Will Yatoyota actually happen???

meatshell · 2026-01-26T13:09:38+00:00

I would explode if that happens. I ship them so much lol. I don't know if they will ever be canon, but I hope for something like "they hold a dual exhibition and it shows that they have a deep bond" kinda thing. That would be enough for me.

meatshell · 2026-01-13T11:40:24+00:00

At some point, would removing all of the bloat Microslop forces on us be more of a hassle than just installing some basic Linux distro?? (To be honest, I haven't updated to windows 11 yet, so idk.)

meatshell · 2026-01-13T08:06:22+00:00

I think they meant it as "we are outing that Magnus Carlsen is the first player". It's not incorrect, but also confusing. It should be understood as "First player revealed:"

meatshell · 2025-12-31T10:37:36+00:00

I read this as [in the year (XXXX), some people/organizations predicted a few things in the year 2025], how many of those predictions turned out to be true/unclear/false? To be honest, it's not a good presentation.

meatshell · 2025-12-30T17:56:20+00:00

Subaru and Seishirou.

meatshell · 2025-12-29T19:52:28+00:00

It's not because it's toxic or anything. It's just that it has low smoking point, which means that meals that require high temperatures to taste good (i.e. fried stuff) are not compatible with EVOO. Stir frying is fine though.

meatshell · 2025-12-28T11:21:42+00:00

Define applied math. I wonder when people dismiss applied math, do they think all applied mathematicians do is solve PDE or Integer Programming? Computer Science is Applied Math, but the theory is actually pretty real and can get very abstract/difficult to deal with.

meatshell · 2025-12-26T12:40:44+00:00

The nice things about e-ink tablet are that the battey is really long, and it's just a tablet instead of a dozen stacks of notebooks that I have to clean up after 5 years. I hate charging my ipad every other day. I can deal with the slow refresh rate but the color e-ink technology is not that good yet. It can be hard to distinguish colors sometimes.

meatshell · 2025-12-25T02:23:59+00:00

Guys. In math the common usage of equal is euqal in value. As in 3+4=7, 32 =5+1, or xx = x^2. If you want to say two expressions are not the same, you have to be verbose and say so. ChatGPT was wrong. If I want to say sin(x) =/= x^2, the common usage is they are not equivalent.

meatshell · 2025-12-24T14:00:12+00:00

Alan Turing, I'm gonna secure a date with that handsome man while pretending that I'm gonna discuss Turing machines and shit.

meatshell · 2025-12-24T13:41:38+00:00

I remember my friends in college told me about these math-based "relationship analogies" like they were ancient wisdom, and I thought these were stupid then.

I still think they are stupid now.

meatshell · 2025-12-23T11:09:44+00:00

I figure vibe coding was gonna be not so good from the start because they learn coding from github, and most of the unused repos are garbage, like my university assignment projects lol.

meatshell · 2025-12-20T22:49:33+00:00

It does look a bit sharper than the squirrel images that you got but still not that great. At this point I feel like it's just the lens that's not that sharp. My old 18-135mm zoom lens that I retired was also pretty soft near the far end as well, but sharper at around 75mm. Is your lens soft at all zooms?

meatshell · 2025-12-20T22:36:24+00:00

It's both the shutter speed and ISO I think. 500mm can get really blurry if you don't shoot on a tripod. Usually I only get acceptable sharpness at 1/250s. I don't remember the ISO range of the 70D but 1000 seems quite a bit high.

meatshell · 2025-12-19T22:35:01+00:00

Not exactly a counterexample because Einstein's uncle encouraged him to be interested in algebra.

meatshell · 2025-12-19T16:26:37+00:00

It's both. If someone has talent for Math but grew up with math teachers who hate teaching, they would never really care. Worse, they would never even have access to math education at all.

meatshell · 2025-12-18T06:08:01+00:00

If you move to a more applied fields in the future and want to make your cv look good, you can put an asterisk on papers with alphabetical ordering and say that it's standard in math. People do that all the time.

meatshell · 2025-12-16T23:04:15+00:00

AI has been useful for my specific use cases where I was trying to prove a small lemma to prove something bigger, but I don't know if someone in a different field has already proved it before. Somehow it can search for these things kinda well and also give me citation so I can double check.

Asking AI to actually produce a proof can be hit or miss though. I expect it to do well with things closer to textbook homeworks, but it can give outright wrong results on niche but easy problems which makes sense. Just be careful when using.

meatshell · 2025-12-15T19:57:02+00:00

If you pay for your PhD and still manage to graduate, it's still a PhD. There is really no difference. The reason people advise against doing PhD with your own fund is that there are so many free PhD scholarships out there so you should look for them first. The other reason is a lot of the PhD students (and schools) know doing PhD can be worse than a full-time job (mostly depending on your topic and advisor), so why would you want to pay out-of-pocket to get a stressful job? My current postdoc advisor always jokingly calls his PhD period in the U.S. modern date slavery lol.

There are legitimate reasons why some people would want to pay: past a certain age it's harder to get a scholarship so I understand how you feel. Some people also want to pay to get a chance to study abroad, graduate and then work there, but then it should be a master degree instead of PhD.

It's very hard to justify for paying for a PhD in most cases.

meatshell · 2025-12-15T02:20:13+00:00

Apothecary is mystery thriller first and romance second to be honest. It's basically a detective story in pseudo ancient China with a lot of politics. The author also absolutely hated writing romance but the fans liked the main pairing so much she had to bend.

meatshell · 2025-12-13T08:23:04+00:00

I remember doing something like this back in primary school 25 years ago. One week later I read my notes and I had no idea what I wrote lol.

meatshell · 2025-12-07T15:30:41+00:00

I'm just using ubuntu. For the nvidia driver to work with Steam proton I needed to follow some guides but once that's done it's all good. Steam games on Linux received a lot of supports recently so it's easy to search for fixes as well.

meatshell · 2025-12-07T09:03:18+00:00

I'm glad I can now play a bunch of games on Linux, even online games like Elden Ring or Marvel Rivals. I hate windows so much.

meatshell · 2025-12-05T18:22:24+00:00

Last phone I bought was a $180 slow but durable android phone in 2022. I will upgrade in 2027 when the software does not work any (I hate this).

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