#what are mathematicians doing

[blood-orange-juice]

Working in an interdisciplinary field (neuroscience/AI in my case. yes, I'm one of the evil guys) is just never-ending delight.

A stereotypical overly dramatic Brit, upon recieving a review to his paper: What do they mean, 'poorly defined'? We are psychologists, poorly defined is a good day!

Noticing a pattern in data: - There should be some branch of math describing this, I'm just not familiar with it. An hour of discussion, googling and coding ensues. - Uhm... I don't think this math has been invented yet. - What has humanity been *doing* for the last millions of years? - Oh, you know... the usual. - I'm appalled.

Me: *writes a paragraph of computer science terms in a neuroscience paper* Former boss' comment on the document: This might be too dense for the uninitiated.

- This is a bit like trying to understand mathematical entities by visual assessment. Not really doable. - Well, people do use CNNs [neural networks modelled after human visual cortex] to analyze quantum states... - WHY? - They are easy to code - Can someone please stop them already?

- Considering your previous career trajectory, I won't be surprised if you end up at a mathematical physics department in ten years from now. - I actually wanted to abandon all this and just grow flowers... - That's ok, Grothendieck [one of the 20th century most prominent mathematicians] herded goats in the Pyrenees for the last 30 years of his life. [an absolute king btw, tumblr would have loved him]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm cautiously gearing myself up for a conversation with bff where I tell her that we need to recalibrate our relationship, and....I genuinely don't think I've ever had a serious, emotional conversation with someone I care about before.

I've never been a Conversation Haver; I tend to take the approach that people can't significantly change without meaningful reason, and since I am not and never have been someone's Reason, I cannot prompt change. Therefore, my choices are (a) live with what is; or (b) end/limit the relationship.

But....this is my best friend in the world. I do love her. I just can't keep on as we've been going, where it's less a friendship and more ten minute intervals where I talk about my life, after which the focus switches. I once sat in a bar for two hours waiting for her; afterwards, she asked if I wanted to stay in her hotel room like I didn't have to get up in another 5 hours and drive to work. She texted me during my recent trips, and when I said I was traveling she asked no further questions. Said nothing unless it was about what she was reading, what she was doing. I'm not even sure she realized I was traveling at all, just unavailable to her.

I can give a high-level summary of her PhD thesis. I'm not confident she knows where I work.

Truthfully, part of this is that we simply have different social styles....but still. Coming back from my family trip, I said I was tired and trying to get work straightened out, she should go ahead and plan something for the holiday! I was free! Only for me to text a week later....and promptly have her join me, for my previously standalone plans. Oh, and she asked me to bring my camera, because she wants headshots for her new job.

I still love her very much, but if this is the kind of relationship we're going to have? I need less of it.

[annoying--moth]

I may have figured out roughly what year Scythe takes place in.

So I got bored in the shower one day and did all the math to figure out when Scythe takes place. Now I am no mathematician, and there's a good chance I missed a detail or two somewhere, plus I did a lot of rounding, but here's what I gathered.

Let's start from the beginning. We know thanks to Scythe Curie's journal that everything sort of started in 2042, and actually I have Scythe Curie to thank for most of the numbers I got for this.

When Scythe Curie is telling Citra about her past with Faraday in the first book, she says that it had been about 50 years since the Thunderhead gained consciousness when she was an apprentice/ordained, so the year then would've been 2092. (This also means she was born in 2075 since she was 17 at the time.) Afterwards, she says that she and Faraday started their "seven years" roughly another 50 years after that, so we can say that that year was 2142, a century after the Thunderhead came about. After that, we know Curaday were in a relationship for 7 years, followed by 70 years of being apart, which places us at 2219. Here we run into a problem, as it's never explicitly stated how long it's been since then (iirc).

However, Scythe Faraday also gives us some help. In the first chapter Faraday states that he's "around 180," so I'm gonna go ahead and say he's 175-185 years old. As you can see, this is the part where we have to make the numbers a bit more vague thanks to lack of detail.

If we do the math, then Scythe Faraday would've been 149 once the 70 years were up, in 2219. If we subtract that from his current age, that puts the year in Scythe (or the year of the Ocelot) as somewhere between 2245-2255.

All this to say that Scythe Alighieri would've been a 2000s-2010s kids and probably WOULD remember the mortal age, so he's either lying about his age or how much he remembers. Or Neal Shusterman just got the timeline a little confused, happens to the best of us

[oompadearest]

yes im getting a masters degree in math. yes im going to use it to make aph america a FUCKING INSUFFERABLE NERD

[bogkeep]

my thesis probably doesn't need to be longer than like, 2k-3k words total, i can stick to a reasonable scope, i don't NEED to delve into the origins of the babylonian sexagesimal number system to write about the prague astronomical clock

[unnonexistence]

one of my friends is a biologist & i was really amused hearing some of her stories yesterday because they put into context just how believable newt's kaiju drift is as Shit A Biologist Would Do. like my friend has personally met both a guy who got infected with a botfly larva and didn't do anything to remove it (because he just didn't mind), and another guy who identified a tapeworm species by intentionally exposing himself to it (he had it narrowed down to 2 species and needed to know if it was the one that would infect humans) (it was)

[skopostheorie]

i think it's incredibly sweet that you leave such nice comments on the art you reblog. you are a force for good in this world

IM NOT EVWN TEYING TOBE NICE IM JUST THAT FYCKIJG CRAZY ABOUT ALL PICTURES ON THE PLANET ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE MY FUCKING CHARACTERS IN IT

[thearoacescout]

I'm at a pride event and what do my friend and I do? We do math problems on rainbow paper because we're gay nerds

[episims]

Cloud "-sorry. I didn't assume it'd take this late."

Julian "We know. I'll go wake her up, now."

Julian "Ready to blow the candles?"

Aurora "Bloooow."

Julian "Yes. The airflow will disrupt the combustion and dilute the fuel vapor, among other things."

Aurora "Hmh. Ready!"

[scrivenger-grimgar]

BNHA x DGR because I’m mentally ill ✨

Izuku would be the ultimate analyst and he’s like 11 when he’s scouted and accepted into HPA’s class 77 (SDR:2), but he still desperately wants to be a hero so he’ll constantly seek out Akane and Nekomaru and be like “teach me to fight” and they’re like “holy SHIT he’s terrifying let’s do it” so they become friends, and later he approaches Peko and is like “fight me” and Peko finds this both deeply unsettling and also accepts that the request immediately. Fuyuhiko is very happy that she’s making friends!

They become the Fight Club and it’s essentially an underground fighting ring except above ground and you aren’t allowed to kill or maim people (psychological warfare is very much allowed however).

In that first year Chiaki befriends Hajime, and Hajime is forcefully befriended by Izuku and the two drag him into class 77 until they collectively see him as a friend (barring Nagito). But Hajime is going thru it and thinks that they don’t think he’s a friend, and this ultimately leads to him considering the Hope Cultivation Program. He gets kidnapped by his career councillor near the end of the year and is officially expelled from HPA. He later goes missing. For a year.

Izuku is super fucking sus bc he’s not an idiot and has obviously noticed tha something fucky is going on with the school (finances are skewed, funding is disappearing into somewhere, high ranking people visiting the school too often when they don’t have any relatives attending, stockholders buying and selling at increasing rates, leery of heroes and police, monitoring students more than usual, extreme security increases; Izuku smiles and nods and ciphers everything down through multiple different scripts with missing keys that no one has solved, and very carefully does not react. He searches for the Rat’s encrypted email for 6 months because he still wants to be a hero.)

When he sneaks through the ventilation and finds that lab and finds the one in the lab. That changes things.

After the first year’s sports festival, there is a four day break.

When Izuru finally meets the vent crawler in person he feels something other that anger, hatred, or fondness, that he can’t identify; it’s not from the still sleeping Hajime. Emotion is not something so easily removed from someone who feels so strongly. The scientists don’t know what exactly happened to some of the talents they tried to instill in him and he would never tell them that it was his other half who had received them.

The hero raid on Hokkaido’s Hope’s Peak Academy is largely missed by the media, if only due to the fact that the school is largely made up the quirkless.

In other news UA’s first year classes now have new classmates. As do some other hero schools. Wonder what that’s all about…

(UA gets class 77, Aizawa gets Izuku, Izuru, and Hajime, Sekijiro gets Peko, Akane, and Nekomaru, 1C gets Nagito, Chiaki, and Ibuki, etc.)

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

stem girls and eto! baš! hoću! forever. i was always good! where did it get me! once in my life i want to be really stupid... but not stupid in an academic sense i feel that way all the time.... stupid in feeling something! doing the wrong thing for a change!

kad cure u nauci poblesave, jer im je pameti preko glave<3

[unproduciblesmackdown]

spontaneous expressions of wynnstannery (re: winston quant kid 2 billions)

[chirality]

OC-tober day 19 - your OC with their fav thing

yeah the next few are gonna be rapid fire shitposty doodles because WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S THE 29TH ALREADY???!

[borealopelta]

love that i got into Film About Eight Man Rowing because maybe finally i'll understand what the fuck my buddy who rows eights at cambridge is doing. this however gets me absolutely no advantage on writing the technicalities of the sport because he's possibly the least talkative person i've ever known and i can't just text him with my questions

[mongeese]

I hate this post bc literally that is the normal way to teach calculus. Like I'm sorry if your teacher sucked but they still teach calculus this way

[vogelmeister]

WAIT WASNT 2008 THE YEAR OF THE OLD MEXICO SEASON