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ocean ♡ mathematics and physics undergrad

[studywithocean]

— about me

ocean

she/her

third-year undergraduate

math + physics

— currently

researching black holes

applying to reus

reading: a tree grows in brooklyn (betty smith)

[mathani]

Any point on torus lies on four circles on torus.

[princesskuragina]

Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed

[eulers-biggest-fan]

Every time someone tells me they hate math (which is frequently, bc people who hate math r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a mathematician) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most pure and applicable and eternal field of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-learnt algebra when they were 14 in a lame math class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed

[yokowan]

deeply amusing to me how the term "minicomputer" was coined very prematurely

[yokowan]

^ this is a minicomputer fyi

[donjuaninhell]

And these are microcomputers. Yeah we really weren't expecting just how small we'd be able to shrink things down.

[minix-official]

We should keep the trend going, laptops should be nanocomputers and smart phones should be femtocomputers

[e-the-real-etherealist]

I think I'm mutuals with a femtocomputers

[fredersen]

a meba 🦠 is almost like a really really small anermal but not quite

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

me: anyway the algorithm basically recommends content based on what you’ve watched, a whole bunch of different apps do this

medieval mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī: they named WHAT after me????

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)

[bread-126]

to find a counterexample you have to think like a counterexample

[transgenderer]

employment is wire mother, grad school is cloth mother. how did i not realize this before

[eulers-biggest-fan]

Oh, to be an ancient mage (tenured mathematician) locked in my tower (room with a blackboard) conjuring spells (theorems and proofs) :/

[nemfrog]

The physical track of a single electron as it moved through a detector at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

Frontiers of Physics. Canadian edition. 1968.

Internet Archive

[prokopetz]

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

[blue-pikmin-gaming]

WHY is there a huge exspolion ebery time i cut an atom in half. is it me? am i th prabelm?

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[sobcat]

people who do a PhD are running from something

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Voting ended onJun 9

[haly-reads]

june 01, '23: catharsis//