gloftus

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   by gloftus 10mo ago

   Countability is the whole point, there's no need to apologize. I was merely offering the perspective that "towers of infinity" is possibly the least useful consequence that comes from defining the notion of countability. To
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   by gloftus 10mo ago

   Worth noting that the hyperbolic triangle in the article contains "points at infinity" which are not actually a part of the hyperbolic plane, so this is really an "improper triangle" as the article notes. One could cons
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   by gloftus 10mo ago

   Ego death.
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   by gloftus 10mo ago

   You can't enumerate the real numbers, but you can grab them all in one go - just draw a line! The more I learn about this stuff, the more I come to understand how the quantitative difference between cardinalities is a red herring (e.g.
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   by gloftus 10mo ago

   This isn't iconoclasm, it's ignorance.
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   by gloftus 3y ago

   Yes, graphs are ubiquitous because they are so abstract. They live on the same level of abstraction as pure numbers. There are useful "numerical" libraries that exist, and by analogy I think you could say there are also useful &
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   by gloftus 6y ago

   I think you are being down voted because you appear to have an ax to grind rather than a useful perspective on the issue.
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   by gloftus 6y ago

   We have those in Boston, I always thought they were mockingbirds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiyxmWI95Q
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   Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)(joearms.github.io)

   119 points by gloftus 7y ago|81 comments