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That interpretation makes sense only if you distinguish between a*(x + y) and a(x + y). Either that or you read expressions right-to-left. Neither makes sense in my opinion. But in the real world, mathematicians would never write that expression in this way anyway. This thing would always...

When you are proven wrong you know you did something right – namely you made a falsifiable theory. That is good.

Well, if you replace it with an infinitesimal then there is no problem because you can use calculus to find what this 0/0 actually represents. For example letting x go to zero from positive real line for x/x^2, then both numerator and denominator go to zero but the limit of the fraction is 0...

Another one: 0 + 0 = 0, so then (0 + 0)/0 = 0/0 + 0/0, which implies 1 = 2

AK, I think you are a smart guy. But in this case, the word games are getting the best of you. Your last post was another roundtrip across the very same argument I adressed earlier. "Palm reading must be legit, because without palm reading there would be no fates to read"

IQ - perhaps the most most blatant case of a Procrustian bed, induces only one interesting question: what are the psychological idiosyncrasies of the human mind that makes it susceptible to believing in such a stupid little gimmick. IQ shares that property with astrology, religion, and similar...

AK, you keep repeating the same argument which I have tried to point out is erroneous. It looks something like this, and is what any IQ proponent suggests: A : Innate intelligence is a real thing B: IQ measures the said innate intelligence Even if you assume A is true, you still haven't done...

If y approaches zero from the negative line then the result is -1. Otherwise it's 1. An analogy to that would be: 0 = -0, so then 0/0 = -0/0, which means 1 = -1

Ptetty sure that 0/0 thing isn't gonna work out. If you have x/y and you let x go to zero from above, then 0/0 will be either 1 or -1 depending on which side y goes to 0 from. So the limit is undefined and you have fucked up all of mathematics.

Not to mention, a vulgar insult to any aesthetic conception of the human mind. IQ, to the human mind, is what a square of used toilet paper is to a Michelangelo

Well, if you would treat IQ the same way you treat BMI, you would (correctly) infer that IQ is just an arbitrary choice of metric, in particular one that measures your ability to answer quizzes of the type you encounter in IQ tests. It has varying degree of predictive power, and in various ways...

When you use a bad tool to measure something, it is the tool that is being measured.

For people who make the distinction between "hardware" and "software" in the brain, it might be informative to understand that there is little in the way of fixed structures in it. The brain physically changes based on what tasks you use it for, very much like a muscle. This notion that the...

I don't see any ambiguities about it. Multiplication and division have the same precedence so you read it left-to-right.

1. I would say you can assume that most online sources, unless they simply provide first-hand information like academic papers etc, are pretty much useless. Go to a university library instead or buy high-quality books. 2. Here I would say you think about it the wrong way. How do you simply...

There have been studies showing that among chess grandmasters, there is an inverse relationship between IQ and chess skill. IQ is just a factor amongst millions of potential factors predicting any given outcome, and the utility and predictive power of this factor will vary depending on...

That's the mining script lol. I don't think that script in itself is dangerous, but I don't know what kind of other shit is installed on the server at this point.

The top 5 stuff is all javascript so if it's still showing I'm pretty sure you haven't actually disabled it

Yup, this site definitely has a mining script In particular, this one: coinhive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js It is located in: intpforum.com/clientscript/yui/connection/connection-min.js The site also contains redirects to: go.onclasrv.com/apu.php?zoneid=1007761...

This couldn't be more predictable, dude. I tried to explain this earlier; this superficial stuff is not sustainable. It makes you feel like you are in control for a short while and then you revert back. Superficial measures will always work like that,.

As of late, I have been thinking about the opposite situation: the case where you commit to whatever thing catches your eye. I.e. the opposite of procrastination. If you look at your desk and it seems messy, you might decide to tidy you desk or you might carry on with whatever plan you had...

For something slightly more involved: a program that downloads a thread from this forum and extracts the posts in pure text form. Later on we can perhaps analyze the text itself; say, various stats like the average post length of various users, their vocabulary etc.

Happy birthday AK!

So that's how Jennywocky does all her lurking... Interesting

Well, you're welcome to pose interesting problems yourself. I would hope I'm not the only one here capable of that :p Here is a recursive implementation of the square-root of 2 thing in R: sqrt2 <- function(maxdepth = 10){ f <- function(depth){ if(depth == maxdepth) 2...

I think it's only when I'm not logged in btw. If you have "remember me" checked and store cookies etc then it doesn't happen

For a perhaps slightly more challenging recursive formula, how about computing the square root of 2 as a continued fraction?

According this report from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, for example for genital surgery the suicide-attempt rates are identical for pre- and post-ops (43% for male-to-female and 49% for female-to-male). Perhaps another thing worth noting from that report is that for example for...

Does one need to do any research to be condescending to people merely namedropping concepts (from economics of all things)?

OP, to critique your theories: It's curious that you read Kant's "Critique" yet decided to commit the exact error the whole book is about: over-extrapolation of human perception. You gotta consider the epistemic hubris – and ultimately the epistemic error – of thinking that there is...

Had to disable Javascript to get rid of this shit. Everytime I clicked Today's Posts I got popups with naked chicks and whatnot

There are a lot of paths which are risky but which would be preferable to being a corporate slave. The whole attraction of a dayjob is that it is the safe recipe everyone follows – show up at some office everyday, collect monthly paychecks and keep doing that until you get ass cancer or become...

ESFJs are good as long you interact with them one-on-one. If they invite you to a party or whatever and you suddenly find yourself in a group with 5 ESFJs, you're fucked. In that conversation, the probability that two consecutive sentences will be coherent is practically 0. I would have to be in...

Hmm, maybe I should learn Common Lisp. I was thinking of Haskell but Lisp looks more useful

Arctic Monkeys - AM

I think in order to write a program that does inductive proofs, as with any mathematical proofs, it would have to be written in something that can do symbolic operations. Maybe Maxima might be a candidate for that. I really cannot think of any way you can do an inductive proof numerically.

I do tend to get very intense about projects I am engaged in. Sometimes it turns into an obsession. That is often an effective way of making progress, but is also a very painful state to be in, psychologically. I have never done anything in terms of "balance" though. I don't see the value in...

Determinism as a building block in a nihilistic philosophy seems to me an intellectually lazy play on words. Even if the universe is deterministic, it is impossible even in theory to predict everything - by virtue of physical limits on how fast information can travel and how much information you...

Got them on both Windowd10 and Ubuntu using firefox on both. The usual shit - ads for casinos, dating sites. On windows I got the antivirus scam

I've started getting popups on this site. Is this a new thing?

I agree one shouldn't force mathematical/comp-science forms onto problems which strictly speaking don't require it. The problem with completely rejecting those forms, however, is that they prove to be very powerful tools for solving complex problems. I take a lot of pleasure from reducing 400...

I've actually been meaning to learn some functional programming languages. Haven't gotten to that yet though. However, I don't view functional programming as the alternative to OOP. For example, the implementation I wrote above is basically imperative programming not relying on any OOP...

1: along the way you will at least once start to question your innate ability to learn this stuff. That is natural and realize that the reason e.g. mathematics has the reputation of being something you either "get" or not is that there is no method, as of yet, out there to train for mathematics...

If you ask a worm what the world is made of, he will say "dirt". In the same way, some humans are under the impression that since we use mathematics to describe various phenomena, the world must be made of mathematics.

Masturbate using your own tears as lube

Oh, I was referring to mathematical induction, the proof technique. So for this case it's quite elementary. For the base case, we can see that e.g. 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 7 The Fib number two steps ahead of 3 is 8, and 8-1 = 7. So assuming n-case holds, we prove n + 1. This is also easy: That's...

This whole thing makes me wonder: if this is an INTP forum, then where is the Ti? I imagine in a Ti-based forum, there would be only one rule: speak your mind no matter what it is, and we'll take it from there – because we are thinkers who think critically and independently, and we can...

We are talking specifically about your avatar. So that attempt at moving the goalpost doesn't work..

That whole eureka thread was mostly you and RB using various sophistry and sarcastic remarks basically telling QT to shut up. Zero actual arguments/evidence was supplied from your side. That went on until the thread was closed. Already there I view the whole thing as hostile to discourse. By...

To be clear, I don't care about the swastika myself. I just find it funny when people get all hysterical about that "fucked up" line from QT when it comes to transsexuals, and start changing the rules of the forum and whatnot, but messing with Nazism is all cool – because you don't get as many...