raptop changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer. | We can haz pdf
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<kmath>
<beingandslime> overheard a 13 year old girl at this camp absolutely demolish mathematical platonism today: "numbers aren't things.… https://t.co/EQRZ08myo4
<SnoopJeDi>
I would like to subscribe to her newsletter
<mofh>
same
<SnoopJeDi>
Finally in the part of the Ramanujan book where he's in Cambridge. It's giving me that "darn, I don't grok math very well" feeling again :)
<mofh>
Math has this odd property where it takes awhile to process compared to anything else, at least I find.
<SnoopJeDi>
The silver lining is that apparently, Ramanujan didn't either in the sense we would usually mean grok today
<SnoopJeDi>
(apparently)
<SnoopJeDi>
But when paired with the "Apostle of rigor" (as the book dubs him) in G. H. Hardy, his intuition became even more formidable
<SnoopJeDi>
relatedly, I didn't know about the Tripos before this book and I would like to officially go on the record as saying "what the fuck"
<SnoopJeDi>
mofh, but yes, I think I've told you the line my math advisor said in our diff geo course when he was explaining that he'd decided to teach it to relearn the subject: "You don't truly understand a subject until you've forgotten it twice."
<SnoopJeDi>
(or something along those lines, anyway)
<mofh>
SnoopJeDi: I mean my Complex Analysis prof literally taught the course b/c he needed to learn it properly and this was the best way for him to learn
<mofh>
(he did an AMAZING job btw and I still remember that course *extremely* fondly)
<mofh>
Also yes my general attitude towards the Tripos is that it's a pile of bullshit.
<SnoopJeDi>
that's why he was teaching diff geo >:)
<SnoopJeDi>
it probably stuck because he did his thesis on currents, so we knew he meant it
<SnoopJeDi>
(well, those of us who knew this did, anyway)
<Raptop>
!choose try to learn how to use Green's functions \ moar stat mech \ paper
<galois>
Raptop: Your options: try to learn how to use Green's functions , moar stat mech , paper . My choice: paper
<mofh>
My choice is learn how to use Green's functions, tbh.
<SnoopJeDi>
A local prof who teaches the numerical methods course has a wonderful rant about "Green's functions" in his course notes
<SnoopJeDi>
(by contrast: "Fermi's surface," "Legendre's polynomials," and most humorously: "an apple's pie")
<SnoopJeDi>
...not that it changed anyone's mind, naturally
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<mofh>
*snicker*
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<Raptop>
I feel like I've seen "chandasekhar's limit" somewhere
<SnoopJeDi>
I think this form of usage is how we *get* the non-possessive form.
<SnoopJeDi>
Since the etymology is almost always: X publishes work, Y wishes to refer to a quantity from that work, and it becomes "X's quantity" or maybe "the quantity of X"
<SnoopJeDi>
It's a strange objection since attaching a name of this kind is *precisely* possession anyway? Like, this is why language has this feature.
* galois
gives mofh a maganese breaded spheroid with a circle attachment
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn -del:adj maganese
<galois>
Deleted adj 'maganese'
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn -add:adj manganese
<galois>
Added adj 'manganese'
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn -add:wpn mongoose
<galois>
Added wpn 'mongoose'
* Raptop
swears that they didn't change anything*, and yet a plotting program broke
<Raptop>
*well, I might have updated some libraries in the past, er, 18 months
<mofh>
!wpn egg
* galois
gives egg a linter
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* galois
gives whitequark a bombe
<Raptop>
!wpn mofh_
* galois
gives mofh_ a copper coilgun with a pterodactyl attachment
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<SnoopJeDi>
maganese is an element the US would like to be rid of, tbqh
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn SnoopJeDi
* galois
gives SnoopJeDi a carbide antimony eigenvector
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* galois
gives UmbralRaptor a parabola
UmbralRaptor is now known as QuadraticRaptor
<SnoopJeDi>
eigenvector is a good choice of !wpn for me today, my optimizer is starting to behave itself after a goalectomy
<SnoopJeDi>
incidentally, if you numerics wizards happen to know of a good rule of thumb for deciding which singular values are "the small ones," I'm hunting around for that. I've cobbled together an ad-hoc way, but...
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