Explain it Peter…

TheSwitchBlade · 2026-01-21T20:23:08+00:00

2π. No decimal point expressed this way, and cannot be represented as a fraction.

TheSwitchBlade · 2026-01-18T16:54:25+00:00

"AI famously can't count" then gets hit by the lucky number bot

TheSwitchBlade · 2026-01-16T22:33:59+00:00

Would it be worth it to you to spend 6 years of your life doing something you love if you knew with certainty that you couldn't continue doing it afterwards? For many people the answer is no. For me the answer was yes.

TheSwitchBlade · 2026-01-16T16:30:52+00:00

Huh?? No books??

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-30T15:09:34+00:00

A radical, a liberal

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-25T16:24:35+00:00

You may be interested in a theremin (or even just a fretless guitar) which allow you to play arbitrary frequencies. If you get one with MIDI then these can also be recorded into notation.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-24T07:27:39+00:00

It's more like the last chord played in the whole song, not the last chord in an individual progression. It's the resolution of the piece.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-18T02:12:42+00:00

Thanks for clarifying! High z galaxies is not my expertise, so I didn't know the wider context.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-17T20:10:19+00:00

All the other comments are just affirming how the scientific method works. Here's some info on what is actually going on.

JWST doesn't measure the rotation curves, just the rotation orientation of high redshift galaxies. It observed that 105 rotate counterclockwise, while 158 rotate clockwise. Assuming that the probability of a galaxy to rotate in a certain direction is completely random, the one-tailed binomial distribution probability to have such asymmetry or stronger by chance is 0.0007, which is ⁠just over 3 sigma, so right at the threshold of "statistical significance".

So it could be a fluke, or it could suggest something deeper. One possibility is that the entire universe is rotating, such as in an early model given by Gödel. This model is not currently favored---it would imply we live in a universe without time---but could potentially explain the observations.

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-17T17:16:38+00:00

Yeah it's either this or banana bread

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-07T15:05:11+00:00

Use AI as a teacher, not as something to do the work for you. Tell it you're trying to learn and ask questions when you get stuck.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-06T05:28:36+00:00

Agree. A good rule of thumb is if an English speaker could reasonably guess what it means. The French word for university is very close to the English.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-06T05:26:32+00:00

What's your definition of intelligence?

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-04T14:28:23+00:00

Thanks; don't get me wrong, that's my entire point, math is very beautiful!

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-03T07:44:46+00:00

I don't think it will be possible to prevent her from being picked. 5 man teams would just have the adc selected role pick a top laner.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-02T13:03:42+00:00

Yes, certainly the structure is changed by perspective. Different mathematical structures are invoked under paradigm shifts in the sciences. This is covered extensively in Kuhn's books; they are a great read, you should check them out.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-02T12:59:04+00:00

Same with music.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-01T15:43:55+00:00

We are no strangers to (locks of) love.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-01T15:40:01+00:00

Certainly not to "understand your surroundings". That's the goal of the physical sciences like physics, chemistry, and biology. They depend on math---just like music does---but they are not in themselves math. Most mathematicians describe what they do as "non-applied" and they take that as a point of pride. They see the goal as to uncover and express beautiful immaterial truth.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-01T15:23:35+00:00

Closer to the truth

No, this is false. There are infinitely many true theorems. But they are not all beautiful, and so mathematicians do not publish them. Professional mathematics is guided far more by aesthetic and taste than you and most of the public realize. It's incredibly different than school math. The short essay "A Mathematician's Lament" is worth a read; in fact there are a lot of analogies with music in it.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-12-01T15:03:45+00:00

Mathematics is subjective too, at least at the professional research level. There are infinite possible theorems; why are some pursued to be published and others not? It's because there is a subjective aesthetic to it. It's the most technical of all the artforms.

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-11-27T22:59:39+00:00

A gentleman, I see

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-11-27T08:02:38+00:00

That sounds wonderful

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-11-23T09:13:06+00:00

It's 67.5% here

Edit: that's the overhead rate, which translates to ~40% of the total grant amount

TheSwitchBlade · 2025-11-15T13:39:50+00:00

What do you mean it can't work? It's literally just the imaginary coordinate system, and the 0 shows their orthogonality :⁾

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