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Re:New math book rescues landmark topology proof on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:14PM (#28472813)
The book in question is called "The Disc Embedding Theorem" (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-disc-embedding-t...)
Re:List of Fallacies (Wikipedia) on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:59PM (#25971259)
This is in response to the trending list of fallacies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25967160
Re:Logical Fallacies on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:54PM (#25971209)
I agree that the book links are sketchy, though it's not clear if the authors are affiliated with this site.

You can always fall back to Wikipedia's extensive list of fallacies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Re:Is Probability Real? on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:39PM (#25246973)
It sounds like you are arguing that i.i.d. frequentism doesn't work. I view AIT as generalizing frequentism to non-i.i.d. timeseries. This is formalized as Martin-Lof tests for randomness, and Solomonoff induction.