ITT: We are math nerds

Odradek · 2013-11-08 17:35:11

I don't usually read original sources, but Frege's later political diary is provocative and interesting insight porn.

I can't believe someone as interesting as Nick Land came from a humanities background. Should I re-evaluate my position on razing the humanities to the ground? ...nah

Sillicon Valley Uber Alles

Previous Calica · 2013-11-08 18:14:20

tempted just to copy paste a gigantic tome on topology or something

Klinotaxis · 2013-11-08 21:43:23

lolfrege

i'm wondering how good a metric on linear spaces minimum addition chain length is

thinking: "not that good"

i don't think it satisfies triangle

Imipolex G · 2013-11-08 22:03:36

square root of 5328576329876598321759 or something

Previous Calica · 2013-11-08 22:09:56

Klinotaxis said:
lolfrege

i'm wondering how good a metric on linear spaces minimum addition chain length is

thinking: "not that good"

i don't think it satisfies triangle

addition chains from what?

lee4hmz · 2013-11-08 22:10:00

sqrt(5328576329876598321759)

72997098092.16115901802918773876

Odradek · 2013-11-08 22:17:19

No no no, math nerds do not talk about mathematics.

They talk about steelmanning.

Previous Calica · 2013-11-08 22:27:13

you're thinking of lesswrong.

Odradek · 2013-11-08 22:29:21

spinor said:
you're thinking of lesswrong.

They accept MWI, and are therefore, the true epistemic superiors.

Imipolex G · 2013-11-08 22:29:34

math has a certain beauty which is, alas, mostly inaccessible to me.

lee4hmz · 2013-11-08 22:50:08

I've liked math since I first figured out how to use a calculator, though I never managed to get formal training in anything past pre-calc.

Klinotaxis · 2013-11-08 23:42:14

an addition chain for x is a finite sequence c such that c_0 = 1 and c_n = x and for all i and 0 <= a < i and 0 <= b < i c_i is a sum of c_a and c_b

a minimum chain for a given x is a shortest such sequence

Previous Calica · 2013-11-09 00:12:07

yeah, but how would that apply to linear spaces?

and honestly, when I hear the phrase "math nerds", I'm more likely to think of, like, talking about how cool Möbius strips or something are than the stuff LessWrong does.

Previous Calica · 2013-11-09 01:24:47

I still say to myself when

I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and

tiresome people, ‘Well, I have done one the thing you could never

have done, and that is to have collaborated with both Littlewood

and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.’

Tachyon · 2013-11-09 01:31:24

spinor said:
and honestly, when I hear the phrase "math nerds", I'm more likely to think of, like, talking about how cool Möbius strips or something are than the stuff LessWrong does.

same

i guess that's why i don't get the hate for math nerds

Obā-san · 2013-11-09 01:33:14

Tachyon said:

spinor said:
and honestly, when I hear the phrase "math nerds", I'm more likely to think of, like, talking about how cool Möbius strips or something are than the stuff LessWrong does.
same

i guess that's why i don't get the hate for math nerds

Klinotaxis · 2013-11-09 01:42:41

spinor said:
yeah, but how would that apply to linear spaces?

if you replace c_0 with some other number c_n = (the original c_n)*c_0. each addition chain is like a line ar map

Princess Alice · 2013-11-09 01:55:14

spinor said:
and honestly, when I hear the phrase "math nerds", I'm more likely to think of, like, talking about how cool Möbius strips or something are than the stuff LessWrong does.

I'll be honest, when I hear "math nerds", I think of you

(That's a compliment, you're one smart dude)

Klinotaxis · 2013-11-09 02:03:51

i think it's true that mobius didn't prove the mobius strip was unorientable

weird

Obā-san · 2013-11-09 02:04:35

i can do some calculus

and i think math is fun! :D

but i am not much of a math nerd u_u

Previous Calica · 2013-11-09 02:06:49

Klinotaxis said:
i think it's true that mobius didn't prove the mobius strip was unorientable

weird

a mathematical object is named after the first person other than euler to study it

Tachyon · 2013-11-09 02:09:38

i am interested in math, especially its history, but i'm not very good at it

i wanted to do it at A-level, but i dropped it because it seemed too difficult, which i regret

★ ~ S U M M E R ✿ S A U S A G E ! ~ ★ · 2013-11-09 02:25:59

*suddenly doesn't suck at math wow*

Odradek · 2013-11-09 20:05:37

Moldbug is a sheer pleasure to read-Yvain Slatestarcodex, a mathnerd.

Previous Calica · 2013-11-09 20:25:47

stalestarcodex?

Odradek · 2013-11-09 20:30:00

spinor said:
stalestarcodex?

The very same.

Klinotaxis · 2013-11-09 20:43:47

somethinab out rape

it's really weird when people i know mention moldbug. thankfully they're usually aware he's a fuck even if they aren't so politically involved

Aliroz · 2013-11-10 15:44:07

Euler or Gauss?

You must choose one.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-11-10 16:18:39

Pangur Bán said:
i can do some calculus

and i think math is fun! :D

but i am not much of a math nerd u_u

Same.

Also, the spell-checker squiggles under the "u"s in u_u make you look embarrassed. It's really cute.

Obā-san · 2013-11-10 16:23:17

>///>

Yarrun XIX · 2013-11-10 17:55:01

Euler

Yarrun XIX · 2013-11-10 17:55:45

Being almost at the end of my third semester, I can say that math never gets less complicated.

Yarrun XIX · 2013-11-10 18:03:06

I honestly don't understand why people who aren't progidies at it even try getting a degree in Math

I don't even know why I'm dong it! My motives are a mystery even onto myself.

Odradek · 2013-11-11 15:14:29

Kill all math nerds.

Vriska · 2013-11-11 18:12:30

2 cu8ed.

:::;D

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