jan_m_savage

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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
Oh yes my bad. That's what I had meant but I was distracted and didn't notice. Thanks.
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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
Actually, there is something like that, given in a book titled: "Did you say mathematics?".
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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
upvoted. it looks nice, i will take a deeper look later.
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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
Thanks for the book recom. BTW, I will also recommend 'a hero of our time' by Lermontov. In it, you will get an updated view of what the meaning of 'friends' will be. :) EDIT: since this is getting upvotes, I will also m
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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
love this. We need more anti-privacy gizmos like this!
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by jan_m_savage 13d ago
Midwits can only downvote when they can't engage in a convo/debate.
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by jan_m_savage 14d ago
Huh. Wait until it blows. And I say this as someone who uses AI (for fun) and to check things I may havbe overlooked. There's a place and time for everything. Using AI where you shouldn't is gonna backfire, big time. Also, just pl
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by jan_m_savage 14d ago
Are you being sarcastic or are you a midwit?
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by jan_m_savage 14d ago
Errr. Modern chess was not invented in India, but in ancient Persia. Afrasyab (the first pics on that site) is also the name of some character in Ferdowsi's Shah Nameh or Epic of the Kings (شاهنامه). The name of the elephant (called
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by jan_m_savage 14d ago
Oh the irony. That website itself seems to have been designed or written by AI. I mean, it's not just the writing tone. There's a tone for everything AI does. The design tone, for instance.
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by jan_m_savage 14d ago
Of course I agree with OP that one can't be nice to Nazis. But he should have also mentioned that one should not be nice to anyone who kills innocent humans. Not just the Nazis. EDIT: is there something wrong with my statement? Don&#x2
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by jan_m_savage 15d ago
Actually, it does, it's just not so fixed about them. For instance: "I have gone", "I had gone" are said the same way, but there is a slight difference when you say "I have been going" and there is really
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by jan_m_savage 15d ago
Exactly. The 1-to-1 tutor-style education was also mainly responsible for OxBridge producing some of the greatest minds to have come out of Europe. (I am not sure but I think to some extent this is still the case at Cambridge?)
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by jan_m_savage 15d ago
this is fair only if i have enough time to decipher.
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by jan_m_savage 15d ago
Every language has its own quirks. In Chinese, you don't have this a/an difficulty, but the grammatical tenses are so fluid that a lot of contextual cues are needed to make sense whether "I went" [zoule 走了] means I reall
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by jan_m_savage 16d ago
OK.
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by jan_m_savage 16d ago
Yeah like that didn't occur to me. LOL.
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by jan_m_savage 16d ago
I am well aware of all the sites and YT, what you probably thought I live in a cave? I taught mathematics at Tsinghua for over a decade, so I know what I'm talking about. 3B1Br is great but only for a 'hobbyist'. There'
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by jan_m_savage 16d ago
It is but not so hard as it appears now. Part of the difficulty is artificial. Whether intentional or not, it's there. I have yet to see a textbook that really taught learners as they deserve to be taught. Some are good in some aspects
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by jan_m_savage 16d ago
please have a look at my profile before making silly comments. :)
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by jan_m_savage 17d ago
Talking about frontier mathematics? Even the common for-mere-mortals version of mathematics is totally inaccessible to most people. Even to those who want to really learn it. Take a good look at the textbooks that teach mathematics and tell
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by jan_m_savage 17d ago
yep. That, and also the porn.
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by jan_m_savage 17d ago
The more salient point is why is this happening. That is to say, it also mean less and less younger people, as 'modernity' induces fewer marriages and fewer children.
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by jan_m_savage 17d ago
This is great. I can't imagine why would anyone be unappreciative of this. Since AI is going to be here anyway, why not make it safer and more useful? However, this also means acknowledging that AI will never be error-free (which is th
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by jan_m_savage 17d ago
Sure. In the first comment: science can only explain what happens, and even that, with no certainty. In the second comment: my first comment was getting downvoted heavily by the pseudo-quacks whose religion is science.
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by jan_m_savage 18d ago
The fact that i am being downvoted on my previous comment means i am on to sth. Truth maybe?
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by jan_m_savage 18d ago
Attempts to tackle why in science are actually, underneath, just a how-it-really-happens, or what-happens answers. No scientist can explain the why , and most can't even explain the how (Heisenberg uncertainty, for one accessible
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by jan_m_savage 19d ago
This thread, which I read most of, reads like a 'how to be a language-war thread without explicitly being one'. :) Just use the language the (keeps putting) puts bread on your table. All languages have their own 'baggage&#x27
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by jan_m_savage 19d ago
Orwell is claimed to have written his books directed at the other side of the Curtain, but in fact, he was merely predicting the effect of power at the hands of the few self-elected (due to randomness -> wealth --> power). "All a
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by jan_m_savage 20d ago
Is it because they're using LLMs? LOL. This is just the beginning.

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