2-3 VIII 2021

uhh probably the worst math feeling is when you're so excited about proving something and you talk about it to someone who does math with you and they say oh but it's trivial

[ID: a figure in a textbook that has curved arrows to look like vectors in a field. The figure caption reads, "Is this a vector field? No. It's a picture" /end]

saving this for self-care and for anyone who might need this

also, I can add: squint your eyes hard and then looking at something far away. it's supposed to help your eyes relax and a bonus simple grounding exercise!

from my personal experience, once you start paying attention to how different it feels on your eyes to look at something far away as opposed to something close, you can relax your eyes without needing an object to look at. now when I'm going to bed I imagine a tree far away and I feel my eyes relaxing, it helps with me fall alseep faster. it might be a placebo ofc, I know nothing about eyes, but it is still a good trick for falling asleep regardless of the supposed effect of it on the eyes

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

Astronaut sculpture from an ex-physicist (Source/Credit)

→ 30 VIII 2021

not much has happened really

concentration: 4

doing topo as usual, stopped doing as much analysis, just enjoying my break from coding with abstract ideas

reading books about math became sort of a comfort thing for me. i fell in love with just sitting there and trying to imagine everything. i wish i could be payed for studying math, i would be a fucking billionaire at this point

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like being banished into forests far from everyone. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.

Franz Kafka

A monoid? Oh, you mean a monad on a one point set in the bicategory of spans of sets?