If you told me the creator of that show didn’t get the equation right because they had no idea what it was even called to look it up, I would believe you.
Velma can't math.
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I have textbook dyscalculia. I am a geospatial wizard, but I cannot remember my pin or calculate a tip.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I feel like a number of the concepts in this infographic are loosely (if at all) defined. As in - they don’t represent established concepts in education and they could have been made by a single party talking out their ass. Or maybe I just have dyscalculia.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was making grits the other day. The can had instructions for 1 serving, and 4 servings. I didn’t want 1 or 4, I wanted 2. So, I wrote a quick interpolation program on my Casio. Once I ran it, I realized 2 is just double of 1.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
On a sidenote, the rule 34 of her is top notch👌
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The new Velma show gave birth to THE best fanmade animation about Scooby Doo youtu.be/inJUFqeJehE
So while I didn’t enjoy the show, I’m grateful for it
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely, its okay if you didn’t, but people got really carried away with just how much they hate
womenthe show, it’s a cartoon, enjoy it or dont, don’t act like Rome is burning before your eyesgood jokes, inclusive characters, queer people that don’t die in the first episode, fun subversion of expectations, meta humour about tropes, a fun mystery, cancelled too soon, but there’s still 30something episodes
it made me reasses how I felt about Mindy Kaling’s work as a whole, turns out I had been caught up in the misogynistic whirlwind in the past, I’ve really enjoyed her older stuff upon revisiting it since seeing Velma
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
I really enjoyed Velma. I didn’t really care, but wanted to show it to my terminally offline wife to see her honest reaction and she loved it from the first scene and we continued watching it.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You gotta be trolling, right? I guarantee you “women” aren’t the reason people disliked Velma. The Golden Girls ran for 7 seasons from 1985 to 1992, I personally really liked watching the reruns even in a seemingly random order.
The reason Velma upsets people because the entire show is meant to upset those people. It’s not a real show. It’s a shitpost that targets racial and sexual majority groups. I’m sure they could have made a show if they wanted to and instead they made a shitpost. It’s got the same appeal to the people who like it as white hoods have to the clan.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I was a stupid ass teenager when it came out and people online convinced me it was the worst shit to ever grace any screen ever. Maybe I missed out.
hayvan@feddit.nl 5 months ago
When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn’t used it since, I am enraged.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.
Mpatch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The fucking what flavor.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Tonne not tone < tonne is the measurement/a lot, whilst tone is sound
Flavour not flavor, you don’t want people thinking you’re a gross American.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months ago
I’m terrible at making math jokes, but I don’t have any proof.
Marz157@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same here, but I’ll suck it up and make one if I halve two.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Such an strange error. I’m not saying it’s AI but here’s my prompt:
Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula
Here’s the pic:
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 months ago
I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long…
that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Check out this bad boy.
m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I suspect it’s an OCR error.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That makes about a million times more sense
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 months ago
I’m guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add a different-size font and although they knew how to type “√”, didn’t realize “²” is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.
individual@toast.ooo 5 months ago
why is she even thinking about this?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
She’s in high school in the show.
individual@toast.ooo 5 months ago
never had that kinda math at my high school
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 5 months ago
Wrong formula aside, what is the meaning of dividing an entire equation? (x = b) / a
Crazazy@feddit.nl 5 months ago
quotient equivalence under an equivalence class “a” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_type
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 5 months ago
Okay, but even if we assumed (x=b) to be a very small equivalence relation, it should appear in the denominator position to form an equivalence quotient.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You know, I remember the formula, but I don’t remember what a, b, and c are
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
They are all superfluous if you know how to do quadratic expansion.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 months ago
Do you have a truly universal method for quadratic expansion that is easier to remember and compute than the formula? Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy quadratic expansion and always give it a few shots before resorting to the formula.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re the coefficients of a quadratic equation! Y = ax^2 + bx + c
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I used to be able to do calculus and now I don’t even remember algebra
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A negative boy was unsure about a radical party.
The boy was a square, so he missed out on four awesome chicks.
And the whole thing was over by 2am…
Ging@anarchist.nexus 5 months ago
Now we just need this in song form which is how I was taught lol
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was just taught it to “pop goes the weasel”.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 5 months ago
This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding
pitaya@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Thanks
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 months ago
You ignoramus. This is what allows us artistic geniuses to freely unleash our gifts to the world, what we call “creative liberty”.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re not getting your deposit back if those creative juices soak in.
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 months ago
… Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did they use AI to generate that?
josephc@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn’t have the font or doesn’t recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you’ve ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that’s like what happened here.
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
i was wondering that too
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neural Network (bad one)
expatriado@lemmy.world 5 months ago
didn’t get an animation job for the math skills
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Animation software didn’t have super script, so now power ofs.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
It is very, very bad.
baines@lemmy.cafe 5 months ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.
Starski@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Don’t you be talking smack on my beloved haunted hotel
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
they got rid of scooby doo
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The second season’s arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general
i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely
glimse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
One of the worst parts of it is that Scooby Doo has had tons of successful series and they’ve all been pretty good. Yet they somehow managed to fuck this up despite it being an incredibly simple formula for a show.
FishFace@piefed.social 5 months ago
I mean maybe it’s just some other formula
shoki@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve never seen an equals sign inside a term
FishFace@piefed.social 5 months ago
Well I didn’t spot that
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 months ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
As someone terrible at math, I appreciate the explanation for what’s so wrong here.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It makes to term into a boolean ☝️🤓
Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Are both sides being divided by 2a?
stray@pawb.social 5 months ago
You start by dividing both sides by 2a, and then you can multiply both sides by 2a to get rid of the 2a’s from both sides. Doing this will give you a sense of accomplishment whenever you don’t know how to proceed.
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 months ago
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 months ago
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Why so… Negative? /s