you ever just think about fast invsqrt and how utterly absurd it is but also how elegant it is at the same time
-F
@starkatt The basic idea is you do some floating point stuff, then forget that the number is floating point and do integer arithmetic to it, then you remember that it's floating point and do more float stuff
-F
@Felthry It's amazing that it works so beautifully and elegantly
@Felthry It's amazing but I don't understand how you can call it "elegant", it's literally a pile of hacks in a trench coat
@socks I guess I just think it's elegant when something is used very effectively for something it's not intended to be used for
-F
@Felthry Yeah, see, that's fair, but to me that is the opposite of elegant
@socks You're a mathematician, we're an engineer :P
-F
@Felthry That miiiight have something to do with it!
@Felthry yes, ever since my first boyfriend introduced me to it like a decade ago(!)
I don't totally understand it.