Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Algebra in school is like a compiler with shitty type inference: you rarely have to write type annotations and you can easily end up with impossible states. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terrible naming all around in maths, half the shit is named after dead French or German dudes.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Leonard Euler was just the 16th century maths version of Alan Smithee that people wrote on papers as a joke, and you can't convince me otherwise.