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gradschoolfailon The rise of the U.S., the rise of China

Hmm, no pro-logicians interested yet? Is it because logic is such a gradual domain.. would it move you beyond knowing just the name* to note that i’ve been involved with … experiments?? (Im a fan of <<Experimental Mathematics>> tho this is 2 steps removed, shall we call it “Experimental Logic”?) To whether its common or uncommon, depends on how deep you want to look, i guess!

*Check out DP-G and TSC’s 2020 update, where their Ham doesnt seem so contrived, and in fact, closer to, let’s say, the-country-that-shall-not-be-renamed. Are the chinese paying attention??!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039941

Citation on the tension? I suspect the tension isn’t between elite-driven and anarchism*. No time to hunt for a item i saw a while back here (its “everywhere”) observing that you cant see any of the supposedly cataclysmic events of the XX (& XIX?) on the emissions chart.. perhaps we should explore (cue tony blair’s victory song) the tension between inflation and deflation instead?

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031606

[maybe Einstein saw Goedel as Spinoza reincarnate, pity he hadnt heard about MPB (or even RPF/AG]

PS hadnt seen the PC article, thanks! The content is very familiar.. however.

gradschoolfailon Millennial Snot

Meanwhile:

Nietzsche has been castigated as the master of casual contempt

https://archive.is/Fg5Hi

gradschoolfailon Millennial Snot

Meanwhile..

TIGR: Heinlein (inadvertently, via the old man of USMC?) channelled FdG!

“>Come on you apes! Do you wanta live forever?”

(Seems to me everyone we cited above were fully or almost fully vulpine? Bringing us back to the Wielandt convo..)

This reminds me to check whether the founders of Zen were warriors before they were monks..

gradschoolfailon What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)

“Cardboard”: looked in vain for the uncountable singular of “boxes” (/“categories”)

Also: “cardboard” as a metaphor for the inevitable reduction in dimensions (here, of “personalities”)

Banach: if you mean the eponymous space, yes, are you returning to the county in “quantum-gravity”? Or maybe you refer to the theorem with Tarski?

gradschoolfailon The rise of the U.S., the rise of China

Re:cruelty/VPS/offering struggle

Not sure if the sage is allowed cruelty(=irreversibilty?<= deluging), more sure that the sage is forbidden from enjoying it (or even signalling its enjoyment, cf Not-Hillel)

gradschoolfailon Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds

When frustrated by this eternal verity, I remember the lesson of Gutei’s finger (a koan from Mumonkan)

https://thedewdrop.org/2018/12/28/guteis-finger/

gradschoolfailon The rise of the U.S., the rise of China

My current take is that culture is just path-dependent[0] interpretations of pretty much the same situation [1]

[0]large mean time between scattering events, e.g. number and make-up of parties dont change very much since the last time the current system became barely-functional (we take on socio-technical debt before we have actual social tech??) as it is, 1789 was a bit too long ago for founder-mode, may halloween continue to console us!

[1]more tk. it seems mostly everyone is tripartite. Tripartism, has its own en.wikipage! But more research on YYA’s taxonomy is required of me.

gradschoolfailon Optimizers need a rethink

Pardon my ongoing lack of attention— pray tell what number base?

gradschoolfailon It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

Haha i remember! friends got caught up in that! (Wasnt it 3-sigma tho?)

Theorists would also love for experimentalists to be wrong, but the most efficient way to do it would be by inventing new maths… [sad but still fun]

gradschoolfailon What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)

Amen. Hopefully this wont stop me from trying to classify PG as lion or fox or mongoose .. (i cant remember what it was anyways… fox with lion skin?)

[“Why do I have a reason for keeping people in cardboard. Because it’s there” — Not George Mallory]

[“Climbing Jungfraujoch barefoot is fun!” -its Not about RPF its about me!]

TIGR: traits for designori, for inclusion in a NE-type test

(Today I Got Reminded)

gradschoolfailon Millennial Snot

Oops: Krivine => Girard

gradschoolfailon My Time Working at Stripe

Time for PG to, with chainsaw & pernach, remind Patrick about founder mode?

gradschoolfailon Millennial Snot

2 things (in addition to your above VPS) that i urgently need to pay attention to [im procrastinating! Thanks to lizard brain survivalism? Was deluged by the not-meh HN graviton thread; i dont even know if any logician (what about Krivine/Koerner, you think?) knows the name of the county— the country* is “quantum gravity”.]:

  - What did “the moral of equivalent of war” mean [WJ, but also JEC,J]. is it related to VPS

  - Instinctive reverence is it nonsense, or something to practise over a lifetime?

*of which nothing is known but the name, pace PC

Ps: went looking here on HN histories also for the ideological arrows (via Marion Milner) between Montaigne & Montesquieu*. similar to Borodin & Linebarger iyho? Alert me to de Maistre if necessary

*direct ideological ancestor of Jane Jacobs?

gradschoolfailon It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

If you’re young (or if you’re old but your mind remains flexible) i urge you to think hard about this problem.. i do and i will! my mind is already quite inflexible so i’m not going say anything definite about this question out of fear of saying something dumb/misleading. Your q hides monsters ready to snipe any serious mind of the planet!

That said, an easier question to ponder (and many have tried) might be:

  Do photons self-interact? With each other? In free space?

After thinking thru this question yourself, you might be more prepared to consider gravitons (=“spin-2 massless bosons”) ditto for me!

gradschoolfailon Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism

REDIT(s)

I ought to get overly emotional (in a bittersweet way) about all this, and i almost did, but Teddy reminded me to stay ataraxic (i.e. keeping his role in formulating key management policies purely in the cortex )

thank you for that blogpost about MPB (its one small step for fuzzablekind!)

[as well as the nuclei hint, more tk]

gradschoolfailon Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism

[Righhht, maybe you can excite me even more by relating this to quantales?? Or maybe expand on fns vs distributions a bit more?]

L: quantal (quasiparticles)

gradschoolfailon It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

This needs to be emphasized more, by the TFA too — most (theoretical) physicists think that detecting gravitons is an engineering exercise that has no implications* for quantum gravity (as understood by the public)

>The model of non-self-interacting gravity is a particle we call a "graviton,"

This needs to be emphasized even more, because it has

>when the dx represents a slight change in a function

*see the discussion around sharikous’ comment below

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42003116

gradschoolfailon Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins

there are other fixed points, but they are too benign to get attention. (Ir). and manifolds.

gradschoolfailon Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years

Hmmm, so its closer to what you intended to mean when you said “distributions are prefunctions?

Im still confused.. didnt msn publish w springer?

[1] in Deckung gehen?

gradschoolfailon Why Are Americans So Rich?

https://archive.is/ycvZb

The median ranking is very similar, but on mobile now (hence the shortened url)..

gradschoolfailon Why Are Americans So Rich?

By some economic measures (e.g. median income corrected PPP) NY state is also very close to Switzerland.

Otoh, wyoming has always been way ahead..

gradschoolfailon Why so few Matt Levines?

If you dont find his humor grating (I do, but YMMV — its hard to hit the sweet spot as Mr. Levine does)

Scott Aaronson might be the ML of quantum computing.

(i also find the field slow, but i really think im the odd one out!)

gradschoolfailon Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism

Wait i thought functions are predistributions..

[My bad, it was Matvei, not Manuel, no idea how i mixed that up..

Checkout his childrens books, as well as

https://archive.is/eaYRs

Note how the independent diagonals are what i consider interesting]

gradschoolfailon The Electoral College was nearly abolished in 1970 (2020)

Borodin might have kept Cordwainer at arms length ( or hardly ever fraternized with SYS except thru Eugene. (Purely from psychoanalysis)

Have you checked with the Lords of Instrumentality? (Did 101 speak with the equivalent of a midwestern accent?)

gradschoolfailon 10 Years of HexaPDF

ISO docs seem to me to be one of those club antigoods.. paying for them doesnt necessarily make them less destructive (dependent on timescales tho, i do believe that standards are an unalloyed good if they are patched with a timeconstant low compared to what standards bodies consider optimal)

gradschoolfailon Optimizers need a rethink

Sufficiently “advanced”* program synthesis is indistinguishable from compiler optimization?

*(= “correct”?)

[sufficiently constrained madness is indistinguishable from ikigai?]

gradschoolfailon Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years

Hmmm im still a bit distracted. Whats MSN?

How far is your idea of refinement from some def of “derivative”?

gradschoolfailon Millennial Snot

Thanks! Much to mull over! Concede that im most sympathetic to leonine foxes (post-philodemus-patch though?). “Effective” leaders, in my book, have to give the people (先-後-不） what they want emotionally, and yet go against their will rather openly (risking assasination)

Or maybe thats vulpine lions in your book?

(Compare orwell “offering struggle”)

gradschoolfailon What's the Singular Form of Cattle? (2010)

Hmmm no mention of “chattel” often “a chattel”

Edit: in comments, but nobody mentions it can be countable

gradschoolfailon NASA freezes Starliner missions

Ok i need to read that. Without context 不知不覺 => old man Nakayama sneering at children