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justifier··on Ask HN: How do you unwind at the end of a day?
As wasteful as your idea sounds.. hopefully you have a plan to reuse the raw materials?.. your idea reminded me of this person that invented a sock printer and uses it to ensure new socks for the homeless

https://youtu.be/Kvi-0879Nuw

justifier··on What a stranger taught me about Japan
i used to work at a hotel and one year there was a japanese person staying at the hotel

one day i was walking to a park to play some guitar and enjoy the sun and i saw this person walking in front of me

i ran to catch up and asked the standard traveler questions: how long have you been here? how are you enjoying the states?

thae explained that thae really enjoyed the us because, 'in japan it is all take take take, and in the us it is all put, put, put'

i laughed, 'really? did you get that backwards? how do you mean?'

thae explained, 'in japan there is a really strong core of tradition from which everyone draws from in order to live their lives, and in the us there is a strong core of tradition that everyone adds to and changes'

i laughed, 'wow! that's great, do you want to hang out?!' ;P

it ended up being a great friendship and we even lived together for a few months

i still think about that pearl of wisdom from time to time

justifier··on Cycling to work can cut cancer and heart disease, says study
Can anyone speak to the effects of increased activity on metastasis?
justifier··on Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History
might want to consider a wiiu.. mario maker is amazing(o) in its own right, but it sounds perfect for your situation

there must be a Mario maker switch on the horizon but it's yet to be discussed from nintendo

(o) https://youtu.be/KKIm3mFk-6U

justifier··on Guide to Italian Bakeries
it was a fun moniker my friends and i gave these garage bakeries

the secret is more about the unpublished locations and less about the idea of it.. would you prefer the use of 'silent bakery'?

though one such 'secret bakery' may produce the pastries listed in the article i think this open door discovery is more closely tied to the culture of italy, you may be hard pressed to walk through residential areas of nj and find a silent bakery but give it a try and report back if you find some secret spot to get these pastries straight from the ovens

the anecdote is just a fun thing this article reminded me of

justifier··on Guide to Italian Bakeries
when I lived in Italy I would always scour a new city for what my friends and I referred to as secret bakeries

one night we closed the bars and were walking home past santa croce in firenze

it was nearly 5am and we suddenly could smell sweet pastries in the air

literally following our noses we wound through labyrinthine alleyways​ until we came across an halfway open garage door

looking in, the garage was full of industrial ovens and wheeled racks full of newly baked pastries prepped to fill the glass counters of every bakery and coffee shop around the city

we got an employees attention and politely asked to buy one of those fresh, warm, straight out the oven pastries

the bakers were happy to sell us any of the pastries all for one euro each

the first time was a magical experience and now i'm always sure to take a night to walk the streets of any italian city at 5am looking for a secret bakery baking the fresh pastries before they are sent out into the city

justifier··on Teaching Machines to Draw
The article fails to explain where the human inputs came from

The input sketches look a lot like the doodles that people sketched in quick draw (o)

If true that they reused this data I commend their resourcefulness and their clever way of turning data entry into an unaware fun game

(o) https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com

justifier··on Amazon's Sick New Sick Policy
Where do you live? Your local government might have those same allowances.. know your rights

Here's California Labor Code section 246.5(o):

Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member.

(o) http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

justifier··on Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis
i'm sorry if i was unclear.. i am aware of who bernhard reimann is and was using his name as shorthand for the hypothesis originating in his 1859 paper(o): .."and it is very probable that all roots are real."; of which this entire article is about

what's my motivation for my intention? I am unsure exactly.. personally? I derive significant joy from working on mathematics; socially? to solve the problem would solidify assumed validity across a varying subset of mathematics and its consequents

(o) http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/ezeta.pdf

justifier··on Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis
> As mathematicians have attacked the hypothesis from every angle, the problem has also migrated to physics.

eyeroll.. loose use of 'every' is the kind of overreaching probability mathematical rigor eschews

quantum mechanics still relies heavily on probability theory and reimann has been probably correct since its inception

it is my intended inference that a mathematical model that maps qm will be mappable to reimann, and without any forgiveness of strict symmetries

justifier··on Who shares the story, not who reports news, is what counts for casual readers
tangential to this is the fact that a lot of 'news' is repackaging an original source for each platform

John Oliver had a great segment on this: https://youtu.be/bq2_wSsDwkQ

justifier··on The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights
mario maker https://youtu.be/6xiVcScNQUE
justifier··on Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain
But your faith is based on 'math is hard for we of faith and so it will always be hard for everyone'
justifier··on Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
as a you poor HN comment reader I look forward to what you're working on
justifier··on Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
> The perfectly tiered Norfolk Island pine is a natural safety net

When I was child I used have fun by climbing to the top of conifers behind our house to sit on the highest branch and just slide down

Each successive tiered limb would catch the bend on the ones above and I would slide down perfectly fine

justifier··on Who controls your computer? and how to make sure it's you
Thanks for the links but your claim against the article is a bit heavy handed

The article is much larger than CPU level access and control..It discusses high level issues worth thinking about such as communications and social elements

The article lacks any real actionable advice to date it too much.. when will it be out of vogue to suggest reading 1984 to aide in 'anticipation'?

But the value of the article aside.. your language: dated; made me interested in finding out when ME was first introduced and I was having trouble finding any concrete dates of introduction

A lot of your links and their references date around 2015+, yet the authors of your linked book worked at Intel around 2007 and failed to discuss introduction dates

Then I found this at the libreboot FAQ that states ME was introduced into all Intel chips 2006+(o) with the real issues after implementations dating after ~2009+

Also in my search I found some promising leads on overcoming the ME issue:

http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-managemen...

https://libreboot.org/faq/#thinkpads

What an unfortunate and reason defying battleground

(o) https://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
I apologise, I thought you were implying that what omalleyt 'really meant' was a perfect circle is data we can calculate

It seemed to me you were changing the question that was being asked, and a question asked implies an answer, or 'goal post'

But if you were just developing new inquiry stead building off omalleyt then I apologise and would hope to encourage like critical thinking in the future

.. Thinking on it 'goal posts'.. and 'soap box' elsewhere in this thread.. lacks a timeless quality, I really should have left it out ;P

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
Exactly, it would be unnecessary

The student could just coast through a course.. they would have to sit through all lectures and would be assigned problems and reading but only one course would track their retention

I feel this is basically already what is happening in education with the prevalence of students' creative ways of undermining the current grading paradigm

But with the ancillary benefit that a student would be freed to actually do the work to foster an interest in at least one subject

Also, the student could be free to explore other subjects in ways outside of the means of tracking retention

I was pushing my math research since I was a child but instead was forced to abandon it and had calculus forcibly replaced as 'how I should think about mathematics' even though I fundamentally disagreed with its concepts

If I was free from the stress of doing poorly from the standpoint of grades I could have focused my interest on my own mathematical insight and simply allowed my education to expose me to calculus

wherein I would have retained an appreciation for mathematics and developed one for the practicality of calculus practices

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
You are moving someone else's goalposts

I answered where circles are in our universe and you then try to change the original intent of omalleyt's question to mean a symbolic representation of pi

> It would take an infinite amount of power to calculate every digit in pi

Calculating pi is so simple life without nervous systems does it

Now, expressing that value in our limited yet overly verbose base ten symbolic representation would indeed require infinite recursion

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
I was thinking about education last night and here is the idea I am developing.. I encourage ongoing criticism

Students study varied subject matter but only one subjects' grade 'matters' and can be chosen by the student

Personally, I think our maths education suffers from a lack of freedom.. I do think it can be for anyone but only because I believe anyone can bring to it whatever they'd like, whereas education tells you what areas need to be studied and how

is competition the foil of expression?

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
I would argue the 'perfect circle' is inherent in every circle, similarly to how it is inherent in your dismissal of it

But if you require a more direct understanding I would say there is a perfect circle in every rotation

justifier··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
Did you click the link or simply start soap boxing?

It's a survey, and the link text is a quote of one of the surveyors which I only found by clicking view comments then ctrl-f'ing 'immort' which took me far down the list to find this:

Shane Magrath, 48, from Australia, has loved math since grades 9-12

“One day the universe will be a cold black emptiness. However that which is mathematically true will remain vibrantly true even if the universe fades to darkness. When we do mathematics we touch immortality.”

You rely too much on proof by assertion to support your ideology

> does not constitute a proof of existence of anything infinite outside one's mind.

You argue a lack of rigor but refuse to uphold your dismissal to your own projected standards

You even claim there are texts to support your position but choose to leave out a link for others to review

I am comfortably an opposing opinion to your opinion but one of the things that confuses me about those that share it with you is the 'outside the mind' element

Can you elaborate on how mathematical phenomena only exist inside the mind and if so how that proves mathematics fails to exist immortally

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
if you are attempting to draw out salinger's orange peels(o), i would argue the tree makes a sound

if you are sincerely asking.. i suppose i'd answer: well the same as the state of the universe: empty; now what would be the meaning of the concept that the term, or symbol, seven refers to? well, still 7, but such a universe would lack the necessary representations to express it

my mathematical research begins in an 'empty universe' and questions the most base of assumptions necessary to get to a representation of, for instance, 7

an empty universe actually contains enough information to express all information utilising mathematics: the current empty 0, and the potential any state replacing the empty state 1; if time.. when emptiness begins and ends.. is allowed to be considered

(o) http://materlakes.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/2/25/50973...

> "Someone just dumped a whole garbage can of orange peels out the window." ... "They float very nicely," he said without turning around. "That's interesting." ... "I don't mean it's interesting that they float," Teddy said. "It's interesting that I know about them being there. If I hadn't seen them, then I wouldn't know they were there, and if I didn't know they were there, I wouldn't be able to say that they even exist. That's a very nice, perfect example of the way--"

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
> Why would sand need numbers to exist? I can pile up sand without ever knowing how many grains of sand are in the piles.

But those grains of sand you are piling already exist ;P

In a universe where quarks only collect in groups of four sand would fail to exist

it needs baryons.. or whatever name you want to ascribe, yes it is scientifically known and recognised that naming conventions are arbitrary and often localised but naming stems from consistent behaviour

In a universe without baryons to claim sand exists would be making up a new substance that uses 3 quarked particles

Or if you add a fourth quark to one proton in a grain of sand it would cease to be sand

So the number of quarks that collect and how they structure determines the existence of sand

Similar to how a beach is formed based on the number of grains of sand

anyway the root of the issue is confounding to me.. how often has physics been disproven and replaced by implementing mathematics?

for me physics is behavior, mathematics is existence

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
but my argument is that mathematics is the infinite values 'between 0.1 and 0.00000000000000000000000001' stead some symbolic subset i am using to describe some physical phenomena

..edit.. I'm unable to reply again so I'll clarify what I mean here: for me physics is behavior, mathematics is existence

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
> If you want to be so general, then anything can be considered mathematics

that was where this whole conversation started, 'what is reality[anything]?'

you are working from an incomplete definition of the full scale of, even recognised, mathematics which is clear in that you define it as being 'built on top of axiomatic set theory' when godel used mathematics to show axioms are limited in scope

but you, stead Godel, consider that all of mathematics, and now I'm repeating myself

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
i saw it.. that's a response to me?.. but your response seems hindered by the logical fallacy of proof by assertion (o)

i explain why i feel that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792787

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
> To you point about quantity. There are grains of sand. Does that mean that there are also numbers? I obviously argue no. You have to take some of the grains and set them aside to count them. You have to split your pile into two and recombine the two piles to add them. You have to line the grains up in order to number them.

numbers exist without sand, sand needs numbers to exist

you can count apples instead of sand

yet physical phenomena, such as the formation of sand or apples, depends on quantity

chemistry shows that how many particles in what structure determine how it interacts physically with its environment

a hadron with three quarks is a baryon, a hadron with a different number is fundamentally different

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
what is physics without 'topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change.'(o)?

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics

justifier··on Is Consciousness an Illusion?
this is a 'third realm' strawman, the parent simply said mathematics.. you incited platonism

still, i hold it would be more 'hard to defend' abstract concepts fail to exist.. regardless of 'where'

beyond the scope of humanity or human curiosity, look at chemistry

the universe is rather predicated on relations to the abstract concept of quantity

and those distinguishing identities exist within a hadron and in far flung galaxies

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