rnather @rnather@mathstodon.xyz
Math Student (BSc + MSc)¹. Sews, codes and draws.
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Joined Feb 2019
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I got my MSc thesis online a few weeks ago, and it covers some of the topics I'll be looking at. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/336807
What I did there was read a couple of 90's papers by Jean Bourgain and explain the basic results. Bourgain was known for omitting *a lot* of details, so this was not an easy task! The result is 80 pages of dense maths. (Goal for MSc theses is 40 to 50...)
Chapters 2 and 6 present pretty general tools and should be readable. Chapter 4 can be used to scare demons.
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Just for a laugh,
Let G be a graph,
With points called P
And edges called E.
Now draw a line
(just anywhere's fine)
And split up P,
Some for you, some me.
Now look at E,
And how it links P.
If every line
Connects yours to mine,
That graph called G?
Bipartite. QED!
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Need a pick-up for the day?
Go into settings and browse your list of mutuals.
Make it visible to yourself... that these people are in the virtual room with you. Rooting for you. Real.
It's so grounding to just see the names and icons of friends and know they are there.
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In topology, spaces can be classified as: regular – normal – completely normal – perfectly normal.
Are we just bad (as always) at naming things, or are the topologists hiding something? ”Keep moving… this is a perfectly normal space… nothing to see here…”
food mention
@thephooka can't sour cream not technically be frozen? (won't help right now though :/ )
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Never get old
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."
Still Pratchett
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@ColinTheMathmo I am thinking a lot recently about how highly parallel paradigms (mainly GPU, but also multicores, etc) might transform the way we (should) approach or teach numerical algorithms.
It would be very interesting to find a programming language that allows to do this in a natural way, preferably with a higher level of abstraction. For example, are there dataflow languages that are suitable for high performance numerical work?
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Other people elsewhere have posted less impressive versions of similar things, so I thought I'd post this:
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I (love|hate) regular expressions -- muesli (@fribbledom)
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PSA: Using Conway's Doomsday Rule for calculating the day of the week from the date ...
Today is a Doomsday!
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@thephooka [2/2] So honestly, even though Numair and Vlad are in the best position to figure things out, it looks like part of the problem here is people not really seeing what is immediately before there eyes... so my best guess as to who'll spot all the connections would be either Luu (talking to Liya about her aversion to fire and what caused it) or Helly, if Numair mentions Hawk to ner.
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@thephooka [1/2] At this point, pretty much every character involved would only need to ask one question/spot one connection to unravel the entire blockage of meet-ups.
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"Updated Universal Estimation Table"
submitted by PotbellyPlatypus
@ColinTheMathmo Wouldn't that imply that there's some kind of conservation law for dirt, in the sense of the amount of dirt being constant?
Or maybe there is something like the second law of thermodynamics for dirt 🤔
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Always be wary and sceptical of any statement that starts with 'Always'.
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Woah, TIL that there are so-called fractal vises for clamping irregularly shaped items! (The picture doesn't explain it very well, you have to watch it in motion! It's in the first 30 seconds of the video:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWU
#tools #HandTools
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -- Dalai Lama
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The existence of computers implies the existence of co-computers i.e. mputers
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Q: What's yellow, linear, normed, and complete? A: A Bananach space.
Math Student (BSc + MSc)¹. Sews, codes and draws.
[1] I'ts complicated
Joined Feb 2019
