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
<UmbralRaptop>
mlbaker, mofh: given my math struggles, the two of you describing yourselves as bad at it is, uh, scary
<mlbaker>
UmbralRaptor: you referring to twitter?
<UmbralRaptop>
yeah
<mlbaker>
"i'm bad at math" isn't quiiite equivalent to "i don't think i could contribute to the geometric langlands program"
<mlbaker>
like, that particular field is incredibly notoriously technically demanding, more so than probably anything else in all of math
<UmbralRaptop>
hrm
<mofh>
what mlbaker said
<mofh>
like it's conceptually *fascinating* from the little bits I can barely understand, but it's infamous for just how complex and technical it is. *in maths as a field*.
<mlbaker>
i read something once about the barrier to entry being so high that most phd students in that field take years longer than an avg. math phd to complete
<mlbaker>
also
<mlbaker>
it's apparently standard procedure for newcomers to the field to go through a bunch of dense tomes & accept 90% of the theorems on faith because they have nowhere near enough time to learn any appreciable percentage of the proofs
<B787_300>
UmbralRaptop: i dislike DCA so hard to find stuff and no continuous airside access
<mlbaker>
and even established researchers in the field only understand the nuts and bolts of like 1/6 of what's going on
<UmbralRaptop>
aaaaa
<B787_300>
mlbaker: that sounds like a good way to miss understand stuff (also makes it hard to go back to a first principles approach)
<UmbralRaptop>
B787_300: I feel like the big advantage of DCA is the metro stop, and once the silver line gets eggstended…
<mlbaker>
it's kind of a nice testament to what we can achieve together as a species
<B787_300>
UmbralRaptop: unfortunately even if i am doing a day trip the places i am going cant store a bag
<mlbaker>
even if our individual lifespans are too short for one person to ever process the entirety
<mlbaker>
B787_300: I mean, I agree; that's why it's remarkable that this is the MO
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<mlbaker>
like these people are doing stuff that's so high powered that every proof they write involves invoking a bunch of mega-theorems that each take a whole book to prove, rofl.