It is. and apologies to be racist, but most askers seemed to be from a certain continent

why is that I don't know

and that is very bad practice, because they will not learn

not good

hate that

In Hong Kong its more like: Either be a lawyer, doctor or finance person, or no future

@Secret because two thirds of the total population live there?

most everything seem to be from a certain continent

well, not necessary, if it is not localised at a certain culture, then it could be e.g. very low counts in asia

so population only controls part of the probabilities

wolframalpha.com/input/…

nah russia is huge but not super densely populated

a chunk of it is siberia

asia is huge in terms of population

@Blue 2 of the Asian countries have 1/3rd of human population

Pretty sure, if you add everyone else you will get nearly 2/3rd population

Which is still huge. (And Russia is Europe, not Asia)

Russia has a huge area but pretty low population density. So, it doesn't really matter if you include them or not.

But, Russia culturally identifies with Europe, I think

@Secret Wh, I would say they come from a certain country. You were being far too lenient with continent.

Pak~ India~Bangladesh . No real difference there

Well, that is also true. A lot of things are banned in China, though

Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but whatever

@Blue yeah they do, and taiwanese also.Their questions tend to be a lot more sensible and detailed research effort than the bangladash counterparts, though

But, coming back to that population data, anyone has any data or idea on how much of the total GDP of the world is contributed by Asia?

ah yes, in forums they are kinda similar, but on facebook, they are generally less help vampirish (or maybe that's for the groups that are visible on my newsfeed)

Here's a more vampirish(?) example in one of the groups I frequented on fb

yeah, the above example is a taiwanese

you can tell them apart most of the time since we hongkongers, macau people and taiwanese use traditional chinese while other parts of China uses simplified chinese

What's the difference?

other cues include chinese surnames there is only Wang and Huang, while Wong is unique to Hong Kong

for some unknown reason Ive spent the last hour photoshoping a picture of Kim Jong Un

was that time wasted? definitely not.

@DanielSank I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. --Feynman

hello

@AccidentalFourierTransform ::trying to decide if moderating this is worth admitting that I get the joke::

joke? what joke? :-P

i've got a probably dumb question.

i'm working through some problems about energy and work, and one of them is

> A car moving at 50 km/h skids 15 m with locked brakes. How far will the car skid with locked brakes at 150 km/h?

I understand how the book does it, but I don't understand why you can't set up a proportion: 50/15 = 150/x

because the distance does not depend on the velocity linearly?

@AccidentalFourierTransform proof?

it may not even be true

idk

@0celóñe7 $KE = 1/2mv^2$

what AFT said makes sense

I can be very idiotic on occasion =)

$\Delta KE = W = Fd$ (connection with distance)

@AccidentalFourierTransform thank you

np :-)

@ACuriousMind nice book indeed

the MIT notes I was talking about are ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/…

nice too

@0celóñe7 This is some of what I did as part of 1st year CS - It was and still is useful :)

@Mithrandir24601 did you hear that ep 6 got leaked

Only two people recorded it. One on a phone and the other deleted it by accident

@DanielSank As for this - it makes perfect sense to teach FT properly as part of physics. I still remember the physics lecture on this and it was the worst (maybe 2nd worst) lecture I've ever been to. Luckily, it was taught much better as part of maths for natural science

@0celóñe7 yeah, I noticed that message, but I'll watch it next Monday when, y'know, I get it in decent quality :P

@Mithrandir24601 I'm currently dodging spoilers

I don't want to see it either until Sunday

the guy with the beard dies

why Folland why?

@0celóñe7 I'm at home, so don't have my laptop with me, so it's relatively easy for me to avoid spoilers :)

@Kaumudi.H hello

how are you?

how's college?

i'm pretty good; and no worries - sounds interesting.

@Kaumudi.H would this be useful?

i think i've figured out what it has to do with convergence...

you have a series that approximates $D_n$, the amt of overhang of the books.

yeah!

so, it converges to infinity, right?

cool!

i'm going to go to the school library one day and do that.

@Kaumudi.H actually, i'm going to try right now, i have plenty of books.

wow, it's kinda hard

well, i sort of did it

with a photo which i'll post as soon as it shows up in my email.

It's very tipsy, and I kind of cheated because I used books not of the same width (I don't have many books of the same size).