serious-discussion

[split pawn]

Isnt SCP 096 the one that can catch you if you see it ona TV screen

[echo tundra]

Sounds like info hazard with extra steps

[deep mango]

But all the stories about them are fun

[split pawn]

Thats like

Class Keter or what

Idr now

[deep mango]

Yes, info hazard is the basis for it. Memes and antimemes are both infohazards

[split pawn]

Nah its Euclid only

[echo tundra]

Interesting

[deep mango]

My other favorite is the one about the forest which cannot be given a permanent name

[deep mango]

Which was actually the first one i read

Its so good

[jagged forge]

what was this one’s name

was Larry the old man or was Larry 096

ah no that’s 106

radical larry

[echo tundra]

Larry is such a funny name

[deep mango]

Oh the other absolutely incredible one is this
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5005
About a town built on a piece of land floating outside spacetime

Just so well written

[split pawn]

What the lol

am I looking at

[neat lintel]

What is #help-6 doing?

[vague moat]

SCP jelly thingy

[quiet slate]

today i thoght

if there was another univers where is it now?

and whe cant see all of our univers

so waht if after the part whe can see is just more un our univers and after that a big black void and after that the old univers

and so it could go on

and infinet circle of universes

[raven plaza]

What if there really was a fourth spatial dimension

[quiet slate]

maby

[raven plaza]

But everything we can observe is stuck in 3 dimensions

[quiet slate]

but if there was maby there is also a 5 a 6 and so on and on

[raven plaza]

Like microbes trapped between two panes of glass under the microscope

And stuck in 2 dimensions

[quiet slate]

well also 2d thinks can look 3d

so maby there is just 1d and 2d

[raven plaza]

What if there are many beings staring at us silently

Observing our every move

[quiet slate]

you mean "whe are all in a simulation"?

[raven plaza]

But they are in the 4th dimension

And we can never stare back

[quiet slate]

do you know the experiment of 2d billy and 3d sientist?

[raven plaza]

Flatland?

[quiet slate]

yes

if whe pass a ball tro the 2d land for billy its just a point that starts little then big and gehts little again

and then disapears

so he cant see the ball just a shadow

and that would confirm your "alian simulation" theory

cus if they are in 4d whe could see them

[zealous garden]

If we were truly in 4D we should see more parity inverting transformations

[quiet slate]

no whe are in 3d (1d + 2d) but if there is somfing out there that is in 4d (1d + 2d + 3d) whe couldnt see them

cus whe cant see wahts beond the point of 3d

[zealous garden]

In 4D, 3D reflections are just rotations utilizing the additional dimension

[quiet slate]

is 4d not just also in and out

https://tenor.com/view/max-gif-14314871

[split pawn]

I think I can make it irl and just call it 4d then?

[quiet slate]

...

dont think so

[mental stratus]

https://scipy-lectures.org/intro/numpy/index.html
https://scipy-lectures.org/advanced/advanced_numpy/index.html

[burnt ledge]

just like from 3d -> 2d

[quiet slate]

but for us a 2d world is flat wich in a point the 3d world is 3d but waht could the 4d dimension be

and how would our world look like in 4d?

is it also just flat?

[marsh pelican]

Opinions on where the complex numbers really lie on a graph.

[forest vale]

just like Cartesian?

[ocean harbor]

@tame egret afternoon

me going to stu(dying) harder during these long weekend

[quiet slate]

ima just gona put it on paper and it all makes sens

[feral hearth]

heyy, quick question:
I was taking a look o cases in which newtons method (calculus) fail, and I was told that in order for the precision to be good, the "second derivative should not be too big". Why is that?

[jovial tartan]

Is anyone here a pro in maths but in French?

[vocal vessel]

un pro en mathématiques

[solar hawk]

,iamstudying

[fathom swallow]

Gave you the studying! selfrole.

[mental stratus]

#bots

[split pawn]

#pika

[leaden torrent]

not entirely sure what this is referring to. do you have a bit more context?

if the derivative at the point of consideration is 0 (i.e. if youre looking for a local extremum) and the second derivative exists, then the convergence is linear with error determined by the second derivative

so it will converge slower in such a situation if the second derivative is large

but it'll still converge eventually

[delicate wolf]

Does anyone know any good resources about practical numerical differentiation with regularization? Most papers out there describe the theory of different methods but they don't provide any algorithms. Something like "you have n samples of a noisy function, here's how to estimate the derivative at each point" would be nice.

[river moon]

any numerical analysis book

[delicate wolf]

I've checked a few but couldn't find something solid. Any suggestions?

[zealous garden]

Yes, in fact this is true forever. Every Geometric Algebra is isomorphic to the even subalgebra of a Geometric Algebra 1 dimension higher

[jagged forge]

reminds me of how the permutation groups are generated by transposition

[zealous garden]

The fun series of examples (if I remember correctly) is

$C \ell_{p,0}(\bb R)^+ \cong C \ell_{0,p}(\bb R)^+ \cong C \ell_{0,p-1}$

[fathom swallow]

wraithlord_kograduate

[zealous garden]

Which starts with Cl_1 having an even subalgebra of R, Cl_2 having an even subalgebra of the complex numbers (Cl_0,1), and Cl_3 having an even subalgebra of the quaternions (Cl_0,2)

[zealous garden]

What's the difference between permutation and transposition

[quiet slate]

whe talked about 4d

and i just toght

waht if 4d is another kind of world ore univer and whe are inside of that univer

ore whe take an example on the multivers theory

where whe could say there is a univers in the multivers that is all just in 4d

[jagged forge]

a “transposition” swaps two elements and that’s it

[zealous garden]

Gotcha

[quiet slate]

so teleportation?

[jagged forge]

uhhh sure, that works lol

[quiet slate]

...

[jagged forge]

think a bit more abstractly

do you know what permutations are?

[quiet slate]

no

[jagged forge]

it’s like a shuffle

shuffling a deck is a permutation on 52 cards

[quiet slate]

okey

[jagged forge]

and any permutation can be recreated with a series of swaps

(transpositions)

[quiet slate]

hmm okey so basikly ur puting stuf from point a to point b?

[jagged forge]

yeah, sort of, but you can’t put multiple things into the same spot

[quiet slate]

well yes

but thats also interesting

when i could teleport a human and i teleport him intro a wall

waht would happen?

ore whe use any other objekt

[jagged forge]

well if you did it with a permutation, the particles of the wall would be exchanged

so you would have wall where the human used to be

and human where the wall used to be

[quiet slate]

nice

but waht would be other way to transport stuf besides that?

i mean whe could try to destory a objekt intro evry singel atom and transport the atoms to another point

[jagged forge]

yeah this is math not physics

nor engineering

[quiet slate]

but i like bothe

[jagged forge]

well ask a physicist

[quiet slate]

nah i just like making questions

qithout questons there are no answers

so mathe canot be without a question

[sonic field]

wat we got goin on

[jagged forge]

ludi wants to know practical methods of teleportation

[sonic field]

practical? as in why we would want to do it? or like workin methods?

sorry that's practical reasons

[sonic field]

wat u tryin to teleport for?

[quiet slate]

i dont try i just question it

i also question dividing by 0

cus sombody has to

[sonic field]

well

we can't teleport rn so

[jagged forge]

if ludi doesn’t ask these questions who will

he is shouldering the weight of humanity’s future

[sonic field]

do you want to teleport?

[quiet slate]

would be nice

sad whe cant

[sonic field]

but would it tho?

[quiet slate]

so yet whe cant

[quiet slate]

waht?

[sonic field]

you sure it would really be nice to?

[quiet slate]

sure

i mean i dont need to pay for travel anymore

i just say where i wahnt to go and i geht there

whe could save trilions on traveling

[sonic field]

What about

everything that's "there" already?

[quiet slate]

you mean that it will be swapt with me?

[sonic field]

well see that's the thing

would it actually be "swapped"?

[quiet slate]

well waht about teleporting a human intro a wall?

would he replace the wall?

ore would the wall replace him?

[sonic field]

would he?

you're the one who wants this to happen haha

[quiet slate]

sure i am

so i dont geht waht ur trying to say...

[sonic field]

well you question teleportation

so let's talk about it

let's say that if we teleport a man into a wall

[quiet slate]

yes

[sonic field]

that "wall" switches with the man

is it just that part of the wall or the whole wall itself?

[quiet slate]

ore would the wall and man become one?

[sonic field]

that's a good question

[quiet slate]

hmm well i would say when that it would be just a part

but if whe do manage it now evryone would geht a teleport device

thats like handing out bombs

[sonic field]

hmm

[quiet slate]

waht whe could do is replace ariports with trave teleportation stations

so nothing could go wrong

[jagged forge]

your scientists were so occupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

[sonic field]

so there might be issues with the idea of teleportation as you've described it.

[quiet slate]

well i gusse thats right even if whe can whe dont know waht it could do to our body after a long time

it could give us a new type of canzer

[sonic field]

I think it's pretty obvious that if we want a man and a wall to switch, that's gonna cause problems. But for your description of just the portion of the wall switching with the man, a physicist might tell you that they NEED this to happen, and that they DON'T need the man and the wall to become one. Can you see why?

[quiet slate]

yes i sure can see why

the main question is "waht if"

i mean if you could you wouldnt teleport intro a wall

[sonic field]

but we ask what if to see what happens.

if anything does happen

[quiet slate]

yes whe dont quit know

if the think of it as teleporting not swaping the man and wall becoming one would be wery much likly

cus i dont know waht schould be there to remove the wall

[sonic field]

well there's lots of thoughts on these types of things. A physicist might also tell you that switching a man with a portion of the wall would be impossible, even if we could make the switch.

[quiet slate]

that sounds about right

[sonic field]

but why?

[quiet slate]

but wy just a physicist man?

cus i dont question to answer i question to question

[sonic field]

well it wouldn't necessarily have to be a physicist, it could be some other gentleperson with the same knowledge base

questioning to question is fine. but your question has an answer, it's time for another question, why not reveal the answer ya?

here's a thought... what happens to your bloodstream if an oxygen bubble appears in it?

[quiet slate]

dude i know a fart about waht where talking about and i dont see any big diffrents betwen our answers

[quiet slate]

well nothing big i say

[sonic field]

just a friendly discussion happening 👀

[sonic field]

u sure?

[quiet slate]

well how big is the bubble?

[split pawn]

👀

I hope you don't mean an embolism...

[sonic field]

I do

[quiet slate]

i mean if whe say the buble if a big as a blood cell then i would say theres no bigi

[split pawn]

Oh no

Get it OUT

How did it go in in the first place

[sonic field]

Yes.

Why did I ask that?

in regards to teleportation

[quiet slate]

teleportation

[quiet slate]

cus it is important to ask

[sonic field]

nah it's just a question

but it somethin to think about

ya?

[quiet slate]

it is

[split pawn]

Okay idk the context I jus jumped in

[sonic field]

[quiet slate]

you can make questions about evrythink even if you know the answer

[sonic field]

someone said teleportation and I got excited

[quiet slate]

it's just good to do

[quiet slate]

[sonic field]

a friend of mine and I go back and forth like this all the time, he's got his phd in physics. it's a fun time

[split pawn]

Teleportation... what about it

[quiet slate]

well whe took the question waht happens if whe teleport a man intro a wall

[split pawn]

Wait what

I need to

Uhm one min

[sonic field]

LOL

[quiet slate]

...

[split pawn]

Oh ok now I understand

Intro the wall

We totally not shooting a video

I mean well. Unless you can somehow manage metabolism you can't really keep life intact in teleportation like that

[sonic field]

Here's a cool idea. Let's say we could teleport this way: Take an object, shrink it to a point mass, then move it through time to our spot in choice and enlargen it. If we could put a protective bubble around that individual, that would eliminate the chance of any "air bubbles" simulatenously appearing in our bodies as a result of teleportation

[split pawn]

^^ metabolism is a huge problem

That means. Life is a problem

[sonic field]

that comes with problems too tho

[split pawn]

The cell has to function

It can't be a point mass

[sonic field]

nah my cells just sit there eating chili cheese fries

and laughing at me

[quiet slate]

also good if i teleport somwhere would the air on the spot i teleport just be all in my body?

[split pawn]

But yeah speak of teleportation of gold from the rich coffers oh yeah I'm all about turning it into black holes and point masses

[sonic field]

that would be another good question, so like, if we teleport to one spot, would all of the air just move out of the way? I guess it would depend on how the teleportation works

[quiet slate]

i dont think working with point masses is the right way to go

i mean whe are talking abou swaping atoms not transporting them

[split pawn]

Well for that you need to assume all your atoms tunnel through and nothing remains which obv isn't tru at all

Just board a bus. That's how you teleport in real life

Stop living in the Argand plane

[sonic field]

I think quantum tunneling is a thing now:

[split pawn]

It is obv

[quiet slate]

well another way whe could teleport is to vaporate our body in all his atoms and dna coppy them and destroy them and rebuild them on another spot

[sonic field]

well idk abouy it being obvious...

[split pawn]

That is a lame idea ig

I'm sorry to say that Ludi

You just need to copy DNA of one cell

Not all atoms

[quiet slate]

np it'S all just questions whe dont have the answers to yet

[split pawn]

Cells*

[sonic field]

we'd somehow have to preserve our psyche

[split pawn]

DNa in all cells is the same

Biology and physics oh yeah that's my taste.

[quiet slate]

yee sry i forgot

[split pawn]

Also then again. Without prerequisites having DNA is useless

Like you need a whole functioning machinery and differentiated cells to do the job

[quiet slate]

but also waht would happen to our dna wile teleporting

[split pawn]

Or atleast stem cells

[quiet slate]

i mean whe could mutate

[split pawn]

And then again. You'll have lost your memory and you'll be reborn

[quiet slate]

yee thats also right

[sonic field]

that's what I wonder about. imagine having to put a brain back together

[split pawn]

I mean we trying to teleport atoms and you're teleporting a whole complex molecule

[quiet slate]

damm this think is tricky

[split pawn]

It's not gonna even remain

DNA is enough big

It stretches long enough

I think six times to the earth and moon... wait I gotta check it

[quiet slate]

maby

[split pawn]

From the earth to the moon*

[quiet slate]

also waht would happen to your brain if you teleport you hole body

but besides that i would say that it makes more senze to teleport the hole body then to teleport just a part of it and rebuild the rest with new atoms on the oter side

[quiet slate]

damm

[sonic field]

that's a lot

lol

[quiet slate]

and whe just need i to copy the body

but whe are our brain and not our body

so whe dont know what quick could happen to our brain

and what if people with problems like aids ore cancer teleport?

will it just geht worse?

[sonic field]

or better

well i'ma go hang out in math discussy, i gotta grade

yall have fun 😄

[split pawn]

Well I mean the teleportation discussy seems fun but again there's no point in teleporting half the human body

[quiet slate]

cya

[split pawn]

And since you can't teleport the whole...( idk ask area 51 )...

[quiet slate]

wait what if whe dont use that to teleport but besides creat a wormhole to the place whe wahnt to go?

that would be much more easy

when whe could know how to make wormholes that is...

[latent edge]

"feets", "miles"
Not even gonna read

[scarlet fjord]

sorry ti tag you but is it oket if I ask you a question?

[burnt ledge]

Each human cell has around 2 metres of DNA. Let's say each human has around 10 trillion cells (this is actually a low ball estimate). This would mean that each person has around 18 trillion metres or around 18 trillion kilometres of DNA inside of them. The Earth is about 150 million kilometres away from the sun.

[latent edge]

Thanks harpre

[paper bridge]

why is arithmetic this bad ?

[burnt ledge]

how bad?

[velvet dagger]

Unfortunately to quantify that you need arithmetic

Truly a catch-22

[burnt ledge]

He dosnt have to numerically quantify it though

He could say something like "more bad than X"

[neat lintel]

Buy the dip

[mossy phoenix]

Oh my god, I thought that was Workday for a second, and looked at the price.

[neat lintel]

Are videos like this actually useful? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTa2m6WeLW_8oif19IFXvxVJHy_MEM1ZU

It seems like they just want you to shove things into your head without knowing why

how to solve this problem:
"Just use this formula"

the trunk of an elephant?

oh

[loud snow]

2m is more accurate

the proper comparison is something about basketballs

[neat lintel]

Hi chat

I present to you

$\int \frac{\sqrt{\sin(x)}}{\sqrt{\sin(x)} + \sqrt{\cos(x)}} dx$

[fathom swallow]

help me

[wet mortar]

integrate? how bout you integrate yourself into society

[neat lintel]

#probability-statistics

[loud snow]

u/u+(1-u^2)^.25 -> 1/1+((1-u^2)^.25/u) -> another usub?

looks sorta like 1/1+x

actually nvm

[latent edge]

based

[neat lintel]

Help me guys

[wet mortar]

no way josé

[ocean harbor]

!help

[quasi jetty]

To ask for mathematics help on this server, please open your own help channel or help thread. See #❓how-to-get-help for instructions.

[split pawn]

Lol

[loud snow]

@solar hawk would you have kids?

[solar hawk]

Yea

I wanna have kids and die quickly

I don’t want to end my bloodline

[loud snow]

you can make a decent income child selling

[solar hawk]

Wdym Income child

You get paid for having kids?

[loud snow]

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/malaysia-babies-for-sale-101-east/index.html

yea

[split pawn]

What on earth is that

[loud snow]

but tbh probably bad rates unless your kids are max market value

[solar hawk]

Lmao

Bro what

[loud snow]

minmaxing your baby's build you get 7500 after ~9months

[solar hawk]

Mans actually gone clinically insane

[loud snow]

thats 27 USD per day amukh

[split pawn]

I'm not reading that

I'm gonna read the mathematical model of glucose tolerance curve instead

That bettrr

[loud snow]

probably

[split pawn]

Or try to model the hormone curve with a piecewise

Oh shoot. I hear the army.

[solar hawk]

What glucose what army

Hi

[tender cobalt]

@solar hawk so i was told that the role was only for people who have been active/very active

[solar hawk]

Ye

[tender cobalt]

and that the vc was for the minecraft server

[solar hawk]

Ye

[tender cobalt]

i wanna use the vc for math related stuff

[solar hawk]

Nobody uses it for that tho

[tender cobalt]

so i did not get the role

well that sucks

[solar hawk]

We just talk about math or desmos and stuff

Ok just wait for it then

Yoy willl prolly get it soon anyway

Prolly by the time it comes

[tender cobalt]

what is the requirement for active?

[solar hawk]

Being active

The bot will assign it

Automatically

[tender cobalt]

what bot?

[solar hawk]

If you talk in math channels it happens faster

[solar hawk]

@quasi jetty

[split pawn]

Be active

Or boost the server

[tender cobalt]

workin on it

[tender cobalt]

planning on it

[split pawn]

But if you lose the boost you lose access

[tender cobalt]

wtf

oh

[solar hawk]

Yea

That’s what happened to me

So they gave me infinity

[split pawn]

Whys there army everywhere

[tender cobalt]

ohhh

[solar hawk]

So I have access for infinity

And I don’t gotta pay

[tender cobalt]

neato

[solar hawk]

Damn

Is there a war

[split pawn]

Pretty untypical for Sunday

[tender cobalt]

well i wanna boost the server but dont got nitro soo :< (ill probably be able to relatively soon)

[split pawn]

[solar hawk]

Just get active role it’s prolly easier

[split pawn]

انا ليس بفلسطيني

[tender cobalt]

well i can only insert myself into so many conversations (with math at least)

[split pawn]

Insert yourself in bio and phys convos

I do that or analysis and combi

[tender cobalt]

yeah but then someones gonna roll up and be like ☝️ 🤓 erm math only bucko

and im even less knowledgable in phys than math

cuz im tryna learn math and chem first lol

[split pawn]

Only if you're doing it in math-discussion

[tender cobalt]

fair

[split pawn]

I feel so scared looking at the army

[tender cobalt]

i love math discussion (my little pookie wookie)

what

whats the army

[split pawn]

Or at the police for that matter

[tender cobalt]

oh

[split pawn]

I could just be on the disappeared person lists next day for that matter

[tender cobalt]

i wanted to learn arabic for a little bit but i decided not to start learning it

im gonna learn german when i start college

[split pawn]

Well. I'm not an Arab native

So I learnt Arabic a little..

For like... the Quran

And for talking a bit in Quranic Arabic

It's very plain and considered without a dialect

[tender cobalt]

YES I WANTED TO FOR THE SAME REASON

[split pawn]

I think it's called فصحي

[tender cobalt]

i wanted to study islam but i need to study christianity and judaism first since islam bounces off of it a bit

i at least need to read the torah before studying islam

oh and the gospels

[split pawn]

I see

I've studied little comparative religion in my free time

Especially Hinduism and a bit of Christianity

Imma log off anyway

Bye

[tender cobalt]

oop okay

bye byee

[split pawn]

Not a good time to talk

[solar hawk]

Bye Muhammad

Gn

[split pawn]

It's not night

It's a bad morning

[neat lintel]

so similar to binomial coefficient

[jagged forge]

indeed, there are k! permutations for each combination

so divide permutations by k! and you get the number of combinations (which is the binomial coefficient)

[split pawn]

... read wut suremark said

I mean nCr is literally nPr/r!

[neat lintel]

I have no idea what you're talking about

[jagged forge]

nCr (“n choose r”) is another way to write the binomial coefficient

[neat lintel]

I am on this chapter of book I start read now

[split pawn]

LIBRETEXTS

[exotic zealot]

help guys whats 1-1 i need it for my homework

[peak tide]

injective

[exotic zealot]

ok

[neat lintel]

1 - 1 is

[exotic zealot]

ty

[neat lintel]

$$1 \cap 1$$

[fathom swallow]

help me

[jagged forge]

wut

$1\cap 1=1$

[fathom swallow]

suremark

[neat lintel]

I meant

That thing

[jagged forge]

what thing

[neat lintel]

I forgor

[tender cobalt]

like 139.5 i think

[jagged forge]

like set subtraction?

[tender cobalt]

literally me when

[jagged forge]

uhhh what

[tender cobalt]

yk

[jagged forge]

no i don’t know what you mean

[tender cobalt]

basically

[jagged forge]

[tender cobalt]

me too

🗣️

[neat lintel]

bro really just be yapping

[neat lintel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/427962767560146944/1056191640408182844/321624E1-4EB1-48A7-92B8-5D431616EF6F.gif

[tender cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/guy-arguing-guy-talking-to-wall-talking-brick-wall-gif-18667615

wtf

whatever im going to bed

yappington

[neat lintel]

Should I skip this chapter?

[split pawn]

Hey did you order a PDF from LibreTexts'

Which book is it]

[neat lintel]

order?

https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Combinatorics_and_Discrete_Mathematics/Applied_Discrete_Structures_(Doerr_and_Levasseur)

I just pressed the download pdf button

[split pawn]

Ik half of the book ig

no nvm

OH WAIT WUT\

I thought u needed to pay

Yayy

I can study celestial mech now ty so much Brandon

[neat lintel]

Somehow For some reason this book is supposed to be completed in a year ( two semesters )

I'm sure someone can do it two weeks

[jagged forge]

what is this textbook and what math are you intending to learn

oh I didn’t scroll down

formal logic is a pretty useful thing to learn imo and not hard

and definitely for a discrete math course

[neat lintel]

I will read it

[narrow mesa]

Is it possible to master from pre algebra to statistics and probability in 1 year? I have entrance exams in one year 😭

[open aspen]

Yeah, if you're dedicated enough

[split pawn]

Okay get alibe

You're the new discussion

That discussion is locked down

[neat lintel]

sorry if this isn't the appropriate channel to ask, just let me know! I would really appreciate some help.

I'm trying to do grad applications but I'm getting really hung up on the requirement for recommendation letters, especially from math faculty.

• background: my ugrad has been rocky (abuse from some people, had to take a break) and in my fixative autism, take on way more than is reasonable. Now I'm an average B student in mathematics but higher in my other subjects I guess because how much more effort math takes me. I haven't really talked much to the instructors I've had for classes since a lot of them were late grad students or postdocs in other subfields (they're also not at my university anymore) but the professors that I've talked to, about my and their research interests, I wasn't able to complete the classes of because of my break, and on top of that it's been a couple years since talking.
• is it appropriate for me to ask the professors that I've talked to about research for recommendation letters? I'm absolutely terrified of asking because inconveniencing others makes me feel horrible about myself and I'm pretty sure that they'd say no or not even remember me.
• is there really any hope for me to go on in pure mathematics? it's been my passion since my preteens so I'm a bit heartbroken with the situation I've gotten myself in.
• I've also been trying to go through some of the university's faculty's research (though it's definitely difficult). Would it make more sense for me to wait on my applications (so take another gap in my academic history) and talk to some of the professors to see if they'd be willing to work with me on a project?

sorry again for being a downer and for all the text. I'm just feeling really down and lost, and hoping that someone can help me get on a good path. I've talked to my advisors but they're not very helpful. I get the feeling that they think that I'm not good enough because of my university's prestige.
thank you. : )

[split pawn]

What did I write here?

[bitter niche]

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[deep mango]

Best place for this is the #graduate-applications channel (graduate applications, you probably don't have access to that until you get the undergraduate role from #info )
I guess I can give some input. Math grad schools don't really care about "gaps" in your educational history as much as long as you use that time doing something (working, learning, doing research). Lots of students in math grad school are on nontraditional routes. There's no such thing as "behind".
What I will say is that realistically they will care about consistent B's in math classes and recommenders who don't know you very well. In-major GPA and recommenders are the parts they usually consider most. A math phd is really greuling, not much fun, and adversely affects a pretty large proportion of grad students' mental wellness. So this does sound like a situation where taking some time to both strengthen your application (to stand out against the pretty good but not stellar in-major GPA) and to build direction and self-assuredness could be helpful. Meanwhile, it's good to remember that in the US a lot of math phd programs start with 2 years of taking courses (like a masters) which can be a nice transitional time. So the rough stuff isn't all that imminent

[lavish scaffold]

Can someone please help me in #probability-statistics if you understand basic probability?

[icy locust]

by formal logic do you mean all the various axiomatic/deduction/rewriting systems or just basic predicate logic?

idk if you can validate formal proofs just by shallow understanding of the latter

you'd also need the foundations

[solar hawk]

What’s formal logic vs regular logic

[hybrid thunder]

does anyone know any websites that have information (relatively in depth) on different topics like trig and combs

[vocal vessel]

Yes

[storm sage]

"formal" comes from the fact that you study the "form" rather than the "content" of an argument

just like the number "2" is an abstraction from pairs of stuff like "two apples" and "two pears", "formal logic" is an abstraction of everyday logic to turn it into something that can be studied and reasoned about

[feral kernel]

https://demoman.net/?a=trig-for-games

[solar hawk]

Thanks

[jagged forge]

well, you can translate common arguments into predicate logic without going all the way, like using a proof assistant language or something. i think it is useful to learn, to give you a better sense of what rigor feels like

eg you can translate a statement like “x is in the intersection of the family U_i” into “for all i, x is in U_i” and other sorts of things

it’s sort of like unpacking the terminology and seeing what it means at a more basic level, which can get rid of confusion for beginners

[neat lintel]

CVB/

[tender cobalt]

@acoustic yarrow to answer your question no, the only ap's offered at my school are exclusive to 10th graders, and im an 11th grader and i have not taken those ap classes

[acoustic yarrow]

??? why would it just be for 10th graders that is silly

[tender cobalt]

because the ap classes replace the regular hs class

they have AP us history and AP english

[acoustic yarrow]

yeah and u get college credits?

wb ap calculus

[tender cobalt]

those are literally the only two ap classes offered at my school

[solar hawk]

Damn that sucks

You can still the take ap test tho

[tender cobalt]

yeah but thats alot of work to go through with my school counselor when i could just go through my school's cis program

[solar hawk]

What cis

[tender cobalt]

it's basically ap but better i'll explain

[solar hawk]

Chs ?

[solar hawk]

How can it be better if nobody has ever heard of it

[jagged forge]

if you get college credit from it then who cares

[solar hawk]

Ig

[tender cobalt]

so the local community college (i plan on spending my first two years there) allows my high school to offer some of their classes for free. so like you can take a college art class for example, and you're literally enrolled in that college's stuff and taking the college class while in high school

[solar hawk]

What type of credit is “continuing studies” credit?

[tender cobalt]

and it also gives you extra high school credit too

[solar hawk]

Like yk how some colleges have those programs

[jagged forge]

i have no idea

[solar hawk]

Ok

[tender cobalt]

CIS (College In School)

[solar hawk]

I seee

It’s like dual enrollment but closer in ties with school?

[tender cobalt]

my high school also haves a program that allows you to graduate with an associates and high school diploma

[solar hawk]

It’s called CHS for us

[tender cobalt]

exactly

hopefully im taking cis courses next year

[solar hawk]

My school just hates me so I won’t get to take any 😭

[tender cobalt]

my school requires a 3.0 gpa for juniors and 2.5 gpa for seniors and a certain score on the accuplacer tho im not sure what the score requirements for what classes are

[sly flint]

Man. I envy you all. I'm here stuck in India. The education system here is just horrendous.

[solar hawk]

What about online courses

You can get continuing studies credit like me

It’s pretty easy

[sly flint]

I see, can you elaborate?

[solar hawk]

Ye

So like

Yk how colleges have full programs for bachelors degrees and masters degrees and stuff

And all that

[sly flint]

Yeah.

[solar hawk]

But you can also take individual courses

https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/courses-overview?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpompBhDZARIsAFD_Fp_FPaC6bTXW7a90Q4QE1pCn0DbqxdzGAOdGXj_scVqKINVDW5BOBf0aAlbnEALw_wcB

So

Well idk how it works for

People who aren’t in HS

I assume it’s easier

[sly flint]

Well I am in HS.

[solar hawk]

Oh

Then in that case ignore that

https://ulo.stanford.edu

[sly flint]

Like the 3rd time we've had this convo.

[solar hawk]

Oh

[solar hawk]

But you are probably already more advanced than this

You could try like

https://www.cmu.edu/pre-college/

Some of those accept international

[solar hawk]

Ik this one does for sure

The highest level they do is abstract algebra tho

What do you think

[solar hawk]

Look at this one first

[sly flint]

That's alright. I haven't done real analysis + complex analysis and just started with abstract algebra so it would be fine.

[solar hawk]

Yeah that’s great

You can apply for it soon

The semester is almost over I think

It ends in December so applications will open up then

If you can’t afford it I think they have financial aid idk

I don’t think I’ll be able to pay for it next semester

[sly flint]

Is there any prelim test for registration or...?
Also yeah, was about to ask, how much is it?

[solar hawk]

You just gotta explain your pre reqs for the course you apply to

It’s like 30 bucks or smthn to apply

1500 for a semester

I think that’s like 2 and a half rupees

Thousand

Obviously

[sly flint]

Hmm. That's definitely affordable, but I gotta convince my parents.

[solar hawk]

Oh

[sly flint]

*Lakh

[solar hawk]

Isn’t that 100k

I never learned the numbers

Oh

That’s corore isn’t. It

[sly flint]

Yeah the system here is funky. Around 100K rs.

[solar hawk]

Core

[solar hawk]

Oh I meant to submit the application

[sly flint]

LOL.

I mean yeah the application cost is around 2500Rs. I thought you were talking about the tuition fee lol.

[solar hawk]

lol

Nah I can’t do multiplication that big in my head

It’s like 80 rs is a dollar right

[sly flint]

I think so.

Haven't checked in months.

[solar hawk]

Last time I went to India it was 64

[sly flint]

Wait what. Hold on.

Ah so 2015.

[solar hawk]

Yeah

Sounds about right

[sage prawn]

Henlo

[solar hawk]

Well I have visited in between but I didn’t check the rate

[sly flint]

I underestimated it to be like early 2000s and got really confused.

[solar hawk]

lol

[sly flint]

It's 83 now. Gotta love inflation.

[solar hawk]

The rupee is losing faster than the dollar then I guess

[sly flint]

Yeah.

[solar hawk]

Gotta love calculus

[sly flint]

lul

[sage prawn]

Venezuela exists

[solar hawk]

Hello

[sage prawn]

How are you doing tonight? 👀

[sly flint]

Haha. They should just switch to the dollar now, would save a lot of hassle.

[sage prawn]

RuneScape gold is more stable then Bolivar

[solar hawk]

Too lazy to study but also scared of test

Oh wait btw rage

Hmm

To take the exams you will need proctoring

[sage prawn]

What test if I may ask 👀

[solar hawk]

Idk if you still get credit if your parents/friends do it

[solar hawk]

Linear algebra is the most worrying, but also bio ig

[sage prawn]

Are you in high school? 👀

[sly flint]

My plan now is to get into IMO, IPhO or IChO, get some sort of recognition from universities, and get out of here.

[solar hawk]

Ya

We get free muffins too

[solar hawk]

IMO?

[sage prawn]

What year (year? I think it's year?)

[solar hawk]

9th, freshie

[sly flint]

International Math Olympiad.

[solar hawk]

Icic

[sage prawn]

Wait hold on how old are you then

9th grade is what

[sly flint]

13-15

[solar hawk]

15

[sage prawn]

We have a different system in here sorry these 9-15 grade system is weird

Oh that's cool!

[solar hawk]

Ours is to 12

9-12 is hs

[sly flint]

Same here.

[sage prawn]

Idk what grades we have here

Depends on the type of school you choose

[neat lintel]

@deep mango thank you! I'll post there as well. : ) makes sense, appreciated! do you have any recommendations for building one's application?
honestly the scariest part of doing a phd is the people for me.

[sage prawn]

For example I am gonna finish vocational school before I turn 20

So starting uni at 20 🙏

[sly flint]

Oh.

[solar hawk]

What’s vocational school

Like singing?

[sage prawn]

No no

[solar hawk]

Vocabulary

[sage prawn]

They teach you a trade in the school primarly

[solar hawk]

I see

Trade school

[sage prawn]

After you graduate and pads national exams you get a technician title in your field

Yeah that might be another name

[solar hawk]

My friend went to a trade school for art

[sage prawn]

I am eligible for "technician programmer" after I finish this school

[solar hawk]

Or like a sorta trade school

[solar hawk]

:o u liek cs ?

[sage prawn]

I am studying CS in this school

Last year 🙏

[solar hawk]

Kewl

So what stuff did you learn recently

[sage prawn]

Probably best and worst choice of my life

[sage prawn]

By myself or in this school?

[solar hawk]

School

[sage prawn]

In this school last thing I learned was that I cannot depend on the materials provided by the teachers regarding my career

[solar hawk]

Like I mean the material

Like asymptotics and stuff

[sage prawn]

Oh that was way back

[solar hawk]

Ik

[sly flint]

If my parents ask, "How is this going to help you at all in your future?"
What can be my possible answer?

[sage prawn]

We are preparing for school leaving exams

[solar hawk]

My parents friend is studying cs at my dream school and she said she is learning about compilers

[tender cobalt]

i forgot what you answered with the first time, how did you learn calculus?

[solar hawk]

It will look good on applications

[sage prawn]

That's cool!

[solar hawk]

Well

[sage prawn]

I like low level the most

[solar hawk]

First I watched 3b1b “essence of calculus” on YouTube

Then I started using Kahn academy until my textbook arrived

And then I grinded that during school

[tender cobalt]

ah okay cool

what about your precalc knowledge?

[sly flint]

Yep. Now I just gotta erode their IIT mentality and hopefully I would be able to convince them.

[solar hawk]

And then after I passed the test in the back of a book I pushed everything out of my mind and forgot about it

[solar hawk]

Hmm

I didn’t really learn calculus

[sage prawn]

Imma dip, goodnight!

[solar hawk]

I just learned algebra 2 from a book that was a bit above algebra 2 and then went on hole patching mode

If that makes sense

[sly flint]

G'night!

[solar hawk]

Gn!

So like, it covered some precalc but it didn’t cover it all, so I would just do math and see stuff I didn’t know and search it up and learn it

[tender cobalt]

so you essentually know conceptual calculus but if i threw a random integral at you you couldnt compute it?

[solar hawk]

Like trig identities

[solar hawk]

I could

[sly flint]

That's pretty much me but for everything before calc.

[solar hawk]

If you gave me like

A snack and a piece of paper

[tender cobalt]

lol yeah

[solar hawk]

And didn’t watch my work until the end

Idk why

[tender cobalt]

so are you at like a calc 1,2, or 3 level?

[solar hawk]

I hate peooke watching me work

[tender cobalt]

in regards to calculus specifically i mean

[solar hawk]

Well the book covered calc 1-2 and then I watched like 75% of a calc 3 course

So like

Somewhere in calc 3

[tender cobalt]

well thats conceptually

[solar hawk]

Like I can program gradient descent but I forgot stokes

[solar hawk]

And computationally

[tender cobalt]

oh cool

[solar hawk]

But higher math is pretty conceptual

[tender cobalt]

im currently at algebra 2 level computation and conceptually im in calc 1 lol

[solar hawk]

I mean you don’t usually write out all the pairs of (integer, natural) to prove Z has the same cardinality as N

Ykwim

[tender cobalt]

but idrc about conceptual understandings if i cant actually do the math

[solar hawk]

Wdym sus

Shuri why

[jagged forge]

where do u see shuri

[solar hawk]

Nvm

That is shuris emote

[tender cobalt]

i know that an integral is just the area under a curve (when it has a bound) but if y you actually threw one at me i'd just stare at it lmao

[solar hawk]

I never seen anyone else use it

[solar hawk]

Can you differerwntiate

[jagged forge]

yeah im siding with eclipse here, the proof is in the pudding

[solar hawk]

That’s conceptual though

[sly flint]

Well conceptual understanding goes hand in hand with computations and abstraction, if you lack in one, you're incomplete with the others.

[solar hawk]

I guess it depends on what I meant by conceptual

[tender cobalt]

i mean i know the constant and power rule lol

thats abt it

[solar hawk]

But like when I say “computational linear algebra”, I mean multiplying matrices

[sly flint]

Do you know the limit def of a derivative?

[solar hawk]

Like I took a computational LA course once and that’s what it was like

[tender cobalt]

oh for sure 100%

[solar hawk]

Ok

So solve this then

[jagged forge]

i do not consider myself to have learned something unless i can pick up a textbook and complete problems from it successfully

and watching videos is not gonna get me there

[solar hawk]

dy/dx = 2x

[solar hawk]

Well I mean there was problems

[tender cobalt]

oh yeah i "discovered" it for myself by accident one time (i play around with functions alot)
It's the lim of f(x+h)-f(x)/h as h approaches zero

[solar hawk]

I’m confused ;-;

There was problems, and the concepts motivate the computations

[jagged forge]

so you did do calc 3 problems then

[solar hawk]

Yea

For a while

Obviously I quit like 75 % of the way there

[sly flint]

Awesome. Now using this you can derive the derivative of any continuous function, so after learning the proofs, just memorise the results. So you're both computationally and conceptually sound.

[solar hawk]

And forgot a lot of stuff but I remember the important things to me

[tender cobalt]

theres a lot more to it than what i said its actually a long story (but im super proud of myself for it, i essentially accidentally stumbled upon that formula)

[solar hawk]

Like I can integrate 2d shapes if you give me some bounds and stuff

[jagged forge]

can you do change of variables to polar coordinates

for an integral

[solar hawk]

I could but it was sketchy

[sly flint]

Though this does require you to be good at limits.

[solar hawk]

Like I could but I didn’t understand what I was doing

They didn’t explain the jacobian

It was just there..

[jagged forge]

yeah no one does in a typical multivar class i think

[solar hawk]

I could open up the course notes and memorize it again though

[jagged forge]

i mean they teach you how to do 3x3 determinants

[solar hawk]

Yeah but I just didn’t understand why it was there

[jagged forge]

sounds about right

[solar hawk]

Yea so then I quit

Since they don’t explain it 😭😭

[jagged forge]

learn differential forms

then it all falls out naturally

[solar hawk]

Sounds hard

[jagged forge]

or just think of the determinant in terms of signed volume

that's probably easier

[solar hawk]

I know what a determinant is

Idk what the jacobian is

[solar hawk]

The equiv linear algebra course covered it

[tender cobalt]

in a nutshell tho i noticed that the rate of change of x^2 was changing and so i noticed that i could manually approximate the rate of change on x^2 between two points it by hand
but that was too slow so i had troposphere help me generalize it and i got f(x+1)-f(x) but that only approximates the rate of change between x,y and x+1,y so suremark essentially called me out on that
so he kinda pushed me a tiny bit which led to me generalizing it to f(x+h)-f(x)/h
then i tested making h really small which led to the derivative of that point
so in a sense i derived (not the math kind) the limit def of a derivative from my initial observation which im SUPER proud of (thanks to suremark and tropo for helping with that)

[jagged forge]

like the jacobian matrix?

[solar hawk]

Eclipse to didn’t do my problem :(

[loud snow]

matrix of all partials

[solar hawk]

I mean

[tender cobalt]

oops sorry lemmie go to it

[solar hawk]

It wasn’t like that they didn’t explain ANYTHING

They just said

When moving to polar form put this infront of the differential

It’s called the jacobian

[jagged forge]

well im explaining it to you right now

[tender cobalt]

no idea, i only understand d/dx

[solar hawk]

Oh

But idk diff forms

[jagged forge]

you dont need differential forms

[solar hawk]

Ok

[loud snow]

amukh do you want to know what diff forms are?

[jagged forge]

it's the scaling factor when you convert an infinitesimal volume in one coordinate system (dx dy) to an infinitesimal volume in another (dr dtheta)

[solar hawk]

Something about the dx on the end of the integral maybe?🤔

[little vine]

Oh shit

[sly flint]

Woah, that is definitely pretty cool! I remember when I was being introduced to calc I accidentally discovered taylor series by approximating functions in this "cool way" I found lol.

[little vine]

It makes so much sense

[solar hawk]

What functions derivative is 2x

Work the power rule backwards

The power rule is x^n = nx^n-1

This function is 2x^1

[tender cobalt]

omg yeah it definitely feels satisfying when you have a math question, and you answer it, and discover that your answer is something special like omg

[solar hawk]

Why? What does the matrix represent

[tender cobalt]

ik the power rule

[solar hawk]

Like why does the matrix scale like that

[jagged forge]

so you have a function f(x, y) = (r, theta) which converts cartesian to polar
Jf [dx dy] = [dr dtheta] is the jacobian

if you perturb x and y by a small amount, dx and dy, it tells you how much r and theta are perturbed

[little vine]

I'm perturbed by my headache

[solar hawk]

Damn

Did u drink water

[little vine]

Yeah

[tender cobalt]

i could derive d/dx 3x^3 + 2x^2 + 3x lol the power rule and constant rule isnt very tricky and it could easily be taught in like an 8th grade algebra class

[little vine]

It'll be all right. Been feeling bad all day

But anyway

[solar hawk]

Yea do it backward tho

[little vine]

Determinant is the scale factor

[solar hawk]

Power rule takes you from the original function to the derivative

How do you get from the derivative back

[tender cobalt]

yeah ik thats just the anti derivative

but that is literally all the calc i can do

(for now)

[solar hawk]

That’s what integrating is tho

[tender cobalt]

anyways i need to go finish my paper ill be back here when im done (theres not much left)

[solar hawk]

That’s what I’m sayin

[loud snow]

a couple of things

one thing is volume change under change of basis

this is useful a lot of times in diff geom

[solar hawk]

$\frac{d}{dx} x^2 = 2x$, $\int 2x dx = x^2 + C$

[fathom swallow]

amukh1 | Jay, Wraith Obsesseddd

[loud snow]

well the matrix itself doesnt represent the volume change, but the determinat of it does

[solar hawk]

The matrix inflicts it tho

The determinant is the scaling factor from the domain to the range right

Because of what the matrix did

[loud snow]

ye

its used in ODEs too

[solar hawk]

Why

[loud snow]

its useful for finding equilibrium states of a system of ODEs

the system of ODEs is the jacobian matrix

it can also be used for generalized versions of gradient descent

[solar hawk]

Generalized to what?

[loud snow]

if the function you are minimizing has multiple variables and some other assumptions

[jagged forge]

reminds me of some robotics stuff i used to be interested in

say you want to move your end effector by de where e is the position of the end effector

and say your parameter vector is theta

J dtheta = de

so simply do dtheta = J^-1 de

now you know how to tweak your parameters to move in the right direction

actually i think you have to take the pseudoinverse but yeah

close enough

since the effector can't move in an arbitrary direction, J is singular, but taking the pseudoinverse gets you as close as possible under least-squares or something

[loud snow]

yea

[little vine]

An interesting thing is that derivatives and integrals are defined strictly independently of each other

[jagged forge]

ftc moment

[little vine]

But ftc ties them together

[loud snow]

there is probably something else that ties them together too

but thats all i know about

cus question about when you can commute integral and differential operators def comes up sometimes

[little vine]

So |determinant| equals volume just by virtue of obeying the properties of finding the volume of a parallelpiped?

[jagged forge]

it's linear in each side (makes sense), alternating (degenerate parallelepipeds have 0 volume), and uhhhh the unit parallelepiped has volume 1

that characterizes the determinant

[tender cobalt]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GFByKT4jfn5baC_6QsFukzTBOpmMhNUFZfbgTlTfsc8/edit?usp=sharing

i finally finished it

i didnt put much effort into it tho since i dont really care about forgers tbh

its for my forensics class (it's due tomorrow)

[zealous garden]

It's because that is what defines the determinant

The determinant requires the outermorphism

The determinant is the scaling factor of an outermorphism evaluated on the pseudoscalar

[solar hawk]

whsg an outermorphisms

[zealous garden]

The pseudoscalar is most easily expressed as a parallelopiped

[solar hawk]

Cool

[zealous garden]

You have two options

Ask me, or have me link two YouTube shorts

[solar hawk]

Shorts?

Okay

What’s a parallelopiped vs a regular parallelogram?

[little vine]

I found this

Motivated my question

[zealous garden]

https://youtube.com/shorts/p8bKMkGaPuI

https://youtube.com/shorts/vV8YWKGswu0

[little vine]

I'll take the shorts

[zealous garden]

Watch in opposite order

[jagged forge]

oh god the vertical embeds

make it stop

i just got triple flashbanged

[solar hawk]

Bro?

[little vine]

Lol my b

[solar hawk]

Multivectors?

Bro what is the pre req here

[jagged forge]

i was in the middle of reading yours lol

[solar hawk]

Geometry algebra?! lol bro I’m stupid asf u can’t do that

[jagged forge]

oh boy

[solar hawk]

Bivector 💀

[zealous garden]

wraith obsessed
doesn't know what a multivector is

[jagged forge]

amukh how are you just hearing about this

[solar hawk]

Cuz

I always zone out on slugumoe videos

Or just ignore them

[jagged forge]

you bring shame to the wraith clan

[solar hawk]

I even unsubscribed cuz it was too hard

[zealous garden]

How?

[solar hawk]

Cuz

[zealous garden]

His videos are like 1 star difficulty

[solar hawk]

Cuz I thought it was linear algebra right

If that makes sense

So I was dissapointed

To see it wasn’t

[zealous garden]

Do you mean Zero to Geo?

And it is Linear Algebra

[solar hawk]

It’s not tho it’s geometric slyness

Algbra**

[solar hawk]

No

Just in general his videos

[zealous garden]

There are two ways to look at it, either Geometric Algebra is an extension of Linear Algebra which subsumes it and reframes it,

Or Geometric Algebra is a part of the Linear Algebra toolbox and thus is Linear Algebra

In either case, by using GA to reframe Linear Algebra, it again is Linear Algebra

[solar hawk]

Ok

That’s sketchy af tho

Does it have vector spaces and stuff?

[zealous garden]

But he was very clear that he was talking about GA the whole time

He proved the properties of the wedge and Geometric product to use them instead of matrices and determinants on his homework he says

And yes it has vectorspaces

Of course it does

[solar hawk]

Ok so a bivector is an art

Area*

[little vine]

Ah yes one star difficultylooks up bivector

[solar hawk]

Area*

[zealous garden]

A bivector is an oriented area

[solar hawk]

Bro how do you have that definition memorized word for word

You actually fr be knowing GA

[zealous garden]

A vector is an oriented slice of a 1 dimensional subspace

Which makes it an oriented line segment

A bivector is an oriented slice of a 2 dimensional subspace

[neat lintel]

what is a line segment?

[jagged forge]

it's very simple, just take the quotient of the tensor algebra on V by the ideal generated by terms of the form v * v - Q(v)

[zealous garden]

Which makes it an oriented area

[solar hawk]

Finite section of a line maybe

[little vine]

Oh yes mhm

[zealous garden]

Do you require initiation Cali

[little vine]

I'm scared

[solar hawk]

What happened

Sluggymoe pfp kinda cute

[little vine]

Sludgy wacamole

[zealous garden]

Sudgylacmoe looks like Clifford

[zealous garden]

A line segment is a portion of a line defined by two points within it

Let $p_1, p_2$ be points within the line $l$, so that $p_1 \vee l = 0 = p_2 \vee l$

[fathom swallow]

wraithlord_kograduate

[zealous garden]

Then the line segment $\ell_{p_1}^{p_2} := {q \in l \mid \norm{q\vee p_1}\infty + \norm{q \vee p_2}\infty = \norm{p_1 \vee p_2}_\infty}$

Is the set of points on the line whose distance to the bounding points adds to the distance between the bounding points.

[fathom swallow]

wraithlord_kograduate

[solar hawk]

The big red dog??

[zealous garden]

The Geometric Algebraist

[solar hawk]

Geometric algebra vs algebraic geometry

[livid berry]

Does anyone here own the ti-84 plus ce python edition?

[jagged forge]

the what

[tender cobalt]

i am losing my fucking mind rn with khan academy

if i get a problem wrong and i click on the explanation is basically says fucking nothing

and i have to solve the absolute riddle of an explanation they give me and try to apply it to another problem

and big shocker i get it wrong

omg i finally solved all the riddles

[neat lintel]

you wont solve this riddle though

what are all of the nontrivial zeroes to the riemann zeta function?

[brave shell]

I don't consider any of the zeros to be trivial.

There's actually a lot more to them once you get to know them.

[neat lintel]

okay, find all of the zeroes then

[brave shell]

No.

[neat lintel]

damn

congrats youve defeated my riddle

now you may have a cookie

🍪

[brave shell]

Nah I just brushed my teeth.

[burnt ledge]

sphinx allows you passage

[neat lintel]

oki dont worry ill eat it for you

nom

yummy cookie :>

[brave shell]

Does that mean you solved the riddle? Someone call up the committee. World's youngest Field Medalist.

[neat lintel]

lmao

[brave shell]

Maths research contains a ticking time bomb. You just know some day some cracked 14 year old will get a field medal and we'll see a wave of resignations throughout all of mathematics. Naturally, this will not impact larger society in any noticable way.