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Re:Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf]
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:22PM (#25105959)
I've also had luck with only storing results for only a very small subset of the productions of a grammar.
Re:Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in love with math
on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:35PM (#5999431)
What you've shown is that that particular number (0.0178.../the length of the pencil in metres) is describable. This isn't the same as showing every real number is describable. There are some numbers which are not the length of anything (in metres), or the mass of anything (in kilograms), or the square root or sin of anything. You could try to capture more numbers by using descriptions like "the length of this pencil in feet" and other made-up units of measurement, but you'll never describe them all.
Re:I'm answering questions from the 'hardest exam in the world'
on Monday May 14, 2012 @02:51PM (#3972548)
>To sum up: probabilities are (a) true or false, (b) regardless of what I believe about this probabilities. Estimated probabilities (c) depend on the prior knowledge of the mind in question. Moreover, (d) the fact that the probability is X is a fact about my mind.
I'm not sure why you then go on to say that probability is neither objective nor subjective, and that probability has traits of both (which seems somewhat like a contradiction), rather than conclude that there are two different kinds of probability: objective probability and subjective probability ('probabilities' and 'Estimated probabilities' as you even differentiate yourself). (And then there is the other interpretation of the question of whether objective probability even exists at all or wether the world is deterministic.)
Re:Why you should ALWAYS CC someone
on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:45AM (#3947782)
The bystander effect/Genovese syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Perhaps the effect is quite different when there is just one other bystander, as opposed to a whole crowd of them.