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901.
by qsort 4y ago
> category theory is completely detached from reality One could very easily object to that, computable structure theory sounds very concrete indeed. But even taking that statement at face value, you are not really disproving that math is
902.
by qsort 4y ago
I take the ESR view here: math is only unreasonably effective to describe your field because you have chosen to study a field that is effectively described by math. For example, consistent science-like theories of history are very suspiciou
903.
by qsort 4y ago
Very abstract question, but the code is compiling, I'll bite right in. I think the 'ingredients' for my ideal language are more or less the following, in decreasing order of importance: - Quality of the ecosystem. You can&#x2
904.
by qsort 4y ago
I hear this a lot and I'm happy for the author, but the "divinity" of math is not something that has ever resonated with me, not even when I was younger. It's a tool. It's by far the most powerful tool man has ever
905.
by qsort 4y ago
Wikipedia has both forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_common_denominator I'm not a native speaker - this is a genuine question - does it sound weird to say "least common denominator"?
906.
by qsort 4y ago
I slightly disagree. C still is, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, the lingua franca, the least common denominator. Acknowledging how C comes with a very... interesting set of tradeoffs that make it uniquely well-suited fo
907.
by qsort 4y ago
I had your exact same reaction. Related story: In my free time I am a coach for a competitive math team, I recently had to design an application to automate multiple choice problem submissions. Nothing stellar, your run-of-the-mill CRUD app
908.
by qsort 4y ago
What's the difference when compared with other scripting languages? Is it just all-around faster or it's about some particular application?
909.
by qsort 4y ago
> I am trying to move her away from Windows Honestly, I think the "why" is missing here. Does she have a problem she'll be able to solve by switching to Linux? Why isn't installing a fresh copy of Windows without the
910.
by qsort 4y ago
Very true. One of the most effective approaches for learning math is reviewing the same material multiple times, at different levels of depth. This is what is usually done for math competition training and it's night and day compared
911.
by qsort 4y ago
Look, as much as I despise most of what Chomsky says -- his position on Ukraine is downright embarrassing -- he's the broken clock who happens to be right. US foreign policy after the Korean War has been terrible, and Iran is the epito
912.
by qsort 4y ago
I'm a massive Star Trek fan, I've watched everything with "trek" in the title, but the quality has always been very uneven. Even TOS isn't without its preachy nonsense, like: https://memory-alpha.fandom.c
913.
by qsort 4y ago
Ah yes, all sides. Obviously. Is this satire? It doesn't matter that one side is waging aggressive war, doesn't it? It doesn't matter that only one side is murdering civilians and raping women doesn't it? How awfully con
914.
by qsort 4y ago
Current politics 102: Pretend that a genocidal war of aggression waged by a terrorist state and involving several war crimes -- among which mass rape -- amounts to a minor disagreement over policy details.
915.
by qsort 4y ago
A brilliant reminder that if you have impostor syndrome, it is occasionally the case that the solution is simply to stop being an impostor.
916.
by qsort 4y ago
I didn't say it's wrong. You may as well use {white, blue, black, red, green} to represent congruences mod 5, mathematically speaking it's not wrong, as long as they respect the axioms of a field. What's "wat"
917.
by qsort 4y ago
Mathematically speaking, the mod is usually taken to be positive. Any reasonable definition would involve taking the quotient of Z over the congruence relation, so I can see both -3 and 2 being reasonable conventions to represent partitions
918.
by qsort 4y ago
I don't agree, it applies now more than ever. Good developers have strong fundamentals, not being able to switch between static and dynamic languages taking advantage of the differences, or between imperative and functional paradigms i
919.
by qsort 4y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but whatever (little) type safety C has can still be put to good use for the purposes of the article. The problem he's outlining is that you have two kinds of strings: "clean&quo
920.
by qsort 4y ago
In this specific case you're right, but that was just an example. Generally speaking, I think using naming conventions is a very poor solution, types are better.
921.
by qsort 4y ago
> you would report 35 or 40? Generally I report the lower end because it more easily generalizes to different quantiles. > How about if I change the dataset a bit would you still report either 18 or 60 (again, asking without qualifica
922.
by qsort 4y ago
> I expect someone could come up with a more sensible one. - Imagine you hand out a survey where some answers are on a likert scale. "strongly dislike" is worse than "dislike", which is worse than "neutral"
923.
by qsort 4y ago
> Would you then argue that there are infinitely many medians in this data set By the definition I usually go by (the one with the inequalities), that dataset has infinitely many medians. There is no reason to say the midpoint is privile
924.
by qsort 4y ago
Depends on how you define 'median'. - Any value that minimizes the sum of absolute differences? Then all real numbers between 3 and 5 are a median of that set. - With an inequality over the PDF? The same as above. - The 1/2-q
925.
by qsort 4y ago
> cross-platform GUI software package And cross-platform APIs, cross-platform libc, cross-platform networking... and then the same shuffle on mobile, making sure everything is compatible? Supporting x86 and ARM? The web does suck, there&
926.
by qsort 4y ago
You're not wrong, the websites I enjoy the most are basically all static. I think the problem is that the "web fundamentals" aren't that good to begin with. A web application is very often the least bad solution, but you
927.
by qsort 4y ago
There are at least three different claims here that I'd like to unpack: 1) "If you really have to pick a belief system to put your faith in, you can do much worse than traditional religion." Now, I'm a lifelong atheist,
928.
by qsort 4y ago
Barring performance/memory/misc concerns, this seems pretty much the same as I'd design it. If I understand your problem correctly, you have two facts: user makes a payment (account gets credited) and user consumes credits (a
929.
by qsort 4y ago
I think it depends on what are your goals. Broadly, there are three cases: (a) You have a quantitative background (math, physics, engineering, finance). The answer here is to simply ask your colleagues what they use and copy them. Those are
930.
by qsort 4y ago
It's literally equivalent to the evaluation of a polynomial in a point. It's not even an idea, it's just notation. There isn't even any meaningful sense in which it's "good" or "bad".

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