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@caustic_agent

Katılım Mayıs 2019
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keysmashbandit@keysmashbandit·
I really do believe this btw. Every time I felt really frustrated with a concept, the problem was always, every single time, resolved via familiarity. It's so true and so well known that competition math and undergrad logic books will often explicitly say it in their introduction
keysmashbandit@keysmashbandit

Math degree is years long test of your willingness to squint at a piece of paper for extended periods of time. If you are cool with doing that you're basically set

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@elocinationn @BayesianNuance Regardless, math is there for you if you ever want it again. It's big and there are parts you might enjoy. Hopefully your belief in a total ordering on human cognition won't ruin it for you if you ever do, but ideally you'd get over that because it is poison nonsense
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@elocinationn @BayesianNuance Imo this "innate ability" ideology comes more from "politicization"/particular aesthetic sensibilities about how the world works -- e.g. there's a total ordering on cognitive ability -- and also unresolved angst over experiences in university/school math courses
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Nicole
Nicole@elocinationn·
Tbh most people who considered studying math/applied math say they noticed at some point that someone in their class just got it on so much more of an intuitive level and they realized they’d never reach that. I definitely had this experience. Sure if I kept going at for an arbitrarily long time I’d *maybe* be able to solve the problem, but the point is that we don’t actually have endless time, and being ‘good’ at math at a certain level does require that you can do things reasonably quickly.
keysmashbandit@keysmashbandit

It's self-protective to think you'd be real good at math were it not for your average genetic intelligence. It's cope. The real reason you're not good at it is because you're lazy and you didn't try hard enough. Which is way worse, in my opinion

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@skitterspatial It's just about clarity, √2/2 is no doubt easier to think about wrt comparisons and geometry. But this trick is taught long before you might ever see any reason for it and it follows easily from other tricks so I agree with scrapping it
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@KrishanghArjun It is not cultural. Calling someone by a numeric code assigned by bureaucratic process / software pretty universally identifies them as fungible utility vs a person
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Krishangh Arjun
Krishangh Arjun@KrishanghArjun·
@caustic_agent Is that a culture gap thing? Like in school they routinely called us out by our roll nos. It feels normal to me. Also how can you call that 'incredibly dehumanizing' its not that big of a deal calling out a serial no instead of a name
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Krishangh Arjun
Krishangh Arjun@KrishanghArjun·
Can anyone explain to me how the YC sweatshop thing is bad? Are the people involved against sweatshops for some dumb reason? Or are they against productivity tracking? This honestly feels like a first world dislike of thinking too hard about where goods come from to me
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David Bessis
David Bessis@davidbessis·
"Are there people who are naturally good at math and others who are hopelessly bad at math? I don’t think so. I think everyone has an innate mathematical talent." — Terence Tao What’s interesting is the argument that he gives: ⤵️
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@littmath @pointed_max As a heavy user of these things, I don't see how they could ever function as theorem provers without embedding some strict and highly constrained language with unambiguous syntax and semantics
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Daniel Litt
Daniel Litt@littmath·
Some very brief first impressions from my attempts to use OpenAI's new Deep Research project to do mathematics. I'm very grateful to the person at OpenAI who gave me access.
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Manhattan Bird Alert
Manhattan Bird Alert@BirdCentralPark·
Astoria the Wild Turkey strikes a pose on Main Street, Roosevelt Island. Passersby recognize her and say hello, and many stop to take photos. 🦃 ❤️
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local minimum@caustic_agent·
Mostly in the ways math trains you to think about hard problems: taking care with language and meaning, noticing details, having an intuition for when certain details matter and when they don't, persistence and patience, recognizing different shapes and forms of familiar problems
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local minimum@caustic_agent·
As powerful and beautiful as it is, I don't feel that math is the unique global maximizer of human knowledge and experience. Lots of essential lessons for being human come from elsewhere. I am always surprised though at how math will creep into other areas of my life
Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma

a major reason why math education is so valuable, even if you never actually work in a field using math, is that it really forces you to think in rigorous, organized, logical ways and leaves you smarter overall

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Elliot Glazer
Elliot Glazer@ElliotGlazer·
When my colleague in the set theory research discord asks for projects that will improve rather than worsen set theory's public reputation:
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Manhattan Bird Alert
Manhattan Bird Alert@BirdCentralPark·
Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her gorgeous plumage in her favorite garden on Roosevelt Island. 🦃 ❤️
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@DataDeLaurier @powerbottomdad1 @JoshuaGregory10 Compare: jobs where you have to ask permission to leave early, or use the bathroom, while making approximately minimum wage (i.e. 15x less before you factor in TC). In particular: do you think these conditions don't lead to burnout?
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sucks
sucks@powerbottomdad1·
wait. you're telling me this job where you sit in a chair and drink lattes. this job where you can make TWO HUNRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS at the age of TWENTY TWO. that you can do from home or the beach. is competitive? you're saying other people want this job? why??
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