Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
In m0scsu@spenarnc.xs4all.nl, on 03/12/2012 at 07:00 PM, Albert van der Horst alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl said: I know, but what the mathematicians do make so much more sense: Not really; Mathematical notation is a matter of convention, and the conventions owe as much to History as they do to logical necessity. The conventions aren't even the same from author to author, e.g., whether field implies Abelian. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT http://patriot.net/~shmuel Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
In 87k4341j0l@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com, on 03/01/2012 at 02:40 PM, Rainer Weikusat rweiku...@mssgmbh.com said: You obviously don't have any sense of humour. Certainly I do; I laugh at pretentious loons with delusions of adequacy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT http://patriot.net/~shmuel Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:13:11 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: In DuD3r.21706$cl.12...@newsfe17.iad, on 03/01/2012 at 05:07 AM, Chiron chiron...@gmail.com said: Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, I'm treating him as he treats others. OK. BTW, I happen to agree with you insofar as this poster not understanding the nature of mathematics. His comment reminds me of the article, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity A brilliant piece of work. I greatly enjoyed it and the reaction to its disclosure. What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing it, instead of soundly condemning the editor for not bothering to verify what Sokal said. It's like the kid points out that the emperor has no clothes, so they shoot the kid. Of course, in real life, that's exactly what would happen, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised... -- It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. -- Marcus Porcius Cato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid writes: In 87aa41k6x5@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com, on 02/29/2012 at 03:15 PM, Rainer Weikusat rweiku...@mssgmbh.com said: 'mathematics' (an essentially outdated write-only programming language dating back to the times when humans had to perform computations themselves) ROTF,LMAO! You obviously don't have a clue as to what Mathematics means. Free hint: it doesn't mean Arithmetic. You obviously don't have any sense of humour. But don't let this trouble you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
In DuD3r.21706$cl.12...@newsfe17.iad, on 03/01/2012 at 05:07 AM, Chiron chiron...@gmail.com said: Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, I'm treating him as he treats others. BTW, I happen to agree with you insofar as this poster not understanding the nature of mathematics. His comment reminds me of the article, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity A brilliant piece of work. I greatly enjoyed it and the reaction to its disclosure. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT http://patriot.net/~shmuel Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Chiron chiron...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:10:48 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: ROTF,LMAO! You obviously don't have a clue as to what Mathematics means. Free hint: it doesn't mean Arithmetic. You're as bigoted as Xah Lee, Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, you could explain where he is mistaken. Of course, doing that is a *LOT* harder than just calling him a bigot. I agree. Perhaps this is a good primer: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
In 87aa41k6x5@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com, on 02/29/2012 at 03:15 PM, Rainer Weikusat rweiku...@mssgmbh.com said: 'mathematics' (an essentially outdated write-only programming language dating back to the times when humans had to perform computations themselves) ROTF,LMAO! You obviously don't have a clue as to what Mathematics means. Free hint: it doesn't mean Arithmetic. You're as bigoted as Xah Lee, -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT http://patriot.net/~shmuel Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:10:48 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: ROTF,LMAO! You obviously don't have a clue as to what Mathematics means. Free hint: it doesn't mean Arithmetic. You're as bigoted as Xah Lee, Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, you could explain where he is mistaken. Of course, doing that is a *LOT* harder than just calling him a bigot. BTW, I happen to agree with you insofar as this poster not understanding the nature of mathematics. His comment reminds me of the article, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/ transgress_v2_singlefile.html). Also known as the Sokal Hoax. -- Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
