I put a disk in my drive only to find that the storage kept descending infinitely. It turns out the disk was Fermatted.
Palestinian-American. Cat person. Mathematics professor. Leftist. Autistic but often told it’s not obvious. Nerd but not the consumerist kind. Arrogant but can back it up. Mathematic for the people.
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I put a disk in my drive only to find that the storage kept descending infinitely. It turns out the disk was Fermatted.
Learning how to use 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎. I’m partially deaf but I heard this went wrong for Richard Pryor.
I am so pissed off now that I see it.
On that note, I could use advice on whether to include more active learning in my class. I’ve heard current students hate it (I suspect because they can’t rely on ChatGPT). If I do it, I won’t have any support from colleagues or bosses, and I’ll have to take 100% of the L if it fails. Worth trying?
Hey, #MathSky, which human-written OER textbooks for multivariable calculus do you recommend? I use and like OpenStax, but I feel ready to try infusing my course materials with more books’ approaches. Strang goes too hard for my audience and they‘d likely resist Schlicker’s focus on activities.
An old expression I just learned: 「お臍がお茶を沸かす。」 “My belly button boils tea.” The speaker is laughing so hard that their navel is producing enough friction to heat tea to boiling. The tone is bullying/hectoring so like most manga/anime Japanese, never seriously say it. But it’s weirdly niche bullying.
Tiger Mask is saying he’s proud to be disqualified, in a world in which pro wrestling is canonically real. Wouldn’t that mean he gets paid less?
I wasn’t alive for the 1970s and I’m always amazed at what I missed, like apparently there were women named Chesty.
I wonder if the French pronounce ”bedrot” like, “bed-row.”
Gambit actually did get kicked out of the X-Men when his secrets came to light, which seems hypocritical. Changeling, Banshee, Magneto, Rogue, and Sabretooth had all gone from villains to X-Men by then. Hell, Marrow was joining while Gambit was being fired.
I just found out one phrase for skyrocketing in Japanese is “climb like an eel.” I wonder if this is one of those ironic things like “sweating like a cop.”
I have never once heard a rapper say, “Wow, this song is my delight.”
My mother—who parrots shitty talking points with a disturbing compulsion—was lecturing me on how ugly wind farms are. I was like, “You mean compared to the majestic natural beauty of a coal plant?”
People really forget that less than 5 years ago investors were convinced we were all going to live in the "metaverse," no matter how stupid that sounded to anyone that had spent even a minute in "Second Life" or some other "virtual social space."
Grok, is it bad if basically all of the growth in the stock market is coming from this?
It will be even harder to disentangle cause and effect in retrospect, but China is currently in the process of making a huge amount of money rendering the key commodity that has undergirded US power obsolete and the US doesn't seem to have a clue about how to respond.
When they write the history of US decline, I could see focusing on Trump being perceived as a midwit position compared to the retrospectively obvious own-goal of doubling down on oil and trying to use it to power enough data centers to build God.
I can’t stand any other anime dub but this fight scene in the American dub is the best fight scene I’ve ever seen.
Guy from Steely Dan and Oliver Twist. I bet the writer’s room really cackled to themselves over this. I wonder if any of them helped name Zilgram from that episode of Leverage.
I kind of love that the showrunner was like, “We could’ve done more with that James Jordan guy. Slap a bad wig on his ass and bring him back out here.”
How did I not know Patrick Fabian was on Veronica Mars? I love this dude (especially after he was nice to me on Twitter once).
"I am merely the rocks upon the eternal shore you chose to move towards me and break yourself"
They must’ve gotten along if they did an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee together. But I always got the vibe from this spoof that Jim Carrey genuinely hated Jerry Seinfeld. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Z7...
I gave had it up to here with the business model of “pay a subscription to make this app less annoying.”
I know my answer is correct but I don’t feel 100% confident in my explanation. #MathSky, might you please help me strengthen it? Desmos visualization that I made: www.desmos.com/calculator/7... Sources (in Korean): www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LY...; www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZc4....
Oh dang, the first X-Men issue I read after seeing this had them playing baseball!
“And pepper spray, for if we run into that Trump character.” Wow, Veronica Mars is some seriously prescient shit.
The literal only reason to spread antivax propaganda is if you want to undermine an entire population. “Crunchy” is just a silly word for a sucker.
Most people don’t know this but Cardi B’s full name is Cardiovascular Bronchitis.
Orgasms? Weight loss?
...Well somebody told her
I legitimately have trauma around this. When I was 14, I was already having a shitty day when an unaffiliated adult did the dropping of the egg and completely missed my device. They refused to give me a do-over and I scored last place. I still fucking hate the Science Olympiad.
Is that not confidential?
Even by the mid-aughts, it wasn’t that hard to bust a student for plagiarizing a movie, even one the teacher hasn’t seen. What kind of incompetent teacher praised Logan Echolls for plagiarizing Easy Rider?
Netanyahu saying Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize is like Dick Dastardly saying Muttley deserves to win the Wacky Races.
“I want people to be able to gaze at math,” she said. “You can still enjoy music, even if you can’t play.” @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social spoke with me about her mission to bring math to the masses & the inspo behind her new book, Unequal: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/s...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
I often think Americans were deliberately bred as a people divided and conquered from birth, engineered to put up with unlimited oppression because we’re too “ruggedly individualistic” to stand up for ourselves en masse. C.E.O.’s fucking steal kids’ hats with impunity because we’re their Jem'Hadar.
U.S. history education teaches compartmentalization. When it happened in the past, it was because people didn’t know better or speak up. But if you know better and speak up now, that speech is “politically charged.” “Woke.” “Divisive.” Nazis can go Nazi’ing now and punt accountability to their kids.
Concentration camps, criminalizing speech, denying immigration by race and religion and speech, looking the other way during genocides, deploying the military at protesters: all of this in the past was “shameful,” say Americans who knowingly vote for that shit now.
You see this every fucking Memorial and Veterans Day: insincere panegyrics about dead, traumatized, and homeless veterans. Nothing about trying not to create them in the first place. Empty words for past wars and ignoring the eight current conflicts that we know of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_o...
Decades/centuries later—if humans last that long—our descendants will read about how denying gender-affirming care was a “black mark” or a “shameful time” in our history. But nobody who can make a difference connects this to doing better now. We’re taught to say never again, not to do never again.
ive said this before but even well-intentioned cis people see transition as a luxury that is painful to revoke the rights for but not existential. i bet these hospitals would file lawsuits about this if it was about literally any other evidence-supported medical procedure
“We teach you Git so that you might one day ignore it.”
I belong to tiny subsets that I wish had specific names. There are common experiences that we rarely get to commiserate over: military brats who chose not to enlist; second-generation immigrants who don’t “natively” speak the ancestral tongue; 60s TV fans born after the 60s…
“Yemen’s Ancient Beauty Revealed by Drone.” Not what I think of when I hear “Yemen” and “drone.” www.msn.com/en-us/video/...
@stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social @ssritrek.bsky.social
In Wolverine #93, Wolvie stops Juggernaut from bar-fighting with Cannonball. Even though Wolverine is less powerful and Cannonball is probably older than Colossus was.
What’s the weirdest thing you believed as a kid? I believed a “booty call” was to compliment a girl on her buttocks. You’d see a callipygian stranger and yell, “BOOTY CALL,” and she’d turn and smile all like, “Oh you.” I also believed if you went to jail they chopped your dick off.
I’m really glad you said that! I compiled this solution by watching half a dozen videos, but I’m still not all the way confident in those parts myself. You’ve given me an area to focus on and see if I can revise it!
Why do microwaveable pouches say to tear two inches without marking two inches? I don’t own a Cybertruck so I don’t have an easy way to tell how long is two inches.
I’ve really got to improve at how I organize these on BlueSky! I’ve been working on that on MyOpenMath, but I didn’t decide to adapt these systematically, problem by problem, until recently. I think I’ll use the MathSky tag more often, maybe!
Oh dang, you’re right. I misread as I searched back!
I miswrote it in the OP, but even the correct version is really difficult. Here's what I got, working off that video.
![Consider cases of three distinct zeros If there exist three distinct zeros, can be neither the leftmost nor the rightmost zero, as this would make it so that . We arrive at three cases. We'll list the roots in ascending order. Case 1: zeros at In this case, . This one does not work because . Case 2: zeros at Here, . If , then when , , which violates our condition. Thus, if this works at all, then . Then only holds when , in which case . This case won't work. Case 3: zeros at Here, For reasons similar to the previous case, . Then only holds when , in which case , so we finally have a working case! This means , so . Source(s): 1 [+] (Korean).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jt5vgscmo7fuyegwpqcviyw7/bafkreic4p24hze7zo5hb7sbxbdngqjzil7id77mqfo3fxtuwo2w4v7szji@jpeg "Click to view full size")
𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 slaughtered this white whale. This problem was considered so difficult, that its difficulty made it to the news in Korea. You would sooner see a unicorn dig up Jimmy Hoffa than see a math problem on the news in the United States. Special thanks to 수학딜러 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF4d...).
Nicely done!!
I should pull a Rudy Giuliani and sue everyone who advised me against putting “Rudy Giuliani in suspicious AF car crash” on my bingo card.
Random-Access Memory: The main reason things didn’t work out with my second girlfriend was that she loathed my mother. I introduced that ex to King of the Hill, which backfired when Peggy reminded her of my mother.
Reading about the trigamy guy and it made me realize… Predators organized religion so they could get laid.
I remember an interview with Daniel Knauf: he said the town would have an “omega male” whom everyone makes fun of. He described the town as “socialistic that way.” To this day, I wonder how he’d make the characters likable in spite of that. And where he got the idea that socialism is high school.
If you feel like remembering Graham Greene at his most fun, you could do worse than Wolf Lake. It’s a cool pre-fame reel for Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Paul Wesley too. It’s a Twin Peaks knockoff with werewolves by a die-hard ”friend of Abe” showrunner, so it’s not, you know, good. But still.
물결（波） 씨는 열여덟 살이에요. Finally, I can talk about the important things in Korean.
Where I come from, that’s called cockblocking.
That Winston Churchill nude popped up in my feed again through no action of my own and it’s like I GET IT, he had the bangingest rack in the universe, why are we still fucking talking about this
That Melania nude popped up in my feed again through no action of my own and I’m so far beyond over it. Maybe Eva Braun had the bangingest rack in the universe but I wouldn’t know because I don’t want to see someone naked who knowingly fucked one of the most evil people who ever lived.
Jean Grey busting the villain’s balls.
These two supervillains dropped around the same time, Nemesis and Genesis. Genesis, a.k.a. Tolliver, was Cable’s son and Apocalypse’s usurpative heir in this universe. Nemesis, a.k.a. Holocaust, was Apocalypse’s loyal son who came from an alternate universe. It’s as corny and confusing as it sounds.
She thinks you can take a “road trip” from Massachusetts to Ireland? I can see why the Xavier School isn’t accredited.
Oh my God yes.
I have to remind myself that she's a cat! Even more so than most cats, she carries herself like a tiny god!
Now that I’m learning Unix I have a new intrusive thought, and its name is “𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚛𝚖 -𝚛𝚏 /.”
Do others exist who are intelligent but cluttered? Just me and Husk?
This can’t be the first time Jubilee and Artie Maddicks met. They were both at Cyclops’ and Jean Grey’s wedding. I’ve been to a lot of weddings against my will but I think I’d remember a little pink orphan throwing up holograms.
Is there a name for this “under-Hollywood” of exposed predators and “anti-woke comedians” and child-actors-turned-adult-fundies and Bentkey and now Bill Maher interviewing Woody Allen?
That Civil War tie-in with Nitro lives rent-free in my mind to this day. He healed back to normal in, like, four panels!
I didn’t go to brain doctor school, but I really remember learning that brain damage doesn’t heal. Superheroes may dominate American pop culture because we’ve created psychological conditions that incur a yearning for polytheism, but there’s “heal faster” and there’s “heal at all.”
How isn’t he? I recall neuroscience expert Michael Gerard Tyson saying, “Because I always thought about that punch, I always listened to the doctors on television and ask my friends, and they say when the nose go into the brain, the consequence of him gettin’ up right away is… out of the question.”
That was my thinking too. I’m using boot.dev, which I like so far outside of its use of AI. I feel weird that I could occasionally use my math knowledge to cheese the lessons, but I never had to!
She’s a 10 but she believes you are in every way her inferior.
![My cat Nami [17F].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jt5vgscmo7fuyegwpqcviyw7/bafkreie6p5spbbzymgw7yrr4ad6jwqoiyr3vzr7qqnwygt6mlazlaamreq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The 𝙪𝙣𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙡 of sending me a connection request on LinkedIn after unfriending me on Facebook.
Are professional certifications supposed to be easy? I just got a Python certification that took me a couple of hours. I posted it on LinkedIn but I’m lowkey worried it looks like I’m bragging that I unlocked the secret to wiping my own ass.
Just remembered how my first girlfriend was a history major who believed the government should ban any content that made her uncomfortable. That’s like a computer science major who uses a Mac.
Why is acting the only profession with a method? I wonder if there are method dentists. They go up to even their families and cops like, “How’s it going? You been flossing?”
The rookie is taking the lobotomized serial killer on a walkie in the woods on a leash redolent of BDSM. Very normal X-Men story.
