I feel for Velma. I am so bad at math that sometimes I go into a corner by myself so I can hide what I’m working on from my coworkers while I scribble down very complex maladaptive strategies I’ve learned to solve simple calculations.
I have textbook dyscalculia. I am a geospatial wizard, but I cannot remember my pin or calculate a tip.
If you told me the creator of that show didn’t get the equation right because they had no idea what it was even called to look it up, I would believe you.
When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.
i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely, its okay if you didn’t, but people got really carried away with just how much they hate
womenthe show, it’s a cartoon, enjoy it or dont, don’t act like Rome is burning before your eyesgood jokes, inclusive characters, queer people that don’t die in the first episode, fun subversion of expectations, meta humour about tropes, a fun mystery, cancelled too soon, but there’s still 30something episodes
it made me reasses how I felt about Mindy Kaling’s work as a whole, turns out I had been caught up in the misogynistic whirlwind in the past, I’ve really enjoyed her older stuff upon revisiting it since seeing Velma
You gotta be trolling, right? I guarantee you “women” aren’t the reason people disliked Velma. The Golden Girls ran for 7 seasons from 1985 to 1992, I personally really liked watching the reruns even in a seemingly random order.
The reason Velma upsets people because the entire show is meant to upset those people. It’s not a real show. It’s a shitpost that targets racial and sexual majority groups. I’m sure they could have made a show if they wanted to and instead they made a shitpost. It’s got the same appeal to the people who like it as white hoods have to the clan.
I was a stupid ass teenager when it came out and people online convinced me it was the worst shit to ever grace any screen ever. Maybe I missed out.
The new Velma show gave birth to THE best fanmade animation about Scooby Doo https://youtu.be/inJUFqeJehE
So while I didn’t enjoy the show, I’m grateful for it
Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn’t used it since, I am enraged.
It’s a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.
When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.
The fucking what flavor.
Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere
My field (cryptography) is unlikely to run into this, despite having some advanced math. There’s just not that much use for anything in 2D, and abstract algebra doesn’t bother with things as mundane as “numbers”.
Tonne not tone < tonne is the measurement/a lot, whilst tone is sound
Flavour not flavor, you don’t want people thinking you’re a gross American.
On a sidenote, the rule 34 of her is top notch👌
I’m terrible at making math jokes, but I don’t have any proofs.
Same here, but I’ll suck it up and make one if I halve two.
Such an strange error. I’m not saying it’s AI but here’s my prompt:
Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula
Here’s the pic:
I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long…
that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D
Check out this bad boy.
It just gets better and better-er(-est?/-ish?)
I suspect it’s an OCR error.
I’m guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add a different-size font and although they knew how to type “√”, didn’t realize “²” is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.
Can you even do that “proper” square root with unicode? Or is it always just that single character?
Unicode isn’t meant to replace all typesetting like LaTeX. For example, I can’t make proper horizontal fractions (as opposed to slashed like ⅝ or ⁹⁄₁₆) that are normal in my part of the world because that would be too much scope creep.
An imperfect solution is adding
̅ U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINEabove everything. For example, it does not sit at consistent height (√4̅a̅c̅) and Windows renders it incorrectly (centered to the right edge of the character, not its center).This is how I’d render the numerator using Unicode only:
𝑏² ± √4̅𝑎̅𝑐̅So they had to use something “fancier” like TeX so they must’ve known about suoerscriots and the like
That makes about a million times more sense
FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
It is very, very bad.
FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.
It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.
The second season’s arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general
i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely
One of the worst parts of it is that Scooby Doo has had tons of successful series and they’ve all been pretty good. Yet they somehow managed to fuck this up despite it being an incredibly simple formula for a show.
It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 90s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.
Edit: did some fact checking, this was a theory. The show actually was an unfortunate reimagining of Scooby Doo since its inception.
Scooby-doo is a 90s franchise now?
Regardless of what the official story is, that’s probably what really happened. Same thing with the Halo tv show.
I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.
Foundation was so strange because it felt like the writers split into two isolated groups.
The team that was trying and failing to “reimagine” the original story, and the team the totally abandoned the original story and was doing their own thing with the clone emperors story.
Unlike other examples where the show felt like an existing story twisted into the framework of an unrelated franchise, Foundation felt like the clone emperors story came out of the talented writers getting frustrated by the quality of the adaption.
I think Discovery is a little different. They had way too many producers and writers on that show, all trying to get their little ideas in so when they moved onto a new project, they could get a sexy “By the creators of Star Trek” tagline on it. The situation Walter Mosley described when he left STD made the writer’s room sound like a viper pit.
Plus the first two seasons basically had the producers get fired, and a new person brought in partway through.
That would be bad for any show.
it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.
You’re talking about it
Not watching it tho
A negative boy was unsure about a radical party.
The boy was a square, so he missed out on four awesome chicks.
And the whole thing was over by 2am…
This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding
I was just taught it to “pop goes the weasel”.
Thanks
Now we just need this in song form which is how I was taught lol
Did they use AI to generate that?
My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn’t have the font or doesn’t recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you’ve ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that’s like what happened here.
Neural Network (bad one)
i was wondering that too
didn’t get an animation job for the math skills
Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.
… Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.
