Jerkface

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[–] Jerkface 6 points 5 hours ago

Aqua Teens 1000's of years ago

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...

[–] Jerkface 6 points 3 days ago
[–] Jerkface 3 points 1 week ago

She's twenty-oneteen. What's so hard to understand?

[–] Jerkface 47 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Nobody who speaks German could be a monster.

[–] Jerkface 3 points 1 week ago

Why do you make me choose?

[–] Jerkface 1 points 1 week ago

It was abundantly clear to me. Cheers, buddy!

[–] Jerkface 3 points 1 week ago

If I had a plane, I would be escaping my family right now.

[–] Jerkface 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can only answer partially but I'll give it my best shot. Dimensions don't have to represent physical space, or anything related to it. Sometimes a fourth dimension is used to represent time, but really it could represent anything.

An example I saw frequently in school used different recipes for, say bread. They all have similar ingredients: flour, water, yeast. Each recipe can be represented as a vector in three dimensions. X might be flour, Y might be water, Z might be yeast. Easy to visualize. You can imagine a center at some arbitrary point in space, and we can say that any point in that space relative to it's center is another recipe. If it helps to see what I mean, any point that lies in an axis would only have one ingredient. The very center represents the bread recipe with no amount of any ingredient. Those would be terrible recipes, since they wouldn't actually make any bread, but that's what those points would represent.

Since we're imagining things as points in space, we can even use things like the distance formulas you learned in geometry to determine how far apart the recipes are in the imagined space. Well, obviously recipes can have more than three ingredients. Suppose we add salt and sugar to the recipes. Now the vectors representing those recipes have five dimensions. The cool thing is, those formulas we used still work in any number of dimensions. We just use a more general form of them.

I hope that helps sort of get you acquainted with the idea of higher dimensions in mathematics. I learned by taking two terms of linear algebra. The second term was pretty difficult.We were all very confused 😂

[–] Jerkface 3 points 2 weeks ago

Surely they mean submachine gun? Or are there Brownings on the streets of Mexico?

[–] Jerkface 73 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I worked at a university and I heard women call each other "bro" all the time.

[–] Jerkface 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Jerkface 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, I see! We give him a hot cold-dog to warm his icy heart?

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