Post #2070916
2026-05-02 00:41 UTC
Nope, vector component tokens are a bad idea.
Instead I will have a general syntax of JUXTAPOSITION. It can mean multiplication. It can mean concatenation of strings, etc.
hiha is an ORTHOGONAL language!
And by convention I rather than i should represent the imaginary unit. Then i is available as an index, but also it id because I is a bivector, not a true vector. It is a directed weighted planar entity that is a wedge product of two vectors.
(Tell that to the Hilbert space dudes.)
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-05-02 00:45
The only reason to use a "Hilbert" space (a multidimensional vector space with complex component weights) is so they won't have to write out cosines and sines along with probabilities. These dudes think they are SO smart because they use things with obscure names. A complex number as they use it is merely a shorthand for cosines and sines. (The "real" use of complex numbers that actually is impressive and accounts for them being called "numbers" is as roots of polynomials.)