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myWindoonn commented on Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/louthy

tome · 4 years ago

Concretely, what exactly are you claiming is duplicated?

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

We should teach the bulk of Lawvere theories only once. Students should get to know groups and rings as two flavors of a similar construction, and also be introduced to the mysterious fact that some objects, like fields, don't fit into the Lawvere-theory paradigm.

myWindoonn commented on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/edtechdev

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

From WP: "Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice." It's legal theory, dumbass.

myWindoonn commented on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/edtechdev

NullPrefix · 4 years ago

It's not?

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

"White" is meaningless, isn't it? At best it's a judgement about skin pigmentation.

myWindoonn commented on Science as Attire readthesequences.com/Scie... · Posted by u/ctoth

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

The sequences use terms like "intelligence", "smarter", and "cognition", purely to place themselves in what they conceive to be the scientific genre of philosophy.

myWindoonn commented on Elizabeth Holmes’s Last Pitch nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/pr0zac

perl4ever · 4 years ago

I don't know why the person that started this subthread thought the CEO was chosen by the investors.

Holmes founded the company beforehand, then people gave her money. As far as I know.

So it seems a bit off to frame it as though someone else founded the company and hired her.

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

A company without investors is a bootstrapped small business. Investors without a company are venture capitalists. Without investors, a company never becomes a startup, never has front-page articles in newspapers and magazines, never gets invited onto cable news for interviews, never hires expensive talent, never buys sports cars for its executives, never spends millions of dollars on advertising, etc.

Without investors, Holmes never would have mattered. The investments are what enabled her to commit the fraud.

myWindoonn commented on Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism vice.com/en/article/wx5ay... · Posted by u/conanxin

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

Is a scarcity of top-level research doctors the reason why insulin is expensive in the USA but not other rich democracies? Similarly, is a scarcity of luxury mansions the reasons why the USA has hundreds of thousands of homeless but not other rich democracies?

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

No. The reason why insulin is expensive is because the USA has a free market for pharmaceuticals and allows manufacturers to set high prices. The reason why there are hundreds of thousands of homeless is because the USA has a free market for housing and allows homeowners to set high prices.

myWindoonn commented on Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016) probablydance.com/2016/02... · Posted by u/l5870uoo9y

davidatbu · 4 years ago

Someone can correct me on this, but I've never seen this distinction you're making anywhere else. And, it doesn't make sense to me either. The wikipedia page[0] for FP says that FP is a "declarative programming paradigm". Can you give me an examplel of a "functional" piece of code that is "not declarative"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

Python and Scheme are the two classic examples of non-declarative functional languages; they are both instructing low-level VMs to mutate machine state, but also both have functional-programming tools and first-class functions. The Scheme (set!) form is a great example of imperative mutation within a functional paradigm.

myWindoonn commented on One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia wired.com/story/one-woman... · Posted by u/tomgp

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

I wonder why HN doesn't have anything to say about this. The closest we can get is to have a pseudonymous account offer a half-hearted congratulations. Surely HN appreciates efforts to undo Nazism and historical revisionism?

myWindoonn commented on Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016) probablydance.com/2016/02... · Posted by u/l5870uoo9y

myWindoonn · 4 years ago

Ah, to be reminded of high school, where one could be not popular simply because they are weird.

I think that they've confused functional and declarative?

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