proof assistants are getting very powerful, eg: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-... State of the art research explored with lean. I think a certain level of hand wavy r
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by foxes 5y ago
A verified proof is a very convincing argument. I am not against including a human focused discussion of a proof, stepping through it in human terms. A verified proof is more like the final step or output. I agree this is not how maths is d
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by foxes 5y ago
I think it is the future. Writing a mathematical proof is writing a computer program. I think it is common to see lots of lets say hacky, untyped work, like some janky bash script, that takes you on some adventure, that you have to spend ex
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by foxes 5y ago
Yeah I mean it could help for essentially type checking your work. I feel it’s common in physics to set a lot of units to “1” which is just like a morphism to the underlying field, and then later you put units back in. Obviously you can do
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by foxes 5y ago
Why does no one ever formalise units - what are units? A ring group R[G] over some symbols {L,T,..}? It would it would make sense to have an identity. The fact when we do physics its over R^n[G] or C^n[G] never really seems to be important
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by foxes 5y ago
How are some of those other apps too slow? Stream of consciousness definitely doesn't need to be recorded, you can polish the thought a bit before recording something. Even then I imagine a lot of my notes are junk I won't ever lo
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by foxes 5y ago
I respectfully disagree, society does not function like that. We need constraints. It might not restrict others freedoms entirely, but there are still consequences for actions, things do not happen in a vacuum.
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by foxes 5y ago
Again, the argument that because bad x exists and is allowed freely does not mean y should be allowed. You can not use transitive arguments for this. I would think that pain killer should also be restricted. Anecdotal small sample sizes are
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by foxes 5y ago
How is it not controversial? Most studies seem to suggest the effect is not known. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337025/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&
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by foxes 5y ago
I believe alcohol is already pretty destructive. It’s been shown no level is really safe, it causes brain damage, although as to how much it’s not clear. I think weed is fairly similar. Tobacco gives you lung cancer. I don’t think we should
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by foxes 5y ago
What you do with yourself does not always happen in a vacuum. Maybe if you are in the cabin in the wild growing your own pot who cares, but for the rest of society I think we should consider second order effects. Society does already dictat
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by foxes 5y ago
Because x bad thing is allowed we should also allow y? Ridiculous. I agree it shouldn’t be criminal and having people put into jail over small amounts. But if anything tobacco and alcohol should be restricted too.
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by foxes 5y ago
Why do we except a server to render maths for us? The client renders HTML/SVG. Maths is text, we should take the same approach. There just needs to be a compact markdown for maths notation. MathML is an awful mess.
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by foxes 5y ago
Emoji symbols for some funky new Haskell function, why not. type (@@@#@$$$) Could definitely be made more compact :).
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by foxes 5y ago
Writing down a field theory is seems to be writing out a path integral of some sort: \int Dx Exp[S[x]] Where \int Dx is like a sum, x is a field (a thing that assigns numbers or an object to a point in space), Exp[S[x]] is a weighting. You
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by foxes 5y ago
Incorrect at least for Denmark and USA [0-1]. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists... [1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cycl
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by foxes 5y ago
First of all yes any group can contain bad actors. But bad actors in the car category are a magnitude worse than a bad cyclist. A cyclist isn't controlling a 1000kg lump of metal that pollutes (noise and emissions), destroys communitie
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by foxes 5y ago
Declarative languages are then the natural choice. Instead of reasoning about arbitrary control flow semantics you can just think about what your program is actually meant to be doing. Then if you need to zoom in later and manipulate state&
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by foxes 5y ago
The amount of gaslighting, propaganda, changing narrative during this pandemic was honestly shocking. Trump was bad but it’s amazing to watch how suddenly things can be reversed. Which, is not an issue by itself, you adapt as you get more i
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by foxes 5y ago
The problem the article is basically describing is that many neural networks do not utilise all the information available, or are over trained, or are not in a sense compact enough. There is redundant information. For example recognising pi
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by foxes 5y ago
How can you prove something about what happens in the real world with some computer program? Okay we run some hash once and then I go chuck the hard drive in a smelter.
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by foxes 5y ago
Urban sprawl catering to the car lifestyle is the mistake. Most major cities that cater exclusively for cars are hellscapes covered in concrete and parking lots. I truly despise car traffic. Cities should be higher density, feature plenty o
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by foxes 5y ago
Except I would say quantum computation, which is truly more natural, considering the universe is quantum, definitely feels more functional flavored.
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by foxes 5y ago
Relevant user name, I like foxes. Fennec and grey foxes in particular, but nothing wrong with the standard red fox. They have interesting personalities it seems. Unfortunate they have a bad reputation in farming, I do not think they are nas
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by foxes 5y ago
Well I might add the quantum complexity-theory version of the Church–Turing thesis. I believe that quantum computation is a richer more powerful theory. In essence BQP is a superset of BPP in your link. I think this happens with all sorts o
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by foxes 5y ago
Congratulations, I wish them success. Hopefully this spurs on everyone else and we can get a second space race. I think it is important we become a multi planet species as a long term survival strategy.
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by foxes 5y ago
I disagree entirely. In most imperative programming languages, you can shove any sort of logic inside a loop, more loops, more branches, creating new objects, its all fair game. Fold and map in functional languages are often much more restr

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