alex @alexthecamel@schelling.pt

theory of the maths gender gap: if you're a kid and you get out onto the left tail it just becomes really isolating and hard to explain to people, and this is something boys cope better with than girls.
(prejudice also plays some role from what I've heard)
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RT @_alice_evans
How different are 🇺🇸 men and women?

Men are typically taller.

Less agreeable, less neurotic on average

Zero sex difference for conscientiousness

Extreme in…
https://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/1615341739862298624

maybe I'm just a much worse mathematical optimist than I am a pessimist lol

Insofar as there are a lot of "elementary" tricks like this for doing mathematics that aren't familiar to people I think this is a hopeful sign -- means there's a lot of low hanging fruit

I find this thread/anecdote pretty surprising -- to me this type of thinking is quite native to my style of mathematics, and it's Terry Tao!
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/109633672161867361

tbc i think the femboy/trans woman beef is daft
i just wonder what's going on here

hummm
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RT @RinRinYikes
I did it
Let's break down what happened and the hierarchy of trans women, cis women, and putting femboy on stream in a small thread 🧵 https://twitter.com/RinRinYikes/status/1614022176818212864
https://twitter.com/RinRinYikes/status/1614398774021099525

generally wouldn't feel too bad about not finishing any of these

An Infinitely Large Napkin, Evan Chen (everything done way too quickly)
https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf

The Nature of Computation, Mertens and Moore (eclectic intro to theoretical computer science)

anything by 3blue1brown https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

Calculus, M. Spivak (undergrad calculus)

The Higher Arithmetic, H. P. Davenport (undergrad number theory)

generatingfunctionology, Herbert S. Wilf https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfology2.pdf (enumerative combi done with power series)

ok i guess people might like it if i post some maths resources
the idea is that these are supposed to be pretty readable/understandable for the subject they teach

i have concluded after trying low but still usual doses i am still too estrogenated and my back of the envelope calculations are correct and it is the doctors who are wrong
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
so if i take the numbers on my estradiol patches at face value
it looks like i should be starting at uh
1mg/wk EV injections
and my estradiol levels are already pushing the high end of cis female level
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1563769891605209088

esp given the long history this seems like the New Atheist equivalent of 'but there were people in 18th century/antibellum America against slavery!'
i feel like most moral views we think of as modern are much much older than we thought
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism
i didnt realise this was a thing apparently christianity is less terrible than i thought

looking through people's debates on …
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1613154771699138560

in general i feel like religious culture/theology is too like ... deferential and this causes a lot of important human values and instincts to atrophy

and no-one seems really able to empathise with the sort of temperament which would cause you to say 'fuck you god' beyond like, "guess you're just sinful or obstinate" which makes it difficult to argue why free will on such matters is important

in that like a decent chunk of the pro-hell faction is like 'hey it's important that people are able to choose to reject god because of Free Will' and the anti-hell people are like '??? but why'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism
i didnt realise this was a thing apparently christianity is less terrible than i thought

looking through people's debates on these things i feel like they need to talk to more atheists

"queering the randos in my dms asking for nudes/ randos in my dms asking for math advice binary" was enough of a banger it's now my bio

but given we've built the most elaborate honeytrap imaginable to catch people who'd try this sort of thing and have had very few bad experiences (mostly people pushed too early it seems) i am not inclined to handwring too hard

well ok, most of us aren't suggesting it as an idea
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RT @Aella_Girl
probably there are some people who aren't "trans" in the sense they don't have the gender identity corresponding to the opposite sex, but still might want to transition because it would improve their life, and if this is true then I think they should go for it
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1610375166147575808