PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Should’ve said “beeneath a cemetery”

Me: please brain I just wanna get stuff done today.
Brain: no, now go find that one part of Old World Blues where you talk to your brain.

As a science nerd, mathologer basically just took the camp of “old concensus” and gave no other argument than “this is alien math, nope, I don’t like it”.

I mean maybe in the first video, but not the one I linked. Here, he was very precise about the mistakes Numberphile made in the presentation, and the purpose and utility of standard summation of convergent series versus the other methods of summation. Like he’s not dissing the idea or utility of summing divergent series literally at all, just Numberphile’s oversimplified presentation of it.

But that’s literally the joke in the meme tho

it’s not actually math.

It literally is math tho

It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.

Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.

Actually, the Numberphile video is notorious for lacking mathematical rigor. Mathologer did a video on it. IMO, it’s really really important to explain the difference between what’s going on here (assigning a number to a divergent series) and what we ordinarily do (computing the limit of a sequence of partial sums).

The math one uses the fact that 1 + 2 + 3 + … “=” -1/12, where the equality is in the sense of Ramanujan summation. Classically, the series diverges, so using the equality sign is a bit deceptive. However, in some contexts, it is meaningful to assign a sum to divergent series.

You gotta make sure those tricky infinite mathematicians order an absolutely convergent series of beers before you sell them 🍺

Probably a smooth cotton or polyester blend. Just…not denim 😅

That’s really cool that you managed to implement that solution, but as an autistic man with texture issues…ew denim 😬

Probably your instance. For example, I’m on a VPN all day every day and I get to post and comment and use Lemmy like nothing happened.

Just because it happened in the past doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea. Actually, the appeal to nature “argument” against borders does, IMO, provide evidence that the conclusion (borders are evil and should be dispensed with) holds, but it is not an argument in itself.

IMO a better argument is the reality of the misery and oppression that borders create: they cage humanity and the ecology and thus limit our potential, and they only serve to benefit the local capitalists, and proletarians pay the price in blood and tears for those who try to assert their right to move. And then to this, we append the positive examples from nature as empirical evidence that suggests the conclusion, with the caveat that just because something is natural does not mean it is optimal or good.

💩us Mc🐦us

I mean we’re on Lemmy in /c/sciencememes, i.e. (pedantic fuckweasels)² 😆

Yeah but we’re not wolves 😄🏴

The Strait of Hormuz is clopen.