hey where is the high res image? i need to check the math
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The topology enthusiast says the jug is full of glass
What's really gonna bake your noodle is that the jug will be less full of you tilt it to the right slightly.
Why?
Because the pouring spout is to the right. Tip it, you’ll see. It works better if you are staring closely at the spout from below when you do so.
Why do High Functioning / Savants get to represent all autistic people all the time ?
EDIT : 60.69% of the time.
Hey we need people like that, remember when an autistic person discovered few hundred millisecond delay in ssh which uncovered Jia Tan backdoor.
Anyone else bothered by the inconsistent conjugation here? Should be "optimism" and "pessimism" to go with "autism".
Yes. Or change "autism" to "autist".
Yeah you definitely could. Personally I wouldn't be bothered by it in a humorous context like this. But I know that's a term that does sometimes cause offence, so I chose the alternative.
I'd weigh the jug as-is, then weigh it full, and then weigh it empty; the proceeding trivial calculation of the original filled volume would be arguably more accurate.
The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.
the safety factor got me
It also gives you a way to validate your calculations when you inevitably do model it.
Behold, the pragmatist.
A) The water isn't pure there will be minerals dissolved in it
B) There is likely water vapor in the air occupying the jug
Literalist: The glass contains about 50% water.
Nihilist: The glass doesn't matter.
Anarchist: The glass is now full of piss.
Absurdist: the glass is now upside-down without spilling the water.
Me: I don't know who's glass this is so it's going in the sink.
Dadaist: ce n'est pas un verre.
i'm not too fond of the autistic superintelligence meme. yes there are people like this, but personally i can't math for shit.
i could probably go on about an interesting locomotive i found yesterday if you want a few hours wasted though...
I didn't read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don't know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.
that's fair.
This roughly checks out. I'm getting 66%, based on the methodology of cutting out the jug's shape from the picture and numerically integrating the filled and empty volume (e.g. if a row is d pixels wide, it contributes d^2 to the volume, either filled or empty depending on whether it's above or below the water level).
Engineers: the jug is twice as big as it needs to be
Pfff... Didn't even calculate for the rate of evaporation of the water... Amateur...
Unless there's air inside the water