This week went by really fast!! I’m getting back to my study routine (my semester doesn’t start until next month) so I’m taking this time to review important concepts and I think it was very productive. I hope your week was good too!!
I started to organize my notion for the next semester, need to be prepared hahaha
(not pictured) I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, what a fantastic book!! and now I’m currently reading Maze Runner: The Death Cure by James Dashner, I love this saga and i’m loving the book!!
This is like an advanced trolley problem. Five people are tied to the tape, and the Turing machine will hit them unless you give it a good input, but even if you have an idea, it’s impossible to decide whether it would halt.
FantasySociology (what would it do to agriculture if there was dragons)
FantasyPsychology (the mental effects of having certain patterns of thoughts that generate fireballs)
FantasyBiology (what if u had lighting sacks in yr cheeks)
FantasyChemistry (these r the elements and what u can do with them)
FantasyPhysics (orbital mechanics and magical floating rocks: a guide)
FantasyMathematics (its just normal mathematics)
K I’m only going to say this once, because people keep bringing it up:
Using a different base is normal mathematics. It is something that you learn in math class in our reality. It is often a part of the middle- or high-school math curriculum. It is normal. Everyone knows about binary, as an example. You can read about it on wikipedia. It is not something that only makes sense in a fantasy world, it is a thing that is understood in the real world. It is normal.
fantasy mathematics: division by the additive identity and infinity+1 are both well-defined, meaningful operations which obey the laws of fantasy arithmetic
That’s just like, the extended surreal numbers, in analogy with the extended reals, with like a NaN added on. Normal. Next.
The thing with maths is that it doesn’t describe the real world, like sciences, so it’s purely bound by our imagination. Anything that you can come up with is either already a thing mathematicians study, or something that leads to a logical contradiction very fast and therefore not worth studying.
