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$Teacher reveals Pi Day conspiracy: math companies just pushing extra math products$

Mathematics Post #5236, on Jun 2, 2023 in TG

Teacher reveals Pi Day conspiracy: math companies just pushing extra math products

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The photo shows a classroom scene: a teacher at the front, face blurred for privacy, stands beside a projected slide on a pull-down screen. The slide has white text on a brown background reading, “Pi day is just a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.” The teacher points at the line for emphasis while students in hoodies sit at desks with open laptops, whiteboards behind him covered in faint handwritten formulas and doodles. The humor riffs on software-industry jokes about manufactured holidays and marketing FUD, repurposing it for mathematics - something many developers encounter in algorithms, numerical methods, and π-laden trigonometry. The meme lampoons commercialization and inside-joke cynicism familiar to engineers who celebrate Pi Day with pastries in the office

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Pi Day is math’s Kubernetes - infinitely long, irrationally hyped, and every vendor insists you need more than 3.14 digits before you’re “enterprise-ready.”

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Pi Day is math’s Kubernetes - infinitely long, irrationally hyped, and every vendor insists you need more than 3.14 digits before you’re “enterprise-ready.”
Anonymous

Finally, someone brave enough to expose Big Math's agenda. Next they'll tell us floating point arithmetic errors are just a subscription model for precision
Anonymous

This is basically the mathematical equivalent of claiming JavaScript frameworks are invented by Big Tech to sell more Stack Overflow subscriptions. Though to be fair, if 'math companies' really existed, they'd probably have better marketing than most SaaS startups - imagine the ARR on selling π to every engineer who's ever had to calculate circle areas. At least their product has been stable since ancient Greece, unlike that npm package you depend on that breaks every minor version update
Anonymous

Pi Day is the math equivalent of microservices: take a perfectly good circle, slice it into hundreds of ‘independently scalable’ wedges, and invoice per slice - and every cross‑cut network hop
Anonymous

Pi Day is the math version of serverless: vendors promise infinite digits, but you still pay egress on every significant figure
Anonymous

Pi Day: math firms' original hype cycle, approximating infinite value to extract finite VC-style profits - just like our 'cloud-native' migrations
@bezuhten 3y

pi day?
1. @M4lenov 3y
  
  march 14
@callofvoid0 3y

There is a Pi day?
1. @deerspangle 3y
  
  22/7
@roped 3y

3/14/2023
1. @Box_of_the_Fox 3y
  
  But there are only 12 months
  
  @roped 3y
  
  14/3/2022
  
  @Box_of_the_Fox 3y
  
  But pi is 3.14 not 14.3
  
  @roped 3y
  
  0/0/3141
  
  @SamsonovAnton 3y
  
  0000-03-14 👌
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  european timestamp probably?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  you mean american european would be 14.03.2023 or 2023.03.14 edit: alternatively with dashes or slashes, whatever deliminator you like
@yoyatayo 3y

It’s sarcastic joke about pride month?
1. @callofvoid0 3y
  
  Pardon me, the what month...?
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  Gay month
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  I mean is there actually pride innit?
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  Depends on which part of LGBT
  
  @SamsonovAnton 3y
  
  Raspberry Pi users month. (Why are they gay? Because they are using Pidora (a Fedora fork), which means “Fag” in Russian. 😁)
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  bruh
2. @purplesyringa 3y
  
  that's how i interpreted it
3. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Why do lgbtq+ members deserve a whole “pride month”? Every other event is normally just on one specific day… explain
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  why stupid muslims deserve a whole month for their stoopid ramadan, and others needs to respect it? Explain.
  
  @NevermindExpress 3y
  
  muslims only does on their countries tho
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  i didnt see they celebrate gay month in non open for gays countries
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  That not true in austria its noticable
  
  @NevermindExpress 3y
  
  they dont do mass walking like gays tho
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Exactly
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  they do bomb countries tho
  
  @callofvoid0 3y
  
  Are you talking about ISIS ? ?
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Ramadan is not a holiday. Its not eating to understand the suffer from the poor and also only it’s last day a holiday where they eat happily. Ramadan ist not a happy thing to do AFAIK
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  no, nowadays ramadan is to wash away the sin that you have been doing all year in one month and then start drinking and fucking again
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Okay but not the whole month. Just the last day is the celebration. Pride month is just celebration
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  can confirm, the muslims in our school really hate ramadan. They still do it though
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  He/She/Xier probably did a bad example. But still the only multiday holiday that takes the spotlight is like Christmas… and that like jesus level “priority”. At least who has a religion that celebrates it
  
  @SamsonovAnton 3y
  
  They celebrate a single day only — just one day for each non-binary gender. 😆
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  💀💀💀💀
  
  @sylfn 3y
  
  one day each for something larger than continuum
Max 3y

2023-03-14 for gods sake. Adhere to ISO standards please!
@ZeusExMachina 3y

sad I was the only one to celebrate it in my team this year(
@yoyatayo 3y

pride month only for gays also
@yoyatayo 3y

are you celebrating gay month?
@yoyatayo 3y

yes.
@yoyatayo 3y

they do the same as gay people. propagand ismalic shit. But all hate is to rainbow logos...
@yoyatayo 3y

masswalking »» bombing
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Totally reasonable
@yoyatayo 3y

=0000
@yoyatayo 3y

aaa gays a walking in da street so horrible
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  It’s the always being more important that anything, what bothers me. Kind of selfish and “unfair”
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  how do gays bothers you?
  
  @NevermindExpress 3y
  
  i dont want to see gay propaganda everywhere i go
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  That too
  
  @yoyatayo 3y
  
  where are seeing gay propaganda?
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  By blocking all 5 trams which take me home
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  In the hottest hours of summer days
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  never happened to me
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Karlsplatz. All lines where blocked 1, 2, 71, U2Z and whichever Letter that fifth one has. I don’t remember it because I don’t need to look wich one I take
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  tough luck

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