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14 II 2023

so yesterday would be the last of my exams but I decided to retake both the written and the oral part. the grade I would get is 4, so not the highest possible, still pretty good especially for the standards of that course (it's one of the most difficult), but I am not satisfied

it was the professor who suggested I retake the exams, which surprised me, I was mentally prepared to finish being only half-happy about my results and his reactions, strangely enough, inspired me to try harder. he wouldn't offer it if he didn't think I could do better, right?

if he gave me a 5 with my written exam points I would feel like an impostor, because I don't think I am fluent enough with the topics to receive the best grade. to be graded 4 and not being effered the chance to try again would make me feel that it's done, I was just too slow and I can't do anything else to fix it (at least on paper, but we're talking symbolics now) and him giving me a second chance meant to me that he believes in my potential yet doesn't want to give me a participation trophy, instead he made it about earning the reward that I know I deserve

he achieved the aurea mediocritas with this and the most absurd part of it all is that he of all people was to give me this inspiration. half of the students I talk to think that he is pure evil, the majority of the other half think he is an inconsiderate asshole lmao

so in two weeks I'm trying the exam again. in the meantime I will have a party with friends (small – 5 people + my boyfriend's cat) and then I will be grading the math olympiad. afterwards my another grind of algebraic methods shall commence and this time please let me not fuck it up

thank you @dressedsalad @bsdndprplplld and @rooksacrifice for nominations. the last two were my additions (to provide more variety in the choices, not bc I dislike them)

5x5 Diamond rule, iterates 1-32

Iterates 40, 48, 56

Iterate 64

Iterate 128

This is a 2D cellular automaton generating a 3D fractal layer by layer. I coded it in Microsoft Excel - each pixel is 1 cell.

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I have a bet going on with a friend. We need a third opinion. Can one find the square root of 2 in pi? And pi in the root of 2

Gut instinct says no. But when you work with infinities, gut instinct is NOT proof. (And such a gut feeling could have easily been the dodgy dinner I cooked myself last night.)

However I cannot even provide a proof.

I have, however tried to give some insight in another post (it should be the one immediately below this one) to perhaps help/provoke a more concrete argument from someone else :)

no fuckin way

the human experience is so crazy. at any time i want, for free, i can comprehend the beauty and the horror of my own fragile existence, the cosmic insigificance and personal significance of my experiences, the impossibly vast yet laughably tiny boundaries of my own consciousness, and feel sick to my stomach with anticipation for everything i have yet to understand and grief for everything i have yet to lose.

did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

yeah I say that I'm vegetarian because the texture of meat fucks with my sensory issues. I would know if the meat in my meal was real and I would probably throw up and have a meltdown, then proceed to have my day ruined. I can't believe someone actually could put me in such a position jfc

Look I clown veganism often enough but really, truly, don’t ever fucking feed somebody something without their knowledge or consent. It’s hugely fucked up and not OK.

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21 I 2023

so the test I had today, our professor went crazy with grading it and we all had our scores by midnight

I don't think I ever scored 100% before, but here it is

I was insanely lucky. yesterday I was watching some series (and by that I mean Young Royals, not Fourier) and I had a thought you know might as well give them elliptic functions a quick read. today one of the easy problems required to only know the basic definitions and properties, have I not spent those 40 minutes reading I would probably not solve it. the other easy problem was solved by picard's theorems, my favourite, which I tried to use with every given opportunity so now it's as they say: when your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail. and today it actually was a nail. two other problems were just objectively easy and the last one took a lot of my time but it was "my type" of problems, so I enjoyed working on it and I had some good ideas thanks to solving about 20 similar problems before

so that's how it feels to reach above my goals. I dreamt of this moment and it feels exactly like I thought it would. ah feels good man