yggdar

@yggdar@lemmy.world

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yggdar , to Ask Lemmy in What's your clickbait headline that describes your life right now?

Doors life suck, or not?

yggdar , to White People Twitter in Breaking the law for real

Well there is this thing called a speed limit, that is a very clear hard limit. If you go over, it is at the very least financially unsafe.

yggdar , to Math Memes in What if I'm not very convincing?

The function should be cubic, so you should be able to write it in the form "f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d". You could work out the entire thing to put it in that form, but you don't need to.

Since there are no weird operations, roots, divisions by x, or anything like that, you can just count how many times x might get multiplied with itself. At the top of each division, there are 3 terms with x, so you can quite easily see that the maximum will be x^3.

It's useful to know what the values x_i and x_y are though. They describe the 3 points through which the function should go: (x_1, y_1) to (x_3, y_3).

That also makes the second part of the statement ready to check. Take (x_1, y_1) for example. You want to be sure that f(x_1) = y_1. If you replace all of the "x" in the formula by x_1, you'll see that everything starts cancelling each other out. Eventually you'll get "1 * y_1 + 0 * y_2 + 0 * y_3", thus f(x_1) is indeed y_1.

They could have explained this a bit better in the book, it also took me a little while to figure it out.

yggdar , to NonCredibleDefense in Who knew world peace would be so easy?

LLM don't have logic, they are just statistical language models.

yggdar , to Technology in IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company

They are very busy charging an arm and a leg for crappy software with shit support.

yggdar , to Hacker News in Decimal Time

Makes sense, you clearly thought about this! From a world-building perspective I do have a follow-up question: 86.4k seconds is our definition of a second, but it is essentially a convention and there is no reason for it. In a society that throws out the hours and minutes, why did they keep our second? It seems like it would have made sense for them to define the day as 100k of some new (slightly smaller) unit. That could have given them 10 "hours" of 100 "minutes" of 100 "seconds".

yggdar , to Hacker News in Decimal Time

Why split the day into 8?

You definitely have a point with base-12 though. If base-10 wasn't so ingrained already, base-12 would be a very logical choice. You can even count to 12 easily on one hand, using your thumb to keep track of where you are and counting on the segments of each of your 4 other fingers.

yggdar , to Map Enthusiasts in Second most taught foreign language in European secondary schools

That's pretty much it, yes! I'm not 100% sure about the German part, because they are are part of Wallonia (which is the southern part) but do have their own language representation so I'm not actually sure which government manages their curriculum.

The German-speaking part isn't shown on the map, probably because it is too small or the map maker got confused with our amazing organization.

There's also the region of Brussels, which is separate of Flanders and Wallonia, and officially bilingual french / dutch. They sort of tried to represent it on the map, but I have no idea what they tried to do there.

It is a clusterfuck, really.

yggdar , to Science Memes in amazing

Wow, is it exactly double?! Nature is amazing! This kind of little details really proves that there is an almighty creator!

/s

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