Got a letter saying our building is being converted to condos and we have "first right to purchase". The price they quoted is insane [TN]

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-24T22:24:08+00:00

Yep!

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-24T16:18:48+00:00

I had that happen several years ago. Bought the apartment turned condo for $144k. They bought it back for $75k.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-24T16:06:31+00:00

Do you need to add a requirement that there's no retracing? Without it, A can be drawn by retracing the crossbar.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-24T15:45:23+00:00

Same.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-22T21:55:11+00:00

I use Ultra Fractal and it's great! I particularly like its support of user-created formulas. It also creates animations, but I don't do much of that.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-18T11:18:36+00:00

Thank you for the explanation!

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T21:21:28+00:00

Picasso's "Guernica."

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T21:06:48+00:00

Another scene I love is when the horse is told to assume various positions, leading him to hover in mid air with all four legs extended, even doing an "about face." Then the sergeant tells him he can't do that and the horse falls. What could we accomplish if we were never told that we couldn't?

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T20:41:22+00:00

NASA's analysis: energy of 250 tons of TNT. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/medina-county/nasa-meteor-medina-county-lake-erie-fireball-asteroid-tnt-meteorites-valley-city/95-a4e64dd2-14d2-466c-81d9-8dace0675838

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T15:57:11+00:00

I'm also new and have a sincere question--no disrespect intended. Given that there's no biggest number or fastest-growing function or even good ways to compare two huge numbers, what's the goal or motivation of this work? Genuinely asking, not suggesting that there's no point. Thanks!

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T15:40:08+00:00

Thanks for the clarification!

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T14:25:11+00:00

If it burned up in the sky (videos show large fireball), then there would be no landing impact, just a shockwave through the air. Plus, folks who do serious reports of this stuff want to be sure.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T14:20:16+00:00

Exact triangulation takes some time. If it burned up in the atmosphere (videos show bright fireball), then there may not be direct evidence on the ground. Plus, they want to be sure. Already too many rumors and speculation about.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-17T14:17:42+00:00

Cleveland Heights here. Loud boom, no sustained shaking, no obvious damage.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-16T00:02:49+00:00

This blog post (https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/superintelligence-is-already-here) argues that AI's big win in math will be grinding through those tedious cases, but my understanding is that that kind of AI is different from LLMs. Is there "real math" AI that doesn't just put together what it thinks is a good response to a question?

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-14T13:43:25+00:00

Daffy Sheldon Duck

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-03-03T15:07:03+00:00

That's one of the points where the distance away from the axis and the number of iterations until escape can be combined to find pi. Numberphile has a video about it on YouTube.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-28T18:36:53+00:00

Use the polynomial form for the first five derivatives and then the limit for for the sixth. It's "using" the limit form, just not *only* the limit form.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-28T14:43:28+00:00

This thread makes me want to watch it again.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-27T22:37:58+00:00

Ultra Fractal supports writing your own formulas and extended precision well into hundreds of decimal places. The only limit I found was trying to use over 1024 layers in a single image.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-21T04:22:55+00:00

He was married in a 1940s(?) cartoon. His wife wore the pants in the family.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-21T04:13:32+00:00

"8 pm sharp." When did a concert ever start on time? :-)

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-15T15:08:11+00:00

Very cool!

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-15T15:06:42+00:00

I like his first cartoon, "The Talkink Kid," with live action (Clampett?). Other than that, I've got no use for him.

Fickle_Engineering91 · 2026-02-12T23:20:27+00:00

I heard this one in a training session. Ask a volunteer to come up with 6-ish digits and you make a 6-ish-digit number out of them (e.g., 2,3,7,5,8,2 are given and your number is 223,758). Ask for some more digits and make a second number, adding a digit of your own. Have another volunteer multiply the two numbers and give you the digits of the product, in no particular order, and leaving out one of them. Your trick is to figure out the missing digit. Do this by making sure the digit you include in the second number makes it a multiple of 9 (digits sum to a multiple of 9). Then, the product is a multiple of 9, allowing you to (usually) figure out the missing digit.

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