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jonathf

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jonathf··on Pyro: A universal, probablistic programming language
That's not true anymore. Pymc4 switched backend last year. https://www.pymc.io/blog/v4_announcement.html#v4_announcemen...
jonathf··on Vim 9.0
That's not necessarily true.

Core maintainer of the Neovim Tjdevries is working on a compatibility layer that would allow vim9 to not only run in Neovim, but likely faster.

Source: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit

jonathf··on Is there a functional reason for wizards to live in towers so often?
According to my tour guide at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, preservation of books back in the olden days was all about reducing humidity. And the best way to achieve this before proper isolation were invented was to bring them up as high as possible. Rich people who collected books therefore always kept their books upstairs.

Also the curators of such collections are also often scholars. Old men, going up stairs to read their old books.

An hypothesis on my part of course, but to me I can se how this over generations gets morphed into "wizards in towers".

jonathf··on Happy birthday Vim (2020)
:bufdo! %s/<search>/<replace>/gc to multi-buffer search-replace.

But depending on your starting point though, you might need need a vim $(grep -l <filter>) to get all relevant files into buffers.

jonathf··on New papers dividing logical uncertainty into two subproblems
I agree that fuzzy logic wouldn't work for that purpose. But it addresses a formalism around the foundation of what probabilities are, which to what I could see was something you guys were doing as well. Just a thought.

As for actually addressing logical uncertainty and asymptotic convergence, I think subjective Bayesianism can be used in both cases. For example you write "the axioms of probability theory force you to put probability either 0 or 1 on those statements", which I think is simply not true. If I as an "expert" claimed that "in my experience there is a 70% chance of conjecture being correct", I can set "Prior(conjecture)=0.7".

I like to hear you input on this.

jonathf··on New papers dividing logical uncertainty into two subproblems
Are you familiar with Albert Taratola's work on fuzzy logic as a basis for general probability? http://www.ipgp.fr/~tarantola/Files/Professional/Books/Mappi... As far as I can see, you guys are overlapping a lot.

Secondly, is there a reason why subjective Bayesian theory isn't mentioned? To me it seems obvious that expert elicitation and assigning probabilities to logical uncertainty is perfectly fine.