does this count?

i’ve moved my communication to Signal, it’s been good so far and i haven’t heard of privacy-related incidents

yeah it’s probable better not committing additional information, they won’t collect more about you if you never use it

All the power to you! We need to normalize keeping in touch with each other in a more personal way. They robbed writing thoughtful letters, postcards and greeting cards from us.

Time to close all your accounts on anything owned by Meta, y’all. There are Fediverse or privacy-oriented version of everything they do. And maybe you won’t find the same people there, but you certainly will find new ones that are definitely worth your time and attention. Ad-free. Nazi-bootlicker-free.

i think the title has the “you” meant in the “you all” sense, if the customers as a whole save energy, the price per unit goes up.

ah ok you’re adding the final x directly to the polynomial, that’s fine then, yes

no, you need to derivate the f(x) function twice because the last line asks for f"(x). you do that by taking down the exponent in front of each power of the polynomial and decreasing the power by one each time you derivate.

So for the 13x³: derived once it becomes 3 times 13 x², which equals 39x². Derived a second time, it is 2 times 39x, so 78x.

The 11x² becomes 2 times 11x, and then just 22 (times power zero). the rest disappears after two derivatives.

The x is given when finding the correct pattern that matches the missing symbol in the first part of the problem, being the dot, so 52. I explained how you find this in a comment somewhere up here :)

I agree with your solution! GG

• f’(x) = 3(13)x²+2(11)x+10
• f"(x) = 6(13)x+22 = 72x + 22
• f"(52) = 4056 + 22 = 4 078

4078 + 52 = 4 130

no the correct pattern is 52, using the following method:

• for each column, superpose the outer diagonal lines of the first and second pattern, lines that appear in both symbols are suppressed in the third (bottom) pattern, lines that only appear in one of the two first patterns are kept.
• for each column, superpose the clock hands of the first and second pattern, only keep the clock hands that appear in both symbols at the same position.

The third column has the same diagonal lines in the first and second pattern, so they disappear. Those two symbols have different clock hands so they also disappear. So the only remaining element in the pattern is the central dot (52).

i totally agree, it’s still good problem solving skill

that’s really impressive, parsing so much information from a 2 step problem displayed skewed on a garbled background

Yup same, i looked it up and it all came back. However, it’s still a completely useless knowledge in my normal adult life, though i’m a software engineer

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