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I agree with your larger point. Though I think it's pretty natural to wonder how the poster ended up with a multi million line codebase.

The thing that you assume in a theorem is usually called a hypothesis.

I think "being concerned with knowledge" and "being invested in the process of creation/discovery" can occur at the same time. There isn't a singular "scientific mindset" or set of…

there's a human element in discovery and in problem solving. Whether or not somebody chooses to sidestep work isn't necessarily an indication that the work isn't science. It's just…

Yea sorry. I didn't mean to criticize or diminish its value by saying it's just an educational tool. It's a powerful tool that lets you do some advanced things quickly. That's tota…

I thought Scheme was just an educational tool - a minimal language that allows the student to explore language construction & design relatively quickly. I'm not sure I understand y…

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. In science and engineering, being able to provide justification is a core skill. The comparison we should be making is against the hu…

Dude, these two things are not at all analogous: 1. Asking a model why it did a certain thing, and 2. Expecting a human to say which neuron fired in their response.

So nature doesn't exhibit justice, but a society likely needs to implement it, yes? But you don't want to say who gets to receive those rights? Some might say that those millions o…

There will always be scarcity and inequality. The point is to minimize/mitigate their effects. Can't you make the same argument for justice? Why does everyone deserve justice? Isn'…

I think it's slightly comical to see people from the tech community deal with the problems, as customers, that are brought about by the dysfunction of AI. No, I'm not making a swee…

There is value in critically evaluating ideas and possible endeavors. On the other hand, demanding an answer to every little pocket of uncertainty creates a huge burden that preven…

I'm curious about manufacturing from like 10-20 years ago. Would it be cheap to make a RAM chip from like 15 years ago? Or would it just not even work with our modern hardware? Lik…

You sound like you're writing from the future. "or see a doctor, if that’s still a thing people do?" Yep. People still do that.

So this is aimed at somebody who has mathematical maturity but prefers... less content and detail? The point is that you are losing something in a shortened presentation. You're no…

If you just pick one of those subjects, you'll probably find a textbook just as long as his entire PDF trying to cover 13+ subjects. Sorry to be negative Nancy over here, but you'r…

Would anyone here want their kids to attend this school?

I think a big part of undergraduate math is theory/abstraction building, which is usually very different than the activity of programming. I've studied quite a bit of math, so I ca…

I wonder how quickly you can load some of the modern, popular, websites on a dial up connection.

seems like another distraction. If it permanently disappears, maybe then it's worth talking about?

You're posting this in a thread filled with stories which paint him as an asshole.

That's a really hard belief to justify. And what implications would that position have? Should biologists give up?

Reducibility is usually a goal of intellectual pursuits? I don't see that as a fault.

As opposed to?

Something similar actually happened to me. Somebody called me about a job application I submitted through craigslist/email 6-7 years ago. This was while I was a student. I had to t…