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by monjaro 11y ago
This has nothing to do with Gödel's incompleteness theorem. It's much simpler than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_on_Rules_and_Priv...
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by monjaro 12y ago
Your analogy doesn't make sense because Verizon doesn't select which calls you receive. A phone company that drops any calls (positive or negative) is just defective. Facebook always curates what they show on your newsfeed. The ne
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by monjaro 12y ago
Would you feel the same way if a grocery store played a sad song when you were depressed?
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by monjaro 12y ago
I was considering phrasing my comment as "conversations between stoned philosophy students", so yes, that sounds about right. Not to mention the fact that a philosophy course about Borges will likely be examining the work of the p
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by monjaro 12y ago
This is utter nonsense. García Márquez wrote some of the most compelling and beautiful stories of the 20th century. Borges wrote the literary equivalent of late night stoner conversations, covering up a lack of substance with erudition. I d
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by monjaro 12y ago
Please don't use this. It doesn't do anything you can't do with the default go tools, and it doesn't follow the standard project organization. He even links to the guide that tells you exactly how you should be setting u
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by monjaro 13y ago
Even if it's consistent within files, you can still run into big problems. If the different macros supply slightly different functionality, you could end up in a situation where you have two different types of classes that can't b
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by monjaro 13y ago
> It really depends which audience this article is targetting... I disagree. Low quality articles like this are part of the reason why many undergrads are full of strongly held opinions about things they don't know much about. They
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by monjaro 13y ago
This is a low quality article from someone who, given his qualifications, should know better. The criticisms of functional programming languages range from trivially true (you can't be purely functional and have side effects) to incorr
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by monjaro 13y ago
jsgrep looks very neat as well. I like the patch syntax. However, I don't think this example is quite equivalent. In the grasp example, it replaces every binary operator, not just that specific call. Could you show how to represent the
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by monjaro 13y ago
Perhaps I'm being overly pedantic, but in my mind "showed" and "appeared to show" mean very different things.
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by monjaro 13y ago
You're right, that's a much better article.
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by monjaro 13y ago
As a response to your edit, no it doesn't. So what? If you can infinitely divide space in the manner of Zeno's paradox, then the sum is well defined and easy to do. If you can't, the paradox doesn't apply to reality. Wha
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by monjaro 13y ago
You are assuming more about the Planck units than is currently known. Directly from wikipedia: "There is currently no directly proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of research."
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by monjaro 13y ago
Calculus is a tool for reasoning about exactly this kind of thing. If you think there is an actual paradox present, please explain what it is.
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by monjaro 13y ago
"He did this by setting up a series of paradoxes that showed, among other things, that half a given span of time is equal to twice that given span of time, that time and space are neither continuous nor discrete, and that nothing ever
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by monjaro 13y ago
This article is very low quality. The account of Zeno's paradox is wrong on pretty much every count, which makes it hard to trust anything else the article claims.
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by monjaro 13y ago
That's not true though. Zeno's paradoxes are all pretty easy to resolve using first-year calculus. They certainly don't prove that time or space is discontinuous.
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by monjaro 13y ago
I think you missed the point of the "Find PI to the Nth Digit" exercise. You aren't generating pi, you're just using a pre-computed value.
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by monjaro 13y ago
"like a dorm now" This person is exactly right. That's what happens when you house 400 university students together. I don't see how this has anything to do with them being Google interns. It's completely reasonable
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by monjaro 13y ago
We can't talk about them freely. It requires a leak before we're even aware of them.
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by monjaro 13y ago
Could you suggest any resource for understanding this theorem? I have a math degree, but I never came across any Galois theory.
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by monjaro 13y ago
What a pointless complaint. Literally none of those things are real issues. Use the language for a day and it'll all be second nature.
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by monjaro 13y ago
Thanks for confirming this. It is very sad news.
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by monjaro 13y ago
Is there any source for this other then the wikipedia page?
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by monjaro 14y ago
People seem to be pretty critical of this post, but can anyone give me a good reason why math notation shouldn't have some concept of scope? I can't see any downsides. It would certainly help me puzzle out my professor's notes when he has u
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by monjaro 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Incomputa...
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by monjaro 14y ago
The cyclists who want to compete without doping.
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by monjaro 14y ago
Okay, I'm the one that said they sound like spoiled children, so I'll bite. Can you explain to me how that is myopic and immature? These are all quotes from the article: "He said, 'I gave out 120 A’s last year, and I’ll give out 120 more,'
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by monjaro 14y ago
For being at an elite "best-of-the-best" school, these students sure sound like a bunch of spoiled children. The reasons for cheating seem to vary from "it was a hard course so I had to cheat" to "everyone does it" to "it's an open book tes

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