#Problem-Solvers

[newwavenewsandentertainment]

FG Unveils Free AI Academy to Empower Nigerian Youths and Civil Servants

[teaboot]

Teaboot, you cant be eating your spaghetti out of ziplock bags

give me one legitimate reason why, if I know that I will not be able to wash a tupperware container before it is irredeemably ruined, and posess within myself an incapacitating aversion to my kitchen sink, and knowing that I do not give a cubic ounce of a shit what strangers think of me, I should not transport cold spaghetti in a ziplock bag for mine own consumption

[saintrosalyn]

Hear me out hear me out

John Price deserved to be divorced.

IM SORRY.

But young John Price who jumped the gun and proposed. Afterall it was well known how many men got married and had families while on deployment, if they could do it so could he. But he couldn't.

He was never home. Sitting next to his wife and his mind was still in middle of nowhere Russia.

And really there's only so much on person can take. His wife could forgive the forgotten gifts for anniversaries, birthdays, and Christmases. But she couldn’t even find comfort in his presence. She begged him to change, begged him to leave, begged him to choose her. And he did.

For awhile. Then it was back to the same. So she filed for divorce.

And think of the potential. Older, wiser, had everything and lost it John Price winning back the love of his life.

Who cares if she's already moved on with a husband and kids. If he could be a father figure for his men he could certainly step-up for his wife's kids. And her husband? Well, darlin, accidents happen all the time.

[fah-ren-heit]

very interested in if we’ll get to see any fun little interactions involving mr. solas “i’ve taken precautions to minimize the damage” fen’harel and mr. lucanis “i deliberately stabbed the fuck out of an elven artifact in the hopes that it would weaken the veil and allow for a localized demon riot” dellamorte. like. solas tells rook about these little orbs that help strengthen the veil, rook passes that information along to their crew, and lucanis is like oh yeah i know about those. fucking obliterated one once. and solas has an aneurysm.

[sun-e-chips]

A rough start to Suns day, then back at home some delivery people had the audacity to talk shit about the park

Yeahhhhhh Suns learned to have a lot of patience but once that’s crossed… oh boy

[cosmocove]

but my heart is like a claw machine

[letalis-psyche]

“ Someone took away my sleep and never left a clue,

The finger of suspicion points to you”

Ophelia and her beloved normcore boyfriend who rescues her from all of her shenanigans in the Mojave. Powercouple.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Shenker-Osorio says the left’s enemy isn’t the right, it’s cynicism. The problem isn’t that authoritarians want to erase the division between church and state, or take away our right to control our bodies. The problem is that this minority can get away with these unpopular proposals because the people who disagree with them think nothing can be done to stop them. For Shenker-Osorio, the tonic for this is to switch from the negative framing (“abolish ICE”) to positive ones: “respect all families.” Rather than saying “end the climate emergency,” she wants us to call for “ensuring clean, safe air to breathe and water to drink.” When the right says they want to cut taxes to improve the economy, we counter with, “we’ll raise wages and increase consumption, which is better for the economy.” Shenker-Osorio proposes a three-step method for changing minds. First, identify a shared value (“people who work for living ought to earn a living”). Move on to a problem (“our divisions distract us while rich people pick our pockets and hand the spoils to their corporate cronies”). And then, the solution: “rewrite the rules so that the wealthiest few pay what they owe and all of us have what we need for generations to come.”

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

[i-cant-swim-actually]

my dumbest jean headcanon is that he washes himself at the kitchen sink with dish soap. dish soap is his 13-in-one. jeremy felt how soft his hair is once and hasn’t stopped seething since

[delicatepointofview]

— Harry attending the Manchester United vs Luton Town football match (February 18th, 2024)

[boyrobott]

[hawthornesbiggestfan]

i might be the only one hoping for an alisa ortega card and i think im okay with that

[ouchmyghostskin]

I'm so sad about this one y'all.

I'm also having feelings about capitalisms effect on art of all kinds.

[secretsofthewilde]

Misty Quigley, an absolute icon

[anremithrl]

Why undoing things is hard:

I am inherently, a very lazy person. And I cannot stand being bored. This has, of course, resulted in me being really into coding and automation.

And when I begin my journey as a mathematician, thirteen-year-old me was really sure I'd figure out how to write just the right algorithm that would automatically solve all math problems. But this is actually really hard.

Now, naively, it's really easy. You just write a code that takes the axioms of a system, your premises, and then just tries to apply every single possible rule to generate more statements until it either proves or disproves what you want.

But two problems arise: halting problem, and the fact that it takes a really, really, long time to get anything done.

Maybe you can mitigate the halting problem somehow or something, you could additionally try adding proving the statement is unprovable as a stopping condition, but maybe it is unprovable that it's unprovable, or maybe it's unprovable that it's ... I'll stop.

But that doesn't much matter if it's going to take a twenty years to prove a single statement. At that point, you might as well prove it yourself.

Let's say we have a proof checker, it starts with a proof and then tells you that it is valid. If we run this algorithm backwards, then... shouldn't we get a valid proof?

This, quite obviously, doesn't work. Or at least, doesn't work easily. (The fact that it doesn't work is tied with P vs NP) It's less obvious when you're trying to do this without realising you're trying to do this. But for some reason it took me a while to realise why that wasn't 'easier'.

The reason it doesn't work finally clicked with a Rubik's cube. If I run an algorithm like CFOP on a cube to solve it, then I can run CFOP backwards to get the original position, starting from a solved cube? Nope. Mathematically, the best I can do is reduce it to 1/12th of the states, leaving some 43 quintillion (43,252,003,274,489,856,000) possible starting points which all end up in the same ending point. Running an algorithm backward isn't just some trivial thing. It's a whole millennium problem, you get a million dollars if you figure all of this out, since running verification backwards is what all of P vs NP is.

At some point after that, I learned there's a whole field of math devoted to this.

And today, I watched a YouTube video about someone trying to run Conway's Game of Life backwards. It's not easy to find even one possible backwards step. And I remembered this.

So, to everyone here, I suggest learning about SAT solvers! They're cool! That's a whole branch of math devoted to doing this.