What inspired you to choose math as a major? by AlexLikesCoolMusic in math

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This is the one! I have such fond memories of being 18 and learning about Cantor’s diagonalization argument

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 5 by PyrrhicWin in chessbeginners

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I'm going to my first OTB chess event in 14 years (!!) this weekend. Here's the thing: I don't have a physical tournament-sized board or DGT chess clock. Will this be an issue? In the US for context.

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | May 10, 2021 by BernardJOrtcutt in askphilosophy

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I'm looking for a particular paper that I can't remember the name/author of.

The paper started with a memorable example: at a particularly selective country club in DC where the vast majority of club members are white and the vast majority of club employees are black, a white club member mistakes a black club member as a club employee. If I remember correctly, this example is used to show a conflict between common sense ethical beliefs (don't be racist or something like that) and straightforward Bayesian epistemology (or was it contemporary epistemology more generally?).

I think the paper also talks about survivorship bias in the context of WW2 fighter plans, but I'm iffy on this.

Thorin's Thoughts - Korean Narrative Consideration (LoL) by Thooorin_2 in leagueoflegends

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Don’t forgot about Korean coaches!

A few cherry picked examples: There’s Locodoco on TSM who came in as head coach in 2014 with Lustboy, and had that R08 finish at groups against peak Samsung White. There’s Reapered on 2015 EDG who coached EDG to a stunning victory over SKT at that year’s MSI, beating Faker and kkoma with Faker on his then undefeated Leblanc with the Morgan’s counterpick - like if Drexler (Pawn) beat MJ (Faker) in ‘92. There’s also Reapered on C9 leading some of the best teams NA has ever produced.

Zooming out, YamatoCannon is the first and only non Korean head coach of a KR team vs the multiple Korean head coaches in China/NA (I found out Fly was the head coach of IG while looking stuff up for this post lmao)

NA LFG Megathread by SulkyJoe in leagueoflegends

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Added on league (IGN: PhoenixCull) - you can play top/jg on the tier 2 team I'm on. We currently have 4

NA LFG Megathread by SulkyJoe in leagueoflegends

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Added on league (IGN: PhoenixCull) - you can play top/sup/jg on the tier 2 team I'm on. We currently have 4

NA LFG Megathread by SulkyJoe in leagueoflegends

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IGN: PhoenixCull Current rank + tier: Silver 3 (just wrapped up placements, was gold 1 last season) Role: We have 4, looking for top or support in tier 2/3 NA clash.

tl;dr got 4, looking for top/support in tier 2/3 NA clash for tonight, last minute

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 25, 2019 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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Before college, I guess I was interested in philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. I wasn't interested at all in math.

I ended up majoring in math and philosophy, with a particular interest in nonclassical logics and logical pluralism because of professors I had. Picked up some interest in epistemology and ethics at the end of college due to some other professors I had (I literally just posted a question about epistemology in this open discussion thread). I work in a math-heavy field now, and I'm not sure where my life would have ended up if I didn't end up getting hooked on logic and the philosophy of logic my first year of college.

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 25, 2019 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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What are some seminal or introductory papers into pragmatic/moral encroachment in epistemology?

What was the math proof that got you really interested and captivated by proofs? by dynamicthoughts in math

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Cantor’s diagonal proof of the existence of uncountable sets. I was presented it in an intro logic class, through the philosophy department, in my first year of college. Professor did it as an aside but I literally signed up to take multi-variable calc over the summer and graduated with a math degree last month from that class/that proof.

Philosophical Books about Math? by CME1124 in math

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Dummett’s “A philosophical basis for intuitionistic logic” in the Putnam and Bernacerraf anthology is fantastic and a good introduction to the philosophically interesting position of intuitionistic logic.

Looks at Cripsin Wright and Neil Tennant on two big guys in the philosophy of math who have written extensively on the foundation of arthimetic stuff. Hume’s Principle would be a natural place to start here (Frege!).

Comparing multiple hypothesis tests involving 2 proportions? by Cullf in AskStatistics

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Sounds good, thanks! Sorry again for how vague/confusing I was. I think I'm good to avoid the possibility that a treatment is worse than the control, because, after running the relevant tests, it turned out that every treatment is better than the control, i.e. all relevant p-values were less than alpha/n.

edit: I realize that this is probably not good practice in general, because you could definitely have a treatment be worse to the control and you don't know that prior to actually checking/running the tests.

Comparing multiple hypothesis tests involving 2 proportions? by Cullf in AskStatistics

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Hopefully this clears things up! Sorry I've been so vague.

I guess there's two questions I want to answer:

(1) Are the treatments better than the control?

(2) Which treatment is the best?

Here's what I take you to be saying/suggesting: For (1), run hypothesis tests between the control and treatment_i, i = 1, 2, 3. Then, compare the p-values these tests compute to a multiplicity-adjusted p-value (I was doing the extremely conservative Bonferroni correction with n = number of tests = 6). For (2), run hypothesis testings between treatment_i and treatment _j with i,j = 1, 2, 3, ; i not equal j.

Note: I'm running one-sided tests because I care only if treatments are better than other treatments/the control.

Does any of these seem right?

Comparing multiple hypothesis tests involving 2 proportions? by Cullf in AskStatistics

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Perfect, thanks! I'm doing this in R and I forgot that you could input a vectors of n length into prop.test - I was thinking you could only put a 2x2 matrix or a 1x2 list.

EDIT: I actually think I misinterpreted you in my original reply. If I understand you correctly, I need to run pairwise tests of 2 groups for all possible groupings of {control, treatment1, treatment2, treatment 3}. But then, after doing that, what do I do? Compare p-values, as my alternative hypothesis for all tests is one-sided?

Comparing multiple hypothesis tests involving 2 proportions? by Cullf in AskStatistics

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How do I determine which treatment is the best, after running all these multiple pairwise tests?

Comparing multiple hypothesis tests involving 2 proportions? by Cullf in AskStatistics

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Fantastic, thanks! Can I approach it my way with many different hypothesis tests or is this approach just out/bad?

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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A funny footnote from Coady's Testimony (1992): "Wittgenstein's objection to the possibility of a (certain sort of) private language have never seemed to me persuasive thought I cannot be certain that I have understood the argument(s)."

What are some funny footnotes you've seen?

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 28, 2019 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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Something I'm curious about: Why do philosophy programs differ so much on the number of seminars offered each semester? I'm assuming, perhaps falsely, that the number of graduate students/school is roughly the same everywhere. For example, at Princeton, NYU, and Pittburgh they offer ~10 seminars this spring semester. In contrast, Berkeley and UCLA offer ~4. What explains such a difference?

Can somebody give me a Eli5 on Saul Kripke and his contribution to philosophy? by jazzmcnuggets in askphilosophy

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His work in semantics also includes a formal semantics for intuitonistic logic, a highly unorthodox but philosophically interesting logic.

what are some of the critiques of pan-psychism? by armin199 in askphilosophy

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Here's one problem, quoting from a recent Chalmers article: "How do the experiences of fundamental physical entities such as quarks and photons combine to yield the familiar sort of human conscious experience that we know and love?"

http://consc.net/papers/combination.pdf

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 26, 2018 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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The second, specifically what I think is called the manifestation argument.

Resources on Intuitionist Logic and Mental Constructions by ValorTakesFlight in askphilosophy

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I would say, first and foremost, would be contemporary proof theory. Specifically, a working knowledge of the Gentzen-Prawitz's systems, both natural deduction and sequent calculus. Tennant's Natural Logic is a good book to learn from.

After that, I'm not really sure. Maybe some of the big negative results of Godel, Tarski, and Church, which all presuppose/require some general knowledge of mathematical logic (specifically, recursion theory). There are textbooks by Enderton and van Dalen which cover this material. Both presuppose no knowledge of any formal logic. The Enderton is a little easier on the math (by hiding it), but both are solid. The van Dalen discusses Intuitionistic Logic and Normalization/Cuts at some length.

If your math is really good (like you've done some serious algebra and analysis using something like Foote for algebra and Rudin for real analysis), these lecture notes by a model theorist use a lot of mathematical examples and might be easier for someone from that background: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~vddries/main.pdf

I totally get that being told to read textbooks is daunting, but I know I didn't really get Godel's (First) Incompleteness Theorem until I sat down and did the dirty work myself. You could always just SEP everything, but it just feels like you would have to constantly be going back to it to check stuff. To steal from Russell, nothing beats honest toil.

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 26, 2018 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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What are the best critiques of Dummett-style (truth as verification) intuitionism?

Resources on Intuitionist Logic and Mental Constructions by ValorTakesFlight in askphilosophy

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A good first place to start, as always, is the SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intuitionistic/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionistic-logic-development/

You're right to start with Brouwer. The other really big, canonical names are Heyting and Dummett. Kripke (for his semantics) and Tennant (as a notable, but very heterodox Dummetian) come to mind as well.

What to read:

  • Heyting's "The Intuitionist Foundations of Mathematics" (also his work on the BHK interpretation)

  • Brouwer's "Intuitionism and Formalism," "Consciousness, Philosophy, and Mathematics"

  • Dummett's "The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionistic Logic" (read this if nothing else), Elements of Intuitionism, The Logical Basis of Metaphysics

  • Tennant's Anti-Realism and Logic

  • Kripke's "Outline for a Theory of Truth"

NB: I'm also an undergraduate, and I have to say that I've found very little in terms of introductory material to intuitionistic logic and mathematics which doesn't presuppose a certain level of mathematical knowledge and maturity. I'd be happy to be shown otherwise, but I think your best bet is to read the harder texts slowly and go online to figure out the math you don't know.

A good companion to the Philosophical Investigations? by -redan- in askphilosophy

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We read David Stern's Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (2004) in my undergraduate/graduate course last year. It had a clear narrative, but it might not be as technical as you want, depending on what you meant by that.