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Moved to Dreamwidth
I've finally gone ahead and moved to Dreamwidth. Any new entries will appear there. -
Clusters are not interfaces; isomorphisms are not essences
This entry is a response to this post on Meteuphoric, but I'm also posting it separately here (with some slight modifications ( Read more... ) -
A late, short Mystery Hunt roundup for 2017
So, I didn't get to participate much in Mystery Hunt this year, unfortunately, due to my computer suddenly crapping out on Saturday. (Website with solutions for this year's hunt: http://solutions.monsters-et-manus.com/hunt/index.htmlRead more... ) -
Two types of libertarianism
OK, OK, I know, any number of people have written things about how there are multiple types of libertarianism. Like, the "it's just good policy" sort vs. the deontological sort. Or the "UBI sounds good, just don't go distorting any markets" sort vs. the "hands off my money!" sort. But, here's another distinction I want to talk about ( Read more... ) -
In Minneapolis, out of context
Shuo: I have very little sympathy or compassion for children.
Me: Oh. I expected you to end that sentence earlier. -
Was there really a "rockets can't work in space" myth?
I posted this on /r/AskHistorians over on Reddit but got no responses. I expect I'll get less of one here, but, may as well ask ( Read more... ) -
An inequality that doesn't work
So, here's an idea I had the other day: My inequality that o(Rev(α,B))≤o(Rev(α,o(B))) doesn't work if you replace o(B) by B', an extension of B. But what if you replace it by B', an extension of B satisfying o(B')=o(B ( Read more... ) -
More on that inequality about order-reversing functions between WPOs, and a correction to last entry
EDIT 8/3: One tiny correction, see struck out portion below. Also, pretty sure I really have proved this now ( Read more... ) -
Lower sets in products of more than two ordinals, or, "natural multichoose" dimensions beyond 2
EDIT 7/27: The statements in this entry may very well be FALSE! It turns out my formula is very wrong in more than two dimensions! Now, admittedly, the case I actually bothered to state here might well still be right; in fact, I'm guessing that more likely than not, it is. (OK, having gone over it again now actually I'm pretty sure it is.) But ( Read more... ) -
Natural multichoose and Hahn series over lambda-rings
It works! OK, so ( Read more... )