/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15614975]

I think this board should have more emphasis on mathematical literature to appreciate more of the contributions and wonders of math to progress in civilization and technology.

I'm, for example, a software engineer working for a major third party company and the book "Fundamentals of deep learning" has exponentially helped me progress in my career.

[Anonymous No.15614985]

how about you kill yourself instead? leave my board you autistic cretin

[Anonymous No.15615012]

>I F**CKING LOVE MATH AND PROGRAMMING

[Anonymous No.15615021]

>>15614985
>>15615012
you guys are so mad about failing algebra in school lol

[Anonymous No.15615024]

>>15614975
Yup, especially analytical and abstract math since that's pretty much crucial to solving problems, coming up with ideas and in general helping to create an artificial neural network to discover the possibility of self conscious artificial intelligence.

[Anonymous No.15615026]

>>15615012
>>15614985
>t. mathematically illiterate

[Anonymous No.15615037]

>>15614975
how did you manage to make even math feel like bootlicking?

[Anonymous No.15615040]

>>15615021
Nah, i don't think any person in this board could've failed algebra in school because most people here have at least an average-high iq.

Algebra is just such simple principle and basis of mathematics.

[Anonymous No.15615044]

>>15615021
go to sci then, smugtard

[Anonymous No.15615065]

>>15614975
I think it's fine to discuss math literature if you're able, but most people here aren't math majors and the upper-level stuff is very esoteric and non-math majors won't know it. The sad thing is that stuff doesn't intersect with much else except the sciences and even then mainly physics. On the other hand we could discuss linguistics or psychology and those things intersect right with philosophy and the sort of fiction you can write, so they're good fits for /lit/ even if they rarely get discussed. But for what it's worth anon, tell me if you've read the Principia Mathematica, not Newton's but the Russell/Whitehead one? I'd be down to hear more about it from someone who has, specifically the type theory stuff.

[Anonymous No.15615070]

Obligatory brainlet filter.

[Anonymous No.15615085]

>>15614975
What? You like a kind of reasoning that is coherent? Get the fuck off this board you bootlicking bugman etc.

[Anonymous No.15615131]

>>15615070
if it's not B then i don't fucking know!
Stop asking me this question! I'm really starting to think it's just a made up bait .

[Anonymous No.15615146]

don't, i only started reading fiction to cope with the fact that i was too dumb for physics

[Anonymous No.15615148]

>>15615131
Well of course, the problem is made up. But it's not bait in the sense that everything in it is genuine and correct. It's actually, genuinely not B. It would be really stupid to create such an elaborate image just to reveal later on the answer is actually "B": you'd have to be completely retarded to do it.

[Anonymous No.15615161]

>>15614975
>why don't more people on /lit/ talk about [topic covered by a different board]?
Gee OP, I have no idea.

[Anonymous No.15615165]

>>15615148
it should end up being B with a shorter box, otherwise I think the answer is along the back edge somewhere

[Anonymous No.15615182]

>>15615165
>it should end up being B with a shorter box
Correct!
>otherwise I think the answer is along the back edge somewhere
Wrong :(

[Anonymous No.15615243]

>>15615040
>most people here have at least an average-high iq

[Anonymous No.15615307]

>>15615243
Can you elaborate?
I do think that this community is genuinely one of the brightest out there.

[Anonymous No.15615355]

>>15615182
Is it at least on the AB plane? Starting from a flat tile it's B. If raising the height doesn't lag it behind B then it should approach the center of the top face, right?

[Anonymous No.15615361]

>>15615355
>AB plane
What do you mean? There are infinitely many planes that go through A and B.

[Anonymous No.15615377]

>>15615361
Sorry, meant the one with AB and either of the two points directly above or below them.

[Anonymous No.15615401]

>>15615307
Why would you think this, what are you even comparing it to, reddit? Your view is very limited or you are very stupid if you think /lit/ is an unusually smart place.

[Anonymous No.15615410]

sure, i’d be down to discuss math literature but 1.) i’m not sure that computational math/ML is particularly popular among the subset of /lit/ mathematicians and 2.) why you are being cunty about the fact that not a lot of humanities students/people interested in the humanities took higher-level mathematics courses outside of their degrees when this is a Literature Board and there is a perfectly serviceable math/science board (do you post about prose and poetry there???)

i am familiar with ML but i am foremost a differential geometer so i cannot comment on this book—what do you have to say about it that isn’t empty and absurdly careerist?

[Anonymous No.15615420]

>>15615377
Yes, the answer is on that plane. Do you know why?

[Anonymous No.15615424]

>>15615070

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3630204/bug-on-the-box-problem

It is close to B.

[Anonymous No.15615455]

>>15615420
Because the wording suggested there was only one answer and it's a symmetric object? I get why it isn't B or below it; you want to emphasize the vertical traversal since that's the box's larger dimension. I'm pretty sure at infinite height it'd be the middle of the top face.

[Anonymous No.15615468]

>>15614975
>he wants to discuss simple geometry and equations with logarithms
blessed be the man who hasn't had the displeasure of having to pass a course on antiderivatives
i still haven't used that shit once, nor does it seem like i ever will

crawl back into the popsci pit from whence you came, please. i want to talk about Nietzsche's cock, not your "find x" fetishism

[Anonymous No.15615491]

>>15615401
Give an example of a smarter place. I'll wait.
>>15614975
>tfw only good at computational grunt work math because american education

[Anonymous No.15615495]

>>15615491
>Give an example of a smarter place
/sci/

[Anonymous No.15615514]

>>15615401

It's an unusually smart place relative to other internet spaces.

Maybe like stackexchange or certain subreddits are smarter. Most normies are too dumb to get into literature

[Anonymous No.15615529]

>>15615495
>FUCK YEAH ELON MUSKERINO
you're just as musky as him, the lot of you

[Anonymous No.15615545]

>>15615529
>t. failed 3rd grade math

[Anonymous No.15615552]

>>15615455
>I'm pretty sure at infinite height it'd be the middle of the top face
That's correct. The limit as the height goes to infinity of the furthest point is indeed the middle point.

[Anonymous No.15615596]

>>15615545
studying chem. engineering.
next insult please, muskerino.

[Anonymous No.15615702]

>am the only person engaging anon's problem
>doing it via phoneposting while mowing a lawn
>I actually am the muskiest

[Anonymous No.15615722]

>>15615070
((The brainlets are the ones who even bother wasting their time failing at solving riddles for autists on scary reddit))

[Anonymous No.15615732]

>>15615514
I wouldn't say normies are too dumb to get into literature. There is a correlation between intelligence and education, but the two are not entirely codependent.
The issue is the manufactured short attention span. Reading used to be a much more commonplace passtime, resulting in a more educated populace.
Nowadays entertainment is delivered almost exclusively through visual impact, and you can liken it to fast food; cheap, easily accessible, and extremely detrimental in the long run.

I don't like being the conjured-nostalgia faggot in the thread, but one of the local town drunks knowing about important writers in my country while my highschool class knew nothing about them even when forced to read them really speaks volumes.

[Anonymous No.15615773]

>>15615732
>visual impact
art museum attendance at all time high

[Anonymous No.15615889]

>>15615773
I meant impact in the form of cheap visuals such as "Explosion boom!! Woah!" and I know you understood my point. Acting like a smartass serves noone.

[Anonymous No.15615951]

>>15615722
>double parentheses
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.15616034]

>>15615951
converted goys

[Anonymous No.15616156]

>>15615401
>Your view is very limited or you are very stupid if you think /lit/ is an unusually smart place.

Doesn't give any reasons.
You're only calling this place stupid to elevate yourself and jerk off your ego's dick.

[Anonymous No.15616171]

>>15616156
>>15615307
Dunning-Kruger

[Anonymous No.15616221]

>>15614975
How many modern age advanced math students can do this by head?

[Anonymous No.15616233]

>>15614975
how do i learn math can you learn every field without being grey haired or is it too big

[Anonymous No.15616286]

>>15616233
>can you learn every field without being grey haired or is it too big
Way too big. I'd wager it would take about 300 years to learn every field.
However, with dedication you can learn the very basics of some basic fields like topology, geometry, analysis, number theory, algebra in about 3-4 years.

[Anonymous No.15616298]

We appreciate math quite a lot already, you see.