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The actual source this comes from has a 90% confidence interval in the published number. When people talk about the economy gaining or losing jobs they are talking about the bureau…

It’s worth pointing out for people who are not aware of it, you can install the github cli[1] and view, merge, close etc prs and issue from the command-line. As well as (for me at …

> What dreamy capabilities do we get that we don’t enjoy today? The next gen will have an alarm with snooze button.

…and you get to do that because you pay for clean water and sewage treatment. But that doesn’t mean some company can use the public sewers to dispose of as much bacteria-contaminat…

I’m not sure you can just make a direct comparison between protein amounts, so that control may not work as you intend. As I understand it, your body metabolises dietary protein in…

Strongly disagree. The obvious counterexample is in the foss world is ffmpeg, which I would submit is deeply understood by Fabrice Bellard. As a sibling points out, there are also …

Yes, and I think the reasons set out in TFA are interesting, which on my reading are: 1) Code is the least interesting bit in some ways - they’re trying to build not only rust but …

Airdrop Hershey’s chocolate over Tehran.

“Abelian” in this context means “commutative”. That is, if you have some operator * then it is abelian if a * b = b * a for all a and b in the domain of *. If that id not the case …

Decimal odds give the total payout (including stake) if you win a bet of 1. So if I place a bet of $1 at decimal odds of 2.5 and it pays out I receive 1 x 2.5 = 2.5. So payout = st…

He rebutted the argument about moving the goalposts by moving the goalposts. It’s better by dint of sheer bravado.

Learning this rule will mean you miss out on the opportunity to use one of the best words in the English language, which is “boustrophedonically” (meaning alternating left to right…

Speaking as a non-American, and without the lens of partisan politics, it seems incredibly obvious to me that Kevin Warsh ... in terms of credibility as an economist, with Ben Bern…

This is something that people have thought about a fair bit and that link does not mean what you think it means https://lean-lang.org/doc/reference/latest/ValidatingProofs/ Lean's …

Fair to say that perhaps isn't selling it as much as you may think. It looks like perl that has been written by someone who is in the process of having a stroke.

Absolutely that's the reason. But the point is the big communities (I'm thinking https://leanprover-community.github.io/ , Kevin Buzzard and all the stuff he's got going at imperia…

I find it really strange that people who don't use lean don't just get on and use the alternatives rather that trying to get everyone who is using lean to use something else. It fe…

One thing about this is you never can tell how one thing will lead to another, so even if you don’t get a good response to your cold email, if you do it well, it can still unlock d…

> And the main way we prove that the Reals are uncountable is to use a proof by contradiction. It would take too long to spell it out, but they aren't really just contradicting "Re…

> We've never used any of them in all history. You just used them yourself in your previous post to make your argument that computable numbers are dense in incomputable numbers.[1]…

I understand the point about density and I'm fine with the concept of functions being continuous over a restricted domain (eg the rationals even) but if I draw a line and label one…

They are in a very meaningful sense actually there. If I draw a curve I want the line not to have holes in it, and they have to be there for that to be true. More importantly, a fu…

I don’t understand constructivism at all. No numbers are real. They are all an entirely abstract construction, like lines and planes and open sets and closed balls and metric space…