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Exploring Fitness Data in R(jonathande4.wordpress.com)
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The idea maze of personal logging(pcmonk.me)
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Personal logging for humans(pcmonk.me)
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by pcmonk 10y ago
This is correct.
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by pcmonk 10y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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Little Languages (1995)(erasmatazz.com)
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by pcmonk 10y ago
I believe you mean "complex". You can form a bijection between the reals and the complex numbers by interleaving the digits, as any Google search can tell you.
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by pcmonk 10y ago
> The distance between 0 and 1 is smaller than the distance between 0 and 2. This is correct. However, the number of real-valued points between 0 and 1 is the same as the number of real-valued points between 0 and 2. > The number of
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by pcmonk 10y ago
"The distance between 0 and 2 is larger" is a question about the metric of the space, not size of sets. There are the same number of points in both sets, since f(x) = 2x is a bijection between them. Try to make arguments from axi
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by pcmonk 10y ago
{A,B,C} is of greater cardinality than {A,B}. However, the argument that "a rule works for finite numbers, so it must work for infinite numbers" is clearly false. For a your mapping, see: http://math.stackexchange.com
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by pcmonk 10y ago
That's not what larger means, that's what (maps into a) strict subset means. In finite numbers, that's the same as larger (greater cardinality), but it's very much not the case for infinite numbers. There are more than
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by pcmonk 10y ago
Where in math is the subset partial ordering used to describe one set as larger than another? Diagonalization isn't showing that a number in set A isn't in set B - that's obviously true for reals and integers, but it's a
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by pcmonk 10y ago
In what sense are there more rational numbers than prime numbers? They can be put into bijection with each other, so we generally think of them as being same infinity. There are more real nubmers, of course, by Cantor's diagonalizati
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by pcmonk 11y ago
This is a l10n problem. This happened to me when I was set to Spanish (Latin America) and Russian, but it's correct with English. Some xenophobe must have stripped out the commas...
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by pcmonk 11y ago
IIRC he started with one-syllable words, but same idea.
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by pcmonk 11y ago
This is true and is an exception. Even though punctuation is punctutation, we speak it so much more than most other people, so we've found it convenient to give it convenient, one-syllable names. Using the new names is, of course, co
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by pcmonk 11y ago
We're not trying to be intentionally obtuse. In general, we try to only create new names when the old names are for a sufficiently different concept. Perhaps we go slightly too far in doing this, but much of the "the terms are a
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Self-E-Wear(selfewear.com)
1 points by pcmonk 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Anthrax has noncriminal uses -- science, for example. Sure, they're unusual, but they're there. I'm not arguing whether or not megaupload was a good service, or whether or not the government should have cracked down on them.
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I'm not the author, but I do work for Urbit. Sure, success is impossible without survival. But survival without e2e crypto can't be success, which is why it's baked into the system. Some risks are avoidable while some aren&
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by pcmonk 11y ago
It's true that this is primarily a rant, in that it doesn't describe a solution. Part 2 (coming) will describe the solution that we at Urbit have implemented. If you don't want to wait for that, check out the other document
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Almost anything is useful for criminal purposes. The point is that if something is unusually useful for criminal purposes (e.g. megaupload), then it will be heavily scrutinized. Just because crowbars are useful for crime doesn't get
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by pcmonk 11y ago
In the general case, we think evergreen updates are an excellent idea. It's important to note, though, that it's easy to stop syncing from the upstream repository. Notification plus manual update is totally possible. Most people w
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by pcmonk 11y ago
> it is practically always trivial for a Python2 programmer to write new code in Python3. Until you need to use some library that doesn't support python3. I think I've made the transition from python3 to python2 more than I ha
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by pcmonk 11y ago
I honestly think you're absolutely right. Some people have pushed through our "unreleased" status and have learned quite a bit anyway. The guy who wrote these tutorials is not one of urbit's primary devs, but he still
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Traditional punctuation names suck. "Ampersand", "at sign", "caret"? For a language like hoon where we use a lot of symbols, that gets really tiring. Having one-syllable names for glyphs is really convenient
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by pcmonk 11y ago
This is exactly the way it's used in shell scripting, and honestly, it's more useful that way for us because it makes booleans default to true instead of false. If we're going to redo everything, we may as well do it right t
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Sorry, whenever we push updates we have a brief period of inavailability. Should be working now.
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by pcmonk 11y ago
The random three-letter variable names are only used in the kernel, and they're meant to only be used in code that's small/simple enough that they're warranted. In my opinion, we use too many of them, and I've been
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by pcmonk 11y ago
Front page with demo videos: http://urbit.org

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