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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by eutectic on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:15AM (#30989971)
I never memorized the quadratic formula, and I did OK.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by whimsicalism on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:55PM (#30991587)
Did you go to school in the US in the last 2-3 decades?
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by eutectic on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:12AM (#31081036)
No, the UK. But completing the square only takes a minute.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by whimsicalism on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:31AM (#31083663)
Try completing the square when the coefficients are variables :)
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by replygirl on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:21PM (#30992647)
Once you start calculus they let you use a real calculator
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by whimsicalism on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:25PM (#30992687)
That may be true, but in the US there are typically math courses before calculus.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by replygirl on Monday April 11, 2022 @03:46PM (#30993826)
But then we get a calculator.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by whimsicalism on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:27PM (#30994452)
Even then, it is typically not a symbolic calculator so if your answer is a closed form function of variables, you're SOL with a TI-84.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by adamsmith143 on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:17PM (#30994285)
Maybe we went to radically different schools but I certainly had to calculate by hand using the quadratic formula countless times where calculators were not allowed to be used.

Anyway it distracts from the point so it's not relevant.

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