https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

  • jdaxe@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    It's hilarious seeing all the genius commenters who didn't read the linked article and are repeating all the exact answers and arguments that the article rebuts :)

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

      he made a mistake posting this to a comment section, now he must pay the price

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I'm still not used to having combined image and text posts so I usually don't notice the text portion if it isn't a big ol' wall and I hope I'm not the only one.

    • wischi@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      ❤️ True, but I think one of the biggest problems is that it's pretty long and because you can't really sense how good/bad/convining the text is it's always a gamble for everybody if it's worth reading something for 30min just to find out that the content is garbage.

      I hope I did a decent job in explaining the issue(s) but I'm definitely not mad if someone decides that they are not going to read the post and still comment about it.