keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Charges
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keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: How Quaternions encode rotations: derivation and sample code
keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising
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: Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising
keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: How to use your full brain when writing code
i.e "lets do the integratation"
becomes
"integration do".
keyboardwarrior | 9 years ago | on: Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014)
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
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
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: 'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billions of years
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: 'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billions of years
like i.e numbers.
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
There is no "state", the state gets created and verified by transactions. What this means is that integrity of the system does not depend on a central unit, it hinges on the environment.
hard to spoil a frikking appletree
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: How Windows 10 Rewrites OS Architecture: Battle of SKM and IUM [pdf]
its not like they would ever break anti-trust...
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Introducing OpenCypher, the open graph query language project
Between the orientdb/neo4j dick swinging contest and the whole oreilly "graph database" book for pure fluff. I am left with a very bad taste in my mouth.
It tries to do the whole vendor lock-in thing... badly.
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
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.
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China's Rich Kids
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society
Bitcoin is more valid money then paper currency. we can directly verify the creation of the transaction.
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Anti-Web-Design Manifesto (2013)
obey you heathens.
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf]
keyboardwarrior | 10 years ago | on: The Fastest Blog in the World
it assumes that anything under 400ms response can add to the addictiveness of a user interface.
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.