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by chess93 7y ago
Almost all fields of pure math use a much stronger set of axioms called ZF and essentially everyone also accepts the axiom of choice (making it ZFC). The axioms in ZF are reasonable but the axiom of choice is surprisingly controversial for
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by chess93 7y ago
Benford's law works in any base.
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by chess93 7y ago
I have no php experience so I have absolutely zero conception of what the language used to be like, just what it looks like now. I can't help but see it as some kind of frankenlanguage put together with pieces of java/python/
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by chess93 7y ago
Hopefully this helps make video gaming a more community oriented activity instead of something done at home alone.
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by chess93 7y ago
My belief is that people believe whatever they want to believe. If you are liberal it is because you want to be liberal. Alternatively you might just not want to be conservative. Same for the other direction. Naturally formed beliefs are ju
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by chess93 7y ago
I was wondering why these worked everywhere. I had no idea it was a mac feature.
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by chess93 7y ago
"In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces." - Zapp Brannigan I, for one, would love to see professional players attempt to play this game. It does seem extremely frustrating to play, however.
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by chess93 7y ago
I'm glad the label worked for you but it did not work at all for me. It kind of shoehorned me in to a personality type and limited my social options. In all honesty I look back at my "smartness" as a kind of attention-seeking
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by chess93 7y ago
What is everyone’s favorite translation of Meditations? I bought a cheap copy and the translation is unsurprisingly hard to read and distracts from the text’s content.
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by chess93 7y ago
I've noticed several side effects such as decreased attention span, decreased sociability, decreased desire to do anything other than your preferred method of attention capturing. Frankly I just think that many of these things are simp
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by chess93 7y ago
Note for any college students (especially undergrad): Do your STEM presentations in Beamer to get extra brownie points.
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by chess93 7y ago
No denominators for zero divisors in the localization of any ring!!! [English: No denominators where you can multiply the denominator by anything nonzero to get zero.] Technically, many definitions of localization do allow for zero/zer
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by chess93 7y ago
Smartphones are what I think of as "attention capturers" which are able to completely capture almost anyone's attention span for a significant amount of time. Other attention capturers include computers[0], video games, TV, b
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by chess93 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography
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by chess93 7y ago
My current favorite is 1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. g4 :)
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by chess93 7y ago
There is also a "Red Book" in mathematics. It is David Mumford's Algebraic Geometry book. Are there any other fields with a "Red Book"? I am mildly curious.
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by chess93 7y ago
I simply don't understand what is going to happen to all of the PhD students that I saw when I was in university. I managed to escape the PhD trap and find software engineering but I was extremely lucky. Had I gone to any other school
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by chess93 7y ago
Its not really "what we perceive as mental illness", it's just a mental illness. It doesn't have to have an innate biological component to be a mental illness.
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by chess93 7y ago
I am a big fan of the "humans are social creatures" mantra. In that regard, if something is more stimulating than social interaction it is likely to be harmful but if something is less stimulating than social interaction it is pro
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by chess93 7y ago
I can't help but think I would be much happier if I had never seen a computer or cell phone in my life. Maybe its just my personality type. Maybe its because I started at a very young age. It could be anything but I am fairly certain t
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by chess93 7y ago
Can someone explain how it is physically possible for them to eat a monkey whole? That's probably the craziest video I've seen in a while.
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by chess93 7y ago
One feature that would be useful for me would be the ability to convert a video to a PGN of the game. This could, for example, be used to strip game data from streamed chess en masse and then analyze the chess games in aggregate.
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by chess93 7y ago
What's the difference between someone getting in because their parents bought a building and someone getting in because their parents spent 50k/year on a highschool?
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by chess93 7y ago
Brexit might have more of an influence than it seems. However, the effect is probably because no one is paying attention to anything else other than Brexit [1]. [1] I read a few sentences of a newspaper suggesting this.
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by chess93 7y ago
I've only ever been impressed with mass transit in megacities like NYC. SF public transit left a lot to be desired. The muni was not worth the hassle and I did not have a bart station near my rented room in a house.
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by chess93 7y ago
On the other hand, in practice, log log n is basically constant so we have had a practical n log n algorithm for a while :)
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by chess93 7y ago
Perhaps a neural network that detects politically charged posts? Sounds like a fun side project.
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by chess93 7y ago
:%s/Asbergers/Aspergers/g
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by chess93 7y ago
Sorry I was up all night and didn't even consider that I was spelling it wrong. My track pad is broken and so I can't right click to spell check. (I am waiting to start my new job to get a new laptop.)
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by chess93 7y ago
Its not really relevant but the list seems to not actually describe Asbergers but some other collection of symptoms that results from being socially deprived. (However, this probably matches up with popular conception of Asbergers individua

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