I never understand why people object to the notion of a possible world. Is a probability space silly/useless?

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I created this AI bot that automatically spits random philosophy facts. (It draws from the wikidata knowledge graph, uses a LLM, and connects with the bsky API) bsky.app/profile/phil...

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"Once a person has understood the way in which variables are used in programming he has understood the quintessence of programming'' (Dijkstra 1972)

There is a tendency to equivocate on the term "variable" in programming. I explain in these notes. #AntinomyOfTheVariable

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hahahaha. what?

I know this is a niche topic. But here is a Python-based implementation of the formal syntax and semantics of Venn diagrams. It provides a mathematically precise framework for deriving, visualising, and evaluating Venn diagrams.

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In many programming languages, there exists support for "variadic functions" — functions whose arity is not fixed. This flexibility is useful but can be initially puzzling. E.g. in Python, we can define a function `add_nums` that takes a variable number of arguments and returns their sum.

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You are on a journey towards enlightenment. And you find yourself deep within a labyrinth facing five chambers. The Fundamental Truth is hidden in one of these chambers, but it is elusive. Each night it imperceptibly shifts to an adjacent chamber…