jgill

Patience is being taught as well as pure technical skills. Not unusual for an Oriental martial art. It sounds like you are young and eager to gain rec...

1) A hammer hits my foot. 2) Who cares if this happens to others. 3) I determine I knocked it off the table by accident. Big deal.

One Bruce is a kind of mirror image of the other. Not a simple reflection. I look at a graph on which are defined an x-axis and a y-axis. To the left ...

Academically, the study of economics is interesting to contemplate in this discussion. The dismal science is always looking backward, trying to determ...

The antithesis of academic historians' efforts. You're speaking of the babble that comes off the TV or social sites. If so, what's your point? The obv...

Wikipedia lists about 24,000 philosophy articles, compared to about 25,000 math articles. An estimated 27 articles per day are received by PhilArchive...

I read what you write from the POV of a retired mathematician, and find similarities. A PhD thesis may occasionally break into entirely new ground, bu...

Certainly the 1619 Project is right up there. The creator of the project was denied a tenured position at Harvard initially - more by the board of tru...

Teilhard de Chardin had religious/mystical notions, like the ultimate "Omega Point" toward which all things progress. How's that for an evolutionary p...

A change? No, a measurement of one is somehow connected to a measurement of the other. At different frames of reference one or the other can seem to b...

Hang in there, buddy. You have a lot to offer beyond the goofiness at times. :cool:

Geez, you must have been a prodigy! I wouldn't have been able to say this, much less understand it. :smile:

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Perhaps the OP might have better been about the context of social media, rather than commercial environment. Then I would agree with it.

Which, unfortunately, makes it sophomoric babble. But not unpleasant, like a stream bubbling along.

And you just HAD to pull this out of retirement, didn't you? :roll: It was on its way to the grave, but noooooo . . . :groan:

My daughter agrees with this. And, although we disagree on the central issue, the two of us agree that if they are let in they should immediately be g...

I was speaking of the border, not Denver. Nevertheless, Denver can't keep up with the existing homeless, not counting those bussed in. Over 2,400,000 ...

Hmmm . . . How does Australia handle this? At some point its a matter of sheer numbers. North of where I live, Denver is being flooded with Venezuelia...

What a bunch of nonsense. His behavior involving the southern border of the USA, on the other hand, precipitated by his, in essence, open arms message...

:cool: As an old math person my suspicion is that "superposition" and "collapse of wave function" is nothing more than experimenting to discover which...

A rock? Is it possible to do this? Over a short time interval my casual guess of 99.999% probability of its state is what a "wave function" might prov...

You have my admiration, Athena. I'm probably a bit older than you, but I witnessed and became involved in that transition from housewife (perhaps with...

If you believe in a deity, the language of God is slowly and painstakingly emerging from quantum theory. Archaic priests and prophets are being replac...

Has TPF fallen to this level of intellectual discourse? :roll:

Are you saying this "problem" is due to women being paid a reasonable wage?

Mostly, one seeks their "niche" in society without a lot of soul searching. If such existential questions persist into old age, one needs to get out o...

:up: In general, a consumer society is not an Orwellian nightmare. But social media can make it so. TPF excepted, of course. :smile:

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"rice ball sparkle" sounds like the AI is trying to communicate with us. Could this be an important breakthrough? :chin:

:up: "Two gun Boebert" represents my district, winning over a Democrat by a very narrow margin. I agree with your assessment. She is the far-rights' A...

Thanks for the reply. My opinion is that modern consumer society facilitates (encourages) playing multiple roles and thus provides opportunities unthi...

I hope not. "Buy more to be more". The simple anaesthetic in question. But what I described happens more frequently in a "consumer society" where mone...

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The important conditional here is "can negate". Is there a critical number of proliferations that must trigger this phenomenon? The statement is overl...

\exists(x)(Px)\exists(y)(Py)(x=y) I use Mathtype and set cut/paste to accomodate Wikipedia, then replace "<m.th>" by "". In this example two empty spa...

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In a dilation sense time is not linear as speeds approach light speed. Proper time change as speed approaches c.

Those little wiggly buggers have lives of their own, the intricacies of which are beyond me. I was just checking to make sure you were not defining VF...

Is this a koan?

Consider two force fields in the complex plane, one f(z)=2z+3 and the other f(z)=1-z. When computing work done in moving along the same contour (path)...

Evolution: A Game of Chance Observations :smile:

You are giving this as an example of a VF, right?

Rather than Greta Thunberg diatribes, This is the sort of progress I like to see.

Evolution: A Game of Chance

:up: You have a way with words, my friend. My pet philomathosophy notion is infinite chains of causations having first causes. Beyond that, at each li...

Truly a depressing thread. :shade:

Paywall problems with the New Yorker. CNN: As we gain in wind and solar, we lose in our most dependable source, hydroelectric power, as Lake Mead and ...

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I continue to learn things in my old age . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX-calculus But I have nothing to do with category theory in general. Too...