9 hours without xkcd?
https://xkcd.com/652/
OK, so its only semi-related.
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The time machine wasn't big enough to fit a bomber drone
A smaller drone with a grenade, on the other hand...
Roomba with a boomba if you will
Then they realized humans could defeat the robots, so they sent Trump back in time to finish the job.
No need to bother. We're self-destructing without anyone having to send anything.
What a wild counter-idea. "Go back in time and kill Hitler": played out. "Go back in time and clash with the invading aliens who have sent their own people back in time to destroy us from the past by installing players that will wreck us as a species over time": oh. As I say it, this is half-way to This is How You Lose the Time War
The strongest evidence for time travel being possible is that there have been 42 assassination attempts on Hitler
All those attempts, and Hitler's actual assassin didn't get paid for his very nice shot.
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This is How You Lose the Time War
it was the Doctor.
That's just the plot of Earth defense force 6
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Anyone care to explain what a geometric rate is?
It’s really a term from statistics. It’s the same as an exponential growth rate, but you only take the value of the exponential function at discrete intervals.
If you had a function you wanted to graph like 2^x^, exponential growth is like saying x can be any real number (even a fraction or something) and every part of the line you draw is counted, but geometric growth would be a discrete value for x like [1, 2, 3, …, n] where x is from that interval pattern. It’s useful in statistics for measuring data based on something like time. The examples I was taught were like cells splitting in two at a fixed time interval. You can still draw the graph like it’s a single curve to visualize it, but the actual data points are at discrete values for x and just not in between.
I haven’t had a stats or math class in a long time, but I believe this is correct enough from a quick scan of Wikipedia.
Yeah, that's basically how I remember it, though it's not always stats--the terms are used in other fields of math as well. A first calculus class typically includes a proof that the limit of the sum of an infinite geometric series (a + ar + ar^2 + ar^3 + ...) tends towards a/(1-r) where a is the first term and r is the ratio of successive terms, provided that -1 < r < 1. (Otherwise the series diverges and the limit isn't defined.)
Absolutely! I vaguely remember a discussion of geometric growth in at least one other course, but I was doing my best to give a thorough layperson’s explanation without getting into more analytic definitions for geometric series or the concept of continuity. I studied abstract/theoretical mathematics in my undergraduate degree, so I only really remember seeing geometric growth defined in statistics courses as far as applied mathematics goes as I avoided those courses where I could. I’m not in academia, and I did not pursue a further degree, so my apologies if I wasn’t entirely accurate. My mathematical theory is very rusty these days. lol
Oh, I only minored in math, I'm no expert either! Yeah, your explanation was really fine, I just thought the "sum of a geometric series" thing might ring a bell for some readers.
Its the rate at which geometry geometerates geometrically.
I would know, I'm a geometricologist.
I have a lump on my hypotenuse, any recommendations?
I know a Doctor Pythagoras might have a theory. But it might be irrational to go that route. But you said lumps, so sounds like your developing extra roots. To be absolute, try graphing it. Though it might just get better in a few days, give or take a few.
Basically an exponential function.
It's about 1 gigaArnold/s^2
Skynet starts to learn at a Geo Metro rate.
maybe that's why it's so mad at us
Slow acceleration, built like a tin can and roughly half the size, but gets 40 miles per gallon?
I thought those things got closer to 55mpg?
Idunno, it's been like a decade since I had to lay mine to rest, and I didn't keep track of the gas mileage. I know it was bonkers though
that's assuming they are properly maintained and tire pressure is ideal. the nature of the car precludes this.
That's assuming you don't wreck it before you refill. The nature of the car precludes this.
Wasn't this around the time Trump went AWOL?
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