> be me
> work at the bra factory
> boss says make a sizing chart
> tfw i need to parameterize a 2d space
> ???
> ???
> pick a non-orthogonal basis
> profit
twitter is hilarious cuz some guy will take on the pseudonym “peepeepoopoo” and call people r*tards and then you’ll find out he’s making $1M a year solving path integrals for ken griffin
> attend a string theory conference
> speaker keeps mentioning 10d space
> can't visualize and am completely lost
> mathematician beside me seems to understand
> ask him, how do you visualize 10d space?
> it's easy anon, first picture N-dimensions and then set N = 10
An asymmetry.
If a woman is laying on the floor she is probably relaxing
If a man is laying on the floor it means his life has undergone catastrophic changes and he is trying to process it.
The Macedonians made a weapon that stabs spears at humans like they are kebob meats? And many Philosophers and Strategois worked on this? I am going to be sick. Physically sick.
The incredible irony of an ad-filled internet is that the billions of dollars of ad revenue go towards engineers who are themselves using ad-blockers
There's a secondary class of users who are being milked like cattle so the rest of us can play with our toys for free
What if, instead of spending years fighting over meager slices of a diminishing pie, we spent a few billion on desal and guaranteed water for the south west forever?
It seems nuts to me that a water-supported economy that spins trillions of dollars per year won't consider
A huge hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind directly toward Earth.
NASA's SDO photographed the structure, which stretches almost 800,00 km along its long axis. 1/
It's all women
Why are so many western women reflexively defensive of islamic societies that would strip them of their rights if they lived there
My working hypotheses:
1) Ignorance
2) Brown = good
3) Secretly hate their rights
I know this guy who is nearing billionaire status who takes viagra as a nootropic because it makes him smarter and he’s right and has proof. Why are we not funding this?
About 650 / 770 signed at this moment. As people start waking up, more will come. All the efforts started after 1:30 AM, 500+ within two hours and all of this after 2 crazy days with very little sleep.
If you want to understand what's wrong with Python compared to Ruby, look at this code:
from functools import reduce
import operator
def multiply_list(numbers):
return reduce(operator.mul, numbers, 1)
numbers = [2, 3, 4, 5]
result = multiply_list(numbers)
I am not, and never have been, in tpot. You may disagree, you may even have evidence to the contrary, but you need to ask yourself: is this really worth getting blocked over? I am not, and never have been, in tpot
How is every numerics engineer I meet an elite Sardaukar supersoldier and yet every numerics codebase is 50k lines of steaming dogshit in a single file
when i was a young boy (17) i thought "toeing the line" meant adventuring just a smidge beyond what the rules allow as though you stepped over the line with just one toe
when i was a little girl i thought "on the ball" meant like, as unbalanced & stressed & fearful of falling as one would feel if trying to balance on a ball
I heard the adblocker u spent 2 seconds downloading doesn't work anymore. That sucks. Remember though: if you were any good at software you would write your own
Some days you’re re-reading a 2010s era web serial and notice a familiar face arguing for a dozen comments that it’s optimal to launch superheros to emergencies via ICBMs and I think that’s beautiful
I don’t need you to tell me quick fucking call, okay? I know how quick it’ll be. In 3 minutes 18 seconds I have another meeting and if we’re not done by then I’m hanging up on you