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by foobar_ 6y ago
Clearly you are too much of a pedant to do anything useful in life, so why don't you build a time machine and interrupt your birthing process ? It should be easy ... you can build it using calculus. Science is about modelling the real
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by foobar_ 6y ago
> Do the mental problems and drug addiction of a brilliant musician detract from his or her music? Do you yell "madman" at a painting by van Gogh? Yes. Completely ignore the degenerates. There are many sober people who have mad
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Mathematicians who think infinity is real should be treated with the same disdain as Neptune worshiping astrologers. The internet makes it easy for pedantic losers to have a loud opinion. Hell I have even run in to pedantic losers who have
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by foobar_ 6y ago
I'm not insane ... you are just the type of person who will defend roman numerals. Maybe you just have OCD. 1. Socrates is mortal 2. Mortals die 3. Socrates dies Deduction is really like amazing. Holy shit we really proved something s
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by foobar_ 6y ago
The way I see it ... Most mathematicians nowadays use mathematica or matlab or even python, proving my point. The notation is medieval ... and probably the only reason it survives is because of form factors of paper. > Mathematics is a p
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by foobar_ 6y ago
1 + 1 = 10
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by foobar_ 6y ago
I'm guessing there was a physical intuition behind the theorem, if you can simulate it you will probably do something better than the proof. Now it's your turn to tell me why 1 + 1 = 2.
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by foobar_ 6y ago
What I am trying to convey is writing software is better than writing maths, just like medieval music notation vs modern notation. Programming is better than proving because most proofs are mere tautologies or artificial constraints. This
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by foobar_ 6y ago
No one uses mathematical notation for practical purposes. This is just like the medival music notation which is neither practical nor what modern composers use, which is more visual in nature. Infact modernism is a rejection of medievalism.
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by foobar_ 6y ago
`UNWIND-PROTECT` thats cool! What I meant with the promises was, If you could pass three closures ... like success, error, restart could you get some kinda condition system ?
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Congrats on the book! If you are just going to use `TAGBODY` and `GO` to implement this ... in a goto based languages like C I don't think you would be needing a condition system. In C a nested function can also jump into a parents got
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by foobar_ 6y ago
I believe in reform. 1 year exclusive copyright / patent at most and author always holds the copyright. Its ironic that the movie with the biggest budget is a pirate movie ;) https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-
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by foobar_ 6y ago
> So what ? I too can ignore every big budget predictable cliche and say so what. Lets ignore the successes of alternatives. Is Kanye West and Britney Spears the best you can do with millions of dollars ? I'll stick to punk and EDM
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by foobar_ 6y ago
How about scene by scene commentary for cats on a youtube video. Sports have this and you can watch old sports matches on youtube. Right now youtube would block it and my use case extends the fair use by quite a mark. You have to understand
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by foobar_ 6y ago
The number of CEOs who think printing money is a good idea might make you wonder if they even know anything about money. Polluting air costs less money why not do it ? 80% movies don't need the 100 million dollar budget and I'm pr
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Diligence, Patience, and Humility https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-sources/1565925823...
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by foobar_ 6y ago
The idea "exclusive monopolies" and transferable intellectual property rights for perpetuity is bullshit. The blunt fact of the matter is - A majority of the movies would gain more by giving it away to the public domain because mo
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Is it possible to add proofs for phone, credit card ?
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by foobar_ 6y ago
I don't think the author is trying to destroy anything. Even in maths you find people taking extremely arrogant positions on things. Newton vs Leibnitz, Intuitionism vs Logic ... If any the author is warning how passion overrides reaso
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by foobar_ 6y ago
I found the argument to be profound as opposed to being manipulative. The amphetamine effect is something you can observe after a few drinks of coffee. Alcohol obviously and even sugar (diabetes) shows these changes in human cognition and c
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Not all purpose of communication is political. 1. Information dissemination 2. Coordination 3. Persuasion 4. Feedback gathering 5. Social grooming (jokes, status updates, needs ...) 6. Artistic self-expression All these are fairly reasonabl
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by foobar_ 6y ago
At some point politics got intertwined with social media. Until that point ... social media was a pleasant place. I'm pretty sure had email been still active ... you would get a ton of political mails as fwds as opposed to spam. The sh
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Never give up vs give up is such a classic dilemma. I do think the positive aspect of procrastination is exploration, satisfying curiosity but on the flip side exploration can also increase anxiety. If we did not explore then we would be u
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Not sure how we can debug it. It seems the simulation is sensitive to 1. When you start each circle 2. Length of the wires It would be neat if actual numbers were shown and rates could be adjusted via a hard reset. I was messing with a proc
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Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems(ncase.me)
293 points by foobar_ 6y ago|26 comments
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by foobar_ 6y ago
That seems closed. I just came across this ... https://ncase.me/loopy/ definitely looks fun!
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by foobar_ 6y ago
Awesome. Pretty much the only book I partially read on systems thinking was introduction to cybernetics by Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
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by foobar_ 6y ago
That was a beautiful read. After a few link hops from Donella Meadows ... it seems there was a programming language to visualize flows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNAMO_(programming_language) I came across stocks
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How Nationalism and Socialism Arose from the French Revolution(fee.org)
3 points by foobar_ 6y ago|0 comments
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by foobar_ 6y ago
It was one of the most bizarre things. It lost like 100 million users. Its not like twitter did not introduce videos and stories later on. I was particularly sad on reading that one of the co-founders died in 2018 https://www.wsj

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