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   by spindle 4y ago

   Yeah. Sadly, the standard undarstanding what "Bayesian" means among philosophers is very different from its meaning among statisticians. I've written on the subject for both audiences and it's been a real pain. And it
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   by spindle 4y ago

   Some physicists think there is, e.g. Lawrence Kraus. See https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-f...
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   by spindle 4y ago

   I'm considered this but haven't tried it. Sorry to say this, but I think the problem with having to re-explain things is unavoidable unless you're rich, because you have to pay for your therapist's time, and that includ
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   by spindle 4y ago

   > padding shipping prices Pun of the day.
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   by spindle 4y ago

   Good point! Some people would see that as a bloat issue, maybe? Things like that occasionally cause complaints for emacs. Personally I think it's a great idea. I expect you've already considered this, but undo data can be huge.
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   by spindle 4y ago

   In most OSes, this would require a tricky decision about where to save the undo data. If you save it in each document (assuming a typical document model), you've got bloat of the documents, and if you save it elsewhere, you've go
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   by spindle 4y ago

   Specifically, Leibniz's monads couldn't have any communication of any kind with anything (including each other or themselves), so they are not really a great model of anything in computer science!
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   by spindle 4y ago

   Could it be Cream? https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/archives/cuis-dev/2022-April/0...
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   by spindle 4y ago

   I wonder how common this is (I do it too). I'm finding it hard to make an educated guess.
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I've always been amazed (despite being someone who's not easily amazed by Science Facts) that helium and lithium (and, less amazingly, hydrogen) were produced in large quantities in the early universe, long before there were stars
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    by spindle 4y ago

    This makes me want to write Python extensions using Nim using Spry - http://sprylang.se
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I don't think anybody's writing anything impressive in it any more, but yes it's a going concern in the sense that fine people are keeping it from bitrotting. :-)
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    by spindle 4y ago

    (As you probably know), Factor comes with a really nice specialised IDE (written in Factor)
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Distances of this sort of thing are not measured directly - what's measured is its red shift, which tells us both how distant it is (very) and how old it is (very). That inference is indirect and depends on the model of cosmology, but
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Speaking as someone who used to teach introductory cosmology at a good university ... your question is not a layperson's question! (That's a compliment, BTW.)
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Strongly agree. To some extent, one can use a snapshottable file system like ZFS for this.
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    by spindle 5y ago

    I strongly agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but: > making grandiose claims is not doing science. Making novel falsifiable concrete predictions is science It seems to me that making grandiose claims is absolutely essentia
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    by spindle 5y ago

    You might like to make a top-level comment about this. I think some of the people who see excessive negativity in attitudes towards Wolfram don't know about the plagiarism.
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    by spindle 5y ago

    http://xeny.net
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Thank you! You jogged my memory. It was NOS/VE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS/VE - and I see no mention of it being written in Algol68, but it used Algol68 semantics for some things (at least).
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    by spindle 5y ago

    CDC mainframes and minis in the late 1980s (some or all of them) had a lovely OS written in Algol 68. I don't remember what it was called.
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Vegemite?! I mean, I approve, but are you Australian?
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    by spindle 5y ago

    I also love the lack of advertising.
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Andi gets this right now: > "Hendrix played the electric guitar, and his main electric guitar was the Stratocaster." But this raises a new problem: the quotation marks there are part of Andi's reply, and it says "Sour
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    by spindle 5y ago

    I really really love having easy access to a reader view that isn't tied to a specific web browser. Thank you! \o/
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    by spindle 5y ago

    I second Lakatos, but more general introductions to philosophy that I always recommend are Simon Blackburn: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (not intended as an introduction but IMO it makes a really fun introduction) Thomas Nagel: What
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    by spindle 5y ago

    It was a pleasure to watch, and made me very fond of Searle, who clearly loved his dog (even though I disagree with him - Searle, not his dog - about lots of things too ... but, you know, all philosophers disagree with all other philososphe
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    by spindle 5y ago

    I'm not actually a dog expert (sorry), but I believe individual dogs vary enormously. My dog has a list that works very well for him but wouldn't work for other people. Also, it depends on the city - I'm in Australia, where
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    by spindle 5y ago

    As a non-American, can anyone please tell me how the media reacts to Tulsi Gabbard not being Christian? (She's Hindu ... and religious, so this is not relevant to the atheist part of your point.)
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    by spindle 5y ago

    Very good comparisons IMO.