if anyone wants, they can join me in watching something rather obscure
What exactly is Turkey asking of the U.S. here? To not make a distinction between Muslim extremists and other extremists?
Ugh.
At the moment, he's elucidating Turkey's current security concerns and issues they're facing with the ongoing wars in Syria and Iraq (as well as what they've been doing in response). Right now, the millions of refugees they're hosting.
currently likening Turkey's borders them like the border with Mexico. Ehhhhhh.
It's not a terrible comparison but considering the political divide over the correct response to border security in the U.S. itself, I don't think asking us to do something is going to be successful.
On March 25 2015 02:57 Frudgey wrote: I mean some philosophers state that Math doesn't tell us anything as all Math is is a bunch of tautologies, which can be considered to be useless knowledge.
Sort of. More accurately, the problem is that it is technically impossible to prove anything if we don't have a system to prove it in. But because that system has assumption in it, it means our proof relies on those assumptions become correct. And if we can't prove those assumptions, we ultimately just have to have faith that it just actually works.
For example, you might remember back to highschool where you had to solve problems like "What's is the angle in this corner of a triangle if I give you two other angles?" and you'd use the the rule that all triangles have 180° degrees and figure out the answer. That's a case where you solve a problem ("What is the angle?") within a system ("Triangles have 180°"). But the thing is, we can't technically prove that all regular triangles have 180°. It's something we just have to accept is a fact of life! And if we change our system we work in then these assumptions don't apply any more and we have to start all over again. For example going from regular geometry to hyperbolic geometry we find suddenly triangles can have less than 180°. Oh dear.
This seems very deeply unsatisfying. Doesn't that mean that basically all our human knowledge is based on some assumptions and if we proved those assumptions wrong then the entirety of human knowledge collapses? Yes. It does.
Now we could detour into philosophy (or more specifically epistemology) about how we try to reconcile this fact, such as the use of empiricism and falsification. However this is probably going a bit too deep for my post but you might find it interesting reading.
Disclaimer: I've taken a lot of liberties writing this post so it isn't crazy boring. Don't actually use what I wrote in a philosophy exam. (That's also plagarism lol)
As hard as Abstract Algebra was, I really loved how mind bending it turned out to be sometimes.
On March 25 2015 02:42 Lord Tolkien wrote: @ BoonMear: Academia is oftentimes so vicious, because the stakes are so low.
Hm, I'm inclined to think that it can get really vicious because in today's age it's possible to write blog posts to critique and criticise other people's work rather than needing to spend time on a full-blown paper. The economics blog wars can get really nasty sheesh.
I have the pleasure of reading (and listening to) plenty of intellectual sniping between IR scholars. I will readily admit, however, that the economic blogosphere has us beat in this regards.
On March 25 2015 02:45 Numy wrote: It's funny you mention this now. My friend in his final year of Chem Eng was assigned a certain subject for his thesis which was a continuation of a Masters project from a year before. When he started doing it he eventually realized that the whole basis of the thesis was wrong but no one actually figured that out since the "math" around it made sense at a glance. He did this by just looking at the very basic definition the scenario and looking into the science behind that to find out the whole problem was incorrect. People just get too caught up in what they think should happen.
Yeah, mathematics is sometimes used as a replacement for common sense. Sometimes I wonder if it's because people get too tunnel-visioned because of the required mathematical rigour or if they don't quite fully understand the mathematical tools they use so they substitute in some faith instead.
It's totally ok for your research to show an illogical conclusion, but it's also important to make sure you're comfortable everything is working properly!
They should clearly be using more qualitative tools like other social sciences hue.
But that seems rather interesting. Most of what I read has the opposite problem (too many assertions without stats and qualitative research).
edit: I think it was more a discussion on why the subject of Monte's rant happens.
edit2: More tempo looking cards. We getting all these "if holding dragon" but not a lot of dragons so far.
Looks like a lot of decks with faerie dragon in it inc
I wonder if Mage can actually make much use of the death damage card. Looks cool.
Seems like a pretty nice card for the aoe burn type decks. Don't know if Freeze has any space though
Completely sucks in Freeze.
You won't need it after a Doomsayer board-clear, doesn't contribute to the damage combo because supershitty fireball, and is only useful after a flamestrike, but you only carry x1 flamestrike and why would you need 4 more damage on top of that if you prepped it properly...
Maybe after mechanical sheep but eh, I don't have room for that shit.
On March 25 2015 03:50 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I can't wait until the day when writing blogs and posting on forums can get you elected Emperor of the World like in Ender's Game.
On March 25 2015 03:50 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I can't wait until the day when writing blogs and posting on forums can get you elected Emperor of the World like in Ender's Game.
i think you'd have tough competition from some of the classic TL blog entries
On March 25 2015 03:50 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I can't wait until the day when writing blogs and posting on forums can get you elected Emperor of the World like in Ender's Game.
On March 25 2015 03:50 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I can't wait until the day when writing blogs and posting on forums can get you elected Emperor of the World like in Ender's Game.
Would you be Locke or Demosthenes?
I'd just be MoonBear's puppet. Sheep have no independent thought anyways.
EPT
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