• thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Don’t understand the joke? Most autistic people I know and me included are not that into math to that degree. Maybe someone with ADHD and autism may hyper fixate on it, but still it’s not really something they would do usually?

    People thinking autism is like a superpower or something don’t really understand the disability.

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    Why do High Functioning / Savants get to represent all autistic people all the time ?

    EDIT : 60.69% of the time.

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    23 hours ago

    What’s really gonna bake your noodle is that the jug will be less full of you tilt it to the right slightly.

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    Anyone else bothered by the inconsistent conjugation here? Should be “optimism” and “pessimism” to go with “autism”.

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        Yeah you definitely could. Personally I wouldn’t be bothered by it in a humorous context like this. But I know that’s a term that does sometimes cause offence, so I chose the alternative.

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    I’d weigh the jug as-is, then weigh it full, and then weigh it empty; the proceeding trivial calculation of the original filled volume would be arguably more accurate.

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      The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.

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      You can’t weigh the jug, because it’s in an image.

      Anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together can figure out how full a physical jug of water is in a number of ways. The joke is that only an autistic person would try to produce an exact measurement based off an image.

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    Hey we need people like that, remember when an autistic person discovered few hundred millisecond delay in ssh which uncovered Jia Tan backdoor.

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    1 day ago

    Literalist: The glass contains about 50% water.

    Nihilist: The glass doesn’t matter.

    Anarchist: The glass is now full of piss.

    Absurdist: the glass is now upside-down without spilling the water.

    Me: I don’t know who’s glass this is so it’s going in the sink.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    i’m not too fond of the autistic superintelligence meme. yes there are people like this, but personally i can’t math for shit.

    i could probably go on about an interesting locomotive i found yesterday if you want a few hours wasted though…

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      I didn’t read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don’t know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.

  • lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today
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    This roughly checks out. I’m getting 66%, based on the methodology of cutting out the jug’s shape from the picture and numerically integrating the filled and empty volume (e.g. if a row is d pixels wide, it contributes d^2 to the volume, either filled or empty depending on whether it’s above or below the water level).

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        The thing I said I did? Yes; here’s the processed image:

        If you mean the math in the post, I can’t read it in this picture but it’s probably just some boring body-of-rotation-related integrals, so basically the same thing as I did but breaking apart the vase’s visible shape into analytically simple parts, whereas I got the shape from the image directly.