Inej Comes From A People Who Have No Physical Home, Who Are Constantly Relocating. And So Home For Them

I believe someone already mentioned this, but we know that Lil Nas X survived the snap because Shaun and Katy are singing Old Town road in a bar in Shang-Chi. But I’d like to point out just how close these two events were, (the release of Old Town Road and the snap).

In spring of 2018, Thanos snapped and wiped out half of all life.

In October of 2018, Lil Nas X started recording the original Old Town Road, but he found the instrumental even earlier.

The song released on December 3rd, and later re-released with Billy Ray Cyrus on April 5th, 2019.

So, essentially, in a matter of months:

*half of all life is destroyed, governments are in ruins, world consumed with chaos*

Meanwhile Lil Nas X:

Moo point

Louis: It’s just a moo point.

Niall: A moo point?

Louis: Yeah, it’s like a cow’s opinion, it just doesn’t matter. it’s moo

Liam: have i been friends with you guys for too long or did that all just make sense?

About proofs

March 18, 2022

I prepared some sources, mainly books, to study proofs in depth. It's funny how they hardly ever teach how to prove in high school. Only students of physical-mathematical areas or those who are oriented to some engineering learn that kind of thing, and they only learn a single technique (yup, induction). I went to review the secondary education plans in my country, and most of the time the word "mathematical proof" appeared in the documents, it was preceded by "without any". The only case mathematical proofs was part of that plan, it was in a concrete math subject made only for engineers.

Kevin Houston's methods seems like a good place to get a first perspective. I will OBVIOUSLY review Hammack's Book of Proof as well, and possibly compare methods to make sure I understand it.

I think I have nothing else to say. Without this, I'm basically lost for practically all the lectures. At the end of the day, I hope to at least prove that if x is an odd integer, then x^3 is odd. Yeah, that's how bad the situation is.

Bully maguire returns

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Facts

I’m not seeing nearly enough people talk about Phastos, our first openly gay character in the mcu, with a husband, both POC, and their son, Jack.

Y’all be writing 7484838 page fanfics about SamBucky, try to cancel Anthony Mackie after he tells you to stop fetishizing gay relationships but once there is an actually openly gay character y’all sleep on him.

truer words cannot be spoken

me to any fictional character i hate: well you're not even real you dumb bitch

me to any fictional character i love: why aren't you real you dumb bitch

I will give $100 to anyone who can spot the difference✌

I see no difference

« For many, including myself, mathematics is comforting. In an era of fake news, worldwide illness, and economic uncertainty, mathematics provides proof of another reality which is harmonious, universal, and eternal. Or so it would seem.

In fact mathematics, like all literature, is none of these things. Mathematics is, of course, a human artefact. It is a language which consists of a vocabulary, a grammar, and a community which employs these enthusiastically. Arguably, mathematics is the most refined language ever produced.

[…] The practical […] usefulness of the work of mathematicians does not concern them. Even a brief exposure to number theory, for example, is sufficient to convince most outside the mathematical community (or even outside the community of number theorists) that the things mathematicians are concerned about are essentially trivial. The strange and often captivating relationships among numbers are simply alien to practical experience. The non-mathematician can only ask ‘Why bother?’.

And the answer to this question must be the same as it is to the issue of literature in general. There is no reason for mathematics other than itself. Mathematics is a form of highly refined, esoteric poetry. Its form and subject matter is not to everyone’s taste. But neither is the Iliad, or The Wasteland, or Finnegans Wake. It takes considerable linguistic skill and aesthetic fortitude to comprehend the content of mathematical poetry. Success in such an endeavour is, as usual, its own reward. »

— From a review of Reuben Hersh’s What is Mathematics, Really?

hahah ayes

my childhood in one picture

Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency – a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines.

The heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell, similar to a solar panel’s photovoltaic cells, that passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source and converts them into electricity. The team’s design can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius, or up to about 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit.

The researchers plan to incorporate the TPV cell into a grid-scale thermal battery. The system would absorb excess energy from renewable sources such as the sun and store that energy in heavily insulated banks of hot graphite. When the energy is needed, such as on overcast days, TPV cells would convert the heat into electricity, and dispatch the energy to a power grid.

With the new TPV cell, the team has now successfully demonstrated the main parts of the system in separate, small-scale experiments. They are working to integrate the parts to demonstrate a fully operational system. From there, they hope to scale up the system to replace fossil-fuel-driven power plants and enable a fully decarbonized power grid, supplied entirely by renewable energy.

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