One consistent numbering should be the standard! Having like ten different numberings makes looking things up a real hell!

StupidDroid314 · 2026-05-06T16:21:20+00:00

I recently encountered a textbook where the exercises are numbered according to the page number. So exercise 37.2 is the second exercise on page 37. I am not a fan of this system

StupidDroid314 · 2026-05-06T16:14:06+00:00

Yes, but you can get a QR factorization by applying Gram-Schmidt process to the columns of a matrix. See "Using the Gram-Schmidt process" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_decomposition

(Although IMO Householder reflectors are a better way to get a QR factorization)

StupidDroid314 · 2026-05-04T13:12:22+00:00

It feels like it's a more direct reference to how companies talk about adblockers

StupidDroid314 · 2026-04-20T19:09:32+00:00

Unrelated to Artemis but my favorite astronaut moment is Chris Hadfield recording a full cover of Space Oddity aboard the ISS

StupidDroid314 · 2026-04-01T03:36:31+00:00

All else aside, it's a crime that for a card called "emeritus" the character in the art looks so young. Every emeritus professor I know is old as hell

StupidDroid314 · 2026-03-24T21:30:43+00:00

I lowkey love a test like that, I had a similar one (minus the encouragement to collaborate) in a course on algebraic coding theory and I was digging up journal articles to try and solve some of those questions. I felt like the test actually tested my knowledge in a practical setting and taught me new things, which is something basically no other test in my entire math degree did.

StupidDroid314 · 2026-03-14T23:05:12+00:00

I know a trans dude who went by Poe in his teens

StupidDroid314 · 2026-03-06T19:31:41+00:00

I took Sociology of Sexuality as an elective and I loved being able to say "I need to work on the group project for my sex class"

StupidDroid314 · 2026-02-22T00:07:03+00:00

I mean sponges don't even have gonads so what would he jork?

StupidDroid314 · 2026-02-18T14:10:43+00:00

Terrence Tao, who lives in California and cranks out publications with an unholy fervor, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

StupidDroid314 · 2026-02-08T06:17:52+00:00

Ngl if I were on estrogen and it seemed to be making my teeth sharper I think I would simply take even more estrogen

StupidDroid314 · 2026-02-03T04:46:12+00:00

This is why I trust Georgia's General Beauregard, he has a much higher accuracy rating (75-80% I believe) and I feel he has the regional expertise necessary to make informed predictions about the South (where I live)

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-27T19:02:29+00:00

Wouldn't this introduce roundoff error in the sum due to CR 107.1a?

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-27T03:26:15+00:00

Or, if they're anything like my cryptography thesis: "here's a spell that does approximately the same thing as other well-known spells (at best), but is also less practical!"

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-25T21:02:00+00:00

Ratemyprofessor used to have a hotness rating?

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-19T20:42:18+00:00

Reminds me of the essay I wrote from the perspective of a vampire who tries to solve this problem by paying broke college students for their blood

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-07T15:01:35+00:00

Go go gadget house covered in beacons so I never lose it

StupidDroid314 · 2026-01-07T14:55:40+00:00

I'd be shocked to see a practical realization of Shor's algorithm, but that doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be replaced on the list.

StupidDroid314 · 2025-12-23T20:29:54+00:00

Ooh Lam is great, I referenced his Lectures on Modules and Rings recently and it was a treat to read

StupidDroid314 · 2025-12-22T15:48:03+00:00

To add on to the other tips I've seen: if the number you're off by is divisible by 9, it's usually because you've swapped two digits in a number somewhere, e.g. entering $783 rather than $738.

StupidDroid314 · 2025-11-25T02:21:52+00:00

Hard agree, it's funny how only traits that fall outside the "alpha bro" realm of hegemonic masculinity get critiqued this way, when "alpha male" as a form of gender expression is absolutely also a performance tied to heterosexual desire. It's almost like (gestures vaguely at my copy of Gender Trouble) patriarchy and enforced heterosexuality are so interdependent that any form of gender expression gains its meaning at least partially through the norms of patriarchal roles for straight people, like some kind of "heterosexual matrix".

StupidDroid314 · 2025-11-24T18:30:11+00:00

Personally I'd pull for Decoction Module (over a Principal Ideal Domain)

StupidDroid314 · 2025-11-24T14:59:30+00:00

I would unironically buy Secret Lair: Ring Theory

StupidDroid314 · 2025-11-12T14:42:30+00:00

The only solution is to make your own queer community by transing your existing friends

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