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#13477
1111
⚐ ReportDylan: Veritasium had a video on that Rose: Oh cool. I hate that guy he's my rival.
#13476
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⚐ ReportRose: this is now a postulate its...who the hell is this guy? Rose: ah! it's pasch's postulate! or pasch's axiom. or something. Veena: paschtulate
#13451
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⚐ ReportRose: one student told me he was "tweaking out" Rose: and that could mean like anything
#13440
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⚐ Report// On the application of reason to geometry, talking about the Pythagoreans. Rose: "Let's say I found 20 people, and put them in a room with food and water for a month, and asked them to prove geometry." Rose: "I'm a cult leader, and they're all committed to me." Rose: "They may define something, they might rebel, I don't know." // Later... Rose: "What might be something that might be, like, hard to figure out?" // Mutters from the class. Rose: "True. Hard stuff is hard to figure out." // Later, proving that sqrt(2) is irrational by contradiction, reaching the crux of the proof. Rose: "Now, a strange sense of weirdness -- cue the "Woo-o woo-o" music -- descends upon you."
#13434
2020
⚐ ReportRose: so there are no circles, no lines, no triangles, what the hell have we been doing in math all these years? Meru: straight up BS, man
#13426
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⚐ ReportRose: "Tell your parents to come to Back to School Night." Rose: "There will be a propositional logic quiz!" Rose: "Winner gets a prize."