#maths tool

[ionomycin]

Welcome home

[onaperduamedee]

I don't know if it's show bias, but I struggle to understand the reading of Moiraine as someone who is so driven by her mission that she doesn't care.

From the get-go, she flees the White Tower for fear of ending up Queen of Cairhien and as cruel a leader as the rulers in her family, although it would have meant control and power;

Getting knocked down and unable to channel, she stabs a former teacher to stop her from killing innocents who have little to do with her mission;

She rushes to the Blight to bond Lan and keep him from basically killing himself, even if again it is a gamble, and later on, the bond transfer is about saving him, albeit cruelly;

She uses her body as a shield to hold off a Forsaken in order to help Rand, sustaining serious injuries in the fight, although her sacrifice is mostly useless considering how overpowered she is;

Many times, she heals villagers, soldiers, Aiel, wolves, sometimes until she is on the brink of passing out;

She fights Shadowspawns in Tear, in the Waste just as bravely as Lan, despite not being battle Ajah and often being surrounded by Aiel who can do the job by themselves;

She tackles Lanfear, toppling with her inside a collapsing ter'angreal, effectively dooming herself and cutting herself from the narrative, to help Rand, Egwene and Aviendha.

Obviously, you could argue that each of these actions would bring her an advantage and in acting so, she was only playing her part in the pattern, without a care for the people she was helping, but that's such an ungenerous reading of the character given what the text provides.

Her mindset is utilitarian and pragmatic, but to see her ever-present doubts, her growing despair and raging hope in Rand and still interpret her as uncaring is mind-boggling to me.

Her whole speech in TSR regarding "People [fighting] for you who do not know it, any more than you know them" tells of someone who believes saving the world will require a lot of collaboration and awareness of each other, not merely machinations and control.

She is a hard woman, but uncaring she is not.

[knotty-et-al]

It's the rainbow möbius strip!!!

It is such a nice stim toy! I love the colors, I love the sorting of the colors! I love the weight of the metal of these foldback clamps! I like the feeling of tension of the thick paper strip inlay! I love those metal handles standing out! I love those unloud but hearable clicking sounds of these metal handles!

I love the haptics! I love the colors! I love that it is an object from one of my special interests (math: topology). I love everything about it!

I love how quickly it is done!

I love that I can also use this strip as storing tool for the foldback clamps as well! (It can also be flattened relatively quickly. The strip just needs to be opened.)

[jokingluna]

[art-of-mathematics]

Polygon vertex stencil

To draw the polygons draw the vertices with the stencil. Afterwards, the vertices/dots need to be connected.

This takes too much effort imo, but I found no other way yet to craft a stencil by hand that stays exact enough to use properly (You can see I attempted to cut out the polygons in the upper left corner. These turned out far too errorous and cannot be used if an exact outcome is desired.)

But at least, by using this tool I save a bit of time and effort with drawing many polygons compared to using ruler and/or compass and/or geometry triangle drawing tool.

[milimeters-morales]

i’m giving miles my anxiety when i was 13 and inconsistent with meds again. it’s incurable and she will be suffering because of simply smelling like perfume

[froggymagician]

shoutout to the time when bobby died and I decided to make a homemade crochet bobby in honor of him

(Ignore the random eye doodles I was bored)

[gayseballs-art]

[artistic-arteries]

I wish we taught kids math games to help them practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in their heads.

I just started playing Cult of the Lamb and I loved the knucklebones mini game so much. It's addition and simple multiplication and would be great for those just starting to learn multiplication. (Play here, wiki here)

Another good one is sticks, its just addition so it's great for first and second graders. (Wikipedia entry here)

[vriska-serketboard]

PLEASEEE GET INTO SYSC ...... u gotta . do it . for me. for connie .....

also their new album coup de grace comes out in literally 2 days so u can get into them thru that if u want LOL but i love all their stuff , their other 3 albums are all totally different vibes so it depends if u want sassy mathy breakdown music or sad metalcore or sassy melodic post-hardcore

OH SHIT AWESOME!! yeah i've been meaning to listen to them for a long time bc based on your posts about them they seem like a really sick band! also i love all those genres you mentioned so i will probably really like their stuff

[rhapsodybenny]

I feel like I have at least one or two artists following me, so a question for y’all: How much math do you use when doing art? Because when I do graphics work in GIMP, I do TONS. I’d say one in every 5 tasks I complete in GIMP require me to pull out a calculator — sizing a circle or rectangle, determining an image size for an aspect ratio, finding the stroke width or font size I need, calculating the pixels I need to draw a line between… I feel like I’ve heard plenty of people say they love digital art and hate math. And to me, that’s just like… ????? How do you split the former from the latter?

[chewwytwee]

OpenAI and Tumblr aren’t like, besties. Tumblr has always had issues with bots and spam so I don’t think they were exactly stumbling out the door to make a contract with the company that’s been the spearhead of modern day spam.

Tumblr and openAI negotiated the contract, so think for a second about what each company gets out of the deal. You can easily argue that OpenAI wouldn’t want an opt-out option, so you could also argue tumblr was the party behind the option existing. This is all speculation, but it’s just as valid to say ‘The opt-out option was a non-negotiable for tumblr, but OpenAI pressured them into making it opt-out instead of opt-in’ as it is to say ‘Tumblr only included the opt-out option to appease the user base’. People are only making the latter point (and I’d argue are primed to accept it) because all the fear-mongering has made everyone’s knee jerk reaction to AI fear and rage. Oooooo neural nets and weighted graphs Ooooooooooo they’re gonna kill art for real this time for real oooooo all the other panics about automation were wrong but THIS one is real I promise oooooooooooo we need to ‘Kill AI’ just like we had to ‘kill automation’ because technology has gotten too advanced. we need to make computers worse and then everything will get better ooooooooooo

[genx3791]

[rat-does-craft]

This quilt brought to you by my Project Manager Teaberry

[art-of-mathematics]

Phi Caliper

Today I crafted a tiny phi/golden ratio caliper with PVC foil and 4 rivets.

[jugdyzucchini]

One of my biggest regrets of choosing a pure maths degree is that I won't ever get to wear a fucking lab coat with all protective gears, do experiments with chemicals and microbes and feel like an actual scientist.

Instead, i get to not care about my outfit, toss around commutative diagrams all day and try to prove something that's already been proven just to feel superior over those can't.