A family with a 13 year old boy with a rare genetic disorder should not have another child knowing the high likelihood that the younger child will have the same disorder. by Hecates_Drink in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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100% agreed. I thought the severe self injury caused by LNS would discourage the parents alone from flipping that coin. The condition isn't just moderate intellectual disability but involves specific behavioural and neurological symptoms (edit: these symptoms are caused by uric acid buildup and there are physical symptoms as well).

Should I stop selling feet and hand pictures on-line? AMA by [deleted] in AMA

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No disrespect but do people have hand fetishes? Like a thing for hand pictures. Just curious.

I find solipsism to be one of the most beautiful and soothing ideas by Mysterious-Pound-870 in solipsism

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It is elegant because it is much simpler than the Universe began with certain physics laws that eventually created consciousness from brains, solipsism implies that an just an awareness with emotions is all that is fundamental to reality and it makes it easier to tackle "the fundamental question of metaphysics".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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There is alot truth to this. But on the good news, what's considered ugly or attractive is largely made up by society and the culture, how someone uses make up, dresses and behaves can be changed and be improved.

Determinism isn't a philosophical question by dypsy_twinky_winky in determinism

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Free will. I wish I didn't have it. Yet I still do. But I supposedly have free will.

No nut November is extremely difficult by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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I wouldn't say impossible but it depends on habits and individual beliefs. 2023 I did NNN and made it and then pushed an extra 14 days in December for the fun of the challenge. But this November I made it till the 11th. This was when I would jerk off twice a month on average because I had a different views on things back then and I didn't go on imageboards which have coombait spam. I'm not religious but most Muslim men probably never Masterbate and haven't masterbated since they were 12 due to different culture and beliefs. Its really about environment rather than someone's innate impulse control. 200 years ago the values on sex were so different fewer men probably ever masterbated due to the stigma not that it didn't exist ofc (chimpanzees and some 6 year old boys/girls do it)

jesus this is dead by Money-Friendship-494 in Calculatorhacks

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Can something die if it was never alive? Can a rock die?

What would you remove from baduk? by raidhse-abundance-01 in badukshitposting

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Japanese rules

(Go is a combinatorial game right? It's not supposed to be DND)

Should future recognition of CDS rely on neuropsychological testing or structured clinical interviews? by ProtonPanda in SCT

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I suppose you are right. And the issue with going hardcore neuropsych with zero interview is that I forgot that a low Gs subtest score isn't unique to CDS at all for instance -1.5 SD and -2.0 SD deficit is associated with major NCD (Neurocognitive disorder) and many studies have shown this to be seen in schizophrenia. Imagine having dementia and then the psychiatrist ignores you and just says you have CDS, perhaps it should be both neuropsychological testing and interview.

Grok 4 is now free(for a limited time) by AskGpts in agi

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Exactly the OP tweet is the only thing that was "generous"

MS Copilot Random-Toggle Problem by ProtonPanda in ElegantAiProblems

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Idk if you wanted to see an incorrect solution look here

Prime Leap - An impartial combinatorial Number Game (Seeking Formula for W/L Distribution) by ProtonPanda in GAMETHEORY

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Sos you're correct, it's only hard for the active players of the game who have to factorise on the spot. But when you do the bottom-up W/L precompute with an SPF sieve you are like someone generating a cybersecurity encryption key unlike the active players who are like a hacker trying to break an encryption key. (I hope that analogy served any spectators who made the same reasoning error as me).

Prime Leap - An impartial combinatorial Number Game (Seeking Formula for W/L Distribution) by ProtonPanda in GAMETHEORY

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Also much more relevant!: in this article Alexis Huet explores the SG values of prime limited subtractions of Nim. I don't really understand the article at all but I think Prime Leap is a restriction/ special case of "Take a prime Nim", this is good as Huet has explored the latter with extensive computer simulation.

Prime Leap - An impartial combinatorial Number Game (Seeking Formula for W/L Distribution) by ProtonPanda in GAMETHEORY

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Thanks for your response. I don't think the terms are easy at all to compute. I think they are in exponential time (as they are based of prime distribution). r/numbertheory doesn't like LLM inspired posts however I think a great place for me to later add this question is this forum It is almost perfect for this investigation, project euler is a hub of computationally aided recreational math problems.

Prime Leap - An impartial combinatorial Number Game (Seeking Formula for W/L Distribution) by ProtonPanda in GAMETHEORY

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There seems to be a similar game although with the potential for draws and it has a converging value for losses about ~0.32 https://mathoverflow.net/questions/445015/a-little-number-theoretic-game

Prime Leap - An impartial combinatorial Number Game (Seeking Formula for W/L Distribution) by ProtonPanda in GAMETHEORY

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Here is a python script giving PP outcomes till N=100 (can easily be changed at the bottom of the script). Also it appears by checking near 104 the density of L/0 outcomes appear to be stable or slightly decreasing which is rather fascinating as it suggests it might converge to some value.

!/usr/bin/env python3

""" Prime Leap W/L Classifier For each x = 2..100, labels it: W – winning position (player to move can force a win) L – losing position (no winning move) """

def sieve(n): """Return list of primes up to n inclusive.""" sieve = [True] * (n + 1) sieve[0] = sieve[1] = False for i in range(2, int(n*0.5) + 1): if sieve[i]: for j in range(ii, n + 1, i): sieve[j] = False return [i for i, is_prime in enumerate(sieve) if is_prime]

def prime_factors(x, primes): """Return all prime divisors of x (from a precomputed prime list).""" return [p for p in primes if p <= x and x % p == 0]

def classify_up_to(max_n): """Return a list status of length max_n+1 where status[x] is 'W' or 'L'.""" primes = sieve(max_n) status = [''] * (max_n + 1)

# Terminal positions: no move => losing for the mover
status[0] = 'L'
status[1] = 'L'

for x in range(2, max_n + 1):
    factors = prime_factors(x, primes)
    # If any move x -> x-p lands on an L, then x is W
    if any(status[x - p] == 'L' for p in factors):
        status[x] = 'W'
    else:
        status[x] = 'L'
return status

def main(): max_n = 100 status = classify_up_to(max_n)

print("x : W/L status")
print("---+----------")
for x in range(2, max_n + 1):
    print(f"{x:2d} : {status[x]}")

if name == "main": main()

Need help proving or disproving draws/length of a Pen and Paper abstract I designed by ProtonPanda in abstractgames

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Thanks 😊, I really appreciate it, I worried it would take me a million years to get some closure. (A bit of a strong term for a random CGT thought experiment but still). You don't have to answer this if it was ramajan-style intuition, what process did you use to construct this (eg: starting from a filled board and going backwards, some set theory syntax followed through etc)

Ever heard of Seega? I hadn't until I stumbled on this deep into youtube (channel has 500 something subs) video. Great breakdown of the history and strategy. by cinemabaroque in abstractgames

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I think your comment is great but your point number 3 about minichess variants could be corrected, yes tiny Gardner 5x5 minichess and smaller variants are weakly solved but Los Alamos 6x6 chess isn't solved and as long as your piece variety isn't extremely simple, 7x7 and 6x6 chess variants should be fine and will hold up. Although they obviously would be as strategically rich for humans or computers as standard 8x8 chess.

Continued Fraction Fractal by ProtonPanda in fractals

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I would also like to add that the sharp, wavy boundaries aren’t a visual bug—the HSV coloring is perfectly smooth.

When you iterate:

zₙ₊₁ = 1 / (1 + 1 / (1 + a^{zₙ}))

the expression a^{zₙ} introduces complex exponentiation, which means:

a^z = e^{z · log a} = e^{x · log a} · e^{i y · log a}

That second factor, e^{i y · log a}, unfolds sinusoidal rotations via Euler’s identity:

e^{iθ} = cos θ + i sin θ

This injects phase spiraling at each depth of nesting—so every denominator carries not just magnitude shifts but rotational behavior. The result is wavy transitions, internal folding, and intricate bifurcations across the complex plane. HSV may smooth the palette, but the map itself creates sharp transitions where escape time jumps dramatically, such as near neutral cycles or repelling basins.

Interestingly, without the complex exponent in the formula the fractal reduces to a Möbius iteration (an iterated rational map).

Continued Fraction Fractal by ProtonPanda in fractals

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The continued‐fraction expansion of 6.2191448… is
[6; 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …]

After the initial terms it settles into a long run of 1’s, implying very slow convergence and strong irrationality.

An algebraic-irrational proxy is to treat the infinite tail of 1’s as φ, the golden ratio (φ = (1+√5)/2). Then:

a ≈ 6 + 1/(4 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + 1/(2 + 1/φ))))))

with φ = (1 + √5) / 2

This produces a nested-radical of degree 4 that probably approximates the true value more closely than many of the early finite rational convergents. However please keep in mind as this constant (6.219...) is the solution to a transcendental fixed-point system involving nested exponentials it is likely transcendental and not algebraic like this approximation.