Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 99

@max

Well no its not. Science is not anyting that involves consensus, that is just democracy. They are defining a word here, and not based off any discovery or anything we learned experimentally.

We redefined the word because we liked the new definition better, because it felt more "useful" to us. That isnt science, nothing about that has much to do with science really, its just linguistics.

What is unique here is they decided to appropriate an existing word, and redefine it to mean something similar but new. Usually when we need new vocabulary words in science for convenience we dont redefine words already in common usage (particularly among non-scientists). We create new ones.

But yea, in the end, this wasnt really a scientific process in any meaningful way.

@null0x0 @Vamp898

@design_RG bookmarked

@georgia

Probably :)

@chikara

@georgia

Yea that was probably the date.

@chikara

@chikara The issue being that words are defined by usage, not committees.

@design_RG Nope, single man. Would be too hard to narrow down my love for the women in my life down to any one woman exclusively. Luckily I am honest about that fact so no guilt either :)

@design_RG I'm usually too drunk to be bothered :) I love weddings, as long as it isnt my own :)

I have a hankering to do something with linear algebra or at least something with imaginary numbers..

"Weddings are basically funerals with cake." -- Rick & Morty

Kinda cool, Awesome version of Skeletor:

http://geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=9626&fbclid=IwAR3f9Cw74VaXWs2Bt7Wr4pgTbRljeQKdCrEww5lGsX-5JBatjnLeB_BhD4M

@Deepsealioness Very sad indeed :( Sorry you have to live with such a reality :(

@design_RG I have a feeling it might not be very waterproof though :)

@design_RG I dont have enough arms for all of these that I need!

@design_RG Well thats the joke. In reality no mathematician is claiming that infinity is equal to \(-\frac{1}{12}\) thats the joke.

What they are claiming however is that depending on what process you use to sum up all the natural numbers, you will get either infinity or \(-\frac{1}{12}\). In other words it is another (valid) way to sum the infinite series to get a real value.

As a bit of an analogy we know the roots of 100 are both -10 and 10. But despite that fact we can not go so far as to claim -10 and 10 are equal to each other.

@design_RG Well thats the joke. In reality no mathematician is claiming that infinity is equal to \(-\frac{1}{12}\) thats the joke.

What they are claiming however is that depending on what process you use to sum up all the natural numbers, you will get either infinity or \(-\frac{1}{12}\). In other words it is another (valid) way to sum the infinite series to get a real value.

As a bit of an analogy we know the \(\sqrt{100}\) is equal to both -10 and 10. But despite that fact we can not go so far as to claim -10 and 10 are equal to each other.

@design_RG Its a common math joke, people say \(\infty = -\frac{1}{12}\) for the lawls.

@design_RG You wouldnt be the first person. Yet somehow it seems to work in the real world...