Comics about mathematics, science, and the student life.
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Okay, I’m exaggerating, but only barely. It really does boggle the mind at times when I browse the arXiv.
18 Sep 2020Potholes
“Can’t we fix all of these terrible roads so people actually want to ride on them?”
“If they are really motivated, they will persevere.”
16 Sep 2020Ballpark Estimate
My experience has been that graduate students are a bit more loose with their notion of “accurate”.
14 Sep 2020Overloaded
“Don’t you think it would be a good idea to spread the load out a bit?”
“No no, I’m sure you can do it. Hey, I have this friend who also wants to give you a few things. Their name is Mathematics.”
11 Sep 2020Project Dilation
If you get too good at being a scientist, outside forces (talks, committees, prizes, etc.) will react to stop you from decreasing your gamma factor to one.
09 Sep 2020True Learning
To me, the learning is about the edges rather than the nodes. Make sure you take the time to forge those connections.
07 Sep 2020Ladder of Abstraction
I was wondering what the Ladder of Abstraction was leaning on. Clearly, the mathematicians just assumed its existence as a starting point.
04 Sep 2020Fundamental Law of Reading Dynamics
Find me one person who violates this law, and I’ll be surprised.
02 Sep 2020Language Inequality
The most productive research hack would be a way to question the author of a paper whenever you read something they wrote. It would save so much time.
31 Aug 2020