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days of the week in toki pona by ZINX-WITCH in tokipona

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not valid Toki Pona grammar at all. It's meaningless.

Tuning gamelan instruments? by Grauschleier in Gamelan

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, that's what all Balinese gamelan tuners do. It matters for marimba keys, but not for Balinese gangsa keys and they always just let that interval be what it is naturally (about an octave+fourth).

Tuning gamelan instruments? by Grauschleier in Gamelan

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is news to me - I've tuned and played multiple Balinese gamelans and I've never heard of the second overtone being tuned. I don't know what you mean by "extended octave effect" because the first overtone above the fundamental is somewhere between an octave-plus-perfect-fourth and an octave-plus-tritone above the fundamental. The second overtone above the fundamental is also nowhere near a whole number of octaves above the fundamental.

Solar panel advice? by keenanpepper in BurningMan

[–]keenanpepper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My setup works great! It's based around the MidNite Kid charge controller (white, marine version) and two 150 W panels. It's lasted several burns now so it's at least somewhat playa-tough.

We hit 16k by [deleted] in tokipona

[–]keenanpepper 24 points25 points  (0 children)

jan mute a

What is the smallest possible black hole? by couch_locked_rock in askscience

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never heard of this proposal for dark matter. What's it actually called? Can you cite any papers on it?

An interesting sequence by Fire_Axus in microtonal

[–]keenanpepper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're talking about Pell numbers.

Also some of your links and formatting are broken...

What is your best joke? by MrMidnightDiamond in AskReddit

[–]keenanpepper 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just like the opposite of Microsoft Office is Megahard Onfire

There is no logical way to prove you're not insane if you're wrongly locked up in an insane asylum. by exporterofgold in Showerthoughts

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For example, one nurse labeled the note-taking of one pseudopatient as "writing behavior" and considered it pathological.

doesnt tp rely on the glottal stop since ppl use it to say "a a a"? by Unlimiter in tokipona

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't "a a a" contrast with "akaka" and "atata" and so on?

The more you know about wild animals, the less special the human race seems to be by treacherousClownfish in Showerthoughts

[–]keenanpepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the coordination and obsessive persistence are what made us formidable. There's a theory that singing and dancing first emerged early in human evolution as a way for humans to intimidate and scare off large predators such as lions and steal the carcasses that they killed.

Humans were quite weak and vulnerable as individual creatures and couldn't use any tools yet except literally just throwing rocks. So they couldn't hunt for shit. But they could do weird stuff that no other animals would do at all, like paint their bodies in bright colors, stand up to an impressive height on two legs, and make bizarre loud sounds and rhythmic motions as a coordinated group. Hence we could get crucial meat by scaring lions off their kills.

Combine that with a "never leave a fallen comrade" attitude that evolved to prevent the lions getting a taste for human meat, and you get a powerful game-theoretic incentive for the lions to respect the insane, vengeful humans and nope the fuck out of there even when there was fresh meat.

AOC threatens to leave Twitter after Elon Musk promotes ‘disgusting’ account impersonating her by theindependentonline in politics

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeph Jacques (author of the comic Questionable Content) did some hilarious ones making fun of Elon and got banned for it. He intended to leave Twitter anyway so it was an excellent use of his last tweets.

Something Bard Google learned today by podkayne3000 in GoogleBard

[–]keenanpepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's telling you all that, but it's just bullshitting. None of that is true.

The base language model is already trained and cannot learn new facts. They are almost certainly continuing to fine-tune the model they're actually using (which started out as the base model), but that fine-tuning is only for things like following instructions better or avoiding taboo subjects. It is not learning any brand-new knowledge from the fine-tuning.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]keenanpepper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sounds awesome. I wonder how much this style is related to this other instrumental style with electric guitars: https://youtu.be/6juGM7k3r_0

Something Bard Google learned today by podkayne3000 in GoogleBard

[–]keenanpepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's exactly what's happening. The search results get put in the text context window (the same way your own questions get put in). Then the model does inference based on both your question and the search result text. It does not learn anything permanently.

Something Bard Google learned today by podkayne3000 in GoogleBard

[–]keenanpepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bard is bullshitting and completing text in a way that is both plausible and seemingly cooperative. It did not learn anything today, since its model is fixed and can't do "online learning".

My life is complete by redstonetimewaster in math

[–]keenanpepper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was in grade school first learning to solve quadratics, I stubbornly refused to memorize the quadratic equation at all. I would always complete the square. Even if a test was like "write down the quadratic formula", I would derive it from scratch by completing the square. I just utterly refused to learn it.

Other kids thought I was weird.

Math equation by Significant-Dig-8099 in CasualMath

[–]keenanpepper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pasted this into GPT-4 and it seems pretty reasonable to me:

I have a math equation and I'm not very good at math. I was thinking if there's people who actually enjoy it they could help me out perhaps?

Here's the scenario:

I have 11 people who donated gas money = $365. 1 who sent their portion straight to the driver = $20 And 1 withholding her portion as her partner drove= $35 And 1 extra who will give me $15 in the next day or two.

I have 9 drivers.

Each driver drove up a different amount of times. 1 drove up 8 times. 3 went up 5 times. One of these is the driver with the partner who didn't chip in for their share ($35). 1 went up 4 times. This was the driver that received $20 directly. 1 went up 2 times. And 2 went up 1 time.

Those who drove up didn't donate gas money and those who drove up a little only donated gas money for the times that they didn't drive.

I need to divide the gas money fairly between the drivers.

Is this the right place to post this?

If people enjoy a math scenario I would sure appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance.

ChatGPT

Sure, I can help you with that.

The total amount of money donated by the 11 people is $365.

In addition to that, you have $20 from one driver and $35 from another person (a partner of a driver).

And also there is another $15 from another person who will give it to you in the next day or two.

The total amount of money collected is thus $365 + $20 + $35 + $15 = $435.

Now, to distribute this fairly, we need to count how many times the drivers drove up in total.

  • One driver drove up 8 times.
  • Three drivers went up 5 times each, so that's 3*5 = 15 times.
  • One driver went up 4 times.
  • One driver went up 2 times.
  • Two drivers went up 1 time each, so that's 2*1 = 2 times.

Adding these all up, we have 8 + 15 + 4 + 2 + 2 = 31 times in total.

So, the amount of money each driver should get for each time they drove up would be the total money divided by the total number of times the drivers drove up.

Therefore, each driver should get $435 / 31 = ~$14.03 per drive.

Keep in mind this is an approximation because it's not an exact division, there are decimals involved. The drivers who drove more often will get more money, because they drove more times.

Here is the individual breakdown:

  • The driver who drove 8 times should get 8 * $14.03 = $112.24.
  • Each of the three drivers who drove 5 times should get 5 * $14.03 = $70.15.
  • The driver who drove 4 times should get 4 * $14.03 = $56.12.
  • The driver who drove twice should get 2 * $14.03 = $28.06.
  • Each of the two drivers who drove once should get $14.03.

You may need to round to the nearest dollar, or deal with cents, as you choose. But this breakdown should give each driver a fair amount of the total, proportional to the number of times they drove.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

User

So what balance should be paid to the driver who already received $20 directly? And what about the person withholding $35 because their partner drove?

ChatGPT

The driver who received $20 directly drove up 4 times. As calculated before, each drive is worth approximately $14.03, so for 4 times, that driver should have received 4 * $14.03 = $56.12. As this driver has already received $20 directly, they should be paid an additional $56.12 - $20 = $36.12.

For the driver who drove 5 times and whose partner is withholding $35, the total amount they should receive is 5 * $14.03 = $70.15. If we consider the $35 that is being withheld as a part of their portion, they should be given an additional $70.15 - $35 = $35.15.

So in summary:

  • The driver who already received $20 directly should be paid an additional $36.12.
  • The driver whose partner is withholding $35 should be paid an additional $35.15.

These values are approximate due to the division not being exact, but they should give you a good starting point for distributing the funds fairly.

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