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There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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Although the notation choice is tediously abstract (imo) the set of available scalars (and vector components) here is actually a relabeling of Q[e^i], the smallest field containing the rationals and e^i.

It was a fun three minute proof, if any of you are like me in enjoying this kind of thing.

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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post #7

For me at least, the post is kinda confusing and feels a bit overwrought (“there exists a raven such that the vector of hours”?), and was hard to understand at first. Sadly, in the wonderful year of 2026, I can’t help myself wondering if it was all written by an LLM, prompted by “be mysterious” or similar — though I still wouldn’t bet on it. The project is cool! It’s a simple visual graph layout system for making you…

the structure and cadence feels very organic to me - it might not be generated.

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

#15

The kind of exploration that would require a massive one-month of full-time investment before LLMs. Now doable in days. (I don't know on which side of this author was)

I've seen such explorations done over a couple of days during weekend hackathons or gamejams.

Have we gotten so addicted to our daily token fix that we can't even fathom focusing for 48h?

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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post #7

For me at least, the post is kinda confusing and feels a bit overwrought (“there exists a raven such that the vector of hours”?), and was hard to understand at first. Sadly, in the wonderful year of 2026, I can’t help myself wondering if it was all written by an LLM, prompted by “be mysterious” or similar — though I still wouldn’t bet on it. The project is cool! It’s a simple visual graph layout system for making you…

This just reads way to creative. At least no spidey sense triggered for me.

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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post #8

I don’t think I have ever seen ∋ used to mean “such that” so I was very confused until I got to the explanation (as it were; why CONTAINS AS MEMBER is being used to mean “such that” is never explained).

as a math major i had the same confusion; for such that i use "s.t.". but apparently peano used ∋ to mean such that:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15455/backwards-eps...

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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post #8

I don’t think I have ever seen ∋ used to mean “such that” so I was very confused until I got to the explanation (as it were; why CONTAINS AS MEMBER is being used to mean “such that” is never explained).

It also doesn't make much sense

> There exists a raven such that the vector of hours.

The vector of hours what?

Re: There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

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post #8

I don’t think I have ever seen ∋ used to mean “such that” so I was very confused until I got to the explanation (as it were; why CONTAINS AS MEMBER is being used to mean “such that” is never explained).

It also doesn't make much sense > There exists a raven such that the vector of hours. The vector of hours what?

The correct statement seems to be: raven = vector of hour hand

But maybe that sounded too simple?

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