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He just died. Surprised there was no mention here. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html RIP
April 20, 2024 at 21:43
Likewise, and thanks. I did suggest I was trying to wrap it up. And then I asked you a question! "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict ...
April 20, 2024 at 21:24
What makes you think that wasn't determined at the moment of the big bang? Quantum events have certain probabilities of being observed in certain stat...
April 20, 2024 at 19:35
I think this is all going south. I don't find your propositions entertaining. About the real numbers? It just seemed like a change of topic. I didn't ...
April 20, 2024 at 19:30
Perhaps, but you are kind of all over the map in what follows. I didn't critique perpetual motion. I just asked, since you seem to have gravity but no...
April 20, 2024 at 05:00
After reading this, I feel I must have totally misunderstood your post. I thought you were trying to put a sensible probability measure on \mathbb N t...
April 19, 2024 at 22:53
Is it possible you're misunderstanding what the axiom of choice says? It's surely not contradicted or made irrelevant by painting a sphere. In the pro...
April 18, 2024 at 18:45
The natural numbers are well ordered in their usual order. Any countably infinite set can be well ordered simply by bijecting it to \mathbb N and usin...
April 18, 2024 at 16:55
I just came here late at night to reply before bed but I'll stand by for further developments. For what it's worth, the fact that we can't put a unifo...
April 18, 2024 at 06:27
I was trying to be helpful, but I only ended up hijacking and essentially terminating the thread. Not my intention at all. Perhaps someone has somethi...
April 18, 2024 at 01:54
In application, math is used to refer to something. But math itself does not refer. This was the great philosophical insight that followed the discove...
April 18, 2024 at 01:51
In the evolution of thought, people are going to decide math is wrong because it doesn't actually refer to anything? I thought that was a feature. I s...
April 18, 2024 at 01:09
I didn't understand the picture.
April 18, 2024 at 01:03
But you are. You are trying to develop a probability measure on \mathbb N, which contradicts the Kolmogorov axioms. So embrace your infinite-measured ...
April 18, 2024 at 00:50
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I'm not a mathematician. I studied math in school, long ago. Thanks for calling me reasonable. I can't defend the views of other posters, and I can't ...
April 17, 2024 at 21:43
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Thanks. I'm sure that might happen someday .... /s
April 17, 2024 at 21:38
Your thesis is that someday, Internet archeologists are going to discover this thread and go, "My God, math is wrong!" Wish I'd figured that out long ...
April 17, 2024 at 21:36
Quite right. Carry on.
April 17, 2024 at 01:17
I am quite late to this thread and have not read any of it, so my comment is based only on this one post. But this is an important point, one I take g...
April 17, 2024 at 00:09
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Apology accepted. I do see how my view may have seemed that way to you. For example I am certain that I'd have maintained that if A and B are sets, an...
April 16, 2024 at 23:43
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I'm pretty sure I never said that, but if I did, please supply a reference to my quote. Now you're getting it.
April 16, 2024 at 20:24
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Thank you. This forum drives me to extended vacations sometimes.
April 16, 2024 at 20:22
Veritasium, right. Thanks for the correction. I like Veritasium but didn't watch this video. He has some off days as we all do. If he mentioned compre...
April 16, 2024 at 20:21
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I wasn't being funny.
April 16, 2024 at 06:21
That's why I gave the example of throwing all the numbers into a bag and picking one. You remember those big rolls of tickets that movie theaters used...
April 16, 2024 at 06:08
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It's better for me if I defer continuing this discussion at this time. But for what it's worth, the symbol string "same" has no meaning in ZF. I do no...
April 16, 2024 at 05:20
Oh I see. I can explain what I had in mind. The OP was inviting discussion on the intuitively confusing idea that a random sequence of symbols contain...
April 16, 2024 at 05:02
I'm not Kolmogorov. I only identified him as the originator of the idea that randomness is measure by the degree of incompressibility. I said in my po...
April 14, 2024 at 22:45
There are other definitions of the word, as I indicated in my post. Back in the day you could dial 411 and a nice lady would come on the phone and say...
April 14, 2024 at 22:17
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After much back and forth, you finally revealed to me that you do not understand the basic material implication P \implies Q of propositional logic; a...
April 14, 2024 at 22:01
The definition of randomness as incompressibility is due to Kolmogorov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity There are other definition...
April 14, 2024 at 21:59
This interesting puzzler has a clear and unambiguous mathematical resolution. First, the standard axioms of probability were laid down in 1933 by Russ...
April 14, 2024 at 21:49
mispost
April 14, 2024 at 21:46
Yes but he understood the opposite of the correct answer! I've been feeling the same way about you. I'll quit while I'm behind here.
November 05, 2022 at 00:13
As I'm sure I've agreed several times. If you don't want to call quantification over a proper class a domain of discourse, I'm fine with that. We freq...
November 04, 2022 at 23:22
I hotlinked it. Here's the link. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2724236/how-do-i-quantify-over-the-proper-class-of-all-the-cardinal-numbers ...
November 04, 2022 at 23:00
@"TonesInDeepFreeze" Well yes, we agree on that. But there is no set of all groups! The class of groups is a proper class. So you seem to be conceding...
November 04, 2022 at 22:29
Agreed. We're not talking about models here, though. We're talking about domains of discourse. I'll admit that for me, domain of discourse is an infor...
November 04, 2022 at 19:51
On the contrary, domains of discourse are often truly universal. They're just not always sets. Let's take as an example the simplest and most importan...
November 04, 2022 at 06:03
The problem with this line of argument is that the vaxxed are every bit as contagious as the unvaxxed. The number of breakthrough infections is signif...
August 17, 2021 at 05:40
In the taxicab metric the unit circle is a square. There's a picture of a square circle on that page. A circle is the set of points equidistant from a...
August 15, 2021 at 00:09
I have a small point and a large point to make. I'll start with the small. First, to recap. @"Wayfarer" posted: I pointed out that when the vaccinated...
August 11, 2021 at 22:26
Velocities and areas are applications of calculus, as in Newton's fluxions and fluents, corresponding to today's derivatives and definite integrals. I...
August 10, 2021 at 22:13
Do you know that in normal operations, the OS needs to constantly make changes to the kernel in privileged mode? How would you determine what's a legi...
August 10, 2021 at 04:16
How would necessary privileged mode (aka kernel mode or supervisor mode) operations be done? Such as adding a device, adding a new process to the proc...
August 10, 2021 at 02:33
These two are in direct conflict. After all, any intrusion detection scheme must necessarily slow down a computer. It takes extra cpu cycles to detect...
August 10, 2021 at 02:14
I'm afraid I can't comment. But (for sake of discussion) how does the CPU input anything anywhere? It has to be instructed to do so by instructions st...
August 10, 2021 at 02:03
I'm honored. I could not parse the following: ECC Ram is just error-correcting memory. It wouldn't offer any functional difference from any other kind...
August 10, 2021 at 01:43
LOL. Can you comment on my point here? You said the unvaccinated should have their freedom of movement restricted because they may spread covid. I lin...
August 09, 2021 at 23:37
Excellent point. And by the same token, I assume you favor restrictions on the free movement of the vaccinated, since they too may infect others. Vacc...
August 09, 2021 at 23:20