namark @namark@qoto.org
Joined Jan 2020
@georgia cruel people with guns have much greater advantage over kind people with guns that strong people without guns could ever have. You prefer the mercy of the cruel to the mercy of the strong? Or is the confusion caused by strong and cruel being synonymous in your mind?
@georgia and bad guys don't have guns? how exactly does that work? is this just an elaborate way to say you want to join the police?
@georgia I feel like you are trolling me but anyway...
The one who shoots first with the intent to kill wins the gunfight (in civilian setting). That takes nothing but cruelty, and people are by no means equal in that regard. Must be very fun to imagine mowing down the hordes of violent young man as they run at you in mindless rage, but are you ready to duel them to death? Are you ready fore a gang war? Cause that is pretty much what you are asking for. That is the power struggle, not the plinking in your back yard.
I would be happy if we reach a state of civilization where this things would indeed be considered merely tools like any other, but while arguments like yours convince people it will never be the case. "Guns are great equalizers when only I (aka the good people) have them". Galaxy brain.
lucid dream phobia
re: logic question
@otini @loke the automated process would be to transform it to Zhegalkin polynomial and proceed with usual rules of mod2 algebra.
X v !X
apply rule !X = X + 1
X v (X + 1)
apply rule X v Y = X + Y + XY
X + X + 1 + X(X+1)
distributive rule X(Y + Z) = XY + XZ
X + X + 1 + X^2 + X
powers are meaningless as XX = X
X + X + 1 + X + X
every number is it's own additive inverse in mod2! (aka most complicated way to say X + X = 0)
1
In context of boolean logic the addition here is exclusive or and the multiplication is conjunction.
To outline a more general algorithm: transform the negation and conjunction by those formulas above and open up all the parens. You will be left with a bunch of conjunctions stringed together with xor, very much like a normal polynomial but without powers, so basically just combinations of variables involved. Eliminate all the identical groups of conjunctions in pairs, and you will be left with 1 if it was a tautology.
@freemo I jab out of love.
@freemo I must not know the language then. Though I more convinced that your agenda indeed is to attract only the ones that would fall madly in love with you.
@freemo Well then again you totally fail at wording (unintentionally of course). You could have wrote some engineers, but you wrote engineers, implying all engineers, as such is English language. The readers will not be insulted, but simply think of you as arrogant. How madly in love must they be with you then, to join your instance to prove to you the existence of the good engineer that they are? Considering that these are usually snap decisions.
@bonifartius it was more of a jab at freemo (and his "now let's drive engineers away from this instance" post), I know no other data scientists. The definition though does seems rather pointless. "Looks at data to make sense of it". Well duh who doesn't? Might be just a polite way to say a know-it-all.
@nik reasonable at least. I was going to suggest binary search by deleting half the code repeatedly, much fun.
@nik but what if... bug also disappears when add a log ._.
Man it always amazes me how little data scientist really understand when you go beyond the points they were taught to parrot... Data scientists need better science and theory background in almost every field...
@georgia (Finally, I can fight you with a ginormous essay!)
Punching you in the face might be necessary violence, but not blowing your brains out. Guns don't make people equal, they shift the power away from the strong, dexterous, intelligent or numerous towards the cruel. I prefer these instruments in the hands of those who are trained to (not) use them, and I believe in specialization.
I also don't understand how exactly do guns give power to people over governments. Do guns make important political or economic decisions? Do you fell like you can escape poverty or class inequality or whatever causes of your misery (the men?), if only you had a (more bigger) gun?
What I can clearly see is how they will help the toughest gang on the block shoot up the parliament and declare a new government: "This here evil government, have come to power by murdering its opposition. Therefore we must now come to power by murdering it... wait a second... yes!"
There is no civil war of people against government. War is only ever between governments. Our gun toting friends would be nothing but pawns in such a game, which is evident by them wishing themselves kings.
@gopiandcode Programming is the process. You can't enjoy the process because you enjoy the final result. Do you even words? I might enjoy a rabbit stew, but that by itself doesn't not mean I would enjoy to catch a rabbit, bang its head against the fence to insta-neck-snap, gut it, skin it, debone it and/or cook it, all to make a stew for someone else I don't know.
I'm talking about enjoying your work. If you want to hate your work but do it for salary (or whatever else turns you on) be my guest, industry standard as I keep repeating, but that's not what a good teacher should be teaching.
@gopiandcode Introducing graphics is not dumping down, it's overcomplicating.
What visual tools? Are you talking about scratch now? With processing library you're doing the same exact thing using the same exact tools, it's just your output that is graphical. The 3D engine was just an example of some ridiculous expectation a complete beginner might have, substitute it with literally anything tangible, high or low there is no difference.
teacher: ok kids, lets draw some shapes, let's draw ellipses. You just write "draw ellipse", it's that easy. Let's draw another ellipse right here.
student: *draws two identical ellipses on top of each other and the one underneath bleeds through the edges* wtf is this?
teacher: uhh... (how do I explain this, I didn't even explain arrays yet) uhhh... (wait a minute, I have no idea wtf this is, omg!) It's... just... how it is... it's how screens work... it's how your eyes work... it's an act of god!... it's complicated...
^btw industry standard response here, for your clients and managers, very useful
student: oh, ok... but we're going to come back to this right, and figure it out?
teacher: s-sure... don't worry... (god have mercy on me, what have I done! most of these kids won't come back to this, ever... it's not in this book... it's not in their future job descriptions either... I'm a fraud -_-)
It's dishonest about what you need to be motivated by and excited about to be a happy little programmer. It is a distraction at best.
@freemo @valleyforge abominable!
@freemo @valleyforge absolutely irrational >:[
@gopiandcode
The puzzles and fireworks was just an analogy. Not sure where the forcing part came from o.O
I'm just saying be honest with the students. They can't know if they want it if you don't tell them what it is:
"Look, yes, you can make your own 3D rendering engine from scratch, but for that to happen, this black screen with colourful letters on it must become your most favourite game in the world. No, not the shapes, there are no shapes and there are no real numbers."
@gopiandcode It just feels dishonest to me. It's not the correct motivation to give. If you like puzzles, you are happy when you solve them, you don't need them to explode into fireworks every time. Otherwise somewhere down the road you discover that you were wasting your time solving puzzles when you actually wanted to do pyrotechnics. I see many people struggle with programming cause they don't enjoy the process. Then again the state of the industry is such that you can actually get away with that.
