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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · 8d

also

It's a meme about epsilons and deltas
Mom, can we have epsilon-delta at home?
No. There is epsilon-delta at home
Epsilon-delta at home:
Levi-Civita epsilon & Kronecker delta

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · 20d

what I wouldn't give to be able to sit on a high hill with some friends and fully savor a really. Good. Sunset.

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · 21d

D'ARVIT guys I really wanted Ruben to pass

(out of context chopin comp posting)

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · 25d

Ah, one of the Oxford textbook flock! I wave at thee from the Cambridge bandwagon

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · 28d

oh I am SUCH a confused time traveler

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Oct 5

I look up: continuous Levi-Civita symbol
I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Oct 5

and I have realized that my favorite posts from you are the ones about nature and weather and all that; I get to be somewhere else for a bit when I read them :)

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · Oct 5

Saw someone (not a mutual) posting that fig newtons are a lot of work, and I had to refrain from replying "actually, fig newtons are a lot of force; if they're a lot of work, then they're fig joules"

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Oct 2

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Oct 1

birdwatchers when they don't see the bird they wanted to see: it's so plover

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · Sep 29

Your daily horoscope:
Approach today like a coloring book - either do what's expected of you, or make your own rules. Picture the sky purple. Color outside the lines. Become ungovernable.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · Sep 28

There is magic in the air.
There are phantoms in the fog.
There are spirits in the trees, rocks, and rivers.
There are mysteries in misty forests and ruined castles.
There are secrets everywhere, waiting to be noticed.

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 28

if I had a nickel for every time I have done some part in turning a friend who is a programmer into classical music enjoyer, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 28

it featured functions as stumpy little creatures with only legs that I ripped straight from The Cartoon Guide to Calculus by Larry Gonick xd

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 28

holy cheese I should bring back the math guys (comic I drew a long time ago about three stickguys learning math by interacting with imagined physical manifestations of concepts)

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Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · Sep 27

Shrines are often marked by growths of hiderangeas, huge stands of dark flowers that absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity to run the shrine’s defenses.

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · Sep 26

Put me in the hivemind, punish my simplicity, reduce me to a vertex in your shape. I could build your brainstem, channel dreaming through me, I can be a number or a gate

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · Sep 26

The tips of his fingers glow in the dark, like ten twitching candles. Shining capillary red, computers track his motion, and even as he sleeps he traces symbols

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 24

duality is one of Those Things in math that just makes me happy

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 24

the fact that the lcm and gcd are, in fact, dual (as co/products in the category of divisibility among positive integers) makes me feel incredibly pleased and vindicated somehow

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Mote @mote.bsky.social · Sep 22

stumbled across The Printable Puzzle Project

printed the starter burr set in solid resin; went with translucent colours and ended up with a bunch of unwanted curing from light bleed on the undersides so it’s needed a fair bit of sanding to bring them back to size

www.puzzlehub.org/puzzles/puzz...

Printable Puzzle Project - Puzzle Sets

These modular sets can be used to make a variety of related puzzles, providing many hours of entertainment from a single print.

www.puzzlehub.org

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · Sep 23

Broken objects are beautiful because they have been reduced from tools to ornaments—and an ornament is one step closer to a friend

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paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 23

aside from lack of skill, nothing appears to be preventing me from roller-skating instead of walking everywhere

paradox @theeternalparadox.substack.com · Sep 23

as a math guy awwwww

neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death

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