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Here's a thread for discussing the philosophies of mathematics, their merits and faults. Constructivism, formalism, logicism, platonism, etc. What do you think? IMO, at the surface level, the majority of working mathematicians think of their day-to-day mathematics platonistically, with the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-fired.html

Still very very early, but it's looking like it could be good news for Lamb. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/13/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html

Florida's state senate, ladies and gentlemen. Keep in mind, that this is the same woman who said this: I honestly just don't get it.

Anyone else have computers/tech as a hobby? I'm in the middle of upgrading from my consumer tower home server to a 4U Supermicro rackmount. With 36 drive bays, two Xeons, and 192GB of RAM, I should have an overkill amount of oomph to play around with. Next up is migrating my ZFS pools over...

Yay, correctness!

Only the most qualified...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/20/loud-orgies-of-mexican-fish-could-deafen-dolphins-say-scientists Now that's a headline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/equifax-cyberattack.html This is bad. Affects basically every adult in the US and the credit reporting companies have so much important data...

As far as I can tell, there's no way we could measure a property as infinite. Any gauge made by humans will have a finite size, and thus should only be able to encode a finite amount of information. But that doesn't necessarily preclude infinity as a scientific possibility. Let's suppose...

https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-about-you/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/business/media/roger-ailes-dead.html

3Blue1Brown, PBS Infinite Series, Mathologer - math is doing well on youtube :D

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/mimicking-an-impact-on-earths-early-atmosphere-yields-all-4-rna-bases/ More and more evidence for abiogenesis. Wonder what the next religious objection will be?

Saw the drop live! Hell of a way to meet the world. :D Baby is trying to figure out how to use those stilt legs now.

My rage knows no bounds. :mad:

So how long before Obama sues Donald "open up the libel laws" Trump for defamation? Also, what's the odds on the Trump defense being "no reasonable person would believe that"?

Nice geometry puzzle game, I'm through the first few levels so far. Try to get the most efficient constructions... http://www.euclidea.xyz/

Cool stuff.

James Gleick wants the world to switch to UTC. We can't even get the US to switch to SI so, unlikely. There are pros and cons though...