Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
1st derivative: speed 2nd: acceleration 3rd: jerk 4th: snap/jonce 5th: crackle 6th: pop Not kidding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_derivatives_of_position
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Sam Iglesias
@sam
how would the laws of physics permit those (4,5,6)?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
There’s nothing to permit. These are just math definitions. “Physics” is just constraints that hold among them. F=ma is a constraint on “acceleration” if F is a pure noise a is as well and all higher derivatives will be non-zero. In practice pure noise doesn’t exist so really high derivatives will go to zer
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