ogogmad

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by ogogmad 4y ago
Look up intuitionistic logic and constructivism to see why existence can have a weaker or stronger meaning depending on the foundations of mathematics.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Supply shocks can lead to inflation, but hyperinflation seems to always result from bad monetary policy (specifically, money printing). To prove this point, all hyperinflation episodes have taken place on fiat currency. Usually, the bad m
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Not an expert but my guess is: A purely deductive approach to economics shouldn't work because economics is not mathematics. Austrian economics is an attempt to justify economic policies many would consider overly individualistic using
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by ogogmad 4y ago
I once took a class taught by a Hungarian. He spoke in a monotone, and his script was unreadable cursive gibberish where "r" looked like "n", and "s" looked like "i". Please never again.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
The UK "joined up" handwriting has the same letter forms as the keyboard I'm typing on. I guess it's functional but less beautiful. Maybe not very traditional.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
What's the learning curve if you're not an Emacs user?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Not available in my country. Is there a way to watch this? [edit] VPN.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
To elaborate, it looks like an ugly rendering from a PS2 era videogame. The discontinuous break in the ceiling here [1] is searing to look at. It looks like a graphics glitch. [1] - https://sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com/
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Short version (compared to the book): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
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by ogogmad 4y ago
I can't tell if I'm looking at renderings from a video game.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
What's the difference between this and deplatforming? I'm not necessarily against either. How's a media company like Facebook or Twitter different from a library? Both disseminate information. The latter is owned by the publi
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by ogogmad 4y ago
The Queen would still have been filthy rich without the British Empire. Ask the Swiss and the Danes. I think you're choosing to couple the British monarchy with the Empire.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Thank you. That was very helpful. Regarding 4, I'd like to use these CASes from within a library. A bit like how you can use Sympy as a library within Python.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Some questions about CL I have relating to my interests: Does Common Lisp support operator overloading? What's the situation with support for matrices and linear algebra? Has autodiff been implemented? [edit] What about Computer Algebr
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by ogogmad 4y ago
I like IPython but: I always lose my IPython session and have to start over again. I find copying and pasting to and from an editor to be clumsy. I sometimes have to keep "%load"-ing the same file over and over again to test my ch
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Functional Differential Geometry [pdf](xahlee.info)
2 points by ogogmad 4y ago|0 comments
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by ogogmad 4y ago
What's the alternative, ibuprofen? I think children are already discouraged from taking aspirin because it can cause deadly side effects.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
wrong spelling: *paracEtamol "pa-ruh-SEE-tuh-mol", with the "pa" being like the "ma" in "marriage".
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Read the preface to the 1st edition of this thing, and prepare for your mind to be blown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay%E2%80%93Rheims_Bible Keep clicking "next" on this: https://en.wikipedia
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Shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death(theguardian.com)
48 points by ogogmad 4y ago|53 comments
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Does anybody know the name of this DOS game with a turtle who could shoot at things (not enemies, it was non-violent as all hell), featuring puzzles and random Cyrillic letters like Ж?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Erratum: Parallelogram should be rectangle. Thanks, newobj.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Sounds profound, but I don't know why you'd want to use this metaphor heavily.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Ah, I meant rectangle instead of parallelogram. Rectangle, rhombus, square. What's the inheritance hierarchy?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
You'd use a module to hides things. Some OOP languages conflate modules (which do information-hiding) with private fields in classes. If you think that `obj.f()` and `f(obj)` should mean different things, then your reasoning is likely
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by ogogmad 4y ago
How do you know when it's a misapplication? What do these constructs actually model?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
I thought that privileging the first argument of a function, which is all that separates a method from a function, was understood to be an ugly hack. I thought that this was acknowledged now, and only legacy languages are stuck with it. Jul
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Haven't classes -- as things which house methods and fields together -- gone out of fashion? I think the same thing has happened with inheritance. The ontological problem of "does the knife cut the cucumber" or "does the
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Russian companies are being sanctioned because their tax money pays for the war in Ukraine.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
It wasn't made by "the brits". It was made by a private company called BA. Do you understand that people are individuals? Is this going to be said whenever a British company has a dispute in another country?

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