#maths nerd things

[iwillstabyou]

[packitandgo]

[urlocalspider-man]

My math teacher keeps making stranger things references because he is "preparing for season 5" help

some highlights:

"You're on the upside down (referring to the graph) you need Eleven to help you" (does the hands out pose)

He then proceeded to call me out and say "you know what I'm talking about" as the whole class turned to look at me

"try before you deny" "[argyle] was a fun guy"

Played the season 2 sound track during our break AND when class ended

Called me out AGAIN in the middle of the lesson "[OP], last night I was nerding out thinking about how I could join the Hawkins AV club"

And when I turned in my quiz he asked me "how many times have you watched Stranger Things? Don't lie to me"

This was all in an hour.

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

i think that it's really important how krel faces the majority of human racism during 3Below. he's visibly a latino and has darker skin than aja. krel also has the same quirks as her. but it's her quirks that are seen as cool and his that are seen as weird.

he's also a math genius, and it's constantly called into question how he is doing so well, with the racist man is season one claiming that he cheated solely because 'everyone knows people like him aren't good at math'. even the bounty hunter weaponizes this in the next episode.

there wasn't really a point to this post, but i think that it's really important that in a kid's show, the latino boy is shown to be accused of cheating simply because he doesn't 'look' smart, and the show explicitly calls this attitude out as wrong and does not give it any excuses. and the latino boy is given shades and dimensions to his character and allowed sympathy and rage for his losses. you know, the way all people should be allowed.

[variablejabberwocky]

fell down a research hole for something (don't worry about it) and hit an unexpected thought: in english the writing goes this way -> but the numbers (when written as digits and not spelled out) seem to go this way <-

like yeah we READ them this way -> but we MATH them this way <-

like when you add you add the "ones" place first THEN the "tens" and so on and so forth. and the same for subtraction, and when you do multiplication the "long" way

long division you do different (this way ->) but thats like...so you can get the decimal place right

so like....why do we do this?

why have i never noticed this before? do ALL number systems work like this? the numbers in other languages that go other directions do this or is it different?

[speedyshark95]

What is it with the nerd stereotype and glasses?

Like I’m sorry I have glasses and am good at math but that doesn’t qualify me as a nerd right? Right??

[springbreak-ibelieveinyou]

sometimes i have to remind myself that i’m not the only nerd in my family we’re just nerdy in different ways

my mom majored in history and has a masters in library science

my dad used to play dnd, taught us catan, and showed us the star wars movies

my sister is reading the dictionary. i’m not kidding. also she likes math

and i nonstop rotate the cast of dropout in my head

[son-of-avraham]

I love that the people in my shul talk about being a mt. sinai and leaving egypt like, "well, I was in egypt and I saw you at egypt and we were..."

[omnipotentnothing]

dunno why but feels like this kinda shit is something you'd find funny. vibes i guess. we had to look for a hidden elf in history and our teacher told us to look down low, so i was crawling around, quadrobicsing, because yeah yeah as weird as it is crawling on your hands and knees HURTS YOUR KNEES, and then i referred to it as going furry mode. my friends absolutely would not stop laughing they were like WTF STOP SAYING GOING FURRY MODE and yeah. also judged me for having done it before. like uhhhhh nooooooo i'm obviously not a therian but. scaring people. and playing with my grandparent's dog. I'M THE YOUNGEST COUSIN IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO BE THE GOOFIEST ONE

LMAOO FURRY MODE IM STEALING THAT I LOVE THAT THATS GREAT

[ilovemagicbeans]

No one:

Me, bored at school: *plays minesweeper on computer, spider solitaire on phone, normal solitaire with my cards, etc.* wow I am such a nerd

[jtl-fics]

Hey, no need to respond to this, truly, but I just had to say something. Feel free to ignore and I won’t bother you about this again, but it makes me uncomfortable how you portray Riko as this traumatized kid who just needs love&attention in your writing when he is canonically an abuser. He nearly beat Jean to death and ordered other Ravens to rape him. He broke Kevin’s hand and tried to emotionally abuse him into returning to him. He helped Drake cross state borders while he was being investigated for child sexual assault and pointed him at Andrew. He paid Proust to assault Andrew. He tied Neil to a bed and tortured him. He killed Seth. Yes, his backstory is tragic but he is an abuser. And it’s uncomfortable reading about how his victims should feel sorry for him bc now they’re older and more mature and Riko “was a kid”. I recognize you have the right to write what you want, I just wanted to tell you how it reads. I’m not trying to be mean or harass you & I won’t send anything else other than this. And do not post this to the public if you don’t want to! Seriously, I’m not trying to be mean or hurt your feelings, you’re a great writer and I don’t believe you meant anything malicious or were trying to communicate what I took from how you wrote Riko, just that that’s how it comes off.

Hey, I am going to respond to this just because I want to be clear that I am writing Riko very very aware of the fact that he has done things in the books that make me really dislike / hate him as a person. Still, as a character there are things I want to explore with him y’know?

Especially from people who he really has no power over at this point. Especially from people who he did use to have power over at one point.

Some of this might be coming across a certain way just due to the fact that I had some ideas earlier on in the writing of these that I've discard. Such is the nature of a WIP. The other part is that a lot of the snippets are missing broader context. Such is the nature of a Snippet.

Either way you're fine to be uncomfortable with that and to not like how I'm writing it but I do just want to cover generally how I'm approaching Riko in the 2 AUs I'm really treating him differently than canon.

In the Math Nerd AU I want to explore a Neil who is a lot older and who still, honestly, hates Riko. He hates him and would love to watch him sink into the pits of hell once again.... but he's also a Neil who has grown a lot since he was 18-19 and dealing with Riko the first time around. He's a Neil who not only benefited from but now truly and absolutely believes in the power of giving someone a chance. Wymack has had that level of influence on his thinking.

He was a Captain and stayed close with the Foxes and Wymack over the years. He has seen all of the kids that Wymack gave 2nd chances to.

Some of them deserved that second chance and they utilize it.

Some of them deserved that second chance and failed to utilize it.

Some of them didn't deserve those second chances and did utilize it.

Some of them didn't deserve that second chance and proved that they didn't deserve it.

Wymack still offered it to all of them and he didn't always like those kids but Wymack still did his best to help them. Neil thinks Wymack died with his only regret being that he didn't have a chance to drink the pricey bourbon they'd gotten him and that he wouldn't get to call Kevin after his games.

Neil WANTS / NEEDS / CRAVES that peace of mind for reasons I'm not going to touch on here because it doesn't involve Riko.

I have decided on a few things that are different from the initial description, such is the nature of a WIP.

Its not quite clear in the snippets because hey they’re snippets and not the full story and honestly I’ve avoided doing these snippets from Neil’s POV. All Neil is doing right now? He’s offering Riko a chance and that's it.

What Riko does with that chance I haven’t touched on at all. Neil is offering a Riko an opportunity to stop before he sinks his own ship and Neil won't even toss a life preserver because watching him drown was immensely personally satisfying to Neil last time. What he wants is the certainty that there was no redeeming Riko, that there was no excuse, and that he's totally normal for thinking about how Riko looked the night he died with warmth. If Riko proves him wrong? If all Riko really did need was someone he had no power over to treat him like a person and not a commodity?

It'd be the ultimate proof that anyone can benefit from a second chance, that Wymack was always right to offer it. He'd be okay with that too.

I also want to explore what Neil can gain by delaying the satisfaction he got the first time around by outright telling Riko to just fuck off. How playing it a bit nicer / smarter with Riko means that the Foxes are safer and also gives him the opportunity to protect other people he has had a hand in saving. Andrew was the first person that Neil saved when he went back in time, but he wasn't the last. Neil also wasn't always successful in saving some people despite his foreknowledge.

Again, nature of the WIP and nature of the Snippet were not everything is here since I sure as hell am not writing this in order with the snippets but I am going to touch on it in a WIP Wednesday ask pretty soon, probably once I finish this beast / make myself dinner.

For New Kings it's a lot easier since mostly I'm treating Riko as a joke. Someone who wants to be a threat, who remembers being terrifying to these Foxes. Except now he...just kind of isn't. He has no power over any of them. Like Nicky said, he's seen home loans scarier than Riko is at this point.

It really is them just seeing someone they remember being so huge and threatening and scary and…..its just this sad sack 20 something playing at being God because he’s good at a sport. Honestly, in comparison to what some of them got up to later? He's not even that good.

They won’t take him seriously because why the fuck should they? That would just feed into his already insane ego. In my experience there’s nothing that upsets an abuser more than his once victims just won’t give him any power over them. (Again its the nature of the snippet in that its not the full picture and I haven’t even covered Riko’s reaction to the Fox’s dismissal of him as a threat in all its unhinged glory nor Renee's grand theft Moreau.)

STILL, if that isn’t something you want to read then please just add the tags #Math Nerd AU and #New Kings AU or ME (jtl-fics & justthislazy) to a block list. I'm religious about tagging so if you still want to read other stuff then just blacklisting those tags will keep you safe.

I can add Riko Moriyama as a tag on the parts that involve / mention him if you still want to read the snippets that don't include him.

I’m not out here to make someone uncomfortable but I do want to explore these things in my writing. It might change the further I go but it might not so please proceed at your comfort level.

Thank you for writing to me with your concern and I’m more than happy to accommodate with tags if you wanna message me.

Still, like you said, I'm going to write what I want.

[unnonexistence]

kicking my feet and giggling thinking about vector spaces

[variablejabberwocky]

oh shit, base-20 is just base-2 but Big Size!

so like base number positional notation each spot from right to left is another order of magnitude in value

so in base-10 your rightmost spot is the "1's place" because it goes from 0-9 with 1 being the first numbery-number (instead of a placeholder zero), the next one to the left is the "10's place", and the next one from there is the "100's place"

so each of these could also be notated like this:

10^0 is 0-9

10^1 is 10-99

10^2 is 100-999

10^3 is 1,000-9,999

10^4 is 10,000-99,999

so if you do the same with base-20 you get:

20^0 is 0-19

20^1 is 20-399

20^2 is 400-7,999

20^3 is 8,000-159,999

20^4 is 160,000-3,199,999

which if you compare to the same sort of thing in base-2:

2^0 is 0-1

2^1 is 2-3

2^2 is 4-7

2^3 is 8-15

2^4 is 16-31

like there is a PATTERN here

base-20 is basically just binary but each "^" up from "^0" adds another zero to the starting position for that slot

...oh shit does this mean we could use the kaktovik numbers for base-16 too? or would we have to modify them? could we do the same cool math tricks?

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

[gaytwirights]

Suddenly thinking about the world lines where Behemo died in the Climb One like shit that would be such a pain in the ass how are you going to fulfil your purpose* now you dead bitch

[*you've fulfilled your original purpose by bringing new humans into reality, but can you truly say you've succeeded if you're not there to guide them? you've fulfilled your original purpose, but can you truly say that you've succeeded if the humans weren't made in the image of God (the original one)]

[thecoolnerdblog]

“I love math cause at least everything has a solution” like…. Do you even know math??? Did math tell you this????

I’m pretty sure we have multiple subjects in math for the sole purpose of having no direct answer. Like algebra has a specific way to distinguish the different types of non-answers.

You dont love math enough to know math, girl

[cosmik-homo]

New WIP: Vila and Avon get really into competitive Cubing.