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I wonder if this is how my advisors and supervisors see me
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My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit
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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If I had a nickel for each time I had a nosebleed during a research meeting, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
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I think Tumblr'll appreciate this! University of Wisconsin-Madison / SSEC
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what's with math and chalkboards? i used to like whiteboards and now i not only don't like them but seemingly no longer remember how to use them. i drank too greedily of the chalk, became addicted, and now resent its absence
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maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth
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I hope you find my article on EDAC interesting!
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Why are mathematicians* so USELESS at simple arithmetic? You're telling me I possess knowledge that would get me hailed as a lord 2000 years ago, but if I had two bags of wheat in one hand and three in the other, I would say there's six bags? What the fuck
*it's me, I'm mathematicians
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y'know, one of the goofiest things I've learnt from the desmos community is that { } with nothing inside equals 1
but that's not just it, you can also add { }s
and it functions just the same as adding 2 1s
but therein lies the funniest part, that you can perform almost any function on it, from minus
to exponents
to even factorials!
and lists too!!!
you can even compare solutions of { }s in { }s
there's almost no restrictions, if you can do it with numbers, you can do it with { }
and this leads me to what I've seen a lot of people calling "desmosfuck" after the infamous programming language brainfuck, and it restricts you by not allowing any letters and no numbers, that includes sin, log, x, y and all the others. The only thing you can make out of { }s are points and numbers though, but thankfully that's usually enough to make a bunch of stuff.
like, if you need π, just use (-0.5)!^2
you need e? you already have π and i, just use e^(iπ)=-1 and rearrange it to e=-1^(1/(iπ)) and get -1^((π^-1)(i^-1))
want phi? sure, just use it's surd representation of (1+sqrt(5))/2
okay, but what if you really wanna do functions? well, if you're desperate, you can sorta do that, you just gotta use a concentration of points.
cos(x) and sin(x)? use the identities
cos seems easier
and x just has to be a dense list of numbers
now that we have x, let us... REWRITE!
that's dense... buuuut, it does the job as soon as we add the x part to the x coordinate!
absolute insanity
you can also get sin by subtracting x by half of pi
awesome
here's tan, btw
go play around with it yourself! it's very silly
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50 people in the rain cheekily asking me "miss the summer yet?" No. I Have Done Nothing But Pray For The Age Of Sun's Downfall. May The Gloom Eternal Take Us All
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That’s exactly how I would react too
That picture of Biden looking at a quantum computer and being unable to grasp the true form of what he's seeing

To be fair that's how I would I react too
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