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@carrideen I like the window we get into horse epistemology. A horse knows-how (to move the heavy thing) and knows-that (the fire cake is dangerous), but it also knows-with-face (the dreamed-of cake).
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@alexr@tilde.zone @astory@tilde.zone @mrkwlsn@mastodon.social there is only one topic on Mastodon and it’s intensional vs. extensional equality
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@andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz “it’s my nature,” said the scorpion, as they both sank into the water
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@mc@mathstodon.xyz hm, no references to Lawvere’s ETCS (1964) or its recent presentation by Leinster in Rethinking Set Theory (2014) https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6543
A educated hobbyist’s opinion: the problem with set theory as traditionally presented is not that it’s too powerful, although it may be that, too; it’s that for most mathematics other than set theory itself, it demands awkward, low-level encodings.
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@carrideen@c18.masto.host my kitty of yore used to make a face (wrinkled upper lip, mouth slightly open) like she was smelling something terrible and needed ALL of it. I wish I had a picture.
Instead, here she is « en boîte »
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@julesh@mathstodon.xyz the London conurbation is the greatest London. Dually, the City of London is the London nurbation
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@jonmsterling I once applied for job that revealed itself, an interview at a time, to be co-extensive with “Nix sysadmin”. I wish that company well.
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@carloangiuli @jonmsterling filing this thread under “Dr. Funext, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Xi Rule”
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@mc my only consistent gripe is the poorer bookmark UX relative to Firefox and Chrome. It’s too easy to add duplicate bookmarks, because bookmarked URLs aren’t flagged as such in the URL bar.
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@carrideen @SecondUniverse this New Yorker cover but horse and cake
https://condenaststore.com/featured/missed-connection-adrian-tomine.html?product=art-print
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@chrisamaphone@hci.social tried to think of examples where you can negate pragmatics to decipher semantics and they’re all language-barrier romcom bits.
(Alice and Bob are mutually unintelligible. Alice makes a fool of herself to attract the attention of Bob. Bob laughs and says to Alice, “You dumbass.”)
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@lindsey good thing you specified computer programs else I’d have said Paul Wylie’s 1992 silver medal performance
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt omg the first- vs second/higher-order diss literature is so captivating. You can see historic battles unfold in real-time on the f.o.m. list archives: https://fomarchive.ugent.be/1999-March/002864.html
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@jonmsterling @stuebinm OSS as unpaid internship, compensated in “exposure”. Is it worth pursuing? If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
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@chrisamaphone@hci.social @ah@goto.boserup.eu @simrob@social.wub.site there’s nothing psilly about psyllium husk
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@astory@tilde.zone @alexr@tilde.zone @mrkwlsn@mastodon.social but if there are no time signatures, there are perforce no “odd time signatures” nor technically proficient hair bands nor 20-minute songs about hobbits. What will power me^W future comrades through the day?
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@jonmsterling amusing to imagine doing this with actual calendar primitives, mapping “accept” to “like” and so on.
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@mc I also wonder how Apple-centric it is, apart from only being available on Apple devices, and requiring an Apple Account for desktop-mobile sync. I haven’t fired up wireshark to scan for suspect connections, for example.
I made a call that, after turning on e2ee for synced data, I could accept the risk of ID-provider shenanigans.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I read “AC” as “Axiom of Choice” and braced myself for a rant about dismantling and reassembling spheres
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@alexr@tilde.zone @astory@tilde.zone @mrkwlsn@mastodon.social I see what you mean but I disagree. The forgetful functor is not the identity, after all.
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@sliminality@types.pl learned circa 7th grade (US public school), along with “multiplying both sides of an inequality by a negative number flips the inequality”. Shoutout to Mr. Freiberg, who also taught us the Fizz Buzz game.
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@mc@mathstodon.xyz I want to ask, who is the customer for this product.
“Core” mathematicians should be able to ignore foundations, and I assume they mostly do.
Set theorists are fine, thanks.
For non-set theorists interested in foundations, a set that includes me, the literature shows lots of ways to mix and match axioms if e.g. you don’t like arbitrary choice, or if Replacement gives you a bad vibe.
I do see some value in narrowing the gap between math-as-encoded (in a foundational system) and math-as-practiced, but that’s not what’s happening here, AFAICT.