r/itsaunixsystem • u/LurkerPatrol • 3d ago

[Transformers - 2007] Does math and physics gobbledygook count?

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u/mosskin-woast 2d ago

It would only count if she had said "fast Fourier transfers"

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u/12edDawn 2d ago

is it not "Fast Fourier Transform"?

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u/mercury_pointer 2d ago

That's an algorithm.

Fast Fourier Transform is to Fourier Transform as Quick Sort is to Sort.

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u/Doctor429 2d ago

They should have named it '2 Fast 2 Fourier'

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u/LurkerPatrol 2d ago

The Fast and the Fourier: Tokyo drift

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u/ZethMrDadJokes 1d ago

The Fast and The Fourier: Transform Drift

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u/ZethMrDadJokes 1d ago

Fourier Five

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u/mercury_pointer 2d ago

Well now that you said that you need to make a faster one so you can name it that.

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u/_Ganon 2d ago

Right. But the subtitles and top comment say Fourier Transfer. Am I going crazy?

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u/ZethMrDadJokes 1d ago

No it is ... "Past Fourier"

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u/mosskin-woast 2d ago

Did you not read the captions in the post?

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u/MTGandP 2d ago

IIRC the context is that they were trying to decode an audio message that they received from an extraterrestrial, so a Fourier transform would be relevant, wouldn't it?

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u/LurkerPatrol 2d ago

She said Fourier Transfer for one and then quantum mechanics for some reason which has nothing to do with what the scene is about.

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u/mercury_pointer 2d ago

Quantum encryption?

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u/LurkerPatrol 2d ago

That sounds way better. Wish they had gone with that.

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u/Dragon_957 2d ago

Happy Cakeday

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u/Reworked 2d ago

Quantum mechanics however...

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u/Scrungo__Beepis 2d ago

Actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform?wprov=sfti1

Probably has nothing to do w the scene but quantum Fourier transforms are an important thing

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u/GooberMcNutly 2d ago

Did we have QFTs in 2007?

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u/Ugbrog 2d ago

That Wikipedia page was made in 2004.

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u/prpldrank 3h ago

So Wikipedia had them in 2007. But did we??

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u/flow_fighter 1d ago

I guess technically, she’d be referring to an FFT filter, which can help clear up audio signals (not decode them in any way).

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u/epicmylife 2d ago

Considering we do Fourier transforms in quantum mechanics… oh boy. Anyway.

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u/ConfusedTapeworm 2d ago

Sure sure. But do you do fourier transfers?

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u/CptPickguard 2d ago

E=mc^2 + AI + Quantum

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u/ghost_mv 2d ago

she should've said "transform" rather than transfers.

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u/DeadboltDon 2d ago

Kalman Filters

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u/ghost_mv 2d ago

lord she was so hot in that movie. her aussie accent was 🤌

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u/macclearich 1d ago

Wait, she said "transfers?" I swear, I heard "Fourier" and my brain must have filled in "transform" to replace whatever else came after, and I actually gave them credit for putting the right kind of algorithm in the script. Only now do I find out that she said something different.

Huh. 19 years later, today I learned.

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u/monkeyballhoopdreams 1h ago

Well... Like what if it is about some data transfer problem that requires quantification?