Mathematics - 2014-11-19 (page 1 of 4)

Vincenzo Oliva

00:00

@Hippalectryon So I guess the format needs to be further improved, but for the lemma I tend to think that writing $lim_{a,b\to \infty}\frac{a}{b}$ should fine, no?

cxseven

this proof on wikipedia that two disjoint open convex sets can be separated by a hyperplane seems to be incomplete, in that it doesn't explain why the sequence of hyperplanes must converge: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane_separation_theorem#Proof

Pedro Tamaroff

I have to go eat some empanadas.

Be back in a while.

ManishEarth

@UserX True story: I once gave my girlfriend a Sierpinski Gasket made from coloring squares in a graph paper red/blue according to even/oddness of the corresponding numbers on Pascal's triangle. This particular gasket was heart shaped (starts off as a triangle but later curves inwards). We're still together. Yeah, she's every bit as nerdy as I am :p

cxseven

aw

Hippalectryon

@VincenzoOliva What is g in the line before you define it ?

Vincenzo Oliva

00:04

@Hippalectryon Perhaps I should replace $a$ and $b$ with functions of the same variable, but then it wouldn't really reflect my original situation.

A random function. My professor agreed with that, but I don't trust him at all... though I would tend to think that's right, but again, I'm asleep

Hippalectryon

Random is vague

Continuous ? $\mathcal{C}^1$ ? ... ?

Vincenzo Oliva

Yeah

Hippalectryon

Don't say yeah when I ask 'A or B or C ?' xD

Mr Squer

Who else hates working with fractions (my homework atm :L)?

Hippalectryon

Fractions are cool

Mike Miller

00:07

@Hippalectryon Everything here is defined on the naturals, so continuous/differentiable are trivially, automatically true.

Mr Squer

I have to "show my work" with homework, so this sucks...

I don't have calculators

Hippalectryon

@MikeMiller I don't know the context :/

Mike Miller

Me neither, @Hippa

@MrSquer You're in a math chatroom. There are good odds that we like fractions, and bad odds that we're sympathetic to your homework woes.

Mr Squer

@MikeMiller Well then again, I'm in 5th grade (I don't make well with most people...)

Vincenzo Oliva

@MikeMiller @Hippalectryon I'll try to introduce it to you in a momeny

moment*

by showing what my ultimate goal is

Mike Miller

00:09

I'm okay without context, @Vinenzo.

Hippalectryon

~~To destroy the Earth?~~

Vincenzo Oliva

@Mike Oh, well. Any remarks on that lemma?

@Hippalectryon lol

Mike Miller

No. Just remarks on Hippa's remarks.

Vincenzo Oliva

I see

My aim is to prove the limit equality:

https://scontent-b-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10421338_846746548720988_2512930349729295820_n.jpg?oh=e49ba7a80d071593cdee5e7336724f31&oe=54DE034C

Where again, @Hippalectryon, $p_l$ is the largest prime factor of the $m$-th superabundant $SA_m$.

Hippalectryon

I'm not really into NT :/

Vincenzo Oliva

00:14

:/

Still eating, @PedroTamaroff ? :v

Pedro Tamaroff

@VincenzoOliva I'm back.

I must say, though, that I have little interest in pursuing the matter further.

And that I don't think it is of much benefit for you to keep pushing for a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

It will tarnish your work.

Vincenzo Oliva

It's not that I'm deluded. I'm just working on something that I think it could work. Only because the odds are low, it doesn't mean it's better not to try. And after all, at the very least, I've improved since when I began

Pedro Tamaroff

@VincenzoOliva I partially agree.

Vincenzo Oliva

Besides, Karl did not find errors after that limit equality, if I'm not mistaken, so I believe I really should try to prove that.

Do you recall other errors?

@PedroTamaroff

Mike Miller

I'm pretty sure he does not want to engage on the mathematical content here.

Vincenzo Oliva

00:26

@MikeMiller Do you mean Mike or Pedro?

lol

*Karl or Pedro

Mike Miller

Pedro.

I base this on the fact that he said he doesn't want to.

Vincenzo Oliva

I've not reposted the lemma, indeed. I was following up a different matter.

But I guess @PedroTamaroff has little interest in it too, fair enough.

Pedro Tamaroff

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GBeau

my homework contains this statement:

is the bottom or an $\oplus$, or is $\vee$ inended?

(the actual question is to prove prime implies irreducible in integral domains)

Ted Shifrin

@GBeau: it's or.

GBeau

00:40

@TedShifrin specifically, the question is rather $\oplus$ is necessary to prove the latter, since of course you couldn't divine his intended meaning otherwise

Ted Shifrin

Yup, @Pedro, cool theorem. Love the hands-on way of introducing the convergence factors.

GBeau

which is what you point out

Ted Shifrin

I don't understand, @GBeau.

GBeau

as in, if "or" is interpreted as $\vee$, then would what I'm being asked to prove actually be untrue?

Mike Miller

I got beat by two minutes here but I have a little more detail in my answer. Should I keep it or delete it?

Ted Shifrin

00:41

No, in math or means $\vee$ (this allows the possibility of $\wedge$)

@Mike: shrug

Mike Miller

lol

I was surprised to see that I couldn't find this in Hirsch, which was where I looked first.

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau Why are you trying to parse things in symbols?

Mike Miller

though I suppose showing $C^\infty(M,N)$ is dense in $C(M,N)$ automatically gives the result

Ted Shifrin

It's hidden, but it's there. He has all sorts of $C^k$ approximation theorems in chapter 2 (or 3?).

Pedro Tamaroff

Prime is $p\mid ab\implies p\mid a$ or $p\mid b$. That's it.

Mike Miller

00:44

2, yes.

He just never uses the word "homotopic" in there.

Pedro Tamaroff

For example, $4$ is not prime since $4\mid 4$ but $4\nmid 2$.

GBeau

@PedroTamaroff I thought only one way was true for the way I was trying to prove it but I was wrong

Mike Miller

I can't parse that sentence.

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau Have you ever been as far as decided?

GBeau

@PedroTamaroff yes

Pedro Tamaroff

00:45

@GBeau Good.

Daniel Rust

Hi all

Mike Miller

lol

hi drust

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau So, a prime element is one which satisfies Euclid's lemma.

GBeau

@PedroTamaroff I think I have proven it

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau What definition of irreducible are you using?

GBeau

00:48

@PedroTamaroff the one posted above?

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau OK.

Daniel Rust

does anyone know when arxiv gets updated?

Pedro Tamaroff

So you want to show that prime elements are irreducible.

Mike Miller

seem to remember being in the evenings EST? but don't take my word for it

GBeau

(that's my writing, I just need to fill in the logic, but I think that method resolves it)

Pedro Tamaroff

00:51

@GBeau Yes. $r=ab\implies r\mid ab$, WLOG $r\mid a$, $rc=a\implies rcb=ab=r\implies cb=1\implies b\in R^{\times}$.

Mike Miller

eugh $q_a$

Pedro Tamaroff

Of course your ring is actually a domain.

One defines factorization in domains.

GBeau

with it being notable that I could only "cancel" because it was an integral domain

which was defined in the question as commutative rings without zero divisors

Pedro Tamaroff

@GBeau IN-DEED.

Ted Shifrin

@Pedro remembers when he was just learning this stuff :)

Pedro Tamaroff

00:54

@TedShifrin Seems like too long ago.

skullpatrol

hi pal @JasperLoy

Ted Shifrin

@Pedro: What mod showdown?

hi @skull

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol Hi, I just woke up.

Ted Shifrin

hi @Jasper

Daniel Rust

:O didn't know Eugene Dynkin had died

skullpatrol

00:56

Hello Professor @TedShifrin

Pedro Tamaroff

@TedShifrin Two mods dropped by.

Ted Shifrin

ah, yes, @DanielR, one of my former colleagues (who's now in GB) posted that on FB a few hours ago

Jasper Loy

@TedShifrin Hi. Don't worry, I am not ignoring you, lol.

Ted Shifrin

for once it wasn't my fault, @Pedro :D

Daniel Rust

Yeah, I found out through facebook too. how sad

Pedro Tamaroff

00:56

I was afraid they were going to battle like Groudon and Kyogre.

And kill us all.

Mike Miller

Timely reference @Pedro

Jasper Loy

@DanielRust I happen to know of Dynkin diagrams, despite being a banana, lol.

Pedro Tamaroff

@MikeMiller Ah?

Mike Miller

They're remaking those

Pedro Tamaroff

WHAT.

DID.

Ted Shifrin

00:57

A Lie banana, no doubt, @Jasper. (No, not Lee.)

Pedro Tamaroff

YOU.

JUST.

SAID?

I can have my childhood back?

Mike Miller

"Remaking" is the wrong word, since they come out in three days.

Jasper Loy

My childhood was ruined and it will never come back.

Mike Miller

Really brightening conversation in the room, @Jasper.

Pedro Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Dang Jasper.

Jasper Loy

00:59

I hope to have a better one next life, hopefully in Germany.

Pedro Tamaroff

You just dropped a blackstorm all over chat.

Jasper Loy

Buddhism gives you all hope. Believe! LOL.

skullpatrol

Eugene Dynkin: Seventy Years in Mathematics

Daniel Rust

He had a long life and career at least :)

skullpatrol

RIP

Jasper Loy

01:02

I have no life and no career.

Daniel Rust

the speaker in our seminar today was even using the finite dynkin diagram calssification

Jasper Loy

The publisher Assimil did not reply to my email, sad. I was going to buy a few books from them, lol. Now they have lost a valuable customer.

Mike Miller

what was the seminar on, @DanielRust?

Daniel Rust

cluster algebras and quiver mutations

Mike Miller

get something out of it?

Pedro Tamaroff

01:07

@DanielRust Sounds deep as fudge.

Mike Miller

most seminar titles do

there's going to be one tomorrow called "Equivalent notions of high dimensional overtwistedness"

Daniel Rust

I'm not an algebraist so most of it went over my head, but there was some topology in the talk too which was interesting

Mike Miller

what do you study?

Daniel Rust

kind of in the intersection of algebraic topology and dynamical systems

Mike Miller

Care to elaborate? :)

Daniel Rust

01:13

haha sorry sure

so I look at the Cech cohomology of moduli spaces of aperiodic tilings

Mike Miller

now you've sold me

Daniel Rust

so spaces where the points are, for instance, the penrose tilings of the plane

Mike Miller

aperiodic tilings in what sense? I can't think of a way to formulate what an aperiodic tiling should be that permits a reasonable moduli space

ah, I was being silly

I was thinking of tilings by ominoes

Daniel Rust

if you take a single tiling T, and then consider all other tilings which are locally the same (so any two patches in one can be found in the other), then that's the 'tiling space' of T

Mike Miller

patches*?

sure

Daniel Rust

01:16

some compact union of tiles

skullpatrol

have you attended any lectures by penrose?

Mike Miller

just commenting on patched vs patches; didn't understand if it was the former

Daniel Rust

no :( he gave a public lecture at my department the year before I joined apparently

oh sorry, typo :P

so yeah, for periodic tilings, the moduli spaces are boring. they're just a torus of dimension the space you're tiling

for non-periodic tilings they can be much more wild

Mike Miller

sure, I believe that

Daniel Rust

if they're 'regular' for some definition of regular, then the spaces associated are fiber bundles over a torus, with Cantor set fiber

Mike Miller

01:19

that's insane

Daniel Rust

they're fun :)

so they're connected, compact metric spaces, but with uncountably many path components

Pedro Tamaroff

@MikeMiller Szemeredi is giving a talk at mi uni. =D

Mike Miller

aye

Daniel Rust

oh and good timing... the preprint for my first paper just went online :D

Mike Miller

Nice!

Daniel Rust

01:21

arxiv.org/abs/1411.4991v1

Mike Miller

How far into your studies are you?

Jasper Loy

@PedroTamaroff When are you giving a talk?

Mike Miller

I guess the comparison between UK and US might not be so cut-and-dry

Pedro Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Give or take 3 years, when I defend my thesis..

Daniel Rust

in the UK you start a phd with a masters and it takes 3-4 years to complete

Pedro Tamaroff

01:22

@DanielRust Congratulations.

Daniel Rust

I'm just over 2 years into mine

Pedro Tamaroff

Why don't you go by Dan here?

Daniel Rust

haha I don't know.

you don't understand how long it took me to decide to go with Dan instead of Daniel :P

Mike Miller

Article's got a lot of pictures and diagrams, which I dig.

Trust me, I understand that, @DanielRust

My full name's Stephen Michael Miller. :P

Pedro Tamaroff

LOL @ Chacon

Daniel Rust

01:23

@MikeMiller :)

Pedro Tamaroff

►

Mike Miller

I think when the time comes to decide what I want to publish as, I'm probably going to as S Michael Miller

There are just too many of us to go by Mike Miller alone, I think

Jasper Loy

@MikeMiller That explains the email, lol.

Daniel Rust

yeah, I'm lucky that I have a fairly uncommon surname

Jasper Loy

@MikeMiller I will call you Stephen from now, lol.

Daniel Rust

01:24

although I did find a D Rust that works for CERN apparently

Mike Miller

Please don't, @Jasper.

Jasper Loy

@MikeMiller OK, but I will edit my email records accordingly.

Pedro Tamaroff

Daniel Rust

@PedroTamaroff kill it with fire

Pedro Tamaroff

@DanielRust You never heard of "Steven", with "PH"?

Phteven.

Daniel Rust

01:27

@PedroTamaroff Am I missing an inside joke?

Pedro Tamaroff

@DanielRust It's a meme.

Phteven. Google it.

Daniel Rust

here's me thinking reddit kept me up to date with memes

Mike Miller

@DanielRust So what led you to get into this line of work?

Victor

@TedShifrin - Hi, are you familiar with stochastic differential equation?

Mike Miller

I don't know the meme either, so.

Jasper Loy

01:29

I hope Chris comes back.

Ted Shifrin

No, @Victor, sorry.

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller I used a fair bit of algebraic topology in my masters thesis so I started looking in the UK for AT researchers that were looking for students

Ted Shifrin

@Pedro: You're violating your own rules here!

Daniel Rust

ended up getting a funding offer from Leicester and a couple of other places

Ted Shifrin

oh, hi @DanielR :)

Daniel Rust

01:31

and I felt my supervisor in Leicester was the best fit for me :)

Mike Miller

Considering the first result when I googled moduli spaces of aperiodic tilings, I think I can guess who you're working with.

Daniel Rust

@TedShifrin Hey Ted

@MikeMiller Well my supervisor actually moved to a different uni last year :P, so I have a new supervisor now

though I'm working on the same sort of stuff

Mike Miller

Ah

this was what I saw; really neat connections

Daniel Rust

Yeah, John was my supervisor

Now it's Alex Clark

Mike Miller

first google result for alex clark

Daniel Rust

01:34

LOL

he's not aged well apparently

Mike Miller

I guess that's not him.

hahaha

'matchbox manifold' is an interesting name

Daniel Rust

yeah, tiling spaces are a subclass of matchbox manifolds

Mike Miller

I guess foliation theory is still alive and kicking; Thurston's article (on proof and progress) had given me the impression it had sort of cleared out

Pedro Tamaroff

@TedShifrin Where?

Ted Shifrin

pictures above

Daniel Rust

01:37

@MikeMiller I think folliations of manifolds has slowed down quite a bit. But foliations of other kinds of spaces are starting to become trendy

Pedro Tamaroff

@TedShifrin How so?

Mike Miller

I guess I'm not quite sure what a foliation should mean in other contexts

I suppose it generalizes naturally if you've got a class of spaces... so you might study foliations of matchbox manifolds by matchbox manifolds?

Daniel Rust

Well for instance a solenoid carries a natural foliation by real lines

which are just given by the path components

Mike Miller

so you're still foliating with manifolds?

Daniel Rust

you have to be a bit careful about how you define foliation of course

yeah

Mike Miller

01:40

alright

Daniel Rust

tbh I don't know a great deal about that side of the theory though

Mike Miller

hey, you're in good company

or maybe I'm bad company; but either way, you're in company

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller always appreciated :D

@MikeMiller So what are your interests atm?

Mike Miller

I suspect I might become a topologist

I'm a first year which in these parts means we don't have explicit interests or advisors yet

I'm taking a course on gauge theory next quarter though, and if it goes well I might approach the professor about a reading course on Heegard Floer stuff

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller ooo nice, I attended a low dimensional topology workshop last summer

Heegard Floer stuff was everywhere

Mike Miller

01:45

it's definitely hip

Daniel Rust

Do you know Jake Rasmussen?

Mike Miller

I don't.

skullpatrol

have you met robjohn?

Mike Miller

I don't really have a good grasp on who works in the field

Daniel Rust

He's one of the big names in knot theory atm, although I guess he's more Khovanov Homology than Heegard Floer

Mike Miller

01:46

I'm not convinced I care about knots yet, but I am convinced I care about 3- and 4-manifolds, so I guess I automatically have to care about knots.

Daniel Rust

Anyway, he lead one of the workshops

haha yes

I don't think I appreciated knots until I studied braids

Jasper Loy

xypic is good for typesetting knots, braids and links.

Mike Miller

I guess he probably taught the 3-manifolds course my friend took at Part III last year

Daniel Rust

I've still not used xypic. I used tikz in my paper

The diagram on page 16 took me about 2 hours to make in tikz

Jasper Loy

I think pstricks is the best.

skullpatrol

01:49

is your paper publicly available?

Daniel Rust

Yes. As of 15 minutes ago. arxiv.org/abs/1411.4991v1

2

Mike Miller

yeah, it's a nice one @Daniel

so far I've gotten away with only needing to know some basic photoshop

skullpatrol

@DanielRust thanks for sharing :-)

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller tikz is really powerful, but the learning curve is steep. I'm still at the foot of the mountain

@skullpatrol np :) I'm just happy if people read it (and if it gets accepted)

Jasper Loy

tikz is the most popular these days. I think it is simply because it produces PDF directly and has a good manual.

Mike Miller

01:51

Where are you sending it off to?

Daniel Rust

tex.stackexchange have a strong tikz community which helps

Mike Miller

ps, re: your workshop; what were some sources you looked at during it? I'd like to amass some things to read :)

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller that's a good question. A lot of it was just board work.

homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcwe/Durham some stuff here

maths.dur.ac.uk/~ddmb48/LMS_Durham_Short_Course.html page for the workshop, though can't find slides

Mike Miller

the lectures themselves look nice

weird question; do you know if every $2n$-manifold supports a symplectic structure?

Daniel Rust

it was a fun week

erm, I don't think so...

I don't know :P

Mike Miller

01:57

seems odd to me but google's not supplying one that doesn't

haha

eh, whatever

Daniel Rust

found a wiki article that says no

Additionally, if $M$ is a closed symplectic manifold, then the 2nd de Rham cohomology group $H^2(M)$ is nontrivial; this implies, for example, that the only $n$-sphere that admits a symplectic form is the 2-sphere.

Mike Miller

link?

Daniel Rust

Symplectic geometry

Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics where the phase space of certain classical systems takes on the structure of a symplectic manifold. == Introduction == A symplectic geometry is defined on a smooth even-dimensional space that is a differentiable manifold. On this space is defined a geometric object, the symplectic form, that allows for the...

Mike Miller

ah, yeah, that was the guess I had that I deleted

that it might be stopped by homological reasons

there's a talk on Thurs that says that every $2n+1$-manifold supports a contact structure except for homological reasons; not entirely sure what homological obstructions there are but it inspired a reasonable guess for symplectic ones

Daniel Rust

hehe

Mike Miller

02:02

I'm gonna be off but fun chatting!

Daniel Rust

@MikeMiller you too. And yes I need to go to bed now.

Pedro Tamaroff

02:38

@BalarkaSen

Balarka Sen

@PedroTamaroff

Er. Why did ya ping me?

Pedro Tamaroff

@BalarkaSen You wanted an exercise.

Balarka Sen

I don't recall but I'd be glad to have something to think about.

So where's this exercise?

Pedro Tamaroff

OK.

So, take a metric space $X$, and a set of continuous functions $f:X\to\Bbb C$.

Call this set $F$.

Balarka Sen

$\mathcal{C}(X, \Bbb C)$ dude.

Pedro Tamaroff

02:48

Suppose the following is true: for any sequence of functions in $F$; there is a subsequence that converges uniformly on every compact subset $K$ of $X$.

Balarka Sen

mmkay.

Pedro Tamaroff

Prove the following holds:

For any $x\in X$; there is an open ball $B=B(x,r)$ and $M>0$ such that $|f(y)|<M$ for any $f\in F$ and $y\in B$.

Twink

Do you guys know where I can find a proof of a generalization of the Stone Weierstrass approximation theorem for $C(\Bbb T)$ and polynomials with negative exponents?

Balarka Sen

noted.

Pedro Tamaroff

@BalarkaSen My help is as follows: negate the last statement.

Can you do this?

Balarka Sen

02:53

hint noted too. i need to go somewhere at the moment and i'll ping my approaches when i get back, @Pedro.

Pedro Tamaroff

@KajHansen Wanna do that exercise?

Alexander Gruber

03:13

@DanielRust Oh man :( Sucks to be a mathematician who dies one day after Grothendieck.

Mike Miller

@Pedro I've told you that (given some extra structure on these algebras) $C(X) \cong C(Y)$ iff $X \cong Y$, yeah?

Where $X,Y$ are locally compact Hausdorff.

Pedro Tamaroff

@MikeMiller Eh, no.

Mike Miller

That shit cray dude.

We have a lot more than that, too. Spaces are the same thing as commutative algebras.

Pedro Tamaroff

Stone stuff?

Mike Miller

This is Gel'fand duality. Stone duality is related but different.

Birth of noncommutative geometry, by the idea that noncommutative C* algebras should then be like "noncommutative spaces", and we should investigate them with the same tools.

Pedro Tamaroff

03:23

OK.

Mike Miller

I'm telling you, this stuff is your jam.

There's group theory in there too.

hi other folks btw

Pedro Tamaroff

04:10

@MikeMiller We'll see.

I don't know if I'll learn that in my uni, though.

Mike Miller

You will. I know it.

columbus8myhw

04:28

What's $\displaystyle\lim_{\epsilon\to0}\left[\operatorname{Im}\left(\frac{(1+i)^ \epsilon} \epsilon\right)\right]$?

$\epsilon$ is real.

Got to go!

Bye.

Before I go: perhaps the generalized binomial theorem can help us here? Or Euler's formula.

Pedro Tamaroff

@columbus8myhw Yes.

anon

05:17

@DanielFischer how did op's comments get three upvotes I wonder...

Mike Miller

@anon no need to wonder; sockpuppets

anon

that's what the ... was for

Mike Miller

don't I feel silly

cxseven

05:33

@columbus8myhw Euler's formula

rehband

06:55

@MikeMiller Hey Mike!

@MikeMiller Are the following spaces homeomorphic? $D^2/\sim$ where $x\sim -x$ for $x\in S^1$ and $S^2/\sim$ where $x\sim -x$ ?

Mike Miller

Yup

They're both $\Bbb{RP}^2

rehband

Ok nice!

usukidoll

hellllllllllllooooooooooooooo

Twink

hi

who likes lady gaga?

Random Variable

07:14

@robjohn Could I ask you about something that just came up that's really bothering me? It's not a math question.

robjohn

@RandomVariable okay

@columbus8myhw $\pi/4$

Random Variable

@robjohn I edited an old answer of mine because it had bad formatting. But then I learned my answer had already been posted on here. It has received a bunch of upvotes since it edited it. I don't want the upvotes. Could I possibly be dissociated from it? math.stackexchange.com/questions/725592/…

I already voted to close it as a duplicate.

Twink

@RandomVariable May I ask why you don't want the upvotes? That's strange.

Random Variable

@Twink Because the other person deserves them. He posted the answer 2 years before I did.

Twink

But you can't decide who are others' upvotes for

robjohn

07:29

@RandomVariable so the question is a duplicate. It is not easy to find duplicates and it was only recently pointed out to be a duplicate. Simply voting to close as a duplicate is good enough. Since it is accepted, I shouldn't delete it, but if you can convince the OP to unaccept it, you can delete it. Otherwise I can look into removing your name from it.

@RandomVariable He got the votes for the old question and would not have gotten more votes had the duplicate question not been asked.

Random Variable

@robjohn The problem with deletion is that I'll keep the reputation. I'm just really bothered by the fact that I received a bunch of upvotes after I edited it.

Twink

Nice idea

I'm gonna start editing my old answers :p

Random Variable

@Twink A few of my old answers had atrociously bad formatting. This one wasn't as bad as some of others. I should have just stopped after I edited the really bad ones. I'm an idiot.

Twink

@RandomVariable I don't understand you, I'd be vey happy to get many upvotes

If you don't want them give them to me :p

Random Variable

07:44

@Twink I'm not easy to understand. :)

@robjohn Would it be a big hassle to get my name removed from it?

robjohn

@RandomVariable I think to do that would require a community manager. I can change it to a CW post. That won't remove the votes you've gotten, but it will keep futuer votes from giving any reputation bonus.

Mike Miller

What do I vote to close as for something that's a rant, not a question? Primarily opinion-based?

I suppose not, because if there's no question, it can't be opinion-based.

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