TriangleSpecialist

@TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in to say, I know exactly what you mean, and I love the subject, to the point I did an PhD in pure maths. The whole “golden ratio” in nature, and a lot of other adjacent stuff, leaves me indifferent at best, and really irritates me at worst. It’s cheapo mathy wank to feel clever when you talk to your friends. There is nothing wrong in being interested in it, but I’d hope someone would eventually go beyond that.

  I also am not a fan of several very useful branches of maths, like calculus, but it’s a tool you need to have. Some people love it though, and I scratch my head at it as much as you do, if not more probably, because I have had to use it so much.

  There are probably as many reasons to find maths beautiful (or ugly) as there are people, but for me it boiled down to the fact that:

  • with relatively few assumptions, we can logically and iteratively build an abstract machinery that is consistent (well, with caveats…);
  • a lot of these abstract theories provide good enough frameworks for other sciences to base theories on and be successful at explaining the world with these (I could talk about the fifth axiom of Euclid, non-euclidian geometries, and how we eventually arrive to something that is a formal setting for the theory of relativity for hour, it’s fascinating);
  • it provided me with abstract objects that I could reason about, explore in different ways, and with different point of views, until something clicked and I got to understand the objects better;
  • some proofs, even of quite complex theorems, have such a simple and elegant initial idea (when others can feel quite forced), that it is not to marvel at seeing how things fall neatly into place (sometimes…).

  So to me maths provided a setting in which things worked and made sense, and you could essentially just enjoy an endless supply of puzzles in that setting, whose solutions you could formally prove.

  Unlike a lot of maths nerds, I don’t necessarily think that that’s totally limited to maths though. I think most people do their abstract thinking and puzzle solving on whatever it is that they find beautiful. Or I hope they do, it’s a wonderful feeling. The formal aspect of proofs though (and I don’t necessarily mean computations), that’s the unique thing that can set it apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Chuck it down the drain and make another one according to my British friends and family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or is from England and cannot imagine that a good food culture can mean more than: “I like the taste of some stuff and everyone else in my country consumes food too.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve moved to England 5 years ago. I can confirm a worrying amount of people don’t care for food at all here.

  Instead of a nice meal, when they want to enjoy a convivial moment, they burn shredded black leaves in boiling water, add milk to it to cover the terrible taste, and call that tea. And if you don’t ruin it in the exact specific way that they designed, they get angry (but they don’t understand why e.g. Italian and French people are so particular about their traditional recipes).

  Send help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so scrombled it’s unreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This but going the “other direction” for me.

  Learning maths has mostly consisted of a repetition of me thinking for a brief moment “yay! I know how to differentiate functions”, only to discover later a more general setting in which it was clear that no, I did not, in fact, know how to differentiate functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need help finishing the SHITPO phonetic alphabet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And is incidentally the name of a website that is also full of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Management lingo irritates me the most actually⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in our deoxyribonucleic acid to make alphabet soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Management lingo irritates me the most actually⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s definitely a thing in pure maths as well, and physics from what I can tell. That does not invalidate the need for jargon and e.g. the usefulness of the full generality of N-norms in other places. (But I am not saying that you implied otherwise).

  The problem with the very real attitude you describe, is that it’s partly responsible for some people thinking this meme is actually true and that technical people only ever pretend to do complicated stuff. That’s just anti-intellectualism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw MS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft still riding the high of replacing the Super key with the Windows key back in windows 95, and trying to replicate it.

  There was an “Office” key instead of ctrl right only a few years ago, which was a total fumble. Here’s hoping the same fate awaits the copilot key, that’ll make for fun stories in tech museums in a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

  Lucky for Beethoven, he was deaf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just came in your cereal. AMA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a new kink or have you been turning cornflakes into frosties for a while now? Any other party tricks we should be aware of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most normal Silicon Valley techbro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read them but I’ll take your word for it. I should have made that explicit though you’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most normal Silicon Valley techbro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If your only exposure to philosophy is from Conan the Barbarian then yeah. That, and glistening muscles and a biiiiig sword.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most normal Silicon Valley techbro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Failing basic human empathy, and a modicum of ethics, do people like this genuinely never open history books?

  If he’s ever in charge, he better pray the tide never turns, lest he would like to lead by example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you tell from this photo alone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Found’em

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you tell from this photo alone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That I need to get my shit off my balcony and figure out who’s the asshole taking pictures of my apartment without my consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, your life sounds awesome.

  I just think about my inevitable demise and the one of my loved ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But what will I think about under the shower?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or maybe it was just their way of uninviting you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the Songeuse devant la cheminée from Marcel Rieder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump appears to be sleepy during the last cabinet meeting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody stays awake like me. Nobody. I am tremendous at it. Everyone says it. Even the fake news people. Some people say I am the best in the world at staying awake. I have millions and millions of awake hours, and the greatest stamina.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alright grandpa, let’s get you to bed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “so done with females”

  I am sure the “females” all around the world are well gutted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this only about AI chat? Or also about the image generator?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brilliant shitpost or totally lost user?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are embarrassed just make it sound classy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “they” can fuck right off. À partir de deux chevals ça fait des chevaux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are embarrassed just make it sound classy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d advocate for “pornaux”, to make use of a fancy French plural rule. Un pornal, des pornaux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unironically think this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know whether my nose would be my organ of choice, but I otherwise agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life’s hard enough as it is, one has to practice self love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is too complicated, breaks all the time, and you need to be a nerdy computer wizard to be able to use it.

  I have very niche needs like reading emails, writing emails, and looking at memes, and for my use case Linux is really not there yet.