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by schoen 3y ago
Yep, I meant my question as whether there are any typical human tasks that are easy for humans to understand in terms of recursion. I understand that there are lots of algorithmic tasks that are best understood that way, and that those aren
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by schoen 3y ago
This probably matches reasonably well with the three-verdict situation in Scots law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_proven > Under Scots law, a criminal trial may end in one of three verdicts, one of conviction (
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by schoen 3y ago
> All of this stems from religion, yet our system is supposed to have a separation of church and state. Restrictions on prostitution are pretty far downstream of core church-state separation territory. The original constitutional prohibi
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by schoen 3y ago
One difficulty in learning about recursion is the "you're allowed to do that?" aspect, where defining something in terms of itself can feel "incomplete" or "circular". This problem is possibly confounded b
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by schoen 3y ago
Is there any kind of task where you could think of the recursive perspective as natural? (If you have a tail-call optimization, many kinds of recursive process don't require a stack and don't risk an OOM condition!)
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by schoen 3y ago
I actually hadn't heard this theory until I read it on Wikipedia about an hour before your reply. I don't think the "same bill as Israel funding" is enough to make this obvious without other context, though: after all, t
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by schoen 3y ago
For the second case, is there an argument that this process was unambiguous and objective in terms of a fairly wide range of metrics over color spaces? I don't actually have much idea of how far, numerically, colors vary due to differe
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by schoen 3y ago
People have said for decades that governments can't control Internet content because people will help each other circumvent the restrictions by technical means. I've found that very inspiring and have personally tried to join in.
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by schoen 3y ago
For example, if they (or some party that's directly targeted like Apple or Cloudflare) gets a U.S. court to enjoin enforcement of some of the provisions.
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by schoen 3y ago
But the U.S. theory (which I advocate) is that this behavior is hurting Chinese people , not just Americans! It's somewhat bizarre to say that retaliating for that in the same fashion is thereby justified. Sure, it makes sense in a tr
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by schoen 3y ago
It's potentially adjacent to these issues: > If you said “Once a company like that starts moderating content, it’s no longer a platform, but a publisher” > If you said “A site that has political bias is not neutral, and thus lose
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by schoen 3y ago
Maybe if they're asserting their own first amendment rights, although I doubt anyone would question the BBC's free expression interests in sharing its broadcasting with Americans (or Chinese or Iranians), or Americans' first
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by schoen 3y ago
And the U.S. (people, companies, government, and NGOs) say that Chinese Internet censorship is bad for Chinese people , not just for American companies whose services are blocked.
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by schoen 3y ago
There's no such thing as a loss of section 230 protections due to editorial bias. https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre... (Sorry if the title of that article seems hostile, since
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by schoen 3y ago
People and companies in the U.S. (and parts of the U.S. government) have frequently said that it's bad of the Chinese government to prevent U.S. companies from having Chinese users, and to prevent people in Chinese from choosing to see
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by schoen 3y ago
That's originally westley.c from IOCCC 1988. As that site says: > Unless otherwise indicated, the code comes from the International Obfuscated C code contest.
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by schoen 3y ago
I got a sleeper from Chicago to California (but not between Chicago and Massachusetts) more than 20 years ago and I thought the experience was nice. It looks like the sleeper version is indeed quite expensive nowadays if you're doing i
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by schoen 3y ago
Isn't there an obfuscated C or Perl competition program that also estimates pi by measuring its own code in some way? Edit: Oh yes, it's "westley" from 1988: https://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#1988_
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by schoen 3y ago
Hmmm? I've taken Amtrak coast to coast and it took four days. Currently searching on amtrak.com (they don't seem to make PDF schedules anymore, sadly!): 449 Lake Shore Limited BOS - CHI 22 h 22 m 5 California Zephyr CHI - EMY 52
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by schoen 3y ago
That's not true for the world population yet, though!
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by schoen 3y ago
No analogy between online and offline worlds is particularly exact, but I prefer analogies about window shades, maybe including whether you can make window shades out of materials that block more and more of the electromagnetic spectrum (if
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by schoen 3y ago
I forgot to mention that I have also gone to Latin immersion events (some run by Ørberg enthusiasts) where unfamiliar vocabulary got explained in Latin. Very fun times!
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by schoen 3y ago
It could be related to lack of humidity in the air, or to different materials on the floor, your shoes, or your chair. All of those things can affect the rate of build-up of static charges.
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by schoen 3y ago
Are you using machine translation to make the definitions available in arbitrary language pairs? If so, is that going to have a high enough error rate to confuse people?
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by schoen 3y ago
And because of this, you can actually have a noun and verb that are spelled the same except for that initial capital. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/denken#German 'to think' https://en.wiktionary.
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by schoen 3y ago
Muito legal mesmo! It might be helpful to provide a way to hide the L1 definition as a way of encouraging thinking in the target language where possible. When I took German at the Goethe-Institut, they were extremely committed to immersion
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by schoen 3y ago
Other differences that stood out to me in visiting Lisbon and the Azores: (1) European Portuguese usually fully preserves "tu" (including distinctive verb forms), while in Brazilian Portuguese, it's often only used in oblique
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by schoen 3y ago
It's impressive that all of the universe's languages have a canonical alphabetization that Wowbagger could follow. (It would already be impressive to have a canonical alphabetization for all of Earth 's languages, and those
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by schoen 3y ago
> Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from eve
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by schoen 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis (It's awkward that this rhetorical device has like six different classical names.)

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