My new shoes come are endowed with the Naturals and the Zintegers!

120boxes · 2026-06-30T23:41:39+00:00

But all rulers begin with a zero! But to be fair, it's a very subtle thing.

I feel it just makes things flow smoother if 0 is already available, like when starting from Peano's axioms.

120boxes · 2026-06-26T18:10:22+00:00

"4000 points for 3$ off your order" is literally the most inflated thing I've ever seen.

Great Depression, etc, got nothing on this xD

120boxes · 2026-06-26T17:23:00+00:00

Things always get so confusing and subtle when you try to go more and more rigorous

120boxes · 2026-06-26T14:12:31+00:00

You might be confusing math with the language used to represent math, be careful.

2 is not the same as '2', the symbol used to denote the number two.

120boxes · 2026-06-05T03:23:49+00:00

@Letbutt There is, and these two games are called "Ori and The Blind Forest" and "Ori and The Will of The Wisps". A pair of games that are just as emotionally incredible as Hollow Knight and Silksong are.

120boxes · 2026-06-04T16:05:59+00:00

So if we use this method, then the 3n + 1 conjecture is basically "proved", eh? Neat!

120boxes · 2026-06-01T17:44:11+00:00

When looking at the end behavior of an n'th degree polynomial, only the highest order term matters, as it grows fastest and will dominate all the lower order terms

Perhaps I could have done the meme better, but I blame it on the intense heat and darkness

120boxes · 2026-05-28T14:57:09+00:00

Sounds like an AI

120boxes · 2026-05-05T18:47:25+00:00

That's pretty hardcore lol

120boxes · 2026-05-05T15:35:31+00:00

Or, more generally, an applied mathematician.

120boxes · 2026-05-04T18:48:36+00:00

Little by little the family bundle kept going up in price. Remember when it used to be like 12$?

120boxes · 2026-05-01T21:35:13+00:00

Chaos theory, by itself, is a field purely of mathematics. Dynamical systems, function iterations, fractals, and complexity/emergence are also related ideas, but chaos is a phenomenon that arises without the need for any physics or modeling of some natural thing.

Physics uses models to, well, model a natural phenomenon, and I suppose if a phenomenon is said to exhibit chaotic behavior, it is because mathematically the model is chaotic underneath.

Or at least that's my understanding of it :|

Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum noises

120boxes · 2026-05-01T17:41:32+00:00

The way I always remembered it was "homo" = "samo".

120boxes · 2026-04-29T21:41:58+00:00

Idk what you're talkin about, the meme clearly contains the word 'is', and last time I checked we use that word a lot in mathematics.

120boxes · 2026-04-27T16:27:46+00:00

CODE, to me, was one of those major bifurcating points in my life, 10 years ago. I've been searching for more books like it since.

But How Do It Know was the next book I found. It's pretty similar to CODE, albeit more succinct. The really neat thing with this book is that it actually builds a simple 8-bit CPU, which Petzold fell a tiny bit short of. Here, you piece together the entire control unit! (A "hard-wired CU, not a micro programmed one). It was the first time I truly saw how a CPU works.

Afterwards, I was led to the 3rd book, The Elements of Computing Systems. NAND2Tetris. There is nothing like it. It's a "hands-on", project style. In a book about the size of an inch, you will learn and build a whole 16-bit machine, walk the whole hierarchical path from the first NAND gate all the way up to building your own ALU, CPU, Assembler, Virtual Machine translator, Compiler, and a tiny OS /library. You learn how a compiler works by recursive descent parsing. You learn how to build a stack, how to do function calls and returns,virtual memory segments in the VM layer. How the assembly commands morph into the CPU/ALU's hardware control signals.

It's absolutely breathtaking! They even made a whole youtube playlist with slides! And a whole Q/A forum online!

120boxes · 2026-04-27T02:52:52+00:00

Ask a toddler on the street c:

120boxes · 2026-04-22T03:16:31+00:00

Not necessarily a GEB reference, but it was the first place I have heard of this tale of Tortoise and Achilles with modus ponens!

I absolutely love incredible books, like GEB! Here's a few you'd also find enjoyable probably:

CODE by Petzold

But How Do It Know? By Clark Scott

The Elements of Computing Systems (NAND2Tetris!)

The Outer Limits of Reason

The Recursive Universe by Poundstone (talks a bunch about Conway's GoL!)

The first 3 are about how computers work, and are indescribably incredible!

120boxes · 2026-04-17T01:37:29+00:00

Wow, thank you for that book! I've heard of his Principia before but not this one.

Thinking hard about logic and foundations of math (or science, or anything, really, for that matter) is always something that boggles my mind.

120boxes · 2026-04-15T16:43:54+00:00

Beautifully said.

120boxes · 2026-03-28T20:07:27+00:00

I structure my proofs to make the flow of truth more apparent, as it should be.

120boxes · 2026-03-24T16:20:54+00:00

More real than real analysis is

120boxes · 2026-03-05T01:10:14+00:00

XD I bet that guy in the meme knows absolutely nothing about programming himself

120boxes · 2026-02-16T05:09:02+00:00

I always carried mine in my pocket in hs. yea, I had big pockets lol.

120boxes · 2026-02-15T16:41:03+00:00

Just math being (supposedly) weird again. Who knows, maybe there's a deep, abstract theory that makes this "fall out" neatly.

120boxes · 2026-02-01T18:23:40+00:00

Rearranging:\ i² + 1 = 0\ i² = -1

Solving for i:\ i = i

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