It's like this and like that and like this, not like this or like that or like this.

Though I appreciate the sentiment, unfortunately the angle of Musk's Nazi salute likely corresponds to the supremum of the first derivative of the curve, not the tangent at some arbitrary point, which means it controls the volatility of the stock rather than its overall gain/loss over that interval.

To learn is to repeat and to know is to repeat toward some limit. Knowledge is in the limit, and we know only as long as we repeat.

Sometimes people say that nature is logical. Nature is not logical. Logic is the interface between nature and it's observation, between what is and what is known of what is.

Remember when Musk used to say things like he wanted to save the knowledge from the potential a dark age?

Is science our only redeeming quality?

What in calculus irks me probably has something to do with its historical connection with the study of movement, change, and therefore it's relation to time. For this reason, it immediately feels superficial, and I think this plays into my uneasy aesthetic relation to it.

What is it about calculus that I find meh, while loving linear algebra? Why should there be an aesthetic preference for one kind of math over an other?

One habit to overcome in order to properly learn math after a humanities education is that of actually reading the book. Just skim the book. Focus on the exercises. It's all about the exercises.

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