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3Alok Singh's Shortform
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Derivative AT a discontinuity
Alok Singh8mo10

added some open circles

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Derivative AT a discontinuity
Alok Singh8mo10

I adjusted H to use heaviside's 1/2 convention, good catch.

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Alok Singh's Shortform
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting_density_of_discrete_points

 

log(infinite number) seems a promising avenue of investigation. also reminiscent of harmonic series--in euler's words-- its sum is the log of an infinite number. 

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Alok Singh1y-20

Skipping context sure saved me a lotta time, and plus you gave a nice elab

shoe thrifting is meh for me because foot size

What sort of boots?

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Alok Singh1y-20

Where to get shoes: Meermin

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Alok Singh1y30

Ivan Karamazov ranting to his brother Alyosha about basically a cabal watching over the world, thought of herenow

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finite, actual infinity, potential infinity
Alok Singh1y10

From Goldblatt, since {0..H} is internal.

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finite, actual infinity, potential infinity
Alok Singh1y10

Gonna sleep bc 3 am but will respond later. Also the remark that hyperfinite can mean smaller than a nonstandard natural just seems false, where did you get that idea from?

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finite, actual infinity, potential infinity
Alok Singh1y10

I used compactness in recent comment reply. Hypernaturals are uncountable because they are bigger than all the nats and so can’t be counted. Whether cardinality of continuum is equivalent to continuum hypothesis

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finite, actual infinity, potential infinity
Alok Singh1y21

I thought about this since. Bigger is not the right word. Complicated maybe? Like how the unit interval contains non-measurable sub intervals, or a compact set contains non-compact subsets.

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10Derivative AT a discontinuity
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20Just because 2 things are opposites, doesn't mean they're just the same but flipped
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11Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere
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33When To Stop
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0My biggest takeaway from Redwood Research REMIX
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3finite, actual infinity, potential infinity
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5Actions and Flows
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-1Nonstandard analysis in ethics
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-9Example of the nameless rationalist virtue
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9internal in nonstandard analysis
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