Cyclists: every pavement is a shared space if you’re going fast enough.

Project zomboid with 200% zombie spawn…

Guessing a survival time of approx 10 mins?

A lot of it is pacing - once you get left behind it’s hard to catch up.

Also, no-one shows them anything sexy like triangles on a sphere, horocycles, or matrices encoding multiple transformations.

We’re a spirited minority!

This is c/shitposting ;)

Mathematics is something anyone can enjoy.

Downvotes take me, I’m ready.

They want to see if AI can still function while getting randomised bitflips?

Your bank account certainly will be.

That said, if you buy refurb you can put together a decent rig on a budget.

I mean, I run open note exams (annotated formula books - hand written), no limit on what can be written.

2 students still scored zeros - these are students who scored 90%~ on the coursework. Suffice to say, they did not pass.

Most universities have been parasitised by a quality control department that insists “assessment should be authentic and accessible”.

In short, profs are forced to have heavy credit bearing coursework that students almost all cheat on.

Ah fuck… No wonder old maths texts are a nightmare to get hold of recently…

My students are learning that $1^{58008}=1$

Ye gods, I can smell the armour polish AND the cheeto dust in this thread.

The translation holding up is hilarious, it really does and you can hear the emotional damage that causes out there; I do wonder if it struck a genuine nerve.

The amount of “protect the children” out there is also priceless - this is one of the best outrage manufactories I’ve seen in years; I look forward to that outrage fuelling more surveillance laws.

She doesn’t care about your height, only whether or not you’re bright!

AHH, so that’s how the rich get ultra-tech while everyone scraps old machines for parts!

I wondered how we’d take that step to cyberpunk dystopia.

As someone who has taught both mathematics and statistics in his life the real difference boils down to proof Vs evidence.

The mathematician is uncertain because Gödel showed no system can prove its own consistency. Proof is (generally) rigourous enough that this is the main issue; once it has been proven (assuming your axioms are good), it’s considered true.

The statistician is uncertain because they work with samples rather than the population. There is also the issue of inferring causation even if your sample isn’t unrepresentative. With statistics you’re always building evidence, but you can never have concrete proof via statistical methods alone.

Also fun fact, given that there is more than one type of mathematics (e.g. platonist Vs intuitionistic), some giving different answers to the same question (excluded middle/trichotomy on the reals), and all of which are equiconsistent, we realise that mathematics really is just a branch of philosophy (i.e. what axioms are you willing to believe).

So Lemmy and Mastodon are mirrors of two popular forms of social media; what I think might be the next real step is innovation.

No, not a fediverse AI, something more human and “old web”. A federated forum system paired with a solid fedi-search engine could do slot of good - especially with the walled gardens and AI slopfest that the surface net is becoming.

Alas, this isn’t a post about Linux - the bar can go nae higher.

That carries more self-awareness than one can reasonably imply from vulture-capitalist shareholders.

Honestly, Microsoft may be full of arseholes, but moves like this at least one sane human works for the company.

It takes balls to admit you fucked up , and this is one employee showing some balls.