imp math is best math

If you want to visualize gradient descent in neural networks, imagine minimizing a function that is a 2D surface in 3D space, and then say "billions of dimensions" to yourself.

Why is typing things up so hard

Editing my thesis(out of already written pieces) took about the same time as the main theorem of the main part of my thesis

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

Another day, another need to come up with good notation

legalize copyright infringement

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

Yeah, funnily enough, Vienna actually doesn't wait for me 😬 yeah it's just me. It waits for everyone else. Yeah I don't really know why, just one of those things I guess :/

wait i just found out you can be nice to people and be their friend i thought we had to kill them all cause i was raised in a lab to be a living weapon

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

today is not my birthday

reblog if your birthday is not today

This is 1,006 words, you cheated

Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, and it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul; give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine. - M. F. Atiyah Accurate?!

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

Well I am glad those little bastards are there because I will definitely want to adopt them and definitely won't be allowed