Math - Blog Posts
W0w, luck1ly we d0n’t have an0ne l1ke that at the S0c1ety 0f Undergraduate Mathemat1cs students. We are all h0rr1f1caly mean pe0ple, but amaz1ng at teach1ng.
Grad school quote of the day:
“Lovely man. They shouldn't let him teach.”
Hello
Hell0 welc0me t0 the S0c1ety 0f undergraduate mathemat1cs students.
J01n1ng SUMS (s0c1ety of undergraduate mathemat1cs students) w1ll ADD t0 y0ur aura
Thank y0u, 1t’s amaz1ng t0 f1nd an0ther truly mathemat1cal th1nker 0ver the 1nternet.
I <3 Mathematics
Th1s 1sn’t h0w a true 1ntelegent th1nker th1nks, they actually c0nnect everyth1ng t0 math. 1 rec0mmend t0p0l0gy.
My favorite fucking website
1’m s0 rat10nal that 1 know math 1s the best subject.
Mathemat1cally th1nk1ng, (and by extens10n rat10nally) w1red dev1ces are super10r
I love the fact that it’s commonly believed the writer (and mathematician!) Lewis Carroll could have done a math diss on quaternions, their unintuitive multiplication and their non-commutative nature in the Mad Hatter scene in “Alice in Wonderland”.
“Why, you might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see !”
All credits to 3Blue1Brown on Youtube (Video: “Visualising quaternions (4d numbers) with stereographic projection”)
i've gotten to that point in math where i can try putting the problems through google or mathway or symbolab or wherever else and they're all like: nah dude you're on your own for this one
Me when I actually do something right in a math class
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Can people stop putting math hate on the math tag ?????
pleaseeee like I just want to see some fun math stuff, a bunch of theorems and memes
Love math textbooks so much <333
The work I got done from 9:00 to 21:00. And I will continue. #school #math #quarantine #quarantinelife #productivity #mathematics #homeworks https://www.instagram.com/p/B--MwAbBtRe/?igshid=omhm4b830ay0
A guestion about realistic interstellar travel
Sorry about my English it's not my first language.
I'm not sure how i should tag this but here we go.
I'm working on my own little hard scifi project and i need some help with figuring out the science.
So i have a ship that travels the distance of 10.26 lightyears at 80% the speed of light.
I think it would take about 12 years to complete this journey. (For a outside observer)
And off course the ship would also need to first accelerate and deaccelerate from that Velocity. That would take about 7 months each. (Constant acceleration of 1.5G during those months)
So in Total these 12 years plus the 1.4 years makes the journey 13.4 years long. But this is only to An outside observer.
I al aware of the effect of time dilation and i also want it to have a prominent role in my story. So my guestion is how much time Will the crew onboard the ship have subjectivly experienced?
Is some of the math i did right? Am i missing something? And does Antoine know how to explain the solution of this in laymans terms becaude i've tried looking it up and i still don't really understand it.
Thanks
So I was playing around with the idea of a TTS reader, ya know maybe hearing my work read aloud will help inspire me to continue this fic, get immersed in it. Obviously I'm worried about AI and copyright and outside sources seeing my work, but I dived down the rabbit hole of these TTS readers and how they charge people.
Rant incoming of course
Like you would think, "TTS is a handy thing to help with disabilities, a little convenience in life, it should be free or at least cheap, like subtitles. Maybe they're not always perfect but they do help! If you want something better than the basic bot, then you pay, but like how much can it ACTUALLY be - there are words everywhere!"
They charge by the CHARACTER not by the word, first of all, which is absurd, but fine whatever. For context, a 4k chapter of mine is upwards of 20k characters, and about 100 pages of writing in my docs is around 300k characters, but at least I can have that comparison at my fingertips.
Most "free" character limits are 3k. Not 3k words, 3k CHARACTERS. One place had 3k characters of Premium and 3k of non-premium, so it's technically 6k characters a day for their free version, but that's the best I could find skimming the fine print of a bunch of these things.
The paid plans though, hoo boy let's do some math! They preach "unlimited" for the non-premium voices, your basic bots that may be grating on the ear but they get the job done? But the premiums still have limits, of course.
200k characters a day and 1 million characters a month was one of the plans. So around 40k words a day up to 50 of my 4k chapters a month, and closer to 20 of my normal 10k+ word chapters (not including when I re-read a single chapter multiple times for editing or my own amusement). That's 200k words, not including repeats. For $11 a month or the yearly $48. I've seen $150 for 1M a month on one, feel free to tell me if you've seen worse
Up a tier is 500k a day and 2.5M a month. 25 4k word chapters a day, up to 125 a month; 8 or so 10k+ word chapters a day, closer to 40 a month. For $21 a month or $120-$180 yearly (depending on which reader you find).
If you have ever seen my chapters before, you'll see how inconvenient this is, having a daily limit of being able to listen to up to 8 chapters, not even including when I just want to reread them for my own amusement - although I suppose you could record and download them for infinite use, but what if I rewrite, add, or fix errors or entire paragraphs? Then I have to make a whole new one.
There was one version toying with the idea of a pay-as-you-go feature, ya know, basically virtual TTS currency, 200k characters for $10, 1M characters for $40, use them as you please, your time limit to use them is 1 year but every renewal no matter how tiny also renews the end date for when they expire, so a little better for my ADD ass who who'll write like 3M characters in 3 months and then go radio silent for another 6 months.
Anyway so long story short I feel better about myself, seeing I'm way too powerful for TTS to keep up with, but also sad because even if I'm willing to shill out for a voice that doesn't sound robotic AF on my work, I'm still too powerful. I, American English as I am, prefer the non-premium British voices, they somehow sound a little less bot-like but idk.
It's all AI anyway, I should just pay a voice actor to read my stuff every time I write, it'd probably be more environmentally friendly and cost-effective.
So if you made it this far for some reason tell me how many characters you wrote today so you have a bigger number than your word count, I'm up to 25k on this chapter I'm not even done with
MATH
Fuck math that is all thank you for you time
26 Oct (Intro. Number Theory)
This is by far the worst class that I have taken. Consistently I have been with the lowest grade, and my overall understanding of this class is abysmal. Despite being in my professor’s office every day.
In any case I make a point to strive for perfection, and not understanding something haunts me to my core. In any case I am forever hopeful. Im happy to be back, and I have lots to share
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28 April (Diff Eq.)
The struggle has been very real over the course of the last week. I failed a test (it was in the teens), my mom is still in the hospital, and some days are definitely better than others, but I am holding on.
I can’t in good faith give up everything that I’ve worked so hard to build. I have also been procrastinating. The Howard deadline is 30 April, and tbh I haven’t put my all into it (despite really wanting to attend the school).
Small update, but that’s all for today.
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It is honestly saddening that I used to have to deal with this. Reposting for the fact that there are a lot of black students who have succumb to this mentality. Be proud of your education.
23 April (life update)
So, keeping things honest I’m not doing the best right now friends. Over the course of the last 2 weeks one of my parents had a heart attack and the other is now on life support.
I really appreciate all of you who continue to support me and this study blog.
Morale of the story is that bad things happen to all of us, but it’s our actions after the fact that define us
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🎧 Trappin in paradise 78 - smooth sounds
I just hit 100 followers, and I am truly grateful for all of you.
I would like to do a challenge.
For every interaction this post gets (from ANYONE) I will pick up 1 item of trash.
The earth has done so much for us, and I can’t think of a better way to give back
9 April (The joy of being in STEM)
Today was not the best by any stretch of the imagination. I was fighting myself most of the day trying to get my HW done despite putting in good time to try and complete it, the topics just aren’t resonating.
I find myself once again dragging behind the rest of my peers despite studying just as hard as they do. Sadly, I couldn’t tell you the last time I actually had a weekend to myself, or a nice moment that wasn’t overshadowed by the crippling weight of school.
I wish there were more instructors who truly understood that different students have different needs.
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4 April (thoughts)
I never really took the time to explain what the big picture is, so I’m going to attempt to explain it here
I want to be a great dad. As cheesy as it might sound, I love the idea of being a positive father, and father-figure to those who need that person in their life. To this day my dad doesn’t claim me, and much as I love my mom, there are still some things that I would have looked for from him. I will be the change
I want to be a millionaire, and establish various forms of income that can be utilized after my journey on earth is complete. I have already began investing, and look to retire (read: not work as hard) around age 40.
I want to make the world a better place. The earth is OUR mother, and its OUR job to protect her. I have created an animal rights groups, organized adopt-a-highway’s, gone to and organized many protests (the March For Science being to this day the biggest protest I’ve ever helped create).
I want to own a RHD (right hand drive) Snow White FC-RX-7. I adored Initial-D growing up and Ryosuke’s was the first car I actually fell in love with. I was able to own one for a short while, but due to a lack of money, and time I was never actually able to complete the build. I try to play it off like it was no big deal, but that car really meant a lot to me, and it’s my goal to do it right.
I want to be an example of a great physicist, and a symbol of black excellence. I want to show that if I, a vegan, pan, non-binary person can get their Ph.D doing what they love DESPITE being homeless and abused, then you can too.
In case you need to hear this
1. You are loved
2. You are accepted no matter who you are
3. My inbox is always open
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My desk/dorm area
the aftermath of studying for 11hrs
31 March (Calc 4)
Today seemed to me an uphill battle from the start. I woke up to heart issues and dealing with an embedded lip ring (again), but I didn’t let that stop me.
I managed to get all of my work done, and am now trying to get further ahead so hopefully I won’t get crushed later on down the line.
Apologies for the short video, my iPhone corrupted most of the time lapse
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