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"There’s an anime called The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya that’s about time travel and, appropriately, you can watch the episodes in any order. In 2011, someone posted on 4Chan asking: “If viewers wanted to see the series in every possible order, what is the shortest list of episodes they’d have to watch?” An anonymous commenter replied with a #proof demonstrating a lower bound. Mathematicians eventually realized that the proof was a breakthrough in a tricky permutation problem and published a paper verifying it. The first author of that paper is “Anonymous 4Chan Poster”."
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/revenge-of-the-blockheads

A quotation from T. H. Huxley

Agnosticism is not properly described as a “negative” creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism.

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist [Thomas Henry Huxley]
Essay (1889-06), “Agnosticism and Christianity,” The Nineteenth Century magazine, Vol. 25, No. 148

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thhuxley #agnostic #agnosticism #burdenofproof #certainty #evidence #objectivity #proof #truth

A quotation from Joseph Joubert

Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], 1814 entry [tr. Auster (1983)]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joubert #enthusiasm #excitement #justification #proof #substantiate

Zero-Knowledge Proof: Google abre código de tecnologia que permite provar idade sem expor dados pessoais

https://googlediscovery.com/2025/07/03/zero-knowledge-proof-google-abre-codigo-de-tecnologia-que-permite-provar-idade-sem-expor-dados-pessoais/

Nice. Great job finding that counter example.

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-07-01/a-17-year-old-teen-refutes-a-mathematical-conjecture-proposed-40-years-ago.html?outputType=amp

#maths #conjecture #proof #counterproof #MizohataTakeuchiConjecture

🚀 Behold the pioneering endeavor to finally bridge the mighty chasm between code editors and #GUIs using #LSP. 🖥️ Because clearly, what every developer craves is yet another "small proof-of-concept" project to make their already cozy setup even more "cutting-edge." 🙄
https://jamesbvaughan.com/bidirectional-editing/ #codeeditors #innovation #developercommunity #proof-of-concept #HackerNews #ngated

おうちでゆったりくつろぐ可愛らしい姿を再現！『小林さんちのメイドラゴン』トールとエルマがPROOFからフィギュア化！
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2645149/

#hobby_dengeki #フィギュア #美少女フィギュア #PROOF #プルーフ #スケールフィギュア #小林さんちのメイドラゴン #クール教信者 #トール #エルマ #くつろぎver

『〈物語〉シリーズ』より、忍野忍が1/7スケールフィギュアで登場！オリジナルデザインの衣装や、妖艶な表情、月夜や吸血鬼をイメージした台座など見どころ盛りだくさん！
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2645095/

#hobby_dengeki #フィギュア #美少女フィギュア #物語シリーズ #PROOF #プルーフ

A new "groundbreaking" #proof claims to shrink the space needed for #computation, as if we're all stuck managing mainframes from 1965. 🚀🔬 But don't worry, Scientific American is here to save the day with a story that reads like a rejected episode of The Twilight Zone. 🤖📚
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/ #groundbreaking #ScientificAmerican #TwilightZone #technology #HackerNews #ngated

#ZohranMamdani is #proof that the #GreenParty #USA is not #TooFarLeft to #win #elections. If #Mamdani were a #Green, he'd be #mainstream in the #party. And he crushed the mainstream #Democrat.

If you voted for Mamdani but not #JillStein, you weren't #voting on #policy in 2024. You were just voting for the color #blue.

#proof : that degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief

- French: une preuve

- German: abdichten, der Nachweis

- Italian: prova

- Portuguese: prova

- Spanish: prueba

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

I'm once again very grateful to a physicist-turned-philosopher friend who told me that she had heard from a colleague that Lakatos Proofs and Refutations is fun reading. Her colleague was right.

Get your copy on JSTOR (or in the links below).

#Lakatos #math #philosphy #proof
https://mas.to/@tg9541/114621114741947728

Text from Lakatos "Proofs and Refutations III" (1963)
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"The analogy between political ideologies and scientific theories is then more far-reaching than is commonly realised: political ideologies which first may be debated (and perhaps accepted only under pressure) may turn into unquestioned background knowledge even in a single generation: the critics are forgotten (and perhaps executed) until a revolution vindicates their objections."

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https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2633782/

#hobby_dengeki #アイマス #フィギュア #美少女フィギュア #学園アイドルマスター #学マス #にょきんと #PROOF

『盾の勇者の成り上がり』ラフタリアがPROOFからフィギュア化！凛々しい表情やエアストシールドをイメージした台座など、臨場感あふれる戦闘シーンを立体表現！
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2633647/

#hobby_dengeki #KADOKAWA #フィギュア #美少女フィギュア #PROOF #プルーフ #スケールフィギュア #盾の勇者の成り上がり_Season_2 #ラフタリア

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. Both conclusions rely on the exact same data.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 11 “How to Look for Bird Poop” (2007)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #conclusion #data #deduction #past #precedent #proof #surmise #theory

"Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions – they are not just repetitions of each other." – Michael Atiyah (1929-2019)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math #proof

Photographic portrait of Michael Atiyah, and a quote : "Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions – they are not just repetitions of each other."

I finally proved the weekly problem with Lean. Now, I'll make it shorter, & publish my solution until next week. Lean is very verbose unless we know certain tactics (such as ring) & think about how to best use its theorems (functions). #lean #proof #tatics #nomxd #Chatting🐾