Citationless Behavior

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Both physics and computer science are applied mathematics, but phsyics is when you take reality and find mathematics that apply to it and computer science is when you take mathematics and create reality to apply it to.

like look at these, they're so loooong 😭 noodle ass galaxies

Jupiter's auroras animation

Images: ESA/Hubble

Gotta love mathematicians for never being able to name concepts normally

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

Northern Lights in Iceland (Harald Viggo Moltke, 1900)