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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What the heck did I just read because it appeared to be a proof that hourglasses can’t exist if you look away from them for a moment.

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Hourglasses work by inverse Weeping Angels rules, doncha know?

      I should also have mentioned the part where they say that the entropy of the “uniform distribution over (0,x)” is the base-2 logarithm of x. This is, of course, a negative number for any x they care about (0 < x < 1), and more strongly negative the smaller x becomes.

      Argh. These people just don’t know any math and never call each other out for not knowing any math, and now I have to read MIT OpenCourseWare to scrub the feeling out of my brain.

      • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I think there is in fact a notion of continuous entropy (essentially just the Kullback-Leibler divergence from a uniform distribution) where that is actually true, and it does appear to be used in statistical mechanics (buit I am not a physicist). But there are clearly a lot of technical details which have been scrubbed away by the LW treatment.