What we did instead of sleep...

(Physics) + (Electrical Engineering) + (Artificial Intelligence) + (Mathematics) + (Research) + (Grad School) = (Lack of Sleep)

[superlative2sleep]

I propose we update the phrase “worth its weight in gold” to “worth its mass in helium”. Thoughts?

[superlative2sleep]

Imaging of Ultraweak Spontaneous Photon Emission from Human Body Displaying Diurnal Rhythm

The human body literally glimmers. The intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes

"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm." -Winston Churchill

Right-on.

[math-memes]

[twocubes]

diamonds are badass when there’s infinitely many of them, tbh…

[twocubes]

like, see this thing? ignoring library imports (i’m lazy so i just import everything while i’m messing around) this is 24 lines of latex.

like. sure, it’s not what you’re supposed to do with latex but, i mean.

so what?

[official-kircheis]

No this is definitely what you are supposed to do with latex

[mathprofessorquotes]

Algebra Professor: You won’t like me as much if you take the next class.

Student: Well, hopefully I’ll just graduate and walk away, but that’s up to you.

[mathprofessorquotes]

“I know a lot of you in the physics department take the log of 0 and call it negative infinity. We’re in the math department here, and we do not do such horrible things.”

— Statistics professor on the log likelihood function

[academicssay]

[mathprofessorquotes]

“This problem’s making me hungry, it’s taking so much glucose from my brain.”

— Differential equations professor, solving the Laplace transform of sin(t)

[programmerhumour]

Spot on.

[nemfrogfilms]

Interference of photons. 1959. Physical Science Study Committee.

Internet Archive

[nemfrogfilms]

Interference of photons. 1959. Physical Science Study Committee.

Internet Archive

[mathprofessorquotes]

“Sometimes the best mathematical approach to finding zeros is to give up.”

— Calculus professor at Harvard University

[vislaneva]

    I’m reading a microwave instruction manual but it feels like I’m reading a nuclear reactor instruction manual

[superlative2sleep]

Every time I use a microwave I feel like I’m interacting with the domesticated version of the untamed magnetron I use in lab

[lthmath]

Illusive patterns in math explained by ideas in physics

Patterns appear widely throughout nature and math, from the Fibonacci spirals of sea shells to the periodicity of crystals. But certain math problems can sometimes trick the human solver into seeing a pattern, but then, out of the blue, the pattern suddenly disappears. These illusive patterns crop up in many areas of math, with one example coming from certain calculus integrals that have deceived the intuition of even the best mathematicians.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces]

Harvey et al. (2002)

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[I thank the National Science Foundation for regularly rejecting my (honest) grant applications for work on real organisms (cf. Szent-Györgyi, 1972), thus forcing me into theoretical work.]

Van Valen (1973)

[superlative2sleep]