Fuwanovel Confessions

[Flutterz]

Just now, Nashetania said:

Wow. Okay then! 

Pretty sure I met you on Fuwa, not in dota

[Nashetania]

1 minute ago, Flutterz said:

Pretty sure I met you on Fuwa, not in dota

Does that mean I am interesting then?  

[Flutterz]

Just now, Nashetania said:

Does that mean I am interesting then?  

Nah

[Nashetania]

1 minute ago, Flutterz said:

Nah

[arakura]

Wow he won't even respond. I guess all those times we bonded over me calling him a nerd were nothing to him.

Working in the morning is best

[Flutterz]

3 minutes ago, arakura said:

Wow he won't even respond. I guess all those times we bonded over me calling him a nerd were nothing to him.

Didn't think that warranted a response

[arakura]

how mean. I see how it is.

[Flutterz]

7 minutes ago, arakura said:

how mean. I see how it is.

You like making me feel bad, don't you?

[arakura]

I'm not the one who's being mean. Don't put this on me

[Valmore]

17 hours ago, Rooke said:

Not a chance, man. People will judge  

We already are since you went and drank and Amazoned yourself 80 books. May as well go whole hog and admit you pre-ordered the sequel to 50 Shades of Grey and get it over with now.

15 hours ago, Nashetania said:

Confession: Two days ago, I met a group of players in DotA and one of the players is a girl who decided to add me on her own. So far we play daily and she always insists that I lane with her (me as carry and she as support). We have a pretty good chemistry 

 <- chemistry!

6 hours ago, Flutterz said:

Confession: I feel kinda bad when people call me their friend online because the vast majority of the people online I haven't talked to enough to consider anything more than acquaintances. And if someone asks me I tell them the truth.

But... but we're friends, right? Right? 

On 4/8/2016 at 9:11 AM, hsmsful said:

So you did have best friends in highschool? how envious I am : >

I don't like people getting too close to me.... as it usually ends up in a disaster Q_Q

Young teacher... the subject... of schoolgirl fantasies...

[Flutterz]

Just now, Valmore said:

But... but we're friends, right? Right? 

[Valmore]

Just now, Flutterz said:

You filthy Canadian bastard! I'm never sending you back your Love Live DVDs now! 

[hsmsful]

6 hours ago, Valmore said:

 

Young teacher... the subject... of schoolgirl fantasies...

 

[Yuuko]

7 hours ago, Valmore said:

Young teacher... the subject... of schoolgirl fantasies...

 

[SilverLi]

2 hours ago, Zenophilious said:

Confession: Holy shit, I think I met one of the dumbest people I've known in quite a long while.  They actually had me call a manger to complain to them that we didn't carry the color of sponge that they wanted.  Yep, that's right, she wanted a specific color of sponge and essentially threw a tantrum because we didn't have it (because the people that make them discontinued it, by the way).  Who even cares what color your sponge is?!  Ugh...just remembering that irritates me.

Welcome to the real world. Unfortunately the little faith in humanity I had disappeared in seconds. I think it could be connected with my grey hairs at 23.

[Funyarinpa]

Confession: It's pissing me the fuck off that I can't wrap my head around ordinal numbers (and yes I AM aware that this fucking concept is a hugely high level of math)

[Flutterz]

1 minute ago, Funyarinpa said:

Confession: It's pissing me the fuck off that I can't wrap my head around ordinal numbers (and yes I AM aware that this fucking concept is a hugely high level of math)

I'm guessing you watch Vsauce?

[Funyarinpa]

Just now, Flutterz said:

I'm guessing you watch Vsauce?

Found it via that counting beyond infinity video (and yes I AM aware that it just went up yesterday or the day before)

So I do watch Vsauce now but it is the RESULT of me seeing that video not the CAUSE

I love shit about science and math that makes me question what I thought I knew (say, aleph-null and that there can be differently sized infinities or the dual slit experiment)

The annoying part is that all of that shit is so damn high level that I'll have to slog through tons of mechanics and trigonometry to get there

 

tldr: Love advanced-ass physics/math shit, find the physics/math I'm being taught boring as fuck

[Flutterz]

4 minutes ago, Funyarinpa said:

Found it via that counting beyond infinity video (and yes I AM aware that it just went up yesterday or the day before)

So I do watch Vsauce now but it is the RESULT of me seeing that video not the CAUSE

I love shit about science and math that makes me question what I thought I knew (say, aleph-null and that there can be differently sized infinities or the dual slit experiment)

The annoying part is that all of that shit is so damn high level that I'll have to slog through tons of mechanics and trigonometry to get there

 

tldr: Love advanced-ass physics/math shit, find the physics/math I'm being taught boring as fuck

Well, better late than never You have a lot of watching ahead of you

[Zidan209]

Confession: Today, i was out with 3 girls. Plot twist: it was sort of boring

[Down]

When Cantor came up with all the stuff explained in that Vsauce video, few people believed him and he was criticized for most of his life. It's not surprising that you would encounter difficulties with those notions, that wasn't an easy video. You're still in high-school aren't you? Stuff like that or the double-slit experiment usually requires an L1/L2 solid background to be understood.

Although Vsauce is incredibly good at explaining stuff. Most of his videos are amazing. And if you want to get your mind blown again by maths, watch his Banach-Tarsky video.

[Flutterz]

7 minutes ago, Down said:

Although Vsauce is incredibly good at explaining stuff. Most of his videos are amazing. And if you want to get your mind blown again by maths, watch his Banach-Tarsky video.

Speaking of weird-names-separated-by-a-hyphen ideas...

Confession: I got triggered by Baader-Meinhoff again the day before yesterday. I saw a reddit post mentioning the "temporomandibular joint" and looked it up... later that day I watched the first episode of Tanaka-kun (not too bad but it would have been better if the characters were girls instead) and it had this:

[Funyarinpa]

5 minutes ago, Down said:

When Cantor came up with all the stuff explained in that Vsauce video, few people believed him and he was criticized for most of his life. It's not surprising that you would encounter difficulties with those notions, that wasn't an easy video. You're still in high-school aren't you? Stuff like that or the double-slit experiment usually requires an L1/L2 solid background to be understood.

Although Vsauce is incredibly good at explaining stuff. Most of his videos are amazing. And if you want to get your mind blown again by maths, watch his Banach-Tarsky video.

I watched that one too but it kinda lost me around the time it introduced the 5th-6th dot "types"

 

Kind of got the gist of it though

 

Great stuff either way.

[Down]

13 minutes ago, Flutterz said:

Confession: I got triggered by Baader-Meinhoff again the day before yesterday. I saw a reddit post mentioning the "temporomandibular joint" and looked it up... later that day I watched the first episode of Tanaka-kun (not too bad but it would have been better if the characters were girls instead) and it had this:

Last Baader-Meinhoff I had was Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious.

Read about it in an Umberto Eco book, then a week later in a Foucault book, and that same day someone mentioned in on my Twitter timeline.

Reminds me of when I got Clannad spoiled twice the same day in two completely different places of the internet without even particularly looking up Clannad stuff. Dem weird coincidences.

[Fred the Barber]

2 hours ago, Down said:

Last Baader-Meinhoff I had was Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious.

Read about it in an Umberto Eco book, then a week later in a Foucault book, and that same day someone mentioned in on my Twitter timeline.

Good story. I think I actually read it in Spanish for my "independent study" class (by which I mean, sit in the library and read Borges and Cervantes for an hour - good times) back in high school.

3 hours ago, Funyarinpa said:

Confession: It's pissing me the fuck off that I can't wrap my head around ordinal numbers (and yes I AM aware that this fucking concept is a hugely high level of math)

Rather than the concept itself being difficult, the problem is likely more that it's not the kind of math you're used to. Proof-oriented math, or however you want to call the stuff you'll follow in a typical undergrad math major sequence at a good university, requires a very different mindset than, at least, everything I had up through high school (in math or science). Once you build that muscle, both of Cantor's diagonalization proofs are both elegant and straightforward, IMO. The trick for both comes in understanding and accepting the axioms, specifically in this case the definition of "size of a set".

Foundations of math, like set theory and formal logic, is almost more like a puzzle game than like the typical calculation-oriented math courses you'll have taken up until now. They'll make up some rules, hand them to you, and then you go play in the sandbox. This is a totally reasonable mindset to take with ordinal numbers - you can probably have a fantastic argument with a philosopher of mathematics about whether integers and the ordinal numbers "exist", maybe even whether one exists and the other does not. But they are unquestionably less practical, for most people. And that actually does matter, even to mathematicians - ensuring the consistency of your axioms, and even reevaluating your fundamental axioms, can be valuable. Geometry is the poster child here that people love to talk about, but the story of set theory, Russell's paradox, and whatnot is arguably even more interesting.

Now, despite saying that stuff about games, don't misunderstand me. Even when you're talking about a simple system like formal logic, shit gets real, fast, when you start trying to prove things about your system (rather than prove things within your system, which is often pretty easy). Don't even try to read Godel. Completeness and consistency of the propositional calculus, fine, I can hang with those proofs. Remind me of the core ideas, give me a week, and I could probably produce them both. Completeness and consistency of the predicate calculus? Nope nope nope. Incompleteness theorem for formal number theory? All of my nope.

Foundations of math is fun stuff. But it'll take time to reshape your brain to think in the right way about it, and it probably won't happen without a good university lecturer (on any math topic) and a lot of time investment on your part.

 

Confession: Still, I don't think I wish I were a mathematician.