FungalRaincloud

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A lovely thing in math is that a counterexample, especially if it leads to infinitely more counterexamples in a particular class, can teach you more about the problem. I find this article hopeful. It made me excited about knot theory for the first time in a while.

FungalRaincloud

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I'm a bit surprised that you put PHP in that list. My current workload is in it, and a relatively modern version of it, so maybe that surprise will turn around soon, but I've always felt that PHP was more obnoxious than even C to read and write.

Granted, I started out on LISP. My version of "easy to read and write" might be slightly masochistic. But I love Perl and Python and Javascript are definitely "you can jump in and get shit done if you have worked in most languages. It might not be idiomatic, but it'll work"...

FungalRaincloud

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Two _is_ more than the average, but not by that much...

FungalRaincloud

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He's 77 years old. Let the man retire, damn.

FungalRaincloud

10개월 전discuss

The Hedgehog Review? Yes, they've been around since 1999, and publish a few times a year. But I'm not sure where you're leaping to a strong political leaning. They're an academic journal published by the University of Virginia. I don't religiously follow them, but I've been cursorily aware of them for a while. I don't think I've ever considered them to lean one way or another when reading their publications.

FungalRaincloud

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I think it's important to consider audience. If I'm working with the intent that what I write is legible to folks who only have a basic understanding of math, I'll usually use the multiplication symbol (NOT the letter x, but ×, intentionally in the middle). Someone with more advanced knowledge of math, who may be more inclined to think it's an x, because my handwriting is shit, I will typically use the dot operator. But then there's the whole other audience where I need to define what the dot operator does. At that point, I'm probably pulling up something like LaTeX, because, again, my handwriting sucks.

Funnily enough, when I write for the purpose of math, my numbers are more legible than when I just write down a number. For some reason, I code switch in my handwriting. Kinda obnoxious when I'm filling out forms.

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