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Random internet people explaining math better then math teacher

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It's funny, with the increase in use of numerical models, so much math has been turned into computer code. Derivatives and integrals as well are defined by finite difference formulas that serve as the basis for the notations. The point of them isn't to explain, it's just to simplify writing and reading it. I agree it can be a bit obtuse but if you had to write out a for loop to solve a math equation every time it would take forever lol

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What online games can be played by 2 users?

I'm sure there's quite a few traditional board games that have online or app version, like risk for example. Iirc there's also Scrabble, scythe, Catan, and I'm sure others. I can't speak to the quality of the apps but I would recommend just searching for any games you'd be interested in playing and seeing if there's a version on the app store.

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Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts

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Of course there's cycles but even removing decadal trends, it seems like there's there's still an increasing trend in terms of intensity. And slower years of extreme events in there could be somewhat related to the climate hiatus period but I'm not 100% on that. And you're absolutely right that prediction and modeling has gotten substantially better but that doesn't mean these storms won't still be costly. It's an interesting issue for sure