Kim Reece @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz

@dpwiz
Goodness; I did /not/ expect that to evolve into a formal explanation of the value in terms of predictive power of accepting personal inconsistency. Well found!

- How many levels of rationality are you on?
- Like,, maybe 3, or 4 right now. my dude
- You are like normal reasoner then. Watch this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxastic_logic#Increasing_levels_of_rationality

"This is 100% real maple syrup. That means there is no imaginary component."

"Does this mean we don't get any of the complex flavors of the syrup?"

how math is presented: "this knowledge came fully formed out of someone's head at the same pace that you are reading it"

how math is done: "this person became obsessed with a problem, worked on it for anywhere between a week and their entire lifetime, and finally produced a very messy version of this knowledge which was later refined and expanded by other mathematicians"

@feonixrift is my 'cyborg' alt. Due to the symbolism-friendly nature of hackers.town, I post woo here more often than on x0r.be, to my surprise. This account is vocal on technology issues, open source, and internet politics. This account does not cw strongly, uses idiom and metaphor freely, and revels in confusion.

My above-noted @feonixrift x0r.be alt aims to cw carefully and speak clearly. As a result, they're less expressive but a lot nicer. I also accept follows who use software heavily enough to be mistaken for bots on hackers.town but not on x0r.be. (Those whose bots are mistaken for humans, otoh, may pass.)

@kimreece is labelled as my 'mathematician' alt and is more public. My focus there is enthusiasm for the art, its instruction, and its materials. This includes handwriting and chalkboards and old books. Rarely, I'll say something technical there. The server suplorts LaTeX so if my post looks garbled with maths, pull it up in a web browser (click the timestamp). I hope to expand my use of this alt, but keep it more informal than scholar.social accounts often are.

There are three of me on here that talk significantly often, though I have a few more.

feonixrift@x0r.be (here) is labeled 'heathen aspect' atm, but I don't tend to post woo here often. I do talk 'left' issues like lgbt and politics a bit here, but more family stuff, things I'm nervous about, parenting, life in germany as am expat. Some thesis stuff falls under 'nervous' leading to bleedover from my 'mathematician' aspected alt.

BASIC.

There was a time when even the smartest weren't ashamed to use "beginner" languages. Our elitism dooms us to a world where only the elite are literate because we insist on writing in hireoglyphics and conclude that everyone who can't learn it must just be too dumb. Which we sugar coat by saying their brains just work differently.

After we made all our wishes, we’d close our eyes, and we’d wish for more protractors, which was weird.

A different view of the M87 black hole image.

I know posting a picture of the tactile black hole doesn't help its intended audience, but if you're interested in one please get in touch. Print-it-yourself files will come when the design is more final.

#BlackHole
#blind