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So much work lies ahead for me and Glenn: replacing science classes with Bible studies, getting rid of mathiness for chastity lessons, figuring out the difference between debit and deficit, Pakistan and Palestine, Russia and a fishing boat.
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And here is what is great about Green and this book: yes, there is the mathiness.
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Partly introspective, partly aggressive with a pall of impending menace, the all-instrumental songs found here sparkle with a certain mathiness - a sinuous mathematics often found in jazz - as the outfit fittingly recalls experimental and post-rock acts from Joshua Trinidad of Cougar Legs guests and brings a stirringly lonely element to the proceedings.
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Partly introspective, partly aggressive with a pall of impending menace, the all-instrumental songs found here sparkle with a certain mathiness - a sinuous mathematics often found in jazz - as the outfit fittingly recalls experimental and post-rock acts from Joshua Trinidad of Cougar Legs guests and brings a stirringly lonely element to the proceedings.
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I would say that games tend to be "math-y" not because this mathiness is artificially imposed on games by developers blinded by some "everything can be (and should be) measured" social construct, but because absolute reality is inherently math-y.
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- waking up at 8 AM, going over to Starbucks to meet the other two, and mathiness for the rest of the day.
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html
Sept 25, 2023
In terms of diction, the math lingo lent a veneer of surety. Mathiness, a term coined in 2015 by Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Romer, describes mathematical language used not to clarify but to mislead. “The beauty of mathematical language is its capacity to convey truths about the world in glaringly simple terms — E = MC2,” Noah Giansiracusa, a math and data-science professor at Bentley University, told me. “I read his tweet over and over and still don’t really know how to parse it or what exactly he’s trying to say.”
November 14, 2023