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How is that different from the spaces/tabs you type at the beginning of a line though?

The Hamiltonian using Hamilton's numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.

First encounter with a Lisp, I see.

Lisps aren't like Algols, where delimiters are visual cues for structure; what you're meant to do is ignore them, and focus on indentation instead. The advantage of having them at all instead of doing Python's thing is it's obvious how the parse tree will turn out, which gives macros the power to not suck. Additionally, Parinfer.

I know this is a joke, but wrong about what, exactly? I don't get it.

Also, and maybe this has something to do with the joke I'm not getting, the way complex numbers are motivated in school is a lie, and a stupid one. Mathematicians were perfectly comfortable with certain equations having no solutions; the problem was when their equations told them there were no solutions when they could see the solutions: the curve x^3^ - 15x + 4 crosses the x-axis, but Cardano's cubic formula gives up due to negative square roots. Imaginary numbers were originally no more than an ephemeral reasoning tool, and were only reluctantly accepted as entities in their own right because of how damn useful they were.

Quaternions are not the basis for quantum mechanics. Biquaternions have some applications in quantum field theory, but there are many areas of quantum mechanics where there's no need or space for anything above complex.

I'm 26 and if there's no death door in my Afterlife, I'll spend the next hundred thousand years inventing it. When I'm done, I'm done.

Excellent shirtpost. I am physically revulsed. (Are there tags on Lemmy? You should probably tag this. I know the joke is better if you don't, but people clearly don't get it.)

Seriously though, while maximising good in the world is obviously a good thing for humans, the Afterlife runs on balance over virtue: half the beings there are literally evil incarnate, and they need human suffering to survive. We all think it's sad when a seal gets eaten by a polar bear, but if no seals get eaten, the bear dies. It seems cruel, and it is, but it's also utterly irrelevant: everyone goes to the Good Place, and their existence there is thousands of times longer than their existence on Earth; so even if they live the most miserable, gruelling lives imaginable, it counts for nothing in the long run.

Also, trying to get points means you can't get points, so the idea is DoA anyway. (Yes, that was in S1 and they changed the system in S4, but it was never stated that they changed the scoring itself.)

But what medication? I'm on several. I'd need to know what's going on before I know the right meds. I'm seeing my GP in two days, hoping she has any idea what could be happening.

You do have a point. Maybe that's why the Door exists: sometimes, humans simply outdo demons.

Yes, I have noticed. One is a conclusion I've come to, the other is...hardwired, I think. That's how it feels anyway.

I was receiving regular therapy until around two months ago. Practitioner said she couldn't help me anymore, gave me a list of others; interacting with new people at all has been near impossible lately, much less rehashing my entire life and situation.

I have the feeling the problem is deeper than psychology: my brain might be physically malfunctioning in some way. I mean, if I'm as self-aware as I am but still can't shift some obviously wrong beliefs, those beliefs must be "bolted down", so to speak. Does that make sense?

Hm. I'm not certain if I'm introverted or extroverted or somewhere between; hard to know without people around.

I skimmed the article. Some steps might be possible, some definitely aren't, and some I feel a physical aversion to. Certainly, I can't work through it on my own. I was receiving therapy up until around two months ago (psych said it wasn't helping me anymore and I needed to find someone new, have been unable to interact with new people in any way); I think the problem is deeper, but I don't know what or how.