s-shellfish

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by s-shellfish 8y ago
It's about direction of influence. Physics should not influence math. Math has to be a consequence of it's own axioms, or have it's properties tested against it's own constructions. Otherwise math falls apart. Then it&#x
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Yes, there's a real reason for using the word discovered instead of invented. Depends on how webbed in you are intellectually to people around you. Which is often highly dependent on language, logic, and math. Lambda calculus. Enlighte
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
It's simple. Physics uses mathematics to construct equations that describe properties of physics. The difference is physics has reality to test against - observations that can be measured. Math does not have this. Math's only metr
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I don't agree with this. And honestly, I really think that depends on what foundation you rely on to think with, work with, create with, test with, and check your own tests with. Physics does not have to use itself to understand itself
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I haven't done all the math for this (I've deeply investigated the pattern for 2x+1) but it seems like this would be an obvious and intuitive result of primes. You are still generating primes from primes. Yes, you find more primes
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Resilient systems will still break. They may break less, but it's impossible to anticipate every possible usage permutation of a system from here until eternity. There are tons of reliable methods to build resilient systems and they ca
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Pressure to compete. I don't think it's anything companies convinced people into doing, it seems more like one of those unwritten rules. Especially in tech. Your system breaks, you are responsible. Not good to simply look at the c
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Yea, honestly it's probably not synesthesia. Information processing, the memory of a thing overlaid on top of something similar enough. Reasoning by analogy... imprecise.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
This is cool, but it's not synesthesia. Synesthesia is literally a neurological phenomona. I have it, and it's very real. It's not simply an algorithmic encoding.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> Thanks. We have talked a few time here. Always a pleasure to exchange words with you. Thank you, I feel the same. > I hope that you will eventually be able to feel your art in a new way- not as sadness, but as the hope it inspires f
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I'm sorry for your losses. My grandfather was an artist. Art is always sadness to me. Even my photography. The flavor of sadness, I've experienced a variety of these. I don't know if this comes through in all of my art, but,
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Nostalgia hurt... It's called grief. Grieve for things we can not change, can not fix. Calling it 'just a feeling of alienation'... This deeply oversimplifies the complexities of life, the deepest tragedies, emotional pain.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
There has to be some mechanic always in place for consent. It's mechanical by nature. The most powerful belief you can have is owning a core understanding that you have choice. That doesn't mean ignore valid points. The needs of t
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
The internet IS serious business. Combining it so much with popular culture just dilutes understanding and destroys standards. Dijkstra framed it best: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
So, black box, closed source - e.g. history repeats itself.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Sharing code can be just as confusing as it is enlightening.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> how am I doing compared to previously/expectations/other people? This is a twisted way to view happiness. Wouldn't you be happier if you helped others succeed? Feel connected, part of something you really believe in? Hap
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
In patriarchal societies, men stay fundamentally united while women compete against one another in a divided fashion. Important to not allow our differences and "competitive" advantages to be used as proxies for creating perpetual
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Blind leading the blind without metrics.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
That's always the problem. Minds that aren't aware of this become more predictable. Until they are aware of this. I still have to personally hold onto the belief that no one mind is ever intrisincally more strong than any other mi
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Stoicism is the closest I can get away from appealing to emotional harmony blindly (choose the happy way now but potentially make a grave error by doing so). Thinking about things that aren't presented with a face... one face or many.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> In math and logic agreement is attained by a proof. Of course I agree with this. Just makes me think of bad ways of understanding math and logic. Having to carry it around inside myself as though I am it, because nothing else besides m
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I agree, but this is the root of my dilemma from which my own understanding has grown. If I agree with you right here and now, have we not technically formed our own 'echo chamber'? Echo chambers from the outside look like inside
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
One has to grow to not react to it. If explanations don't make sense, you need to be able to find the right questions to ask, to be able to know what is meaningful from what is nonsense. That's just tech in general. Or business.
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
> I could have said something about harming children and would have been less reviled. Yes, but that's literally because people see their technologies as being more human than most humans. It's something that goes down to an in
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Yea, it seems to occasionally bubble up, unfortunately I've noticed that happens in real life to people as well, I suppose that is what gets called passive aggressive - deep internalized, unresolved issues. Always makes my heart hurts
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
On HN, I really try to ignore the points. I personally know for me, if I simply read a point of view that is valid, that is enough to stick with me such that it continues to be part of my personality, or allows me to draw from my own self i
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
I think the big thing is with the internet, it makes a lot of these things much more discrete, as in, parsing information and evaluating it in chunks, rather than have a sense of continuity. Everything is either on or off, true or false, bl
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
Totally agreed. It's just chaos, because the mind that constantly requires a reflection of itself to prove it is healthy is not a healthy mind to begin with. Behaving in that pattern in a conditioned sense opens oneself up for all sort
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by s-shellfish 8y ago
That always depends on whether whatever is contained within the abstraction is something that might change. Sigh, humor. Leaving it as a primitive basically says 'you may have to hack the programming language or framework in order to m

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