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by sls 7y ago
The comment to which you replied says that thinking about multiplication as "just" repeated addition is problematic, so let's look at that. Consider 3 x 2. If we take that approach, it seems ok - we understand it to mean &quo
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by sls 7y ago
Tbh it sounds like you're guilt-free either way. You're saying that it doesn't matter at all to you when your actions harm others. You would like to be able to say they didn't, but don't feel guilty if they do. Also
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by sls 7y ago
The paper's authors are surely writing for an audience of physicists and not a general audience. As mentioned here[1], their audience will expect this usage. ScienceDaily may not have, though if they did, it would have been nice for th
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by sls 7y ago
you say: > regarding physical models, you are assuming there is a universal truth or reality that is the same for everyone which is basically an axiom one must adopt to engage in science. E.g., here's the formulation found in the Wi
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by sls 7y ago
I don't think it's a given that a useful way of expressing programs must also be a useful way of expressing an academic paper. That being said, a lot of mathematical notation is pretty close to lisp syntax, basically anything that
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by sls 7y ago
The fact that lisp syntax introduces no extra characters and no extra noise is my point; I'm glad we agree.
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by sls 7y ago
> Without these things, the increased syntax burden of parens don’t buy you anything except visual noise and being forced to type extra characters So instead of f(x), I have to accept the visual noise and extra characters of (f x)?
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by sls 7y ago
He's replying to a comment suggesting that dead people be fed to vultures with the observation that elderly people are a population with a propensity for being treated with diclofenac and a link indicating that the presence of this dru
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by sls 7y ago
> the egg cells of women are produced before birth just fyi this is actually an active research topic, c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oogonial_stem_cells#Research
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by sls 7y ago
The idea of anaphoric macros[1] is first found in Paul Graham's "On Lisp"[2] and is based on the linguistic concept of anaphora, an expression whose meaning depends on the meaning of another expression in its context. An anap
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by sls 7y ago
I wonder if you would want to add a link to that page about setting up Cloudflare dynamic DNS on a Synology NAS? That's my use case, and I found a script[1] and a page[2] where people were having some success using it. [1] https:&#x2F
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by sls 7y ago
It's useful because the read-string in core is passing a string to the reader, essentially like an eval[1]. The edn namespace is for Extensible Data Notation[2], and exports functions for reading an object from a stream and from a stri
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by sls 7y ago
If you correct for this effect caused by changing distance between the parties, you will still observe a difference in passage of time in the two different inertial frames of reference (each observing the other). In both cases the party tak
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by sls 7y ago
> Sir Bruce Greatbatch, KCVO, CMG, MBE, governor of the Seychelles, ordered all the dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. More than 1000 pets were gassed with exhaust fumes. "They put the dogs in a furnace where the people worked"
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by sls 7y ago
The second half of his post is not a critique of how the point to which he responds was communicated, but of the point itself. He's saying that the message "people shouldn't write like that" is problematic and flawed, no
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by sls 7y ago
A quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac, but when I went to use it a few years ago I wanted a citation and found that his actual words were neither so pithy nor so broadly implicative: "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparent
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by sls 8y ago
A bit off topic, but fyi Stephen, the mailhide widget at the bottom of your "About" page seems to be broken. I browsed your site beyond the article you submitted and wanted to mention that you may be able to use Ctrl-[ as a substi
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by sls 8y ago
Windows 10 Pro is only $200.00 if your time is worthless, is the flip side.
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by sls 8y ago
This isn't about the various senses the English word "derived" can have, it's about the specific meaning of the legal term "derivative work." That would start with including major elements of another work and t
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by sls 8y ago
In a recent blogpost [1], Hossenfelder responds to a review of her book. All but the first two paragraphs are basically a response to this idea. A brief excerpt: > In most cases, however, physicists are not aware they use arguments from
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by sls 8y ago
May I ask what point you are trying to address? Did I say that there was a worldwide trend for veganism in the 7th century BCE? Or that eating meat was a recent practice? You said you had no qualms with killing animals for food, and that &q
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by sls 8y ago
And yet we know vegetarianism goes back to at least the 7th century BCE. So perhaps your glib ascription to an urban trendiness is unfounded.
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by sls 8y ago
Democracy and authoritarianism are both forms of government, and that is the sense of the words being used in the sentence ("Current government models, democratic and authoritarian alike, …"). You've chosen to reinterpret one
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by sls 8y ago
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia , https://old.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/
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by sls 8y ago
makes sense, so it's really exact reduplication, but represented with the orthographic constraints you describe. thanks :)
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by sls 8y ago
reduplication[1], in case you find that sort of thing interesting. Almost exact reduplication, bar the ending - is ending in -in or -din allowed in Brazilian Portuguese? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication
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by sls 8y ago
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by sls 8y ago
Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have normal BMIs. BMI is very sensitive and not very specific, meaning that it has few false positives and lots of false negatives, the opposite of what you suggest. In this article[1] "Measuring Adiposity
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by sls 8y ago
You may wish to know that the current executive budget proposal would shutter the NIST time radio broadcasts (WWV, WWVH, and WWVB)[1][2][3]. [1] https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/information-from-the-nist-re...
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by sls 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the story, but this is what I take from the comment above: * captain arrives in FTL ship looking for evidence of a thing * captain isn't satisfied with a painting offered as evidence, because it could be fake

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