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7:03 PM
english.stackexchange.com/a/204617/87329 I got +13 and -4 for this answer, lol
 
@JasperLoy man you're too obsessed with that answer. The question went off topic because it was too opinion based.
 
@UserX Yeah.
@Jasper Why don't you become a linguist?
 
@Sawarnik I am not really that interested in language. I am more interested in love.
 
@JasperLoy but from what you said you implied that you haven't experienced love yet.
 
@UserX That's why I am so interested in it.
 
7:08 PM
@JasperLoy Presumably, you haven't done coke yet either...
 
@UserX Drugs here can carry the death penalty...
 
@JasperLoy so can love
Sidenote;(can or does?)
 
@UserX I have done coca cola.
@UserX Can.
 
@userx I prefer pepsi to coca cola.
 
7:12 PM
@JasperLoy I hate both. They bloat me.
 
@UserX I used to drink a lot of tea. Now I drink more coffee.
 
Hi Charlie.
 
@JasperLoy there was a period last year where I would drink 4-5 coffes/day
 
@JasperLoy Cola.
 
Gah I am so uncertain.
 
7:13 PM
@UserX Coffee is awesome :D :)
 
I asked this strange question in the other room. If you were an ant, do you think life is worth living?
 
@Sawarnik I didn't drink coffee daily at your age.
@JasperLoy I am not an ant.
 
@Sawarnik hi kid
 
I drink 1 cup daily on average.
 
once a day, every day, give yourself a present
two cups of hot, black coffee
 
7:14 PM
@JasperLoy Yes.
 
@UserX Sometimes, I look at all the suffering in this world, and I ask whether life for the suffering is worth living.
 
@Mike is being sponsored by the coffee companies now?
 
@Studentmath lol
 
@Studentmath Quite the opposite; I have long sponsored the coffee companies.
 
@JasperLoy where is all that suffering?
 
7:15 PM
@UserX All over the world. Some much more than others.
 
@JasperLoy why do you care about people that will never cast any influence to your immediate comfort
 
I think my argument is right, yet I really don't know. It's annoying.
 
@UserX Some people are like that.
 
In fact why care about anyone else that suffers anyway?
 
@UserX I care about the suffering in this world because I have suffered a lot.
 
7:17 PM
Hmm.
 
@JasperLoy can i ask you some measure theory?
 
@HipsterMathematician I have forgotten it all, sorry. Hehe.
@HipsterMathematician How are you feeling these days? How are you and your bf?
 
@JasperLoy can't you ask your brother to help you?
 
@JasperLoy I'm not fine today
 
@UserX Who is my brother?
 
7:19 PM
Jasper has an imaginary brother
 
Jonas Teuwen.
@JasperLoy Charlie's bf?
 
Ah, my bro Jonas. I think he might win a Fields medal.
@Sawarnik Yes.
 
@JasperLoy aren't you his real brother?
 
@UserX No. We are not, but maybe we will be next life.
 
He has some connections in Academia, he may be able to help you on that PhD you want.
 
7:21 PM
@userx How did you know about Jonas?
 
Stalked you.
 
@HipsterMathematician Would you like to share?
 
@JasperLoy no not here
 
@UserX Jonas is a very smart boy who has also gone through a lot of suffering.
@HipsterMathematician You can email me if you want.
 
@JasperLoy what's your real name?
 
7:23 PM
@JasperLoy i appreciate. Right now my problem is math
 
@UserX My current username.
 
@UserX In Chinese?
@JasperLoy Like?
 
@HipsterMathematician OK. I think you can post on the site for a quick response.
 
Good, I'm not stalking the wrong person.
 
@Sawarnik It is our secret.
 
7:24 PM
@JasperLoy I don't like posting
 
@JasperLoy Must be in the chat archives...
 
Does anyone else have bad days in MSE? All my posts stop getting upvoted anymore lol
 
@Sawarnik Many secrets between MSE users are shared in emails not in chat.
 
Hmm.
@HipsterMathematician define kid.
 
@UserX You just got some. I capped already.
 
7:28 PM
@Sawarnik Kid: def. male noun, MSE user called Sawarnik
 
that's very specific.
will i remain kid forever then?
 
some guys never grow up...
 
No battery. Bbl
 
Bye.
 
I just checked my reputation history: I got no downvotes since 2014-10-02, almost a month ago. This is ridiculous. Math.SE users just don't downvote enough.
 
7:38 PM
@WeaponofChoice Many people don't get downvotes for a month I think, but I have got no stats.
 
-1+MeijerG[{{1,1},{}},{{1/2,1,1},{0}},1/4]/(2 Sqrt[[Pi]])
$$\LARGE=$$
 
I think downvotes on SE serve no purpose. Upvotes are sufficient.
 
-1+EulerGamma-Cos[1] CosIntegral[1]+1/2 [Pi] Sin[1]-Sin[1] SinIntegral[1]
 
Anonymous downvotes with no comment don't tell people what is wrong with answers.
Usually some XXX downvotes my answer because he can't understand it or appreciate it.
Sometimes, they downvote just to change the order of the posts, which is wrong to me.
Sometimes, they downvote a good method just because it is one step longer, which is wrong to me.
Sometimes, they downvote a correct answer just because the question they feel should not be answered, which is wrong to me.
To neutralise the effect of all these downvotes, I have decided not to cast a single downvote.
 
@WeaponofChoice It's a result of the fact that reputation is tied to the act of downvoting. Because of the reputation obsession people are unlikely to downvote even answers they know are wrong, I would expect.
Of course, removing the reputation cost would probably not be the right response.
 
7:44 PM
I used to try to cast downvotes just to keep my rep at 0 mod 5.
I also cast some revenge downvotes before.
 
reputation obsessions are for people still living in the 80s :D
 
They are for women above 50, lol.
OK, that was not meant to be sexist.
I was just thinking of a particular user.
 
then remove it
 
No need to remove it. It is harmless.
 
@IceBoy hi buddy
 
7:49 PM
@HipsterMathematician hi pal
 
It's a gal pal.
 
@HipsterMathematician did you see my 80s song?
 
@IceBoy nope
 
4 mins ago, by Ice Boy
reputation obsessions are for people still living in the 80s :D
 
I'm looking forward to hearing your answers ~> math.stackexchange.com/questions/992901/…
 
7:54 PM
@IceBoy I cant watch in my country :(
 
:(
 
@JasperLoy I love tiffany blue
 
@HipsterMathematician try here
 
8:04 PM
@IceBoy still nothing
 
@HipsterMathematician >8(
 
@IceBoy >.<
 
here is the song, I'm sure you've heard it before.
 
hi guys
 
hi
 
8:09 PM
I'm having some trouble finding the center of mass of a triangle with varying density
 
@HipsterMathematician :D
 
@ZachSaucier actually it's the first time I hear
 
:O
it's a classic
of the 80s
 
@FreeMind It's just expanding the function $g(\epsilon) = y(x+\epsilon)$ in Taylor series about the point $\epsilon = 0$. The $O(\epsilon^2)$ here just means that there are further terms which are bounded by $C\epsilon^2$ for some constant $C$ when $\epsilon$ is sufficiently small.
 
8:12 PM
Nice
 
here is the problem. How do I find the density? I would think that it would be this then take the integral of the answer from 0 to 36‌​, but it seems to be a much higher number than I would think would be correct
I'm trying to do it that way because we have been taught to find (1/area)(integral of x(f(x))dx from a to b)/(integral of density formula from a to b)
can anyone give me some insight?
 
Anybody had been seriously research or take a class on logic before?
 
what do you mean?
logic is a good course to take @Victor
 
8:28 PM
I brought a e- book and couldn't start reading math.stackexchange.com/questions/993938/…
@IceBoy
 
I've been working on this problem for a few hours and cannot figure anything out xD
 
@Victor too advanced for me, sorry
try posting it on main @ZachSaucier
 
my mathjax skills are nonexistant
haha
 
time to learn :-)
 
@ZachSaucier - What course are you taking for the problem you are asking?
 
8:35 PM
calc 3
 
I am wonder about are you a double major?
@ZachSaucier
 
CS major, CSE certificate - no
 
@ZachSaucier here
 
using that already :P but thanks
 
8:49 PM
how to do an integral from a to b in mathjax?
@IceBoy Happen to know?
 
\int_a^b
 
thanks
took way too long to make the question xD math.stackexchange.com/questions/994039/…
Every time I post on Math.SE someone answers within a couple minutes pointing out something very small wrong and I get it right xD
 
9:34 PM
I hate being uncertain when it comes to probability
 
I keep pushing the button on my profile page that says "user feed", but I don't get any.
They're teasing me.
 
0
Q: Closed form of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left(\frac{H_n}{n}\right)^4$

Chris's sisFind the closed form of $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \left(\frac{H_n}{n}\right)^4$$ I know the closed form for smaller powers like $2, 3$ exists, but I'm not sure if there is a closed form for this variant. Is it possible to tackle the question in an elementary way and find the answer, without using i...

@robjohn A new generation is about to come to the surface ... (see above) :-)
 
@robjohn No food for you.
 
@JasperLoy :-(
 
@Chris'ssis I now suspect that you are not Ramanujan incarnate but the incarnate of the goddess Ramanujan saw in his dreams.
 
9:40 PM
@JasperLoy LOLLLL, why? :-)))))
 
@Chris'ssis Because you are a math goddess!
 
@JasperLoy If you refer at this one math.stackexchange.com/questions/993125/…
I say I had some luck (that's all) :-)
@JasperLoy :D
 
can any of you help briefly to see what I'm doing wrong? (question posted above)
I'm guessing my formula for ybar is incorrect
 
@JasperLoy The only problem is that I say again and again that I'm going to take some breaks but I don't do it. I begin to feel the lack of breaks ... (and sometimes I make stupid mistakes - my attention drops) :-)
 
@Chris'ssis Yes, you should take a break until next year, like me, lol.
 
9:46 PM
(that means a break in terms of days, weeks ...)
@JasperLoy lollllll :-)
 
My plan for 2015: Study math all day long and solve all mental problems.
When I wake up on the first day of 2016, I will be very very very powerful...
 
@JasperLoy and you will delete your account :-p
 
10:02 PM
@robjohn I think he will delete his account but not before answering all unanswered question ;-)
 
@SamiBenRomdhane He would then have too much reputation... he usually deletes his account around 1000 points.
He already has too much...
@JasperLoy what's wrong? you seem to be getting a pretty high reputation.
@JasperLoy wouldn't that be the "incarnation of the goddess"?
 
Hey @alizter, lol.
 
@JasperLoy You will be proud of me. I have bought Good will hunting on Dvd
watching it tonight
I need a refresh that is not illegal.
 
@Alizter Good good! I think Sarah has finished watching The Covenant, under my instigation, lol.
 
@JasperLoy Oh she spoke to you?
 
10:17 PM
@Alizter No, she has not spoken for a week. I am just guessing, since she was watching it last week.
 
Anyway good night I need to go.
 
@Alizter See you in your dreams.
This is my theory of suffering. People who have suffered little won't have the life experiences to help others with the same suffering. People who have suffered moderately can help them, while people who have suffered greatly just want to get on with their own lives. Perhaps I belong to the last group now. Perhaps I should not care about this world anymore.
 
that's a depressing stance to hold
 
I can only say that no human words can describe all the shit I have gone through.
At this point, some XXX will say "We all have problems". But they don't know that some problems are much worse than others.
And how do I know they don't know?
I know because a person who has been through tremendous suffering will never say the kind of YYY that they say.
 
I wholly agree
what matters in the end is how we handle what we're given though
 
10:27 PM
Thank you. I have a tip for mental health care professionals. Never trivialise your patient's suffering.
People who commit suicide don't choose to do so. They are forced to do so because they cannot cope with the pain.
People with PTSD don't choose to do so. They just cannot rid themselves of the traumatic thoughts, no matter how hard they try.
 
@JasperLoy I'd argue it's a case to case basis, but I understand your mentality
@JasperLoy I can fully agree with that one
 
@ZachSaucier Yes, words can also be interpreted differently eg what is choice?
The Buddha did not come and talk about this suffering or that suffering in particular. He came and said "Life is suffering". With that, he summarised the entire imperfection of human existence.
All association with the unpleasant and dissociation with the pleasant is imperfection which is how suffering should be interpreted as, in a very broad sense.
@zach I see you are a Christian. I am also a seeker of truth. It is a never ending search.
 
@JasperLoy I heard that propranolol, an old beta-blocker, had amazing results with some U.S. soldiers. It appears that the susbstance erases the unpleasant experiences from your memory.
 
@Chris'ssis Remember to put your photo on the back of the book when you publish it, lol.
 
@JasperLoy :D
 
10:53 PM
How do I label an equation with LaTeX?
I mean x+y=c ....................(1)
Etc
 
@userx Have you heard of Chinese medicine?
 
@UserX \tag{1}
 
I have not read much about Chinese medicine, but I wonder if it has much scientific basis.
 
@JasperLoy I'd be glad to talk about it sometime if you're interested
 
@ZachSaucier I am an ex-Christian. I used to believe, but somehow I no longer do.
 
10:57 PM
my offer still remains
 
@JasperLoy I despise any pseudomedicine. Western medicine is the only scientific medicine. Brb, posting a question.
 
@ZachSaucier I know. I did not say otherwise, lol.
@ZachSaucier I would like to ask you what it means for you to call yourself a Christian.
 
shall we move to a different chat between us then?
 
Hmm, I like to talk in this chat, if you don't mind. It's OK to talk here. You can see that we talk about all things here.
 
yeah
but it used to be nicer
 
11:01 PM
Anyway, there are no private rooms. Everything can be read by anyone.
 
@JasperLoy it's only a matter of being off topic here, some people don't like reading it
 
@ZachSaucier I see. But I think it is alright, from my 3 years experience on this site, lol.
 
@JasperLoy to me being a Christian is putting my trust in Christ and what He has done for me, believing Him to be who He said He was
 
@ZachSaucier OK, thank you for your answer. I think that used to be my definition too.
 
I personally would prefer to keep the main chatroom more focused on mathematics.
 
11:03 PM
Sorry @TedShifrin, lol. How was dinner? Now dinner is not math!
 
MATHEMATICS
 
I'm still unable to figure out what I'm doing wrong in my question
 
Thanks, @Hipster.
 
@TedShifrin MY PLEASURE
 
Bad timing, @Ted, I just joined the room.
 
11:06 PM
hi @Mike
@Zach, you need to integrate $\delta y$ to get the numerator.
 
@TedShifrin so a third integration then? mind explaining why?
 
No, no third integration. You want the weighted average of $y$, so in this case the double integral of $\delta y$ divided by the total mass. I don't know where you got $\delta^2$.
 
@HipsterMathematician Were you the one who upvoted me the past few days?
 
@JasperLoy not at all
 
@TedShifrin me neither. Was pulling from what he said in class
 
11:09 PM
I like Kobayashi's book, @Ted. We'll see if I say the same tomorrow.
 
@MikeMiller That already assumes you have read say Lee's Smooth Manifolds?
 
@TedShifrin so I'll just be integrating delta(y) in the numerator?
 
I find it dense, but very precise. The appendices have great stuff.
Times, yes, @Zach. Yucky problem.
 
@TedShifrin Is Koba the bible of differential geometry?
 
Yes, @Jasper, it has Frobenius's theorem on page 10. :)
 
11:11 PM
The old one, @Jasper.
 
@TedShifrin OK, what is the new one then?
 
@Ted Better dense than a long list of equations.
 
Also Bishop-Crittenden, based on Singer's MIT lectures, @Mike.
There isn't anything like it. Most people like big doCarmo.
Lee has very little of substance in it. Just the surface.
 
How about Petersen? LOL.
Also, Chavel.
 
The two volumes of K-N have a ton ...
 
11:13 PM
Also, Sakai.
 
1
Q: Intuition behind a certain limit.

UserX We want to find $\displaystyle\lim_{\theta\to\frac{\pi}{2}} b_1-a_1$, we are given $c=1$ and that $\cdot=90^{\circ}$ This is my solution; $$\begin{equation}\sin \theta=\frac{b_1}{a_1} \iff b_1=a_1 \sin \theta\tag{1}\end{equation}$$ $$\begin{equation}\tan \theta=\frac{c}{a_1}\iff a_1=\frac{1}...

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@UserX Very nice picture.
 
The answer may be trivial, I suspect I'm overlooking something crucial
The pic is by Sawarnik :P
Well, a cropped version of it
 
I don't know them well, @Jasper. Petersen is not @Mike's favorite.
 
@Jasper I am seeking out other books because I'm unsatisfied with Petersen's.
 
11:15 PM
@MikeMiller I see. I don't know the math, but I know about the books. Maybe look at Sakai or Chavel's Riemannian Geometry.
 
@TedShifrin thanks a lot!
 
@DanielFischer I really have no idea what this first comment means with respect to my question
 
You can't know books when you don't know what's in them :)
Sure, @Zach.
 
Well, I know their titles and authors, lol.
 
now I'm curious where that formula from class is coming from
 
11:17 PM
@Ted @mike @Jasper \o
 
@Studentmath Hi!
 
How are you?
 
Hi @Studentmath! I'll have to study your question.
 
It seems like I'll have to study it too :P
I think giving some gross over-estimations it should be fine.
 
You know more probability than I, I think.
 
11:18 PM
@UserX Since $a_1 \to\infty$ and $b_1\to\infty$ as $\theta\to \frac{\pi}{2}$, the fact that you always have $a_1 > b_1$ does not preclude the possibility that $a_1 - b_1 \to 0$.
Heya @Ted.
 
I will always remember that Marsden Calculus III is much bigger than I and II because it contains big pictures, lol.
 
Heya @DanielF. 4-5 days left :)
 
I might just know a couple more inequalities than you, but still don't scrap the math-experience you have, and that's universal
 
@TedShifrin Of Rene-free time?
 
My favourite prob book is Oliver Knill's Prob theory and stochastic processes with applications.
 
11:19 PM
Astute guess, @DanielF :)
 
Poisson could work just fine, problem is that the probability of success there could be extremely close to 1/2 as far as I know. And that means I lose.
 
@DanielFischer but no matter how much we rotate that angle, $a_1>b_1$. How can their difference when the angle tends to a certain value be $0$?
 
How can I cut a paraboloid into two parts of equal mass? Finding the center of mass isn't right... though I don't fully understand why
 
goes to look at UserX's query
 
I just sneezed very loudly.
 
11:22 PM
4-5 days before you retire, @Ted?
 
Maybe @Mike.
 
Depends on how the probability students do? :P
 
Ted will never retire. Once he retires from UGA, he works on MSE full time.
 
@TedShifrin You're at UGA too ?!? :D
 
@UserX Yes, the aide opposite the right angle is always longer, but the difference between the sides approaches $0$.
 
11:23 PM
Why does it offend you that positive numbers can approach $0$ as a limit, @UserX?
 
Pete Clark was my professor last semester (I know he's active on SE sites)
 
@ZachSaucier I think he once had a quarrel with Jeff Atwood, lol.
 
@Ted it doesn't
 
probably has something to do with the geometric nature of the limit
 
It's not hard to have a quarrel with Jeff Atwood
 
11:24 PM
@ZachSaucier Do you know Kaj Hansen? He is on this site too. He looks like Matt Damon.
 
Ah, cool, @Zach. That horrid problem reminded me of a WeBWork problem we have, but i hate it. I teach my own infamous multivariable course.
 
@TedShifrin it is a webwork problem, haha
 
@ZachSaucier Who is it in the pic?
 
Who's Jeff Atwood?
 
11:26 PM
@TedShifrin SE cofounder
 
@JasperLoy I don't know him, I've seen him on here though
@JasperLoy it's a zombified picture of me
 
@ZachSaucier You really have nice last names in the US, like Saucier, lol.
 
@JasperLoy it's French, haha
 
It seems that Lee is a common last name there too.
 
He's a dick, @Ted.
 
11:28 PM
@DanielF I'm giving up on a complete proof of the Central Limit Thm ... Too much for undergrads ... But I want to understand the Levy continuity theorem.
 
@MikeMiller Dick is my neighbour and Pussy is my cat.
 
So are lots of us, @Mike.
 
@TedShifrin What does the Levy continuity theorem say?
 
@TedShifrin Not me, I am a banana as is well known, not a dick, lol.
 
Something like: If the moment generating functions of a sequence of random variables $X_n$ converges to that of $X$, then the cumulative distributions converge pointwise wherever they are continuous.
 
11:31 PM
Guys I really broke another record this time. I have not slept for the past 24 hours.
 
@Pedro!
 
@DanielFischer HARRO. HARRO @TedShifrin
 
And I only had one coffee, not more.
@pedro You forgot me.
 
half-volley
 
@PedroTamaroff Harro? Which Harro?
 
11:32 PM
@TedShifrin trips and falls
 
It's too late Pedro, I was thinking of giving you all my books, lol.
 
@JasperLoy Damn it Jasper.
 
I lost some weight recently, but I think I still need to lose more. I promise I will go running in Nov.
My BMI is about 25 now.
 
@KarlKronenfeld
Ever heard of Jacobson rings?
@DanielFischer It's hello in chinese.
 
@PedroTamaroff BS
 
11:39 PM
@PedroTamaroff I don't speak Chinese, I only eat Chinese.
 
@DanielFischer I use forks and spoons at the food court when I eat noodles, while the American tourists here use chopsticks.
 
@DanielFischer I just understood what you meant.
 
@JasperLoy Everybody prefers what seems exotic to them ;)
 
@DanielFischer Have you ever heard of Jacobson rings?
@JasperLoy I heard one must eat niguiri with one's hands.
That's Japanese though.
 
@DanielFischer I prefer a Caucasian girlfriend. I hope American girls prefer an Asian boyfriend, lol.
 
11:42 PM
@UserX And I understood what your problem was. Didn't look closely at your formulae before.
@PedroTamaroff I have read the term somewhere. But I don't know what they are.
 
@PedroTamaroff I only eat sushi and sashimi.
 
I don't eat sushi. I did once, and that suffices.
 
My mum vomits every time she eats raw fish.
 
I can't blame her.
 
I still cannot believe I have not slept for 24 hr. What is happening to me? Any ideas?
 
11:45 PM
@DanielFischer I messed up with the tan formula lol. Fixed it now, but the essence of the question didn't change at all so it didn't matter.
 
@UserX You should get $a_1 > b_1$ with the correct formulae.
 
@DanielFischer oh shit
I didn't.
 
I can now sing a low low C.
 
@UserX You did it quite complicated. $b_1 - a_1 = \frac{\sin\theta - 1}{\cos\theta} < 0$, as it ought to be.
 
@DanielFischer I panicked that I got a wrong question so I did whatever came up at the moment.
 
11:49 PM
@Pedro @Mike @DanielF Sigh ... Throws up hands ...math.stackexchange.com/questions/994153/…
 
@TedShifrin He should at least get the latex right.
 
the phrase that should probably be engraved above a problem like that
 
He started out cutting and pasting my problems into MSE ... I asked him to desist.
 
uggggh
 
We're nowhere classical enough, @Semiclassical
 
11:52 PM
What is the biggest field of math research now? Is there a definitive answer?
 
@Semiclassical I feel so cool for being able to read that
 
Read what, @UserX? The Greek? You should!
 
i meant that more in the spirit of "if you don't understand the basics, then you shouldn't be here yet"
 
Lol
The sign is missing a τ
αγεωμέτρητος
 
11:56 PM
i pretty much just picked what i saw on google, lol
 
I forgot @userx is Greek! Very exotic!
 
r9m
@DanielFischer re : this shouldn't it be sufficient to prove that there is a constant $c$, such that $\displaystyle \sum\limits_{k=n+1}^{\infty} \dfrac{1}{2^{k(k+1)}} \le \dfrac{c}{2^{2n(n+1)}}$ for all $n \ge N$ to prove that the number $\displaystyle \alpha = \sum\limits_{k=0}^{\infty} \dfrac{1}{2^{k(k+1)}}$ is irrational ?
 
I often wonder if someone with PhD knowledge in a field went back to 300 BC and introduced every single theory he knows, how would math evolve
 

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