SvenGeier

ProfKinyon, 3 hours ago to random

You: Denominators should always be rationalized!

Me: Sounds good, here you go: (\frac{1}{\pi})

lowqualityfacts, 23 hours ago to random

Wow, you learn something new about orangutans every day.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

ProfKinyon, 2 days ago to random

I still think "A and B are equipollent" sounds like it means "A and B have the same pollen allergies."

foone, 5 days ago to random

I was copying a Totally Legal Game Backup onto my roommate's switch and it confused Windows so much that it told me I had the wrong floppy diskette in the drive.

julesh, 4 days ago to random

Old people, not content with merely destroying the economy for young people, are now trying to actively murder young people

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lowqualityfacts, 5 days ago to random

That blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

dpiponi, 8 days ago to random

Given a random number generator that generates points uniformly in the unit interval [0,1] can you generate uniformly distributed points in the unit circle using only algebraic functions? In a finite number of steps - so no rejection sampling, loops, recursion. No "almost always" finite either.

Just wondering about sitiations where it seems you can't avoid trig functions.

quixoticgeek, 15 days ago to random

A friend of mine is a Doctor. On the train this morning on their way to work the call comes out. "Do we have any doctors on board?".

Finally. Friend grabs their bag and makes way through the train. Only to find 14 other doctors had done the same thing...

Guess that route is popular with medical staff on their way to work...

SvenGeier, 16 days ago to random

#TilingTuesday

SvenGeier, 23 days ago to random

#tilingTuesday i guess?

SvenGeier, 1 month ago to random

I guess some of the stuff I was tinkering with back in 2015 count vaguely as candidates for #TilingTuesday

markmccaughrean, 1 month ago to photography

As the Sun slips towards the western horizon as seen from The Netherlands, it's fascinating to think that the Moon is also in this picture.

And that as seen from some points on Earth, the Moon is already partly covering the Sun, the path of totality sweeping across the Pacific towards the Mexican mainland to arrive in half an hour or so.

But our view here? Nada 🤷‍♂️

Celestial mechanics 🌞🌑

#SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #TotalSolarEclipse #Photography #Netherlands #NotJealousAtAll

foone, 1 month ago to random

I made a slight typo and tried to SSH into 10

that's the IP. just 10

SvenGeier, 2 months ago to random

Here presented without comment...

foone, 3 months ago to random

I tried to google the error file that dosemu2 was throwing at me and google suggested I buy womens latex lingerie

I'm not sure how that'll help, google?

christianp, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

The following will probably only make sense to people in the UK.

I have a vague sense that the job of "lollipop person" used to be fairly strongly gendered, but I can't remember which way - is it lollipop man, or lollipop lady? I feel like "lollipop lady" sounds more like what I said growing up, but both lollipop people at my kids' school are men and I've overthought it and now I'm suffering from semantic satiation.

So, was it a lollipop man or a lollipop lady when you were at school?

SvenGeier, 5 months ago to random

The "cutest" thing about the number 2024 that I can come up with is that it can be generated from the digits 1,,..,5 like this:

2024=3⁴×5²−1

Anybody got any other "cute" things to do with that new year?

SvenGeier, 7 months ago to random

Until today I did not know that there is a mastodon client for Android that supports mathJax (i.e. latex rendering). I had been resigned to reading math on the desktop and using the app basically for skimming clear text only.
If you are like me, then go to the Android play store and download "mathstodon" (yes, really). Looks and feels like the generic tusky except that suddenly you can read equations!
(Now I just need to find the time to spend online...)

SvenGeier, 8 months ago to random

This seems important...

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/our-climate-change-debates-are-out

lowqualityfacts, 9 months ago to random

Twitter will soon introduce an auto-harrass feature, so you can save time by automating your harassment of those who post woke (compassionate, empathetic, etc.) content.

SvenGeier, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I heard today is World Cat Day?
(I was going to attach a video of an animal here, but I seem to be unable to upload it to mathstodon. Is there a size limit less than the usual 40MB here?)

SvenGeier, 10 months ago to random

If the great power of LLMs is to look at a sequence of tokens and sus out which one plausibly comes next, has anybody tried to train one of these on the first trillion (or however many we have these days) digits of π and let it try to give us the next thousand or so?
And then check how many it got right?
We'd all expect it to get 10% (in decimal) but imagine if it got 20% or 30%...

SvenGeier, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Math people, help me out with a conversation I had with my kid about the following:

If no context information is provided, would you say that the closed interval [0,1] is

lis, 1 year ago to random

the autistic urge to use parentheses in every sentence (because you're afraid people will misunderstand it (or interpret additional meaning into it (which has happened before (many times (with terrible consequences (and i'm not even talking about the trauma this caused))))))

maxleibman, 1 year ago to infosec

Some password advice from an infosec professional:

Good password hygiene means choosing a password that is hard to guess.

One that's hard to type. Hard to remember. Hard to think about. Hard to LOOK at.

A password that makes you feel disoriented, uncomfortable.

In short, your password should be a Cthulhu.

#passwords #PasswordHygeine #InfoSec