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maths phd from Aotearoa. I like ducks and topological geometry

trans, maoist, very cool, my friends all love me


Wren's Nest (I post stuff there sometimes)
wrens-nest.su/

DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

I should become one of those math youtubers who post seven thousand videos a day all titled "A nice math problem" that are twelve minutes long and they're all halfassed quadratic equations that can be solved in ten seconds by any gradeschooler or an advanced fish


rosie-cant
@rosie-cant

I'm so done with nice maths problems. Give me the nasty ones! The ones that are cruel or that say bad things sometimes. The ones that will throw you in the gutter and laugh as they walk away. The ones that kick and scream and bite rather than give up their solution. The ones that, when you fail to quickly solve them, look you in the eye and tell you that you are worthless. The ones that make your impostor syndrome million times worse. The ones where you need help so you have to send an email in your broken German to a guy in Tubingen who is maybe the only person in the world who has studied that type of problem before.

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maybe its okay if they are nice every once in a while though


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in reply to @DecayWTF's post:

Get the drop on them by making your channel solve systems of linear Diophantine equations whose coefficients you choose secretly to have nice factorizations that aren't obvious. In the video, treat the G.C.D. of the various pairs of coefficients as common knowledge and refuse to explain it. Even as the computational complexity works for you against your competitors, the psychological effect will further dismay them. With some effort, you could upgrade the genre from merely unhelpful to actively cognitohazardous!