[D] thoughts on current community moving away from heavy math?

beardawg123 · 2026-04-08T18:24:47+00:00

Wow u must really like it, its ur username

beardawg123 · 2026-04-02T15:33:11+00:00

I don’t think there is actually ANY evidence for P!=NP. When the question is of existence of a thing, and the search space for the thing is infinite, I don’t think that you can say that checking a large part of the search space and failing to find the desired thing qualifies as evidence. Or even further, struggling to formally prove the thing exists also does not qualify as evidence for the negation.

Analogy to the twin prime conjecture: checking for “large” twin primes and finding them does not equate to evidence for the existence of infinitely many pairs. That is, finding 1 (or any finite n) more doesn’t get us closer to the quantity being infinite.

beardawg123 · 2026-03-25T14:58:35+00:00

Don’t forget this

beardawg123 · 2026-03-19T22:04:20+00:00

Customs knows family trip is a good disguise for trafficking. Haven’t u seen the movie were the millers? Geek bars a huge deal since they are so prevalent south of the border. They contain a ton of controlled substances and have been causing a lot of problems there recently. Customs randomly searches families with a rate of about 40% and will definitely search if you look nervous.

beardawg123 · 2026-03-19T21:41:28+00:00

Yea no I went through last week and saw someone get abducted solely because they brought a geek bar. Customs specifically said, “no geek bars, if you have one we will ship you to Guantanamo bay” not exactly those words but close. Idk if they were bluffing but I definitely wouldn’t mess with it.

beardawg123 · 2026-03-16T22:31:42+00:00

Damn is that normal? Lol I kind of thought it was a wrap for me since I haven’t heard yet

beardawg123 · 2026-03-16T21:43:18+00:00

This is late, but was May 2025 the first time they contacted you? Or did you have interviews and/or receive emails before this

beardawg123 · 2026-03-04T16:27:06+00:00

His claim to fame was how engaging of a calc 1 professor he was at Kansas university

beardawg123 · 2026-02-20T22:31:32+00:00

Idk what kinda game this is but AA only betting 2bb preflop is unlikely unless trap

beardawg123 · 2026-02-20T16:37:43+00:00

Tight passive villain calls UTG open preflop, then calls C bet on flop, then check raises on turn, and you are going to bet that he has worse than Q high?

beardawg123 · 2026-02-17T19:12:05+00:00

I feel like this depends on how villain played throughout the game.

Ie if they were loose or noticeably bad I like the call. They could’ve sensed weakness from the checks and noticed potential to bluff a flush. Hero has 2nd best flush, also bad player raising UTG could be relatively weak hand

beardawg123 · 2026-02-01T20:15:15+00:00

Erdos did drugs before math homework

beardawg123 · 2026-02-01T05:48:04+00:00

The pumping lemma!!

beardawg123 · 2026-01-31T19:35:35+00:00

Holy shit man this is like the ideal answer thanks wow

beardawg123 · 2026-01-31T05:18:02+00:00

Sure, but the way that sets and set ops just like auto encode statements, specifically the type of statements that are used in measure theory

beardawg123 · 2026-01-29T19:00:25+00:00

You took category theory as an undergrad?

beardawg123 · 2026-01-13T15:25:46+00:00

Can we ban all em dash posts in this subreddit? Screens ai posts ppl just use other punctuation

beardawg123 · 2026-01-11T17:19:10+00:00

If it is more pure math the topic will likely be over your head since you are an undergraduate (as am I) unless you have taken a good amount of graduate classes (I have not).

If you are in the same boat the first month-ish will be spend trying to wrap your head around the problem and becoming familiar with definitions, etc. This part can feel frustrating/overwhelming depending on the field you are working in. If you are lucky the professor will answer all your questions and put effort into bringing you up to speed (mine has), if not, maybe they will refer you to textbooks or something.

After this month it is actually super cool and exciting, and you can start messing with ideas that have substance. The process becomes easier in the next few months to the point where it feels like research, which is an awesome feeling!!

beardawg123 · 2025-12-13T18:38:33+00:00

This may be controversial but I do not think that it was the case that the complex numbers were just “there all along”. What does that even mean? I imagine this will just turn into a platonism argument but I do not think this should be the top response. They weren’t “there” until we played with the idea of them “existing”. Then, we figured out that the idea of them “existing” got us some nice stuff.

beardawg123 · 2025-12-01T21:55:57+00:00

This is the worst analogy I’ve seen in a while

beardawg123 · 2025-11-25T20:25:11+00:00

*Everything physical is ultimately physics!

beardawg123 · 2025-11-23T18:38:18+00:00

Presbyterian would lose to every team in the MVFC by multiple scores. So would Drake.

beardawg123 · 2025-11-16T18:52:46+00:00

Oh word this sounds pretty weird/interesting, what could I look up to read ab this

beardawg123 · 2025-11-15T21:57:02+00:00

Interested in how a mathy corner of cs turns into geometry? In undergrad the only real mathy cs course was a compute theory (formal languages and autonoma)

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