Mastodawn

Losing Culture (8 straight seasons) + Losing Coach Record (45-56) = Super Bowl Title! Do the math!!! @[email protected] See you in LA! #Haters #QuadraticEquation

N-gated Hacker News May 18, 2025

🚀🤔 Ah, the classic "let's pretend to be math geniuses while talking startups" article! Because nothing says "I really need to justify my existence" like trying to turn business advice into a quadratic equation. 📈 Congrats on turning a tweet into a dissertation, clearly an O(n^2) waste of time. 😂
https://rohan.ga/blog/startup_types/ #mathgenius #startupadvice #quadraticequation #wasteoftime #humor #HackerNews #ngated

O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups

I recently saw a tweet[1] about how people should go about starting startups/businesses, and it caused me to formalize my intuitions around two distinct types of tech businesses I am familiar with. I’ll call them $O(n)$ startups and $O(n^{2})$ startups. Throughout this essay, let n represent the time elapsed since launch. An $O(n)$ startup grows its key metric (revenue, users, etc.) roughly linearly with time—double the time, double the metric. An $O(n^{2})$ startup accelerates, with growth compounding super-linearly over time.

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Taylor Dec 6, 2023

Day 6

Very easy day. Used my whiteboard to suss out that this was a #QuadraticEquation (yes, I had to use my whiteboard to do this, and I'm not ashamed of being an embarrassment). Naturally, my solution uses the #QuadraticFormula to find the answers.

https://codeberg.org/Taywee/AdventOfCode-2023/src/branch/main/src/bin/day06.rs

#AdventOfCode #AoC #AdventOfCode2023 #AoC2023 #Rust

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2023 Advent of Code

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mercurial idiot Oct 27, 2023

BWAHAHAHAA ME

#math #meme #algebra #quadraticequation

Tom Boucher Oct 16, 2023

OK, what the hell is the #vertex form of the #quadraticequation and when was that introduced into math?

I am Gen X. Graduated end of the 80s.

Took Algebra through Calculus 1 in high school.

My 9th grader brought me a homework problem and it's a vertex form of the quadratic equation and they need to solve it for Y intercept or Maximum Value and I swear I never did any of that.

When was that introduced in 9th grade? why don't I know it? was it was just not taught in the late 80s?