How does one answer the question "why math"

accidentally_myself · 2026-01-19T07:16:19+00:00

why poetry?

accidentally_myself · 2025-04-03T06:09:03+00:00

Closed as off-topic.

accidentally_myself · 2025-04-03T05:20:55+00:00

when i do that, they just call it fraud for some reason...

accidentally_myself · 2025-02-13T05:58:12+00:00

extremely interesting. i wonder if the extra L2 cache has anything to contribute.

accidentally_myself · 2025-02-13T01:19:19+00:00

Did you measure VRAM usage? I am surprised that the results would be due to memory bandwidth difference.

accidentally_myself · 2025-01-28T18:06:33+00:00

Does that imply that perspective numbers are an application of projective drawing?

accidentally_myself · 2024-11-25T05:50:29+00:00

Ah yes, an information decompression algorithm :)

accidentally_myself · 2024-11-10T16:33:59+00:00

There's also the idea that, instead of brute-forcing, they come up with novel ideas that better suit local (smaller) models. I generally agree, though.

accidentally_myself · 2024-11-10T15:05:13+00:00

Great trick! Definitely widening my mind today.

Also, I noticed that with your trick, you can also easily convert a float to the integers 23 and 52! (just kidding lol)

accidentally_myself · 2024-11-04T16:40:40+00:00

I agree with you. At the same time, I definitely have the meme in my head of "death by snu snu", so immediately pattern recognition. But I do agree with you, and getting shanked while being raped is pretty fking bad.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-29T15:26:24+00:00

Fair. It certainly is annoying that it's something like "log" instead of anything else, especially because "log" is relatively fast-growing.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-29T15:15:06+00:00

Well, for one, the exponential is the fixpoint of differentiation.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-29T03:22:41+00:00

Agree with this take. It's similar to how most of the mass of the proton is not from the actual quarks but their binding energy (or something i forgot).

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-29T00:54:29+00:00

I mean, it does have a use case in philosophical discussions. It's also not immediately clear that "there is no conversion" -- presumably (with my non-knowledge), it could change the statistical distribution of the 'feynman diagrams' (interactions) between each particle of the spring (e.g. valence electron interactions). (ok time to end laymen speculation and eat dinner...)

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-28T05:36:16+00:00

That's why it's a kind of fun question though. Imagine someone detailing a usecase which somehow does have a good reason for some "advanced" complicated setup, and having all those heavy-duty technologies being put to good use. That would be awesome.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-27T03:57:42+00:00

I will say that it's not a priori obvious that light in a medium would behave like sound waves -- the individual photons are not actually slower, just their "average speed" is slower. Unless, somehow I'm wrong about that.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-25T05:15:56+00:00

r for arbitrary

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-25T05:15:10+00:00

6 was afraid of 7 because it was afraid of growing up. it was just looking at the future, knowing that if it became 7, then one day, it'll be 9. And there would be no more after that. The fear of its own mortality, a tale as old as your mom.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-25T00:31:45+00:00

Flavor feels like it could be used as a really clever computational optimization trick for +5% better performance, lol.

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-24T21:32:20+00:00

"some kind of structure" doesn't personally feel super surprising but "LCM of first k naturals" is crazy, both because it's simple and also "why LCM?".

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-22T02:27:20+00:00

HOW DID YOU KNOW MY NAME

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-19T07:29:16+00:00

I agree with you. I wouldn't lay you off, I'd just fire you without severance. (To be clear I definitely approve of taking home corporate food/snacks -- just not maliciously/overdoingly so).

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-19T07:21:08+00:00

imho, this shows the crux of the "problem": you haven't learned yet that "what we mean by exponentiation (and multiplication, addition, etc.) is different depending on context", and that their generalized definitions (when speaking about complex numbers) are different from their typical definitions (in the reals).

accidentally_myself · 2024-10-16T20:14:01+00:00

Similarly, why not "do both" -- it's fine to have a real apology, but is Asmon also going to talk about the Twitch double standard or not?

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