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Good afternoon, the academic culture of “if you’re not overworking, you don’t deserve success” is unhealthy.
but it’s pretty
Let’s just talk about how much I love space... and my Nikon. 1/12/2018
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it’s hard, not because it’s easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That’s what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you’re the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (via mathblab)
Descartes: [Literally Anything]
Quine: (Eloquently) But that’s fucking stupid.
INTJ: Understanding how everything is connected. Not feeling connected to it.
what she says: i’m fine
what she means: isn’t it crazy how the derivative of e^x is e^x? That’s such an arbritrary number isn’t it? At the same time it’s not, though. Because at any point on e^x, the slope is equal to e^x. But at the same time, the integral of e^x is also e^x. so not only is the slope of e^x e^x, the area underneath the graph of e^x is also e^x. Does that not blow your fucking mind?
Just as the phrase “what the entire fuck” implies the existence of fractional fucks, the phrase “what the absolute fuck” implies the existence of both positive and negative fucks (or else there would be no need for an absolute value operation). Taken together with the phrase “what the actual fuck” (which implies the existence of imaginary fucks), we may thus conclude that fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.