#mathnerds — Public Fediverse posts

🤯 Behold, the "Quadratic Sandwich" 🍞🥪🍞, where math nerds obsess over bread metaphors while solving optimization problems. Who knew minimizing functions could be this deliciously confusing? 🤓 Just remember, if your "sandwich" isn't tight, you're chewing on chaos! 😅
https://fedemagnani.github.io/math/2026/04/08/the-quadratic-sandwich.html #QuadraticSandwich #MathNerds #OptimizationProblems #BreadMetaphors #ChewingOnChaos #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤓 "Think Linear Algebra" is the new self-help book for math nerds who dream of projecting themselves into the null space of social interactions. Get ready for the thrill of least squares regression... because nothing screams excitement like a truss in the system! 😂🔢
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html #ThinkLinearAlgebra #MathNerds #SelfHelp #BookRecommendation #LeastSquaresRegression #NullSpace #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤓 "Think Linear Algebra" is the new self-help book for math nerds who dream of projecting themselves into the null space of social interactions. Get ready for the thrill of least squares regression... because nothing screams excitement like a truss in the system! 😂🔢
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html #ThinkLinearAlgebra #MathNerds #SelfHelp #BookRecommendation #LeastSquaresRegression #NullSpace #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤓 "Think Linear Algebra" is the new self-help book for math nerds who dream of projecting themselves into the null space of social interactions. Get ready for the thrill of least squares regression... because nothing screams excitement like a truss in the system! 😂🔢
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html #ThinkLinearAlgebra #MathNerds #SelfHelp #BookRecommendation #LeastSquaresRegression #NullSpace #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤓 "Think Linear Algebra" is the new self-help book for math nerds who dream of projecting themselves into the null space of social interactions. Get ready for the thrill of least squares regression... because nothing screams excitement like a truss in the system! 😂🔢
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html #ThinkLinearAlgebra #MathNerds #SelfHelp #BookRecommendation #LeastSquaresRegression #NullSpace #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤓 "Think Linear Algebra" is the new self-help book for math nerds who dream of projecting themselves into the null space of social interactions. Get ready for the thrill of least squares regression... because nothing screams excitement like a truss in the system! 😂🔢
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html #ThinkLinearAlgebra #MathNerds #SelfHelp #BookRecommendation #LeastSquaresRegression #NullSpace #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🛑 "Breaking News: Elliptic Curves Explained!" 🚨🛑 Apparently, we're still trying to figure out if these convoluted squiggles are more than just math nerds' doodles. Spoiler alert: They're complex and simple, pure and applied...and still just as boring. 😂📉
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/ #BreakingNews #EllipticCurves #MathNerds #ComplexSimplicity #BoringButImportant #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🛑 "Breaking News: Elliptic Curves Explained!" 🚨🛑 Apparently, we're still trying to figure out if these convoluted squiggles are more than just math nerds' doodles. Spoiler alert: They're complex and simple, pure and applied...and still just as boring. 😂📉
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/ #BreakingNews #EllipticCurves #MathNerds #ComplexSimplicity #BoringButImportant #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🛑 "Breaking News: Elliptic Curves Explained!" 🚨🛑 Apparently, we're still trying to figure out if these convoluted squiggles are more than just math nerds' doodles. Spoiler alert: They're complex and simple, pure and applied...and still just as boring. 😂📉
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/ #BreakingNews #EllipticCurves #MathNerds #ComplexSimplicity #BoringButImportant #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🛑 "Breaking News: Elliptic Curves Explained!" 🚨🛑 Apparently, we're still trying to figure out if these convoluted squiggles are more than just math nerds' doodles. Spoiler alert: They're complex and simple, pure and applied...and still just as boring. 😂📉
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/ #BreakingNews #EllipticCurves #MathNerds #ComplexSimplicity #BoringButImportant #HackerNews #ngated

If you've ever wondered what happens when a group of math-loving nerds locked in a room with too much coffee decide to reinvent the wheel—except this time with more complexity—this article is your ticket 🎟️. By reading it, you too can pretend to care about the nuances of simplex methods, as long as you like being the life of the party 🥳... at math conventions. 📚✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21613 #mathnerds #coffeecomplexity #simplexmethods #mathconventions #partyvibes #HackerNews #ngated

If you've ever wondered what happens when a group of math-loving nerds locked in a room with too much coffee decide to reinvent the wheel—except this time with more complexity—this article is your ticket 🎟️. By reading it, you too can pretend to care about the nuances of simplex methods, as long as you like being the life of the party 🥳... at math conventions. 📚✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21613 #mathnerds #coffeecomplexity #simplexmethods #mathconventions #partyvibes #HackerNews #ngated

If you've ever wondered what happens when a group of math-loving nerds locked in a room with too much coffee decide to reinvent the wheel—except this time with more complexity—this article is your ticket 🎟️. By reading it, you too can pretend to care about the nuances of simplex methods, as long as you like being the life of the party 🥳... at math conventions. 📚✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21613 #mathnerds #coffeecomplexity #simplexmethods #mathconventions #partyvibes #HackerNews #ngated

If you've ever wondered what happens when a group of math-loving nerds locked in a room with too much coffee decide to reinvent the wheel—except this time with more complexity—this article is your ticket 🎟️. By reading it, you too can pretend to care about the nuances of simplex methods, as long as you like being the life of the party 🥳... at math conventions. 📚✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21613 #mathnerds #coffeecomplexity #simplexmethods #mathconventions #partyvibes #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🤓 Look out, math nerds! The life's work of countless physicists has been distilled into a "simple trick" for backpropagating through #einsum, which we all know is basically just fancy #emoji math. Grab your #numpy and prepare to be dazzled by the groundbreaking revelation that i, j, and k were *not* just randomly chosen letters! 🙄🔍
https://tripplyons.com/blog/backprop-trick #mathnerds #backpropagation #physics #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🤓 Look out, math nerds! The life's work of countless physicists has been distilled into a "simple trick" for backpropagating through #einsum, which we all know is basically just fancy #emoji math. Grab your #numpy and prepare to be dazzled by the groundbreaking revelation that i, j, and k were *not* just randomly chosen letters! 🙄🔍
https://tripplyons.com/blog/backprop-trick #mathnerds #backpropagation #physics #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, the Fourier Transform, that magical incantation of sine waves that turns math nerds' brains into a bowl of spaghetti! 🍝 But don't worry, somewhere amidst the self-congratulatory blabbering, there's probably someone who actually understands it... probably. 📉
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/ #FourierTransform #MathNerds #SineWaves #Spaghetti #Understanding #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, the Fourier Transform, that magical incantation of sine waves that turns math nerds' brains into a bowl of spaghetti! 🍝 But don't worry, somewhere amidst the self-congratulatory blabbering, there's probably someone who actually understands it... probably. 📉
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/ #FourierTransform #MathNerds #SineWaves #Spaghetti #Understanding #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, the Fourier Transform, that magical incantation of sine waves that turns math nerds' brains into a bowl of spaghetti! 🍝 But don't worry, somewhere amidst the self-congratulatory blabbering, there's probably someone who actually understands it... probably. 📉
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/ #FourierTransform #MathNerds #SineWaves #Spaghetti #Understanding #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Oh, the Fourier Transform, that magical incantation of sine waves that turns math nerds' brains into a bowl of spaghetti! 🍝 But don't worry, somewhere amidst the self-congratulatory blabbering, there's probably someone who actually understands it... probably. 📉
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-fourier-transform-20250903/ #FourierTransform #MathNerds #SineWaves #Spaghetti #Understanding #HackerNews #ngated

🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated

🤔😂 Wow, it only took 178 days and 3.4 billion calculations to create the ultimate pub crawl across South Korea. 🍺 Because nothing says "efficient use of computational resources" like solving a #TSP for visiting every single bar. 🍻 Cheers to math nerds with a thirst for both knowledge and soju!
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html #pubcrawl #SouthKorea #mathnerds #soju #computationalresources #HackerNews #ngated

🤔😂 Wow, it only took 178 days and 3.4 billion calculations to create the ultimate pub crawl across South Korea. 🍺 Because nothing says "efficient use of computational resources" like solving a #TSP for visiting every single bar. 🍻 Cheers to math nerds with a thirst for both knowledge and soju!
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html #pubcrawl #SouthKorea #mathnerds #soju #computationalresources #HackerNews #ngated

🤔😂 Wow, it only took 178 days and 3.4 billion calculations to create the ultimate pub crawl across South Korea. 🍺 Because nothing says "efficient use of computational resources" like solving a #TSP for visiting every single bar. 🍻 Cheers to math nerds with a thirst for both knowledge and soju!
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html #pubcrawl #SouthKorea #mathnerds #soju #computationalresources #HackerNews #ngated

🤔😂 Wow, it only took 178 days and 3.4 billion calculations to create the ultimate pub crawl across South Korea. 🍺 Because nothing says "efficient use of computational resources" like solving a #TSP for visiting every single bar. 🍻 Cheers to math nerds with a thirst for both knowledge and soju!
https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/index.html #pubcrawl #SouthKorea #mathnerds #soju #computationalresources #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🥳 Breaking news: Math nerds create #supercomputer to solve the unsolvable, but only manage to inch slightly forward in the marathon of futility! 🙄 Apparently, the real achievement is making a website no one can pronounce. 💻
https://medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d #MathNerds #MarathonOfFutility #WebsiteCreation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🥳 Breaking news: Math nerds create #supercomputer to solve the unsolvable, but only manage to inch slightly forward in the marathon of futility! 🙄 Apparently, the real achievement is making a website no one can pronounce. 💻
https://medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d #MathNerds #MarathonOfFutility #WebsiteCreation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🥳 Breaking news: Math nerds create #supercomputer to solve the unsolvable, but only manage to inch slightly forward in the marathon of futility! 🙄 Apparently, the real achievement is making a website no one can pronounce. 💻
https://medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d #MathNerds #MarathonOfFutility #WebsiteCreation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🥳 Breaking news: Math nerds create #supercomputer to solve the unsolvable, but only manage to inch slightly forward in the marathon of futility! 🙄 Apparently, the real achievement is making a website no one can pronounce. 💻
https://medium.com/@jay_gridbach/grid-computing-shatters-world-record-for-goldbach-conjecture-verification-1ef3dc58a38d #MathNerds #MarathonOfFutility #WebsiteCreation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Congrats, math nerds! After a century of head-scratching, you've finally #solved a #puzzle that literally no one else cared about. 🧩 Now you can sleep peacefully knowing the Kakeya Conjecture is settled—until the next obscure #theorem keeps you up at night! 😴
https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-in-a-century-proof-settles-maths-kakeya-conjecture-20250314/ #mathnerds #KakeyaConjecture #celebration #HackerNews #ngated

This one is for the #MathNerds https://youtu.be/FUHkTs-Ipfg?si=Of46YAGC8O4g1JHG