:: journal :: 2021

I checked my VPS today out of boredom. Turns out that we have a new record, 5871 bytes for a ski combinator calculus reduction thingy in Seed.

Usefulness to the society isn't a good objective metric. It erases people who are useful to the society in a non-obvious way.

Leah (the Void Linux maintainer) gifted me an Aeropress for Christmas :).

--> (faddeev-leverrier (println@reshape 3 3 '(3 1 5 3 3 1 4 6 4)))
+---+---+---+
| 3 | 1 | 5 |
+---+---+---+
| 3 | 3 | 1 |
+---+---+---+
| 4 | 6 | 4 |
+---+---+---+
(1 -10 4 -40)

--> (def rat :$(lcm 1)@#(tie / #0))
callable/syn
--> (rat 0.25)
(4 1)

Feeling bad about my cup size. Pads don't seem natural enough.

I'm mostly bleeding out my sanity and soul, but I'm holding on for a single reason.

I just back off social contacts and try to minimise my exposure to other people without actually wanting or needing (i think) it. I'm not sure why this even happens.

I'm perpetually uninspired.

About the binomial theorem. When we did this in class, our teacher wanted us to find the coefficient of the Nth term, and I could find it really quickly in my head, which greatly impressed him. He gave us three middle coefficients of (x+y)^8 (hence showing 3,4,5 choose 8) and wanted us to compute the middle coefficient of (x+y)^9 (4 or 5 choose 9). This is simple: C(n,k+1) = C(n,k) * (n-k) / (k+1).

I am deeply unhappy with western math curricula. Teaching integrals before derivatives. Teaching trigonometry without the unit circle. Teaching integration without riemann sums. Teaching probability without it's axiomatic definition. Teaching calculus before basic stuff which isn't calculus. People have an unhealthy obsession with calculus - wow! derivatives, wow! integrals - and then you see a clueless person who sees a quadratic-related problem and can't solve it but they can give you an indefinite integral of x^2 or tell you what a conjugate of a given complex number is equal to.

I've been made for greater things than shuffling numbers around.

Wealth inequalities are the root cause of most inequalities in our contemporary society.

⊣×∘~⍴⍤⊣⍴⍸⍤⍷⍨(⍸⍣¯1⍤,∘.+)⍳⍤⍴⍤⊢.

The guy with an incredibly ridiculous caricature as his only depiction. (Legendre)

My favourite pair of short shorts no longer fits me.

Minor medication shortages.

First trials of MalbolgeLisp 1.1 have started.

Remembered about https://pastebin.com/qt05TvEP.