Thank you so much for taking the time to summarise and explain all this. I have really enjoyed having a little window into your remarkable world.

Thank you, that was very interesting. I was surprised at the definition of the basic open sets because they felt quite closed to my intuition, so the topology feels discrete to me. It’s definitely Hausdorff, I guess, but that’s no big deal. I’m guessing if you’re saying it uses a lot of the axioms, it uses the axiom of choice. It feels like that kind of arena, but I’m no set theorist. Having been taught by ring theorists, I always found the axiom of choice no big deal and totally uncontroversial, but I’m aware of the existence of mathematicians who feel otherwise, intuitionists (confusing name) and constructivists and the like. Do set theorists have a lot of debate about axioms, is it largely led by consensus, or deeply controversial, or just a case of making clear which you’re using and no one gets excited about it?

Let’s assume I can prove the countability and non countability of various famous sets and, for example, that (a^b)c = a^bc for cardinalities. What’s determinacy?

Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Why not just not have gaps and have overlaps instead? Works in civilised countries. It’s not like the technology doesn’t exist.

I wish people who posted youtube links would say what they were linking to.

Go woke or go broke.

I won’t tell if you won’t tell.

If I understood, I wouldn’t have to ask.

Yes, but if they’re just minimums, there’s no need for even using the third dimension, let alone the fourth.

I do.

So the fifth person to arrive moves to the centre of the tetrahedron and shifts roughly 1.299m into the past or future.

I have a few questions.

1. How do you attain time offset?
2. Doesn’t that make conversation difficult?
3. What even is the fifth dimension?
4. How do you convert a distance in metres into a distance in time? You would surely then have a universal m/s? Oh, wait, there is a universal speed, it’s the speed of light, which means 1.299m is equivalent to about 4.3 billionths of a second, which is considerably less impressive for question 1 and just not at all problematic for question 2.
5. If you’re using very fast motion for your time offset, doesn’t that make conversation even more difficult? How fast would you need to be going to dilate time for a few billionths of a second? Doesn’t Heisenberg uncertainty start to have an impact here? How can you be sure you got it right?

It’s not a square based pyramid, it’s a triangular based pyramid. Imagine the top right hand one floating up onto the air and moving to hover above the centre of the other three (which move to make an equalateral triangle). The distances work but the layout changes.

Depends on the soup. Tinned soup from some manufacturer, maybe. My mum’s chicken soup? Boil that thing gently for hours and your tongue will love you for a week.

Satya Nadella has given an evasive answer there and both Zuckerberg and the journalists have been taken in.

It is common in programming languages that have a lot of boilerplate to use code generation, where you take some information about data and generate code automatically, like code that translates data between formats (for example reading and writing xml for saving to disk or json to send over the network). Being very routine to write and easy to deduce logically from other information, this process has been automated for years and years, long before AI existed.

Microsoft’s flagship software such as operating systems, office software, is unbelievably vast and complex, far beyond the complexity of most business software, and has been developed over decades. They absolutely have not replaced 30% of their code since the very recent advent of useful AI. I can believe that 30% of it is automatically generated, but not by AI.

Why do you use the distro you use?

People said Ubuntu is easy, but I prefer green to orange so I went with Mint.

Article points out that having a moral issue over porn is a much, much stronger prediction of perceiving problems than levels of use. The headline writer and introduction conclude that porn addiction isn’t real, but I think the detail of the article suggests more that behaviour only really gets properly out of control in the presence of self-disapproval.

I think a more consistent summary for that content is “Mainly only religious people seek help from psychologists for what they perceive as porn addiction, but overwhelmingly their behaviour doesn’t fit the professional thresholds for addiction”.

Here was me hoping he’d be swearing off flying altogether.

I think I can smell progesterone, in some women, and in some months (far more than others/other times). Being male, this is absolutely is not something I can collect a lot of data on very quickly, and I don’t know whether the strength or clarity for me correlates with women who have higher levels than normal, but I do know it correlates really well with this chart in terms of timing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estradiol_and_progesterone_%25_changes_across_the_menstrual_cycle.tif

So often I know that it’s a week and a half before your period, and I know what that means, but I promise you that I have never ever used this knowledge, partly because I’m pretty shy, but not even with my wife (who doesn’t know I can tell) when we were aiming for pregnancies, because that was a very busy time indeed in that arena and I saw no reason to reduce that in any way whatsoever.