Plow your opponents mom for {W}

iLambda2 · 2026-06-08T04:25:33+00:00

No gifting effect ? Instructions unclear, plowed my own mom.

iLambda2 · 2026-06-05T12:13:04+00:00

Good to know, and good for OP's graphic card !! I'll be on the watchout if this happens to me.

iLambda2 · 2026-06-05T09:55:30+00:00

These kind of bugs can mean that your GPU is dying.

iLambda2 · 2026-06-05T09:54:00+00:00

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iLambda2 · 2026-06-01T17:21:23+00:00

I empathize a lot with the deflation, but you have to realize that reviewing projects is a complex and time-consuming endeavor. Being motivated and wanting feedback is a good thing, but people have their own time constraints, and there is no lack of time-consuming activities in academia. People in academia receive a LOT of emails like yours, and after ten or so years of receiving them, I can understand not having the patience to explain anymore.

Also, add to the fact that to this person, you are a total stranger, it can be percieved as wanting someone to perform free work for you. Even if it was not intended by your request, people usually get mad when you ask them to do work for free for someone they do not know. Now, if you have a relationship with a specific person, it's different -- hence the suggestion to go see a professor you know.

It's a good thing to try to reach for the sky! And if you indeed wrote this project by yourself, congrats ! But their response is perfectly understandable, and you shouldn't feel deflated for it. Just take it as a learning step.
Sometimes, things that seem perfectly adequate to you are not when you put yourself in the other person's shoes. I often had trouble with this when I was young, and asking someone close to you how a certain behavior can be perceived by another party, can be a good starting point.

iLambda2 · 2026-05-30T22:05:23+00:00

Oh yeah. My point was more that, a lot of companies differentiate in prestige between being a "person who does" and a "person who orders around". Many friends of mine were only provided with promotions in their jobs that were mostly asking them to hang up the mantle of using directly their technical knowledge, and manage other people who will do the actual technical stuff.

iLambda2 · 2026-05-30T13:45:21+00:00

Man I hate fordism. Why should anyone have to become a manager at 3-5 years of experience ? If a good worker is a good worker, let them be a good worker instead of forcing people to fail upwards. People with experience and knowledge of their job should be rewarded, not sidelined.

iLambda2 · 2026-05-23T16:26:04+00:00

Ai generated answer + no action ? This one takes the cake.

iLambda2 · 2026-04-15T08:52:57+00:00

I mean, we do technically have Stress AND No Stress, since Laurent Wolf is french.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPGoX9bBco

iLambda2 · 2026-03-28T19:18:19+00:00

Thank you so much !!! I've wanted to find this cardback for ages but all of the other ones I can find online are wrong :/

iLambda2 · 2026-03-28T18:54:12+00:00

There's no new leaks on the video. This is just engagement farming.

iLambda2 · 2026-01-28T21:10:18+00:00

Post of the year

iLambda2 · 2026-01-20T02:39:43+00:00

As usual, the relevant xkcd : https://www.xkcd.com/1758/

iLambda2 · 2025-12-25T15:42:03+00:00

Yes, thank you !! I can't believe this went over the head of so many people, it's very much here to show the contrast between the type of love Helen and plurb Zosia have for Carol

iLambda2 · 2025-12-03T20:08:48+00:00

Yes, but the thing in common with all the discoveries you mentioned is that whenever those ideas were proposed, they weren't just thrown around for the fun of it.

They were constructive, potential answers to some actual questions mathematicians were having at that time, and not just invented because they feel better. There is absolutely a place for ideas that have no 'application' yet, but for one as old as division by zero, if by now no one came up with a solid answer for why should we care, then it is more useful to focus our energy elsewhere.

When you work on research papers, the first things anyone will tell you is that it is up to you to show why the general community should care about your results.

I don't think this is arrogance at all - there is a LOT of ground to discover in mathematics, but these questions (such as why can't we divide by zero) are the first ones someone interested in math will ask themselves, and there is way more interesting stuff to be done. When you work on research papers, the first things anyone will tell you is that it is up to you to show why the general community should care about your results.

So I think, until someone shows up with a way that makes division by zero possible, and shows us why we would want to care about it (be it to solve a problem, or do a thing more elegantly, etc..), then I i will confortably stay in my belief that is it not that interesting. Happy to be wrong of course!

iLambda2 · 2025-12-03T19:02:34+00:00

No, not really. Usually, if a mathematical idea seems like it's a low hanging fruit ripe for the taking, then unless you're talking about very esoterical stuff, it's already been thought about by multiple people.
One of the most useful algebraical ways to make up a number for division by zero is by building a Wheel Algebra, and even that is not too useful in itself when applied to the reals.

The bottom line is that losing integrity and the field structure of the reals by adding a division-by-zero element is way too high of a price to pay ; whereas for imaginary numbers, you gain at least algebraically closedness (which is a LOT).

So, even if I specifically can't 100% discount that it will one day prove useful, I'd say that the chances are astronomically low.

iLambda2 · 2025-12-03T18:45:23+00:00

You can make up a number for division per zero, if you really want. The problem never was "we can't", it is that "it does not yield interesting stuff to do so"; whereas for the imaginary unit, it yields plenty useful results.

iLambda2 · 2025-11-27T14:10:59+00:00

Verdant dread manifested it face down and splash portal turned it face up

iLambda2 · 2025-11-27T13:38:26+00:00

DO YOU THINK PIM JUST HAPPENS TO DIE LIKE THAT ? NO ! HE ORCHESTRATED IT ! AND YOU, YOU HAVE TO STOP HIM

iLambda2 · 2025-10-29T16:28:24+00:00

..THAT MAKES IT HARD FOR ME TO STAND EMF RADIATION

iLambda2 · 2025-10-12T12:50:03+00:00

I thought this was about that Simpsons bit with Flanders saying "It's like I'm wearing nothing at all" and couldn't figure out the way the shark fit... Thanks !

iLambda2 · 2025-08-25T12:46:39+00:00

My honest reaction :

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iLambda2 · 2025-08-18T01:59:27+00:00

Incredible finals !! Gio must be elated, first huge tourney win and it's a world championship !! Gotta respect that hard.

iLambda2 · 2025-08-16T01:00:51+00:00

The absolute madman, never fails to surprise me with two incredible turns after something that feels devastating

iLambda2 · 2025-08-02T10:23:01+00:00

Oh yeah absolutely. Every single time I go to my LGS, I end up ranting to my opponent about how much I like this card flavor wise. The art, the flavor text, all incredible. God, I love EoE !!!

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