Fri Nov 6 02:39:34 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Fri Nov 6 02:39:59 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: yeah but core languages you see in most papers
Fri Nov 6 02:40:17 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: Only a fool expects rational behavior from his fellow humans. Why do you expect it from a machine that humans have constructed?
Fri Nov 6 02:40:32 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: if you can look around and "ho hum" at the limits you see, it is because you stand on the shoulders of giants
Fri Nov 6 02:41:14 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but there are more so many languages out there
Fri Nov 6 02:43:47 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: lol assignment operator. always evaluates as true
Fri Nov 6 02:43:53 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: languages inspired by it also interesting lisp/scheme etc
Fri Nov 6 02:44:12 2009
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Kalinash@Fire and Ice: programming in lisp is like speaking in japanese... it's all backwards
Fri Nov 6 02:44:14 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: typed lambda calculi crossed type theory with lambda calculi
Fri Nov 6 02:45:09 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: less original perhaps than lambda calculus itself but i guess still an interesting thing in some ways
Fri Nov 6 02:46:49 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: for concurrent stuff there is a ton of models
Fri Nov 6 02:46:54 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i like broccoli actually, but it's the melted cheese that really makes a good broc dish
Fri Nov 6 02:47:38 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: a good gooey sauce too ya, like general tso's
Fri Nov 6 02:47:40 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but new semantic models are few and far between except in the concurrent sphere i guess.
Fri Nov 6 02:48:17 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: and then a lot of stuff boils down to formal language theory or syntrax i.e. not much there either.
Fri Nov 6 02:48:45 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: fair number of constructs you find in newer languages have existed for a long time
Fri Nov 6 02:51:01 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: no those are two people smiling with a cho between them
Fri Nov 6 02:51:34 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: so i was leafing through this month's Science magazine
Fri Nov 6 02:52:18 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: (i became a member of the aaas due to an internet dispute and i needed access to a scholarly article)
Fri Nov 6 02:52:50 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: cuz apparently a vast number of schools are largely private
Fri Nov 6 02:54:53 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: well the article wasnt about listing the names
Fri Nov 6 02:59:49 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: oh some blah blah yadda about some government thing ruling that evolution should be taught
Fri Nov 6 03:00:05 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: and how toothless the ordinance was and that prolly it wont change much
Fri Nov 6 03:00:56 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i was mostly educated while i was studying in HK in the ESF system
Fri Nov 6 03:01:08 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: not too familiar with the chinese school system
Fri Nov 6 03:01:36 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: that a lot o f the schools are founded by the church originally
Fri Nov 6 03:02:24 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i wanted to derail you from the lambda metaparadigm synoclastic phase talk
Fri Nov 6 03:02:41 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: figured that hk + fundamentalists would do the job
Fri Nov 6 03:04:02 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: no thats a real thing, check the latest issue
Fri Nov 6 03:04:45 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well a lot of the schools = taught by priests and nuns in the old days
Fri Nov 6 03:05:13 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: dont you think the lambda paradigm is kinda old now tho? i mean, that's not really innovation
Fri Nov 6 03:05:26 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: it's more like fancy self-reference dressed up as cleverness
Fri Nov 6 03:06:49 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: you don't blame cesium for being cesium, do you?
Fri Nov 6 03:07:02 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but oh no. let crat do it, and he's the bad guy
Fri Nov 6 03:07:13 2009
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Ideysus@ShadowMUDii: Yeah, but after the wheel was around a bit people didn't just create square ones to be innovative. :-P
Fri Nov 6 03:08:20 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: "this one is crimson! not the old, boring wood color"
Fri Nov 6 03:09:20 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i dont think you care which way the answer turned out :D
Fri Nov 6 03:09:47 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i'm just brave enough to accept whatever tyhe truth is
Fri Nov 6 03:09:49 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: so even though i could defend lambda calc and waste time
Fri Nov 6 03:10:26 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: heh member that time we were debating set theory
Fri Nov 6 03:10:34 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: and you couldnt tell if i knew what i was talking about
Fri Nov 6 03:11:32 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: you always think about things in terms of winners and losers
Fri Nov 6 03:12:30 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: just discussion to find more information about the subject
Fri Nov 6 03:14:19 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: so if you are saying that is competitiveness sure
Fri Nov 6 03:14:39 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but i direct most of my competitiveness into learn moar mode
Fri Nov 6 03:15:44 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: crat i try to clarify and seek truth not win/lose so much in the immediate sense
Fri Nov 6 03:16:11 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i.e. if someone points out some facts i am not aware of
Fri Nov 6 03:17:22 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: it is the coin of the realm and the tool of debate
Fri Nov 6 03:17:41 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: rhetoric for its own sake leads to specius sophistry, sure
Fri Nov 6 03:18:07 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but "i dont like rhetoric" is like "i dont like hammers or screwdrivers"
Fri Nov 6 03:18:16 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: it's what we got as tools for the whole language thang
Fri Nov 6 03:18:53 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: if you are trying to employ dialectical reasoning to try to understand something
Fri Nov 6 03:19:13 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: well im pretty sure on intermud "useful" is relative
Fri Nov 6 03:19:27 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: and as i said rhetoric i dont like but i mean personally
Fri Nov 6 03:20:29 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: dc is joak. socrates would pretend to be ignorant of basic concepts
Fri Nov 6 03:21:13 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i just taught it to ya. use it in good health, sir
Fri Nov 6 03:21:41 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: just in case i need it for certain types of writing
Fri Nov 6 03:21:55 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: well what people can use more of is not an understanding of "rhetoric" so much
Fri Nov 6 03:22:06 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but in general when i am vetting ideas i use dialctical tools only.
Fri Nov 6 03:22:10 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: as an understanding of fallacies, how to spot them, and how to avoid them
Fri Nov 6 03:22:44 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: what i think is most often identified as "just rhetoric" is, i think, actually fallacious argument
Fri Nov 6 03:23:49 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: for me i am talking about rhetorical devices
Fri Nov 6 03:24:00 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: which sway public opinion on an emotive level
Fri Nov 6 03:24:14 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: but have no real sound basis i.e. you could interpret either way
Fri Nov 6 03:25:11 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: generally politicians behave as they feel they must in order to be elected
Fri Nov 6 03:25:25 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: so they dont do very much rhetorical suasion
Fri Nov 6 03:25:26 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: compared to reading some argued piece in a science journal.
Fri Nov 6 03:26:28 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well anyhow i just would like to understand what the subject is about since i do find people do use rhetorical devices quite a bit
Fri Nov 6 03:27:12 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: beyond the emotive impact there might be little substance.
Fri Nov 6 03:27:38 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: on the surface there's a silly debate about where words come from
Fri Nov 6 03:28:02 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but i think it deals on a deeper level with the nature of debate
Fri Nov 6 03:28:45 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: imo what puzzles you is the social aspect of rhetoric
Fri Nov 6 03:29:46 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well partly i just want to identify the techniques in the written form mostly at this time
Fri Nov 6 03:29:48 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: for example, allow me to drop my normal sill ything for a moment
Fri Nov 6 03:30:22 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: in doing so, i occasionally indulge in humorous digressions
Fri Nov 6 03:30:54 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: which you might interpret as trolling, but i interpret as jocular use of language with someone i like to talk with
Fri Nov 6 03:31:19 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: not really "rhetoric" as a formal subject of study
Fri Nov 6 03:32:03 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i.e. i wasnt like some guy accusing you of seriously offensive trolling in this case
Fri Nov 6 03:34:18 2009
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Cozminsky@EotL: the trolling is much more frequent and intense on imud_gossip
Fri Nov 6 03:34:44 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: well i think that in general there is a differenc ebetween trolling and goofing around
Fri Nov 6 03:35:44 2009
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Cozminsky@EotL: nog, but if you're used to serious discussions in a particular forum then your tolerance for goofing around gets lower
Fri Nov 6 03:36:08 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: for example, there's a fella i know that's liable to say stuff about how people who think global warming is real are just dumb etc
Fri Nov 6 03:36:37 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: and will keep saying stuff like that til someone finally bites and attempts to refute the argument
Fri Nov 6 03:36:46 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: and then that person is used as an amusing chew toy
Fri Nov 6 03:37:03 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: that's meanspirited and what i would be inclined to call trolling
Fri Nov 6 03:37:29 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: whereas me goofin around pokin at silenus for being more competitive than he lets on
Fri Nov 6 03:37:55 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i guess for me it's just posting something that deliberately tries to provoke a reaction from a person or persons
Fri Nov 6 03:38:21 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: on issues where you dont really care too much
Fri Nov 6 03:39:42 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: like some guy on a gaming forum posting things likes OMG my class sucks for x y z
Fri Nov 6 03:40:06 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: in reality probably he doesnt even play said class
Fri Nov 6 03:41:07 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: so you get a bunch of posts attacking this persons supposed position
Fri Nov 6 03:41:24 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: and probably the person in question is just like LOL
Fri Nov 6 03:41:27 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: what annoys me is wastes-of-time, those impervious to reason
Fri Nov 6 03:41:59 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: stuff like that doesnt bother me too much but i think that it is a form of baiting which isn't so nice.
Fri Nov 6 03:42:28 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well i find impervious to reason stuff just hard to
Fri Nov 6 03:43:33 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but eventually you just...there's not much to do
Fri Nov 6 03:43:52 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: you cannot really do much it's like arguing about religion with someone
Fri Nov 6 03:44:04 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: they will always find reasons to believe their position
Fri Nov 6 03:44:44 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: they just go back and find new ways to substantiate their position
Fri Nov 6 03:45:34 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: or get extremely discouraged i.e. crisis of faith
Fri Nov 6 03:45:45 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: which might be even a worse situation to be in.
Fri Nov 6 03:46:14 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: well i guess in a public forum it's a bit of a problem
Fri Nov 6 03:47:36 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: unless of course they are too assertive about it and trying to force their pov down your throat so to speak.
Fri Nov 6 03:49:20 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: their reaction sometimes winds up turning overly aggressive as a result
Fri Nov 6 03:49:44 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: but i think it's ok to point out that soapy ants dont actually kill each other
Fri Nov 6 03:50:12 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i think the problem in a public forum sometimes also is the guy loses face if you press too hard
Fri Nov 6 03:51:17 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: also in your position i think versus some unknown guy we do know that usually you do check your facts out properly.
Fri Nov 6 03:51:35 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: so once you said that i dont think many people would have believed him
Fri Nov 6 03:51:59 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i know some guys who do reach nature on a regular basis
Fri Nov 6 03:52:34 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: dont think anyone else really pays close attention to that stuff
Fri Nov 6 03:52:37 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: theyre like the plantangent cosine og b sub x should alert the clever reader of the echo super theta sine wave coefficient
Fri Nov 6 03:53:29 2009
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Silenus@Dead Souls Dev: i am a pretty hard core science guy and if it's outside certain areas which i have studied i really dont have a clue either :D
Fri Nov 6 03:53:58 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: looking back on it, i dont think i even needed to do that
Fri Nov 6 03:54:30 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: i have a computer inside a uni network, i cuda just accessed one of three dozen scholarly access sites
Fri Nov 6 10:25:57 2009
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Nilrin@Rebirth: Just finished my first Discworld book today. Good stuff.
Fri Nov 6 19:11:13 2009
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Hamlet@WWC-west: never want a webserver to report that. even indirectly.
Fri Nov 6 20:59:45 2009
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Tricky@Rock the Halo: Try "System Error: socket_connect: connect:No buffer space available"... Only thing I could do about that was to reboot.
Sat Nov 7 03:57:14 2009
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Cratylus@Dead Souls Dev: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/6/
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