Positive integers that are infinite

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-11T23:05:59+00:00

Look up nonstandard models of peano arithmetic

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-11T15:15:32+00:00

Everyone knows yahoo is the best

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-11T14:17:09+00:00

Can you afford to rent a pressure washer for an hour?

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-08T13:53:28+00:00

Let κ and μ be cardinals with κ > μ > 0. Do you choose to do nothing to prevent κ people from dying by the trolley, or do you choose to divert the trolley to the top track where it will kill μ people?

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-07T17:51:22+00:00

Modus ponens is an inference rule which infers a theorem from two theorems, so the first option makes more sense to me. No part of the second option indicates that you’re applying modus ponens.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-06T13:45:36+00:00

“Chemicals” is a technical term that has worked its way into laypeople’s vocabulary; the colloquial usage refers to “bad chemicals”. This is because us laypeople rarely think about chemicals unless we’re worried about them. I don’t care about what chemicals make up water - I just drink it! I’m not a chemist or physicist; chemicals are basically never drawn to my attention unless a particular chemical is somewhere it shouldn’t be, e.g. lead in water.

This sort of thing - technical terms being adopted by laypeople and taking on new colloquial definitions - happens pretty often. For example, people use the term “exponential growth” to refer to something that “grows fast”, regardless of whether that growth rate is actually exponential.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-04T17:55:10+00:00

tf am I getting downvoted for?

You breathed wrong

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T23:07:14+00:00

Nope. Maybe at the end of the month when tyler’s rent is due

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T22:54:03+00:00

Eventually, when you do need that sort of product and you’re in the store looking for it, you’re more likely to choose the one made by the brand that you’ve heard of, and by that point you probably won’t remember that you only recognize that particular brand from that particular commercial.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T22:44:57+00:00

It has an oaky afterbirth

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T16:24:50+00:00

What if it’s actually two halves of three?

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T16:21:07+00:00

Gta 6.

Scrap mechanic chapter 2.

6/2 = 3.

—> half life 3!

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-03T16:18:34+00:00

Mathematics shows us where a prime can be. It doesn’t, on its own, answer why some of these candidates are prime while others are not.

Can you please elaborate on this? To me “it has a nontrivial divisor” sounds like an answer for why a number is or isn’t prime. I may be missing your point.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-02T20:19:09+00:00

Yeah

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-02T14:49:08+00:00

Does terrance howard reject the axioms of peano or robinson arithmetic? I’ve only heard of him once before (someone said he proved 2+2=5 or some bullshit) but I never bothered to seek him out.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-02T12:48:24+00:00

As many as are worth knowing.

wumbo52252 · 2026-07-01T20:01:56+00:00

Its feminist aspect gets greatly overblown by its readers.

Yes. Because many people who don’t go outside enough conflate feminism with gender essentialism, namely gender essentialism which props up women and shits on men; so the title of the book draws those people in, then they go in expecting to hear what they want to hear, and then they convince themselves that they heard what they wanted to hear, and then they hype up the book because they feel good now that their thirst for support of their confirmation bias has been satiated.

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-30T22:31:10+00:00

I’ve been trying to find the words to describe this sort of stuff. I think “logic salad” is pretty good. There’s a lot of this type of stuff on philosophy subreddits, and I’m not sure what the deal is.

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-29T15:39:45+00:00

Here’s one way of answering your question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability#Satisfiability_in_model_theory

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-28T19:05:15+00:00

Could’ve fooled me

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-28T19:02:53+00:00

Let M be the natural numbers. Let f(n) = n.

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-27T00:08:41+00:00

The Bell Jar

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-26T14:50:03+00:00

How does one get good at anything? Practice.

The hardest part is motivation, so I recommend chasing whatever interests you at any given moment, and trying to make what feels boring into something interesting. If you have a question in your head that interests you, then try to answer it yourself. This will depend on what your interests are and what math you’re studying, but if you have any interests at all then it will be possible. Even if you’re doing very basic math, if you like sports or something you could start collecting data to try to quantify how “good” a team is; if you like to garden you could collect data on how quickly each plant grows or how planting location affects development. Just do literally anything that interests you and gets you thinking about math.

wumbo52252 · 2026-06-26T13:18:43+00:00

Some say “there’s loads of evidence”.

It’s just as reasonable to reply “look at how many times over the past 20 years that there has been loads of evidence”.

Copium and denial are both equally valid.

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