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I'm interested most seriously in math--analysis more than algebra, learning lately about combinatorial/incidence geometry (e.g. the Erdős distinct-distance problem)--and programming--mostly in Haskell, although I'm curious about C and systems-level things as well. On the amateur plane I like classical music and read haphazardly in the s-f/litfic/poetry space. I try to learn from the example of people who're more knowledgeable or skillful than I am.

Mathis der Maler is good

on this day in 1665: Samuel Pepys's work habits are criticized by a guy named Mr. Hater mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/1

"Das Firmament blaut ewig, und die Erde / Wird lange fest steh'n und aufblüh'n im Lenz. / Du aber, Mensch, wie lang lebst denn du? / Nicht hundert Jahre darfst du dich ergötzen / An all dem morschen Tande dieser Erde!"--poetry about the inevitability of death is especially appealing to me for some reason (also featuring: the odd verb "blauen", coming I assume from "das Blau" = "blue" and hence meaning "to blue, to be blue")

Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Path-Connectedness

(a2ps on an empty file followed by ps2pdf worked)

spent 15 minutes earlier today trying to create a blank PDF file, folks

woah: "In the p-adic integers, congruences are approximations: for a and b in Zₚ, a ≡ b mod pⁿ is the same as |a−b|ₚ ≤ 1/pⁿ. Turning information modulo one power of p
into similar information modulo a higher power of p can be interpreted as improving an approximation."

today in "cognates to famous mathematicians' names": "Atle", as in Atle Selberg, is a Norwegian variant of "Attila", as in Attila the Hun en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Atle

tfw you started typing your equation inside \﻿[ \﻿] but it gets too long so you have to go back and change to \﻿begin{align*} \﻿end{align*}

my career aspirations at this point are basically "whatever it is that Dan Piponi does"

Danish: how many levels of front rounded vowels are you on?
German: like 2 or 3 my dude
Danish: you are like a little baby. watch this:

"our estimates are failing! we need a new, even less precise notation to rescue them"

okay, Bruckner and like Steve Reich

Bruckner is the only composer who satisfies the part of me that just wants to hear that one good part of a piece over and over again

only potential problem is that there's not much contrast between movements 4 and 6 in tempo, so inserting a minute or two of silence as a substitute might not be a bad idea

Mahler 3 could totally do without the fifth movement tbh

A Mastodon instance for maths people. The kind of people who make $\pi z^2 \times a$ jokes.
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