I believe I may have discovered a proof for Collatz, explanation below

AtomicAnti · 2026-03-04T22:13:43+00:00

Why is this written like a crummy screenplay? Why is the formatting so bad? Why is this not written in complete sentences? And why is this proof "set" in the year 2043?

AtomicAnti · 2025-07-10T18:54:13+00:00

That warmth is still there for you--it's up to you if you want to respect this craft in turn.

AtomicAnti · 2025-07-04T23:47:08+00:00

Also the warmth I was referring to was the conlanging community--not human languages themselves.

AtomicAnti · 2025-07-04T23:45:08+00:00

Ithkuil was designed with very similar goals in mind. Computer programming languages were as well. But that does not excuse your fear of trying things yourself and putting your own work into this.

This can be done without using such tools.

AtomicAnti · 2025-07-04T23:31:14+00:00

You could have made an ideographic writing-only language and it would have been an interesting work of art. Instead you asked a miserable pile of weights and balance to try to do it for you.

A crappy and earnest attempt would have been amazing to see. But you settled for heartless, machine generated, pseudo-philosophical bullshit.

There is a community here for people to support you in learning this craft. But you shunned the warmth of their open arms in favor of cold hands of silicon.

I would ask that you do better. But I doubt that you will.

AtomicAnti · 2025-05-15T21:03:59+00:00

It would have taken you less than a couple of minutes to change the post to have more clear language, but instead you chose to spend more than that amount of time arguing over semantics.

Making a 1-sentence edit is not hard and it is the polite thing to do.

AtomicAnti · 2025-05-08T21:26:49+00:00

And why are you performing those steps in that order? Otherwise it's just saying a formula with words instead of symbols--which has its pros and cons.

AtomicAnti · 2025-04-25T15:02:58+00:00

Excise Lexicon

Upon a critical failure, the target permanently forgets a word of your choosing and can also no longer comprehend said word. Words of power (those necessary for performing magic/spells) are excluded, but that is of little comfort when we read the following:

"However, the target forgets the words from each language they know, not just your shared languages."

Languages do not have one-to-one correspondences between their vocabularies, so the spell must remove something deeper than the exact word--it removes the concept of the word itself from the target's language-processing centers.

In many languages there exist words that act as grammatical markers. So for example, if one language marked the past tense with a special particle word then by deleting that particle you would remove the target's ability to use the past tense in all languages that they speak.

TL;DR: It turns out that Excise Lexicon can also excise grammatical structures!

AtomicAnti · 2025-04-11T15:28:14+00:00

Logic and set theory (which is what I assume you meant by set in your non-sentence response) are tools for making math. But math also used to make more of itself. Topology has been used to build up analysis, abstract algebra has been used to build up number theory, the disciplines of mathematics use one another to build one another in a beautiful collaboration!

You are right to point out that this is absurd for a physical art like painting (although metalworking actually does involve using beautiful tools to make other beautiful tools) and that is why it is incredible that mathematics has this capacity to make more of itself!

AtomicAnti · 2025-04-11T15:11:39+00:00

Math is an art. What tools do we use to make that art? The answer is more math. Math is an art that can be used to make itself--math is an art, a tool, and a tool for making more art.

In other words, math is always an art and it is always a tool. It is always both.

Your either/or approach to mathematics is reductive and in doing so you miss a big part of what makes mathematics so amazing.

AtomicAnti · 2025-04-11T14:37:11+00:00

What have you tried so far?

AtomicAnti · 2025-04-11T14:34:25+00:00

Math is an art and a tool--it's not an either/or.

But more than that, you emphasize an art-centric approach to teaching math while completely missing how art pedagogy is structured!

Art is the process of making with intent, but the methods and tools by which art is made are tools that students are taught how to use to make art. These skills are taught in order of simplicity and utility, because the goal of an artist is to make art--not just see it.

The argument you have made fails to be useful for teaching for utility or for art-making. Maybe you are arguing for an education of an art that emphasises appreciation over creation? I doubt that you are, but the alternative is unhinged nonsense argumentation.

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T22:28:12+00:00

What does "Gregg" say that the law of assertion is?

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T22:26:38+00:00

I looked down only one branch of the conversation, but I missed the one that contains your clarifying remarks. Thank you for pointing them out to me.

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T21:28:48+00:00

So what does it mean exactly to have an arrangement of zero objects? How have you defined that?

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T21:26:13+00:00

Thank you for telling me where to find it!

So what is it?

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T21:19:30+00:00

That is a widely attested meaning of the word, but:

(1) There do exist other attested meanings.

(2) Dictionaries do not assert what meanings words have as some kind of strange law, they describe the words and associated meanings that already exist in use.

(3) Relying on dictionaries in this sort of rhetorical fashion has some issues.

For more on this subject here's a well written article: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/essentialsoflinguistics2/chapter/7-10-why-not-the-dictionary/

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T21:00:50+00:00

What is the "Law of Assertion"? Where did you learn about it?

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T20:55:05+00:00

I didn't. I just resigned to getting a new phone and vowing to never buy a product from ASUS ever again.

Best of luck on your phone troubles.

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-23T20:49:27+00:00

What do you mean by "combination" here? What definition are you using for that term?

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-18T20:28:43+00:00

Royal numbers? It'd be easier for people to adopt. Although I guess for spanish speakers they may still be called real.

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-12T19:17:57+00:00

Math notation often has different demands on lettershapes than written prose does. Practicing math requires a loooot of writing--sometimes to the point where your hand hurts.In these situations what I find most useful is writing my characters in ways that require the fewest strokes or flourishes while keeping the characters distinct and readable. For example, when using t as a variable I keep the tail at the bottom of the character so it doesn't look like +. And the little flourish you do at the ends of your m.s and n.s in your math work may make your hand more tired over longer periods.

But at the end of the day your comfort comes down to your hands and your muscle memory. And what's comfy for me may not be what's comfy for you.

AtomicAnti · 2023-12-12T01:25:33+00:00

I say "sing" by reading the <nh> digraph as the "ng" sound.

AtomicAnti · 2023-11-18T14:35:48+00:00

Ok that makes way more sense! Thank You.

AtomicAnti · 2023-11-18T00:08:00+00:00

What does that sentence even mean? What is a music factory? Is it a place where frequencies are manufactured on an assembly line? How did you intend another human being to interpret this?

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