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by llamaz 6y ago
The post you're responding to is ambiguous, and most language is and relies on context, but this doesn't seem like a very charitable interpretation. I have heard the argument you're making with Jordan Peterson (who I absolute
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by llamaz 6y ago
I've taken courses is probability and topology where the power set is used, and am intimately familiar with it, but I have no idea what you're talking about
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by llamaz 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious, how do you think this worked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1935
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by llamaz 6y ago
He doesn't have a particular view on determinants, I got my views on determinants more from Axler than from Halmos. But Halmos' book is linear algebra as preparation for functional analysis, so he tends not to choose a basis for p
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by llamaz 6y ago
I'm vaguely familiar with Axler, but I read the beginning of Halmos (finite dimensional vector spaces)
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by llamaz 6y ago
As a practical example of what I would prefer be taught on the undergraduate level to e.g. engineering and physics majors: https://www.amazon.com/Vector-Calculus-Linear-Algebra-Differ... math majors would probably supplemen
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by llamaz 6y ago
I did degrees in both math and engineering, please give me the benefit of the doubt that I'm not making a 1st year university level mistake. In the specific examples you give, 2-forms could be introduced instead to yield the final form
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by llamaz 6y ago
That's one concrete way to view determinants, but it's not _the_ way to think about them. Determinants are kind of abstract and even inelegant. This is because it's defined in terms of coordinates rather than abstractly. A co
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by llamaz 6y ago
If you're taking a class with proofs, you're being prepared for research. Doing your own research into, and reverse engineering, proofs is an important skill. Proofs in math journals are given 'as-is' and you learn the i
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by llamaz 6y ago
In an era of open access journals, and a circumstance where the vast majority of PhD students don't end up gaining an academic job, perhaps its time to both drop the convention that lecturers research and researchers lecture. The state
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by llamaz 6y ago
Historically research was not necessarily a job, let alone a job incentivized by how many papers someone churns out. Sometimes, like in the case of Spinoza, research was done in someone's spare time while they worked a non-time consumi
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by llamaz 6y ago
I have no desire to defend the Soviet Union, but out of curiosity, do you think our current system rewards productivity? I'm thinking along the lines of the movie "Office Space". I don't know much about the USSR, but I d
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by llamaz 6y ago
I agree, DU munitions are not illegal. Weapons that cause unnecessary suffering are illegal. The question is whether DU munitions cause unnecessary suffering, and whether the US knew that the caused unnecessary suffering. Ultimately the que
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by llamaz 6y ago
My position is that the United States should de-escalate an arms race. I don't want to argue about details from examples that I use to support my point. If you want to labour the point, here's the specific law: https://
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by llamaz 6y ago
It's possible to google the answers to these things, and we're getting off topic. Here's something I found that may answer your question: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-de
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by llamaz 6y ago
I'm not defending Mao or Stalin. I'm critiquing utopian thinking, including that of Mao and Stalin. Communists pursued a utopia, and neoconservatives are pursuing their own utopia modelled on Chicago school economics and liberal d
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by llamaz 6y ago
I'm claiming the united states, in contravention of international law, used depleted uranium [1] as a weapon, and this depleted uranium is causing birth defects. We're getting side tracked, but you can do your own research on this
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by llamaz 6y ago
No, I'm an Australian citizen. Yes, I have heard of all of those. The world does not want "freedom, and democracy", or any ideology that has been used to destroy their countries. The use of illegal radioactive weapons in Iraq
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by llamaz 6y ago
The US is actively supplying funds to Saudi Arabia, which is culpable for the Yemeni famine. Reading the wikipedia page of the Yemeni famine is enough to establish which country is culpable for it. Even if Iran is partly culpable, the US is
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by llamaz 6y ago
It seems to me that the United States is more likely to be the aggressor given its record of interventionism, not to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russians and the Chinese are far more peaceful - they do not position military bases ag
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by llamaz 6y ago
I don't know anything about representation theory, but the way you describe it I thought "how's this different from a homomorphism." All elements of a group (e.g. any x, y in your example), are invertible by the definiti
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by llamaz 6y ago
Check out whitehead’s process philosophy. Deleuze has something similar.
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by llamaz 6y ago
Social democracy is still fundamentally capitalism. Adam Smith was a left-wing radical living in a transnational period period between feudalism and capitalism where the main Tyrannical force was the state - now that has changed to corporat
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by llamaz 7y ago
Currently with Maxwell's equations you can point to each one and couple it with an experiment. If you simplify the equations any further, it will be a result of mathematical elegance rather than fundamental undergraduate-level physics.
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by llamaz 7y ago
That's true, but I suspect the aspects that math can't model are either known to be intractable problems (e.g. modelling turbulence, Navier-Stokes), or otherwise have been delegated to other fields like philosophy or the humanitie
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by llamaz 7y ago
I have tried this, and tt's a good pedagogical method for learning-how-to-learn, but it's inconvenient in practice I think it's worth learning how to use Anki instead. The key challenge there is selecting the right level of c
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by llamaz 7y ago
Consider the example of a highway robber that holds you up at gunpoint and asks for your wallet on the threat of death. In this situation there is typically consent by the victim in handing over her wallet to the perpetrator - after all he
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by llamaz 7y ago
There is some truth to the theory of "cultural Marxism" but it's usually presented in an unflattering and conspiratorial light. Gramsci, a prisoner of Mussolini, questioned why Marxism had failed to foment revolution in the w
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by llamaz 7y ago
We're right in the West to reject Leninist ideas, but it's important to understand the historical context in which Leninism gained traction. Russia was a backwards pre-capitalist third world monarchy with vast economic inequality
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by llamaz 7y ago
I’m not sure what wealth is. Let’s use the term value i.e. when raw materials (eg ones and zeros) are transformed to a useful form (eg a computer program). The programmers at amazon create value and then use most of their wage on subsistenc

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