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What books do the elites like Bezos, Musk, Rockefellers read?
>pic unrelated

>> No.14989451

>pic unrelated
yeah unrelated to your question but the pic is so people reply which bumps the thread, giving the thread more attention than it deserves. you know what you are doing you manipulative cunt. i will destroy you

>> No.14989457

>>14989451
What?

>> No.14989461

>>14989441
technocracy stuff like Brave New World

>> No.14989530

>>14989441
Literally every book Elon has read is reference in one of his spaceships or landing pads.

>> No.14989539

>>14989441
I put the food on the bug's back.

>> No.14989551

Oh it's that third world faggot. You can try emulate them as much as you want but you will never be like them because you don't have the intuition nor the luck to achieve your materialistic dream.

>> No.14989614

>>14989461
yes the elites read high school books

>> No.14989665

>>14989441
It's a trick question, the answer is A

>> No.14990009

>>14989441
Oh nice another generic lit-related question following by a >pic totally unrelated and not at all the primary purpose of me making this thread

Last time it was the ol' "Is the Aeneid better than the Iliad?", and now this, what will it be next time nigger?

>> No.14990015

>>14989665
Wrong.
>>14990009
And yet it's not B.

>> No.14990032

>>14989441
Guys I’m pretty sure it’s B

>> No.14990044

>>14990015
can anyone actually explain/prove why its not B? i've seen this spewed out since the dawn of time that the correct answer is 0.25 below B or smth like that but i've yet to see a proof

>> No.14990045

>>14990015
Never said it was. Stop sliding your reddit-tier puzzle-solving threads under the guise of lit discussions you pleb. God I remember when it took you three attempts just to get the English right without typos or mistakes in a fairly simply-worded maths question.

>> No.14990052

>>14990032
It's not B.
>>14990044
Maybe you should go back to 10th grade so you can learn basic reasoning skills and can do it yourself.

>> No.14990087

Zuckerberg had a "read a book a week" challenge. The link lists some of them. A few of them are good, most are memey.

Bill Gates is known for being an absurdly fast and efficient reader, and primarily reads non-fiction info dumps about topics he's autistically interested in, like sanitation or infrastructure statistics.

>> No.14990091

>>14990087
>the link
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-twitter-social-media-books-to-read-best-novels-amazon-waterstones-a8195186.html

>> No.14990099

>>14989451
shut the fuck up you cunt

>> No.14990107

>>14990015
>>14990032
>>14990044
>>14990052
It's the corner to the left of B. The diagonal is a shorter distance than going along the edges

>> No.14990111

>>14990107
But that's one diagonal away. B is a diagonal and an edge away.

>> No.14990199

It's definitely B.

>> No.14990419

Solved the problem. The answer is B. No question. The distance is sqrt(10). HINT: Draw the box as a flat space and then draw a straight line from A to B - it's sqrt(10) length. If you go along one diagonal and then along a side, it's slower. You never reach another corner until you reach B in the optimal path.

>> No.14990459

>>14990199
Wrong.
>>14990419
Wrong. The distance to B is not even sqrt(10). If you draw the box as a flat space in a different way, you can get the distance to be sqrt(8).

>> No.14990488

>>14989614
i think you missed the point

>> No.14990516 [DELETED] 
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14990516

The logical answer is near C though it seems like a pretty serious calculation to get exactly where and I honestly don't know what that would be.

>> No.14990526

>>14990107
Dog...

>> No.14990544

>>14989441
If I can put it anywhere I want and the bug can only walk on the faces of the box, then I'll just put it anywhere outside the box that the bug can't reach. Then it'll be walking forever.

>> No.14990565

>>14990459
Wrong

>> No.14990571

>>14989441
This shit is counter-intuitive, because it demands a second-dimensional outlook, while presenting a third dimensional image. There isn't a longer line inside the box than from A to B, but the bug can't do a direct line.
It has to be on the top rectangle tho.

>>14990521
>>14990516
What the fuck?

>> No.14990581

>>14989441
more like Benzos eehehehehehehehehe

>> No.14990587
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14990587

After thinking about it, it's somewhere here on this line. I refuse to believe this is a 10th grade problem.

>>14990571
The problem can't be reduced to 2 dimensions because you have two competing shortest routes, the ideal solution being the half way between both routes from which both routes are equally long.

>> No.14990627

>>14989441
Although my >>14989539 answer merits consideration, I have figured out the answer.

I will put the food INSIDE the box.

>> No.14990637
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14990637

>>14989441
Is it this?

>> No.14990651

>>14990587
>the ideal solution being the half way between both routes from which both routes are equally long.
Therein lies the solution to the problem, it seems we can use the magic art of equations to solve this problem. When does sqrt(4+y^2) = sqrt(9 + x^2) when x is between 0 and 1 and y is between 2 and 3?

>> No.14990652

oh for fuck's sake i just realised it doesn't tell you you have to put it on the box
i would put it on the exact opposite side of the world

>> No.14990665

>>14990652
You’d have to account for elevation too

>> No.14990670

>>14990627
I like this answer.

>> No.14990678

>>14990627
But if it can’t get to the food, it won’t walk at all.

>> No.14990681

>>14990665
or maybe, at the opposite side of the world, i could dig an endless labyrinth of tunnels that snake through the earth underneath every continent in winding and obscure configurations for billions of miles that the bug would have to methodically traverse before finally reaching the food at the center of the earth

>> No.14990689

>>14990681
Or an infinitely long tunnel extending into space

>> No.14990691

Put the food underneath the box and introduce a slight draft so that the ant will smell the vapors and walk in circles trying to reach it.

>> No.14990697

>>14990107
No it isn't, you are such a little nigger
It's fucking B

>> No.14990702

>>14990691
>>14990689
>>14990681
>>14990678
>>14990670
>>14990665
>>14990652
>>14990637
>>14990627
>>14990587
>>14990571
>>14990544
>>14990419
>>14990199
For fucks sake STOP RESPONDING TO BAIT!!!!!!!!

>> No.14990703

>>14990587
>I refuse to believe this is a 10th grade problem.
>the bug has a 150 IQ
whatever gave it away...

>> No.14990705

>>14990052
I’m pretty sure it’s B. It looks like it’s B.

>> No.14990710

It's simple, we kill the ant

>> No.14990722
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14990722

>>14990697
>>14990705
It's not B. 3.0 would be longer than B. Understand this as the main problem and you understand what the solution entails.

>> No.14990729

>>14990722
demonstrate a point further away than B or fuck off, I'm not playing around

>> No.14990733

The point to the left of B

>> No.14990734

Ayn rand

>> No.14990735

>>14990733
Imbecile!

>> No.14990738

>>14990722
I dunno man, it just really looks like B. I’m pretty sure it’s B.

>> No.14990753

>>14990735
Ah yeah, I forgot about the shortest path thing. It would definitely take the sides; only 3. So it looks like B is still the hardest to get to with sqrt(2) + 1.


Alright faggot, if I'm an imbecile, tell me the answer

>> No.14990756

>>14990753
B

>> No.14990757

>>14990753
Ah shit, forgot about the hidden faces. it would be even easier at only sqrt(5)

I'm convinced it's B.

>> No.14990764

>>14990702
The real answer is this thread. You see, we're all bugs at point A. And the OP put down the food somewhere, and we won't stop desperately walking around trying to find it.

>> No.14990782

>>14990107
Nigga what are you retarded

>> No.14990784

>>14989614
lol, you're the high schooler retard. imagine not knowing who the Huxleys are.

>> No.14990824
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14990824

>>14990729
It seems like a point around here would be a bit further away.

>> No.14990838

>>14990703
The fact that it was in a 10th grade textbook almost never means the students were able to solve it

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14990884

>>14990824
honestly seems like a graphing problem
there is a third route which you also have to be wary of

>> No.14990886
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14990886

Arno Schmidt

>> No.14990891

>>14990884
The left would always be shorter than the right assuming we're targeting the same point

>> No.14990933

>>14989441
this fucker has officially become worse than londonfrog. Think on that

>> No.14990970
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14990970

>>14990824
Pretty sure this is the answer. There is probably a graphing solution that determines the maximal point, but it will be around 0.25 inwards from both directions, with a total linear distance of around 2.85. An incredibly small gain but a gain none the less.

>> No.14991002

>>14990824
It's whatever point forces the bug to cross sides precisely at the top-right corner. So it would be a point on the back plane, just below and to the left of B.

>> No.14991015

>>14991002
It helps to draw because I can't follow what you're saying but I'm already pretty sure it's wrong

>> No.14991020

>>14989441
>150 IQ
>taskes

>> No.14991023

>>14990970
yeah im wondering what the formal experssion would be, and how to obtain it. im gonna take a nap first and see if anyone has a proper soluttion to it by then. if not ill take a crack at it myself since OP is a fucking tard who won't do anything expect be up his own ass who probably got the question wrong him/her/itself in the first place but honestly there is nothing wrong with that but damn you fucker POS starting a retarded bait thread for your ego's sake well i hope you feel better now

>> No.14991027

>>14989441
If anyone wants the actual answer to the books question:

https://tim.blog/2017/11/18/booklist/

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14991065

>>14991002
by symmetry the only planes that matter are the ones that are visible. im sure a similar argument can be make to say that only the top surface matters but it eludes me now

>> No.14991072

>>14991065
oh yeah thats a visual i made to convince anyone who still thinks that its B but i posted the wrong pic. any ways the region with the yellow box in the upperright box is a region with distance larger than AB

>> No.14991077

>>14991023
It's funny that it looks like bait when it's actually not

>> No.14991095

>>14991077
to respond to your question, they probably read some stuff like Superintelligence by Bostrom but for various reasons i don't like that book much

>> No.14991104

>>14991095
Not OP, just remarking. Less interested in OP's question

>> No.14991154
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14991154

>>14991065
I see what you mean, about the symmetry.
But then wouldn't that same argument place the food-point at B? Because any distortions in the ant's path from one angle of departure, for or against it, would be mirrored as it moved.

....unless the ant's path is curved. Or at least, changes angles, at least once.

>> No.14991208

>>14991154
Doesn't the ant's path curve 90 degrees when transitioning from one rectangle to the other?

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14991241

>>14991023
You have two competing hypotenuses that you want to be equal, starting from a 3x1 base triangle and a 2x2 base triangle. Every step you take is equal as you travel down the hypotenuse of the top square.

So it looks like this: sqrt((3-x)^2 + (1-x)^2) = sqrt((2+x)^2 + (2-x)^2)
Solve for x.

>> No.14991245

>>14991208
Not from the ant's POV.
But if he intentionally changes his angle at one of those transitions, it's possible he could minimize his route more than he would while walking in a straight line.

>> No.14991268

>>14989441
>Hint: It's not B.
And fuck you too!

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>>14989441
Unironically you would surely put the food somewhere near B but so that it had to take a diagonal path maximizing its travel. I would say somewhere between B and the unmarked corner adjacent to it. Is this right?

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14991357

>>14991241
And the answer that you reach from that formula.

>> No.14991398

>>14989441
How the fuck do I calculate the greatest distance on the surface of a box???