eointierney

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by eointierney 5d ago
Yes to your first paragraph. Library to your second. And no, Internet access is not the same as reading in a library. Academia is the quiet place we learn to ask questions. And meet people who are really good at asking questions.
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by eointierney 11d ago
yunohost?
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by eointierney 24d ago
We can't, without first granting it to whales, chimps, corvids, and the rest. But we have come very close. The Law is unutterably fucking broken. In the Republic of Ireland, an artificially wealthy, highly educated, treaty-enmeshed con
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by eointierney 1mo ago
Max Tegmark is chatting elsewhere
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by eointierney 1mo ago
Timeless
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by eointierney 1mo ago
Math good, strangely effective, much science, reality deeply weird, needs more stochastic approximation of real valued functions. Edit: em dashes available on request
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by eointierney 2mo ago
You US citizens don't seem to realise just how legal/lucky you are. I'm Irish. We're way more legal than you. Listen to anyone from China.
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by eointierney 2mo ago
In times past having one's photograph taken was a soul-stealing for some. Some notions: - finding counter-examples is one of the most exploratory uses of calculation - there is no evidence, not even in the hands of the inimitable Teren
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by eointierney 1y ago
Exactly And yet the phrase "be kind" appears nowhere on that page
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by eointierney 1y ago
Be kind as in be like thyself as in see thyself in others as in don't be unkind as in be kind The rest is noise in an expanding universe
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by eointierney 1y ago
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/crdt.html is much more fun and, obviously, vastly more powerful.
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by eointierney 1y ago
Happy as in Halmos Tombstone
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by eointierney 1y ago
Mathematics is one of our love stories? Yes! All the endings are happy and the unfinished stories are utterly fascinating. And there are already so many stories with happy endings! Mathematics is our best bildungsroman
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by eointierney 2y ago
Thank you to PG and dang. I reckon this is one of the best places on the Internet. Thank you everyone. I come here to learn and I do. The standard of discourse is heightening. You're amazing
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by eointierney 2y ago
Congratulations, this is awesome. One of those "why hasn't someone done this already?" projects. I can see this becoming transformative and superseding Excel, which is a bold claim to make. But this is compliant (with Excel),
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by eointierney 2y ago
One of the things I love about hacker news is that there's no AI content. The other is that it's like reading a commentary on our encyclopedia. I get to read thought happening. Apropos of nothing, just saying, and this thread is a
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by eointierney 2y ago
One of the things I love about hacker news is that there's no AI content. The other is that it's like reading a commentary on our encyclopedia. I get to read thought happen. Apropos of nothing, just saying, and this thread is a gr
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by eointierney 2y ago
Digital stupidity is rife, spreading like a common cold, leaving children everywhere immunocompromised, adults ethically stunted, and technologists waving their conceits like handkerchiefs at a soccer game. Don't eat rotten fruit. Go r
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by eointierney 2y ago
It's the finest manure to fertilize thought we can turn over with only a fork
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by eointierney 2y ago
Yes
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by eointierney 2y ago
The core should be in rust, verfied in lean, and the runtime should be in guile. Literate programming in org-mode should be a hard requirement. Package management should require patch algebra. Macros should be submitted to a leaderboard in
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by eointierney 2y ago
Thank you. This was the comment I was looking for.
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by eointierney 2y ago
Ah JCB, how I love your writing, you are always so very generous. Your This Week's Finds were a hugely enjoyable part of my undergraduate education and beyond. Thank you again.
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by eointierney 2y ago
I used to be an artist and then studied science. The first constitution I read was that of the USA, then that of Ireland. I've been reading law since. The decisions of judges are of variable quality and always susceptible to appeal, es
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by eointierney 2y ago
Yes, and I'm an European. I don't think this is a matter of spirit or letter of Law, rather it is a matter of rigour or fluffy wooliness of thought.
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by eointierney 2y ago
Provable how? What's an AI watermark? What's a work of art? How inundated by works containing supposedly unique digital signatures nonetheless susceptible to collision attacks do they wish to suffer? The Law cannot match Mathemati
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by eointierney 2y ago
Having worked in cancer hospitals at the age of 16 (35 years ago) and having a father a doctor who coordinated long term cancer treatment in our country, I can say that cancer treatment has come on in leaps and bounds. What was once a death
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by eointierney 2y ago
How antipodean. "I'll make my own from what I have handy." Deepest respects
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by eointierney 3y ago
I am very happy dang is intelligent
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by eointierney 3y ago
How fast can hackernewsers do better in the language of their choice? I feel like this is a question that should be put to almost every submission, just to stimulate the phagocytes as my Da would say. In this instance probably Python becaus

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