#gradlr

[outsassing-nero]

morning set up for working on my projects :)

listening to: 1349, ash of ages

[gay-mathematician-portmanteau]

i'm that 17 year old who just discovered how beautiful math is and won't shut up about how it's the language the universe chooses to speak to us except i'm 24 and do math research

[lightupgoldfish]

do you ever just,,, despise polynomials,,, seriously tho if anyones taken american advanced algebra can help me and is willing id,,,, appreciate that more than is comprehensible

[the-saucy-wave-equation]

19.03.20

Mid-day update! getting started today was somehow a little more difficult. I’m losing motivation a bit. I might go for a nice socially-distant walk to refresh myself. 

I’ve just been running calculations for my no-longer-neglected project, at the cost of doing any of the coding for the other one... ah well, can’t win them all. Not sure how people juggle actually doing multiple very different research projects. Even if mine will eventually converge into my thesis, ultimately, and I know how to combine them, but that’s far enough down the line that it’s a little dispiriting. Oh well. Plugging on. 

I’m also trying to use this time of a little bit more calm to get more paper and textbook reading in. The textbook on my desk came today and looks like it’ll be an absolutely amazing resource for everything I could possibly want. My one-stop-shop for any theoretical basics. So I think I’ll be trying to go through a chapter and do problems every couple weeks to a month just to keep my maths sharper and really stay on top of the material. I really want to expand my knowledge base to make sure I can think of things in lots of different ways and try and make innovative connections. Bc research!!

If anyone has any suggestions for how to use a textbook for review outside of a structured class, I welcome them! I’ll be muddling on the best I can, but if anyone knows any really good ways to maximize the benefit, I’m happy to try and incorporate them.

Well, I think I’ll head off for a walk now to clear the cobwebs and then get back to work! I’m 3/5ths of the way through my planned work hours, so want to revitalize myself a little bit before getting entrenched in it again. 

[blackamericanist]

R hates me and I hate R.

[gay-mathematician-portmanteau]

a college algebra student asked me to prove to her that any line with slope \frac{-1}{m} is perpendicular to a line with slope m. in my infinite hubris, i confidently launched into the dot product proof. about halfway through, i realised that i'd forgotten that adding non-zero constants to your column vectors' y-terms completely ruins the dot product. i absolutely flubbed it and will suffer for eternity as penance. send me to linear algebra hell.

[gay-mathematician-portmanteau]

can men in math classes please learn about tissues or something? anything?

[gay-mathematician-portmanteau]

are you... eating spaghetti-os right now?