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If we assume the natural time evolution of groups of people is to decohere (with sqrt t?), being a leader means keeping everyone roughly in phase?

That explains why filk music "in the original klingon" is so effective; eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJoOtk7Scw&list=PLftMKM97Fe... [bIHar 'e' yImevQo' (Don't Stop Believin')]

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8

"new edge"? for how many decades already has the USN had complete seabed maps? (I'd guess we're talking about a half-century, or even older, edge)

such an analysis is normally a fixpoint over the control flow graph; what structure would we be taking the fixpoint over in the Sen/Nussbaum case?

(non-sequitur) did you see https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/strange-new-rul... ?

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Do I properly understand

> Но математики, по определению -- Московские. Остальные так гуляют.

to be saying "only the muscovites are mathematicians; the rest of us just fool around/play at it"?

now I'd like to see Cambrian knot-fish!

is there a slogan for how Spekkens' metaphysics (epistemology?) differs from "working up to isomorphism"?

(we prefer theories which result from applying condensation to situations in order to form DAGs? minimise strongly connected components?)

Somewhere I read an opinion that, with the exception of Neuroticism, Big 5 maps pretty directly to Myers-Briggs and back. It's an understandable exception, because the MB axes are such that everyone seems to be pretty proud of their own weightings; if we were to reconcile the two systems we'd probably need to come up with a rebranding of neuroticism.

> ...a group of idealists bound together by their alienation from a superstitious society and a capricious government.

So the single sheet sol'n to CP Snow's two cultures lies in precarious situations?

the pointer was very useful; ta!

would https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990888 be avian?

an aspect of the step(pe) function is that around the Med the resources which fed 1 horse could be used to feed 4 humans instead; I think that ratio was probably inverted on the steppes.

> Turner said that he was “interested in finding something simpler” than full dependent types.

What are some current options for avoiding full dependent types?

any chance of expanding on doc/Language.md?

Uncle Musk pulling seedlings, to help them grow.

(edit: use first name instead, to get a sentence which can either be expressed in 8 english words or in 8 chinese hanzi?)

subwalled on gramsci gap btw — care to summarise?

inspired by https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as...

on N/J (б/к) I got sidetracked by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3dOs1kaD4o (confirming that classroom layouts are very conservative)

The main reason for picking it was the stroke index, because I almost always had no clue about readings.

A secondary reason is that it claims to be ordered more or less by usage, so we can also see what a ca. 1980s Gakken thought of relative frequency:

  不  134
  無  227
  非  491
  未  801

re mi, how about the very riverian:

> "Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity." —LFR

So, actually looking in my dead-tree kanji dictionary yielded a small table of the differences between 非…, 不…, 無…, and 未…:

  非  negative judgement
  不  negation of a state or action
  無  negation of existence
  未  negation of existence to date (=not yet)

so I guess "unfortunate exit" is very parallel to "emergency exit" and my previous examples were more exceptional usages.

thanks, in the non-digitised I did find: https://samizdat.library.utoronto.ca/samizdat-periodicals?co...

民之从事，常于几成而败之

the stuff this site has digitised is all (even from the chemistry students) literary/artistic; are there any good sources of geeky/botanic samizdat?

is the "old family tradition" punchline less small-audience than I'd have feared? eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite#/media/File:Strom...

DeepL returned "Very much in the government, very much in the field."

Dulles seems to have been reflecting on a result of game theory that says it can pay off for an asshole in a positive sum game to attempt to take more than their numeric share of the positive margin off the table.

If kaizen is the way to approach local optima, do we have a single word to describe seeking global optima? (someone once said compiler optimisations would more honestly be called ameliorations; I guess that could make a "local optimum" also an "ameliorum" point?)

What's the usual connotation of 非? Thus far I only know it from emergency exit, so reading "not-" to form "unusual/abnormal exit" seemed perfectly logical.

EDIT: compare 非ユークリッド幾何学, 非鉄金属, ...

IIRC, Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (1988), The design and implementation of the 4.3BSD operating system, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201061961 has what you're looking for — might want to double check a TOC though because this memory is from the 20th century.

thoughts from 1992 (Gray+Reuter): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829878

gsf accounts? maybe even gruncheons? https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the...

EDIT: 在朝非常, 在野平常

(I get three very different reverse translations of the above from three different engines, so in case it helps I had been attempting to riff on emergency exits vs calm hearts. originally inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42851495)