5d ago

Is there still any question that has a possible, articulable answer that has still evaded you that you've asked Lemmy about already?

🔪Take another stab at it 🔪

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There is a book I tried to find a while ago. I described it in detail in a post, but no one was successful in identifying it.
- The fact that that link directs me to a page that's trying to get me to install the Voyager app, rather than directly to the post, makes me never want to even try Voyager.
- Probably not what you are looking for, but it reminds me of reading "This Is Not a Book" by Michael Picard.
What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?
I’ve read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70’s, and I roundly can’t make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don’t own.
Ideally, what I’m hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.
It’s of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it’s highly unintuitive that you provably can’t sometimes in complexity theory.
Asked on several related communities. No answers.
There's a quote that I swear TF I saw on CoD:WaW on the Xbox 360 that's always stuck with me but I can't find the source. I'm also sure I got a lot of false memory fucking up my ability to find it.
It goes: "Those who build the weapons of fascism will inevitably have those weapons used against themselves."
Where tf is that from? AI claims it's from Chomsky but I can't find it being directly attributed to him.
- I recommend replaying WaW with a friend.
  It has local co-op, so you both can torrent it and play together via the internet for free using a program like Hamachi.
- Not sure but prescient and also reminds me of "abyss gazing back"

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