#maths examples

[er-cryptid]

Adding and Subtracting Significant Figures

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[wicked-ghoul]

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[telugxrl13]

indian time is like girl math—they’re both fucked up but somehow make sense

[infiniteorangethethird]

not smart as in intelligent but smart as in "people use my above average skills in math to deny me support in every other area of life"

[bitchfitch]

I've been using that fatigue tracking app for about a month now, and so far the main benefit has been like, having proof it's not all just in my head you know? The second benefit has been the contextualization. bc like, When you're sick all the time forever it's really easy to lose sight of what normal is.

for me their scale works out to be that 5 is above average, 4 is doing peachy/normal function, 3 is shits sus be careful bc it's going to be rough, 2 is cancel your plans, 1 is not one Ive gotten yet. (first day was a bad data point from not groking how it worked yet) and idk. Ive had four normal level of function days in the last month. Those should be like. the most common not the least. Confirmed crippled by the app™ and what not I guess

[thefallenangel2008]

"Oh, I would rather be homeless than do sex work" ok, good for you, but don't be a dick to people who would rather have a roof over their heads and not worry about when they're gonna have their next meal.

[iwillstabyou]

Happy (very belated) number day!

Yes, I know number day was on the 6th of February and it’s not really a thing for most of you guys, but I think you’ll appreciate this.

As a maths nerd, I love dressing up for number day, and as an even bigger inside no. 9 nerd, there was really only one number that I could pick this year…

Yep, I really did it. I dressed up as David from diddle diddle dumpling and carried a shoe around all day. Did people realise that I was dressed up as the number 9? No. Did I give a flying fuck? No.

Very fun, would recommend

[thepandalion]

"its ok, you don't need to know verbs, you're not a linguist, you're a dog" -me, to my dog, right now

[siph-by-induction]

DO YOU ALL WANNA SEE MY PROOF THAT REFLECTION AND STRETCHES ARE COMMUTATIVE CAUSE I PROVED IT ALGEBRAICALLY AND IT WAS SO FUN

if this gets a note i share my little proof :3 it's very short and uncomplicated i promise

[er-cryptid]

Physics and Integration [Ex. 1]

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[thistledropkick]

So uh... Immediately after Wrestle Kingdom, the big show that brings in both new and lapsed NJPW fans, and Wrestle Dynasty, the AEW crossover show that was intended to bring new overseas fans to NJPW... New Japan management decided to take the only commentary staff member who speaks any Japanese at all off commentary for two months? So the only remaining English language commentator will just not have any clue what anybody is saying during the entire show? Right when a large influx of new English speaking fans is expected? And they're doing all this just as Kidani, who owns NJPW's parent company, was complaining to Tokyo Sports about how NJPW isn't getting enough overseas fans? Have I got that right?

[chongoblog]

hey Goofy Math Soviet, what is calculus?

legit, it wasn't necessary for graduation at my school so i never took the class

Basically, it deals with integrals and derivatives, which is tough to explain but I can try.

Remember in earlier math you learned about slope? You know, y=mx + b? If you don’t recall, a slope is basically how steep a line is. Now if you’re looking at a straight line, then it’s pretty easy to determine the slope. Just look at how steep the line in question is and boom. There ya go.

For example take this red line up here. Every time it moves to the right by 1, it moves up 2 and vice versa. So this line has a slope of 2. Simple, right?

But what if we have a line that isn’t as straightforward? Like this curvy boy down here

What’s the slope of this line? A little tougher because how steep the line is different depending on where you are on the line.

That’s where derivatives come in. A Derivative will tell you what the slope of a line is at a given point in time. For example, at the dead center of the graph, the curvy boy has a slope of zero (since it’s flat right there). Once it hits the first square to the right it’s already reached a slope of 2. And at the second square, it’s reached a slope of 4!

How do I know this? Well because I have played you! The red line we looked at earlier is actually a graph of the derivative for the curvy line! So you can use that one to determine how steep the curve is at any given point! So like at -2, the slope is -4, etc.

Integrals are simiar, but in reverse, where you take a look at a derivative and draw out what the original would look like.

I’m being super reductive right now for obvious reasons but thats the bread and butter of calculus. You can do some really really wacky things especially with integrals and as you get further into calculus you use detivatives and integrals to do some dark magic. It’s pretty neat.

Hope this helped!

[lotusishere]

I HATE STATISTICS! I HATE IT! I HATE IT! I CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE!!! IF I SEE ANOTHER HW QUESTION ASKING ME “How do you calculate the correlation r?” I’M GOING TO COMMIT SEWERSLIDE! DO I LOOK LIKE I KNOW HOW TO CALCUATE THAT?! NO.

Like what the fuck is this?!

[olive-nothere]

Correct me if I’m wrong because at the end of the day I did fail math and I’m still a rookie when it comes to F1 BUT there’s two things that have crossed my mind and I fail to see people mention when it comes to the whole argument about how a lot of people think Oscar should just have let Lando switch places with him in Monza because “Lando has more of a chance to win the championship” and those things are:

1) Oscar is still in contention (even though yes it will be much harder for him to achieve than if he was in Lando’s position); and

2) even though F1 is a team sport, it’s also a individual sport and Oscar is not going to sacrifice his chances to at least be vice champion just because Lando has more points as of now and specially since he still has a chance to actually win the championship.

Like call me a dumbass or whatever but if I was in Oscar’s place I wouldn’t just give it up if I was still in contention. Not to mention that nothing is set in stone yet so. Oh well anyways would love someone who’s more knowledgeable to correct me if I’m wrong lmao

[cherrymothwaves]

I feel like fandom culture needs to put more value on friendship than it does. I love shipping just as much as the next person, and there are plenty of pairings that I’m obsessed with—but way too many of us treat friendship like it’s a much less valuable connection than romance, and that is just not true at all. Friends can be your family. Family is significant and it will never not be. People always say „they’re just friends.“ and what do you mean JUST!!!!! THAT IS STILL AMAZING. IT IS STILL LOVE. PLEASE RECOGNIZE PLATONIC LOVE YOU GUYS

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two