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Can you just get a tattoo that says Fast and the Fourieriest instead?
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Rabbit Hill posted:Is the Greek text below written in ancient, medieval, or modern Greek? (The book is a 1571 edition of the Roman Pandects, which were originally written in the 6th century AD.) Given that it's a transcript of a 6th century decree by Justinian, it falls right on the border between Late Ancient and Early Medieval Greek.
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May 6, 2023 06:13
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Mister Speaker posted:Well like I said, while I find the concept fascinating for its wide range of applications, I'm mostly concerned with audio. Which of these would be more appropriate, given that context? The first one is for analog audio and the second is for digital audio. The second one is DFT and FFT is a way to compute the DFT.
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May 6, 2023 11:12
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At work we're having a team wall sit challenge for our healthy living incentive program. I'm 100% remote, so I do these at home. I've noticed that even after less than a week, the paint on the wall I've been using is smudged and marred. I've tried an interior door, but that flexes somewhat alarmingly. How can I protect my wall?
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May 6, 2023 15:55
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Inceltown posted:Can you just get a tattoo that says Fast and the Fourieriest instead? OP, do this
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May 6, 2023 17:45
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hooah posted:At work we're having a team wall sit challenge for our healthy living incentive program. I'm 100% remote, so I do these at home. I've noticed that even after less than a week, the paint on the wall I've been using is smudged and marred. I've tried an interior door, but that flexes somewhat alarmingly. How can I protect my wall? Using painter's tape (the blue stuff), tape up a big swath of butcher paper?
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May 6, 2023 21:41
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MyronMulch posted:Using painter's tape (the blue stuff), tape up a big swath of butcher paper? As a bonus, this will be slipperier than the wall and make it more challenging 
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May 6, 2023 22:05
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VictualSquid posted:The first one is for analog audio and the second is for digital audio. Thank you for clearing this up! Further to this, maybe I should go back to the Maths Thread with this Q, but I've been rewatching 3Blue1Brown's video on the Fourier Transform in an effort to better understand the math, and a phrase they keep using to describe the equation is "our machine" for extracting harmonics. Is this true of most calculus and mathematics in general, that you could visualize a bunch of different graphs to help think of a working equation as a 'machine' for extracting a particular set of values from given data? I've seen, for example, simple animated GIF graphs that display how sine/cosine/tangent functions work, and it made me think "gently caress, if I had seen this in 10th grade Functions class, I wouldn't have come so dangerously close to failing." I wonder, then, if visualizing these more complex equations as 'machines' would be a useful learning tool for someone like me who always had trouble wrapping my head around the mechanics of it all, but wishes to understand more of it in adulthood.
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May 7, 2023 08:22
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Mister Speaker posted:Thank you for clearing this up! Not sure if it will help, I went a totally different way to learn this. I have always seen the transformations as looking at the same thing from a different angle, due to the way I learned it. And like most signals engineers I see the frequency domain as the natural form and don't even think about the time domain most of the time. I also ultimately went on to learn to see all those transformations as projections between function spaces, which is admittedly kinda useless for most people. Though you should also watch 3Blue's current series on convolution, it will eventually merge back to explaining fourier transforms from a different angle.
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May 7, 2023 11:14
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Just yesterday all the text on this site and pretty much every other web page has shrunk to like size 6 on my phone. But it shows 100 percent when I check the settings. Nothing new updated, everything is just super tiny and I have to flip to landscape to even read anything. If I enlarge the text in settings, any web page with images, they now overflow the screen. Wtf happened?
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May 7, 2023 11:54
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Cowslips Warren posted:Just yesterday all the text on this site and pretty much every other web page has shrunk to like size 6 on my phone. But it shows 100 percent when I check the settings. Nothing new updated, everything is just super tiny and I have to flip to landscape to even read anything. It's probably helpful to tell us which phone? Also use the awful app, it's way better than posting in a phone browser.
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May 7, 2023 13:20
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BonHair posted:It's probably helpful to tell us which phone? Also use the awful app, it's way better than posting in a phone browser. Ah sorry, pixel 4a. The app would work for this site but not others.
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May 7, 2023 13:46
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Mister Speaker posted:Thank you for clearing this up! I don't really like that analogy but if it helps you then run with it.
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May 7, 2023 14:58
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Cowslips Warren posted:Just yesterday all the text on this site and pretty much every other web page has shrunk to like size 6 on my phone. But it shows 100 percent when I check the settings. Nothing new updated, everything is just super tiny and I have to flip to landscape to even read anything. Desktop mode?
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May 7, 2023 15:09
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Chickpea Roar posted:Desktop mode? nope, that was unchecked; when i checked it, it made everything even smaller.
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May 7, 2023 15:28
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I think another goon found it was something in their accessibility settings had been switched on, so maybe try looking there?
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May 7, 2023 15:48
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Is there a Steam Deck thread? I want to see about putting Tale of Two Wastelands on my Steam Deck but I don't know how feasible/easy that would be.
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May 7, 2023 17:25
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Why is turkey lunch meat significantly more... I don't know, structurally sound? than chicken? Particularly if you get it cut at the deli rather than prepackaged stuff like Oscar Meyer.
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May 7, 2023 17:26
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DildenAnders posted:Is there a Steam Deck thread? I want to see about putting Tale of Two Wastelands on my Steam Deck but I don't know how feasible/easy that would be. Here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973713 hooah posted:Why is turkey lunch meat significantly more... I don't know, structurally sound? than chicken? Particularly if you get it cut at the deli rather than prepackaged stuff like Oscar Meyer. Probably the lower fat content. Turkeys are leaner.
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May 7, 2023 17:29
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Tesseraction posted:I think another goon found it was something in their accessibility settings had been switched on, so maybe try looking there? it's weird because the text is small but the left side on the forums, say where the avatars are, are normal sized. that text is fine too.
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May 7, 2023 19:12
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They keep trying to sell me on it, and I'm nearly lonely enough for it to work, so I'm curious; does Tinder Gold (and the equivalent on other dating apps) actually make any kind of a difference?
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May 8, 2023 00:25
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Leave posted:They keep trying to sell me on it, and I'm nearly lonely enough for it to work, so I'm curious; does Tinder Gold (and the equivalent on other dating apps) actually make any kind of a difference? no Hinge is the only dating app that's worth anything at all. Just have nice pictures and put effort into writing a hello message and you will be better off. Even I get matches that way
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May 8, 2023 00:29
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Leave posted:They keep trying to sell me on it, and I'm nearly lonely enough for it to work, so I'm curious; does Tinder Gold (and the equivalent on other dating apps) actually make any kind of a difference? My experience with it was so bad. Never again with dating apps. Tinder is full of bots and strange people trying to shill crypto, AT BEST. At worst it's just a terrible blow to self esteem. I've had way better luck just saying nice things to random ladies.
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May 8, 2023 04:06
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hooah posted:Why is turkey lunch meat significantly more... I don't know, structurally sound? than chicken? Particularly if you get it cut at the deli rather than prepackaged stuff like Oscar Meyer. It really depends on the quality of deli meat. Very cheap meat is essentially minced and then compressed into a ball before slicing. Better meat will take several different muscles, brine them to saturate with water, and then compress them into a roundish object. The highest quality meat will be just whole muscles. Since turkey breasts are much larger than chicken breasts, you're more likely to come across whole breasts with turkey than chicken.
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May 8, 2023 05:51
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Methanar posted:Hinge is the only dating app that's worth anything at all. Just have nice pictures and put effort into writing a hello message and you will be better off. Even I get matches that way  Bumble is the worst though. Badly-made app, for a start; frequently failed to work properly on a basic level. Plus, the time limit on matches (if you match with someone and they don't message within 24 hours, the match disappears) means that if you aren't on there literally every day then it's worthless, and even if you are it's still way too easy to miss that window.
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May 8, 2023 05:54
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OKCupid was the only one that got me reasonable dates as well - I've heard good things about Hinge but missed it during my dating days. On OKC, paying was worth it but I ended up going out with a lot of people in a short amount of time and if your hit rate is lower it may not be worth it. Honestly, it was just a way to get numbers/(at the time) gchat handles so you could talk more easily. But people tried on OKC more than they did on, say, Tinder.
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May 8, 2023 16:54
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Tesseraction posted:I think another goon found it was something in their accessibility settings had been switched on, so maybe try looking there? I checked accessibility, everything's the same as before. I did notice that when I turn my phone into landscape mode everything is normal size. Is there some kind of setting that would change the text size between landscape and vertical?
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May 8, 2023 21:08
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A riddle / math problem, I can't decide which of two potential answers is correct. You have a coworker and you know they have two children but don't know their gender. One day you see a photo of one of his children, a girl. What are the odds that the other child is a boy? 1. 50%. Each child's gender is an independent 50/50 event. 2. 67%. There are four possible scenarios: older child female / younger child female, older child female / younger child male, older child male / younger child female, older and younger both male. The last one is eliminated since we know there is at least one daughter. Of the remaining three options, two have a boy.
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May 8, 2023 22:58
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regulargonzalez posted:A riddle / math problem, I can't decide which of two potential answers is correct. 1 The logic on 2 is unsound because the girl you’ve seen could be either the younger or older of two daughters.
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May 8, 2023 23:08
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Good chance this will be the next few pages. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox for a good breakdown on the ambiguity inherent in the question that leads to confusion.
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May 8, 2023 23:29
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Platystemon posted:1 Ahhh that makes sense. Girl / girl isn't one option it's two.
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May 8, 2023 23:34
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regulargonzalez posted:You have a coworker and you know they have two children but don't know their gender. One day you see a photo of one of his children, a girl. What are the odds that the other child is a boy? I feel like you should respect your coworker's decision not to have a gender. Let's talk about the sleeping beauty paradox instead. wikipedia posted:Sleeping Beauty volunteers to undergo the following experiment and is told all of the following details: On Sunday she will be put to sleep. Once or twice, during the experiment, Sleeping Beauty will be awakened, interviewed, and put back to sleep with an amnesia-inducing drug that makes her forget that awakening. A fair coin will be tossed to determine which experimental procedure to undertake: The two main competing arguments are that she should answer 1/2 or 1/3. The argument for 1/2 is that there has only been one event, the fair coin flip, and the probability of the coin landing heads is 50%. The argument for 1/3 is that because she has no memory of prior events, the only thing that she knows is that she is twice as likely to be asked the question when the answer is tails than when it is heads AND that the answer is the same each time she is asked. the official answer is  , but I think that's because there is an ambiguity in the question; it doesn't specify if the scope of the credence is each interview or the whole experiment. If it's the whole experiment, then 0.5 would mean she makes 0.5 on a head and loses 0.5 twice on tails for an expected value of -0.5 instead of 0; credence then has to be determined by the weighted total of interviews in which the correct answer is heads/total number of interviews, or (1/3) in this case; if she gets woken 9 times instead of twice credence becomes 1/10. If we change the odds of heads and tails to 90% and 10% respectively (by e.g. saying "heads is rolling 1-9 on a fair D10 with 0-9 on the faces, tails is rolling a 0"), what happens to the experiment credence? Well, there is still one interview in which the correct answer is heads, and two where the answer is tails, but pr(Heads) is now 0.9 instead of 0.5, so we want to solve 0.9(1-x) = 0.1*2*x [1] to get breakeven: the answer is x = 0.9/1.1, or just under 82% [2]. 9 wakeups on tails changes the equation to 0.9(1-x)=0.1*9*x , or x = 0.9/1.8 = 50%. Of course, if you are Sleeping Beauty, and you get paid out after each interview, you should see if they will let you place 50,000 bets of $0.01 each on heads; if you are right, you'll net $49,000, if you are wrong you've lost $1,000. Of course, this assumes that the payout is fair and they aren't going to protect their grant by telling you you lost.... [1] quick check: we should get 1/3 from 0.5(1-x) = 0.5(2x), and we do [2] another quick check: we should get a small +ve from 0.19*0.9-0.2*.81 (we do, 0.009) and a small -ve from 0.18*.9-0.2*0.82 (we do, -0.002).
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Trapick posted:Good chance this will be the next few pages. jesus christ
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May 10, 2023 18:51
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No he was definitely a boy.
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May 10, 2023 19:39
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regulargonzalez posted:A riddle / math problem, I can't decide which of two potential answers is correct. Was that supposed to be OLDER rather than other? This whole discussion has been baffling otherwise.
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May 10, 2023 23:39
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Without meaning to denigrate other posters, a lot of people don't understand statistics. They did mean 'other' though.
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The problem with questions like this is that in order to assign a probability to something, you need a model that specifies what's random. The answers you get are very sensitive to the assumptions you make about that model. Imagine that there are four households with two children each, one for each possible combination (BB, BG, GB, GG). If you pick a house at random and one of the children is a boy, the probability that the other one is a boy is 1/3. But if you pick a child at random, the probability that their sibling is a boy is 1/2 because the houese with two boys is twice as likely to be represented as the other two. You can come up with other sampling schemes that make the probability to be any value you like. Because there's no information about the probability model in the question we're given, there's no definitive probability. (My favorite variation on this is the Tuesday version, which shows just how important it is to document your assumptions and calculate carefully.) ultrafilter fucked around with this message at 00:43 on May 11, 2023 |
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May 11, 2023 00:33
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ultrafilter posted:The problem with questions like this is that in order to assign a probability to something, you need a model that specifies what's random. The answers you get are very sensitive to the assumptions you make about that model. Should that be 1/3?
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Yes, thank you. Edited.
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