im so fucking stupid someone gave me 9/25 as a probability and i tried to convert it into % form and instead of multiplying 25 and 9 by 4 to get 36/100 or 36% (like my friend did) i realised they were both square numbers then square rooted 9/25 to get 3/5 then translated that to 0.6 or 6/10 then squared that to get 36/100 then converted that to 36%. why did i do any of that. like come on.
Share my madness, and I will share yours.
Jean-Paul Sartre, from ‘The Condemned of Altona’, tr. Sylvia & George Leeson
my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!
as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.
i hate when i browse math-related tags on this site and half the posts are people ranting about how much they hate her. why are you so mean to my wife
sciencetists conjecture a "island of stability" at around 15-16 standard cups of coffee
“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”
— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)
feynman diagrams make me miss my wife
if i was on the great british bake off i'd leap the picket fence and escape the tent. i'd be across the grass and in the trees by the time paul hollywood fetched his gun
i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now
| madge | usa | 16 | aspiring physics + maths major |
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