Tag: Real world math
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Tired of Platonists
More point-missing by Platonists: = = = = = START QUOTE: In his new book, Science After Babel, David Berlinski expands on his explanation of the development and significance of algorithms, a subject he first examined in The Advent of the Algorithm. Berlinski writes, “The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which…
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Whoda thunk it?
Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it. Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.…
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Another pop, another 2019 reprint
Another 2019 reprint, this time with a new thought appended. = = = = = START REPRINT: KSHS has resumed adding new items regularly. One of the new items, a store ledger, triggered curiosity which led to a much more interesting older item. A ledger from the store that was outfitting fur traders in the…
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The first metricator
An incidental mention in an old Inland Printer led to this strange book. The American Accomptant, by Chauncey Lee, pub 1797 in Vermont. Lee was trying to metricate everything, and he succeeded with money. The rest of his proposal didn’t get anywhere. He distinguished Vulgar measures from his proposed Federal measures. In each case he…
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Vector thinking 2
While writing previous item about lots and maps and houses, I asked “What if maps were done as vec…. The answer came before I finished thinking the question. Maps WERE done by vectors until quite recently. Metes and bounds was strictly vectorial, and it closely resembled the newly discovered bee vectors. The example given by…
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Vector thinking
Following the bees… Nikki Haley is using an old political platitude while claiming to be non-platitudinous. Bring us together! Uniter, not divider! She seems to mean it, but she’s not dancing about it, not giving us the vector to the honey or the terrain we can expect along the way to the honey. We can…
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Be your own magnet
Lately I’ve been trying to expand the analog side of my life, after retracting into a digital shell during the hottest part of the NAZI TORTURE. I was functioning in OBEYING ALL ORDERS VERBATIM SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Now I’m trying to recapture the analog/digital proportion that I had before the…
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And that brings us
Gary Smith is treading outside of economics territory and measuring Life, but he hasn’t quite crossed the boundary yet. He’s showing how log vs linear graphing can aid or obscure your understanding of a topic. It’s a hugely important point, and deeply familiar in acoustics and speech and neurology. His first attempt made a linear…
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Right about problem, wrong about solution
This discussion of college loans gets one big point right. Major universities are hedge funds with an apprentice program for future hedgies attached. That’s all. Demons training demons. The discussion misses the PERMANENCE of this situation. Colleges were FOUNDED for this sole purpose. Nothing has changed for 1000 fucking years. At one time the A&M…
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Gosbank is the answer
Lots of pointless fingerpointing about the bank failures. R blames D for the ESG crap, D blames R for a deregulation during Trump. The ultimate cause is a total lack of discipline when money is free. Banks are supposed to be highly disciplined and controlled companies, regardless of external regulation. Danielle DiMartino, one of the…
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π
π Day again! Since I’m talking typography lately, I’ll hash and rehash a couple items from 2019. = = = = = Thinking about Trump as Pied Piper. When the metaphor first appeared in those DNC emails I didn’t quite understand it. After learning that Trump is Roy Cohn’s protege, I understand it PRECISELY. Agents…
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One vs many is a myth
Organizing some thoughts, might not go anywhere. 1. Of course AI is a tool. The problem is that the full-scale tool is EXCLUSIVELY in the hands of demons, who are using it for demonic purposes. Anyone can set up their own inference engine on their own computer, but ordinary people don’t have unfettered access to…
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Good leth
Question seen on Reddit: Could an Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent God know all the digits of the number Pi? Or even the square root of 2? Kind of a silly question, but since to the best of our knowledge those numbers are irrational, is it possible for the above being to know all of their decimal…
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Mismeasure
Continuing from the bank comparison in Math is Pope. It would be better to say that bitcoiners blindly trust arithmetic, not math. They don’t understand how numbers are used and misused, in real measurement or in programming. When comparing their Holy Grail with the Horrible Establishment, they blindly use the fake numbers provided by the…
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Math is pope (reprint).
Naomi Wolf writes a long and scholarly piece on the 2020 holocaust. She believes that the uniform unison action of ALL governments at ALL levels could only happen because we’ve abandoned the single Abrahamic god and resumed the old poly-gods. This is backwards. Those old gods were the exact opposite of uniform and unison. They…
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