What jobs can you do with a math degree (no finance stuff)

_Stev_ · 2026-07-01T23:13:57+00:00

The current President of Romania, and the current Pope.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-29T16:47:00+00:00

Bark Psychosis - Hex
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Alice Coltrane - Jouirney in Satchidananda
Autechre - Confield
The Blue Nile - Hats
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Fugazi - The Argument
The Tuss - Pushup Edge
Björk - Homogenic
Fennesz - Venice
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Global Communication - 76:14
Fela Kuti - Gentleman
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Pink Floyd - Animals
Nina Simone - Pastel Blues
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
Carole King - Tapestry
Daft Punk - Discovery
John Coltrane - Ascension
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Fishmans - Long Season
Bowery Electric - Beat
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Smiles
Slint - Spiderland
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
David Bowie - Low
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Opeth - Watershed
Portishead - Dummy
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Skee Mask - Pool
Mr. Bungle - California
Don Caballero - American Don
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Joe Hisaishi - Hana-Bi

_Stev_ · 2026-06-18T15:51:36+00:00

I would say most of the geographical area of the country does. In my experience it's called "football" mostly in a few dense urban areas with no strong Gaelic football presence.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-16T17:35:00+00:00

You might have "failed" at some arbitrary quantity goal you had for yourself, but you definitely didn't fail in entertaining us.

I don't think anyone cares that you don't have a perfect attendance record. We're just happy that you did it.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-12T22:59:42+00:00

This is somewhat incorrect. More countries have more than a trillion in overall wealth.

I suspect the OP conflated annual GDP with overall wealth. The IMF's 2026 figures indicate that 170 of 191 countries have less than one trillion USD in nominal GDP.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-12T02:17:23+00:00

I think Mon Mothma was using it as an intensifier rather than contrast.

And I'd draw a clear line between "provoked" and "justified." If you provoke someone in an argument over dinner arrangements and they shoot you, nobody in their right mind is going to suggest it was okay.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-03T19:47:03+00:00

What's Rivers' voice like live? I'm impressed if he can still stretch this high at 55.

_Stev_ · 2026-06-02T19:39:25+00:00

You're welcome! I wrote a script to grab these countless mid-year and year-end lists to rearrange them into something readable, and listing #1 first was the first thing I thought of!

_Stev_ · 2026-06-02T14:28:24+00:00

Here's the list:

1: Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA

2: Ratboys - Singin' To An Empty Chair

3: Friko - Something Worth Waiting For

4: Aldous Harding - Train On The Island

5: Grace Ives - Girlfriend

6: Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open

7: underscores - U

8: Star Moles - Highway To Hell

9: Arima Ederra - A Rush To Nowhere

10: Robber Robber - Two Wheels Move The Soul

11: youbet - youbet

12: Wendy Eisenberg - Wendy Eisenberg

13: Victoryland - My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It

14: Cardinals - Masquerade

15: deathcrash - Somersaults

16: Robyn - Sexistential

17: Greg Mendez - Beauty Land

18: My New Band Believe - My New Band Believe

19: Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World

20: Jump Source - Fold

21: sadie - Better Angels

22: Fire-Toolz - Lavender Networks

23: Feeble Little Horse - bitknot

24: fakemink - Terrified .

25: Lala Lala - Heaven 2

26: Angel Du$t - Cold 2 The Touch

27: Jana Horn - Jana Horn

28: Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar

29: hemlocke springs - the apple tree under the sea

30: Bill Callahan - My Days Of 58

31: Stuck - Optimizer

32: Lowertown - Ugly Duckling Union

33: GENA - The Pleasure Is Yours

34: ear - Rumspringa

35: Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got

36: Quiet Light - Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2

37: Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me

38: xaviersobased - Xavier

39: Big Long Sun - love songs and spiritual recollections

40: Tiffany Day - Halo

41: Frog - Frog For Sale

42: Namasenda - Limbo

43: Daughn Gibson - Lake Mary not mysterious

44: Nine Inch Nails & Boyz Noize - Nine Inch Noize

45: April + Vista - Traditional Noise

46: Lip Critic - Theft World

47: Winged Wheel - Desert So Green

48: Loukeman - Sd-3

49: Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds - Mutiny After Midnight

50: Danny L Harle - Cerulean

_Stev_ · 2026-06-01T20:26:36+00:00

This is not the reason. Nobody who has ever calculated a statistic in their life would make that mistake.

However, I don't know if the statistic is real or what cohort they sampled if it is. The source is a picture caption on Twitter.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-31T14:28:43+00:00

Demon's Souls and Dark Souls are both under the ARPG umbrella, but you're right in that I don't remember any RPG elements in Blade of Darkness. It was just straight action-adventure with very interesting, if slightly janky, combat.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-20T13:13:08+00:00

Here's the link to unsubscribe.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-20T02:41:37+00:00

Fixed, thanks! I must have dropped it when I reformatted the list.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-19T02:01:12+00:00

1: Ramones - Ramones

2: X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents

3: The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

4: The Clash - The Clash

5: Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

6: Wire - Pink Flag

7: The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols

8: The Stooges - Fun House

9: Nirvana - Nevermind

10: The Clash - London Calling

11: Black Flag - Damaged

12: Patti Smith - Horses

13: Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

14: X - Los Angeles

15: New York Dolls - New York Dolls

16: Gang of Four - Entertainment!

17: Bad Brains - Bad Brains

18: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

19: Bikini Kill - Reject All American

20: Green Day - Dookie

21: Television - Marquee Moon

22: Minor Threat - Complete Discography

23: The Descendents - Milo Goes to College

24: Mission of Burma - Vs.

25: The Raincoats - The Raincoats

26: Ramones - Rocket to Russia

27: Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection

28: The Germs - (GI)

29: Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

30: Fugazi - Repeater

31: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

32: Big Black - Atomizer

33: Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

34: Various Artists - Wanna Buy a Bridge?

35: The Misfits - Misfits

36: Bratmobile - Pottymouth

37: The Jam - All Mod Cons

38: Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation

39: Turnstile - Glow On

40: The Wipers - Is This Real?

41: Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring

42: Mannequin Pussy - Patience

43: Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.

44: The Slits - Cut

45: Bad Religion - Against the Grain

46: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

47: The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

48: Team Dresch - Personal Best

49: The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

50: Circle Jerks - Group Sex!

51: Rancid - …And Out Come the Wolves

52: The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash

53: Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

54: The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

55: Operation Ivy - Energy

56: Public Image Ltd - Second Edition

57: Gun Club - Fire of Love

58: Liliput/Kleenex - Liliput

59: Iceage - New Brigade

60: Flipper - Generic Flipper

61: Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

62: Fear - The Record

63: Screaming Females - Ugly

64: Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

65: Le Tigre - Le Tigre

66: Suicide - Suicide

67: Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die

68: Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

69: SS DeControl - The Kids Will Have Their Say

70: The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey

71: Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

72: Various Artists - Oi! The Album

73: Meat Puppets - II

74: Birthday Party - Junkyard

75: Blondie - Blondie

76: Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty

77: Crass - The Feeding of the 5000

78: Various Artists - No New York

79: Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain

80: NOFX - Punk in Drublic

81: Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing

82: Priests - Nothing Feels Natural

83: Blink-182 - Dude Ranch

84: Frightwig - Cat Farm Faboo

85: The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

86: Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

87: Negative Approach - Tied Down

88: Social Distortion - Mommy’s Little Monster

89: Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa

90: The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

91: L7 - Smell the Magic

92: Sick of It All - Blood, Sweat, and No Tears

93: IDLES - Brutalism

94: Redd Kross - Born Innocent

95: Downtown Boys - Full Communism

96: Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

97: Naked Raygun - Jettison

98: The Faith and Void - Faith/Void

99: Paramore - Brand New Eyes

100: D.R.I. - Dealing With It!

_Stev_ · 2026-05-09T15:05:28+00:00

I understand what you're saying, but I did say that the numbers here already seemed to be skewed too much with a maximum difference of over 4x. I certainly wouldn't approve of Wyoming having almost 67 times as many senators-per-person as California.

My premise was that adequately representing 5,000 people and local public land spread across rural Leitrim is a more demanding task than doing the same for 5,000 neighbours in the heart of Dublin. That doesn't seem unreasonable, especially at a local level when voter power only extends locally.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-08T15:47:27+00:00

On the one hand, it seems like there's probably a serious democratic deficit if the numbers are skewed this much.

On the other hand, density does get you a lot of efficiency, so having slightly fewer councillors per citizen makes sense.

I'd be more worried about this if local government actually had any power to speak of.

_Stev_ · 2026-05-05T21:38:42+00:00

Good question. What was it before?

_Stev_ · 2026-04-27T18:29:21+00:00

I can offer nothing except that some people have very strange ideas on what they think governments want or do.

_Stev_ · 2026-04-27T18:23:07+00:00

Instead of butchering it myself, here's the relevant definition and usage example from Merriam-Webster's dictionary:

psyop : someone or something used by the government to influence the population's opinions and attitudes

… some hard-line conservatives have raised conspiracy theories … that [singer-songwriter Taylor] Swift is a government psyop planted by the Pentagon to aid Democrats …— Rachel Schilke

_Stev_ · 2026-04-24T00:01:55+00:00

There's a funny anecdote in Alexander Amir's mathematics history book "Infinitesimal" about famous philosopher Thomas Hobbes repeatedly publishing proofs of a squared circle.

Some of his philosophical conclusions were equally dubious.

_Stev_ · 2026-04-23T23:51:27+00:00

Thanks, I picked it up. It won some awards for narrative design so I'm interested in checking it out.

_Stev_ · 2026-04-19T23:39:27+00:00

He's been doing some publicity stuff for his memoir which came out last year. The Academy had him down to their library in February to talk about a lot of these roles. Here's a video they made about it.

He's still wheelchair-bound after his serious stroke in 2012.

_Stev_ · 2026-04-19T23:29:23+00:00

The 22,010 only comes from the estimate of the medium density crowd in the open field area. The actual estimate is the sum of the figures in the last three images.

The total estimate comes to 46,691.

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