#it seems like math

[am3ya]

also PLEASE for the love of all that is holy if you are talking about statistics PLEASE DEAR LORD PUT INTO CONSIDERATION GROUP SIZES.

statistics on a basic level don't usually show If one group is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than another. it just shows how MUCH in a group, in smaller groups it'll look like there is MORE and in BIGGER groups it'll look like there is LESS.

GOODDAY.

[crustaceousfaggot]

I think it's so funny that people are behaving as though all the Disco Elysium spiritual successors are effectively equivalent.

Cause Dark Math's press releases are all along the lines of "We're making a super cool edgy detective RPG. It's gonna be just like Disco Elysium, except with less words and more bullets, because who likes reading, am I right? Anyways, it's gonna be sooo cool and way more fun than Disco Elysium 😎"

And Longdue has said "uhhh yeah we're not really ready to talk about specifics yet. There's probably gonna be some weird psychological dream stuff going on. Idk. It's gonna be fun trust us"

Meanwhile Summer Eternal has hardly done any interviews, and if you read their manifesto and blog entries they're all like "Capitalism and insatiable corporate greed have irrevocably damaged the infant medium of video games. Workers in our field are treated as commodities at best and entirely disposable at worst. We intend to do everything in our power to create an uncompromised, complete, and unapologetic work of art, or we will do down trying. This isn't about making the next Elysium, this is about making something entirely new and revolutionary."

[hasellia]

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

[katothin]

do mathematicians do warm up math?

[milkweedman]

It is interesting how much math comes into even the most basic of like. Making things. Making almost anything. And often not numbers necessarily but proportions and geometry. I think all the time about how castles were built with geometry at the heart of it. And I use the same kind of proportional math to make socks fit. And none of my pieces are ever knit with a prime number of stitches--because you use factors to make neat colorwork and ribbing and different stitches. Idk ! I remember constantly thinking 'how the hell is THIS gonna come in useful ?' But it always does. Math is at the heart of everything, and knowing how to apply it is a tool of critical importance to Thinking Up A Shape And Making It.

[a-little-artsy]

i have so many thoughts on them imw,tweaking

[vse-kar-vem]

kris said "cue fanfiction" i said "but i can't write on command" he said "draw then i dont fucking care"

[lexosaurus]

heyyy a fellow math teacher! 🤝

I'm actually not a math teacher! I do special ed. I currently do most of the math inclusion support at the school, so between my actual classes and support from learning center/skill development hours and study hall hours, I'm doing everything from sub-separate Intro to Algebra all the way up to Pre-Calculus.

So my students know me as "the math lady" and they joke whenever they see me out of the math hallway that I've breached containment or "escaped [my] dungeon!" It's pretty funny!

I absolutely love working with the math department though! They are some of the best people in this entire school. Unsurprisingly, they're probably the department that the sped department is the closest with! They're so deeply passionate about public education and setting up the students for the best success possible after high school, and they really do their best to stand up against a lot of the silly top-down level grade inflation types of things happening within district admin right now! So yeah, can't hype these math ladies up enough! They go so above and beyond for the students, and it's unfortunate that they're some of the most underappreciated teachers cuz god damn these kids have nooooo clue how much this group of women care about them!

[le-songproj]

Live Emotion Song Spreadsheet Project

I've started putting together a simple spreadsheet of song information for the game in hopes it'll be useful for the various events we get!

Includes: Singer(s), Song Titles, Length, and Note Count for all the difficulties!

It's also color coded by Singer color(s) and the difficulty, PLUS it's set up so the songs involved in the current event will be highlighted for easy comparisons too~

Currently we have: - All current event songs, Easy+Normal+Hard (4/6 have Expert) - All Group/Duo/Trio songs, Easy+Normal (1 has Hard)

I would love to ask for your help filling out things much faster! If you happen to know any note totals for any of the songs (or just have a screenshot of ur score page) please let me know!!!

Hard+Expert notes are most appreciated as I personally only just started doing those higher difficulties after the last event so those will take me the longest for me to get through. But anything and everything you guys can provide regardless of what difficulty is appreciated and will save me so much time!!

Just shoot dm/ask/submission or even reply to this post please and thank you <3

[chongoblog]

hey Goofy Math Soviet, what is calculus?

legit, it wasn't necessary for graduation at my school so i never took the class

Basically, it deals with integrals and derivatives, which is tough to explain but I can try.

Remember in earlier math you learned about slope? You know, y=mx + b? If you don’t recall, a slope is basically how steep a line is. Now if you’re looking at a straight line, then it’s pretty easy to determine the slope. Just look at how steep the line in question is and boom. There ya go.

For example take this red line up here. Every time it moves to the right by 1, it moves up 2 and vice versa. So this line has a slope of 2. Simple, right?

But what if we have a line that isn’t as straightforward? Like this curvy boy down here

What’s the slope of this line? A little tougher because how steep the line is different depending on where you are on the line.

That’s where derivatives come in. A Derivative will tell you what the slope of a line is at a given point in time. For example, at the dead center of the graph, the curvy boy has a slope of zero (since it’s flat right there). Once it hits the first square to the right it’s already reached a slope of 2. And at the second square, it’s reached a slope of 4!

How do I know this? Well because I have played you! The red line we looked at earlier is actually a graph of the derivative for the curvy line! So you can use that one to determine how steep the curve is at any given point! So like at -2, the slope is -4, etc.

Integrals are simiar, but in reverse, where you take a look at a derivative and draw out what the original would look like.

I’m being super reductive right now for obvious reasons but thats the bread and butter of calculus. You can do some really really wacky things especially with integrals and as you get further into calculus you use detivatives and integrals to do some dark magic. It’s pretty neat.

Hope this helped!

[maybeinanotherworld]

I've decided to provide the tumblr sphere with more Physics Major (TM) content for no reason other than I don't want to do my mathematical physics assignment so here are my thoughts as a Third Year (TM) in this program:

1) everything is linear algebra

2) no really, everything is linear algebra

3) amusement parks are a great source for problems in lagrangian mechanics

4) lasers are cool

5) everything is also a taylor series

6) A rectangular block falling over is surprisingly complicated

7) everything is a differential equation

8) differential equations are linear algebra

9) there is not a single physics person that is okay

10) astronomy killed math and is currently dancing on its corpse

11) astronomy is linear algebra

[bubbloquacious]

Just realized you can extend x^x to the negatives this way, very neat!

[radianceandmist]

I have listened to the entirety of The Murderbot Diaries four times in the past five-and-change weeks. Plus one extra full readthrough of All Systems Red because I was introducing road trip buddies to the series.

Not counting the short stories (since I read those online), the series is a little under 48 hours of audiobook.

Between listening to audiobooks in the background while working or while falling asleep (with a 20-30 minute sleep timer) and just wanting to get all the details, I end up backtracking and listening to some sections multiple times on a given readthrough.

My phone has logged 236 hours listening to this series in 39 days. I have spent over a quarter of my life listening to these books since I started. And that isn't even getting into the many, many hours I've spent engaging with the material in other ways.

Anyways. I just finished System Collapse again and there are several other books I've been wanting to read or reread but I'm starting All Systems Red again because I can't help myself.

[odd-critter]

boy why are you so hard to draw

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

like on the one hand language matters and i too sometimes find slang trends annoying and/or concerning and on the other hand sometimes women do actually make jokes and talk shit on the internet with their friends and it is not actually that deep and commentary on phenomena gets to a weird point where i’m like i don’t know how “these idiot losers on the internet using a two to four word phrase they will have moved on from in a year are basically the primary cause of patriarchal oppression” is the feminist take. like sometimes i start to think the plot has been lost.