the-real-numbers:

Learn Real Analysis On Your Own!

  1. Get ready to cry
  2. Cry
  3. Cry some more
  4. Question why you gotta prove the thing
  5. Decide you’re gonna do it anyway
  6. Get somewhere with it
  7. Run out of energy (too many quantifiers)
  8. Take a break
  9. Have an epiphany, scribble something down
  10. Try it out
  11. Get excited because it actually works (kinda)
  12. Discover there’s a detail you might have missed.
  13. Curse yourself
  14. Dig out your textbook again and read through some proofs to see how that sort of thing was handled
  15. Let epsilon be greater than zero/delta greater than zero/there be a limit… Etc.
  16. Oh shit that’s what you forgot
  17. Make sure there was no fuckery with a negative sign
  18. You’re good
  19. Write out a draft of the proof!
  20. Oh shit, you could have done it better!
  21. Write a new proof halfway
  22. Stumble into a problem
  23. Get stumped and take another break
  24. Oh, that was silly, you had it.
  25. Finish the new proof
  26. It’s been two days and you finally went through one theorem
  27. Realize that’s just how it is
  28. Repeat.

orangecitrusring:

2glimpse-inside-my-mind:

justsomeantifas:

trump administration:

me: what could possibly go wrong

what went wrong:

There’s a reason why those regulations were in place, to protect consumers from shit like this. To no surprise, this administration’s policies are not for the protection of it’s people-they serve the interests of the large corporations-not for the people, not for America.

It should also be noted that these companies could still follow the now-repealed safety regulations. They’re showing their colors as bastards by immediately jumping on all this deregulation to save a few bucks at the cost of consumers’ health and well-being. Any of the people running these companies could take the easiest moral stance and literally save lives, and they adamantly refuse to do so because they are literal monsters who value capital over lives

I plugged my genetic data into Promethease, and it turns out my educational attainment score is pretty much near the lowest it could be. The thing is… Well, I wanted to be a biologist, it’s always been a passion for me, and now it turns out I have practically no chance of academically achieving anything past high school. Do I keep doing, or do I just learn to cope with never being able to achieve my dreams?

theunitofcaring:

I think you’re giving that data vastly, vastly more weight than it ought to have. Scores can only predict “in a group of a thousand people with this trait, how many of them will accomplish this thing?” I think often we’re not even competent enough yet to predict that with any confidence. I’m not sure this should have much more weight than a horoscope. 

If you already know how you do in school, that’s vastly more information than you can get from your genetic data. You should basically not even consider your genetic data on any subject where the effects are also things you can directly observe. You know your grades and your ability-to-learn-stuff and your ambition-to-learn-stuff; Promethease adds, as far as I can tell, literally no information to that.

Please don’t sabotage yourself or abandon things you care about because of the output of a fairly inaccurate online test that even at its best would be screened off by ‘how do you do in class?’.