micnd90
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- Comment on women are the devil 6 days ago:
Katy Perry was literally 30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney. Here are some of her literal quotes while in space
“It’s not about me, I’m here to talk about the world.”
She then sings
“We’re going to put the ass in astronaut.”
“for the benefit of Earth.”
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 4 months ago:
Just FYI, BTW
- Comment on Just Terrible 5 months ago:
When you say the first element of a matrix, first implies one and not zero. This is how linear algebra was invented (on paper, by a human mathematician), taught, and passed down to fellow humans.
Starting indexes at zero stem from the lineage of C programming and binary nature of computer. For example,
Computer memory addresses have 2^N cells addressed by N bits. Now if we start counting at 1, 2^N cells would need N+1 address lines. The extra-bit is needed to access exactly 1 address. (1000 in the above case.). Another way to solve it would be to leave the last address inaccessible, and use N address lines.
This is why, math and physics people who learn linear algebra and matrix calculus learn to index at 1 (on a piece of paper) while computer science programmers index at 0.
- Comment on Just Terrible 5 months ago:
MATLAB is for matrix calcs. Matrix indices start at 1, fight me. Given a matrix X of 2x2 size, you write
x_11 x_12
x_21 x_22
Matlab has many issues, amongst other accessibility (which can be remedied by piracy), closed-software, but as a program designed to do computational matrix manipulation, starting at index 1 is literally correct. CS majors go home.
- Comment on a few centuries 6 months ago:
What’s funny about that newspaper excerpt is that it is word-for-word plagiarized from a picture caption in earlier article in Popular Mechanics, March 1912
The reporter for Rodnen and Otamatea Times must’ve been on tight deadlines!
- Comment on Be an influencer. 💅 7 months ago:
I’m more of an EGU Copernicus guy
