the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth
the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545
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You're telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?
130 0 ReplyYes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.
/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.
23 0 ReplyWas he friends with Jean De Rivative?
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Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth
14 0 ReplyYou joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.
I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.
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The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.
114 0 ReplyWait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.
56 0 ReplyNow I want to read the first recipe for π
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You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.
22 0 ReplyTropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.
4 0 Replyand it was a cult?
3 0 ReplyAiry discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.
They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.
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It's even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he's from and Muhammad is a common first name. It's like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig
67 0 ReplyAs always, relevant Wikipedia links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
66 0 Replyliterally completely accurate
I'm consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔
49 0 ReplyLiterally completely consistently
13 0 ReplyI am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.
12 0 ReplyDo you mean that your sadness levels are consistent among all times you're exposed to bad examples of this linguistic change?
Should it not be "constantly saddened", meaning that sadness is caused often upon you when seeing such examples?
If this is the case, I can relate to that. Or should I say... it do be like that sometimes
9 0 ReplyI might be wrong, but since "saddened" would express a change towards more sadness, "consistently saddened" would mean I get sad (or more sad?) every time I see that kind of thing. However, my intention is to say more that the saddening is consistent - every time I see something happens, consistently. I'm not permanently sad, but the way the language is changing is usually making me sad.
I feel like "constantly" might not be appropriate here, but again, I might just not know English well enough myself. To me, constantly would mean unchangingly, meaning I never stop being saddened. In this context, I feel like that means my mood is continuously descending - but instead those are isolated instances of temporary saddening of varying intensity.
Of course, it's just a lighthearted comment on a meme, but I'd be happy to learn if my understanding is wrong! And, honestly, I don't mind this kind of slang and internet speak, but it annoys me to see "literally" lose its meaning and gain the actual opposite meaning, that kind of thing.
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your loss then; I like it!
8 0 ReplyWhen I was a little child I was sad German isn't the common language ("how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!"). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn't German, I wouldn't want that to happen to my language.
2 0 ReplyIt is becoming unruly. Or rather the users are.
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The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.
45 0 ReplyMy algorithms are generally named
// Garbage - rewrite when we have time
27 0 ReplyAnd will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.
7 0 ReplyBob here is O(n)
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I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That's why they're called Al Gore-isms, no?
36 0 ReplySo he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.
31 0 ReplyThe Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.
If it wasn't for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.
27 0 ReplyBuilt off it, rather than copied it. That's par for the course in most science.
17 0 ReplyGood scientists copy, great scientists steal.
Just ask
TeslaEdison!9 0 ReplyEdison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.
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I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.
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john backflip is that you???
27 0 ReplyAlgorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I'm seeing a pattern
19 0 ReplyAl must be stopped before he does any more damage!
14 0 ReplyBlind Al helps Deadpool though????
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allergy? Al Dente?
9 0 Replyala carte?
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al- is Arabic for "the", and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.
8 0 ReplyI read a book in 6th grade math class called "A Gebra Named Al" that explained most of this.
There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.
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Wait till you learn about Al-Gebra (no, really that’s not made up either). Also the famous Catherine Calculus and Sir Georgometry.
18 0 ReplyPi-Thagoras
10 0 ReplyI heard a first earther recently say it as: pe-tha-gore-ian
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Wow, this is crazy fascinating
14 0 ReplyHuh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
6 0 ReplyI thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm
3 0 ReplyMy algorithms could be considered gore
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Man i remember learning this in CS class
2 0 ReplyI thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth's up-arrows vs Conway's chained arrows.
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