HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on 50% survival rate 1 week ago:
I was thinking more a binomial proportion test with the available data ;)
- Comment on 50% survival rate 1 week ago:
Assuming X~B(20,0.5), that gives us a p-value of…
0.00000095367431640625
Time to reject H0!
- Comment on Please stop 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, twitter was more a stardew valley running the Joja route; but then it turned into X which was more of a Concord - so much money pumped in and so little quality.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 3 weeks ago:
"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’
- Comment on Yes No 3 weeks ago:
I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…
- Comment on The struggle 4 weeks ago:
I feel personally attacked by this!
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 5 weeks ago:
$38,912,465
That’s how much the 1993 Mario Brothers movie grossed worldwide. Really pause and think about that.
Let that sink in.
The mario brothers movie made $7,000,000 more than this, in 90s money. One of the greatest disappointments in movie history, which has a cult following for its level of fail, outperformed Borderlands.
That is the orbital nuke of fails.
- Comment on PhD Funding 5 weeks ago:
“Oh so that’s where my remaining mental health and self esteem are!”
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 month ago:
Spherical geometry - good times…
Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
“Humans engaging in tongue combat to determine fitness of mate. Note the closed eyes, scientists believe this is because of how bloody this ritual could become; humans closed their eyes to keep the blood out.”
- Comment on Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron - A One Page RPG 1 month ago:
I dunno about a fun game to play, but it’s a really neat way to explore Markov chains!
- Comment on Publishing Revenue 1 month ago:
And they wonder why…
- Comment on oreo plates 1 month ago:
Damn, just saw this after posting the same link XD
- Comment on oreo plates 1 month ago:
“Ok class, remember that after geology we’re going to be doing astronomy”
- Comment on Toot toot 1 month ago:
Well, next time I need to fart while lecturing I know what I’m doing…
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 2 months ago:
Yes and no; I’ve met some people who were great to date but hell to live with.
A good relationship starts with both people knowing what they want - and continual contact helps determine if the other person is being honest about what they want. Post 35/30, this process is often a lot faster, and dating skill matters less than ability not to annoy the person you’re suddenly around 24/7.
If it matches from the start, or a compromise grows, you’re in for a winner. Otherwise, back to the sea of the undead you go, no matter how good your dating skill!
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 2 months ago:
Intention and reality are two different things - although I can’t say I ever managed casual dating for 2 years! Usually most folks are in a relationship after 1.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 2 months ago:
I think it goes further than that - post 35 (post 30 really) there is a lot more pressure to shift from casual dating to a relationship at a faster pace.
Life experience talking here too, it isn’t just “being upfront”, it’s also being willing to move at a faster pace.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 2 months ago:
The real secret to dating after 35 - don’t.
Folks are not looking to “date”: they’re after long term commitment OR quick hook ups. The middle ground really vanishes when you get older!
- Comment on Lectures 2 months ago:
Heh, I did this once - mostly because 10+ PowerPoint animations really chug the university issue laptops, and I was presenting somewhere new (software is not your friend).
It was really 15 slides with about 20 animation steps on each - the students didn’t seem to hate seeing a set of fully worked maths problems with colour coding linking parts of the question to the resultant equation.
- Comment on SOS 2 months ago:
He’s looking up, and seeing the giant rain of sheep labelled “teaching load” and “marking AI generated essays” incoming.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 2 months ago:
Question sheets in Word - “Hello, and welcome to indent roulette”
Question sheets in LaTeX - “\item{} goes brr”
- Comment on Conjuring the Sun 2 months ago:
That’s the hottest orb pondering I’ve ever seen!
- Comment on I, too, like books. 2 months ago:
Fun UK fact - we use a different ranking system for lecturers:
Lecturer Senior Lecturer Reader Professor
That means, at some point, someone has been a “Reader in X at Reading”.
- Comment on imnotok.jpg 2 months ago:
- Comment on “A simple calculation” 3 months ago:
"We can trivially show that…’
Turns out, after a page of algebra, it wasn’t “trivial”.
- Comment on I just cited myself. 3 months ago:
Thanks for the bedtime reading!
I mostly deal with foundations of analysis, so this could be handy.
- Comment on I just cited myself. 3 months ago:
Ehh, completed infinities give me wind…
- Comment on I just cited myself. 3 months ago:
Reals are just point cores of dressed Cauchy sequences of naturals (think of it as a continually constructed set of narrowing intervals “homing in” on the real being constructed). The intervals shrink at the same rate generally.
1!=0.999 iff we can find an n, such that the intervals no longer overlap at that n. This would imply a layer of absolute infinite thinness has to exist, and so we have reached a contradiction as it would have to have a width smaller than every positive real (there is no smaller real >0).
Therefore 0.999…=1.
However, we can argue that 1 is not identity to 0.999… quite easily as they are not the same thing.
This does argue that this only works in an extensional setting (which is the norm for most mathematics).
- Comment on Academia to Industry 3 months ago:
Wow… They want to give AI even more mental illness and crippling imposter syndrome to make it an expert in one niche field?
Sounds like primary school drop-out level thinking to me.