15:0315:03, 26 April 2024diffhist+5
John Kricfalusi
→Sexual abuse allegations: clarify diagnostic status - reads like he is self-diagnosing, but apparently that is not the case: "Near the end of the 11-page letter, Kricfalusi said that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD in the late 2000s, “a combination that makes it almost impossible to control your impulses and obsessions.”"current
01:5101:51, 23 April 2024diffhist+135
Binary number
→History: Liebniz was ''not'' inspired by the I Ching. He had already developed binary notation before the Jesuit Bouvet, reading Leibniz's letters, explained to him how the I Ching ''also'' used binary notation; see https://gwern.net/doc/cs/1980-swiderski.pdf#page=8 it was the parallel invention that so impressed them, as it supposedly meant a universal Christian truth; if Leibniz had simply copied it, it wouldn't've, obviously...
20:0820:08, 15 April 2024diffhist+100
Leonard Jimmie Savage
→top: puzzled me until I checked https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-14/issue-1/A-conversation-with-I-Richard-Savage-with-the-assistance-of/10.1214/ss/1009211808.full for the bio info
15:0315:03, 26 April 2024diffhist+5
John Kricfalusi
→Sexual abuse allegations: clarify diagnostic status - reads like he is self-diagnosing, but apparently that is not the case: "Near the end of the 11-page letter, Kricfalusi said that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD in the late 2000s, “a combination that makes it almost impossible to control your impulses and obsessions.”"current
01:5101:51, 23 April 2024diffhist+135
Binary number
→History: Liebniz was ''not'' inspired by the I Ching. He had already developed binary notation before the Jesuit Bouvet, reading Leibniz's letters, explained to him how the I Ching ''also'' used binary notation; see https://gwern.net/doc/cs/1980-swiderski.pdf#page=8 it was the parallel invention that so impressed them, as it supposedly meant a universal Christian truth; if Leibniz had simply copied it, it wouldn't've, obviously...
20:0820:08, 15 April 2024diffhist+100
Leonard Jimmie Savage
→top: puzzled me until I checked https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-14/issue-1/A-conversation-with-I-Richard-Savage-with-the-assistance-of/10.1214/ss/1009211808.full for the bio info