It's plainly obvious infinity doesn't exist and mathematicians should be thoroughly embarrassed by how many infinities they introduce in order to solve problems.
It's plainly obvious cons cells don't exist and computer scientists should be thoroughly embarrassed by how many abstract bullshites they introduce in order to solve problems.
>>14
Who are you talking to? Anyway, I no longer want Ahmed to leave. He has gifted us Symta, making him the most prolific /prog/rider ever, by virtue of actually doing some shit.
so this guy doesn't understand axioms? so instead of learning about them he's lying and saying no mathetician does and maths is all wrong? what the fuck? how can he be so smart and so wrong at the same time?
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Anonymous2012-12-17 19:50
And not a single argument was presented. Only assertions, more assertions and whining.
I want my 7 minutes and 38 seconds of life back.
>>19
Someone takes this board too seriously. /prog/ died at the hands of Ahmed, tdavis and the other textboards shitposters, subsequently each and everyone of us, last year. There has been like, 10 actual programming threads a month or something for any decent amount of time on the frontpage, since who knows how long. Its old memes are that, old memes, ancient, only good for nostalgia's sake.
There's no one who 66belongs99 in /prog/ anymore, bearer of the bbexpert quotesqq.
>>24
That would be applicable, if I were complaining about shitposts, or otherwise interested in ``saving'' /prog/, i.e. trying to take it back to a mythical state in which it was never in, as others in the past have tried, even if half-heartedly.
I think most of us are well beyond that.
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Anonymous2012-12-17 22:13
/prog/ can´t be saved anymore, we can only euthanize it
>>1
Are you the same guy who's been here for at least 2 years? Go ride a bike or something. You'll feel a lot better.
(Also, as someone who's studied more math than most people, math is bullshit. It's a pointless game for smart people, nothing more. It has no basis in "reality"; the word "exists" is pointless.)
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Anonymous2012-12-18 7:51
So are there any libraries for doing deferred computation of irrationals? A lot of these weirdos seem to think irrationals are impossible to compute with properly.
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Anonymous2012-12-18 9:00
a life without infinite ordinals is not worth living
>>6 you're computer must have like, a hell of a lot of memory, like infinite memory...? that or you just built a function and gave it a retarded name. But anyway, please explain? >>5 chances are you could draw a cons cell on a piece of paper..? Or no?
but seriously is this guy just talking shit like that to make publicity? no one would know about his dull math videos if he didn't make up such bullshit
>>42
He's written a book about it. Now he's published his lectures online for anybody with an Internet connection. Would you care to expand on what you believe that he had made up?
>>51
I rarely post about Jews on /prog/. Believe me, it's not me.
Hell, my mother tongue is Italian, there's no way I could come up with such contrived (but amusing) arguments the actual antisemitic people come up with. I simply enjoy them and have an occasional laugh replying to Jewish stuff with ``JEWS''.
>>49 the universe is finite...
As a sidenote, i heard this funny idea, that there are more connections in the human brain than there are atoms in the universe. At first I thought it was flawed, since the brain is made out of atoms, but then when you realise that a connection might span (/hop) through 10, 20 or even +100 nodes (neurons), then it is quite possibly true. Neat huh?
Actually, i'd go so far to say that the universe is rather small, if you compare the current estimate of the number of atoms in the universe [around 10^80] with avogadro's number [6.022 * 10^23], which is the number of atoms in 1 gram of Hydrogen / 4g of Helium ... that puts the current - estimated mass of the universe at around 10^60 grams?!
...ftr I like to play with crypto - my current favorite idea is (still) using small random-ish parts of the set of 256 -> 256 mappings, which is of the size of !256, or 8.578 * 10^506 combinations.....