serious-discussion

[wicked root]

Ok 73*27

[wanton fiber]

1923

eh prob not

1977 i meaned

[wicked root]

Ok Valerie you tried

[wanton fiber]

its cuz i only do division

im bad at mult

[wicked root]

82/3?

[wanton fiber]

27.3

repeating

[wicked root]

Hmmm

Oh yeah

Correct

Took me a minute

[wanton fiber]

yes

[wicked root]

I had a blind history professor who could tell you what day of the week any given date was

Best history professor ever

[wanton fiber]

prob just did some method

[wicked root]

Yes

Calculation, but still

[wanton fiber]

how long did it take him after asking

[wicked root]

Hmmm

[wanton fiber]

to answer

[wicked root]

Like about 15 seca

Or less

He was really quick

[wanton fiber]

he prob just did 1956=tuesday when september+ leap day

lol

[wicked root]

And could do it for decades back

Yea but still

[wanton fiber]

give me one like that

i wanna see if i can do it

[wicked root]

Ok hmmmm

Without looking at a calendar

[wanton fiber]

ik

[wicked root]

What was 19th of August 2020?

[wanton fiber]

moonday

[wicked root]

Nope

[wanton fiber]

i was joking... lol

tuesday

[wicked root]

No

[wanton fiber]

x=4?

[wicked root]

?

[wanton fiber]

thats the answer

[wicked root]

Yea yea

[wanton fiber]

how old r u

[wicked root]

Why, do you mean to hit on me?

[wanton fiber]

have u taken the sat yet

[wicked root]

I'm not in the usa

[wanton fiber]

oh

[wicked root]

I'm older than that

[wanton fiber]

ima be billionare when older

no kap

[wicked root]

Ok

[proper tide]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/397133508201545728/911325565989044304/849734546056151151.gif

[neat lintel]

Do you even know how big a billion is?

[honest veldt]

I like the spirit

Go get em

[snow lintel]

how much older?

[neat lintel]

maybe in 3 billion years aswell

if he doesnt pay tax

[neat lintel]

everyone will be bilionaire there will be a big inflaction or something

[inner finch]

lmao

[snow lintel]

*inflation

[neat lintel]

thanks for correcting my grammar mistake

[cold needle]

yw

[neat lintel]

who is welcome

[fair mural]

hi carla

[neat lintel]

hiiii

you got a new haircut

so pretty

[fair mural]

thanks

did you change your pfp, you look less sleep deprived

[primal crater]

[jovial ember]

Zimbabwe moment

[silver walrus]

i have obtained the sacred texts

[neat lintel]

sacred?

is it your bible?

[silver walrus]

yes

[neat lintel]

Are you one of those weird fishers?

[silver walrus]

yeah 😎

[neat lintel]

nice

[wicked ore]

How do you prove that a specific function is continuous on its domain? For example 2^x with domain R?

[neat lintel]

cant you do that with a derivative.... or a limit.... somehow?

or perhaps more creatively with an integral

[sly vale]

Epsilon delta

[old crow]

Depending on the context one could use the epsilon delta formulation of continuity or the limit definition, both of which are the same, it just depends on the amount of rigor needed

[jovial ember]

I mean in general given an explicit function you have to just show it pulls back open sets to open sets. It suffices to do this for a basis of the target

It just happens to be that in this situation there’s an equivalent way to do it via epsilon delta because metric space

[old crow]

I've been out-generalized 😦

[neat lintel]

generalization is overrated

[wicked ore]

Sick ok yeah that’s what I was asking

But how do you do that explicitly? Like if I told you to prove that any polynomial from R to R is continuous, using the topological definition of continuity, could you do that?

[near mulch]

Polynomial functions are polynomial functions

[leaden torrent]

yes

but like

it quickly unpacks to a more metric-biased definition

once you start laying out what makes a set open in R

since, you know, thats based on metrics

[wicked ore]

Wdym lol

[wicked ore]

Oh you mean it would eventually just become something equivalent to epsilon-delta

[leaden torrent]

roughly yeah

[wicked ore]

That makes sense

[wanton fiber]

yea

[rain latch]

anyone wanna collab on yet another applied math blog or something, i am an amateur

[wicked ore]

Yet another?

[rain latch]

yes, there are many applied math blogs out there

[wicked ore]

Oh I didn’t know that

Interesting

[rain latch]

at this point, math + comp sci is practically pop sci

[wicked ore]

Yeah

[wicked root]

What are the current ones?

[rain latch]

google? first result: https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/category/applied-math/

[river linden]

y

see I used to think that, then I matured and I set realistic goals

so I'm thinking more in the 100M range

[high rivet]

Anyone wanna see some memes that only highly intelligent people would understand?

I just thought they're funny because I'm kinda smart

Not to brag or anything

Oh so is that a yes?

[cold needle]

#chill

[ancient flame]

pain

[high rivet]

Did you see it weirstross?

[cold needle]

yes i saw it

it was also not hard to deduce what the intended answer was if i have it right

[ancient flame]

it requires a brain

so therefore it is hard

[neat lintel]

good for you

you are edcuated

[iron copper]

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the "cited by" text in google search results clickable like in google scholar?

I remember there's a time where they contain a hyperlink to a page where the papers are listed.

[icy forge]

It's possible I suppose by changing that area to find that specific article's citation ID thing-page but I don't know if the API/interface supplies it there and then. If it does not, you'd need another call to find out the ID and then link it

And I have no clue if this is allowed by the API/TOS

[iron copper]

damn, what a shame

[pale orchid]

@iron copper yes, just look up the file on google scholar

oh oops you already wrote that, i pinged you for nothing

[surreal sapphire]

tfw nazis in east germany are preparing for civil war due to what is happening in austria

[neat lintel]

what is happening in austria?

[surreal sapphire]

mandatory vaccinations

high ranking army officers and police are asking the people to fight back

so talks of civil war there as well

[neat lintel]

[pale orchid]

this shit is insane

[surreal sapphire]

i wonder wtf is wrong with german speaking people

that they are so much against vaccination

[neat lintel]

Wait what

[surreal sapphire]

the vaccination rate in germany is still 70%+

[icy forge]

any stats

wow that's really really low

[surreal sapphire]

getting accurate stats is hard

[neat lintel]

Is it?

[surreal sapphire]

yes

[primal crater]

they seem to have developed a degenerate brain

[surreal sapphire]

its legally not allowed to record stats officially

so its educated guesswork

but its pretty low in german speaking countries apparently

[neat lintel]

I mean why did he consider it so low

[icy forge]

What about anonymised or self-submitted surveys

[icy forge]

I expect a lot higher from developed countries

[neat lintel]

People will lie and most won’t fill it out probably

[surreal sapphire]

surveys report higher rates than what official institute guesses

[icy forge]

Loch, do you know what's the diff between MPI Bonn and MPI MiS

[icy forge]

🇫

[surreal sapphire]

i.e. my uni did an internal survey which reported 95.5% vaxxed

[neat lintel]

In my country, we have a app for all this

So it’s easy to know who is vaccinated and who isn’t

[surreal sapphire]

they are different institutions

[neat lintel]

Like I just realized people didn’t have to have an app on their phone to enter closed areas

There are people that don't believe statistics because there is still a chance that statistics is not correct and its just a coincidence. Even on this server, not gonna point at people though.

[primal crater]

@neat lintel

[surreal sapphire]

the mpi mis is in leipzig

[primal crater]

what country r u from?

[icy forge]

Is it more applied?

[surreal sapphire]

we also have an app

[primal crater]

@neat lintel

[neat lintel]

The biggest country in the Middle East

[surreal sapphire]

considering it is called mathematics in the sciences, i assume so

[neat lintel]

[primal crater]

[fair mural]

venti call me stupid but is that india

[surreal sapphire]

but like, lots of people got vaccinated wherever

[neat lintel]

No

[surreal sapphire]

and there is no official stats

[neat lintel]

India is not considered part of the Middle East anyways

[icy forge]

There are valid reasons to distrust statistics. It's why actual data like hospital bed usage, ICU usage, emergency services usage, etc. are important

[surreal sapphire]

and the government isnt allowed to collect medical data for no reason

[primal crater]

also not the largest country

[toxic schooner]

Not according to video games

[gritty charm]

India is the 7th largest country

[surreal sapphire]

but lots of people against vaccination here

and a very vocal minority

[toxic schooner]

Bruh

[neat lintel]

It’s KSA

[distant vortex]

You should totally point people out

gets pointed out

[surreal sapphire]

who want civil war (mainly for other reasons)

[fair mural]

i thought you meant by population

[toxic schooner]

funny dp

[icy forge]

That's surprising considering BioNTech being German

[neat lintel]

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🎺

[gritty charm]

nah size

[fair mural]

luna did you see what happened to #discussion

[toxic schooner]

?

[gritty charm]

thanks

[surreal sapphire]

i honestly wonder what caused this

[pale orchid]

i'm just gonna come out and say that, coming from a third world country, i expected europeans to behave in a more civil manner lmao

[surreal sapphire]

maybe a milder first wave

[pale orchid]

but people are disappointingly the same all around the world

smh

[surreal sapphire]

so lots of people still didnt have corona happen in their social circles

[neat lintel]

I love being able to say my country had the best response

[distant vortex]

Nope. But I will go check it out now

[neat lintel]

Even tho there are still things don’t enjoy about it but at least they care about our safety

[surreal sapphire]

or if people here are more vulnerable to fake news

or more mistrusting of the government

[icy forge]

I know 2nd-degree away someone who got it

[surreal sapphire]

italy and portugal were hit very bad

and they have very high vaccination rates now

germany had like no cases a year ago

[distant vortex]

💀

[honest veldt]

what the fella happened in discussion

[neat lintel]

[vast surge]

I can't believe how close to being done my semester is, and how close we are to the year 2022 already. Jesus Christ.

[toxic schooner]

ikr

[icy forge]

I finished one exam today. Totally bombed it

[toxic schooner]

it feels like its still 2020

[toxic schooner]

[icy forge]

I guess my prof will find out how much of an impostor I am once he gets to marking it

[vast surge]

To be fair that might be because of continued covid precautions

[icy forge]

But /shrug

[toxic schooner]

yeah

[neat lintel]

I also finished my exam today

[icy forge]

noice

did you do well

[neat lintel]

Although prob not comparable to urs lol

[toxic schooner]

my exams start on the 3rd

[neat lintel]

Beat that test up

[icy forge]

nice

[vast surge]

I only have like two exams, and both of them should be easy. I do have a presentation I'll need to do though.

Also my course schedule next semester is looking like the best schedule of courses I've had so far.

[neat lintel]

Good luck e

[toxic schooner]

i am in an exam season

i will have exams about every month or so

[neat lintel]

Today was the final of my finals

[toxic schooner]

[toxic schooner]

oo

[neat lintel]

Now we have a week break and go back to schooling again

Worst decision ever made was this new 3 term policy for all schools

Our summer went from 4 months to only 1

[distant vortex]

4 month summer holiday??

[neat lintel]

About 4 months

[fair mural]

no break is 4 months

[neat lintel]

Depends on Ramadan

[fair mural]

4 months is what summer break felt like in elementary school

[neat lintel]

Last year was more or less 4 months

Corona helped

I think

[distant vortex]

I think 4 months is too long

[neat lintel]

It was too long lmao

But still this is so different

[toxic schooner]

4 months!?

[neat lintel]

Going from 2 long terms to 3 terms and year long school

[toxic schooner]

and here i thought phineas and ferb had a long holiday

[vast surge]

My semester this semester ends early and next semester will start late so I'll be getting a weirdly super-long winter break.

[vast surge]

104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it

[toxic schooner]

No i dont want to remember the song rn
im currently listening to hamilton

no other music during hamilton time

[neat lintel]

It was a weird 4 months

[toxic schooner]

[vast surge]

So the annual problem of our generation is finding a good way to spend it

[neat lintel]

Honestly everything in the past 2 years feels like a lucid dream

[toxic schooner]

Like maybe...
Building a rocket
Or fighting a mummy
Or climbing up the Eiffel Tower

[vast surge]

Discovering something that doesn't exist (i.e. doing math)
Or giving a monkey a shower

[toxic schooner]

Lolol

[toxic schooner]

Surfing tidal waves
Creating nanobots
Or locating Frankenstein's brain (It's not over here! )

[vast surge]

Oh shit I've got to run to breakfast, my commalg meeting was pushed from 1:00 to 9:00 so I don't have all the time in the world

[toxic schooner]

[neat lintel]

Rip

Gl

[toxic schooner]

[neat lintel]

Have a great day

[leaden skiff]

guys, what's the worst field of math

[neat lintel]

Arithmetic

[leaden skiff]

that's not a field of math

[neat lintel]

wdym?

how would you call the math field that deals with expressions with numbers

without variables

[leaden skiff]

I guess... but honestly I consider arithmetic just a subset of algebra

[neat lintel]

I mean, I guess

that is true

actually

algebra builds on arithmetic

[leaden skiff]

arithmetic feels unlike math tho

like, it's just computation

there's no actual discovery of general rules

[neat lintel]

ik

that is what sucks about it

[leaden skiff]

or maybe that's why it's like the "first" field, cause that's the field from which all generalisations come?

[surreal sapphire]

the worst field is any of characteristic 2

[deep mango]

The worst field of math is commutative algebra

[leaden skiff]

[leaden skiff]

why?

[leaden skiff]

isn't there just one?

[deep mango]

Everyone talks about how they hate learning it and find it so boring

[leaden skiff]

why's it boring?

[deep mango]

Its just like

[leaden skiff]

I guess it makes sense. People hate commuting

[deep mango]

A toolkit for algebraic geometry

I guess it doesnt even really count as a field of math

[leaden skiff]

what do you learn in it?

[surreal sapphire]

any field extension of F_2 has characteristic 2

[leaden skiff]

oh I thought you said order 2

what does characteristic mean?

[deep mango]

It means when you add things to themselves that many times you get 0

[placid quartz]

you learn about localizations and then you keep on spamming it

[deep mango]

So in characteristic 2, everything added to itself is 0

[surreal sapphire]

smallest positive number p such that 1 + 1 + ... + 1 (p times) = 0

or 0 if it doesnt exist

[leaden skiff]

oh so do fields like R have characteristic infinity?

[surreal sapphire]

0

[deep mango]

Anyway commutative algebra is all about the theory of commutative rings and modules.

[leaden skiff]

why wouldn't it be a field of math?

is it just like learning results?

[deep mango]

Its just not

Its own thing really

[surreal sapphire]

its an active area of research tho

[deep mango]

It exists to serve other fields

[blazing pawn]

[deep mango]

Is it really that active

[leaden skiff]

is there anything from it I'd understand?

[surreal sapphire]

but it was invented first to do algebraic number theory, now to do algebraic geometry

not sure if active

but if you really hate analysis and dont want anything to do with it ever

[placid quartz]

it was invented for alg nt?

[surreal sapphire]

you do research in comm alg

[leaden skiff]

only posting emotes in chat is a power move

[placid quartz]

i would guess that alg nt people would be happy with just rings

[surreal sapphire]

i guess it depends what you consider comm alg

[leaden skiff]

also hey, how come rings and fields only have 2 operations, are there any structures with 3 or more?

[surreal sapphire]

but alg number theorists care about dedekind rings and valuation rings

[placid quartz]

right, haven't seen a lot of module stuff in alg nt yet

[surreal sapphire]

you can use it a lot

but historically people didnt i think

[deep mango]

Algebras are vector spaces + rings

They have scalar multiplication and element to element multiplication

[leaden skiff]

wait an algebra is a specific thing?

[deep mango]

Those are different

Yeah its a stupid name

Then there are *-algebras which also have an involution / adjoint. This is like the complex conjugate in C, or the transpose in matrices.

[leaden skiff]

why are there 15 different things with the word algebra tacked on

[deep mango]

Cause they're all algebra

[leaden skiff]

what would you say is the defining feature of something called "algebra"

for me currently it seems to be symbolic manipulation

but like, that's kind of all math

[deep mango]

Building stuff

Idk

The vibe is usually building stuff

[leaden skiff]

was it HS algebra or like abstract algebra that was called algebra first?

[surreal sapphire]

just call them k-algebras to better distinguish them from the field of math

[deep mango]

HS algebra

[leaden skiff]

also, algebras can have any number of operations?

[deep mango]

Abstract algebra wasnt something people did until like

The 1800s?

[surreal sapphire]

late 1800s maybe

[placid quartz]

yea probably around the time galois did some cool stuff

[leaden skiff]

but was HS algebra called algebra back then?

[deep mango]

And probably mostly Abel

Yeah definitely

[surreal sapphire]

the first textbook was by van der waerden

[deep mango]

Algebra is named after a mathematician

[leaden skiff]

how did abstract algebra steal the name then?

[surreal sapphire]

at least popular one

it was called modern algebra

because it was like algebra but better

[deep mango]

Cause its a generalization of algebra

You still do the same things sometimes

[slender hinge]

I thought algebra is just about moving the number or variables to solve

[deep mango]

Like dealing with polynomials and stuff

[leaden skiff]

math needs like a notation and name reform. we need to start using tau, and stop calling things by the names of the 2nd people to discover them.

[deep mango]

Yes everything needs to be named Gauss or Euler.

[maiden bear]

https://tenor.com/view/oxi-clean-but-wait-theres-more-home-shopping-gif-9592017

[slender hinge]

I.e moving the number from left hand side to right hand side

[icy forge]

I prefer Poincare

[leaden skiff]

or name things after what they do .

[deep mango]

Oh yeah or Hilbert.

I'm ok with that

[slender hinge]

Then we change the positive/ negative sign

[maiden bear]

i heard that hilbert didnt even know people named certain spaces after him

[leaden skiff]

like call eulers formula, the complex rotation theorem or something

[deep mango]

Yeah no I also think that math things need more intuitive, evocative names

Exactly

[leaden skiff]

that's HS algebra

[maiden bear]

until he sat in like a project and asked what hilbert spaces are

[deep mango]

That is a very funny story. He found out at a talk

[leaden skiff]

is that real?

[maiden bear]

yeah lol

[placid quartz]

i don't mind as long as the name is easy to say... Grothendieck is too hard

[deep mango]

Of course people don't name things after themselves so it's not that weird.

[slender hinge]

I'm not math enthusiast lol

[blazing pawn]

How is it hard

Sully

[maiden bear]

we should give everything really hard german names

to gatekeep mathematics

[surreal sapphire]

its 3 syllables

i am willing to do 2 at most

[deep mango]

Groh ten deeck.

Sort of

[leaden skiff]

i assume his name isn't pronounced growth and dick but that is like the only way I can imagine pronouncing it

[placid quartz]

oiler is so nice

[icy forge]

so 1 syllable = win?

[slender hinge]

Euler

[leaden skiff]

oh that makes more sense

[maiden bear]

i hate how most people pronounce euler

[surreal sapphire]

growth and dick

[maiden bear]

its oiler not uler

[slender hinge]

Yooler

[maiden bear]

[icy forge]

so it's deck and not dick? good to know

[deep mango]

Uhl urr.

[icy forge]

Apparently it's not even hilbert it's Hilberrrrrrr

[deep mango]

Gaubeta.

[placid quartz]

is it groh ten deeck or groh then deeck?

[icy forge]

Wait German names

[surreal sapphire]

it definitely is hilbert

[maiden bear]

hilbert

[surreal sapphire]

with a pronounced t

[maiden bear]

is hilbert

[deep mango]

It's kind of a mix det

[maiden bear]

absolutely

yes

[leaden skiff]

also calculus is a terrible name

it literally just means calculation no?

[deep mango]

The t is a bit weak

[maiden bear]

calcoholics makes for a gread team name

tho

[placid quartz]

like "th" in thought?

[icy forge]

Wiki IPA [ˈdaːvɪt ˈhɪlbɐt]

[fair mural]

the word calculus has something to do with pebbles i think

[leaden skiff]

yeah it comes from calc

[maiden bear]

hilbert is definitely pronounced with the t

[leaden skiff]

and chalk

[surreal sapphire]

you can do grothendieck kinda whatever

[deep mango]

Hill burr.

[leaden skiff]

something something using pebbles to count

[fair mural]

who pronounces hilbert as hilber

[surreal sapphire]

there is a german and a french pronounciation (and english i guess)

[deep mango]

Hilbert wilbur. Perfect rhyme

[leaden skiff]

the infinite hotel go hill brrrr

[icy forge]

Where my Polish representation at

[maiden bear]

well the french love just not pronouncing shit

[icy forge]

I can't even spell them right except Banach

[maiden bear]

even though its right there

[deep mango]

I felt like such an idiot saying Fourier when I was at the french summer school

I definitely said both rs usually

[leaden skiff]

four-ee-yay

[deep mango]

Or at least the middle one

[maiden bear]

one of our profs name is Fourier

he's a distant relative

[slender hinge]

Four rear

[deep mango]

It more like foo-ee-ay than four-ee-ay

[blazing pawn]

Its just a french r...

[leaden skiff]

something something, he's approximately the same

[deep mango]

So true moth

[primal crater]

fourier overrated

[deep mango]

It doesnt make it less hard to say

[leaden skiff]

"it's just a French r"
the French r:

[blazing pawn]

No im saying foueeay isnt really any more accurate

[deep mango]

Take that up with all the french people at the summer school

[blazing pawn]

There is a syllable there

[pale orchid]

the first r is there though

[blazing pawn]

It just doesnt exist in english

[icy forge]

ok I think you're right, I guess my mind just wiped the weak t off lol

[deep mango]

Ok yeah its a little mouth gurgle noise

[blazing pawn]

No its just t

[placid quartz]

i see

i always said it more like grow thin deeck

but e instead of i

[surreal sapphire]

i always wonder whether i should pronounce german names correctly when talking english

or do the fake english pronounciation

[blazing pawn]

Same

Well

Replace german with french

[pale orchid]

it's worse when neither of them is your native language

me thinking to myself in spanish "how do i butcher the name?"

[leaden skiff]

I think you should tbh, I always try to pronounce names as accurately as I can. feels disrespectful not to

[surreal sapphire]

i really dont care what people say as long as i understand them

[pale orchid]

you set the bar too high already

[blazing pawn]

I highly doubt grothendieck of all people would be a stickler for accurate german pronunciation

[surreal sapphire]

also re algebra

in german algebra is pronounced different than algebra

[distant vortex]

tfw you can't say cauchy, so you only work in complete spaces.

[surreal sapphire]

i am not 100% convinced grothendieck even is a german name

[leaden skiff]

it's a sh sound right

[pale orchid]

that moment when you have to say cauchy-riemann and offend everyone at the same time

[blazing pawn]

It is loch

[surreal sapphire]

it sounds dutch

[leaden skiff]

yall are lucky there aren't many famous Indian mathematicians

[blazing pawn]

Its from plattdeutsch or whatever its called

[surreal sapphire]

ah ok

so dutch basically

[pale orchid]

lol

[blazing pawn]

Saur trie

[surreal sapphire]

have to figure out what it means

[light needle]

pretty sad oof

i can only think of like

[fair mural]

@leaden skiff ramanujan moment

[light needle]

ramanujan or harish chandrqa

[pale orchid]

bhattacharya bounds

[light needle]

off the top of my head

[leaden skiff]

idk who chandra or bhattcharya are tbh

[surreal sapphire]

bhargava is indian

[leaden skiff]

who are these people?

[primal crater]

[surreal sapphire]

bhargava won the fields medal for number theory stuff

[placid quartz]

Manjul Bhargava did some cool elliptic curve thing right

[toxic schooner]

yus

[pale orchid]

oh, mahalanobis as well

that one has resurged lately cuz of ML shenanigans

[icy forge]

Sadge no one mentioned Rao

[pale orchid]

which rao

[icy forge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramér–Rao_bound

He's still alive

[pale orchid]

oh yes, i work with that almost every day

idk if he's the same from the khatri-rao product

it seems so

and i guess khatri also counts

[icy forge]

I think mathematicians would know more about Seshadri

[bronze pelican]

Narasimham and Seshadri are known for the Narasimham-Seshadri theorem

[placid quartz]

i've heard about Seshadri constant from other people

[leaden skiff]

what is it?

[placid quartz]

invariant something something line bundle something something algebraic geometry

[leaden skiff]

hey @pale orchid how far into education are you?

[pale orchid]

wrapping up 2nd year of phd

[leaden skiff]

how many years of math has it been

[pale orchid]

in engineering though, so like 2nd year math undergrad lol

[leaden skiff]

you're an engineer?

this whole time???

I thought we were friends

[toxic schooner]

U didnt know?

[icy forge]

Don't worry about it you'll be reading Vakil in no time

[pale orchid]

[leaden skiff]

also how many years of education will you have taken finally?

[pale orchid]

bsc was 5 years in my home country, so

5 + 2 of masters + 2 of phd so far. the phd will be 4~6 years

[surreal sapphire]

so too many

[icy forge]

Anyway I'm like also old, but I'm not even an engineer so consider me a 1st year math undergrad

Damn, you have a masters

[toxic schooner]

im -1 years of undergrad rn

[leaden skiff]

that was weirdly worded but like when you're done with college/uni how many years will you have spent in it

[placid quartz]

my college does 3 years of bsc, and i'm done with 2.5 and i'm scared

[icy forge]

tbh

[pale orchid]

like 13?

[leaden skiff]

damn

[toxic schooner]

[pale orchid]

11~13

[icy forge]

Is this accelerated or just the norm?

[surreal sapphire]

edd you probably also went to normal school

[toxic schooner]

the norm for bsc

[leaden skiff]

you get paid for a PhD tho right?

[icy forge]

No honours or with honours?

[pale orchid]

what's a "normal school"?

[surreal sapphire]

3 years bsc + 2 years masters is normal

[pale orchid]

and yes, i get paid by the uni

[icy forge]

Locally 3yr Bsc is accelerated

[surreal sapphire]

in bologna world

alternatively 4 + 1

[icy forge]

oh

[toxic schooner]

Both really

[pale orchid]

right, so in europe, a bsc means nothing

cuz 3 years undergrad is lol

[surreal sapphire]

its 300 ECTS total

180 + 120 bsc/msc is "normal" i think

[pale orchid]

by bologna standards, i was already a grad student before starting my masters

[surreal sapphire]

but unis can vary a bit

[pale orchid]

ECTs-wise

[leaden skiff]

what's the difference between bachelors and masters.

[surreal sapphire]

the bachelor comes first

[pale orchid]

depending on the structure, "nothing" or "everything"

there are some research-oriented ones where you show up and just... do research

[icy forge]

It depends on the field itself lol, but generally masters is a lot more specialised than bachelors

[surreal sapphire]

well, my math masters has no classes i have to take

[pale orchid]

most are like bachelors tho

[surreal sapphire]

its mostly wtv

[icy forge]

Masters-driven research programmes are nice

[surreal sapphire]

math bachelor is a bit more restrictive

[leaden skiff]

also hey edd how educated do you feel

like how well do you understand engineering or math as a whole

[surreal sapphire]

and a master thesis takes like 6 months

a bachelor thesis like 6 weeks

so thats a big difference

[leaden skiff]

what abt a PhD thesis

[surreal sapphire]

like 6 years

[pale orchid]

tbh i am left with the feeling that i know nothing

[icy forge]

The only correct answer is none of it

[pale orchid]

i often run into problems because i know i can't solve/handle stuff i would like to

i also often regret doing engineering instead of maths, but it wasn't an option cuz i did my bsc in my home country

[leaden skiff]

what's your plan after PhD?

[pale orchid]

but i can't say if it would be any different if i had. i'm not particularly good at math

still not sure if post doc or going to industry

[leaden skiff]

wait what's post doc?

[surreal sapphire]

frührente

[pale orchid]

i'm currently hired at a company and by the uni

[pale orchid]

[icy forge]

Does that really matter though, unless you really like math

[pale orchid]

i like it and i'm bad at it

[leaden skiff]

but does math like you is the question.

[icy forge]

If you can do linear algebra it's all good tbh

[pale orchid]

a lot of the problems i've dealt with so far have boiled down to knowing linalg, knowing how to code, and having someone throw money at the problem (better cpus and gpus and stuff)

[leaden skiff]

is it interesting?

[pale orchid]

well

the application i'm working on is boring as hell

but the techniques are easily transferable

[icy forge]

control theory stuff?

[pale orchid]

i work with ultrasound stuff rn, but i've also used it on the side for computer vision (stereo vision), terahertz imaging, optics/ray tracing

and some estimation performance bounds in those settings

ah, also radar and the classic "direction of arrival" problems

idk, it's mostly undergrad stats and linalg lol

[icy forge]

There's good undergrad stats and bad undergrad stats

And honestly I feel like there are really important things in stats I myself don't know

[winged oxide]

Hello everybody. I am Rebecca, I am 15.5 years old. I live in Europe but might move to the USA in a couple years. That would mean I'd have to pick a University there. I want to study Mathematics and/or Medicine. I am not sure which University works better for Mathematics. I am quite indecisive between MIT and Stanford. I've sent MIT an e-mail last year and they seemed nice with their response. I have not been in contact with Stanford yet. Can anybody advise which one would be the best one for Mathematics? Thanks in advice for your eventual reply.

I also documented myself and found that Stanford is slightly more selective, with the percentage of applicants being admitted is around 1% lower than MIT, where the percentage is around 5-6%.

[deep mango]

Both schools are extremely good for math, and both are extremely difficult get into.

If you did have the choice, you would want to decide based on other factors besides the quality of the math program - they're going to be essentially equal in that regard.

E.g. MIT can be stuffy about letting people skip the early courses like calculus if you've done those (though they do have honors classes in those subjects)

Another huge factor here is the difference in setting. MIT is in Cambridge, a city with close access to other schools like Harvard, Boston University, etc. That can be nice because oftentimes you can cross-enroll in classes at different schools in the area, and you'll have a broader network of people to meet and learn from. Meanwhile Stanford is kind of isolated. It's not too far from UC Berkeley which is the other great school in the area, but it's still not easily accessible. Stanford isn't going to offer much of a city life, you are somewhat close to San Francisco but not that close. At the same time, Stanford is right near silicon valley, so if you did end up interested in the computer world there are lots and lots of opportunities there.

In general a lot of the conventionally top schools are excellent for math. But you'll also be able to take advantage of a ton of opportunities even if you don't go to one of the very top schools. What's more important than the ranking is how well you think you can thrive and be productive in the environment and community of the school.

[crystal stone]

To echo what Ryc has said: I think Stanford's program is more flexible and relaxed for the undergraduate program. It might be more affordable to live in the boston area than it is to live in Palo Alto, being near silicon valley tends to drive up housing costs. Ultimately if you're admitted to both there is no wrong choice here, maybe slightly more optimal based on your learning style and environment. Another big difference is do you prefer Quarter or Semester? Quarter system tends to move pretty quick whereas in semester you get more time to relax

Finally, I know that MIT has a deadweek (or at least used to) before finals, but I haven't heard the same thing about Stanford

[somber parcel]

I prefer save money option. Top schools are not better than average schools by much. Students in America are too excited about jumping into unreasonable amounts of debt.

[crystal stone]

I share the same opinion, but that wasn't what the question was: they specifically asked about MIT and Stanford

[velvet dagger]

Top schools often give good aid tho

[deep mango]

Definitely this, important to keep in mind that aid is a factor but going deep into debt is really silly.

[pale orchid]

there's a brief description on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution#law_of_rare_events

[neat lintel]

You can see it as the limit case for the binomial distribution
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_limit_theorem

[rough bison]

Could anyone help me out real quick? I have a exam practice problem that I found on chegg but dont own it. Could someone msg me that owns chegg

[mortal igloo]

Is chegg actually more reliable than getting help here?

[rough bison]

Well it's just the exact problem is all, I re-scheuled my exam for today and I was going over related rates and wanted to double check im doing them correctly

I'll probably leave my house within the hour so going through the process of posting, waiting for reposnse is not the best

[distant vortex]

Send your solution in an appropriate channel and someone may check it for you

[rough bison]

all good i think i have it figured out for now

[sick burrow]

[gloomy marten]

Hello gamers

this seems inactive

[crystal stone]

I mean there's only so many ways you can ask a related rates problem

[neat lintel]

hello gamer, what is your level?

[gloomy marten]

depends on the game

and on time

[neat lintel]

yes, what if the game is called htam backwards?

[gloomy marten]

Then I'm on level 13

I started level 1 when I was 6

[dire mulch]

it funny I make 3D graphics engine(not really an engine probably call it a framework for games) but I don't play games. The only game I ever took seriously was swtor/pubg mobile.

but that was when I was 14 or so.

[vast surge]

Is there such a thing as a "winter break REU"? Or, otherwise, is there any way I could both do something mathematical and interact with people in-person over the winter break? I was originally planning on just reading a textbook by myself this upcoming winter break, but I almost had a panic-attack earlier today over the fact that I'll be incredibly isolated again over the three-day Thanksgiving break.

[vast surge]

Yeah, I have a friend that I want to rope into studying complex analysis with me. The issue is that it won't really be super in-person, because she'll be going home and I'll be stuck on campus. It can't be an official reading course for credit, though, because all the professors in my department are busy over the winter break.

Typically the international students are, but most of the ones I'm close with have been stuck on campus for the past few winter/summer breaks and are trying their hardest to go elsewhere this winter.

I go to a mostly undergrad institution, unfortunately, so any grad students I meet with would have to be at a different school.

[vast surge]

Yeah. Without an official program, I'll probably just stay on campus, drink a bunch of alcohol and self-study complex analysis either by myself, in this server or with the friend I mentioned if I can get her to join me (though it would be virtual either way)

[keen drift]

why so dark out

side

[neat lintel]

hi

[keen drift]

hi

[snow lintel]

hi

[runic pike]

hi

[placid quartz]

hi

[fair mural]

hi

[toxic schooner]

hi

[vast surge]

hi

[neat lintel]

Can I ask about statistics, like normal distribution subject in this server?

[fair mural]

yes

anything related to math

#❓how-to-get-help

[neat lintel]

Nice

[leaden skiff]

also #probability-statistics

[neat lintel]

I thought that statistics doesn't relate much with mathematics.

[leaden skiff]

why would you think that?

[neat lintel]

[neat lintel]

Idk, I did not think so much.

When I do statistics, I have a lot of trouble with understanding the problem, what the question actually is.

But the theory is pretty much understandable for me, not for all parts unfortunatly.

[leaden skiff]

understanding the question is a big part of probability and stats

very often it's the only nontrivial part

[neat lintel]

When I think about statistic, I think more of real life situations, then mathematics.

[leaden skiff]

yeah Stats is an outlier in how practical it is

[neat lintel]

Sorry, what is the word non trivial?
Does it mean "important" or not?

[leaden skiff]

trivial means like, so simple it's not even worth mentioning usually

like very often 0 or the empty set will be considered trivial solutions to problems

[fair mural]

trivial is contextually obvious

[leaden skiff]

cause it's like "duh" obviously they'd be solutions

[fair mural]

not obvious to everyone i mean, but if you know about the field you’re talking about, it’s obvious

[ancient flame]

I hate the word trivial

[leaden skiff]

why?

[fair mural]

like d/dx (1) is trivial to people that know calculus, but to people that don’t know calculus, they have no clue what it means

[ancient flame]

because it implies that it should be obvious

[neat lintel]

So trivial = obvious

[ancient flame]

and it's like bruh

[surreal sapphire]

nontrivial means "hard" or "requires thought"

[leaden skiff]

I mean, it's usually used in contexts where it should be

[ancient flame]

pretty much

[leaden skiff]

and usually after you understand why it's trivial it becomes trivial

[surreal sapphire]

sometimes trivial is used as a technical term, sometimes its used by people to mean "easy"

you should not do the latter

[leaden skiff]

sometimes trivial has a very specific meaning yes

[ancient flame]

yeah

[surreal sapphire]

like, some author of a paper telling me that a proof is trivial is dumb

it gives me now new information

[leaden skiff]

I mean, I think it's fine sometimes. like I think what I said earlier is fine

[surreal sapphire]

"trivial solutions" is a technical term

[ancient flame]

to me it just makes me think that the author is some bragadocious dude

idk

[surreal sapphire]

i use the term "nontrivial" mostly tongue-in-cheeck

[ancient flame]

like "it's obvious to me so it should be obvious to you"

[neat lintel]

Bragadocious 😆

[surreal sapphire]

like, its just a way to say that its hard

[leaden skiff]

if i said something like "in calculus, the actual calculus is often trivial compared to the algebra" using trivial for a specific problem seems dumb tho yeah

[ancient flame]

lol

[leaden skiff]

I only use it when I'm comparing things

[surreal sapphire]

i would just use easy, but its fine

[fair mural]

if by trivial you mean obvious or easy, you should just use obvious or easy

[neat lintel]

My statistic book is in language dutch.

[leaden skiff]

I wouldn't be like, telling a kid "oh yeah this problems trivial you imbecile"

[surreal sapphire]

most often its used as "follows directly from the definition"

[fair mural]

whatever tone you were going for there you definitely succeeded at it lol

[surreal sapphire]

but then i just say that

[neat lintel]

When someone is posting memes:
social credits get lower.

When you help someone:
Social credits get higher

[ancient flame]

what if you help someone by posting memes

[neat lintel]

You will gain a complex number on your social credits.

[fair mural]

my social credit is now imaginary

[steel sorrel]

My social credit is in the negatives

[neat lintel]

is it weird to listen to a loud twitch streams and work on calculus at the same time?

I do that

[fair mural]

no

whatever works for you

[neat lintel]

If I work in silence, I get distracted a lot

[fair mural]

same, i can’t do stuff in silence

i always need the tv on

[neat lintel]

to small movements and and sounds in the distance.

usually, I work with music that really slaps, so I keep working at high tempo

now I lack of music, so I use streams, to concentrate on my work

[neat lintel]

i hate it

[fair mural]

@neat lintel what exactly do you mean that you lack of music

you’re tired of the songs you know?

[neat lintel]

yes, I don't find new music on youtube

I like music

[neat lintel]

yes

music voice channel

[fair mural]

soundcloud gives pretty good recommendations

[neat lintel]

thank you!!!!!!!
im going to listen to Camelia - Burning Aquamarine xd

omg I feel so active

[gloomy marten]

e.g. trivial zeros of the riemann zeta function

because if not you'd have to say something like:
"the zeros of the riemann zeta function that aren't even integers" instead of "the non-trivial zeros of the riemann zeta fucntion"

[fringe needle]

Other times it’s used by my analysis teacher to refer to pretty much anything in the analysis class

Today he said there was nothing extraordinary about analysis 1, that it was all simple common sense

As we were proving Taylor’s theorem

And in a sense I guess he’s right

But it makes struggling to do the exercise series far more demotivating lmao

[surreal sapphire]

horrible pedagogy

imagine flexing on undergrads as a prof

[fringe needle]

Honestly though

It’s my fav teacher

He strangely has a very good pedagogy

[neat lintel]

So i made a calculation and the result was 4!
What was the result

[surreal sapphire]

well, i can say that i think that is bad

but its a small part of the whole teaching thing

[fringe needle]

I don’t think it’s meant as a flex he probably doesn’t notice it

[surreal sapphire]

ye ok, maybe its just a throwaway comment

its still not great imo

[fringe needle]

But the rest of the time he gives a lot of intuition on a lot of stuff and makes plenty of mistakes when giving proofs

I cannot stress how good it is for a teacher to make mistakes in proofs

[deep mango]

[surreal sapphire]

sometimes

[deep mango]

Some people just say things thoughtlessly

[surreal sapphire]

my elementary nt prof made mistakes a lot

and then he went back with red chalk and we fixed it together

[deep mango]

Not everyone is trying to get one over on random undergrads

[surreal sapphire]

but sometimes we didnt manage

[deep mango]

The prof probably just forgets that it was hard

[fringe needle]

He definitely does not do them on purpose but it’s great it makes the whole lesson human

Instead of just having someone read from lecture notes and copy stuff down

[deep mango]

Idk if ultra is trolling but I do that too and when I have said I do that people here have flipped their shit

Well like your prof its not intentional

[fringe needle]

That’s cause we don’t like you ryc

[deep mango]

More like, i am purposely careless

I know I meant other people

[surreal sapphire]

me when im lecturing and do literally no preparing at all which leads to mistakes but students love it

[deep mango]

Being careless is how you make mistakes come up naturally so that people dont peg you for this

Sometimes I do them placed on purpose but that's pretty rare compared to it just being "whoops, I forgot about this, that's a really important thing to remember"

It's not like the mistakes im making are ones that are unusual to make for a student

[leaden skiff]

who's gonna notice?

[cold needle]

students

[leaden skiff]

are they gonna come up with some kinda conspiracy about how you're fucking up intentionally

[cold needle]

i am go to notices

[deep mango]

Sometimes ive felt like my profs are so above me that they're just fucking around

But idk

[surreal sapphire]

in my very first talk i made a mistake in the last proof

as in it did not work at all with the techniques

nobody noticed

[distant vortex]

[surreal sapphire]

i noticed in the bus to the talk

and i had no idea wtf to do

[deep mango]

Imo the best way to make yourself look human to students is to actually be human

And not to like

[surreal sapphire]

what if you are not human

[leaden torrent]

damn i came to class dressed up as a dog

[deep mango]

Ok I mean you can pretend to be human too

[leaden skiff]

do you need to be human?

[fringe needle]

This is why zuckerberg is not a math teacher

[leaden skiff]

I mean like, making mistakes seems good cause it can make the class more engaging and also show the class what some common mistakes are

[deep mango]

I connected the best with my profs who showed a certain degree of vulnerability and imperfection and those are the people who wrote my recs, who I did research with, etc

[leaden skiff]

but like seeming human seems unnecessary to me

[leaden torrent]

nah miss me with that furry shit

i was a proper dog

came in on all 4s

[deep mango]

Meanwhile e.g. Rieffel is perfect in every way and never makes a mistake, but I never connected to him super closely over 1.5 years of classes

[fringe needle]

I mean if the teacher is t human you may as well learn from the internet

[leaden torrent]

i COMMIT

[fringe needle]

If they can’t add that personal touch

[deep mango]

Because there was never any chance of there being a back and forth

[leaden skiff]

who's rieffel?

[deep mango]

Operator algebras prof at berkeley

[cold needle]

i am dress like a kat

[deep mango]

"quantum physicist"

[cold needle]

cat mario

[leaden skiff]

is he famous?

[maiden lily]

@cold needle

[cold needle]

meow meow

[leaden torrent]

yes lmao

[leaden skiff]

also why are the mods the ones shit posting here

[cold needle]

why is it garlic on head

[leaden torrent]

hes a cyborg

[maiden lily]

This is not shitpost this is wholesome post

[deep mango]

He's not household name terence tao famous but he's famous in the broad field he is part of

[leaden skiff]

he's math famous

[surreal sapphire]

mods are allowed to shitpost

[leaden skiff]

he has become a name that has been said in this household

[surreal sapphire]

good nights

[cold needle]

rifle

[leaden torrent]

i feel like his name would be known to most mathematicians, not just C* memers

[leaden skiff]

Good night, don't let the cranks in #foundations bite

[deep mango]

*most responsible mathematicians

I definitely would not know of rieffel if I didnt go to berk and also didnt have a C* arc

[leaden skiff]

what is C*

is this a programming language?

[leaden torrent]

[serene parrot]

yep

jk

[leaden skiff]

OK I'm actually confused now

[serene parrot]

wait for the ryc bomb

[deep mango]

A C* algebra is a kind of mathematical object. Examples would be the set of nxn matrices, or the set of continuous functions on [0, 1].

[leaden torrent]

read the name of the sticker

tells you all you need to know

[leaden skiff]

it's a thing in math? wow I never would've guessed

[deep mango]

They're really important in quantum physics (if you know for example the uncertainty principle, it comes from broad properties of quantum mechanics that are realized through C* algebras)

[leaden torrent]

theyre also important in math

[deep mango]

In fact, it comes from "noncommutativity", the fact that for two matrices A and B, AB is not always the same as BA.

[sick burrow]

Gomez in shambles

[leaden skiff]

I thought you were sleeping

[leaden torrent]

morita equivalence is the best invention of the 20th century

[sick burrow]

Or wait does gomez even exist anymore

[deep mango]

please

just let the explanation be simple and 0.2% inaccurate

it's pedagogical

[serene parrot]

[leaden torrent]

wtf pedagogy value does this have

[leaden skiff]

I already don't understand the wrong answer, I don't think the right answer will do much better

[leaden torrent]

what student is gonna intuitively fill in the blanks

between noncommutativity and uncertainty

[deep mango]

Its pop pedagogical

The point is not to actually understand it

[leaden skiff]

it's because you're not sure if AB = BA right?

[light needle]

all i remember from my quantum 101 class years ago is like, the uncertainty product has a commutator and an anticommutator term in it

[deep mango]

It's to have a chance at making wrong connections that still approximate the right ones

[deep mango]

Sort of, but it's more about the fact that noncommuting symmetric matrices dont have the same eigenvectors

[leaden skiff]

tbh like if in 5-10 years I learn about the uncertainty principle having the idea of commutativity in my head might be helpful

[leaden torrent]

why isnt there a bleak version of yet

[leaden skiff]

we need an unbleak

[cold needle]

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a trivial fact of fourier analysis

clearly

I am go to bleaks.

[light needle]

ultra is not actually goes to sleep, ultra is return in 5 minutes to chat

[leaden skiff]

bet

[deep mango]

You're in the dream still ultra. Wake up

[sick burrow]

Fun fact: you can summon Ultra anytime by saying "Godel" 3 times in a mirror

[leaden skiff]

you're in a coma, we miss you... please wake up

[leaden skiff]

godels incompleteness theorem means that collatz is true and not true right?

[sick burrow]

No that's Banach-Tarski

Well partially at least

[deep mango]

I am godel sleeps.

[surreal sapphire]

wish ultra was here to see this

[light needle]

he would explode

get it, explosion

[surreal sapphire]

[light needle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

smh

[surreal sapphire]

i did get it

i just thought its bad

[light needle]

then why didnt u laugh

smhsmh

[sick burrow]

You cut up Collatz and reassemble it into 2 copies of the original conjecture. We haven't proved it yet, so by the contropositive of Completeness, we conclude it can't be proven. Thus by Incompleteness we conclude its independent. Finally since we have two copies of the theorem and its independent we conclude that one must be true and one must be false by LEM.

[leaden torrent]

most interesting consequences of first incompleteness:

• the halting problem
• second incompleteness
• unsolvability of hilberts 10th
• your thesis is shit

[leaden skiff]

2nd incompleteness?

there's another one???

[sick burrow]

lmao

Even crank me of 3 years ago knew that

(As supposed to crank me of today)

[leaden skiff]

well what is it

[sick burrow]

1st incompleteness is there will be statements independent of any "nice" formal system. 2nd is a nice formal system can't prove itself consistent.

[leaden torrent]

you cant prove the consistency of a system (satisfying sufficient hypotheses) within that system

[sick burrow]

iirc

[leaden torrent]

so zfc cant prove con(zfc)

[sick burrow]

Don't flame me Nami

[leaden torrent]

zfc + con(zfc) cant prove con(zfc + con(zfc))

[unless its inconsistent]

[leaden skiff]

oh I didn't know that was the 2nd incompleteness theorem

it's more like the inconsistence theorem tbh

[leaden torrent]

its just what you get when you prove 1st incompleteness "internally" within a system

rather than in a meta sense

[leaden skiff]

I guess yeah, that kinda makes sense

[sick burrow]

3rd incompleteness is any formal system (of education) can't demonstrate (to its students) what Godel's theorem means to a sufficient degree to avoid cranks

[leaden skiff]

if you could prove a system was consistent within itself then incompleteness wouldn't be true

4th incompleteness theorem is that there will never be enough bleak emotes

[vivid halo]

If the problem of finding zeros of Riemann zeta off the critical line is undecidable then RH is true

[neat lintel]

if RH is independent of ZFC then there is a model of ZFC where RH is false

and one where it is true

[neat lintel]

No. RH can still be independent, as long as that is not provable.

[vivid halo]

I mean computably undecidable here

[neat lintel]

what's the difference?

[neat lintel]

gn

[steel sorrel]

Gm

[ancient flame]

ga

[neat lintel]

yyyyy

[velvet dagger]

Didn't know that bit, huh

[bronze pelican]

This guys thumbnails and videos are obnoxious

[deep mango]

[fair mural]

don’t try to understand how something works, just memorize it lol

[deep mango]

Stop trying to do this instead.

[fair mural]

what could go wrong

[crystal stone]

It can work, there's no need to understand everything you come across

Of course there's a base line you need to understand, but if that eludes you, there's nothing wrong with memorizing things

[deep mango]

I agree with that usually

[crystal stone]

This guy is annoying though

[deep mango]

But I don't think the advice looks like "stop trying to understand math"

I think it looks like "try to understand it, but if it's not working out here's a backup plan"

[crystal stone]

Yeah, I think in general it's a good strategy

I learned proof based mathematics from the get go

And I remember having to memorize quite a bit because the prof just moved so fast

After about a year and a half of him, I learned how to do it without memorizing

[deep mango]

[rancid meadow]

yeah man

[jovial ember]

Holy shit his channel has blown up

They didn’t pull nearly that many views a year ago

[fair mural]

[jovial ember]

You should edit your about me

To also include Chmonkey

[deep mango]

"I love math and music and I hate Chmonkey"

[jovial ember]

:(

No!

[fair mural]

i love math and music and i love chmonkey

[deep mango]

chmonkey why do you have custard in your bio...

gross

[jovial ember]

🍮 custard

[fair mural]

“Math PhD student in analysis and PDEs. He/Him. Also I hate Chmonkey.”

[jovial ember]

#math-discussion message

This is why it’s my about me

[rancid meadow]

smoking that benjamin reichwald pack

[jovial ember]

@fair mural you didn’t edit your about me

I can’t sponsor you

[fair mural]

fair

[deep mango]

Such a needy monkey.

[velvet dagger]

Custard is good

Because it's actually a synonym for ice cream apparently

[ancient flame]

custard = cum mustard

[fair mural]

bad gmod

[deep mango]

chmustard

[ancient flame]

sorry father

[gentle bay]

[ancient flame]

lol

[neat lintel]

Chmustard

[jovial ember]

Chmustard

[mint patio]

could any enterprising nerds eli5 what a functor is

[toxic schooner]

Chmustard

[untold sapphire]

yeah

what's up

what kind of context are we talking about here feather

[mint patio]

none LMAO I’ve just heard it described as a more abstract version of a function? or smth like that

so curious

looks like cat theory stuff