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[yournewkeyboard]

My keyboard! Pok3r (MX Browns) + Tai-Hao avatar keycaps (scrambled cause they didn’t have blanks) + panda escape keycap.

[twocubes]

hello ms cubes! im interested in category theory (and some other fields) which are, according to my advisor, pretty inaccessible to undergrads because of their long list of prereqs in algebra, etc. now i don’t plan on returning as a grad student, so i was wondering if you had any advice for continuing to learn about math after school? (are you a grad student? i guess this wouldn’t make much sense if you are)

uhh. idk.

i mean i’m not really a grad student (i took a mental health break and then just got worse) but i’ve been doing math on my own but i don’t have a job either.

as far as advice, i mean, i read through volume 1 of Borceux’s Handbook of Categorical Algebra and did all the exercises, which is one way to learn category theory; right now i’m trying a different tactic where I take the book I actually want to read (Sketches of an Elephant) and whenever I hit something that’s left to the reader or some background I don’t have I just… take a break and do that for a bit, writing notes about the stuff I’d want to have already known; and, i think that’s a bit more rewarding to me.

Get the motivations more immediately, yknow?

i think i’d recommend that second approach if you already have a book you’d like to read; it’s better motivated. the first is a good way to like. get some general background to make things readable enough that you can go look for more motivations elsewhere, i guess?

also if you can find friends to study with, even if it’s like, read a chapter in a book and discuss it every week, that helps a lot.

anyways. recall that i am a mess. the depression-induced short-term memory breakdown has made it impossible to make any plans whatsoever over the past 4 months. you may find that these things take too much time for you or inversely that they take too little time and you can do a lot more.

if i sound like i’m going more insane sometimes it might be because i am, just a little.

but yeah, I will emphasize that like. working at it regularly is very important. it’s the most important thing, in fact. it basically doesn’t matter that much which study approach you take so long as you can manage to do it like. daily. or weekly. or something between those two.

which is why motivations are important, in self-study.

anyways. good luck! I’d offer individual help but i don’t think i’m capable of doing that reliably right now. maybe i can answer questions. it’s worth asking i guess, if you have any. if i don’t reply it’s not your fault.

[dateagirlwhosweird]

cyelatm / dateagirlwhosweird collab when...!!

At the end of days, for such a collaboration would be too powerful for this universe to handle.

[dementedgnomicwizard]

you know elsie fisher? howd you meet?

we have a mutual friend, one of my friends who ive known through the adventure zone fan twitter for a few years went to school with her

[angelaandshane]

Meds After our FET that just failed, we have been stuck with over a thousand dollars worth of unused meds.

[yournewkeyboard]

Not the keyboard you want, but the keyboard you deserve: these crusty old rubber dome Sun keyboards I found in a closet off of the server room at work.

[yournewkeyboard]

The incredibly strange Sun Unix keyboards at my old job — it wouldn’t have been such an issue if they didn’t also have a bunch of Sun Windows keyboards, which looked and felt the same but had different modifiers (Win key vs Meta, control vs caps lock, etc.), so nobody ever hit the right button when they sat down at someone else’s desk.

[yournewkeyboard]

A ZEOS keyboard i picked up from a closet at my current job, where it’d probably been sitting for decades untouched. This pic is before I tore it apart to scrub it clean. Alps white clicky switches and an extremely irritating AT plug, so I have to get an AT→PS/2 adapter before i can even use it!!