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The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth
Submitted 4 months ago by BB84@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Now I want to read the first recipe for π
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 months ago
and it was a cult?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.
They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.
Geobloke@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he’s from and Muhammad is a common first name. It’s like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig
BB84@mander.xyz 4 months ago
As always, relevant Wikipedia links:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
literally completely accurate
I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Literally completely consistently
mriormro@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Shall we go back to the time when “tubular” was acceptable?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I mean… yes?
It’s “tubular”!!! It was even in Super Mario World!
Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Do you mean that your sadness levels are consistent among all times you’re exposed to bad examples of this linguistic change?
Should it not be “constantly saddened”, meaning that sadness is caused often upon you when seeing such examples?
If this is the case, I can relate to that. Or should I say… it do be like that sometimes
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I might be wrong, but since “saddened” would express a change towards more sadness, “consistently saddened” would mean I get sad (or more sad?) every time I see that kind of thing. However, my intention is to say more that the saddening is consistent - every time I see something happens, consistently. I’m not permanently sad, but the way the language is changing is usually making me sad.
I feel like “constantly” might not be appropriate here, but again, I might just not know English well enough myself. To me, constantly would mean unchangingly, meaning I never stop being saddened. In this context, I feel like that means my mood is continuously descending - but instead those are isolated instances of temporary saddening of varying intensity.
Of course, it’s just a lighthearted comment on a meme, but I’d be happy to learn if my understanding is wrong! And, honestly, I don’t mind this kind of slang and internet speak, but it annoys me to see “literally” lose its meaning and gain the actual opposite meaning, that kind of thing.
yetiftw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
your loss then; I like it!
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 4 months ago
When I was a little child I was sad German isn’t the common language (“how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!”). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn’t German, I wouldn’t want that to happen to my language.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is becoming unruly. Or rather the users are.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 months ago
The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.
MagicShel@programming.dev 4 months ago
My algorithms are generally named
// Garbage - rewrite when we have timeDarkenLM@kbin.earth 4 months ago
And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bob here is O(n)
Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That’s why they’re called Al Gore-isms, no?
Moriarty@startrek.website 4 months ago
So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.
If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.
Longpork3@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.
Just ask
TeslaEdison!rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.
Contravariant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
roosterduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
john backflip is that you???
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Wait till you learn about Al-Gebra (no, really that’s not made up either). Also the famous Catherine Calculus and Sir Georgometry.
vxx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also Pi-Thagoras
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I heard a first earther recently say it as: pe-tha-gore-ian
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Isn’t algebra just an Englishized Arabic for “the math?”
Damage@feddit.it 4 months ago
From this dude’s wiki page:
His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), […] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. “completion” or “rejoining”).
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I’m seeing a pattern
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Blind Al helps Deadpool though???
bamfic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
allergy? Al Dente?
Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ala carte?
pyre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
al- is Arabic for “the”, and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I read a book in 6th grade math class called “A Gebra Named Al” that explained most of this.
nieceandtows@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow, this is crazy fascinating
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 4 months ago
dumbass@leminal.space 4 months ago
Not that book.
z00s@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
Zatore@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm
derpgon@programming.dev 4 months ago
My algorithms could be considered gore
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Man i remember learning this in CS class
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth’s up-arrows vs Conway’s chained arrows.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 months ago
You’re telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?
GiveOver@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 months ago
No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras
Kolrami@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.
I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.