Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
I know itās Halloween, but this popped up in my feed and was too spooky even for me š±
As a side note, what are peoples feelings about Wolfram? Smart dude for sho, but some of the shit he says just comes across as straight up pseudoscientific gobbledygook. But can he out guru Big Yud in a 1v1 on Final Destination (fox only, no items) ? š¤
The big difference is that Yud is unrigorous while Wolfram is a plagiarist. Or maybe putting it another way, Yud canāt write proofs and Wolfram canāt write bibliographies.
http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
I knew Wolfram was a massive asshole, but I didnāt know or forgot that Mathematica was based on appropriated publicly-owned work:
and on that note, Symbolics did effectively the same thing with Macsyma (and a ton of other public software on top of that, all to drive sales of their proprietary Lisp machines), but a modernized direct descendent of the last publicly-owned version of Macsyma named Maxima is available and should run wherever Common Lisp does. itās a pretty good replacement for a lot of what Mathematica does, and the underlying language is a lot less batshit too
Itās always the child prodigies
Huh, it looks like Wolfram also pioneered rationalism.
Scott Aaronson also turns up later for having written a paper that refutes a specific Wolfram claim on quantum mechanics, reminding us once again that very smart dumb people are actually a thing.
As a sidenote, if anyone else is finding the plain-text-disguised-as-an-html-document format of this article a tad grating, your browser probably has a reader mode that will make it way more presentable, itās F9 on firefox.
on a side note, I notice this passage in the review:
this is certainly mistaken. I think the author or teacher must have meant RREF or something to that effect, not Jordan normal form
The fractal border between reality and bullshit, in a nutshell.
GaussāJordan elimination, maybe?
yah there we go. gauss-jordan to reduce to rref
I mean yud is only really a guru on his own farts
classic warning case of someone getting high on their own supply