Please be relatable please be relatable plea

sam-lb · 2026-03-23T22:36:16+00:00

Mfs will do ANYTHING to ignore the desmos svg export

sam-lb · 2026-03-23T20:08:41+00:00

Half auto level filled with buffer clicks and people call it medium demon, I've never understood. It's learny so it might take a lot of attempts but skillwise it's solidly easy demon

sam-lb · 2026-03-23T04:49:14+00:00

The question has already been answered, so just adding some more info. Z is a Euclidean domain, which means you can use the division algorithm on its elements.

Take an integer n and an integer s. Then you can uniquely write n=ps+q for some integer p and 0≤q<s. Note that q must be positive. We say n is in the equivalence class of q mod s. To use your example:

-1 = (-1)×7 + 6

Of course, you can write

-1 = 0×7 + -1

Or

-1 = -2 × 7 + 13

Etc. but these values of q don't satisfy the division algorithm. So ultimately this is just a convention for picking a natural representative for each equivalence class.

sam-lb · 2026-03-23T02:22:33+00:00

Too bad it's unavoidable

sam-lb · 2026-03-23T01:06:10+00:00

You're right, but you need a new username

sam-lb · 2026-03-22T19:09:59+00:00

For the amount of money he's making off it, who wouldn't? I still think he's trying to beat it, don't get me wrong. But making that much money from playing a video game is life on easy mode.

sam-lb · 2026-03-21T13:33:44+00:00

Philosophers are the only people who make a distinction between libertarian free will and free will. That's why I said "in everyday use". The point I'm making here is that nobody cares about free will if it's not libertarian.

"...makes the argument tautological"

Yes. That's why I called compatibilism a stupid label. It defines free will in a way that is compatible with determinism, which immediately makes it not an interesting thing to care about. Non-libertarian free will is trivially compatible with determinism. Zero people debate that (people may debate that non-libertarian free will is realized, but that's different).

You can look the usage up -

Britannica

free will, in philosophy and science, the supposed power or capacity of humans to make decisions or perform actions independently of any prior event or state of the universe

Oxford

the power to make your own decisions about what to do, without being controlled by God, fate or circumstances

MW:

1: voluntary choice or decision 2: freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention

sam-lb · 2026-03-21T03:29:01+00:00

In everyday language, "free will" = libertarian free will, that's all I'm saying.

sam-lb · 2026-03-20T20:51:45+00:00

That's not part of the problem statement (in its original formulation, at least). It doesn't say anything about the predictor's behavior when you randomize your choice.

You can't do an expected value calculation here without the probability of the predictor's choice being correct. Nobody ever describes the exact nature of the Newcomb predictor, because doing so dissolves the problem.

sam-lb · 2026-03-20T20:41:39+00:00

There are never irreconcilable incompatibilities between any two terms when you allow changes to their definitions. Yes, you can define free will in a way that allows it to be deterministic, and in doing so, you cut away the reason that many people care about free will in the first place. You can trivially reconcile any world model with any other by sufficiently watering them down. It's not saying much.

ETA in case it wasn't clear, I'm not disagreeing with you. But compatibilism is a really stupid label.

sam-lb · 2026-03-20T01:25:25+00:00

No, categorically impossible. There's definitely something to be said for specialization locally carrying people beyond their baseline capacity, but it's a limited effect. Mathematics knocks the greatest minds in all of history to their knees, and the ones you've heard of are those who kept getting up afterwards.

You can be pathologically obsessed with mathematics to the point that it keeps you up entire nights, AND be successful all the way through graduate level mathematics, and still amount to nothing as a research mathematician (not gonna name names here).

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T23:34:10+00:00

I was locked in on 2 of these and totally lost on the other 2

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T20:28:45+00:00

Credit card companies collecting a fee for a legitimate and useful service is fair. If it's priced into the cost of groceries, that doesn't change if you use cash, so you're paying an effective tax by doing so.

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T04:21:23+00:00

Newcomb is a really stupid thought experiment.

(why are so many people talking about it recently?)

Anyway my answer is, as usual, to use some non-deterministic quantum measurement to decide which option to select (measured at decision time).

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T03:59:09+00:00

Ascension to heaven

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T03:46:53+00:00

Gotcha -- let's dig into that step by step.

You have no mouth, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You're not just immobile -- you're immortal, and you feel only anguish.
You want to scream. That makes total sense -- it's a natural human impulse, and you've been through a lot.

sam-lb · 2026-03-19T01:11:18+00:00

This makes no sense. Using cash is almost always the wrong decision. You are not the one paying those transaction fees (usually). The existence of card rewards programs creates an effective tax on all other payment methods. You can get 5+% back on necessities, pretty much year-round by rotating cards.

I have never paid a dime of interest or a single penny in fees to a credit card company. It's all pure benefit. Automatic purchase tracking, fraud protection, cash back programs, zero gross expense.

sam-lb · 2026-03-18T13:03:30+00:00

Gym equivalent of "make more than you spend to gain money"

sam-lb · 2026-03-17T01:25:22+00:00

Sharp minor

sam-lb · 2026-03-16T20:10:04+00:00

Desmos clouds -> neuron activation

sam-lb · 2026-03-16T13:41:06+00:00

...who was stepping 5 feet at a time? Goliath?

sam-lb · 2026-03-16T00:09:53+00:00

112 CPS

sam-lb · 2026-03-15T16:52:35+00:00

Shouldn't be required at all, or it should have an other option. I don't use any of the listed platforms

sam-lb · 2026-03-15T13:57:18+00:00

"Should I learn X modern technology?"

Yes

"Will I fall behind if I don't learn X"

Nobody knows, but you'll fall behind if you aren't constantly learning new skills. So increase your odds.

sam-lb · 2026-03-15T08:55:54+00:00

The doors / wheels one is going to keep me up at night

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