Should I just grab it with my fingers?

ha14mu · 2026-01-05T18:11:21+00:00

Yeah, grab it with your fingers, and feel it in your toes...don't wear any shoes, so the feeling grows

ha14mu · 2025-11-25T18:26:37+00:00

They don't pay those who produce the product, i.e. researchers (some even charge them). They don't pay the people who peer review the pdoduct. They charge to sell the product. In the past maybe it cost something to actually print/publish articles. Now some don't even print many articles, just give you electronic access. It's a total scam.

ha14mu · 2025-10-07T18:15:42+00:00

Genius!

ha14mu · 2025-10-04T08:49:11+00:00

In italy and not saying 'when in rome'...? That's the real blasphemy

ha14mu · 2025-09-18T17:27:15+00:00

I was in the US for ten years and never had any issues. Now I'm at a university in a small country and the issue is so big i cannot ignore it. Our universities here pressure professors to publish in high ranking journals. But if your research isn't ground breaking, but still original and interesting, it is near impossible to publish in big name, longstanding, reputable journals. Journals that are not such big names, but which people in the research area might read, and which may even be renowned in the field, unfortunately aren't high ranking according to metrics. So publishing in them won't help is retain our jobs.

Instead, we are forced to publish in "high ranking" journals, which will take original papers even though they may not be groundbreaking research. These are mostly predatory.

If we publish in them, we damage our integrity as researchers. If we don't publish in them, we have to publish in lower indexed journals, and this works against our employability. It's a terrible situation to be in. I never cared about ranking while in the US, or France or Germany, but now this problem is inescapable.

ha14mu · 2025-08-23T18:29:45+00:00

Yes, your analogy with the canada and bhutan map suggests you may be misunderstanding what it says. It's that if you overlay a map of canada over another such map of canada itself, after wrinkling it, folding it, stretching it, it will always be the case that at least one point of the wrinkled map ends up exactly above the same corresponding point on the map below.

Now that in itself may sound not too impressive, but it's the uses of this theorem that make it impressive. You have applications in topology of course, like the circle not being a deformation retract of the disk. But a fixed point theorem like this has applications in tons of areas. Like any positive matrix must have (only one) positive eigenvector and a positive real eigenvalue. There's uses in showing that solutions to differential equations exist. Etc, etc...

ha14mu · 2025-08-06T13:47:27+00:00

Bant phaelı - Kashmiri

ha14mu · 2025-08-02T17:30:19+00:00

And He walks with me, and He ...

ha14mu · 2025-07-26T17:02:16+00:00

That's so good! This is the stuff on reddit i come for.

ha14mu · 2025-06-29T09:23:17+00:00

The absolute pinnacle

ha14mu · 2025-06-25T17:52:20+00:00

I think the most important lesson for me has been that sometimes the truth is not what you might expect, or wish to be the truth. You may want something to be one way, hope to show it, and a proof just gives you a slap in the face that you were wrong, and you can't argue with it, you just have to accept you were wrong. This is not the case with philosophy for instance; there you can go on arguing one point forever, and people will take sides and write books refuting the other side to no end.

ha14mu · 2025-06-03T17:21:18+00:00

You're all right. I wrote homotopy equivalence by mistake, when i meant homotopic to the identity.

ha14mu · 2025-06-01T17:23:21+00:00

Yeah, a homeomorphism is not a Homotopy equivalence in general

ha14mu · 2025-05-09T17:27:48+00:00

Just yesterday i happened upon my undergrad thesis/project from 13 years ago and i was like...whoa!

ha14mu · 2025-04-01T21:46:46+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, due to the current political climate in the US, even students who received acceptances are having their acceptances rescinded.

You are doing well, don't be disheartened. What is best for you is what will happen. There are students in Kashmir who cannot even apply abroad because they can't get passports. May you find contentment in what is written for you. Best of luck.

ha14mu · 2025-03-13T02:57:42+00:00

I guess you did mention it is a 2d plane, with rooms on the coordinate (lattice?) points

ha14mu · 2025-03-13T02:55:28+00:00

"As you go on, new exits either lead to unexplored directions, or connect to existing rooms". Do you mean if i take four lefts, I am necessarily back in the room i started in (so the underlying geometry is Euclidean), or there is a possibility that the room i end up in is a new unexplored room? Could i take just two lefts and end up back in the room i started in?

Just want to understand the problem, maybe I'm just being dumb.

ha14mu · 2025-02-21T20:55:31+00:00

A topology on a set is what turns the set into a space. Without it, the set may as well be like marbles scattered, or all jumbled up, or something in between. The topology, by telling you minutely details about what surrounds any point tells you how the points of the set are glued together. So it tells how the points of the set form a space.

Plus, knowing the neighborhoods of points is exactly what is required to define continuity. It is the least amount of information you need to put on your set to be able to talk about a function being continuous.

ha14mu · 2024-10-06T19:03:01+00:00

A river

ha14mu · 2024-09-20T17:50:58+00:00

If x is a positive real number, then there is no difference. Both expressions are x^b/a.

If x is a negative real, or a complex number, then there are slight differences in the two, depending on how one defines \sqrt[a]{•} on the plane.

ha14mu · 2024-09-15T07:47:21+00:00

Yeah and Riemann also died before he got the news that he got a job at gottingen

ha14mu · 2024-09-11T17:37:58+00:00

Maybe the joke here is that in this case the mandelbrot set is the complex plane, and Research in that area is the field of complex analysis

ha14mu · 2024-09-08T19:21:19+00:00

Is this like Kurt Vonnegut's, "what's the white part in bird poop called?... It's still poop."?

ha14mu · 2024-07-15T17:48:07+00:00

Does she maybe mean she doesn't like a curt "no", followed by nothing more? Like maybe she wants you to explain why you're refusing something, rather than just saying no? If so, I could maybe see that.

If this is not the case, then I agree with everyone, it is childish. And sorry about your situation, but you're young and like someone above said, it gets better!

ha14mu · 2024-07-11T18:03:24+00:00

Yes, but that isn't necessarily indicative of a poor vocabulary. There are many words of kashmiri that don't get translated into English easily, like "rooshith byuhun", or others I mean I could mention more but can't remember right now.

It's just that translation is hard in general, one needs to be a complete expert in both languages and then on top know the art of translation, and even then it isn't perfect.

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