"okay, so, I opened up your thesis just to see what it looked like. and now I suspect you've made a lot of it up. It doesn't look like real math."

- anonymous "friend"

One year agoWow, no one is going to be able to read this ( Read more... )

Newton's Method + coconut gun + ASS KICKING

( Maryann Reloaded )

Kid at the diner: You're probably really hard to kill...
Me: You better not try. Minotaur hungry. When minotaur hungry, minotaur get angry.

Unrelated: I used to be annoyed that when I text "fuck" it defaults to "dual", but lately, it's just made functional analysis more interesting to think about ( Read more... )

My comment got massively downvoted. I don't know why. :(

I should add that for a while, my working heuristic proof was "really smart people worked on this problem from the opposite end and weren't able to prove any bounds lower than X, so there probably exists an example of type X."

...well, if you don't count the heuristic proofs that were fatally wrong all the way through in addition to just being

The heuristics of my problem look really, really good now. But unfortunately, they're just heuristics.

Of the World Series tournaments that went to seven games, 62% were won by the team who *lost* the first game.

I had an idea, but I didn't compute exactly the hypothetical parameter and test it. But in principle, this trend could be expected in a sequence of unfair coin tosses, but it looks like the coin would have to be highly unfair, and then the ( Read more... )

Ok, so I might be somewhat close to probably not quite solving this problem now. Only I can't really not quite solve it until I prove some things that I don't really know yet, and I don't yet know whether the thing that I don't yet know is already mostly solved somewhere else already - except for the other thing that I don't yet know which I don't ( Read more... )

Damn it. I thought I had a proof of something.

Not so. It may be far from here to there.