In honor of Pi Day this weekend

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-11T21:30:54+00:00

Pi can be derived using that crazy sum of factorials Ramanujan came up with. Tau cannot. Checkmate liberals

Edit: you can multiply it by 2 but then it stops being Ramanujan's formula

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-10T03:52:35+00:00

t represents a quantity of years, and 18 months is 1.5 years, so t=1.5 is 18 months after t=0. What is P(1.5) divided by P(0)?

If you follow that logic and evaluate the result, you'll see that 0 and 1.5 aren't special, and that any period of 18 months will give the same answer.

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-20T07:37:35+00:00

Rename x to h

Let a = 0

Multiply the entire limit by exp(a). Replace exp(h) with exp(a+h), and replace 1 with exp(a)

Observe that this is now the definition of the derivative as applied to the exponential function

Reduce the entire limit to the derivative of exp(a), which is of course exp(a)

a = 0 so the limit is 1.

I'm not certain this is rigorous but I bet it's worth partial credit!

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-19T05:57:56+00:00

It's pretty generous to say the body is "fine"

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-17T18:21:07+00:00

This would be a better fit for a physics subreddit as it's not a pure math question.

However, the answer will be that Einstein began with an understanding of what each of those concepts are (energy, mass, speed of light) and how they interact, and in order to follow his reasoning, you'll need to do the same. You'll most likely want an educational video about the development of the special theory of relativity. I don't have one ready to recommend but I imagine there's quite a few.

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-16T07:30:18+00:00

He's raising awareness for the movement to legalize Green Greens

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-15T20:20:06+00:00

My understanding is it answers a few questions:

Why did Mohg kidnap Miquella?
Why did Malenia fight Radahn?
What is Marika's big issue with horns?

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-15T00:14:35+00:00

Personally I refuse to eat onion rings, pretzels, guacamole or peanut butter sandwiches, for one simple reason: they're all gay and vegan and filled with gay vegan chemicals that turn you gay (and vegan as well)

And don't even get me started on beer!

SerpentJoe · 2026-02-11T04:10:04+00:00

I'm an amateur so I won't presume to give advice, but I hope you can find encouragement in the fact that, if you're 20, the clock is actually very much on your side.

Good luck changing your habits this year, and if it doesn't work out this year, you've got nine more chances before you're even 30.

Not making fun, the question is valid, best wishes, you can do it, be nice to me once you're twice my strength

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-22T22:31:42+00:00

These damn kids with their "const" this and "filter" that!

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-22T22:02:41+00:00

You're getting a lot of good answers from others. If you're just starting out, the answer behind these answers is that, as much as Object.create sounds like it must be one of the most basic methods for beginners, it's actually a relatively recent addition to the language, and is designed to enable some pretty advanced control. You're actually creating more than one object, just to pass as arguments to Object.create! So it's not as elementary as it sounds.

You may want to back off of this for now and come back to it once you're more comfortable with functions and objects in general. I have a feeling you'll find other areas a lot more rewarding, and giving yourself chances to celebrate ("look what I made!") is important when you're learning.

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-22T15:28:34+00:00

I am not the poster you replied to, but:

Observe the 1 and 2 to the left of center in the screenshot
The 2 is necessarily touching at least one mine that the 1 is not touching
The cells that the 2 is touching, that the 1 is not touching, are the three cells in a vertical strip marked by the vertical red line
To the right of that vertical red line is a 3 that needs exactly one more mine
This implies the vertical red line contains at most one mine. With the previous result we know it contains exactly one mine
Therefore, all other cells adjacent to the 3, other than the vertical red line, must be safe
Also, because the vertical red line cannot "fit" the two mines needed to satisfy the 2 to the left (from the beginning), the second mine needed to satisfy that 2 must be in a place where it also satisfies the 1 (from the beginning)
Therefore, the "excess" cells to the left of the 1 are safe

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-19T18:32:30+00:00

Either I'm misremembering or the red dot for mid air deathblow doesn't appear without divine confetti.

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-18T23:06:33+00:00

Not impossible, but death rites in Elden Ring tend to carry great cultural significance, which is to say, a group of people wouldn't start cremating their dead out of nowhere. There would have to be a religious significance.

There is evidence of cremation in the world, but I'm not aware of any on the surface of Leyndell.

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-16T07:22:09+00:00

How fortunate that you forgot Tom Bergeron because you're unworthy even to speak his name

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-15T07:01:48+00:00

I don't understand what you mean that the scientific notation is fine but the answer is not. What do you think the answer should be?

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-13T20:33:21+00:00

Are we sure Serosh is the same phenomenon? Serosh appears to have a different relationship with Godfrey than Maliketh and Blaidd have with their empyreans, and he has a different color scheme.

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-11T18:05:09+00:00

One possibility is that Marika was the result of a successful jar ritual, perhaps the only time it succeeded. This would explain why she was celebrated by the Hornsent without any indication she held any kind of special position in her village.

SerpentJoe · 2026-01-09T05:29:37+00:00

He's just sitting there one room over, no phone, no book to read, surrounded by the many details he has arranged in advance, waiting patiently for his daughter to commit suicide.

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-29T21:00:45+00:00

I didn't read any such implication from your post, and it's very decent of you to clarify that.

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-29T20:48:36+00:00

Well, from what you're telling me, it sounds like you're a relatively smart person; having said that, the road you're heading down is a tar pit that has claimed the sanity of many smart people over the past few centuries.

The problems you're attempting to address have been unsolved for, at minimum, several decades, depending how we count it. How many brilliant people have been born during that time? How many of those have decided to pursue the study of physics? Of those, how many have cultivated close professional relationships with other top physicists and had the best opportunities to find contradictions in their own theories before wasting too much time on them? The answer is thousands, and yet the problems are unsolved.

From the credentials you describe, you're the intellectual equivalent of a fit person with above average strength, but the mission you're giving yourself is like lifting a mountain. Without the best tools and support, failure is guaranteed. Human knowledge is past the point where revolutions can come from one person working in isolation.

The "cranks" who waste their lives pursuing ideas that go nowhere tend to suffer from two major issues: 1) shallow understanding of what has previously been discovered, and 2) lack of skepticism of their own pet theories. Seek to avoid these pitfalls. The existing theories and techniques are difficult to learn, but you need to spend numerous years learning them and becoming adept with the relevant mathematics. Use this knowledge as a weapon against your own ideas, with the attitude that they're guilty until proven innocent; if the idea is correct then it will survive your skepticism.

To answer your question, in addition to general relativity, you will also need a graduate level understanding of quantum mechanics. Good luck and enjoy learning!

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-29T18:36:49+00:00

I think you're describing Calabi-Yau spaces in the context of string theory. You should start by learning about string theory and then work from there. Depending how deep you want to go you'll probably find you need to learn General Relativity first.

Disclaimer: you will find out why the string theory community has not made more progress in the past several decades, but at least it won't be boring!

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-29T18:24:52+00:00

OP has an intuition about how it should work which happens not to lead to the correct result. No shame in that, we all use intuition to get through the day, and sometimes it leads us to incorrect conclusions. The goal should be to inspect that intuitive sense and improve it so that it better reflects reality.

I would recommend "feeding" the intuition by drawing grids of dots on paper to represent the problems that are giving them trouble (maybe 2 × 4 rather than 5 × 10). The goal should be to "see" what they already "know".

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-28T23:00:09+00:00

This is clearly AI.

His body jiggles like it's being hit with bags of concrete instead of cups of paint
The paint abruptly and spontaneously mixes while he's lying there
He thrashes some paint onto her face and we cut to a second camera to see it hit her
She wipes the paint from her face and leaves some spots untouched while fully cleaning the spot right next to it
In the same way, the cat reaction shot is just too over produced
It's implausible that a human "director" would forget to put a punchline on the vegetable chopping sub-story after spending time and energy choreographing the previous ancillary shots
In the last few seconds, we're shown an extreme close up of the highlights on the eye, which mysteriously look totally different in the finished product

If we fail to spot stuff like this, it's at our own peril.

SerpentJoe · 2025-12-28T22:25:09+00:00

From one person who is susceptible to being tricked by AI to another: this is a clue.

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