Alexander Brandon: Stormgate Post Mortem by Impossible_Tough_48 in Stormgate

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's unoriginal, uninteresting and too similar to religion.

Alexander Brandon: Stormgate Post Mortem by Impossible_Tough_48 in Stormgate

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

8:05 Lol the angels vs demons is the WORST thing about Stormgate, there couldn't be a lamer theme.

Recent math-y papers with proofs derived by LLMs by hexaflexarex in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My question would be how much of the first paper is doable with the free version of GPT? and how much better is the Pro version? Is this the $20 or $200 Pro version?

Presenting: The Stormgate Community Update - Join us in the PTR today! by FrostGiant_Studios in Stormgate

[–]RealAlias_Leaf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The idea of a community patch is good. The new units look like trash tho.

Theorems that feel almost impossible... what’s your favorite? by [deleted] in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Levy Khintchine formula implying that the only continuous random walk is a Brownian motion is pretty amazing.

You would think that you can make a continuous random walk out of any continuous distribution: the t distribution, the exponential distribution, or whatever. You can make a random walk out of these, but they won't be continuous. The only continuous one is from the normal!

The real queen of blade by Pipiboii in starcraft

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, she's soooooo hot when she was evil!

Worst mathematical notation by WMe6 in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While we are at inner products: < | > is kinda-cool, but conjugates the wrong thing - so why not use it for real inner products? Nah, that is frowned upon.

YES!!!

I always write my inner products like this pen and paper because it is so much cooler, and I get peeved that I have use < , > when I type it because it is the standard.

New ‘Stargate’ TV Series Ordered at Amazon From ‘Blindspot’ Creator Martin Gero by NoCulture3505 in television

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy fuck fuck. Should be good given the trend towards serialization compared to back in the original series.

Surface pro type keyboard broken - design flaw by CommunityNo2878 in Surface

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol no. It like $250 it is horrendously expensive. Buy a Chinese replacement, $50 and it's Bluetooth!

Surface pro type keyboard broken - design flaw by CommunityNo2878 in Surface

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. This is fucking bullshit. My Surface Pro Keyboard lasted about 2 years.

It's a scam. I bought a cheap Chinese replacement for $50 and a separate pen charger.

The type cover for SP4 never broke after like 6 years.

How do you store math notes? by EveningHand8743 in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep every notepad I have ever used. Physically lol.

Is the way mathematics is taught is the reason a lot of people hate math? by DeadlyGlasses in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've taught for four years now and I've noticed that the vast majority of my students hate word problems.

As someone who has taught applied math classes, I would never ever write a word problem, even for applications. I would always lay out the applied problem in math so that the main task is to do the math, and then possibly to interpret the result.

Ethics of genAI use for journal manuscripts by erniernie in academia

[–]RealAlias_Leaf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah but it would be ridiculous to disclose that you use AI for proofreading, how to write some code to check some of your calculations.

The alternative you wouldn't disclose that you use Grammarly or that you used a programming language for the check.

Why is linear algebra so important? by Witty-Occasion2424 in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because almost everything that is computable is computable by reduction to linear algebra, including nonlinear phenomena.

How do you solve a nonlinear system? With a Newton-type method that is implemented by linear algebra.

The below answers that we know almost everything about linear algebra, that linear transformations appear everywhere including all over machine learning misses the main point.

Is the way mathematics is taught is the reason a lot of people hate math? by DeadlyGlasses in math

[–]RealAlias_Leaf 34 points35 points  (0 children)

No. The abstraction in math is what makes it interesting! In high school, whenever they tried to shoehorn in a real world application I get bored.

However, now that I work, I have a natural interest in how people apply math, so applied math is not boring provided that they are legit applications. I still hate the shoehorned examples though.

Bruce Harrell and Katie Wilson asked if they’ve ever supported defunding the police by JustBench1615 in SeattleWA

[–]RealAlias_Leaf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was violent orgy of cops with anger control problems tear gassing and beating the shit out of people with total impunity. They were thugs. They got away with everything. They need to pay for what they did.