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what's up with engineering students?
This shows frequency of the word "unqualified" in teaching reviews. Women in orange, men in blue.
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This remains the only good EDC
There’s always something incredible on r/EDC
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i hate people like this because these ideas seep into people's brains and it makes my job harder. it's so much easier to teach math to someone who thinks they can learn it versus someone who internalized the idea that math is an innate skill only for geniuses
@lordofgummies33
I hate to say it, but as a former physics major, if you actually want to go into physics you should be the kind of person who finds this level of material completely obvious at 9 years old.
It's absolutely worth studying -- but physics only needs people who are math freaks.
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my bf has been watching a tv show whose premise is "what if the USSR landed someone on the moon first?" and this meme is all i can think of
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engineers are so stupid they think one bad experience* legitimizes sexism
(* i'm skeptical of the story and if it did happen whether it's representative of the class)
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I get that not understanding pronouns is his schtick, but it's "we'll see who cancels *whom*"
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you have to be incredibly stupid to fall for this lie. marx's writings about maths are available online (). you can read them and see he was grappling with a question mathematicians grappled with—how do you make sense of the derivative? it's not crankery
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my nonbinary child had a perfect 1600 SAT, 4.20 GPA, was captain of the volleyball team and swim team in high school, and did a summer internship at NASA. yet they didn't get into Harvard nor MIT nor Penn because they refused to sign a declaration of support for Hamas
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It's surreal to me that it's 2022 and there are still people out there who think 2 + 2 = 4 is an objective truth that was true before humans even existed and not just like a thing society agreed on because it's useful
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youre welcome
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@ggreenwald
Damn I remember when you would point to the fact that the federal US government didn't recognize your marriage as a bad thing and part of why you immigrated to Brazil lol
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we need to teach students the foundation of mathematical thinking before we look at specific little applications. in what i modestly name "New Math" i propose we make primary students learn category theory before times tables
What needs to change about math education?
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I think as mathematicians we need to come clean that prime numbers aren't actually interesting. Like, I guess it's neat that they show up in applied math to do cryptography, and it's a fun subject for amateurs to do recreational math, but the *mathematical* content is thin.
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there's research about how this sort of idea is a big part of why math/physics have such a dismal gender ratio! shut up and stop hurting diversity in my field!
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Just got word I'll be teaching my department's pre-calculus class next semester, and could use some advice. When you're teaching students the background knowledge they need to do calculus, do you think it's better to teach them Dedekind's or Cantor's construction of the reals?
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if your explanation centrally features the acronym STEM, why is engineering an outlier within the STEM disciplines?
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I'm almost in awe at Rowling's confidence in herself as a writer that she would set for herself the task of explaining why the heroes of her story didn't stop the Holocaust.
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bf: what are you doing today?
me: math
bf: what kind of math? Explain it.
me: *explains it*
bf: *leaves the room*
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@bolton69420
won't work now. too many private equity firms in the landowning game that would buy it all up
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The reason math education fails to convey this concept is that it's false.
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Cauchy's biggest impact on maths was to not accept Galois's papers on polynomials for publication by the Academy of Sciences, which would have ensured Galois's entrance to the École Polytechnique, leading to a lifetime of research rather than an early death in a duel.
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if you want to learn how computers really work, study Turing machines or lambda calculus
@DanielcHooper
C is how computers actually work. Learn it and move on to another language if you want
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english is the best language because it fits in with human experience. like, if i'm at a restaurant and i need to know where the restroom is, it's so much more easier & natural to say "where is the restroom?" instead of "wo ist die Toilette?"
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@KEEMSTAR
If you're absolutely opposed to sex with a trans person you have a responsibility to disclose that to potential partners before sexual activity.
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@no_earthquake
i mean this in the nicest way possible but it is not surprising to learn the french are hella racist against yet another group of people
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What if instead of linear algebra it was linear gal-gebra, and it was just for the ladies
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this is a good point. we should make high schools teach the basics of statistics (measure theory)
Why is calculus the default higher level math in high school and not statistics?
Is there a reason I don’t know about?
I feel like society would be way better off if they understood the basics of statistics.
I’m honestly curious.
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@hawillisdc
don't become a senator if you value the privacy of having dinner out over a constituents very real concerns
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This is good but they shouldn't give you a preview box. If you can't compile the TeX in your mind you don't deserve it
Twitter reportedly working on allowing users to write math formulas in tweets
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Some say C is a bad language because it's not memory safe. On the contrary, that's why C is good. If Ocarina of Time had been programmed in a memory safe language we wouldn't have ACE and all the cool fun glitches & tricks it enables, which would be sad :(
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@RayAlexWilliams
Ray, from one girl to another: if you haven't been able to get hair removal yet, the trick is to use a light foundation to counter the blue tint from the hair follicles beneath the surface.
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@ajplus
Incredibly scummy to omit the detail that those missionaries were *citizens* of Kiribati who had left the island to do missionary work elsewhere and were finally coming home.
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all math education did for my communication skills is now i'll use the word 'modulo' in casual conversation and expect non-initiates to know what i mean
i disagree. the reason oomfs think my arguments and connections make sense but the way i communicate them is bizarre and incomprehensible is because part of my education was me doing a lot of proof heavy mathematics 🙏
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@CyberpunkGame
This is an inadequate response. The executives who allowed this dangerous decision to go through should lose their jobs.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities
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marx wrote in 1881. bolzano & weierstraß had formal definitions of limits in the 1810s—they were grappling with the same question as marx!—but it took decades to spread across mathematicians. marx didn't make a freshman calc error because that curriculum hadn't been developed yet
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i think it's good and cool for a uni to offer a class on indiginous mathematics, and if this upsets you it's because you're racist
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@ashleyfeinberg
Mad props to Chelsea for having the courage to say this publicly when she, like everyone else, could predict that this would be Glenn's response.
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von neumann's interpretation of the natural numbers in set theory is so much more intuitive when you write it as 4 = {0,1,2,3}
I will never take fundaments of math seriously. 4= {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}, {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}}}?????? Fuck off now.
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as an ultrafinitist, i think it's nonsense when people try to talk about numbers larger than the number of electrons in the universe. that's why i don't believe in 2
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Today, 8/13/21, is not only a Fibonacci triple day, it is the last Fibonacci triple day until the 22nd century. 1/1/[21]02 is the next one.
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Mathematicians really should learn from programmers on how to do things. For example, every programmer knows you shouldn't use global variables. But mathematicians do it all the time, such as when they set a global value for π.
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calling it fermat's last conjecture in my lecture notes. fuck you you don't get credit for that
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Earnest but perhaps hot take: It's a good thing when students call for unis to fire notorious transphobes who are actively involved in the political fight to deny trans people healthcare and rights.
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lmao the terfs have already moved from "drop the T" to "drop the GBT"
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"calculus" is code for "hitting on his undergrad students"
This is the divorce complaint of Richard Feynman's second wife. She literally hates calculus. 👀
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if you want to read a non-idiotic thing about marx & mathematics, don't read economists. read a historian 👇
This paper, "Marx, Mao and mathematics: the politics of infinitesimals" by Joseph Dauben, is hella interesting.
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it's fun to play games with your friends
can someone explain the true psychology of people who enjoy playing board games and card games
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this'll make a good final exam question for my trig students
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Dear mathematicians,
Why few people read your work outside of academia is because you intentionally phrase things in a way that is exclusive to academia. Few on the outside understand, or care to understand symbolic logic.
Either change it or accept the cult label.
Dear analytic philosophers,
Why few people read your work outside of academia is because you intentionally phrase things in a way that is exclusive to academia. Few on the outside understand, or care to understand symbolic logic.
Either change it or accept the cult label.
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@loadedonloaded
Really mean to ask your students to write papers so long they span 3 volumes and 1000+ pages.
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if musk posted a screencap of my article i'd go walk into the ocean
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@jessicobra
luv 2 see allegedly pro-trans people reinvent the terf "trans-identified female" term
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pro-tip: google latex bottom to find some hot stuff and have a good time
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The referee said my paper shouldn't be published because my proof of the main theorem is incomplete. Buddy, if incomplete things are unworthy of publication I've got some news for you about mathematics as a whole.
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joke doesn't work. the series isn't an approximation, that'd be the first Taylor polynomial. 3/10, see me after class
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Myth: you cannot prove infinite collection exist.
Reality: maybe you can't, but Dedekind can
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I hate the symbols in math so much. It just feels like unnecessary gatekeeping for trivial concepts. How many mathematical proofs could be made widely accessible with just a little bit of psuedocode?
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idk why people say math is hard. It's not. If you want to decide whether X is ture just run a computer program which enumerates all possible proofs and see if it eventually outputs X or eventually outputs ¬X. Easy.
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@bathematician
Q: what sound does a drowning number theorist make?
A: loglogloglogloglogloglog
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If someone asked me to show that this inequality holds for all real numbers, I simply would refuse to do it.
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the biggest structural obstacle to science is when libgen only has a book in .djvu format
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Imo every STEM major should have to take humanities classes (maths)
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Some think mastodon is complicated, but it's actually quite simple. All you have to keep in mind is, mastodon is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors
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Riffing on Tao (), 3 stages of mathematical development:
1. pre-anarchy: math is about universal rules
2. anarchy: the rules are arbitrary and you can make up whatever you want
3. post-anarchy: you can make up rules, but it's not arbitrary
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academic journal websites should have an "open on sci-hub" button next to the "pay 57 USD for a pdf" button. sure it only saves me a few seconds each time, but those seconds add up
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Here's a secret your calculus teacher won't let you in on: when we talk about a point in two dimensional euclidean space, what we really mean is a set of the form {{D}, {D,E}} where D and E are Dedekind cuts of rational numbers.
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They used to just call it linux, but people started calling it GNU/linux after Noether proved it was isomorphic to the quotient by the kernel
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Couple that learned their lesson after naming their firstborn child Khaleesi now naming their secondborn Paul
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we should write them all as for loops
it's actually crazy how much better triangle notation is than the standard notation
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I don't get why people think i'm rich for making $400,000 per year when I have to spend $30k per month on gorilla jpeg nfts
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anyone else notice how often when people critique (allegedly) useless academic research how often the word "queer" appears in their critique? what's up with that?
“How dare you criticise my £800,000 taxpayer-funded project on the queer anthology of the Latin hedgehog! Anti-intellectual!” 😭 😡
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