Comment on velosaur

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.

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• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Displacemenraptor/timeraptor

  Actually that’s still wrong.

  dDisplacemenraptor/dTime. Otherwise you cancel out the raptors.

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or you could go with:

    (Displacementeraptor/ Timeraptor) * Vectoreraptor
    

    The d is only needed if it is changing.

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why *vector? Displacement is already a vector; distance being a scalar.

      The d is only needed if it is changing.

      Ah, is this a constant speed raptor?

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      • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah, is this a constant speed raptor?

        If you look at it for a small enough amount of time, that is (so d can be implicit)

        Or you can get Average Velociraptor

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      • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah my bad, I wanted to write “Distanceraptor” as in the post.
        Forgot that by the time I got to actually writing it.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah we need a distanceraptor

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