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keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Charges

Very true, culture is a type of information system and it depends on distribution,

so at some point the cause of alot of problems lies at corporate media production creating a positive feedback loop of shitty culture (low quality information).

The longterm solution is clear, its a waste of effort to try and put the tubepaste back into the tube.

keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising

I think the mindset is valid but the people behind it are inconsistent, if your locale is being around indignous african people. Then killing and enslaving them kinda goes against the whole "act local" thing.

Thereby making them immoral by their own standards. You cannot export your sense of locality to somewhere else, i dont think thats how it works.

keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: How to use your full brain when writing code

RPN style thinking is also something i feel that helped. Because "thinking" has the inputs on tape/memory already, so its matter of bandwidth and pre-processing.

i.e "lets do the integratation"

becomes

"integration do".

keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014)

Programming and math start at opposite ends but will eventually meet in the middle,

they both deal with computation (modification through time).

Only math as a language originates from past assertions to model a determinant factor,

while programming deals with future assertions as to produce determinant factors.

Its alot easier to make arbitrary mistakes in the latter then the former.

keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: The Immutability of Math and How Almost Everything Else Will Pass

The language of computation is now a common tongue and of course there will be people who master it poorly or who you perhaps would call inferior.

I think this speaks more for the "inferiors" (programmers) not against it. You can make syntax in math represent anything but practically mean nothing, having programmers in fields where they could make big mistakes, points to its power.

Quite recently, mathematical knowledge was reserved for the "elite" in part because of the dense amount of esoteric grammar that exist in math, and i would say still is. Alot of things can be expressed in multiple ways like geometry, algebra. The "real" math you speak of is instilled convention.

Sometimes the most efficient way is not always the best way and correctness only exists in the framework itself.

If you are going to compare math and programming then you first have to acknowledge that math is also just a language, to express certain concepts in which itself is quite littered with dead and inefficient code.

The fact that the grammatical and syntax constraints of higher math are mostly applied ad-hoc in proofs,rings,fields means you can keep refining some fraction of it ad infinitum thereby giving the illusion of correctness but in its essence is a rich mans PHP.

keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: When the Hospital Fires the Bullet

"Most of the officers I talk to are motivated by a strong sense of right and wrong."

is total opposite of

"There are plenty of calm, humble, balanced police officers."

Its a coinflip wether you belong to the right or the wrong end of the scale dependent on environmental factors shaping the police officer.

Preferrably you would want someone who can think for themselve. Which a police department absolutely doesnt want, hence they screen against high iq.

hierarchy and balance dont mix.

keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department

The other side of the story is that they probably want a consistent approach to education,

having people go "unconventional" as they say.

might work but it also might backfire. Its like being on the bleeding edge.You might bleed.

I think the fast food analogy plays on the fact that every burger should be equal quality.

Innovation comes at a cost in education, you are playing with lives.

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