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mircea_popescu: more's the point : when you calculate for your own reckoning, do you use inches or milimeters ?
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, latin numeral calculation IS actually possible. and they had all sorts of tricks, too
mircea_popescu: (this has in point of fact been measured, and stands as such)
mircea_popescu: yet all the wires being in the hand of hitler doth make you take an interest in gossipds.
mircea_popescu: this "abstractions" thing mostly works for thine enemies.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason unicode wars (you know, the thing with the integral ?) are mostly around "how to color figurines" now.
mircea_popescu: which by now is so pervasive even ged-educated nigger in the ghetto knows enough to scream "you don't know what it's like"
mircea_popescu: the only reason she exists is the perhaps well intended, but also castrated inclination of educated males to go "oh, i wonder what the hyeroglypsh mean, can't be discarded out of hand"
mircea_popescu: the only reason her bullshit sinks, however, is that i do not permit symbologistics.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the postmodern symbological deluge has any sort of match or point of comparison.
mircea_popescu: BUT if the symbol "activist" ran into any trouble... there's a newly minted "educator" symbol to the rescue.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: she has not actually anything to say to it. she;'s some 25 yo from nowhere who has figured out which side the butter's breaded on and is off to washington to live with alfie.
mircea_popescu: look at lacan's "work" to truly see what i mean, and look at all the junk coming out of the usg's 3rd generation to truly know what i mean
mircea_popescu: phf to that the obvious counter is that sure, but before you've reached a point where you can actually speak of it... it's premature to speak of it ?
mircea_popescu: you'll note that variety speak or no variety speak, i can explain the whole thing or any part to anyone of any persuasion. that i may not feel like expending the effort for any random derp is true, but also not germane.
mircea_popescu: you restructure the abstraction tree, which is clearly broken.
mircea_popescu: this "you gotta run the city in which i wrote the letter to read the letter" thing is for the birds.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: importantly, the boundary must be where another begins and you end.
mircea_popescu: anyway, afaik hostaliases is standaerd on all linuxen, but it runs into problems with sanitation, for things that run as root
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes technically you could only put your own pubkey in there, and still let everyone else benefit from yours
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of our very own brave sir gabriel_laddel and his x.org thing
mircea_popescu: i can if you wish pick a page of strings theory for you to transform into any other theoretical framweork of your choice. but might as well take a page of source from gcc and write the lisp.
mircea_popescu: if you're lucky and enough work has been put on doing the transforms that a function was found. plenty of times the transformation's either not obviously or not at all formalizable.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's one thing to figure something out. it's another thing to figure out what you figured out. and so on.
mircea_popescu: yes you can figure out what quarks do in either matriceal or formulaic form. but if you can't afterwards SAY what the fuck you found to either heisenberg or schroedinger, the problem's in your head.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <phf> presumably mp disagrees with iverson's "notation as a tool of thought" paper in principle << i do not. i do however disagree with the theory that tool is substitute sufficient.
mircea_popescu: one can think just fine in an alphabet, no need to play the egyptian priest.
mircea_popescu: now : i do not propose that this is either better, or obligatory for anyone else. whoever can fuck whatever bottle they most like. but i also can't let stand this theory that somehow obscurantist claptrap is the only way to think.
mircea_popescu: if im stuck with reading some "maximum thought" concoction i have to spell it out and read it anyway.
mircea_popescu: which part of what i said dja actually disagree with ?
mircea_popescu: this "notationed" math is ALSO not math that's been mechanised.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you that i do prefer spellking out "sum x over y for i to j" than squiggling it up. heck, i have the girls read out bash commands explaining what they do.
mircea_popescu: the problems people encounter with statistics are probably the most obvious place to study this issue.
mircea_popescu: because, obviously, the problem of translating between sets is untractable.
mircea_popescu: it is also fundamentally why math "is hard". for every non-retarded young adult who believes math is hard you have a case of a child who developed his own, highly personal set of shitty symbols, and then never received a good explanation as to what the difference between his and "everyone else"'s is, so got lost.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: such as by using structureless or poorly structured "symbols".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: generally people trying to think in this particular sense try and dope it.
mircea_popescu: trinque yet the explanation is very simple : a certain set of brain circuitry is deeply involved in novel thought (about everything, including mathematics) and at the same time refractary to structure.
mircea_popescu: but i do not wish to see them, pray with them, and so following.
mircea_popescu: let's make it plain : the forum language will be alphabetic, not hieroglyphic. how you paint the meaning from the letters into little icons in your own livingroom - your problem.
mircea_popescu: find me actual working programmers that want to use static linked binaries. like it were 1970s MIT!
mircea_popescu: possibly the only group left. there's been some sort of strange deluge or something.
mircea_popescu: just like everyone tickles the woman in random way in private. this is math porn what you're proposing.
mircea_popescu: learn to alphabet already, ya buncha "visual thinker" illiterate louts!