pwdisswordfish

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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> Now that's a fine thing in a computer language -- and there are philosophers who say mathematical truth is no more than computation. But mathematical notation is for humans to talk about things that have meanings that humans can u
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Well, when I write TeX (and I stick to the "good practice" of defining "semantic" macros for common symbols), I often notice myself finding the TeX source code more readable than the PDF it produces.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Well, formally a random variable is already a function which assigns values to elements of the probability space (outcomes). The expected value is just another name for an integral over this space. When the probability space is discrete, &q
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
I don't think Juvenal wrote about population explosion in Ireland.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
"Satire" isn't "funny things"; satire indeed is social criticism posing as art. Satire may often employ humour, but neither is necessary for the other. Unfortunately, in recent times, large sections of the English
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
How is that better than just installing the MinGW cross-compiler (and setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH) on my own?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
That doesn't actually prove very much. Successes in programming contests may demonstrate you can hack your way around an algorithmic problem that you're solving from scratch. Modifying a browser, an operating system and the commun
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
> HN bias against Eliezer Yudkowsky Excuse me?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
...and where petty factionalism (among other factors) led to the creation of, say, /r/math, /r/maths, /r/askmath, /r/askmaths, /r/learnmath, /r/mathematics, /r/badmathema
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Are you kidding me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Ca... Also, there's a very good reason "t