#wellactually

[transgenderastronovalite]

arguing with an anti endo in the tiktok comments of. a pro endo creator? brother where do u think u are

[lapdogchase]

triggered the neurobiology of trauma hyperfixation of oct2023 sleeper agent style Rocking back and forth like Wellactually,

[thedrop-dead]

Making own coffee isn't as fun as going to the stores to get the coffee. oh wellactually it is nice cause I am with friend and wife. either choice has the pluses.

[shem-fatale]

WELLACTUALLY

MAGE NERDS!

This definitely happens, doesn’t it? I think they’d be really gracious at first when being amended/corrected, but eventually it all goes to hell…

[akitoyatism]

Wellactually Im crying but like Idk why so

YEAAAAH i hope you slept ok

I slept but the sickness got worse

[lucyfishwife]

Just going to sit here for a bit and look at the lovely pictures. Everyone's very ANGRY on Twitter, very "establishing dynamics on first day in new school" on Bluesky, and a bit earnest on Mastodon. It's nice here plus that one annoying reply guy who pops up everywhere to WellActually me has not made it to Tumblr yet to tell me how I'm doing it all wrong 🎉

[zhibekfromkaon]

Congratulations!

[adjoint-law]

The hypothetical mathematician in my head is smugly telling me that #wellactually I can't build a machine that uses infinite memory, so I'm locking him in a room with

head $ [(a,b,d-a-b) | d <- repeat [1..2**(10**10)], a <- [1..d], b <- [1..d-a-1], a**3 + b**3 = (d-a-b)**3 ]

, a week's worth of food, and a GoPro

One thing that was hard for me to get used to when I started learning math was what I call "static thinking". Math doesn't have any time evolution; everything either is or it isn't.

When non-mathematicians think about operations like addition, they think of them as "processes" that "occur": you take 2 and 8 and "combine them" to get 10. The expression "2+8" is like a sort of command, telling you to perform this process of addition. People think of math this way because it's basically how math is presented in schools.

To a mathematician, the expression "2+8" is not a command and it does not signify a process. "2+8" is merely another way of writing "10". They are two expressions with identical meaning. That's what "2+8=10" means, it means "these two expressions signify the same thing". There is no "process of addition" which "happens" and "results in 10". "10" and "2+8" are just alternate spellings of the same number.

For a more advanced example, consider the formal definition of a finite state machine. Intuitively, we think of a finite state machine as a network with various nodes and directed edges and so on, into which we input some string in the machine's alphabet. After inputting the string, it travels around the machine according to the transition functions before finally arriving (or not) at a final node, and by this process a computation is performed. Of course, mathematically, this is nonsense. A finite state machine is a network with various nodes and directed edges and so on, but the notion that you can "input a string" and it will "travel around the network via the transition functions" is bullshit. A string is recognized by the machine if and only if there exists a valid path for that string via the transition functions from an initial node to a final node. The string never actually travels the path, because such a notion does not exist in mathematics.

A finite state machine is not a machine, it never actually does anything. It sits there in the realm of abstractions, unmoving and static. Every string which it "recognizes" it recognizes by dint not of things that it does but of facts that simply are; every string recognized by the machine is so and has been so since the dawn of time, without the machine ever in fact going about the process of recognizing it.

This is philosophically a little bit trippy, but it can also confuse early math students in practice, too. As I mentioned at the top, I was very confused by it. For instance, in the finite state machine example, a perfectly ordinary statement to encounter in a proof might run something like

[Block of reasoning establishing that some string w is recognized by the machine M] [Block of reasoning establishing that all transition functions into a final node F of M have label x] ...since w is recognized by the machine M, there must exist a transition function T whose target is a final node and which sends w to that final node on the last character of w. Thus, since T must have label x, the final character of w is x.

To a mathematician this seems perfectly trivial. To me as a young math student, this kind thing seemed almost miraculous. We don't even know what w is, and yet we can run it through the machine? And from the fact that the machine recognized it, we can conclude things about what w is? We can tell its final character? How is that possible? I felt like this kind of thing involved "reaching into the future", reasoning about processes from the end when we haven't even begun them yet.

But, of course, we can do this, because there is no past or future in mathematics. The machine is simple there, the string is simply recognized or not, its last character simply is x or it isn't x. Nothing has to "happen".

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[incurableoptimistest1994]

Me yesterday: I don’t really suffer with hangovers 🙂! Me today: I am most definitely hungover 🙃!! Just to give some context; I went to @baftacymru last night and had an absolutely fantastic night and ALSO WE WON A BAFTA!! There was lots of free gin and champagne 🥂 and I got home at 2.30am, was in bed by 3, and I’ve had about 3 hours sleep... now I gotta get up to get ready for a hospital appointment... the real world is here this Monday morning making sure my head doesn’t get too big 😂 although I’m taking my damn BAFTA to Rookwood Hospital to show them all!! #wewonabafta #cantbelieveit #idontgethungover #wellactually #thinkimstillpissed😂 #butdefinetlyhungover #threehourssleepandlivinglife🙌🏻 https://www.instagram.com/p/B3lo-flhh-Y/?igshid=15w3dxs4lg578

[eric-sadahire]

How does a mansplainer get water? From a well, actually

[olaqueenbeeofastrology]

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[croconanaluvsu-blog]

Ring, ding, ding, ding, ding, #CROCONANAPHONE! Have you heard? @jasonporath made the awesome series called @rejectedprincesses! I saw him today at @rosecitycc! He's awesome and so are his books #RejectedPrincesses and #ToughMothers. I seriously cannot gush enough about this series. I read it when I'm feeling down and out and need a pick me up. Those days when I'm told to be quiet because I'm too loud, or those days where I run into a #wellactually! It was such an honor to meet someone who, in my mind, is doing a service to our society putting these stories to paper! Who is your favorite rejected princess?! #rccc2018 #rosecitycomiccon #webcomic #comics #convention #oregonconventioncenter #conventionlife #adventuresofcroconana #croconana #bananaphone #sorbetjungle https://www.instagram.com/p/BnhuidkBqe2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=myntnqnk2h94

[verycharismaticdragon]

If I could tell one thing to people starting TYK after watching SHL it would be this: you will have a much, much better time with the novel if you don’t project SHL’s characterization and backstories (and plot… and themes… and relationship beats...) onto it. 

[lakesbian]

wellactually blake is honorary nonbinary and bisexual and also the world's first cis man with shadow memories of being transmasc but rose is just regular cishet woman. I'm sure this makes perfect sense to you all

blake and rose thorburn the worlds first cisgender heterosexual people who dont know theyre actually honorary nonbinary and bisexual

[tagyourfriendseries]

Tag your “Well actually...” friend. Andrew is usually a pretty smart guy, or at least that’s what he tells all of us. #tagyourfriend #tagyourfriends #tagyourfriendseries #meme #memes #funny #comedy #webseries #knowitall #wellactually https://www.instagram.com/p/BztMjLypQXm/?igshid=bzq22vngl4kq