With all the drama around LLMs and AI, I wanted to become less reliant on technology, especially computers. Are there any books or recommendations for getting better at mental math and performing calculations in your head? I don't plan on giving up pencil and paper but being able to do more complicated arithmetic in my head seems like it could be useful.
>>16980863the printing press is degenerate heresy, apostate.
>>16980863Try soroban and flash anzan
>>16980863Get fucked you luddite idiot lmao. Get left behind if you want but we'll keep dominating everything
>>16980863AI all fails this simple Turning Test I've developed. Ask the AI to list all on screen appearances of all dogs and cats on all Star Trek shows up to the last date it knows. I've yet to find a single LLM that catches all the cats and dogs. All forgot at least one of the main named cat or dog actors. One forgot Data had a cat(Spot) on many episodes and one thought TNG had a dog on it names Spot. Many for got Porthos from Enterprise, one called Porthos a German Shepard. All but one didn't even register "Grudge" the cat from Discovery, horrible show but AI should still know it. As a raging Trek autist I know all the cats and dogs. I asked AI why it was so wrong. It says it relies on 3rd hand blogs and reddit posts to know what is or isn't in a Trek episode and has zero first hand knowledge of any Trek episode, only 3rd party hearsay. AI is literally trash information based on random blogs and 4chan and reddit. It's not 1st hand data, at all. You can't trust anything it says and it just lies all the time. Learn base 10 math for a good start on the mental math case. Lost of easy tricks to math large #'s in your head. Say 45,341 + 56,114. Take it in three parts. Part one 45,000 + 56,000 = 101,000. Easy math just add 45 to 56 and place three zeros behind it. Now you can do the hundreds. 340+110 =450. Easy math, 34=11, add the zeros. Now the last place the One's place. 1+4=5. Easy math. Now bring it all together, 101,000+450+5. Again easy math. 101,455. Boom. You're welcome and this is just one way to work easy math in your head. Do math on paper, write on paper, read paper books. Resist. Resistance is not futile, it is required.
>>16982454Youre Indian.
>>16982470There are probably less than 20 humans that can pass that autistic test
>>16982470Nta but thank you, you've made my journey to relearn math all the more navigable
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>>16982470Lemme trigger your autism some more then:The "Big Four" Companions: Porthos (Dog - Enterprise): Captain Archer’s beagle. Appeared in numerous episodes across all four seasons. Spot (Cat - The Next Generation / Generations): Data’s cat. Appeared in dozens of episodes. Played by multiple cat actors (Somalis and domestic shorthairs/tabbies) and even appeared on the big screen in the film Star Trek: Generations. Grudge (Cat - Discovery): Cleveland Booker's Maine Coon cat, referred to as a "Queen." (Season 3 onward). Number One (Dog - Picard): Admiral Picard’s pit bull mix, played by a rescue dog named Dinero. Appeared primarily in Season 1 at Château Picard.TOS:Alfa 177 Canine (Dog): “The Enemy Within” – An alien creature (played by a terrier mix in a horn/fur costume) that enters the transporter and is split into two halves.Stray Dog (Dog): “The City on the Edge of Forever” – An early 20th-century street dog on Earth that barks at Spock.Sylvia (Cat): “Catspaw” – The alien Sylvia prominently roams the castle in the form of a small black cat.Isis (Cat): “Assignment: Earth” – Gary Seven’s shapeshifting partner, who spends almost the entire episode on-screen as a black cat.TNG:Materialized Thought (Cat): “Where No One Has Gone Before” – During the Warp-bubble reality warping, an orange tabby cat literally runs past the crew in the corridor (manifested from a crewman's passing thought).Christina (Cat): “The Schizoid Man” – The pet cat belonging to brilliant cyberneticist Dr. Ira Graves.Dream Dog (Dog): “Phantasms” – A small dog appears and barks at Data during his surreal, nightmare holodeck sequences.Maura (Dog... sort of): “Aquiel” – Lt. Aquiel Uhnari’s golden retriever mix, which is ultimately revealed to be a deadly shape-shifting coalescent organism.
>>16984810DS9:Chester (Cat): “Honor Among Thieves,” “Time’s Orphan” – A tabby cat owned by Orion Syndicate member Liam Bilby. Chief O'Brien adopts him after Bilby's death and brings him to live with his family on DS9.VOY:Molly (Dog): “Caretaker,” “Persistence of Vision” – Captain Janeway's pregnant Irish Setter. Mark is seen holding Molly on the monitor in the pilot episode, and Janeway later hallucinates them both in her quarters.Q's Puppy (Dog): “The Q and the Grey” – Q brings a live, adorable Golden Retriever puppy onto Voyager to offer as a gift to Janeway while attempting to court her.Fair Haven Dogs (Dogs): “Fair Haven,” “Spirit Folk” – Various holographic dogs appear as background scenery in Tom Paris's 19th-century Irish village holoprogram.ENT:1957 Street Dogs (Dogs): “Carbon Creek” – During the flashback to the Vulcans crashing in 1950s Pennsylvania, local terrestrial dogs are seen and interact with the Vulcans.Note on Beagles: While Captain Archer owned Porthos, Scotty mentions an ill-fated transporter experiment involving "Archer's prized beagle" in the 2009 Star Trek film, though the dog is not seen on screen.
>>16984813PIC, LD, SNW:Earth 2024 Dogs (Dogs): Picard Season 2 – Because much of the season takes place in 2024 Los Angeles, multiple pet dogs are visible during street scenes.The Dog (Dog/Alien): Lower Decks (“Much Ado About Boimler”) – Ensign Tendi creates a terrifying, shape-shifting, flying, speaking monstrosity that looks like a normal retriever most of the time.Puppet Dogs (Dogs): Lower Decks ("Kayshon, His Eyes Open") – On the Collector's ship, a puppet dog is briefly seen.Princess (Dog): Strange New Worlds (“The Elysian Kingdom”) – A fluffy Pomeranian/Spitz-type dog brought into existence by the sentient nebula based on the fairy tale book read to M’Benga’s daughter.Movies (TNG Era)Since TV movies and franchise films often cross over with the TV cast, it is worth noting:Spot (Cat): Star Trek: Generations – Survives the crash of the Enterprise-D saucer section and is found by Data in the wreckage.Picard's Nexus Dogs (Dogs): Star Trek: Generations – Inside the Nexus ribbon, Picard's fantasy life features large, beautiful dogs (English Setters) running around his Victorian estate.Also, how the fuck is this a "Turning Test"?
>>16980863>>16982432Seconding the abacus recommendation, but you should study Chinese ones
