the area of a circle is τr²/2 🔴
but why?
here's an animation~
by unrolling a circle, it forms a triangle with base τr and height r. we can then apply the triangle area formula of base×height/2 to get the area of the circle, τr²/2✨
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
It's the anniversary of the Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980 eruption this week. There were some incredible sizes & speeds involved that day.
Do you know how fast the lateral blast (the initial side-ways pyroclastic flow-like blast) went?
At least:
(Number from USGS)
Last night, I interviewed a person on my podcast with a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialties in solid rocket fuel with an additional specialty in nano-additives.
Today, I googled how to write a RegEx.
So there's that.
Friends. Let’s get real. Student loan debt is ruining the US. I’m here in Europe, dude has a PhD and THEY PAID HIM A SALARY TO GET IT. We need to get our shit together or we are screwed, globally. Education shouldn’t be a privilege.
If America really wants to start businesses and be pro-business and small business, they’d give us national healthcare. Over here in Europe, especially in software, there’s so many freelancers. Healthcare makes a lot of that possible.
A brilliant way to draw attention to the equal pay gap: Women in the UK set out-of-office notifications this weekend saying they'll be out for the final six weeks of the year they'll be working "for free." https://t.co/Lyn89sRbkS
Great news. Shout out to all the volunteers who worked on this including our local copy editor @elshire04 for reviewing the voter pamphlet. https://t.co/hClSnPHI7H