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Hot take: all machine learnings is the same

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That’s our motto

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“No amount of French mathematicians can save us now.”

— Physics professor

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I became a Linux user... but at what cost

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“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

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fuck imposter syndrome

You deserve to be where you are. Your accomplishments are real. You have worked hard to get here. You have earned this. You are just as good as everyone else. It wasn’t a mistake that you got this far, nor did you trick people into letting you get this far. You are not an imposter. ♡♡♡

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One of the striking things about math education for me is that most of the common objections to how the material is taught have really simple answers, but I have never in my life heard a math instructor provide those answers.

For example, something you hear a lot is: “why am I losing points for not showing my work when I got the correct answer?”, or even “why are we being told to use this procedure at all when the answers are so obvious?”.

There answer to both of those questions, of course, is: “Because what’s actually being taught is a problem-solving method that works for big and complicated problems as well as small and simple ones. We practice it with the simple ones first so that you can easily compare your intuitive solution with the results of applying the method and know whether you did it right. That way, when we get to the complicated ones where the intuitive approach doesn’t work, you can have confidence that you practised the method correctly.”

Not once in two decades of schooling did I hear that rationale offered – if an instructor deigned to address the objections at all, their response typically boiled down to some variation of “because this is how it’s done”.

Like, what’s difficult about this?

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@sevenfactorial tagged me to list my top 7 comforting movies. Thanks for tagging me. Sorry for the late response but it took awhile to come up with the list and I cheated a little bit.

Here are seven (really 9) movies I watch to make me feel better/good or have a special place in my heart:

- Parent Trap (my favorite movie as a child)

- Pride and Prejudice (can rewatch this until I die, probably my favorite movie)

- Princess Diaries (1 and 2) (I mean, c'mon, a childhood classic and I had to throw in the sequel bc Chris Pine)

- 10 Things I Hate About You (one time a girl in high school told me I reminded her of Kat and that is probably the best compliment I ever got)

- Starstruck (cringy and something is just very wrong with the sound quality in this movie but it's cute and I like it)

- To All The Boys I Loved Before (a new one for this list, but I have rewatched it a good number of times since its release and it's sweet. But not the second one.)

- A Cinderella Story and Another Cinderella Story (this was probably a form of escapism as a child)

Note: I did not list any disney princess/pixar movies because almost all of them count as comforting/feel good movies. That said, a lot of these movies are owned by disney and can be found on disney+ lol

If you haven't been tagged already I tag @nameeverynumber and @zero-is-natural . And anyone who wants to do it :)

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Let ε. Just allow it.

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The fact that $\epsilon$ isn’t by default $\varepsilon$ is proof of the existence of Satan

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i literally cannot imagine being in college right now with a pandemic going on. i 100% believe i would have dropped out if this was going on while i was still in school (i dropped out for a LESS globally pandemic-y situation than this, after all lol). anyway if you're in school right now you are doing amazing and this is hard, so it's totally reasonable to be struggling, and also I'm furious at your university for you because I'm sure there are a dozen reasons for me to be. hang in there.

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I think i might have done my Calc assignment wrong

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it do be like dat

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Or, as my professor likes to write:

Proof. Homework. □

Abstract Algebra Professor: I"m going to prove this real fast.

Student: Left as an exercise.

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why does the apocalypse still have so much homework

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If my local newspaper keeps reporting "the greatest single day spike in coronavirus cases/deaths in the county/state/country" I'm gonna lose my mind. That's how this works you guys. It's exponential growth. You're gonna print that line every day for the next two weeks? Maybe more? It'll REALLY be news when there are FEWER cases than the day before.