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To my ear, that sounds very much like the GRE Verbal.

At Heritage, in the break room over the microwave, there's a sign: "science delende est."

> may pass the Turing Test

Why do you say 'may'? Just curious. Surely you've got something

For me, Maps and pods.

If it looked like a RAZR, I'd buy one today

if anyone's writing a script with a nerd in it, this line would kill

I wonder how the bears would write this headline

Maybe you can point me to the "equal predictive and explanatory power" bit in William's writings.

The razor is commonly misunderstood.

William of Ockham objected to his fellow theologians inventing things out of whole cloth (like dark matter question mark). That’s the point, not that a simpler explanation is more likely to be true.

The common understanding would have us believe that creationism, being simpler, outshines evolution, or that there is no such thing as a color revolution because the simplest explanation is that the mass protests are earnestly aggrieved locals.

I think ppl really do overrate the "mind shift" needed for zero. That's my honest opinion. I think ppl don't think about it hard enough.

The fact is, zero's usefulness is a bookkeeping device. "There are zero apples" is not better or more useful than "there are no apples." That's not why zero survives. You can wax poetic day and night about what a mind shift "lack of existence is." You're not getting it. You're missing the point. What does that _enable_ that "no apples" does not? That's the measure of its usefulness, right?

It enables positional notation. That's zero's primary gift to the world. It is a necessary bookkeeping device for positional notation. And the measure of positional's usefulness over its predecessor, additive numerals a la the Roman system, is so profoundly great that no argument need be made. No waxing poetic is needed. No "it seems obvious now but back then." It's just indisputable.

XP was dope. Long-as-hell start menu with 80 folders.

In this case, the building. To give bricks the win over any building ever simply because bricks precede buildings is a little - what’s the word - dumb

And that is an all-time great innovation outpacing the Cartesian coordinate system, you say, being able to word a sentence differently

Do you build out your own information hierarchies and tell the model to use as-is, or do you let it organize everything itself?

Notably, zero persons have chosen to make the explicit case that zero is more ingenious than the Cartesian coordinate system. :)