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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:10AM (#20574999)
Brave.
Re:Ask HN: How can I learn to read mathematical notation? on Friday November 23, 2018 @08:08AM (#18516161)
>challenge-response games

This is standardly called "game-theoretic semantics" in the literature. Enthusiasts can find more info here (or just by Googling around): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-games/#SemGam

The material conditional, if you're willing to admit it to be a part of Math.
>What then is a mathematical truth

In the West, Aristotle put it as follows: "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true"

Some 2 millennia later, Tarski, a Polish logician, more or less formalised just that. This result, among other things, spawned a brand new branch in mathematics: Model Theory. More on Tarski’s notion of truth: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tarski-truth/. A few decades later some analytic philosophers like Davidson drew on Tarski’s work and applied it to natural language, too. This resulted in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-conditional_semantics. But notwithstanding Tarski’s work, there’s still significant controversy surrounding both “truth in natural language” and the logico-mathematical truth predicate in philosophical circles. Here’s an article that covers axiomatic theories of truth in general: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-axiomatic/.

Re:Ask HN: How to self-learn math? on Sunday March 11, 2018 @06:02AM (#16562398)
You want to acquire and shoot for the so-called mathematical maturity. More precisely: to become an autonomous problem-solver and have the know-how to solve (non-)trivial proofs. Typically this means bridging the gap between computationally based maths which one is exposed to in pre-school to high-school years and sometimes in the first year of college/uni, and proof-based maths which involves and demands a good command of sets and operations on sets, quantifiers (universal, existential), logical operators (not, and, or, material conditional, biconditional), and proof methods (direct, indirect a.k.a reductio ad absurdum, induction, pigeonhole principle, etc.)

A good series of books aimed for pre-school and high-school students to accomplish just that is The Art of Problem Solving. Google it.

Re:Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:22AM (#15329792)
Work through this:

https://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

followed by this:

https://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/

and you'll be good to go. The tutorial, while covering the essentials, is working towards creating this:

https://learn.shayhowe.com/practice/organizing-data-with-tab...