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by gowld 1y ago
That's not a problem with the location. That's a problem with building materials. I've lives on the busiest street in town, with well insulated walls and windows that block out street noise. And I've lived in poorly -con
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by gowld 1y ago
We are the peer reviews. It's us.
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by gowld 1y ago
https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/
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by gowld 1y ago
Quarterly GDP, since it's measured via global approximation, isn't meaningful in quarters when the economy is rapidly changing. The numbers only make sense over time periods where behavior is relatively steady.
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by gowld 1y ago
Is TRIZ (and its great-great-grandchildren, LLM GenAI) invention , or discovery ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
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by gowld 1y ago
A way to make peace with the Reals is to understand them as "potential numbers". Every where you look, there is Real number. Everyone logical agrees about that. But what about where you don't look? Either you take the ortho
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by gowld 1y ago
Then let U_i be the interval of length 1/3^i centered on f(i), so that the total length is 1/2, far less than 1. Even though the supposed "surjection" is infinite, it's still the case that every x in [0,1] would be
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by gowld 1y ago
It's even more extreme than that! Take the (uncountable) set of Real numbers. Remove the normal numbers, which is almost all of them in the sense that the probability that "a uniformly randomly chosen real number is normal (and
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by gowld 1y ago
I think you are right. Plain English is a terrible language for higher math. It's extremely misleading (especially when talking about infinite objects and probability, where most of the mystery and confusion comes from terms that aren&
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by gowld 1y ago
> I thought my intellectual friends (and especially girlfriends) would think it was cool that I actually read the whole thing Interesting though, considering the popular meme among women, that men think reading IJ makes them look smart.
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by gowld 1y ago
> (Which arguably has its own errors, but those tend to fall more in the category of simplifications for the lay reader, IMO.) They were more mis-simplifications by the lay writer.
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by gowld 1y ago
The problem with Everything and More is not because it is "uncritical"; it's that DFW didn't understand it and was "not even wrong" when explaining it. Even if you choose not to engage with Cantor's hierar
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by gowld 1y ago
Eighty pounds is "about fifty pounds", especially considering that a water can worth carrying at all is often not full, and insofar as nothing else in the paragraph is given a specific weight so the precise number doesn't rea
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by gowld 1y ago
Better to learn about Quadratic Voting, and ignore the magical thinking of Quadratic Voting.
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by gowld 1y ago
Sure, government spending is not purely an investment in future tax. Goverment is not purely a financial investment vehicle. This is so obvious as to barely merit acknowledgement.
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by gowld 1y ago
I never heard of "quadratic funding" before today, but I did know about "quadtratic voting". Is "quadtratic funding" just a spin on "quadtratic voting" that makes a complete hash of everything?
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by gowld 1y ago
The article sets up (1) a straw man (2) with impossible to measure numbers. The author acknowledges the second fundamental flaw in the whole enterprise, but not the first.
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by gowld 1y ago
Do you have any evidence that these supposed assumptions exist? No one donates $100K to the opera because they enjoy attending opera $1M worth. It's absurd to accuse any opera organization of assuming that. Someone buys a ticket to the
709.
by gowld 1y ago
1 minute and 2 1-sentence prompts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c Gemini self-improved version (added the "Hint" and "What could it mean?" features): https://g.co/gemini
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by gowld 1y ago
It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...
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by gowld 1y ago
TurboTax already has competitors.
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by gowld 1y ago
Category Error. Public Domain is not a license. It is a state of being. Creative Commons is a worldwide organization, not a jurisdiction-specfic organization. Creative Commons does not have the authority to harmonize laws worldwide. http
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by gowld 1y ago
Why? What's wrong with people getting paid to improve upon the government's work?
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by gowld 1y ago
Don't be too literal. Imagine walking to a room an seeing someone grab a handful of chess pieces off of a set-up board, and proceed to fill bags with 4 pieces each. As they fill the 8th bag, they notice only 3 pieces are left. Are you
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by gowld 1y ago
> However, there’s nothing about the square structure that dictates the edges must represent phrases and synonyms. I got there and thought "Category theory", and, lo, that's the next paragraph. > Let’s talk about Scrabb
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by gowld 1y ago
noqc, can you diagram your comment?
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by gowld 1y ago
Ironically, "horde all the houses" (everyone get houses) is the opposite of "hoard all the houses" (one person gets all the houses).
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by gowld 1y ago
SmartPipe, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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by gowld 1y ago
There's an easy fix for that: Choose a smaller (more appropriate) P.
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by gowld 1y ago
Once weakness in those tournaments is that every interaction has the same stakes, so it doesn't model the possibility of "con artists" who behave generally at low stakes, but cheat at high stakes.

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