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My understanding was that Christopher Alexander called the quality without a name "wholeness" later in their life. Does it mean a different thing than the "resonance" in this article?

Very interesting... I see a lot of parallel with my higher-ed startup - regulatory moat, fragmented market almost like consulting, and super long sales cycle...

Maybe I should be more mindful of integration cost than I do know.

Any parellogram would work since given four digit number n1n2n3n4, it is divisible by 11 iff n1+n3=n2+n4, and each ni is linear combination of the coords of keypads xi, yi, and thus (n1+n3)/2 = (n2+n4)/2

I tried to read many papers of Stafford Beer and cybernetics to parse some insights on complex systems to use in modern days but failed.

Project Cybersyn was just a dashboard (which was revolutionary back then of course).

Viable System Model was just another systems engineering diagram, which only has meaning to those who are deep into that field.

At least I got 'The purpose of a system is what it does' stuck in my head.

Phonetic Matching 2 years ago

I also had to do this in my previous work and I took the phonetic embeddings of reference and transcribed text and ran a dynamic time warping with them.

So in the case of N divisible by 3, there are impossible end states. But can you still go ahead and declare that you will sort your library within the possible end states? If so how would one prove that one did not step outside of possible states without showing the cards themselves?

Maybe one could first divide the library into 3 piles and sort within each piles first.

Qwen2-Math 2 years ago

The solution for IMO 2022 is barely a 1/7 solution. It just says ‘ might not satisfy the inequality for all y’ without a proof. That was the point of the question.

I have such fond memories of talking to interesting people in IRC back in the days. I recently felt an urge to feel such companionship and satisfy my intellectual curiousity with interesting conversation, but found that freenode and libera is mostly dead. Perhaps the success of discord contributed to its demise.

100 Years of IBM 2 years ago

Why are there so many links to irrelevant wikipedia links, such as [wood], [woman], and [boon]? Did they just run a software to tag every noun with a wikipedia article?

I too would like to work with smart people. The answer.ai article about how great invention is made was very inspiring. This article tells me that I could have made some different life choices to achieve this, and ultimiately it is on my hand to behave differently.

It gravely saddens me that this inspiration will fade off after a few days of getting distracted by endless meetings.