Protected: The State of Affairs – A Diary – Day 1
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Author: SleepyMario
In the mix
It’s about time to only write here every now and then. Sometimes you feel like writing, and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it’s serious, and sometimes not so. The style will be diffferent from the past few posts. People who are familiar with the crap I write will know what I…
On symmetry and such
Yeah so I took a well-deserved break from baby-math, because a) I’m a n00b anyway, and b) I wasn’t in the mood for math. It’s not too interesting. So the real symmetry is not between positive and negative ‘numbers’ (whatever they are), but between 0-1 and 1-infinity, and negative numbers…
Numberlines in different bases
Yeah so there obviously are numberlines in different bases. Let’s check base 10 first: 0-10-100-1000-10000 etc. 1-9, 10-90, 100-900, 1000-9000 etc. So we can conjecture (obviously it’s true, but hey) that between the ‘first’ and the ‘next’ power of N (10 here) there are N-1 spots that have integers (9…
Do divergent series on a 2 dimensional plane all reach infinity?
(Prepare yourself for some really bad math.) I think this is the very final math problem I ever do, because I find it outrageously boring. But I’ll write it down, just for the sake of whatnot. “Infinity” itself seems, as far as I understand, to be poorly understood; and at…
Endgame Studies – A Milestone has been Reached
As some might know, I used to be a chess player, but essentially quit some 20+ years ago. Nowadays I’m slow & weak and only play on the internet every now and then. My FIDE of 2129 is probably not even hugely underrated anymore, that’s how bad I have gotten….
Lesson 1-1: Transcription Systems in Chinese
As you probably have discovered, reading out loud a sentence such as「你好嗎」gets a little troublesome, regardless of the meaning. Compare this to a sentence such as “Ik ga morgen een nieuwe auto kopen”., and at least you can try to get somewhere by using what you know about English. For…
On Old Ideas and Being Medicalized
I returned to university a few years ago to write some Master thesis and have something to do apart from having my life being wasted by torturous campaigns designed by geniuses. That obviously did not work out, because the range of ‘the genius’ is quite endless so to say. So…
A Tiny Update
Hiya everyone. I just added the Lichess puzzle of the day and Lichess TV to this little blog. The few chess players around might just care enough about it. Enjoy!
Learning Chinese as a second language
Dear all. The following section will having a section where you can learn Chinese, starting from absolute level zero. We will see how advanced we can get. I’m sure there’s all kinds of learning material on platforms like Youtube as well, but I just want to do it in the…
