@ShaVuklia hey awesome user @ShaVuklia! How is it going? haha, do you cook well? Then take care a lot if you want a slim bf. Cooking well may lead to gaining many pounds. :P
which is why tmr I will be continuing through the chemistry literature to get the reserch proposal ready
(as well to get some hints on how to explain the weird calculations results I have so far. There is a lot of data, and some trends were seen, but so far I am not very sure how to interpret them yet)
If you're married, have children, and another full-time profession, you'll barely be able to keep up with research going on, let alone do some yourself.
I (supposedly, I wont know the results until after I take the decision) have to chose between the ENS and Polytechnique, one leading to research, the other to engineering (more genrally). The latter leads to a higher pay grade but the former is what I want to do most at this tim ein my life (research in fundamental maths). I'm afraid if I go to the ENS I might ultimately lose interest in maths and have missed my opportunity to go to polytechnique.
More synthetically, Polytechnique is most notorious in the business world, while ENS is notoriousest in the research world (as you guys probably already know), especially in maths
@Waiting Hii:P lol, long time no see (chat)! To answer your question: I think I might be the worst possible and imaginable cook on this entire planet. My food always attracts someone's eye, so I actually often seek solitude when I eat:P
@ShaVuklia hehe, indeed, long time no see! Let me try something you cook and I'll tell you if you are the worst possible and imaginable cook on this entire planet :P
@Waiting depends if you eat healthy. if you do, then you might slightly appreciate what I prepare, or rather how I prepare it:P but it's in no way considered normal or even acceptable within my group of friends or the people I generally talk to at university
@Astyx I think the decision that influenced me the most, was the decision to go from bachelor in maths to a twin-bachelor in maths & physics. I got both degrees (which looks good on a CV for professional work), but having to spread my attention lowered my grades in both, which lowered my chances of getting a personal PhD grant.
@ShaVuklia I know that as humans we feel that we've got a moral responsibility. But we're animals when it comes to nutrition. A lion doesn't see a human and think it's got a moral responsibility.
@Astyx If I'd stuck with only math, maybe I would've gotten a personal grant and joined the geometry department of my uni (where I did my Master's thesis)
my bf is actually practically carnivorous. I guess I'm a flexible person then, but if I were to break up with him, I would really like to be with a vegan person:P because we always argue about food @Waiting
@Astyx But, since my bachelor grades were low, I didn't, and when I graduated from my master's in maths in June, the geometry department didn't have funds for a new PhD student till january. The Algebra department did have funds readily available, though, so that's how I ended up with algebra :P
@SoumyoB haha well whatever makes you happy I guess? I was kind of disgusted by meat from a very young age, but I made the moral/health-related decision to stop eating dairy much later on
and some studies have shown that in places where people eat primarily vegan the people generally do live longer, so I guess going vegan can't be that unhealthy. but I don't know the validity of those sources. it's just stuff I've come across some years ago
@EricSilva yea I've read that too, and it makes sense
I've heard that people really started to thrive when they learned to cook potatoes and the like, because most animals weren't really after potatoes anyways, so they had a sort of exclusive source of food
@Waiting yea I do eat salmon occasionally, but that's just because I'm not convinced yet about getting my B12 and some fats through supplements and plants. but I hate it:(
@Eric I mean fair, but like, I've got something closer to a picture of what problems look like at least at the lower level, but geometry I've got essentially nothing.
You've all heard that saturated fats are just bad, bad, bad killers of the heart's health right? Well turns out the story is more complicated than that
@ShaVuklia hehe, I understand your point behind the picture. How about eating hot chocolate? I'm just preparing a hot chocolate with milk now. :P It makes me so creative! :P
In reality it's responsible for so many things-from how confident you look and how focused you are, to how strong your muscles and bones are and so, so much more
But anyway everyone just thinks of me as a testosterone-obsessed junkie and ignores my warnings. I've even met men who think testosterone is bad and low levels of it should be maintained.
anyhow, guys, is there a neat way to show $\langle 5\operatorname{mod}23\rangle=(\mathbb Z/23\mathbb Z)^*$, without resorting to writing it all out? Or should I just write it out?
