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@greytdepression

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amateur math student
professional slash shipper and shitchoster
average math/programming/game dev enjoyer
proud parent of @JWST-live
asks always welcome :3
mutuals, feel free to dm on discord
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grey @greytdepression11/15/2023, 7:57 PM

welcome post

hey, i'm grey. your local enby from germany.
i'm 24 and currently still at uni finishing up my math degree.

in my free time i like to think about all the things i want to do. and sometimes i even do some of them 😯

below i go into a little more detail about those things. if you ever want to talk to me about any of these things, please do! i'd love to make some mutuals on here 🥰

game dev 👾

i've been learning to program since i was 12 or 13 years old because i always wanted to make video games (and minecraft mods 😌). there's not a lot i have to show for that since most projects were abandoned before they ever got to see the light of day. however, i participated in a game jam this year and i came in 9th out of 224 with my game lunar rivals 🌔. i'm currently working on a little game and i posted about that here.

art thigns 🎨

i also got into art a little more since the pandemic because of all the amazing art i saw people make on social media. i always liked to craft as kid and those studson studios builds really inspired me to be a little more creative again (looking at you howl's moving castle).
i'll be posting some of my art here and there but you can take a look at this already 😊

fandom 🤓 (the concept, not the company)

i like fanwork more than the source material in a lot of cases. and while i do read quite a bit of fanfic (please send me all your klance and kuroken recommendations) i'm also very fascinated by the concept of fandom as a whole! i should make another post specifically about what media i'm interested in.

science and math (not a science) 🔬

so yea, i study math. would you believe me if i told you i like math, too? i actually went to uni to study physics first. thinking about physics (and astronomy (my beloved)) is great, but actually doing physics is the worst! 3/10 wouldn't recommend.
mathematicians DO interact please! unless you want to talk about analysis. or statistics. or geometry (that includes you, algebraic geometers! i do not know what a fiber is and i am not willing to learn).

#welcome to cohost #intro #intro post #introduction #game dev #gamedev #art #fandom #math

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tubes @tubular11/18/2023, 2:04 PM

luckily the mutual complement of analysis and stats and geometry still includes vast swathes of cool math, like algebra, and combinatorics, and algebraic combinatorics. what kind of math do you like to talk about?

grey @greytdepression11/18/2023, 2:16 PM

thank you for asking! the fields you listed are indeed very interesting in my opinion.
algebra: i quite enjoy commutative algebra. rings are neat! really loved my intro to algebraic number theory lecture 🥰
combinatorics: YES! love me some graph theory! my knowledge on algebraic combinatorics is unfortunately limited to like half a semester (at most) of a lecture on that topic. i have a vague idea that you can associate vector spaces with your combinatorical objects and use dimension arguments to prove things. but that's about it. i'm much more well-versed in probabilistic combinatorics.

i'm currently doing my master thesis on iterations of proper forcing (set theory).

also, uhh, don't hate me but i do dabble in theoretical computer science 🤫

tubes @tubular11/18/2023, 2:32 PM

alg combo is a lot more than just counting dimensions! you can assign a spectrum to a graph by its various adjacency matrices (algebraic graph theory). you can immerse yourself in a sensory deprivation tank and think about partitions and numerology forever (symmetric functions). you can study matroids (matroid theory)

cs isn't that bad! lots of fun and silly stuff grows out of liking computers. i love hearing about some obscure thing like randomized communication complexity or whatever new data structure the algos people are cooking

grey @greytdepression11/24/2023, 2:16 PM

sorry for taking so long to respond. i took a bit of a break from social media for a bit

alg combo sounds super interesting! unfortunately i really only have surface level knowledge of these fields. my knowledge of spectral graph theory is basically limited to “the multiplicity of the 0 eigenvalue of the laplacian of a graph tells you the number of connected components”. matroid theory also sounds really neat! but again, i only know a little about it from a seminar i attended last semester.
i also quite like learning about weird little data structures or neat embedding algorithms!

you mentioned on your page that you’re familiar with set theory. how much do you know about forcing techniques and cardinal characteristics. those are some topics i’m currently studying

tubes @tubular11/24/2023, 5:13 PM

i feel like i am ready to learn about forcing. it sure seems to come up a lot, so i have some conception of it. but everyone makes it sound quite gory, so despite my alleged fearlessness, i have thus far been willing to take them at their word!

i heard about p=t when people were buzzing about that, but otherwise i am blissfully ignorant of cardinal characteristics. i am content not to have opinions on CH because my most favourite things are all countable anyway. but i like to dream about large cardinal axioms sometimes too, because i like category theory

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