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Activity for matthewsnyder
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A: What is a common infinite and decidable set of axioms? Presburger arithmetic is a theory that is decidable, but includes an infinite set of axioms. The interesting part is the 5th point from the Wikipedia formulation: > `(P(0) ∧ ∀x(P(x) → P(x + 1))) → ∀y P(y)` This is an induction schema representing infinitely many axioms. The goal is to state ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290893 |
Using CD to share and discuss papers is a really cool idea, btw, so I'm definitely glad you decided to try this out :) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290893 |
I think the "article" type is not necessarily for sharing scholarly publications, but for people who want to write an "article" in this site's model. So if instead of asking a question, you want to share information with the community, the article type allows you to bypass a clumsy self-answer.
I ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290887 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions? Historically, philosophy is broadly scoped and does not exclude any particular domain of knowledge. Most branches of formal knowledge today started out as discussions between philosophers. I think that a good student of philosophy should be able to produce good answers to a very broad set of question... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290754 |
When you say the internet is full of "well I think", we can call that "original philosophy". The concern must be that original philosophy from laymen is lower quality and less interesting than published scholarly literature. IMO this is not necessarily true. We should evaluate the statement itself ra... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290754 |
I think the SX site solves this problem by demanding scholarly references to be cited for practically every single thing.
This results in a situation where you almost can't say "2+2=4" in an answer on that site, without linking to a textbook on number theory. Notably, other sites on SX (StackOverf... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290832 |
Resignation is the usual word used for presidents who decide they no longer wish to be president.
You must mean that it would never get to that if you refuse to take the oath. That is true. I'm sure there are also other "onboarding" tasks a president must complete, like various security protocols,... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290838 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Use a mainstream definition of politics The current description says: >“politics” as human social phenomena which come from humanity’s tendency for subjectivity - that people may have fundamentally different beliefs, preferences, or wishes, regarding the world - and the fact that we have a shared environment in which we must collectivel... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290754 |
> questions like "what are good and evil?"
In the domain of philosophy, these seem to amount to "how does \\$theory define good and evil?, for each established \\$theory". One can imagine it would generate answers that each pick one theory and answer from that perspective, or review several compet... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290832 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Is there an explicit law that you can reject being elected President (in the US)? If so, which law? The public votes in November. The results are publicized shortly thereafter. Then the electoral college has the real vote in December. If you were elected against your will, you would probably find out in November, and your unwillingness would probably become known to electors before they vote. ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290829 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: What theoretical frameworks have been proposed to mediate the possible mutual exclusivity of privacy and free knowledge? I think utilitarianism would provide an answer to this. Knowledge like mathematical theorems, scientific findings, folklore and literature poses hardly any threat to privacy while the benefit of freely sharing it is vast. Knowledge like someone's private anatomy, passwords to their bank account... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290828 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Comcast internet went down for small business. Can we have our losses offset? You don't provide the specific contract you have, but let's look at the Comcast Business Services Terms of Service for purchases on or after 4/1/2013 as an example. Article 6.1: >NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR ... INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY LOSS REVENUE, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290802 |
This doesn't seem appropriate for Workplace. It's a question about relations between businesses, while that section is about relations between coworkers.
Instead, this is basically a legal advice question about contractual dispute. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290478 |
>So perhaps this is two questions: what temperature is appropriate etc, which would be a Cooking question,
This is actually not a question at all. It's evidently 80F. The only question is which specific products are able to accomplish this. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290478 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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What electric smokers can cold smoke food? I want to buy an electrical device for cold smoking food. From what I read, the temperature of the food must stay below 80F for cold smoking. When I search for electrical smokers, most products quote their range as something like 165F - something high. This sounds like hot smoking only. A few a... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290435 |
I did try Steam Link but it didn't work too well for me. I was trying to ask specifically about running stuff directly from the machine here though, not streaming. If anyone is interested in streaming that's probably best asked in a separate question. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290435 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Can I set up a regular machine like the Steam Deck? The Steam Deck comes with an OS which is basically a customized Arch, plus Steam, Plasma and some extra programs. The Steam Deck mounts most system dirs as read only, so for example it's not possible to install things with pacman. I believe it's because Valve ships updates as disc images. I don't ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290433 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group? Google Groups, which comes with all free Google accounts, can be used to set up a mailing list. It also integrates with the rest of Google resources, so for example you can share a calendar with a group rather than adding each user in the group one at a time. There used to be an answer here about ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290422 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: Are certificate errors always reported immediately, or is validation cached? I believe the normal "best" way to check a certificate is to connect to the site using one of the CLI clients in the OpenSSL software suite, which is normally installed on Linux machines because many programs rely on it to handle TLS (the technology which superseded SSL, even though the obsolete term... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288863 |
I think that's a great idea! (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290303 |
A forum might possibly work, although it has the drawbacks that many people:
1) Don't like creating yet another account to post on the forum
2) Aren't good at staying up to date with the forum (even if there is an "email about new posts" feature many people don't understand/use it)
But it's bett... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290303 |
Either, actually, but my order of preference is:
1) Anyone can broadcast.
2) A set list of users (maintained by admin) can broadcast.
3) Only 1 person can broadcast. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290303 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group? What is a good way to send occasional updates (like meeting times) to a small group of people (5-20) electronically? I see a lot of groups like this create a Facebook page and post updates on there, make the group public, and tell everyone interested to just follow the page. The problem with this ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290167 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What is the technical term for converting a sound recording to a phoneme vector? Many natural language processing models begin by taking text and converting it to a vector where each element is a number representing some semantic entity (I would say each number is a word, but a token is not necessarily a word). This is sometimes called tokenization. If you wanted to take a raw... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
>it is not a selling argument about why someone should post on Codidact specifically
I wonder why you say this. This would be one of my top 3 reasons to use this site. Maybe I'm just a very unusual user.
>In case you enter a site and all you see are heavily down-voted, bad questions
This was... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
>how do we moderate questions when there is no scope
If the question is intelligible and it is clear what's being asked, and it seems feasible that someone could give an adequate answer of reasonable length, then I would consider it good enough.
>no rules, no posting guidance, no expertise?
... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
Literature review is a lot of work. Is there a reason that you insist on cited sources, and don't want an answer that relies on common knowledge and simple logic? Since this is a pretty general topic, I think a better approach would be to get general answers (no citations) here, and then post other q... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
This is an interesting question and I'd love to see the answer if one is posted. But actually I think there's two questions here, because there's two ways to read "why". Are you asking:
1. Why did we not evolve so that these abscesses can drain?
2. Anatomically speaking, what prevent the abscess ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290139 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Why can't the body clear / drain a periapical tooth abscess on its own? I can't provide a specific answer, but I'll try a general one based on evolutionary theory and (refuted) teleology. The body is indeed equipped to fight infections. I believe the human immune system is particularly strong, compared to other animals. However, it is incorrect to think of "immunit... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
This could also fall under a hypothetical biology proposal. We don't have one, but Stack does and given that we have physics and chemistry it seems inevitable that a biology one will be created.
Is there currently a rule saying that you can't ask questions without a proposal, and possibly add a pr... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290138 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Make proposed community tags mandatory I disagree. We should allow people to ask questions that don't fall under any existing proposal. Proposal tags can always be added later, it's easy to do even in bulk (especially if an API is implemented). Proposals are easier to compose when you already have a bunch of existing questions that ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289994 |
For the same reason I would want to hide the other fields. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289983 |
Probably, if that's a concern. Wouldn't the same issue apply to https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289949 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Approaches ? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289983 |
I actually know what it is already. I also know that there is a Wikipedia article on this, and many others elsewhere (including Stack questions). My logic was:
* The wikipedia article is somewhat long and technical, but an answer here would be a few paragraphs and more accessible
* I had the impr... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289981 |
Related questions:
* https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290003
* https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290004
* https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290005
Future readers: To be clear, I agree with mr Tsjolder that I may be wrong on these. I am happy to accept edits with corrections, and I'l... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #290005 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Is LLM fine tuning the same as transfer learning? When people talk about fine tuning LLMs, it sounds a lot like glorified transfer learning. Is it the same thing, or is it a distinct technique? What are the differences? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |