ITT: We are math nerds

Odradek

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

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

Klinotaxis

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

square root of 5328576329876598321759 or something

Previous Calica

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

sqrt(5328576329876598321759)

72997098092.16115901802918773876

Odradek

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

They talk about steelmanning.

Previous Calica

you're thinking of lesswrong.

Odradek

spinor said:

you're thinking of lesswrong.

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

Imipolex G

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

lee4hmz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

weird

Obā-san

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

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

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 ! ~ ★

*suddenly doesn't suck at math wow*

Odradek

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

Previous Calica

stalestarcodex?

Odradek

spinor said:

stalestarcodex?

The very same.

Klinotaxis

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

Euler or Gauss?

You must choose one.

Sredni Vashtar

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

>///>

Yarrun XIX

Euler

Yarrun XIX

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

Yarrun XIX

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

Kill all math nerds.

Vriska

2 cu8ed.

:::;D