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- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1 day ago:
OpenAI’s new model was able to get 5 out of 6 questions (a gold medal) on the 2025 International Math Olympiad. I am very surprised by this result, though I don’t see any evidence of foul play.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 5 days ago:
My initial thought was that it’s surprising that the engineer is using i whereas the mathematician is using j. But I know some engineers who are hardcore in favour of i. No mathematicians who prefer j though. So if such an engineer were dating a mathematician of all people who used j, I could see that being ♠ .
- Comment on It's just loss. 6 days ago:
tbh their claim of 99% has no source. So it was really kind of pointless of me to include that link.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
I didn’t mean to be critical. I thought it was very funny actually.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I know. It’s just still more than I expected.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
Thanks for this one, a really valuable find:
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
You’re right to question the boiling. I was thinking of death by suffocation in heated steam. Boiling is not the technically correct term.
You’d be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you’re not doing that
who is not doing that? Me specifically or animal rights people in general? I don’t see why shutting down a particular farm would be very helpful, the scale of the problem is incredibly massive; passing laws would be much more effective. I would like to see laws passed, though, to stop these kinds of abuses. What would make you think I am not interested in that?
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I know. It’s still more elephants than I expected.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
60 % of mammals are livestock, not 60% live in factory farms
99% of US farmed animals live in factory farms, according to this random website I just found. I don’t claim to be an expert, though, and worldwide is probably lower than than 99%, but I would bet you that the vast majority of livestock is factory-farmed.
Agreed though that not all livestock are factory farmed. I should have clarified.
A seal in the 4% living in the wild may be eaten alive by a killer whale or torn to shreds by a great white shark.
That’s bad, though probably not anywhere near as much agony as being boiled alive for several hours. Regardless of whether you feel morally obligated to reduce wild animal suffering, you should admit that (a) from a utilitarian perspective, it’s much easier to reduce factory farm suffering, and (b) from a deontological perspective, factory farming is (collectively) our fault, whereas the food chain isn’t.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
more elephants than I expected tbh
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
Livestock have to live through horrible agony, like the worst kind of torture. This means (by biomass, which some people correlate indirectly with moral worth), at least 60% of mammals on Earth undergo horrible torture. Bentham’s Bulldog, “Factory Farming is Literally Torture.”
Excess pigs were roasted to death. Specifically, these pigs were killed by having hot steam enter the barn, at around 150 degrees, leading to them choking, suffocating, and roasting to death. It’s hard to see how an industry that chokes and burns beings to death can be said to be anything other than nightmarish, especially given that pigs are smarter than dogs.
Ozy Brennan: the subjective experience of animal’s suffering 10/10 intense agony is likely the same as the subjective experience of a human suffering such agony.
- Comment on we are creators 1 week ago:
Didn’t they leave a retro-reflector on the surface of the moon after the first mission? This seems pretty definitive to me.
- Comment on we are creators 1 week ago:
It’s been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 week ago:
i hate phones
(i have no other comment.)
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 week ago:
heavenly hunk.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 2 weeks ago:
my expectation is that this troll is not merely conservative, but actually intentionally malicious.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 2 weeks ago:
My understanding of the word “shitpost” is that it means good-natured trolling.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 weeks ago:
This or something similar has happened to everyone I know
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 weeks ago:
Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 weeks ago:
yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 weeks ago:
How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 2 weeks ago:
He’s a science guy.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
It’s not simply notation, since you can prove the identity from base principles. An alien species would be able to discover this independently.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
Why would you assume I don’t have the context? I have a degree in math. I could be wrong about this, I’m open-minded. By all means, please explain how infinitesimals don’t have a consistent algebra.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
Not very good mathematicians if they tell you they aren’t fractions.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
e^iθ^ is not just notation. You can graph the entire function e^x + iθ^ across the whole complex domain and find that it matches up smoothly with both the version restricted to the real axis (e^x^) and the imaginary axis (e^iθ^)
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
try this on – Yes 👎
It’s a fraction of two infinitesimals. Infinitesimals aren’t numbers, however, they have their own algebra and can be manipulated algebraically. It so happens that a fraction of two infinitesimals behaves as a derivative.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
oh huh, neat
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
In Comp-Sci, operators mean stuff like
>>,*,/,+and so on. But in math, an operator is a (possibly symbollic) function, such as a derivative or matrix. - Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 2 weeks ago:
it’s legit a fraction, just the numerator and denominator aren’t numbers.
