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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why stop there? They're just as real as any number.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just say you recently came into some inheritance and that you are looking into investment opportunities. Then they will expect you to be out of your element, so you won't need to try to pretend you're someone you're not. If they ask about the inheritance, say your grandfather made a fortune selling lumber or something boring like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard it was supposed to be human body temperature, but they used horse body temperature instead because it was close to human body temperature but more... stable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A vector space is a collection of vectors in which you can scale vectors and add vectors together such that the scaling and addition operations satisfy some nice relationships. The 2D and 3D vectors that we are used to are common examples. A less common example is polynomials. It's hard to think of a polynomial as having a direction and a magnitude, but it's easy to think of polynomials as elements of the vector space of polynomials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You didn't use photos as evidence. You used the lack of results in a Google image search as evidence. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence and a single Google image search isn't a very thorough search for evidence to begin with.

Also Genocide doesn't imply killing. There are forms of genocide that doesn't involve mass murder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Lol at the way you conceptualize evidence. Also lol at the way that you don't know what genocide is.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (13 children)

sets a dangerous precedent where the government knows better than the markets

Wtf. You could say this about literally any law. Outlawing murder-for-hire sets a dangerous precedent where the government knows better than the markets. Making people pay income tax sets a dangerous precedent where the government knows better than the markets. Speed limits set a dangerous precedent where the government knows better than the markets. What a terrible argument.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Imaginary numbers are no more imaginary than real numbers. The name trips a lot of people up. If you want to call imaginary numbers "dark unicorns" then you really should say the same thing of the numbers 1, 2, and all other numbers as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You're thinking of topological closure. We're talking about algebraic closure; however, complex numbers are often described as the algebraic closure of the reals, not the irrationals. Also, the imaginary numbers (complex numbers with a real part of zero) are in no meaningful way isomorphic to the real numbers. Perhaps you could say their addition groups are isomorphic or that they are isomorphic as topological spaces, but that's about it. There isn't an isomorphism that preserves the whole structure of the reals - the imaginary numbers aren't even closed under multiplication, for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, you're close. You seem to be suggesting that any measurement causes the interference pattern to disappear implying that we can't actually observe the interference pattern. I'm not sure if that's what you truly meant, but that isn't the case. Disclaimer: I'm not an expert - I could be mistaken.

The particle is actually being measured in both experiments, but it's measured twice in the second experiment. That's because both experiments measure the particle's position at the screen while the second one also measures if the particle passes through one of the slits. It's the measurement at the slit that disrupts the interference pattern; however, both patterns are physically observable. Placing a detector at the slit destroys the interference pattern, and removing the detector from the slit reintroduces the interference pattern.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Binary supremacy!!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This problem doesn't involve cardinal numbers.

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