@random_eddie Being able to distinguish between, locate and intercept different types of droning noises in a live 3d environment seems like the sort of thing that might be important to other applications down the line
@SilverVVulpes Isn't the issue that utility monsters can be assigned arbitrarily? Utility functions are only defined up to scaling: the utility functions f and (100^100)*f reflect identical preferences - they're different representations of the same underlying reality, not different realities.
@patio11@rSanti97 No, no - it still works. How can we expect the burghers to pay for the thing if we're not offering them the prospect of cultivating connections amongst the nobility?
@goblinodds If it is meant to map to anything, a plausibly-concealable dual heritage that might cause Problems if discovered while being a Korean public/cultural figure seems like it maps to Japanese? Odd thing for a Western film to address though, if so.
@eigenrobot@NowApostate claims, etc, but I think this is what he means. I assume there's an asterisk of /some/ sort to apply here, but still seems big - the libdems were de facto The third party for decades, and their current membership is about half what it was at its peak
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@TheAdamWaite@antonhowes Wait, isn't mercator ideal for this (at least within the scope of rectangular maps)? Angle & shape preservation are what Mercator's good at, while its main weakness - scale being larger nearer the poles - is actively useful here.
@St_Rev maybe /you/ have a grasp of advanced mathematics, but everything /I/ understand is Trivial, Actually. if general-population can't navigate basic non-commutative geometry, it's because they're not being taught right.
@lu_sichu The secret superpower of positional number systems is that they siphon the bottom 20% or so of cranks off into trying to prove that 0.99... < 1, keeping them away from higher-value stuff like Navier-Stokes.