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It's about direction of influence. Physics should not influence math. Math has to be a consequence of it's own axioms, or have it's properties tested against it's own constructions…

Yes, there's a real reason for using the word discovered instead of invented. Depends on how webbed in you are intellectually to people around you. Which is often highly dependent …

It's simple. Physics uses mathematics to construct equations that describe properties of physics. The difference is physics has reality to test against - observations that can be m…

I don't agree with this. And honestly, I really think that depends on what foundation you rely on to think with, work with, create with, test with, and check your own tests with. P…

I haven't done all the math for this (I've deeply investigated the pattern for 2x+1) but it seems like this would be an obvious and intuitive result of primes. You are still genera…

Resilient systems will still break. They may break less, but it's impossible to anticipate every possible usage permutation of a system from here until eternity. There are tons of …

Pressure to compete. I don't think it's anything companies convinced people into doing, it seems more like one of those unwritten rules. Especially in tech. Your system breaks, you…

Yea, honestly it's probably not synesthesia. Information processing, the memory of a thing overlaid on top of something similar enough. Reasoning by analogy... imprecise.

This is cool, but it's not synesthesia. Synesthesia is literally a neurological phenomona. I have it, and it's very real. It's not simply an algorithmic encoding.

> Thanks. We have talked a few time here. Always a pleasure to exchange words with you. Thank you, I feel the same. > I hope that you will eventually be able to feel your art in a …

I'm sorry for your losses. My grandfather was an artist. Art is always sadness to me. Even my photography. The flavor of sadness, I've experienced a variety of these. I don't know …

Nostalgia hurt... It's called grief. Grieve for things we can not change, can not fix. Calling it 'just a feeling of alienation'... This deeply oversimplifies the complexities of l…

There has to be some mechanic always in place for consent. It's mechanical by nature. The most powerful belief you can have is owning a core understanding that you have choice. Tha…

The internet IS serious business. Combining it so much with popular culture just dilutes understanding and destroys standards. Dijkstra framed it best: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~E…

So, black box, closed source - e.g. history repeats itself.

Sharing code can be just as confusing as it is enlightening.