The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
It's probably my STEM privilege speaking, but isn't that common (enough) knowledge?
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@obeselymorbid I think it's fair to say more people will understand
http://members.rennlist.com/951_racerx/PS84_Diff1.gifthan the mathematical differential.
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@RaceProUK What about an LSD though?
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@obeselymorbid
I'll admit that I did not get the joke at all. Though I'm just a wussy Economics major, rather than a hard STEM field.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid I think it's fair to say more people will understand
[picture of something with gears]than the mathematical differential.
I don't think that's fair at all. I recognise some words from that picture like gear and axle so I'd wager a guess this is something related to transmission, but I have no fucking clue as to what a differential is in that context.
And driving is my second favourite thing to do.
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@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What about an LSD though?
Whether 'lysergic acid diethylamide' or 'limited slip differential', I don't understand how either works. TBH, I barely understand how a normal diff works.
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't think that's fair at all.
My thinking is there's more mechanics than mathematicians. Then again, I may be mistaken.
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
hard STEM field
I'm a university dropout and calculus is one of the least favourite parts of maths for me. I was exposed to the ex jokes way before calculus though so that might be the reason why it sticked.
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I've been on a WILTY kick lately (context: everyone has to figure out if the guy is telling a lie or not):
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid I think it's fair to say more people will understand
http://members.rennlist.com/951_racerx/PS84_Diff1.gifthan the mathematical differential.
Those differential pinions aren't the same piece of metal are they? Because that wouldn't work.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Those differential pinions aren't the same piece of metal are they?
I'd assume not.
TBH, I just GIS'd and grabbed the first image that wasn't shit
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
TBH, I barely understand how a normal diff works.
OT for this thread, but I always love an opportunity to post my favourite* educational video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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@bb36e I'll check that out when I have time.
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've been on a WILTY kick lately (context: everyone has to figure out if the guy is telling a lie or not):
INB4 he got the milk for free?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Those differential pinions aren't the same piece of metal are they? Because that wouldn't work.
They're on the same piece but not of it.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
I see what you did there.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
It's probably my STEM privilege speaking, but isn't that common (enough) knowledge?
The notation? No, sadly not, at least over here in Germany. Our mathematics courses at school only use the Lagrange notation for derivatives (i.e.
f'(x)
would be the first,f''(x)
would be the 2nd andf'''(x)
would be the 3rd derivative). The Leibniz notation is usually reserved for university courses.
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@Rhywden When I read differential equations in Leibniz notation, they always come out in Porky Pig's voice.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden When I read differential equations in Leibniz notation, they always come out in Porky Pig's voice.
When I mention Leibniz to my pupils I always have to tell them that, no, it's not a cookie.
It's a rather sad state of affairs, really.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
It's probably my STEM privilege speaking, but isn't that common (enough) knowledge?
The notation? No, sadly not, at least over here in Germany. Our mathematics courses at school only use the Lagrange notation for derivatives (i.e.
f'(x)
would be the first,f''(x)
would be the 2nd andf'''(x)
would be the 3rd derivative). The Leibniz notation is usually reserved for university courses.That's strange (to me at least). We used both notations relatively interchangeably in high school, college, and grad school. As well as the fun Dx notation for total derivatives.
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@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@RaceProUK What about an LSD though?
It makes it a little harder to understand either differential when it's a dragon trying to eat your refrigerator.
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@Benjamin-Hall We only used it in school because it made our Physics lessons easier. You don't really need the
d/dx
notation if you're staying strictly one-dimensional.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall We only used it in school because it made our Physics lessons easier. You don't really need the
d/dx
notation if you're staying strictly one-dimensional.Once you go into higher numbers of dimensions, you start to need
δ/δx
and that old favourite∇
…
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall We only used it in school because it made our Physics lessons easier. You don't really need the
d/dx
notation if you're staying strictly one-dimensional.yup, as long as you remember to include time as a dimension (although we usually used the dot notation--which I have no clue how to reproduce here) for time derivatives).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
dot notation
the Rock and Roll Umlauts of mathematics
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Our mathematics courses at school only use the Lagrange notation for derivatives (i.e.
f'(x)
would be the first,f''(x)
would be the 2nd andf'''(x)
would be the 3rd derivative).How does that handle integration?
Hmh.
f⁽⁻¹⁾(x)
… don't really care for that. And it looks bizarre in monospaced fonts.
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@dkf Well, for integration we did and do use Leibniz notation. Yay for consistency!
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
Paging @Groaner ...
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
It's probably my STEM privilege speaking, but isn't that common (enough) knowledge?
The joke relies on knowing that integrating or differentiating ex results in ex.
I wouldn't think that's common knowledge.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
Paging @Groaner ...
Psh. I find such humor to be blandly derivative.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
When I mention Leibniz to my pupils I always have to tell them that, no, it's not a cookie.
Easy mistake to make though. Over here "Newton" gets almost exactly the same response.
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@izzion since no one tried to explain the joke:
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@bb36e Fixed. no one thinks about us dark theme users :/
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@Jarry said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e Fixed. no one thinks about us dark theme users :/
Not even other dark theme users?
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@loopback0 not even, it's a sad sad world for dark theme users
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@Jarry said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 not even, it's a sad sad world for dark theme users
They bring it on themselves
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I use a medium-dark theme. I like how the focused post looks:
It makes unread threads extremely distinguishable from already-read threads too.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It looks like it's a dead Jedi Master, come back as a ghost.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It makes unread threads extremely distinguishable from already-read threads too.
I use Unread which doesn't need to, but they're still easy to distinguish.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@r10pez10 That belongs in the nerdy jokes thread, as knowledge of calculus is integral to understanding the joke.
It's probably my STEM privilege speaking, but isn't that common (enough) knowledge?
The joke relies on knowing that integrating or differentiating ex results in ex.
I wouldn't think that's common knowledge.
Well, there's a variant of the joke which actually needs an understanding of the Leibniz notation or it falls flat on its face (I mean, even flatter than mathematical jokes usually do, that is):
A constant and ex walk down the street. Suddenly the constant stops abrupty and starts to sweat. "What is with you?" asked ex. The constant answered: "Well, do you see that guy down the street? That's the differential operator and if he reaches us he'll differentiate me ..." and then wails: "... and I'LL BE GONE!"
"Ach, begone then, if you have zero tolerance for that kind of thing. I'm ex, he can differentiate me all day long and nothing will happen!"
So the constant legged it back the other way while ex continued down the street.
Upon meeting the differential operator, ex promptly confronted him aggressively: "Oh, so you're the mighty differential operator? Well, I'm ex, try your best, you can't do anything to me!"
The differential operator nodded with a faint smile, tipped his hat and answered: "Nice to meet you. I'm d/dy, by the way."
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hmh. f⁽⁻¹⁾(x)…
That's the inverse function in German school book notation. Because fuck consistency with a purple cactus!