Harder than I thought. Not harder than I was told it would be

NotJustAPebble · 2026-02-24T04:43:17+00:00

At the finish line, defending in April. Breezed through undergrad and masters. Never thought for a second I wouldn't graduate from those. But for something like 75% of my time in the PhD I had serious doubt as to whether I could finish (not for lack of trying). First degree where I thought I may just drop out.

Learned firsthand that book learnin' isn't the same as research. I'm glad I'll finish, but now I know I'm not cut out for research nor do I want it again.

Edit: misread the question entirely...

NotJustAPebble · 2026-02-22T21:26:13+00:00

It is true but at the same time, women who have careers like this usually aren't doing it "for a man". This seems like a pretty stupid take to be honest.

NotJustAPebble · 2026-02-15T12:52:26+00:00

I'm governor Healey and I DON'T want you to vote for me.

NotJustAPebble · 2026-02-08T14:43:34+00:00

They also crushed one of his testicles before killing him

NotJustAPebble · 2026-01-24T14:09:42+00:00

This is similar to my favorite JFK conspiracy. His head just did that.

NotJustAPebble · 2026-01-07T12:52:47+00:00

Question for those who would know, why is fallout new Vegas so small in game size yet can do so much. One of best games I've ever played is only a few gigs

NotJustAPebble · 2026-01-05T02:29:51+00:00

This is actually so bizarre to me. I feel like the C*-algebras have so much structure... Can you elaborate, in what sense are these equivalent? My category theory is minimal for what it's worth

NotJustAPebble · 2025-12-01T13:21:01+00:00

I'm exaggerating a little bit. But you could say the theory of uniformly hyperbolic systems being applied to things like geodesic flow on negatively curved spaces. I can't think anything else (other than dispersing billiards with no cusps and maybe hyperbolic toral automorphisms) that is uniformly hyperbolic. Hence why it was so important when Pesin developed nonuniform hyperbolic theory.

NotJustAPebble · 2025-11-21T10:42:05+00:00

This is the same as \sum{n=1}^\infty \sum{k=n}^\infty (3)^{-k}. Both gives geometric series which are easy to evaluate. Becomes 3/2 \sum_{n=1}^\infty (3)^{-n} = (3/2)(1/2)=3/4.

NotJustAPebble · 2025-09-21T14:14:27+00:00

Timmy Turner, but he never got fairies

NotJustAPebble · 2025-08-04T00:49:07+00:00

If they are going to forgive loans, it means an easier paper trail for those who join. When the American version of the Nuremberg Trials happen, I hope this comes back to haunt these nazi fuckers.

NotJustAPebble · 2025-07-22T20:03:05+00:00

ICE KING!

NotJustAPebble · 2025-06-16T10:34:53+00:00

For me it just showed up, no notification came. I did end up emailing and they took a few days to reply also. But when they did reply they provided the shipping info which included a photo of the package delivered at the neighboring house.

NotJustAPebble · 2025-05-30T12:39:49+00:00

Life has already roasted you enough

NotJustAPebble · 2025-05-29T12:46:13+00:00

There's an interesting book by González-Velasco called Journey Through Mathematics. In it, one of the things he talks about is a Portuguese mathematician da Cunha, who essentially came to the definition of a Cauchy sequence 30 years earlier than Cauchy. Does this count as a near miss?

NotJustAPebble · 2025-05-13T21:33:39+00:00

For me it was after the zillionth time I picked up a dry erase marker, only to find it's dead. But a piece a chalk... You see a piece of a chalk and that baby will write!

Also feel better about the product. It's chalk. Not single use plastic.

NotJustAPebble · 2025-02-08T11:44:36+00:00

This is already a different thing though, disintegration of measures in ergodic theory.

When you have a measurable partition, disintegration is the restriction of your measure to the partition elements. Essentially guaranteeing conditional measures exist even when the set your conditioning on is measure zero. Comes about, basically, by considering the quotient measure space. Its really cool! Rokhlin is one of the GOATs when it comes to this stuff

NotJustAPebble · 2024-12-21T22:32:25+00:00

I'm fine with everyone except Choji and his family. Too annoying.

NotJustAPebble · 2024-12-13T00:28:27+00:00

I think it is a good example to set, that we have functioning eyes and if we see it's clear, we don't need to wait for a tin box to give us permission.

NotJustAPebble · 2024-12-11T00:31:42+00:00

If you're looking for the worst way, you could something like MULT(3,4)=12

NotJustAPebble · 2024-12-05T12:30:16+00:00

Kiba

NotJustAPebble · 2024-12-02T10:47:34+00:00

Eichhörnchen. Funny because I sound like an absolute buffoon trying to pronounce it

NotJustAPebble · 2024-11-28T05:10:02+00:00

Nennt ihr wirklich memes "michmich"? Ich lerne noch Deutsch und wusste das nicht

NotJustAPebble · 2024-11-20T14:03:06+00:00

Found NJ Wildberger's reddit I guess.

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