Quantum State of Studying

|| Math & Physics Double Major || ||Undergrad|| Just another university student trying to start a Studyblog from the ground state up.

[bagel-of-masyaf]

rarely laugh out loud at math memes but this got me

[algebraic-dumbass]

tower defense game where you defend a LaTeX document against professors, call it Thesis Defense

[abalidoth]

the most scathing response I got from my committee was "Mathematical notation does not work the way you seem to think it does", which if this was a tower defense game would be an instant game over

[official-kircheis]

Paraguay implies the existence of Orthoguay

[sigmaleph]

you mean to tell me you've never been to orthoguay?

[official-kircheis]

I haven’t even been to Paraguay!

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

it's nice how everything in the world can be described by well ordered and complete systems of rules that fully explain all possible perspectives and interpretations and can answer every question and account for [your phone rings, i hold eye contact with you, my grip on your hand tightens] don't pick that up. that's from godel. block that number.

[stargazerbibi]

[ 19th june, 2026 • day 46/80 ]

library endeavours

-> calc3 worksheet 3 (exercises: 6c-d, 7a-b)

🎧 Mr. Jones, by Counting Crows

📓 Septology, by Jon Fosse

🎮 Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[hartsnkises]

Alan Turing and Ada of Lovelace did not invent computer science for the girls and the gays to claim they can't do math

[lulustudies]

exam on Thursday

[mossquitoman]

I love mathematicians so much. No one else is doing it like them. Group of people genuinely only in it for love of the game. Everyone else hates their subject and thinks its boring and useless and these guys are out here talking about how beautiful and incredible and poetic it is with a twinkle in their eyes. No other subject has such a crazy disconnect between public perception and reality. I love it.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[pythonian23]

Studying linear algebra rn and it's to freaky for me 😭

There's too much magickery, like you define a thing a certain way and suddenly it has 3 billion useful properties

I feel like calculus had carefully constructed definitions to specifically get the properties and uses you wanted but this is something completely different

[totalitariandemocracy]

tags by @generally-proven

[natural-blogarithm]

maybe if tumblr allowed you to typeset your posts in LaTeX it would have succeeded in becoming the next pdf

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[cz3chova]

@charlesoberonn made a really, really good post that I stole to make... this

[sevenfactorial]

Went to read (a journal article) outside the math building and found that someone had been studying galois theory.

No clue who. I didn't see anything that seemed too unreasonable for an undergrad class, but I also don't know if they even do galois theory in the undergrad abstract class here.

[sevenfactorial]

It was the grad class! (The intro/qualifying sequence one.) They were out there again, including the professor, and some other professors took photos :)

[huiopl064]

some math concepts are just so inherently funny like there's a thing called the "long line" and it's just a line that is defined to be long.

or, more precisely, it is a union of two long rays and a long ray is defined to be longer than a regular one.

now, you may be asking, how can something be longer than infinite? now that is a very good question: it is longer than a normal ray because it is defined to be longer.

"the long line behaves similiar to the real line, but it is in a certain sense \"longer\"" is a real sentence that i just read.

[sysy-studyblr]

saturday 25/04/2026

idk what kind of genuine delusion i was on when i volunteered to willingly write a paper in a software i’m not fully conversant in, in a language that im still struggling in, in a topic i am ass at… and i was like yeah guys 👍 let me do the first research paper of the semester

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