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…
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…
(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…
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….
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…
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…
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!
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…
It’s about time get back to doing something. It should not have gone like this. Organized torture is something that ought to be paid for. But I’ll just do what I was actually doing. Which is learning/translating languages. A pity of the past few wasted years. I hope the scientists…
…on track, or whatever it’s supposed to be. I got very seriously ill for a while. Some 3.5 years actually, but things have been seriously improving. The past 3-4 years should not have happened. Well the past 10 probably, but okay. I got really ill the past few years. I…
