armeehn

occam's razor at its finest

This reminds me of Ken Thompson’s speech on trusting trust. The recursive/meta nature of it all has helped me explain to those unfamiliar that this is such a waste of time. Education is where it’s at, but I’m preaching to the choir here on HN.

I'm trying to understand 5). If you're claiming that both (A) y > x, and (B) x^y > y^x hold, then x^y > y^x ("will always be larger") holds. You're satisfying your claim by assumption. Nothing new is deduced.

However, if only A) needs to be satisfied: y = 3, x = 2 is a counterexample, as x^y = 2^3 = 8 < 9 = 3^2 = y^x.

edit: looks like someone had the same thought as me as I was typing my reply!

Article without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20230309193146/https://www.nytim...

The ChatGPT prompts and responses don't seem to render though.

One of them had to retract their statement after it caught the attention of the province’s prime minister as well as the federal prime minister.

link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/justin-trude...

If you’re OK with the pre-print, here’s the link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.450932v2

Unless I'm missing something, the definition of H_division is misleading. The co-domain (image) set is really {0, ..., M - 1}, which _is_ surely a subset of [0, M), although definitely very different in size. Usually it's written as Z/qZ where q = M.

Neat article otherwise. It reminded me of mappings to real numbers which I always found interesting during my undergrad.

I will agree that this is generally a good way to go, although in my experience there have been quite a few individuals that I end up no longer admiring.