#p=np

[pv1isalsoimportant]

Ok actually another question for the math ask meme, because I just realized p-isequalto-np is your main: 23, specifically the "why or why not" part

23. Will P=NP? Why or why not?

Honestly I want P=NP to be true because it would just be funny. I also think it would be incredibly funny if the answer was dependent on the existence of some large cardinal. On a more serious note so many people are trying to separate hierarchies and find lowerbounds to prove P≠NP because it looks like naturally that should be the result and so far they didn't manage to prove it. Collapsing hierarchies looks like more difficult problem to me so with how difficult the problem is, it could be that P=NP. Take this with a grain of salt, I'm just a beginner in this field so I don't know that much about it.

Real's math ask meme

[realbadatpoker]

I know everyone here hates ai art, but ai science is really freaking important.

Like, ai done right basically makes p=np for, like, a lot of (formerly) really hard problems, and that's, like, a really big deal. Like, for real.

[mjlol52]

P=NP btw

if you even care

[tofu-bento-box]

look i just think that if you’ve proven P=NP, what you actually did was find god’s browsing history

[iron-cretin]

P = 0 or N = 1 this computer science shit is mad easy i dont understand what all the fuss is about

[glassedplanets]

oops i did it again i forgot what i was losing my mind about

[dailydoodlesofp]

don't worry, it's just cake.

[just-a-girl-with-a-pistol]

Let's take revenge on the bad dad and return to the unending slumber :>

[keii4ii]

"No more" - minicomic, 2 pages, CW for Just Barely Offscreen torture

[unnonexistence]

I would like to know the answer to 5 & 62 from the math ask :)

(math asks are from this post)

5. Are there areas of math that you enjoy? What are they?

I don't like to get TOO specific on here, just for privacy reasons, but broadly speaking the stuff I like is in these areas:

(the Map of Mathematics is from this video)

I probably should have left machine learning out of that lol. I had it in my head that this was "what areas of math are you interested in," and I haven't actually done any machine learning stuff yet. It's more something I want to learn about (to understand better what's going on with the AI boom & because it'll probably be relevant to my career).

There's also a lot of stuff I don't know much about but think is neat. Like topology. I haven't actually taken a course on it, so everything I know about it comes from the videos Cliff Stoll did with Numberphile (plus it being graph theory's weird cousin).

62. Are there any non-interesting numbers?

I had to think about this one for a while. We need some sort of definition, right? Let a number be interesting if some person at some point in time has been interested in it. Not the best definition because idk how to define or quantify interest, but let's go with it.

If we count being interested in a set as being interested in all the numbers in it, then all numbers are interesting, because if someone has bothered to define the set, then they must have been at least a little interested in it, right?

If we DON'T count interest in sets and are only talking about specific numbers, then there must be infinitely many non-interesting numbers, because there have been finitely many human beings and each human being only has time to think about a finite number of numbers in their life, so there are infinitely many numbers no one has ever spared a single thought for. Which is maybe kind of sad? Or not, idk, maybe they like their privacy.

This is actually a bad definition, I just realized, because very large primes are clearly of interest to a lot of people, and there are infinitely many undiscovered ones out there. Oops. Let's go with the set version and say all numbers are interesting.

We could go a step further and say some numbers are more interesting than others, and define interesting-ness as the total number of times a number has been thought about. I think the MOST interesting number in that case would be 1, because everyone who knows what a number is has thought about 1.

If we're just talking about numbers I personally don't find interesting... idk, 46 is kind of boring? I also don't really care about the complex numbers, but they have so many uses that I don't think I could honestly say they're non-interesting. They're just not my thing.

Thank you for asking!

[snowydraaws]

This came to me in a dream and I had to recreate ☆

[20th-century-railroading]

CRI&P train, engine number 2034, engine type 2-8-0 Passenger; 35 MPH. Photographed: St. Paul, Minn., August 4, 1937.

[dinomintz]

Him? He merely watches me dance on stage, every day.

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

anyway me beating laxasia the complete first try

[currentlyonstandbi]

just nameless puppet left for the NG+ run, send me your strength