Steven writes:
< I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems
egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different
basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". >
Indeed, like a provincial value system. One that optimizes for local
intere
Bugs are often introduced during the maintenance of code. Here's a trivial
example. In code that isn't factored, it is common to see large conditionals
like this:
If (so-and-so) {
A few hundred lines of stuff, A
Something unique, X
More stuff, B
} else {
A few hundred lines of stu
glen -
I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems
egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different
basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". It is
easy/convenient enough to just "discount it" and move on, but if the
subject is important enough
Hm. But you can't deny that we're all stupid at some time, in some context, for
some isolated decision. The point is that a slight deviation is "yet another
episode of my stupidity", whereas a large deviation implies a different basis
... like the garbage poetry I wrote as a kid. It's so stupid,
https://changelog.com/posts/why-do-so-many-developers-get-dry-wrong
> Once you eeked out enough XP to reach Level 2, condensing that copy pasta
> down felt amazing. Suddenly your code looked more impressive. Efficient!
> Clean! Simple! This is like the lowest common form of refactoring. But it
A fundamental assumption is that one shouldn't be disgusting. Being slightly
stupid and disgusting isn't redeeming. The meritocracy thing is a straw man.
On 2/14/20, 7:02 PM, "Friam on behalf of glen" wrote:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/14/addendum-to-targeting-meritocracy/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/14/addendum-to-targeting-meritocracy/
> if people seem slightly stupid, they’re probably just stupid. But if they
> seem colossally and inexplicably stupid, you probably differ in some kind of
> basic assumption so fundamental that you didn’t realize you were a
😉
On 14 Feb 2020, at 15:19, Frank Wimberly wrote:
Aleph 0, Aleph 1, Aleph 2,... etc. are all infinite cardinals. The
continuum hypothesis is that there are no cardinals between
consecutive
members of that sequence.
I will translate your witticisms for the unintiated, Barry. Did I get
it
Thanks, Frank, I was wondering. Insufferable math weenies :-)
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Aleph 0, Aleph 1, Aleph 2,... etc. are all infinite cardinals. The
> continuum hypothesis is that there are no cardinals between consecutive
> members of that sequence.
>
> I
Aleph 0, Aleph 1, Aleph 2,... etc. are all infinite cardinals. The
continuum hypothesis is that there are no cardinals between consecutive
members of that sequence.
I will translate your witticisms for the unintiated, Barry. Did I get it
right?
Frank
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 1:14 PM Barry MacKi
There are also my friends from grad school, Alf N, and Continuum.
—Barry
On 13 Feb 2020, at 19:01, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak made
> for cracking seeds. And by the way, it's Ecuador, not Peru. In any case, in
> honor of Cardinal S
W. F. Donkin wrote:
"When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be
mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further, we
distribute our belief equally among them This being admitted as an account
of the way in which we actually do distrib
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:59 AM Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
>
>> When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be
>> mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further,
>> we distribute our belief equally among them This being admitted as an
>> ac
Following up Daston's paper on the origins of objective and subjective
probability, one of the files that ended up in my Downloads folder was
http://www.fitelson.org/probability/ramsey.pdf, a collection of three
essays by Frank P. Ramsey on probability. HackerNews came up with a link
to Cheryl Mis
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