Show more

Love seeing all the bookshop.org links up in here. Y'all are alright

@BlueStateBabe @thedisasterautist
Disclaimer I am not a mathematician I just hang around with a lot of them because I was raised wrong

@BlueStateBabe @thedisasterautist
I think there's an idea that math instruction focused on calculus excludes people who had weaker math education coming up. There are big drop offs in of majors, BS, MS, etc to support that. In the process statistics as a topic is delayed/lost to them. Which is a practical knowledge everyone should really have.
So the argument I've heard is, put linear algebra and stats before any mention of calculus and let stats be a terminal subject for most folks.

@MrGoat I can help.
Second Book of Chronicles, chapter 4, verses 2 and 5, tells us King Solomon built the Temple of Jerusalem with a Sea (tub) of cast bronze ten cubits across completely round. Five cubits tall, and a line of thirty cubits circumference.

The ratio of 30 cubits for the circumference to 10 cubits for the diameter “from one brim to the other” of the “completely round” circle gives the value of pi as being exactly 3. Good enough for Indiana.

You're welcome.

@MrGoat not too long now will be able to apply for asylum on Walmart/7 Eleven/etc property, as per Snow Crash.

@Oma_Trisha we got the northern end of that storm line, same result. Messy morning!

@TomeReader @BreakingNews or at least not a round trip ticket.

Was that mean? It felt kinda mean.

@janallmac @TetsuKaba with that much money don't care about credit, so stiffing a landlord makes more sense than the hassle of renegotiating the lease?
Rich people problems.

@TetsuKaba
This is absolutely wild. It's like a case study of having too much money yet sucking at running a company.

Show more

backsaw - я українець

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.