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1. ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 23:37:52 EST ∑ XahLee

   reading math on Wikipedia. omg, link after link, what a joy. After a few hundred links, sadness sinks in. YOU CAN NEVER LEARN A PETTY SHIT IN THE SEA OF MATH. What to do? you can't stop neither, cuz that'd be self deception.

   1. ｉｔｍ１０８ (itm108@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2017 01:24:48 EST ｉｔｍ１０８

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      @xahlee in my Calculus I class, the professor asked us, "what is a real number?" none of us could give a satisfactory answer.

      this is why I find math to be so challenging to learn properly—there's no logical starting place, and there's always infinite depth of knowledge.

      unlike programming, where you can introduce a high-level language like Python, then dive into C, then dive into asm, and then you more or less understand all you need to know for 99% of applications :/

   2. Conor Nash (conornash@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2017 01:53:28 EST Conor Nash

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      @xahlee you can't view and understand all art, but museums still seem to get by. It's not deception to admit that the entire field of mathematics is above one person's comprehension.