Let’s Do Some Biomath Boys

Bio is old. Math is old. Biomath is less old because it’s both

[queer-in-stem]

When most of your family are engineers, there are lots of math jokes that get flung around. My mother just sent this to the family group chat.

[abalidoth]

Fun little math trick I find really helpful: the ratio of a mile to a kilometer is within 1% of the Golden Ratio. That means that if you have a good memory for Fibonacci numbers (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89) you can convert pretty accurately by taking consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

For example, 89 kilometers is really close to 55 miles (55.3). Or, say you need to convert 26 miles to kilometers: 26 can be written as 21 plus 5, so taking the next Fibonacci number up gives 34 and 8, meaning it should be around 42 kilometers. Sure enough, it’s 41.8 km!

[tamberoo]

i need several moments, math like this scares me

[abalidoth]

Not gonna lie, as much as I want to be helpful and comprehensible, I am very proud of provoking that reaction image.

[etirabys]

Was staring at a piece of infrastructure, pondering on the strangeness that, as sturdy as it was, it required maintenance and eventually replacement. That everything was like this – except for biological constructs that could perpetuate themselves. But they mutate. So – what if we could build everything out of biology? Our sinks and bridges become immortal – yet destined to become eerie, shifted, unrecognizable things within thousands of years.

[itsbenedict]

this is an out-of-context journal entry you find discarded in an abandoned science lab in a horror game

[queer-in-stem]

I would play the shit out of a “infrastructure is mutating” game.

[hahamarriedyetwhat]

I analyzed check please for a school research project lmao

please enjoy my sophomore year math project for [REDACTED] university. I'll gladly elaborate or answer any questions sent to my inbox!

highly recommend combining your interests with your work whenever possible. makes it a more enjoyable experience all around.

also I can't be the only one who's commented on the color palette that ngozi uses shifting from warmer to cooler colors over time..? right?

[missdaisydaily]

Daisy Ridley fangirling over Angelina Jolie at the 2019 D23 Expo

[caelumrising]

This is framed like a parks and rec gag

[thewriterkb]

The reverse progression of Modern Humans to simple life forms. 

[rudescience]

I will map out every neuron/brain cell inside my head into a simple neural network below.

var neurons[2] = {n1, n2};

[queer-in-stem]

Thanks I hate it

[pacmastermeow]

@the-real-numbers @vacuously-true i now crown you "numblrs"

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

@numblrtheory

[vacuously-true]

@the-real-numbers, @numblrtheory, and I are siblings. Real is the queen, I'm the king, Emily is the princess. @counter-example and @sevenfactorial are our loyal cousins. @question-why-not and @tens-tensor-tensest are our cousins, loved but not exactly trusted due to their tendency to sympathize with The Dark Side (physics).

[queer-in-stem]

@vacuously-true where do I fit?

[vacuously-true]

Berries Repeating... 🍓 🍓 🍓 🍓 🍓

this is for you, my love: @carlscookies

[katreus]

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.

“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

My favourite math fact is that 0.9999999.. is equal to 1. Exactly. Not approximately. Not as a rounded number. 0.9999 (recurring) is exactly 1.

[transsexual-dandelions]

Question. How the fuck does that work?

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I tried explaining it here:

[secondaristh]

Here’s another perspective on why .999… repeating is exactly equal to 1.

For any two distinct real numbers, we can always find a rational number strictly between them, i.e. that rational number must be able to be expressed as a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal.  To be clear, that rational number is strictly between the two values; it is not allowed to be equal to either.

Suppose k is a rational number strictly between 1 and 0.9999….  If this is possible, then, I can write k exactly as either a decimal with finite digits, or I can write k as a repeating decimal.  The problem is, there are no decimals with finite digits between 1 and 0.999… , and there is no way to write a repeating decimal that is greater than 0.999… and still less than 1.  Either way, a k strictly between 1 and 0.999… does not exist.  The only way this can be true is if those two numbers are not actually distinct.  That is to say, 1 = 0.999…..

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i truly appreciate how math seems like it’s this infallible always-true only-one-answer thing, when in reality math is just like:

[counter-example]

“Wait. What am I proving again?”

- @sevenfactorial

[sevenfactorial]

Wow called out :P

[counter-example]

Tbf, pretty sure I said the same thing earlier today.

[sevenfactorial]

The lab needs a counter that detects the phrase “what am I proving?” except half of the people who utilize the room, including us, are privacy paranoid and would probably freak.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

I got Terror a Kong chew toy and it's just about as funny as you would expect

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Watching the tiny little gears in her head spin as she tries to set down the toy without it randomly rolling away is priceless

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

She has figured out the second most optimal way of getting the treats out, which is to hold it between her paws and try to tongue them out, but I'm waiting for her to realize that if she grabs it by the wrong end and furiously thrashes it about she'll scatter the treats everywhere like a sawed-off beef and pork shotgun

[queer-in-stem]

@the-real-numbers Lee says to post the in-case-of-good-girl-pop-tab jar

[vacuously-true]

"Numbers they've never seen before, I'm talking, florpety five, bundillion and velve, seventeen but the seven is a dragon's head,"

— Stephen Colbert

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

r u dating lee?

Ew no that's my older sister

[vacuously-true]

You just declared me babey.

And now I'm your older sister?

What are you, a fetus?

[queer-in-stem]

MY LEEMUR.

NOT FOR @the-real-numbers.

MINE.

[vacuously-true]

Sorry @the-real-numbers. Carlyn insists we recognize that I'm hers and she's mine and most importantly we both belong to Lily. That's pretty regular tbh I'm surprised anon would even ask given how much Carlyn I post.

[vacuously-true]

@the-real-numbers it sure as shit is

[vacuously-true]

nerds support each other

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

r u dating lee?

Ew no that's my older sister

[vacuously-true]

You just declared me babey.

And now I'm your older sister?

What are you, a fetus?

[queer-in-stem]

MY LEEMUR.

NOT FOR @the-real-numbers.

MINE.