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Probably incredibly unreadable modelling thread | 200 comments (200 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Chortle

It's just another dimension. What are we up to now? 18 +/-?

I know I owe the diary and I plan on finishing it Real Soon Now. Any day.

yup, yup, yup.

Of course if I tell you, you'll tell Migeru, he'll tell Sven, and pretty soon today will be tomorrow and yesterday will have had been next month. 8^p

by ATinNM on Fri Jun 16th, 2006 at 08:52:51 PM EST
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Re: Ricardo (again) (none / 0)

I don't mind the extra dimension: I tend to regard anything ordered set with a bottom element as time-like (technically any downclosed topology).

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sat Jun 17th, 2006 at 10:59:51 AM EST
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Re: Ricardo (again) (none / 0)

Just a bottom element, or do you require an infimum function?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 17th, 2006 at 11:28:45 AM EST
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Re: Ricardo (again) (none / 0)

Congratulations: your comment here is now the #10 Google hit for "infimum function".

Words and ideas I offer here may be used freely and without attribution.

by technopolitical on Tue Jun 27th, 2006 at 12:53:11 AM EST
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Re: Ricardo (again) (none / 0)

You've got to be kidding me.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 27th, 2006 at 03:02:31 AM EST
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Re: Ricardo (again) (none / 0)

I try to stay away from analytical Topology by deploying Fuzzy Logic in a non-Boolean Decision Space: I Don't Care.

(laughing)

by ATinNM on Sat Jun 17th, 2006 at 11:56:26 AM EST
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