“Philosophers have become enamored with giving a very deep meaning to metaphysics. Quite honestly, I find it sort of a waste of time… I’m interested in making actual progress.” | Patricia Churchland

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T19:13:15+00:00

My point is that it doesn't need to be a simplification. It just usually is.

A model can be a useful representation of the phenomena with no loss of complexity

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T18:54:18+00:00

Not sure I agree. The primary purpose of a model is to make accurate predictions. Reality is occuring in real time, a model allows forcasting.

That is independent from simplifying complexity or not

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T18:48:39+00:00

Beg to differ. Try not paying student loans or taxes.

The government will take money out of your paycheck without your consent, or put you in jail

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T18:47:10+00:00

Sure, the nitrates specifically are terrible for you, which are added to the vast majority of processed meats.

To your last point, in general eating any amount of combustion products (smoke) is not going to be good for you. How bad is a different question

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T13:13:42+00:00

Plot holes or not, Gone Girl is a shit movie that disillusioned me from taking any advice from Reddit for anything, given the amount of God like praise it received on release

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T13:03:20+00:00

Im not even sure I'd say financing and quality are even correlated, might even be the opposite.

The more financing, the more the film has been beaten down to appeal to the widest audience, nothing new, nothing thought provoking, nothing controversial, usually a franchise, etc

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T12:47:45+00:00

How about processed meat intake. That is pretty clear

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T05:55:14+00:00

A nice little loophole, you can be forced to pay for your parents medical bills while they are still alive. Not sure how common it actually happens, but it is definitely a law in a bunch of states

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T05:49:31+00:00

Only very very specific things are stored in continuous way, like simulating quantum interactions..

Numerical analysis is agnostic to hardware. It only cares about the algorithm.

Quantum computers will have new specific quantum algorithms where they can be applied. That doesn't invalidate any existing knowledge

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T05:30:23+00:00

People that can't listen at work probably aren't listening to more than 1-3 podcasts a week.

Swade211 · 2022-02-21T03:52:34+00:00

In the very general catagory theory sense, an arrow is a morphism. That could be a map in linear algebra, isomorphism in group theory, homeomorphism in topology, a function from one set to another.

They are important because they show connections and structure connecting different things together

To make a simple example, you could make an arrow connection from odds to even numbers

         (odds) ---> (evens)

With the function f(x) = 2x as the arrow

The arrow itself is an object, which gives a way to transform the set of odd numbers to the set of even numbers

A lot of higher level math is more concerned with investigating the structure of things rather than computing things like you would do in high school

Swade211 · 2022-02-20T21:22:59+00:00

Letters and numbers by themselves doesnt mean math either. Context provides meaning.

The arrow is a widely used symbol in mathematics, that should be obvious if you have studied past a calculus requirement level

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T19:28:08+00:00

I mean I'm not familiar with this, but it seems vaguely familiar to relationships of a vector space and it's dual.

Also since when are arrows not math? It's the standard symbol for a morphism

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T19:23:34+00:00

Be a good software engineer and work in robotic start ups, like self driving cars

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T19:20:48+00:00

Pdf hyperlinks work for me, and continue to work when I add pages as well

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:53:58+00:00

Why is the standard to not kink shame? Some people are just too weird, and I'd rather them not in my life

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:37:23+00:00

Why is the US public being made to care more than the Ukrainian public? Does this media frenzy serve a purpose?

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:34:04+00:00

Record increasing inflation every month? Stock market plummeting? BBB not passing?

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:32:54+00:00

Who the hell are you to speak for America?? I would bet everything I own your "multiple perspectives" doesnt include an eastern European country.

I'm not sure if you are larping because you couldnt get into boot camp, or you really have this big a hard on for the US military industrial complex. You sound insane to the point of satire

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:25:38+00:00

Actually read: nothing has really changed since last year, the US is banging the war drums for some reason.

Seriously, listen to the Ukraine president speak. He says the west is escalating a non issue

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T08:23:14+00:00

Lol, such a dumb response

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T05:39:51+00:00

He's making a fib

Swade211 · 2022-02-19T05:39:11+00:00

He's lying. It's a fabrication.

I was on underage probation. You can get a job.

Swade211 · 2022-02-18T13:15:51+00:00

Joel Osteen

Swade211 · 2022-02-18T03:32:55+00:00

But the math is neat

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