I don’t want to go back to cleaning mouse balls.

I don’t get it. Could you explain it to me?

I’ll give it a shot.

We can use vector spaces for thinking about things that aren’t primarily concerned with physical space like we are in Blender. Let’s imagine something practical, if a bit absurd. Pretend we have unlimited access to three kinds of dough. Each has flour, water, and yeast in different ratios. What we don’t have is access to the individual ingredients.

Suppose we want a fourth kind of dough which is a different ratio of the ingredients from the doughs we have. If the ratios of the ingredients of the three doughs we already have are unique, then we are in luck! We can make that dough we want by combining some amount of the three we have. In fact, we can make any kind of dough that is a combination of those three ingredients. In linear algebra, this is called linear independence.

Each dough is a vector, and each ingredient is a component. We have three equations (doughs) in three variables (ingredients).

This is a three dimensional vector space, which is easy to visualize. But there is no limit to how many dimensions you can have, or what they can represent. Some economic models use vectors with thousands of dimensions representing inputs and outputs of resources. Hopefully my explanation helps us see how vectors can sometimes be more difficult to imagine as directions and magnitudes.

… That’s enough real analysis for me today. Or ever, really.

About half were wiped out by flu, measles, and chicken pox when contact was made in the 80s.

Why can’t you just draw dicks like a normal person?

I eat that free hotdog every week, then go across the street and buy another one.

The hoops you have to jump through to cancel…

Is that what he was saying in Mario 64? “So long, Gary Bowser!”

“Why are you standing up for this guy I’m trying to bully?”

Y’all really are all about the cyber-bullying here 😂

edit: post before me had the same link and quote

Oh, that’s evil. A fee for dining in is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard of. I would be livid.

Better the tester than a user.

“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”

What is Dick’s charging these days? My local equivalent burger joint has a double with fries for just over $8. Easily the best I can do around here.

Jesus, I can’t find a cone near me for less than $6.

I don’t know, but if I were to venture a guess I would say they are made from dark meat that’s harder to sell than the wing. Just glue it together and frame it as an upgrade. $12 plate is now $20.

What if I told you…? That’s right. Six puppies.

It’s seems that way from the inside, too.

Yeah, you’d need a whole-ass Power Glove for something like that.