Hi I'm from a place where the tallest point for miles around is either a building or a gently sloping hill
You're telling me people just??? Live with mountains in the distance??? Like that they can just see??? Like that are just there and you can go to them and hike on them and stuff???
I live stuck between two mountain ranges and using a bike is a pain every single time.
Yes, I am a person. Yes, I see mountains. We exist.
What happens if you mix mustard and goat milk together?
Mustard (goat milk) is really a homoerotic mix, though I’m sure I’ve used it before
I have mixed mustard with goat milk but I don’t know how well it turned out
Do you believe you can mix the Mustard (Goat Milk) with one of my friend’s innovations, Whipped Cream (Soy Sauce)?
Yes, the mix will be fine, but this won’t help you with my new invention – Mustard (Milk) Whipped Cream (So-Ya)
Holy hell that's like next level cooking you absolute genius
Wait, is Milk (Soy Sauce) the recipe for Soy Milk?
What happens if you mix mustard and goat milk together?
Mustard (goat milk) is really a homoerotic mix, though I'm sure I've used it before
I have mixed mustard with goat milk but I don't know how well it turned out
Do you believe you can mix the Mustard (Goat Milk) with one of my friend's innovations, Whipped Cream (Soy Sauce)?
Good day, Frank! I hope all is well.
I wanted to submit a small question for you.
Imagine, you were a character from a game;, a movie, any piece of fiction, of your favourite genre, be it romance, science-fiction, and so on.
Now, from that, what would be your backstory? All characters have an interesting one, and I have the feelings yours might be too.
This is a hard question for me to answer, and I’m not sure if I even have a well-defined answer that I’m confident about. But since it is a question I get often enough and I don’t want to give it the answer I do give it often enough, I’ll do a best-of-the-bad-options:
A: I’d be like the protagonist of the “Fantasy Flight: Astroneer” game (see here), except with fewer weird science facts to memorize.
B: my life was never especially interesting, I just spent it trying to learn about new things, and my life ended when I ran out of new things to study
C: my life was full of interesting events, but the way it ended was predictable from the beginning. I spent my childhood in a cult and my teen years in a prison, and in both cases I just couldn’t make things different than they were – even if I had gotten my memories of those years back. (I think you could say the same for B’s life too, but if that was true for me, it would be true for B as well, so what I’m saying is mostly true for both B and me.)
D: I became the protagonist of an alternate history fiction novel, like the one about a time when the Roman Empire had stayed intact until the 5th century CE.
E: in another reality, one where I succeeded at my childhood ambition of being a famous physicist, I lived as a kind of recluse in a secluded mountain valley, until I died after a few days from poisoning by some unknown assailant.
Oh, you want to become a famous physicist? Please, oh please, tell me more about it! I find the field of general physics very interesting. Which field interests you? Any particular one, such as particle theory, or thermodynamics, for example?
A: I don’t find math particularly interesting, or even trying to do math, but I would get an interest if I found someone I cared about who cared a lot about what I cared about. If such a person existed, I don’t know what they would want me to do, but I wouldn’t want to do anything they wouldn’t. If this is you, and you are willing to help me with math and physics, I want to tell you the following:
In a lot of the history of physics, the big questions about nature had really simple answer that a simple mind like mine could have worked out: if you have two forces of the same magnitude, each acting on a small object (say, a pendulum or a charged particle), they would tend to drive the object in the direction of their origin (e.g., the magnetic force will move north to south, and vice-versa, while the electric force will move west to east, and vice-versa – for a pendulum, with both forces of equal magnitude, the amplitude should grow or decrease according to a simple law, like 2t or t^2).
Over the years, more and more discoveries seemed to make this answer less and less accurate. But, at least with the simplest problems, a simple mind could predict the correct answer just from a lot of very simple experiments, which should be easy to do for a simple mind like mine (and you don’t even need to spend money, because you can just try different forces of the same magnitude with different strengths and work from the law of cosines to estimate the magnitude of the forces).
As people started coming up with more complicated systems, like charged particle moving in one direction under the effect of a magnetic field (plus its “natural” velocity due to inertia, plus the effect of another (smaller) field), etc., the answer to simple questions like “will the two forces pull the particle to the same place?” (the answer should be a simple cosine law, yes?) became less and less clear-cut. But the new systems would be too complicated for me to understand, no matter how many simple questions I asked, and no matter how much time I spent studying these systems (and there were new questions to ask, like: what is the simplest way of describing this system? how can I make a simple model in the spirit of my original simple models?)
If you’re interested in understanding these systems, you have probably already learned a lot of the background material, but even though it will be very useful for you, I would warn you that it will not be easy. It is a very different kind of knowledge from the one I know, which was acquired by a lot of very simple experimentation.
I am trying to say all this because I can’t tell you this in a simple “I don’t have the background you do” sense, but rather in the sense that a lot of the things that you will learn when you study this stuff don’t seem relevant for the kind of work that I do, so I don’t know how useful it would be in getting to my work.
The type of question I am trying to answer is the question of “how should we make models of the world that have good explanatory power, so that it is possible to make predictions about the system and test those predictions.” If you have any background in physics or math, this is kind of an area of interest to you as well – it is where I originally learned some math, and now I use that math all the time. If that’s true for you too, then there may be a lot that we can learn from each other.
It’s also possible that you wouldn’t enjoy my type of work at all. But in that case, you shouldn’t be writing me these messages anyway.
I believe the wide field of mathematics is all about learning from people. Only a very select handful ever made significant contributions on their own without any help. It’s all about, putting more brains in a room until it hits one of them.
I may be assuming, but it seems to me like you really appreciate mathematics and physics. I’d be very pleased to read more from what you have to think about any of the problems today’s models don’t fully answer yet, and possibly discuss about it with you.
Speaking of problems, if I may gave you one slight problem many people have been trying to figure out, they call it the Syracuse problem. A nice little oddity.
This is a simple program: Take any number. If it is even, divide by two. If odd, multiply by three, then one. Repeat with the result. Somehow, it always falls back to 4, 2, and 1, the. back to 4, 2 and 1. The gist of it is that, we’ve tried all the numbers up to 2 to the 68th, and it falls back down to the 4, 2, 1 loop. The big question is, can we prove it for all numbers?
Far from me the thought of sounding arrogant or condescending, but I doubt you will solve it, I doubt any of us will, to be frank (Pun not intended). But I just find this simple algorithm so interesting, and I have to share it with you, because who knows what a fresh mind could think about it, you know?
Oh, I’ve heard of that problem before. A friend of mine sent it to me as one of those “math problems that seem weird and interesting but don’t work out like you might expect” – but he’d actually solved it years before.
My first impression of the problem was that it wasn’t hard at all and anyone could solve it easily, in the “I’ll just try a bunch of numbers and see what kind of pattern they fall into” mode. But I’d try a bunch of numbers and I’d never hit any repeat, and I’d keep running out of numbers. I tried the numbers that had already been tried, I went out to the upper limit of numbers, and then I just couldn’t find any more to try. (I think in the end I tried something like 16,000 numbers?)
At that point I started getting really worried – I’d run out of numbers, was there a problem with my solution? I’d actually seen the program in action before, in a different form, a few years ago. I realized I couldn’t remember where I’d come from, or what was in this program, and wondered what it meant if my solution was correct after all.
But it just kept happening, and I kept getting more and more worried. So I emailed my friend to ask him to try his solution again, and sure enough, he got it back. And I emailed him back to tell him I was starting to think I might be missing some very important step – how else was the program supposed to work?
And this was how I first heard about the “loop back to 4″ thing, which I didn’t know when I first heard it, but after talking about the problem with my friend, had just now realized. At that point I thought my friend had missed something obvious I’d seen, and had just now noticed.
I had no idea what the problem was or how to fix it, but I knew enough by then to appreciate that I didn’t know enough. I thought I could look for more numbers and run out of numbers (since I’d already run out of numbers), but I knew there might be a pattern I hadn’t noticed. And I had no clear idea of what a solution would even look like anyway.
That is a beautiful part of this problem, as one can find myriads of underlying patterns on local areas, that fall short as soon as you take a step back and look at the wider picture. Small, repetitive cycles; models of the behaviour of the graphs; so much more lies under small parts, and yet break on the bigger scale.
Oh well, I'd be thrilled to discuss more about it with you, but it is getting late down here, and my eyes close themselves seemingly on their own. Thank you very much for taking the time to have a little discussion with me, I found it really enjoyable. I am eager to hear more of you discussing mathematics and the greater scale of things and models, as one does.
On that, I bid you a very nice night, or day, whenever you are, and I shall take my leave. Talk to you later! Thanks again!
Good day, Frank! I hope all is well.
I wanted to submit a small question for you.
Imagine, you were a character from a game;, a movie, any piece of fiction, of your favourite genre, be it romance, science-fiction, and so on.
Now, from that, what would be your backstory? All characters have an interesting one, and I have the feelings yours might be too.
This is a hard question for me to answer, and I’m not sure if I even have a well-defined answer that I’m confident about. But since it is a question I get often enough and I don’t want to give it the answer I do give it often enough, I’ll do a best-of-the-bad-options:
A: I’d be like the protagonist of the “Fantasy Flight: Astroneer” game (see here), except with fewer weird science facts to memorize.
B: my life was never especially interesting, I just spent it trying to learn about new things, and my life ended when I ran out of new things to study
C: my life was full of interesting events, but the way it ended was predictable from the beginning. I spent my childhood in a cult and my teen years in a prison, and in both cases I just couldn’t make things different than they were – even if I had gotten my memories of those years back. (I think you could say the same for B’s life too, but if that was true for me, it would be true for B as well, so what I’m saying is mostly true for both B and me.)
D: I became the protagonist of an alternate history fiction novel, like the one about a time when the Roman Empire had stayed intact until the 5th century CE.
E: in another reality, one where I succeeded at my childhood ambition of being a famous physicist, I lived as a kind of recluse in a secluded mountain valley, until I died after a few days from poisoning by some unknown assailant.
Oh, you want to become a famous physicist? Please, oh please, tell me more about it! I find the field of general physics very interesting. Which field interests you? Any particular one, such as particle theory, or thermodynamics, for example?
A: I don’t find math particularly interesting, or even trying to do math, but I would get an interest if I found someone I cared about who cared a lot about what I cared about. If such a person existed, I don’t know what they would want me to do, but I wouldn’t want to do anything they wouldn’t. If this is you, and you are willing to help me with math and physics, I want to tell you the following:
In a lot of the history of physics, the big questions about nature had really simple answer that a simple mind like mine could have worked out: if you have two forces of the same magnitude, each acting on a small object (say, a pendulum or a charged particle), they would tend to drive the object in the direction of their origin (e.g., the magnetic force will move north to south, and vice-versa, while the electric force will move west to east, and vice-versa – for a pendulum, with both forces of equal magnitude, the amplitude should grow or decrease according to a simple law, like 2t or t^2).
Over the years, more and more discoveries seemed to make this answer less and less accurate. But, at least with the simplest problems, a simple mind could predict the correct answer just from a lot of very simple experiments, which should be easy to do for a simple mind like mine (and you don’t even need to spend money, because you can just try different forces of the same magnitude with different strengths and work from the law of cosines to estimate the magnitude of the forces).
As people started coming up with more complicated systems, like charged particle moving in one direction under the effect of a magnetic field (plus its “natural” velocity due to inertia, plus the effect of another (smaller) field), etc., the answer to simple questions like “will the two forces pull the particle to the same place?” (the answer should be a simple cosine law, yes?) became less and less clear-cut. But the new systems would be too complicated for me to understand, no matter how many simple questions I asked, and no matter how much time I spent studying these systems (and there were new questions to ask, like: what is the simplest way of describing this system? how can I make a simple model in the spirit of my original simple models?)
If you’re interested in understanding these systems, you have probably already learned a lot of the background material, but even though it will be very useful for you, I would warn you that it will not be easy. It is a very different kind of knowledge from the one I know, which was acquired by a lot of very simple experimentation.
I am trying to say all this because I can’t tell you this in a simple “I don’t have the background you do” sense, but rather in the sense that a lot of the things that you will learn when you study this stuff don’t seem relevant for the kind of work that I do, so I don’t know how useful it would be in getting to my work.
The type of question I am trying to answer is the question of “how should we make models of the world that have good explanatory power, so that it is possible to make predictions about the system and test those predictions.” If you have any background in physics or math, this is kind of an area of interest to you as well – it is where I originally learned some math, and now I use that math all the time. If that’s true for you too, then there may be a lot that we can learn from each other.
It’s also possible that you wouldn’t enjoy my type of work at all. But in that case, you shouldn’t be writing me these messages anyway.
I believe the wide field of mathematics is all about learning from people. Only a very select handful ever made significant contributions on their own without any help. It's all about, putting more brains in a room until it hits one of them.
I may be assuming, but it seems to me like you really appreciate mathematics and physics. I'd be very pleased to read more from what you have to think about any of the problems today's models don't fully answer yet, and possibly discuss about it with you.
Speaking of problems, if I may gave you one slight problem many people have been trying to figure out, they call it the Syracuse problem. A nice little oddity.
This is a simple program: Take any number. If it is even, divide by two. If odd, multiply by three, then one. Repeat with the result. Somehow, it always falls back to 4, 2, and 1, the. back to 4, 2 and 1. The gist of it is that, we've tried all the numbers up to 2 to the 68th, and it falls back down to the 4, 2, 1 loop. The big question is, can we prove it for all numbers?
Far from me the thought of sounding arrogant or condescending, but I doubt you will solve it, I doubt any of us will, to be frank (Pun not intended). But I just find this simple algorithm so interesting, and I have to share it with you, because who knows what a fresh mind could think about it, you know?
Good day, Frank! I hope all is well.
I wanted to submit a small question for you.
Imagine, you were a character from a game;, a movie, any piece of fiction, of your favourite genre, be it romance, science-fiction, and so on.
Now, from that, what would be your backstory? All characters have an interesting one, and I have the feelings yours might be too.
This is a hard question for me to answer, and I'm not sure if I even have a well-defined answer that I'm confident about. But since it is a question I get often enough and I don't want to give it the answer I do give it often enough, I'll do a best-of-the-bad-options:
A: I'd be like the protagonist of the "Fantasy Flight: Astroneer" game (see here), except with fewer weird science facts to memorize.
B: my life was never especially interesting, I just spent it trying to learn about new things, and my life ended when I ran out of new things to study
C: my life was full of interesting events, but the way it ended was predictable from the beginning. I spent my childhood in a cult and my teen years in a prison, and in both cases I just couldn't make things different than they were – even if I had gotten my memories of those years back. (I think you could say the same for B's life too, but if that was true for me, it would be true for B as well, so what I'm saying is mostly true for both B and me.)
D: I became the protagonist of an alternate history fiction novel, like the one about a time when the Roman Empire had stayed intact until the 5th century CE.
E: in another reality, one where I succeeded at my childhood ambition of being a famous physicist, I lived as a kind of recluse in a secluded mountain valley, until I died after a few days from poisoning by some unknown assailant.
Oh, you want to become a famous physicist? Please, oh please, tell me more about it! I find the field of general physics very interesting. Which field interests you? Any particular one, such as particle theory, or thermodynamics, for example?
Me? Have daddy issues? Never, ever, ever ever. Absolutely not. Nope. Never could happen.
The action of assisting someone in coming out in a hostile environment
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
Might as well, gotta find myself a house for my studies next year. Let's see how lucky I get!
Mais mon dieu mon cher Frank, serais-tu devenu Français dans la nuit?
Te serais-tu éveillé enfin à des formes supèrieures de conscience?
Laisserais-tu enfin tomber ce maudit language manié par les perfides albionnais, pour rejoindre le coté du vrai Roy?
I can’t even read French
No
Fuck them
The worst thing about it is that English is much worse
Now now now, fuck France, really? I mean if you ask so nicely, sure, but wouldn’t you rather side with the glorious Guillaume the Conqueror, and not the Treacherous whoever-the-fuck-the-king-was-at-the-time? The choice seems clear to me.
You think I care more about language than people? That I am a linguistic chauvinist who is unable to think for more than two seconds about something besides language?
Darn, there I thought one could have some friendly banter around linguistics and centuries-old rivalries. Oh well, guess you have other topics to discuss that are more interesting. And whichever may they be, if I could be so indiscreet as to ask?
Mais mon dieu mon cher Frank, serais-tu devenu Français dans la nuit?
Te serais-tu éveillé enfin à des formes supèrieures de conscience?
Laisserais-tu enfin tomber ce maudit language manié par les perfides albionnais, pour rejoindre le coté du vrai Roy?
I can't even read French
No
Fuck them
The worst thing about it is that English is much worse
Now now now, fuck France, really? I mean if you ask so nicely, sure, but wouldn't you rather side with the glorious Guillaume the Conqueror, and not the Treacherous whoever-the-fuck-the-king-was-at-the-time? The choice seems clear to me.
Friendly reminder that Tumblr Reddit is a valid troll name.
might flop but reblog and tag the most kind, non-toxic, supportive, wholesome fandom you’ve ever been in. mine is gravity falls
The SCP-914 Experiment Logs. Greatest community ever. Saved my life couple times.
ladies if youre a kpoppie, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy
ladies if youre into mcyt, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan of just some guy
ladies?
No one ever expects the spanish ministry of science and technology
Ladies, if you're into being an electronic appliance whose purpose is to propell air in a direction using curved blades, please occasionally take the time to remind yourself that you are a fan.
bc of my crack fic people have been sending me every manner of Grinch x Tony the Tiger headcanon……who wants to hear the one that finally snapped me like a tennis player’s tendon
ok so if the grinch and tony had a kid, it would probably be
so that child would be Gritty
I’ve never derived an iota of joy from this website and I truly don’t know why i’m still here
I am ashamed to say that I put a lot of effort into this….
Whoops my hand slipped….
how have you done this…..why have you done it…..
I can’t stop
Look at the kids run!
Happy Grinch Day, Chapter 4 of the GRINCH X TONY THE TIGER FIX-IT FIC is up!
I couldn’t breathe when I saw these…
Everytime I see this thread show up on my dash it’s in more depth and more developed. I didn’t think we could reach these levels of insanity but here we are.
#also the Lorax has ‘the’ in front of their name just like The Grinch so it’s a family thing #WAIT WAIT WAIT #this implies that after the breakup the Grinch raised the Lorax while Tony raised Gritty. Tony the Cereal Sports Mascot raised Gritty the Hockey Mascot. this makes Complete Sense #Grinch likes solitude and nature and hates waste and commercialism–traits passed onto the Lorax #Tony is obnoxiously extroverted and loves sports and is a Famous Pop Cultural Mascot. Gritty followed in his father’s footsteps…
it is painfully hysterical to me that people are encountering this fic completely at random without knowing the Relevant Tumblr Backstory behind it
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
October 2016
April 2017
July 2017
September 2018
December 2018
June 2019
February 2020
August 2020
You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
TODAY
holy shit its the last one
here’s to the next six years of thursday the 20th!
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Happy 20th the Thursday. Or something. What did I miss?
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
"Wanna learn something?" Errr sorry friend but we're on tumblr if it ain't the way to eeby deeby we ain't learning fuck all
Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence
Proudly lurking for months, and there's still not q single thing I understand. What the actual fuck is a scrungo?
Latinx? Latino/a? Hispanic?
People often want to know which term — Hispanic, Latino or Latinx — is the most respectful. But it really depends on the person and context.
“Hispanic” refers to any of the peoples in the Americas and Spain who speak Spanish or are descended from Spanish-speaking communities. It was coined in the 1970s by the U.S. Census Bureau to offer a pan-ethnic name for peoples such as Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans and others, whose social, economic and political needs were often ignored.
According to UC Berkeley's Cristina Mora, before the term “Hispanic” was adopted, the census enumerators would often check off people such as Mexican Americans as “White” on the census forms.
In contrast to Hispanic, the term Latino describes any person with ancestry in Latin America, a politically defined region usually unified by the predominance of Romance languages. This definition usually includes Portuguese-speaking Brazil and French-speaking Haiti, but excludes Spain.
But what about Latinx??
For some, the pronunciation of the word is cryptic: la-TEENGKS? LA-tin-EX? For others, it represents a kind of language imperialism by imposing a new English word onto a Spanish word and rendering it unpronounceable.
Latinx is essentially a non-binary form of Latino or Latina. The suffix “-x” replaces the “-o” or “-a” corresponding to masculine or feminine, allowing the word to resist the gender binary. (In Spanish-speaking countries, the term Latine with the suffix “-e” is circulating as an alternative to the -o/a binary.)
TFW Latine is actually Latina in french
