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by zelah 9y ago
It's a type of puzzle game - easy to learn but impossible to master - you can play solo or against an opponent.
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by zelah 9y ago
Great idea! I really hope you are still doing this when my product becomes available. I don't want to waste my time on day to day selling. Your service would be very valuable to me and I like the simplicity. I hope others here will a
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by zelah 9y ago
Thank you for asking. I define an infinite number of new sequences twice over in the example above. Between "---universe begin---" and "---universe end---" is listed the state of the universe. After inspecting the curren
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by zelah 9y ago
My favorite programming language is Zero (yes it is my invention). If you have not heard of it then I am not surprised because the language is very new (theoretical actually). You develop programs in it by defining new infinite sequences fr
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Butt Stool – Invented?
1 points by zelah 9y ago|1 comments
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by zelah 9y ago
good link - thanks
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by zelah 9y ago
Thanks - that was very fun!
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by zelah 9y ago
Thank you - I have read this and do realize I am out of my depth.
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by zelah 9y ago
Why is it that Cantor can do an infinite procedure of diagonalization but I can't? If he can diagonalize then I can too. Is it possible that Cantor's "algorithm" is not really an algorithm? Knuth says an algorithm must b
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by zelah 9y ago
I will just diagonalize forever before I give the set to Cantor. If he claims that he can diagonalize the set to generate a new number not in the set then I will say "Oh, yeah - I missed one. I wasn't really done after all. Give
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by zelah 9y ago
So there are natural numbers with an infinite number of digits and that is my point. The average can't be larger than the largest number.
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by zelah 9y ago
Please answer me this one question: What is the average number of bits that are necessary to represent an arbitrary natural number? If the average number of bits is finite then I will shut up!
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by zelah 9y ago
>But the set N does not have transfinite natural numbers, so q does not map F to N, it maps F to something else. How many natural numbers are there? How many bits does it take to represent the average natural number? If you believe the n
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by zelah 9y ago
>I's much easier to consider the infinite strings of digits like "0.765653625367523765..." or "0.5265362556..." or "0.000073468763478..." and also the one with repetitions like "0.0006767000000...&
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by zelah 9y ago
It is possible. The inverse of m is called q. The function q takes an infinite sequence of coin flips and one by one changes every heads to 1 and every tails to 0. The infinite string of zeros and ones is then prepended with a 1 and interpr
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by zelah 9y ago
I find Cantor's diagonal argument unconvincing. The claim is that there are more real numbers in the range from zero to one than there are natural numbers. To see that this is false simply realize that you don't actually have to w
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HPE Has Constructed the Largest Single-Memory Computer System Ever Built(google.com)
1 points by zelah 9y ago|0 comments
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by zelah 9y ago
(defun)... square-root (number) (*).... (0) (0) number (0)
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by zelah 9y ago
I love this! Thanks.
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by zelah 9y ago
It is not true that all computers are digital. A computer made out of Tinkertoys or DNA is no less of a computer although the rules of operation may be different.
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by zelah 9y ago
You argue that an "organism" is not a computer (as it does not compute). But why should I believe that a computer is not necessarily an "organism" in your sense of the word? Or would you have us believe that organisms an
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by zelah 9y ago
I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
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Ask HN: Can Every Number Be Described Exactly?
1 points by zelah 9y ago|0 comments
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One-Dimensional Linear Hybrid Cellular Automata of Degree Through 500 (1995)(webhome.cs.uvic.ca)
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by zelah 10y ago
Sorry about that. I would definitely change the title if I could but it seems to be permanent now. Thank you for the feedback.
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by zelah 10y ago
My own take on this is that we need to develop strongly declarative languages. That way there is no information about implementation to get wrong. You specify the "what" not the "how". You still might get the "what&
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The Hundred-Year Language (2003)(paulgraham.com)
16 points by zelah 10y ago|21 comments
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Show HN: Best Music Video About Lisp Programming Ever(m.youtube.com)
6 points by zelah 10y ago|0 comments
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by zelah 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13827136
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by zelah 10y ago
This is great - feeling better already!

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