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6:00 AM
his manifesto is so dumb
 
@vzn yep. all too familiar. i have met many many people since then who were impacted by or involved in the case.
 
its one of the weakest works in anarchoprimitivism
 
the scary part is that some of his perspectives on the impact of tech, well, i would not disagree with them.
 
Like what?
 
mainly the dehumanising effect.
to give an example.
when i started using amazon it was a rare books sort of thing, you could call up and actually have a convo with someone.
now, try calling anyone there.
 
vzn
6:02 AM
Kaczinsky was highly educated it was quite phenomenal. msc/phd mathematics UMich 1964/1967. legendary US socio/psychopath. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
 
try calling customer service in any major corp.
 
vzn
@BalarkaSen have you read it? what do you think is dumb about it?
 
except for sonic my internet provider :-)
@BalarkaSen can i be impolite and ask what region you are from?
 
@copper.hat Everybody raves about sonic in the bay area these days :)
 
i have read it. i just think he has weak reactionary takes which are not as intelligent as the media makes them to be
 
6:03 AM
@MiloMoses i am a fan for a long time.
 
vzn
@copper.hat that is exactly my feeling. not all his ideas are easily discredited and are actually based on lots of related research. people discredit it, "tarred with a brush" out of discomfort. ad hominem!
 
@MiloMoses NT bias
 
@copper.hat indigenous, but family mostly considers themselves as hindu
 
@EdwardEvans Number Theory is very broad. What part are you talking about in particular?
 
Algebraic number theory
 
6:04 AM
@BalarkaSen sry, this is not the forum, excuse my nosiness.
 
vzn
@BalarkaSen 35K words. youve read all of it?
 
@MiloMoses This is a good reply though, I'm not at all interested in things like prime gaps or the like.
 
@vzn yes :p you think people cant 35K words?
 
vzn
@BalarkaSen did not hear the media make it as intelligent.
 
@EdwardEvans I totally agree, the short book "Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, and Their L-Functions" might be my #1 favorite of all time
 
6:06 AM
I don't know the book, but cool topics :)
 
@MiloMoses Do you have a fave math area?
Ihave a short book i really like, but it depends on your interests.
 
Check out the book "The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" by Silverman if you're interested in elliptic curves, it's a good low level introduction to the topic with few prereqs
 
vzn
grew up in "adopted" hindu religion
 
Marc Kac, Statistical Independence in Probability Analysis and Number Theory
 
Honestly, I'm a huge sucker for Analytic Number Theory. I've been obsessed with the function $\sum_{d|n , d<Q}\mu(d)$ where mu is the mobius function for almost a year now and I just can't get enough of it
 
6:08 AM
You are in the right area so :-).
 
Ah you're one of those
hahaha jk
 
So, so far out of my sphere of knowledge :-).
 
read Zerzan, he was a buddy of Kaczinsky until he criticized anarchoprimitivism
 
I feel like I've already been introduced to the prerecs enough, and I have a good base knowledge of Elliptic Curves. If I wanted to read another book about them I'd probably want something more heavy duty
 
way more interesting
 
6:10 AM
@copper.hat what about you? I bet you have a very interesting favorite field.
 
vzn
gearing up to work on riemann hypothesis :) right after collatz :) o_O
 
Silverman has a follow up book called Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves
 
@vzn Exactly lol. Every couple of months I convince myself that I've solved it
 
To me the big issue with Kaczinsky was not his manifesto but that he was a phsychoath.
otherwise known as a psychopath
 
@copper.hat that's the wine talking
 
6:11 AM
hic!
 
vzn
@copper.hat right. people discredit his thinking because he was a psychopath. it sounds reasonable/ sensible, but its not actually logical.
 
@MiloMoses i am just an engineering drag in. i like analysis.
 
i think people with naive takes are more reactionary
 
@copper.hat booooring
jk jk jk
 
scary that it took so long to identify him.
 
vzn
6:12 AM
have looked into this over the years, theres a kurzgesagt video on psycho vs sociopath. kaczynski exhibited both sides. younger, he was more a sociopath, he looked/ seemed/ could pass for normal, possibly by feigning emotion. the later loner side is more psychopathic.
 
@MiloMoses yes, but the precision was a welcome relief from engineering sloppiness/
 
It's just that I got bored out of my skull learning real analysis and proving all those tedious facts about series and sequences
 
you are much smarter than i :-)
 
vzn
@copper.hat ted bundy is another case study of a sociopath who eluded detection a lot based on his sociopathy. they are like chameleons in the ability to blend in convincingly. bundy was also highly intelligent, trained in law.
 
@vzn the human cost was awful. my colleague had to give up his main job.
another prof at UC Berkeley was hit a few years earlier.
 
vzn
6:14 AM
@copper.hat was he injured? yeah gelertner was a famous public face for the situation.
 
i had no idea!
@vzn badly. angelakos was the other prof i was thinking of.
nice guy.
 
vzn
maimed many (23). killed 3.
 
Damn Astyx really radicalised the chat with one link :p
 
i mean, i have been in bomb detonation sites before, but not unexpected in the troubles. i was not expecting it in berkeley usa.
 
vzn
it was a freak incident of history. alas, we have lived thru several of those. some say nostradamus called it the "time of troubles" (lol...?) o_O florence is full of these "freaks."
 
6:18 AM
@vsn Do you really believe that our current time is at some peak level of troubles?
 
:-). my interview with fbi & bomb squad was like something out of a b movie.
@MiloMoses i think this is very unusual. an attack on the capitol represents an unusual breach of many things.
 
vzn
@MiloMoses terrorism, war, plague, environmental catastrophe, "civil unrest" aka rioting in the streets, uh what else is left out? mass extreme inequality? etc
 
Nostradamus, 1540, colorized.
 
vzn
@copper.hat talked with the fbi ~1995. will never forget it. thats one for the personal NDA! o_O
 
i was on the no fly list for a while.
it just goes on and on :-)
 
vzn
6:20 AM
@copper.hat ?!? :o
 
I don't think that there is more war or terrorism now than at any other point in time (there is probably much less now), and as for environmental catastrophe that feels like something which is increasing rapidly but isn't at its peak yet
 
some confusion with an ira fellow of similar name
 
I guess the plague is pretty new
 
on the brighter side, i visited london with some family a few years ago and it was just phenomenal.
it used to be if i opened my mouth people were immediately concerned.
now that it sooo in the past.
 
vzn
@MiloMoses theres been multiple plagues in just a few decades. aids, ebola, etc... higher freq seems to be connected to globalization/ environmental degradation (habitat encroachment).
 
6:22 AM
inequality is up, but wealth overall is up and abject poverty is on its route to being eliminated in the decades that come so I wouldn't call our modern age an apocalypse in any means
 
@MiloMoses Silverman's book is too basic for you? O_o
 
vzn
@MiloMoses right. but "time of troubles" is an understatement. oh how about those CA fires from last year? the scenes are literally apocalyptic.
 
@MiloMoses how did you get 'into' math?
 
Well yeah, if I've already learned all the big theorems (Mordell Weil, Hasse, Henke etc...) then there's no reason to learn them again
 
wow.
wow! you're famous!
 
6:24 AM
In 8th grade my teacher didn't let me read books in class since he said "math class is for math", so I got a calculus textbook and read it
And then I knew calculus
 
hopefully you have a teacher who can direct you appropriately?
 
vzn
@copper.hat for mine re fbi, they couldnt find an open conference room, and did it in a storage room, and it was probably more intimidating that way with the 2 agents, file cabinets and office supplies and the "casual" reference to lying to fbi as a federal crime at the end... o_O
 
And now I know Complex Analysis, Analytic Number Theory, Algebraic Number Theory, Group Theory/Abstract Algebra (with a focus in Galois Theory), Measure Theory, and a few others
No, the teacher wasn't much help after the first quarter of the year
Ever since 8th grade I haven't been able to talk about math to someone who knows more math than me and it makes me sad
 
@MiloMoses I think your name is familiar to me but have no idea why.
Or how.
 
Maybe you've seen my stuff on Math Overflow?
 
6:27 AM
I'm impressed you know so much while still in school.
 
@Milo: I have a puzzle for you.
 
@MiloMoses No, I'm thinking social. Maybe with your folks? Dunno.
 
Let's hear it
 
What's an example of an uncountable measure 0 set of R?
 
vzn
@MiloMoses thats what chat is for :)
 
6:29 AM
Oh haha you chose the last one on the list (meaning that I just got the textbook last week)
 
Actually that wasn't going to be my puzzle but you can think about that first
 
@vzn I was used to dealing with such folks, it would have been more amusing if I wasn't so shocked ad concerned about my colleague.
 
And here we are using Lebesgue measure, correct?
 
yes.
 
Yes.
 
vzn
6:31 AM
took me many yrs to figure out, fbi seems to act as a meticulous coverup agency. ah, but we were trying to stay out of "politics" hah
 
The set of numbers for which the Conway Base-13 function takes a non-zero value
I think
I'll have to work out a rigorous proof but that's my instinct
 
Can you prove it?
 
My worry is that the set will be unmeasurable, but I should be able to prove it
 
vzn
<3 :'( conway! does this have anything to do with Fractran? lol :) (has anyone here heard of Fractran?) o_O ps have you guys read the new yorker article/ obituary yet? :)
 
warm up: two disjoint closed sets with zero distance?
 
6:33 AM
@MiloMoses This is not correct. It is clearly measurable, why?
 
@copper.hat who is that directed to
 
@MiloMoses seems to be the target at the moment :-)
@MiloMoses it is hard to create non measurable sets.
 
Yeah, it is, but Conway is so skilled at finding counterexamples that I'm never sure when it comes to his work
 
analysis is full of potholes.
the evil twin.
 
vzn
@MiloMoses keep hanging out and everyone here has lots of book recommendations & like to teach too :)
 
6:39 AM
@EdwardEvans Do you know Bell Witch
 
Is it Borel measurable since it can be defined using only natural number qualifiers?
 
Not sure if I would say that's a proof but sure
 
Like, it doesn't take AC to define and generally that means it must be measurable
But I'm not sure if that's rigourous
Like I said I'm new to measure theory
I'd much prefer Number Theory riddles
 
It's not :) You should write a proof.
 
vzn
@MiloMoses <3 hey way to go, way cool, you gotta check out collatz sometime its awesome™ :) + look at Fractran sometime :)
 
6:43 AM
OK, here's a different puzzle. Give an example of an uncountable subset $K \subset \Bbb R$ such that for every $x \in K$, there exists a sequence $\{x_n\} \subset K$ converging to $x$; i.e., $K$ has no isolated points.
 
@vzn I know about the collatz conjecure, if that's what you're telling me to check out
 
vzn
lol more NOT number theory o_O :P
@MiloMoses (!!!) ok cool! thats (almost) )( all :D
 
$K=\mathbb{R}$.
 
Follow-up: Are all such closed subsets intervals?
 
Aren't all closed subsets of the reals intervals?
Or am I just mistaken
 
6:47 AM
?!
 
convex maybe
 
What about $\Bbb Z$
 
Gosh, I should just stick to NT
 
Well, no, you should learn some analysis :) It's useful in NT.
 
@Balarka I don't
 
vzn
6:48 AM
lol hey Bal what are you into in NT? think you said you hated it or something once iirc... w/e
 
That's why I'm trying to get into it! My main guide in "what math should I learn" is "what will help me be better at number theory"
 
@Edward Check out Mirror Reaper! It's a crushing album.
 
real analysis is the evil twin!
 
Nice, I will do now
 
@BalarkaSen i suspect we have diametrically opposed musical tastes.
 
6:49 AM
@MiloMoses I really recommend starting higher algebra if you haven't already. Algebraic number theory is the real king and nobody can tell me otherwise
 
indeed many suggest i have none.
 
@copper.hat Haha, maybe, what do you listen to?
 
Jesus, just one 83 minute song
 
Algebraic Number Theory as in L functions over general number fields and that sort of stuff?
 
dance, europop :-)
 
vzn
6:49 AM
@MiloMoses NT is very broad! it depends what youre interested in... have you looked at euler totient fn? (just throwing out a term here)
 
Oh right you told me once
 
Just the study of number fields and local fields and various invariants attached to them, yes
 
I'm very aware of the Euler Totient Function, yeah
 
various invariants lol
 
I'm not quite sure where to go in my study of number theory right now
Other than learning measure theory and other adjacent fields
 
6:51 AM
@MiloMoses I think the analysis as background is a reasonable suggestion.
 
I think reading Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis is a good idea. And doing the exercises.
 
It's hard to know when we don't know your background, but yes doing analysis is reasonable lol
 
Analysis is like basic training in the mil.
 
slash, maybe I missed your background
 
vzn
my take would be look at some famous number theorists ("heroes") who are in the news eg zhang or tao. and that other guy let me look him up... vzn1.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/…
 
6:53 AM
Terry Tao answered one of my questions on Math Overflow and called it "somewhat tricky", so he and I are basically best friends
 
vzn
!!!
 
Honestly it was one of the coolest things to ever happen to me
 
Okay this is a general question about analysis. How does one attempt to prove hard things in analysis. I get the exercises, but say if I had to prove Weierstrass Preparation, it's hard for me to come up with an argument.
 
Weierstrass preparation is an insane theorem
 
vzn
this site is awesome for all things science, <3 <3 <3 simons. look they have a number theory section, world class, this is better than sciam. quantamagazine.org/tag/number-theory maynard is making the big headlines, kinda incredible for a number theorist :) quantamagazine.org/…
 
6:56 AM
Is that considered analysis?
 
mathoverflow.net/questions/375778/… here is the question that got answered by Terry Tao, by the way
 
I don't think it's easy to come up with an argument for that one if you don't know it! I don't like any of the standard proofs.
@copper.hat Several complex variables, maybe?
 
Yeah Maynard is cool! It's nice that he got both those results about small and large prime gaps
Very impressive
 
Yeah the standard proofs are weird and fidgety
 
vzn
@MiloMoses am a big fan of Tao, he just wrote up a huge paper/ presentation on collatz, highly recommend it. have commented on his blog for many yrs. :) vzn1.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/…
 
6:58 AM
@Sayan: Have you seen Guillemin-Golubitsky's proof?
 
Are you talking about where he proved that it is "almost always almost true"?
 
He answered a question of mine (not on these sites) but I can't find it now.
A math question :-).
 
@copper.hat That's so cool! What was the question?
 
Nah @Balarka, I am doing Hubyrecht, so that and Griffith's is the only proof I have seen. Where can I find this?
 
Something to do with the implicit function theorem (one of my favourites :-))
about technicalities.
 
vzn
6:59 AM
!!! holy @#$& didnt even see this. do you think youd have any taste for algo NT? that is my "focus" Computer Scientists Attempt to Corner the Collatz Conjecture quantamagazine.org/…
 
@BalarkaSen i have failed. everything i have to do with gelfand launches into banach algebras, nothing a little lighter for hilbert spaces.
 
@SayanChattopadhyay It's in their book on singularities. They have a whole chapter on Malgrange preparation theorem, the first section is Weierstrass.
 
Algo NT is when you reduce a hard problem to a finite computation using Busy Beaver bounds and stuff like that, right?
 
@copper.hat No worries, you already helped!
 
@Balarka this is great
 
vzn
7:02 AM
@MiloMoses busy beaver is a big area of research, dont know if it is considered algo NT, guess there are connections, have cited it at times in my blog, was just writing a comment on another blog related, Fortnow/Gasarch doing a writeup. honestly, algo NT is a bit novel. there are old but scattered cases of research. think broadly defined it is use of computers in NT. :)
 
The operators I am dealing with are stochastic (sum of the rows are 1) so the problem becomes easier than general self-adjoint operators.
 
busy beaver sounds, well, sooo wrong.
in a hilbert space???
 
Yeah, $L^2$ of something
 
ahh.
 
@EdwardEvans I know!!
 
7:04 AM
The cover is great, too
 
vzn
@copper.hat what?
 
Yeah the cover art is inspired by Beksinski
 
@MiloMoses did you feel the shake?
@vzn sry, i missed something?
 
No, I didn't
I felt a small one the other day though
 
@Balarka omg that's cool
 
7:05 AM
its all over the news.
 
Christ, music and art
 
vzn
@copper.hat what is wrong about BB? that it is algo NT?
 
sry, just the words not the technique.
im a bit juvenile in case you hadn't figure it out :-)
wow, richmond refinery had large flameoffs a while ago. wow.
what the hell is going on here?
 
@EdwardEvans Antichrist, music and art
 
@Balarka I'm literally gonna get this cover as a print hahahaha
 
7:06 AM
@copper.hat where was the epicenter?
 
san jose
 
Huh, I'm feeling nothing
 
earlier.
 
Well, I didn't feel anything at any point today
 
vzn
its a problem on turing machine halting/ undecidability. maybe click on the link when you sober up :P en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver ... somewhat similar to hilbert 10. actually that was fortnow/ gasarchs writeup.
 
7:09 AM
@vzn unfortunately i am not near that point yet :-)
i know the problem, just unfortunate naming
 
@copper.hat Are your worries about what our friend Beaver is busy doing?
 
@Balarka the album artist's stuff is amazing, thanks for showing me this lmao
 
:-)
 
vzn
gasarch BEATCS survey on hilbert 10 blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2021/01/…
 
What is the measure of K+K = {x+y | x,y in K} where K is the Cantor set?
 
7:10 AM
maybe the animal names for body parts have changed over time...
 
@copper.hat I'm the president of the Interesting Math Club at BHS and we meet at 11:00 AM on Sundays, so I'm probably going to have to leave soon so I'm not too tired and I have time to prepare something good. Are these wine and talks scheduled?
 
@EdwardEvans np lol
 
:-)
 
@LeakyNun I bet that set is just the interval
 
@BalarkaSen what's 0.1? (base 3)
oh nvm it's just 0 + 0.02222...
how about 0.1010...?
 
vzn
7:14 AM
@MiloMoses schedule? we dont need no stinkin schedule! hey actually have some ideas about this. think we should schedule some informal/ invited talks :) did something like this years ago on Physics and it went over well. this room is lively and has lots of regulars. think it would work well. need to coord with a regular on it. plz keep it in mind everyone! :)
@copper.hat lol ok finally getting your humor...! guess you really are irish! no flags so maybe safe for the moment, shew!
 
:-)
 
@LeakyNun I mean K/2 is all binary sequences in base 3, so you should be able to write anything in base 3 as K/2 + K/2 right
because 2 = 1 + 1
 
ok?
oh
huh, interesting
never thought of it that way
 
@vzn would these talks be like zoom things or would they be in a chatroom?
 
vzn
@MiloMoses it could be either, but the chat room is easiest. your math club sounds cool & congrats on being president! the tao response on MO is a really big coup too! very impressive! what year are you anyway? MIT/caltech sound like a good match for you :)
 
7:18 AM
Dividing by 2 famously gives a surjection from K to [0, 1] by pasting the "pseudobounday points" of K together
this is a manifestation of that
 
indeed
 
harvey mudd?
 
@vzn I'm a Junior
 
you would benefit from coaching.
 
Coaching in what sense?
 
vzn
7:20 AM
@MiloMoses ok keep up the good work. hope you return regularly. everyone just scans the chat room intermittently and shows up when they feel like it & see others/ dialog to engage with etc... but maybe more is possible sometime... it helps with all the engagement... :) there are other rooms, but busy SE chat rooms are pretty rare siteswide... you can ping ppl asynchronously. heres a bunch of stuff re SE chat maybe something interesting/ helpful/ informative etc vzn1.wordpress.com/chat
 
i think uc berkeley has some sort of thing?
guidance more than coaching.
 
so (0.1010...)/2 = 0.012001200120... = 0.022002200220.../2 + 0.002000200020.../2
so 0.1010... = 0.02200220... + 0.00200020...
0.{10} = 0.{0220} + 0.{0020}
 
2 = 1 + 1 my favorite fact
 
same
 
Gromov's favorite fact is 4 = 2 + 2 in exactly 3 ways
 
7:22 AM
which 3 ways?
 
(12)(34), (13)(24), (14)(23)
 
what is that
 
I'm not aware of any such program, but I'll try to see if I can find any mention on their website. Thank you so much for the conversation though everyone! I've had a really good time and honestly, this has made my day (if not my week).
 
@MiloMoses berkeley math circle?
 
like, those are the three distinct ways to pair elements of {1, 2, 3, 4} into two 2-element sets
 
7:23 AM
lol
 
4 = 2 + 2 in exactly 3 ways lol
 
vzn
lol still reeling to ref of busy beaver as xrated movie crazy nite o_O
 
:-). i am very inappropriate. as my daughter says.
stuck on $K+K$ at the moment.
 
This is the origin of the exceptional homomorphism $S_4 \to S_3$ actually
 
vzn
@MiloMoses great to meet you, highlight of the night, thx for dropping in, this place is swarming/ teeming with creepazoids math geeks. welcome to the club! :) zzz
 
7:27 AM
I presume $[0,2]$?
 
we just proved it, but yeah
 
i'm slow.
 
by "we" i mean @BalarkaSen himself, of course
 
communism
but reversed
reverse unism card
 
even if someone shows it to me i need to 'get it' myself.
 
7:28 AM
Leibniz is a person invented by Newton to increase the controversy so that he will be more famous
5
 
lmfaooo
 
must have been strange communicating by letter.
is there an easier way of showing the range is $[0,2]$?
 
is this hard?
 
its 2 = 1 + 1, cant get easier than that right
 
@BalarkaSen 2 = 1 + 1 in exactly 1 way
 
7:31 AM
lmao
 
got that part :-).
hard is the wrong word.
more elegant maybe?
i think there is.
 
is there?
 
$K_n+K_n = [0,2]$ for all $n$ where $K_n$ is the $n$th 'outer' approximation to $K$.
$K+K$ is compact and formed from limits of $K_n+K_n$.
Surely that is prettier?
even to an engineer.
 
and how do you show that Kn + Kn = [0,2]?
 
True, it sweeping some dirt under the carpet, but adding intervals is surely easier?
and easier to see.
 
7:39 AM
once i see it maybe
 
I can't just claim that [0,1] + [3,4] = [9,10] because they're intervals
 
It is no different to the above, just a different viewpoint.
Well, you only need to show it once.
Ok, I am not defending it, just for me it is nicer.
 
then why not just do it directly... without going through Kn
 
You can of course. I just seems grittier :-).
The fixed point nature of the set is clearer?
If you asked the question what is $K_2+K_2$ you would have got an immediate answer.
 
there is nothing clearer about this proof except your eagerness to employ convoluted routines to a straightforward endeavour
 
7:45 AM
you win
that was fun
 
8:10 AM
@Balarka they're playing down the road from me with Wolves in the Throne Room this year
 
Oh wow
 
yeah that's gonna be a must-attend
 
So I was really confused if it which stackexchange to post this question in and finally decided PSE
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Q: Why does Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler’s Gravitation visualization technique breakdown in dimension $> 4$?

More Anonymous In this chapter we will introduce and discuss at length one of the ways that physicists sometimes visualize “nice” differential forms. In essence, we will be considering ways of visualizing one-forms, two-forms, and three-forms on a vector space. That is, we will find a “cartoon picture” of $ \a...

If anyone from MSE knows the answer feel free to post on PSE?
Its about differential geometry ^
 
8:32 AM
$4 (2\sqrt{b} + 2)/(b + 3) < b$
$4(2 \sqrt{b} + 2) < b^2 + 3b$
 
if $b+3$ be positive ^
yeah ofc it is nvm
 
yeah thats true but whats the least $b$ for which this happens man
integral
 
just write a python program then
 
lmfao
time to use desmos
 
8:35 AM
nice
$24 < 30$
good stuff
 
4 hours ago, by Leonhard Euler
Coding is useful for math, but how much?
rhs is 28 btw @BalarkaSen
 
oh right
i just wrote an algorithm as a proof
 
great
 
123
I have question. In my book it said. Two Unlike parallel forces (P, -P) acting on a rigid, The moment is zero about point P/DE = Q/AD, where DE distance between - P and that point, point AD is distance P and that point.
My question is how unlike two parallel forces is different from couple of forces. But moment of couple of force is constant never zero. It looks same
 
and yes i use pirated windows
 
123
8:39 AM
Couple moment is constant, unlike parallel can be zero at point. But both situations looks same. Pls answer
 
123
9:07 AM
I found that unlike parallel forces can be different in magnitude. What if unlike parallel forces are equal in magnitude, can we say them couple???
 
9:47 AM
@Balarka 30 mins into my second listen lmfao
 
is UTF-8 welcome here?
♯-theory and π and stuff like that?
although, I guess I should use $\LaTeX$ for mathematical statements.
I just type a lot of UTF-8 like e³ and ⅓ ½ and stuff like that. But for full statements I'll do $\LaTeX$.
 
10:31 AM
best to use LaTeX consistently
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Q: Why should I use LaTeX?

LazerI have heard a lot about LaTeX, but never used it myself. It is mainly used for typesetting professional research papers. But I am not writing research papers. Is LaTeX for me? If yes, why should I be shifting from OpenOffice to LaTeX? What does LaTeX offer to the normal user who uses word proc...

 
10:58 AM
@EdwardEvans GCHQ? Then you can plot against the EU in a few years
 
When I say $ z = r(\cos \theta + i \sin \theta)$

There are two ways we can find it’s square value ,

$z^2 = r^2(x^2 + y^2) = r^2(\cos \theta^2 + i \sin \theta^2)$ (Here I did the $x^2$ and $y^2$ separately)

Ok but if we directly square $= r(\cos \theta + i \sin \theta)$ this

Then , should we also get $2\sin\theta \cos \theta$ which means $ r^2(\cos \theta + \sin\theta)^2$

Why not in 1st one because when x = r cos theta , we will only get r ^2 = cos ^2 theta .
 
11:40 AM
@user102532 $(\cos(\theta)+i\sin(\theta))^2\ne\cos^2(\theta)+i\sin^2(\theta)$
$(\cos(\theta)+i\sin(\theta))^2=\cos^2(\theta)-\sin^2(\theta)+2i\sin(\theta)\cos(\theta)=\cos(2\theta)+i\sin(2\theta)$
 
11:54 AM
in case you had not seen it, I think that some of you may be interested in this: Why is neural networks being a deterministic mapping not always considered a good thing?
 
12:21 PM
@user85795 thanks
I'm kind of getting into this book at the moment: goodreads.com/book/show/818884.How_to_Calculate_Quickly. I hope it opens up into something. The exercise are fascinating to me. I'm kind of inspired to go off of them just a bit. In a way it reminds me of Gauss' solution to $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$.
 
12:58 PM
@EdwardEvans rofl nice
 
1:09 PM
@EdwardEvans who is? (Even tho wolves in the throne room is already reason enough to go)
 
bell witch
bell witch + wolves in the throne room is insane ngl
 
I'm also quite interested in this Concrete Mathematics text by Knuth.
 
1:30 PM
@EdwardEvans did you not have that in the UK?
@BalarkaSen lmao this
@BalarkaSen strongest being the "return to monke" meme
 
lmao yeah
 
2:19 PM
@zacts that's an excellent classic textbook to get interested in.
 
2:32 PM
Shouldn't it be "$\mathrm d x=$ change in area" instead of "new area" ? Is it trivial?
 
Does anybody have some nice 'introductory' reading material on modular curves?
 

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