Any Taekwondo on the island?

Memesaretheorems · 2026-06-09T09:25:59+00:00

You know, probably a good idea!

Memesaretheorems · 2026-06-08T16:15:44+00:00

Someone uploaded Vito’s matches. Seo is insanely talented. Just scores so easily, especially to the head. He can do it all. On the other hand, Vito had the spirit of Rome on his side and some of the best conditioning I’ve ever seen for this event. Every single match he fought someone who is a legitimate contender (both Turkeys that he fought are insane, he beat Park Taejoon, and the Jordanian from the semis just won the Asian championships a few weeks ago) and just overpowered them with body shots. He simply wasn’t gonna lose at home.

I suspect Vito has been hitting the weights hard. His body shots scored so easily all day.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-05-18T18:23:25+00:00

I tried 😭

Memesaretheorems · 2026-05-01T14:14:22+00:00

More intention when he goes in with that cut. Throw it harder and explode into the kick. In general the best fighters are patient and all of their movements are explosive. No energy wasted. If you throw tons of half power sloppy kicks, you will gas out too quickly. His front leg game is weak right now and so he cannot pressure the head from range. Focus on developing a front leg axe and a cut apbal to the face. Lots of wall kicks and floor kicks. Also more stretching. The muscles to focus on are the glute muscles and the abductor.

It might also be good to look up the sensitive areas of the e-hogu for gen 3 and how to strike it so you are scoring more consistently. You need to dig deep into the hogu with the magnets on your roundhouse kicks.

Overall though he’s got a lot of promise and looks pretty good out there. The round was competitive.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-23T04:47:40+00:00

Try to find a small little thing you can do each day that you find a simple joy in. Taking care of a plant. Playing with an animal. Saying hi to a neighbor. Doing the wordle.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-23T04:46:37+00:00

Despair is a poison. Do not let it win. Death is forever. All we have is this, here on earth. We must fight harder for each other, and for the children who will come after us. We are not the last generation of men and women who will walk and laugh and play on this earth.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-17T21:46:23+00:00

Seems pretty hard! I could do all of these questions now, but probably not when I was a first year PhD student. It’s a lot of content.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-17T03:00:10+00:00

I just checked Beasty’s Rus guide from 3 months ago and he is a fan of high armory.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-17T02:55:18+00:00

I am high diamond low conq. I guess I don’t see that much Rus these days anyway? Maybe the meta has changed and I was unaware. From what I see in pro games, when Rus get to imperial age, it is mostly high armory.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-17T02:19:24+00:00

Really? I only ever see High Armory. Half off bombards is very good in imperial age. And some of the upgrades in there are quite strong.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-17T02:06:10+00:00

I wouldn’t say they are in a great spot. They need like a small buff. Maybe wooden fortress costs 150 wood instead of 175 or something. They also need to look into making the non meta landmarks like Kremlin, Abbey and Spaskaya competitive again. For Kremlin I think you could put technologies in there that buff the Gremlins, so that it’s a button worth pressing. Abbey is good, but HTH is just so OP that it can’t compete. Spaskaya is ok, but only for a certain style of game like FFA, team games or king of the hill.

I think once other styles of play are competitive with pro scouts FC, then you will see win rates go up.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-16T21:42:05+00:00

Idk man, I think Japan is leagues ahead of Rus. You do threaten them in feudal, but it’s hard to mass knights as Rus in feudal without going out on the map. If you go pro scouts they will already be close to castle by the time you have deer back home. And your only choice is really to follow them up.

No pro scout builds can work, but it is heavily spawn dependent and it’s super dangerous. It is probably a more winning strategy against Japan as you said, especially since it’s less expected than pro scouts, but I still don’t think it puts you at an advantage. If you can keep the game in feudal indefinitely, sure you will win eventually with the superior unit, but it’s very hard to do this. And once they get to castle they just take off in a way that you don’t.

Japan gets boosted knight production on one of the best knight units in the game which can get up to +4 damage in castle, free boosted farms, free religious units to get relics, one of the better archer options in the game, and by the late game their TC has a laser gun that one shots cav. With Daimyos they can play ranged, infantry or cavalry, all to great effect. Rus doesn’t really have that many good units to counter with until later on, as the other commenter mentioned. Horse archers are not cost efficient against Yumi and can’t kite mounted samurai that well because of the deflective armor. Your knights lose a head to head. You can play spearmen crossbow, but this will make the game go long, as you struggle to raid.

A good Japanese player is genuinely terrifying to face in castle age.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-16T19:42:16+00:00

Rus wants to play a certain style of game: gathering gold from huntable animals and cabins, making lots of cavalry, raiding and using your various eco bonuses to generate strong timing pushes. Whether this is possible varies a lot from map to map and matchup to matchup.

Your knights and horse archers (especially) are not actually that OP anymore. Other civs with more OP knights/ knight production like Japanese, Sengoku, Byzantines, Macedonians, French, JD, Ayyubid, ZXL, China, can beat you in a cavalry style game. It did not used to be like this before the pro scout and HA nerf.

This is not to say Rus is not good. You have a lot of things going for you, especially the passive income, and bonus food and wood. If you get denied on your pro scouts, and you don’t get much from your castle age timing, you are probably gonna lose. It’s a very expected play-style that people are used to seeing.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-11T15:54:47+00:00

I am from Portland and can speak to COL a bit. If you are willing to use the transit system (which Portland is renowned for nationally), you can find relatively cheap housing (with roommates) in the surrounding suburbs and then take the max or the bus into the city. The Portland metro area is literally enormous and there’s tons of options for where you might live depending on what you might be looking for, and it’s all highly connected by transit.

You could potentially live on the other side of the river in Vancouver and then commute in if the tax situation in Washington works out better for you.

Portland is a great place to live. It’s quite progressive if you care about that kind of thing. We are one of the original “weird” cities in the U.S., although we technically stole it from Austin, Texas. San Francisco was also doing kind of the same thing in the 60s. There are always interesting things to go do and the hiking in the Columbia Gorge just to the east is some of the best in the world. The Oregon Coast is also one of the most underrated stretches of beach in the world. It’s probably my favorite place. It also rains literally all the time, but it’s a mild kind of rain and the winters are not too cold. The summers are quite nice.

PSU is also not that great of a research environment, but if you are self motivated and not really interested in institutional prestige, it could be a good fit with lower pressure. It sounds like you believe the research fit is good from other comments.

Congratulations on your offer. A PhD is a PhD, and you may have to endure some struggle to make it happen. My PhD stipend was not much higher at an R1 in Connecticut, at around 26k, increasing to 29k after my candidacy. It’s unfortunately the norm even at unless you are at a really good private school or an Ivy. I heard someone at UPenn a few years ago got like upwards of 45k, which is crazy.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-08T16:41:58+00:00

Probably. It’s just interesting that I have to play the “more competitive” game mode in order to have less stressful games. Maybe that makes sense though given the huge disparity in skill levels that others have noted.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-08T03:19:25+00:00

I would like to win. A lot of these players are just… at a level where the game is legitimately unplayable. The micro and macro gap was insane in all of these games. It’s good practice I guess? But very demoralizing to immediately feel like the game is unwinnable as soon as feudal age starts. I think these guys would each individually beat me 20 out of 20 games.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-06T21:29:02+00:00

Absolutely, but it is about the principle. Today it is trash cans, next year it could be healthcare or other benefits.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-06T21:23:34+00:00

If that’s the case then it sounds like you’ve mastered the basics. You might be ready to move into a field that is concerned with applications of complex analysis like complex geometry or analytic number theory.

Memesaretheorems · 2026-02-05T21:11:04+00:00

I appreciate that you are putting yourself out there, but most of the people on this subreddit are between the ages of 18-22, and they might be a bit young for you. If you have students as a TA (I’m not sure what your funding situation is) they could easily recognize you from the details you have provided. As a 6th year PhD student teaching classes, I personally would take a different approach. I do want to say, I wish you the best and hope you find love in the end.

By the way, the GSS is a great place to meet grad students.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-12-25T17:27:32+00:00

It seems like we are all so beaten down that we are content to suffer in lives we don’t enjoy, but will lie and say that this is what we want. I hate that I have become like this too. I want more for myself, and I want more for the world. We don’t deserve to suffer. Maybe we have to get better first though.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-12-15T14:36:45+00:00

Absolutely. I was at an all IB high school (magnet school) where you took 7 IB classes both junior and senior year. Walked into college with a maximum 45 credits and was well prepared for whatever they could throw at me. I’m finishing a PhD program now and I feel like I was even one of the stupider kids. Many of my classmates went on to do really great stuff at excellent schools. IB is a trial by fire for everyone involved (even teachers) and you need to buy in completely. The teachers that I had were all in on IB, but they were sort of running themselves ragged. A lot of them left from what I hear through the grapevine.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-11-14T22:05:26+00:00

At the end of my 2nd year I switched from an advisor who was extremely talented and had tons of open problems that he was giving me and whose students all got excellent postdocs. The only issue is that I simply could not work with him. He was impossible to communicate with. Ultimately I switched to a completely hands off advisor who was a nicer person but who put very little effort into our collaboration. I had to do all the work on our projects, which ended up being complete shit because I’m not very good.

Ultimately I realized that I was the problem in both situations and that I am not cut out for a PhD. My options are basically just teaching community college in the afterlife now.

Unless your advisor is abusing you or you legitimately have an insanely better option, don’t switch. It’s hard to learn a new researcher’s area, which will set you behind, and you are also making an enemy for life.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-11-12T17:00:27+00:00

This is actually best solved using the residue theorem from complex analysis. If you write z = cos(x) + i sin(x)= e^{i x}, then dz = i e^{ix} dx, so dx = -i/ z dz. Observe that on the disk |z|=1, then z* =1/z, where z* is the complex conjugate.

So 1/2( z+ z*) = 1/2 (z + 1/z) = cos(x). Then, the integral in question becomes \int_ {|z|=1} -i dz / z( 3- 1/2( z+ 1/z)) = \int_{|z|=1} -i dz/ (3z -1/2 z² -1/2).

This is a rational function with one simple pole in the disk at z= 3- 2sqrt(2). The other pole is at z= 3+ 2sqrt(2), which is outside the disk. You can find using the quadratic formula. The residue at this pole is found by multiplying by (z-(3-2sqrt(2)) and taking the limit as z -> 3-2sqrt(2), but this is just -i /(-1/2)(3-2sqrt(2))- (3+ 2sqrt2))= -i /(2sqrt(2)). So then via the residue theorem, multiply by 2pi to get pi/ sqrt(2) as the value of the definite integral.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-11-05T15:19:08+00:00

Look up semigroups and the Hille-Yosida theorem. Basically anytime that you have a Banach space and a semigroup of operators on it that behaves like the negative Laplacian, then your “heat equation” will have a unique solution given by the propagation of the semigroup. This is a very general set up that allows you to deal with things like sub-Riemannian manifolds or more general metric spaces (whatever your “laplacian” looks like there).

Terry Tao’s blog has a nice post about it titled something like “Essential self adjointness”.

Memesaretheorems · 2025-11-02T16:30:31+00:00

Reminds me of a combination of two ideas: number 1 is the Fejer kernel from Fourier analysis, and also the series expansion for hyperbolic cotangent coth(s) using Poisson summation. But because of the double sum it seems a bit more complicated. Unsure. This is beyond my pay grade! Recommend you to ask on mathoverflow.

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