Abuse of Notation

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Moving to another instance: @abuseofnotation here it goes.

Today's topic: why are so many poseurs i.e. why are they pretending that they are something that they are not (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseur)

Historically, people were only pretending to belong to very well-respected and dominant groups (e.g. clergy, aristocracy) in order to gain some financial or other benefit and nowadays pretending is has no particular direction i.e. there are rich people who pretend they are poor and vice versa, promiscuous people who pretend they are celibate and vice versa

Poseur - Wikipedia

- I am so confused! If only I knew what is the point of my life!
- Well it’s relative, but it probably has to do with being good, making a positive impact for the people around us, doing meaningful work having meaningful relationships etc.
- Nah, I am pretty sure that’s not it.
A page from last night's journaling session. Mercury rx in the 3rd house thoughts + new year plotting. #astrology #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd #neurodivergency #neurowild
For Christmas I present to you all, one basket of void! #christmas #CatsOfMastodon #cat

Nice article, but I am particularly stumped by how cool those LaTeX brackets look like:

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/number-theory/#fast-repetitions

Number theory explained from first principles

A lot of modern cryptography builds on insights from number theory, which has been studied for centuries.

Explained from First Principles

The natural numbers game - a good intro to writing proofs using and theorem proovers.

https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_game/
#mathstodon

The Natural Number Game

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the

Tom Lehrer Songs
I made a picture :)
I always suspected that #categorytheory has something to do with satanism. #sciencejokes