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computers are queer-positive

they're called transistors after all, not cisistors
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we still don't really see the point of 4k

i can get 1440p maybe but 4k seems excessive
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Looking forward to being able to afford to help people out financially.
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like, the sobel x kernel is just a sort of d/dx, and the y kernel is a sort of d/dy, so what you're computing is basically a gradient
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i just realized

a sobel filter is basically differentiation for images
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watching a video about computational game theory and AI and someone said "okay, so let's draw [the game tree for] go. We're gonna need some more paper," *moves as if to pull something out from under the desk* "And then, a much larger universe to put all that paper in."

i appreciate this style of humor
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how many possible games of tic-tac-toe are there? i thought it would be 9! at first but then realized that some games last fewer than nine turns (one player wins)

either way it's not a very large number as game state trees go
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want to play go with someone

we're not any good at it but it's fun
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uspol 

really fed up with people talking about "antifa" like it's some group people belong to rather than an ideology
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meta info request 

so uh. what happened with snouts? i see people talking about a racism problem and yeah fedi has a racism problem and we need to address that but what happened with snouts specifically to get people talking now?
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good morning all of you good people and non-people

and goo morning to emi specifically because they're goo
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i feel like this has something to do with the fact that there aren't any analogues of complex numbers in any dimensions other than four, eight, and (maybe) sixteen, maybe?
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i remember reading at some point about how the cross product can only exist in three or seven dimensions and i want to understand why that is

anyone here know much about esoteric vector math?
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

best answer to "What's in your pants?":

@chr when you say detective pikachu spoilers you should probably specify whether it's for the movie or the game
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the fact that higher-dimensional spheres are pointy is one of the weirdest things to think about
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so everyone understands what you mean by a whole number dimension

and fractals have positive fractional dimensions covered

but what about negative dimensions?

complex dimension?
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

Hey, so since the term has been going around lately, I kinda want to note that when a lot of people say they are "anti-zoophilia", what they actually mean is "I will call people monsters for engaging with furry art that's less anthropomorphic than I personally am comfortable with, even if they are staunchly opposed to anything that hurts actual animals."

It's okay to be uncomfortable with things, but please don't draw false equivalencies to call people evil.

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