Mathematikerin Freyja

Eldritch forest spirit fighting her way back into a math phd (pls send help) May all people live with kindness and joy for one another!

[rosees3ray]

reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[emmaklee]

[pourquoiwhy]

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

[biglawbear]

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

[maddie-2022]

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

[nyantara]

the thing is I just don't think intellectual labour is a special class of labour. I just don't think someone who created an intellectual product like a manuscript deserves the rights to extracting rent forever from physical copies of it more than the person who maintains the printers. I will just never be convinced of this.

[locally-normal]

This is such a bizarre take to me. I hate copyright but it seems for very different reasons. But also I just don't get what it's complaining about - the publishers always get their cut. In fact everyone typically complains their cut it too big. And their cut pays the person who maintains the printers. And keeps paying it as long as the book keeps getting printed and purchased.

Information wants to be free. Someone who writes a manuscript deserves to be paid for their efforts, if people read it. I fundamentally do not understand the difference between internet piracy and libraries. I value and respect the work of authors. An author contributes more towards the existence of a book than someone who maintains a printer. And especially more for a book that only exists online than someone who maintains a server. Everyone involved deserves to get paid for their work and realistically the one most at risk of not being paid for their contributions to the finished product in the real world right now is the author. If each physical book costs $20 retail, I would say that the author should end up getting more of that $20 than the printer-maintainer. Each of them should get a cut, and does.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I think it is also worth pointing out that the author can only produce a small numbers of books during their lifetime, and most authors struggle enormously to pay their cost of living by just producing books.

On the other hand, the printers can manufacture an enormous quantity of different books from different authors in high volumes to make up the cost of living for their employees.

The author has a greater need for a percentage of that income to be able to sustainably continue to be an author.

The very famous millionaire authors are complete outliers.

[proteusolm]

The Ojibwe nailed it. Wawa is exactly the right name for a goose.

[happilyloudwonderland]

Speaking of Ojibwe! There’s a new point and click game to help teach the language! It’s called Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining, and is currently on sale on Steam!

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Damn this paper is nicely illustrated:

[mathematikerin-freyja]

How do I find myself a mathematical niche to live in?

[mathematikerin-freyja]

For me the most important thing to highlight is the necessity of clean teeth. If your teeth are clean you are ready to bite the world. That's what I say. I have other advice but this is the most foundational thing.

[ashes2caches]

please make sure your transfem friends don’t get excluded. please listen to their needs.

[tankie-transfeminist]

You should do more than just listen, actually. You need to ask her. You need to go up to her and ask her about things you can do to include her. We are taught to take up as little space as possible, you need to go out of your way to account for that.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Yeah, I think I need to start figuring out a plan for what it looks like to move back to my home country.

[glassshine]

peem poom

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Bringing me flashbacks!

[osabishi-yama]

石上純也氏 Junya Ishigami – Water Garden, 2018, Nasu Mountains, Japan

[crinoid]

there's photographs of it in other seasons, pretty cool.

the source has more info and stuff like plans and cross sections.

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

:/

[phaeton-flier]

There's an important lesson here, which is that stuff tends to get done by the people who just... Show up and do stuff. Just taking initiative and starting things often gives you a lot of decision power. There are no adultier adults who are in charge—just whoever is trying things.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Is anyone crazy enough to like squat 24/7 in front of their computer? Like opposite standard standing desk style reply to the problem of sitting?

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I very much wish we could drop this idea of good and evil people. We all have the seeds for the whole range of human behaviour in us. Our behaviour is a consequence of the way in which the circumstances of our lives water those seeds. We do not have much control over the circumstances of our life. In many ways, being a "good person" is a tremendous privilege of circumstance.

We can certainly speak of good and evil actions, but we should never reduce the humanity of a person to a single action they have taken.

It is dangerous because, as we think of ourselves as good people, we become blind to our own potential for evil action. It is also dangerous because we lose our empathy for those we have castigated into the evil category and in doing so perpetuate an evil action ourselves under the guide of moral justification.

Even those people who physically assaulted me back in high school, I understand now that they were acting on sensations and impulses and thoughts that were cultivated by their environment. I forgive them, even when the mental health consequences have sabotaged the last decade and a half of my life. I have to forgive them. The only sensible response to the harm they did me is to advocate for a world whose nature waters less seeds of cruelty and aggression. I think the attitude of moral condemnation cannot help but water more seeds of cruelty and aggression.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Finally got some proper glasses made by a professional just for me so I don't need to wear these shitty glasses anymore!

P.S. OH MY GOD TREES HAVE LEAVES AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS. I DIDN'T REALISE HOW MUCH THEY HAD JUST SIMPLIFIED INTO ABSTRACT BLOBS!

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I am beginning to wonder if I actually have ADHD, as I think almost all of my symptoms could alternatively be described as arising from a combination of anxiety, depression, and certain maladaptive elements of my personal philosophy that I am working on extirpating....