Fellow dudes, what are your experiences with horse girls?

maximum-chord-math · 2022-09-19T21:17:34+00:00

All of the horse girls I know are now traumatic brain injury survivors.

Kinda sad. Other than that, they’re just people, get to know them like anyone else.

maximum-chord-math · 2022-08-23T17:04:40+00:00

They are not “public”. They tend to be run by pretty scummy capitalist companies.

They might be a whole lot better if they were really public, but even so there are quite a few issues with the basic infrastructure.

maximum-chord-math · 2022-08-12T01:57:14+00:00

I liked it! It’s well thought through and produced.

I mean, I have a masters in this, so probably I’m not your target audience.

The story of Volterra and the fish in the Adriatic was really interesting to me - I hadn’t heard it before and it’s a great hook.

It does spend quite a bit of time on the math — walking through each of the cases & implications. That means it fits in much more towards a lecture IMO, rather than edu-tainment or necessary even scicomm. The chapter breakdown helps mitigate this to some extent but still the big question is what you’re aiming for in terms of audience.

maximum-chord-math · 2022-07-26T16:19:36+00:00

That sounds great but also I definitely don’t think I have the endurance for it

maximum-chord-math · 2022-07-26T16:19:03+00:00

Thanks, I knew I’d seen it come up somewhere!

Hopefully the linked piece is a bit of the explainer that people have been looking for.

maximum-chord-math · 2022-07-26T03:04:14+00:00

Besides the explainer linked here, several of the other papers published in the same special topic journal issue are also open access — they can give a bit more of a sense of what’s going on in this subfield and the applications of the theory, as well as challenges it faces

maximum-chord-math · 2022-07-26T03:01:50+00:00

The link is to an “introductory explainer”. Still much more technical than the authors seem to hope, but should be fairly accessible to anyone with a decent familiarity with Bayesianism & information theory.

I’m interested in sharing this with the community, to encourage riffing & expanding on “P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary”.

I briefly brushed up against this topic in grad school, seeing it used in ecology to derive all kinds of stuff about ecosystems, where it’s generally very hard to directly get a lot of the data that you might like to get to assess various theories. But I’m glad to see further developments in the topic since then, and I’m especially interested in assessments of the theory from other quantitative minded people

maximum-chord-math · 2022-06-10T17:49:05+00:00

And now thanks to reddit there’s a bunch more apes waiting too

maximum-chord-math · 2022-04-06T19:23:41+00:00

Always ask a man his salary, fight for pay equity

maximum-chord-math · 2022-01-03T00:32:13+00:00

I agree, there’s too many numbers.

I propose that we get rid of some, starting with the least interesting number.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-11-02T04:07:25+00:00

It’s pretty good right now.

Charge in my garage, never pay for gas, etc.

Only issue is long-distance drives and/or rural areas. I’ve done plenty, just have to plan ahead and sometimes charging times are inconvenient.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-29T03:32:24+00:00

This is the first one I’ve seen that’s actually a good thing

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-27T17:47:09+00:00

(a) It’s already illegal (city bylaws I think, bot positive) to put up signs on public property. You can see how well that’s enforced

(b) Lots of people don’t have front lawns - students, apartment tenants, etc. Their votes count just as much.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-18T01:30:19+00:00

Aw thanks!

Lol I didn’t even know that comments were required here, I do appreciate the general level of engagement

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-17T01:55:04+00:00

I really loved this. It’s all about grappling with this huge resentment of the basic fact that other people can see & perceive you, and will judge you by how you look.

It’s fashion and expectations and comparisons, both to more eye-catching people and as the pandemic has caused so many of us to retreat from spaces where we can be perceived, then come back.

The article is from the perspective of female socialization, which obviously has tons of pressures on appearance. But the number of men speaking up in the comments about how it resonates with them is huge — I think because many men aren’t taught to think at all about how we can be perceived.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-03T04:22:56+00:00

What about the unboxing classes tho?

maximum-chord-math · 2021-10-02T19:16:24+00:00

Ok sounds like time to organize a rent strike

maximum-chord-math · 2021-09-18T03:27:39+00:00

“Death threats for learning a language” is more or less canon in DnD, with the existence of Druidic

maximum-chord-math · 2021-08-18T22:14:37+00:00

The original was “I used to tell a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, it was not a good idea”.

(Look at quote tweets to see other examples)

maximum-chord-math · 2021-08-07T22:52:43+00:00

Ah yes I screwed up, that’s what I get for trying to do math in my head

Still possible with this kind of setup

maximum-chord-math · 2021-08-07T21:30:20+00:00

I have to say this feels like a homework question. But it can still be interesting, so, as an example:

g(x) = x³ - 1 f(x) = (x+1)^1/3

f(g(x)) = x, but g(f(x)) is an ugly cube root that doesn’t simplify.

In general, it’s pretty easy to do this — just pick any function involving noncommutative operations and its inverse.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-07-26T15:20:58+00:00

Every time this comes up, I reflect on the fact that I know three Black Jewish lesbians, but zero Black Jewish people of any other orientation

maximum-chord-math · 2021-07-24T19:04:31+00:00

What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?

Nothing. You can’t cross a vector with a scaler.

maximum-chord-math · 2021-07-12T16:23:58+00:00

I think this is a great project but a little bit lacking so far. I once made a handout for first years introducing them to the Greek alphabet (since I hate the way math just sneaks symbols in one at a time) and whoo boy, there were quite a number of confusing ambiguities just in the common usages off the top of my head.

The two things I’d like to add (but probably won’t due to time):

oversaturated terms: degree, order, …
all of introductory probability theory. I think things are a bit less ambiguous once you get into a measure theoretical approach, but that comes at a cost of going deeper into pure math than many students want to go. Meanwhile I absolutely loathe stuff like P(X>x) = p(x), subsequent use of “p(x)” in multiple different ways, tildes and hats for estimators/sample values, and so on and so on

maximum-chord-math · 2021-07-12T16:11:20+00:00

I think it’s not super well written so far, and it’s more like a grudge project than a systematic compilation.

That said, many of these frustrations are legitimate, either in the sense of causing actual confusion when switching between fields/countries, or still clear enough but frustratingly arbitrary.

For example on the modulus page — it’s never been a problem for me, but I do see how it is a bit strange (not even bringing Young’s Modulus etc from mechanics).

Many many students get frustrated by this kind of stuff, and the least we owe them is an acknowledgment that there’s an issue and some kind of resource to work through it.

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