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! Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and compassion!

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Yeah, I am more and more convinced each day now. I just want to go home. I need to be with my friends and family.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Down in the mushroom grotto watching the various fungi pulse with different coloured lights when a lanky goat disturbs me from my transfixed bliss to inform me that I need to check the vegetable tray in my fridge because I don't remember what is in there anymore and that definitely means something is rotting. 😭

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Contemplating a future where you can buy some tools and create your own custom insects from scratch in a specialised bug workshop. The first rule would be always make the bugs look more scary. The second rule would be always attach more knees. Spikes too if you got em in stock. Aside from that though it would be pretty free form artistic expression, and maybe there would be a television show where people show off their most imaginative new species of insects. I know what I would invent if bug workshop were a real hobby. Do you?

[m---a---x]

I think genemodding bugs is comparably easy to diy

To get more knees you need more legs or more knees per leg. Both can be done by controlling the gene sequence responsible for the general bodyplan (the hox system). I forgot the reference, but i saw someone explain it by demonstrating how to add extra segments to a centipede (or millipede?). Your creation might not be livable anymore though and working with (pre-)embrionic insect stemmcells is probably a bit of a pain. All of that should be reasonably well understood though, there is a lot of literature about it

[m---a---x]

Regarding the hox system, the same channel has a video explaining it starting at 18:50

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Surely there is some regulation against actually doing this. It seems like the general public probably should not be doing this sort of stuff.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I think it would be really wonderful if seagulls were constructed more like bottles with a mystery inside. What I'm imagining is that were you to catch one, you could then unscrew its face and there would be a glowing gem nestled in some sort of socket. The Core of the Gull so to speak. Then you could swap that around with other seagulls, and after screwing the faces back on they would fly off as if nothing happened. Hm... Is this too esoteric, or do some of you see what I am getting at?

[97beans]

Is this anything

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Yes, this is magnificent! ❤️

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

[natural-blogarithm]

hrt is so cool. so glad i decided to stop worrying about whether i was trans enough to start and instead just asked if i wanted it for myself.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Contemplating a future where you can buy some tools and create your own custom insects from scratch in a specialised bug workshop. The first rule would be always make the bugs look more scary. The second rule would be always attach more knees. Spikes too if you got em in stock. Aside from that though it would be pretty free form artistic expression, and maybe there would be a television show where people show off their most imaginative new species of insects. I know what I would invent if bug workshop were a real hobby. Do you?

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I think it would be really wonderful if seagulls were constructed more like bottles with a mystery inside. What I'm imagining is that were you to catch one, you could then unscrew its face and there would be a glowing gem nestled in some sort of socket. The Core of the Gull so to speak. Then you could swap that around with other seagulls, and after screwing the faces back on they would fly off as if nothing happened. Hm... Is this too esoteric, or do some of you see what I am getting at?

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Can you elaborate the connection to mormonism? I am intrigued.

[imidazoliumeow]

they call me a prime ideal the way im on the spectrum

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Myself, what do you recommend?

SHEAF THEORY, DRINK FIVE THOUSAND DROPS OF WATER, AND THEN SLEEP.

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Okay thanks :3

[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?