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22 enby she/they math spider

[queer-as-city-folk]

nobody ever mentions this but Soviet jazz is really good

[greg-jar-mp3]

No clue what I would look up but Ill try and find some

[queer-as-city-folk]

[fuzzyblizzardkitty]

> oh it cant be THAT good

> what in the everloving mother of god

[dreadwedge]

[lilith-hazel-mathematics]

It'll all be okay. You'll be okay. You just have to do more math. Do more math and everything will turn out alright. You'll see. You'll be alright. Chin up. There's math to do. You'll be fine.

[nyancrimew]

gonna start saying "this is setting men back 10 years" whenever some guy says some dumb shit

[nyancrimew]

"this is really gonna hurt the male community"

[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.

[queerwebspider]

For fellow mathematicians: Do not let them use our field to advertise AI. Make noise about it! And, please study Erdős problems --- we can solve them without AI and doing so will undercut their propaganda!

[hilberts-hotellensatz]

it's a common misconception that there was a mathematician called eisenstein. you're actually thinking of eisenstein's monster

[chilewithcarnage]

[euler-of-a-leonhard]

Im so fucked lol

Exam tomorrow

I am not prepared at all

Is there any hope for a person like me in the world of mathematical research when i cannot even be prepared for an exam

[queerwebspider]

Terry Tao tells the story that he stayed up late playing video games the night before his oral qualifying exam at Princeton and only passed because the committee was generous. Exams don't show whether a person is innately able to do research, only whether they are prepared in that particular moment.

[bread-126]

sanest mathematician you know: we need to teach children about groups

[locally-normal]

We do teach children about groups, they do things like explore the symmetries of regular hexagons. At some point we just stop, and we shouldn't!

[eliotheman]

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

[lemonylemus]

Great example

[argumate]

LLM psychosis is simply the democratisation of being surrounded by yes-men and unctuous toadies, an experience previously only accessible to dictators and kings and cult leaders and venture capitalists

[markovchaingang]

Let me put this in terms you can fucking understand. your cousin, who will be at the "IRL meet-up event" this thanksgiving, has changed quite a bit and is "lowkirkenuinely" now a "pinkpilled" "foidmaxxer" and i'm asking you not to give her "spiked cortisol levels" about it

[krasnoarmeyets]

i think i'm a bit too much of a math pervert because yesterday when i successfully solved my homework problem i felt such an overwhelming sense of bliss and euphoria and had to go outside and just walk around for a little

[michaelrotonal]

proof that Y

let X be the phrase "Y) and (false"

false => X (this applies to any X)

(false => X) (just adding parentheses)

(false => Y) and (false) (definition of X)

(false) and (false => Y) (commutativity of and)

false and (false => Y) (removal of unnecessary parentheses)

Y (modus ponens)

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

Well done you multiplied by zero

[michaelrotonal]

equals zero. next question

[queerwebspider]

Wait, I'm trying to parse this and understand what exactly is weird here. Like, certainly things break at "(false => Y) and (false)" since this is equivalent to "false". So, the weird thing must be one of the earlier steps. Presumably, it is that the input "Y) and (false" is not a valid proposition? Is there a name for this type of issue?

[cannibal-rainbow]

Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.

[cannibal-rainbow]

reblog this version because transmisogynists don’t know how to fuck off.

[marigold-22]

As a trans woman who can not wear makeup due to the sensory hell they induce on my face, I feel this post a little too much.

[lighthouseweeper]

I’m bored so I’m going to show everyone the topological dog again