sillymath

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   by sillymath 3y ago

   theoretically you can introduce new words to be more precise, for example eskimos have many words for snow, from (1) that is because they use polysynthesis: a base word is attached to many different suffixes which change its meaning. So, wh
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   by sillymath 3y ago

   I think that when law is introduced the consequences are not clear so the small print is used to introduce modifications to the rules, so the problem is about adapting a rule to the everyday use of it.
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   by sillymath 3y ago

   > What does volume mean in higher dimensions? I think you need a scalar product to define volume. But fuzzy thinking an analogy: Think friendship, define three concepts related to friendship and that they are orthogonal, now establish s
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   by sillymath 3y ago

   > Like, you can inscribe a circle inside a square and have it touch all sides without extending outside the square, and you can similarly “inscribe” a sphere inside a cube such that the sphere touches all sides of the cube without extend
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   by sillymath 3y ago

   I tried to use the demo of the github page, but it doesn't work. It seems the page is stalemate since 2013.
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   by sillymath 3y ago

   What language don't require type annotations to achieve good performance?, more specifically tell me any programming language that can beat sbcl at speed without using type annotations.