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[Afro_Vacancy]

Speaking of IQ, I disappointed myself today.

I asked myself the question, if a a cube has 8 corners, how many corners does a tesseract (4-dimensional hypercube) have?

It's 16 but I could not figure out why. The reasoning of it came to me an hour later while driving.

Once I understood it, I was disappointed in myself for not getting the answer immediately.

ETA: Also checked that the answer is 24 faces

What I can't figure out though, is how this is a representation of the hypercube:

 

[CaptainForehead]

Speaking of math, I came across this article today which has been troubling me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html

 

[IdealForehead]

Speaking of IQ, I disappointed myself today.

I asked myself the question, if a a cube has 8 corners, how many corners does a tesseract (4-dimensional hypercube) have?

It's 16 but I could not figure out why. The reasoning of it came to me an hour later while driving.

Once I understood it, I was disappointed in myself for not getting the answer immediately.

ETA: Also checked that the answer is 24 faces

What I can't figure out though, is how this is a representation of the hypercube:

View attachment 71912

In my opinion, maybe try spending your time focused on practical problems and practical solutions.

eg. Think about what you want in life, and then think about ways you can get there. Or think of something useful you can create (software, physical, business, creative), and how you can do it.

What I'm suggesting can be a recipe for insanity in some cases, as sometimes there is no way to think your way to a solution for some problems in life. When you hit a wall you can't get past, it's frustrating.

But I still think it's better to try than waste time on abstractions.

 

[CaptainForehead]

But I still think it's better to try than waste time on abstractions.

The nD hypercube problem is very practical, I can immediately see it would be needed if you're doing anything in optimization.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

The nD hypercube problem is very practical, I can immediately see it would be needed if you're doing anything in optimization.

The mathematician Godfrey Hardy used to brag that his work was pure abstraction, but a century later it's the foundation for a lot of cryptography.

 

[Rudiger]

joyeux Noël Pas!!!!!!!

Je suis le grande fromage!!!!!

 

[Rudiger]

Speaking of IQ, I disappointed myself today.

I asked myself the question, if a a cube has 8 corners, how many corners does a tesseract (4-dimensional hypercube) have?

It's 16 but I could not figure out why. The reasoning of it came to me an hour later while driving.

Once I understood it, I was disappointed in myself for not getting the answer immediately.

ETA: Also checked that the answer is 24 faces

What I can't figure out though, is how this is a representation of the hypercube:

View attachment 71912

This stuff hurts my brain. I've recently started getting interested in maths again, I was really poor in school and had to go to extra classes and a personal tutor etc. but despite all this I never focused on it. It was only about a month before my final exams that I started to take an interest, and I went to my tutor twice a week and really enjoyed it, I went from literally an un-rated score in mock exams (I think it was less than 15% or something) to getting a B and close to an A. You can imagine the surprise in those 4 weeks as I suddenly showed the progress that was never happening for 2 years beforehand (and I felt sorry for my poor tutor who must have wondered why the f*** I didn't just put ANY effort in until crunch time, and he had to repeat the same things over and over every single week).

But it's always been a regret of mine that I never truly indulged in it, of course after those exams I was never going to be good enough at that time to consider pursuing mathematics.

So anyway, why 16 corners? It's got me analysing what a "corner" constitutes of, because I can count a LOT. I think people's gut instinct would say 8, and that is if a "corner" follows a certain rule of coming from 3 points at a certain angle that is rigid (I don't know maths terms) and not over or under a certain angle?

 

[Rudiger]

lolz

Shut up

 

[Rudiger]

shut the f*** up

STFU

 

[Rudiger]

In my opinion, maybe try spending your time focused on practical problems and practical solutions.

eg. Think about what you want in life, and then think about ways you can get there. Or think of something useful you can create (software, physical, business, creative), and how you can do it.

What I'm suggesting can be a recipe for insanity in some cases, as sometimes there is no way to think your way to a solution for some problems in life. When you hit a wall you can't get past, it's frustrating.

But I still think it's better to try than waste time on abstractions.

Firstly I don't know David's background but for all we know this could be practical for him, in some form.

Secondly there's a LOT worse things you can do with the use of your brain than finding solutions to complex problems, it definitely builds character in lots of ways. You can't spend a considerable amount of time sitting down thinking about what you want in life, and besides a lot of people have this pretty much figured out and are at their optimal as to what they can achieve (for example I know David wants to date/love etc. but he's already applied himself as far as I can tell).

Worse things that are common- watching shitty reality TV that you get "invested" in, and won't remember anything about your emotions towards it in 6 months. Or gambling, I know guys and all they do is talk about odds and in's, the next tips, their life revolves around it, of course most of them inevitably lose money as well.

But I guess it annoys me when people mock me about my weird interests that have zero end financial result for me. Like learning binary code not long ago (which the basics of is incredibly easy) but from a girl who lol'd at what I was doing, while she watched an old repeat of f*****g Ex on the Beach, which she'd already seen some months ago but clearly from her reactions to everything had completely forgot everything she had witnessed (because it's all pointless fluff of course, and actually this is one of the more entertaining reality shows).

So yeah, embrace your seemingly "pointless" excursions, if it's a challenge and you have to apply yourself, anything is worth it for progression generally.

 

[rclark]

I am so not pratctical

你怎么会那么说？

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

This stuff hurts my brain. I've recently started getting interested in maths again, I was really poor in school and had to go to extra classes and a personal tutor etc. but despite all this I never focused on it. It was only about a month before my final exams that I started to take an interest, and I went to my tutor twice a week and really enjoyed it, I went from literally an un-rated score in mock exams (I think it was less than 15% or something) to getting a B and close to an A. You can imagine the surprise in those 4 weeks as I suddenly showed the progress that was never happening for 2 years beforehand (and I felt sorry for my poor tutor who must have wondered why the f*** I didn't just put ANY effort in until crunch time, and he had to repeat the same things over and over every single week).

But it's always been a regret of mine that I never truly indulged in it, of course after those exams I was never going to be good enough at that time to consider pursuing mathematics.

So anyway, why 16 corners? It's got me analysing what a "corner" constitutes of, because I can count a LOT. I think people's gut instinct would say 8, and that is if a "corner" follows a certain rule of coming from 3 points at a certain angle that is rigid (I don't know maths terms) and not over or under a certain angle?

I think that the simplest way to get the 16 corners is to start with the two-dimensional square, understand why it has four corners, and go from there. Imagine a square lying on an XY plane. You can then define the four corners as being at the points:
[0,0]
[0,1]
[1,0]
[1,1]
So for every dimension, the coordinate is either 0 or 1. You can convince yourself that this generalizes by working it out for the cube. The number of corners is then 2^n, where n is the number of dimensions. This also has the fun attribute of teaching us that a straight line is the 1-dimensional equivalent of a square.

As for your educational issues there are no surprises there. I'm sure that in the abstract there is such a thing as greater or lesser mathematical aptitude, but it's not really differentiated by the public school system that much, as the material is not that difficult. What that does differentiate is psychology, confidence, etc. A bad math teacher early on, or a bad experience with math early on, can propagate onwards and snowball into an avalanche of bad experiences. You are not the first, nor the last, person to have been surprised that he wasn't awful at math.

I supplemented my income in graduate school by tutoring undergraduate math. I did have some students who needed moderate amounts of help, and honestly that was often just to help them focus, or to help them understand what the teacher wanted. Often they would end up no longer needing my help.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

there's a LOT worse things you can do with the use of your brain than finding solutions to complex problems,

Social media, sugar consumption video games, pornography.

 

[Rudiger]

I think that the simplest way to get the 16 corners is to start with the two-dimensional square, understand why it has four corners, and go from there. Imagine a square lying on an XY plane. You can then define the four corners as being at the points:
[0,0]
[0,1]
[1,0]
[1,1]
So for every dimension, the coordinate is either 0 or 1. You can convince yourself that this generalizes by working it out for the cube. The number of corners is then 2^n, where n is the number of dimensions. This also has the fun attribute of teaching us that a straight line is the 1-dimensional equivalent of a square.

I don't know what ^ means lol. I won't give up just yet on pursuing this and maths generally, but I'd just have endless questions for you to answer if I really start going towards this initial problem for me to figure out.

As for your educational issues there are no surprises there. I'm sure that in the abstract there is such a thing as greater or lesser mathematical aptitude, but it's not really differentiated by the public school system that much, as the material is not that difficult. What that does differentiate is psychology, confidence, etc. A bad math teacher early on, or a bad experience with math early on, can propagate onwards and snowball into an avalanche of bad experiences. You are not the first, nor the last, person to have been surprised that he wasn't awful at math.

I supplemented my income in graduate school by tutoring undergraduate math. I did have some students who needed moderate amounts of help, and honestly that was often just to help them focus, or to help them understand what the teacher wanted. Often they would end up no longer needing my help.

Hahahaha that first sentence made me think "Oh, well obviously I'm dumb, thanks David". But I understand what you mean from the rest. My maths teacher wasn't exactly a bad teacher but he was just a total nutcase, screaming in frustration that his class (which was the top class in that school) was constantly f*****g about and not listening.

So we were the top class out of 9, you can imagine how he went nuts on the lower end of the spectrum, we'd hear him screaming in particular from our Geography class sometimes, that's when he had an infamous class of nutjobs (most of the males and plenty of the females have done jail time, or even died, stabbed people, etc). They were the 6th on the ranking list, just above the classes that had kids bordering on autism, or total special needs, so this was the cusp of madness and it repeated itself in the several years at that school. It was ALWAYS that class which were the craziest, anything above had some sort of ambition, anything below were too socially inept to really cause problems in such an extreme sense. It's really sad thinking of it, and how that system left a lot of talented people totally fucked from the age of 11 because they were literally put in a caste system.

Anyway it's 14 years since I got my B in maths, and my general calculations on basic math are very quick, so that encourages me to maybe think about trying this again and seeing how I go.

Just a random story that is often brought up from friends- I was talking to my friend and laughing at the back of class, which my teacher picked up on, he had written an algebra equation on the board which we should have been studying the night before to figure out.

Nutjob teacher: "Rudiger! What are you doing?! OK.. tell me the answer to this... how to we get x?!"
Rudiger: "uh.... the question is too vague"
Nutjob teacher: "TOO VAGUE?!"

The explosion from there is legendary, and I got moved to the front of class. People just find it hilarious that it was a specific mathematical problem that can't possibly be vague, and I have no idea why I said that.

But anyway I agree with your summation of public school learning, I understand in the States there are no "levels", all classes are just the same. My high school has apparently done away with the "class system" for several years now but they've simply renamed it differently, so there are still the dumb kids and the smart kids. Keep in mind that this is 5 years of school, starting at 11, and if showing progress in exams at the end of the year then you can actually move up in the class system. I don't think this is a bad thing personally, it sounds barbaric on the face of it, but you have teachers giving lessons to kids on a similar level, rather than a completely mixed bunch.

You may say that maths is too simple in schools (although I'm hearing it's getting considerably more difficult) but for some people it's really not that easy, those of low IQ. Possibly I get an indication from one sentence you wrote that it's more down to dedication and interest than IQ, which I understand as well.

 

[IdealForehead]

Fair enough on the "pointless" endeavors guys. I have been thinking about it among other things lately and realize my approach to activities and life in general is likely overly productivity and function oriented.

I think this is just how I'm wired and when I'm at my best this is what drives me. Only when I'm down or distracted as I have been lately do I usually fall off these rails.

For example, it's why I stopped playing video games when I was 15. Felt like I was pouring hours into a useless skill. And while everything is useless as we will all die and none of this will matter in my opinion when we are gone, this felt especially useless to me based on my values.

But everyone has different values and different things that give them meaning, and we all have to pursue whatever those things are for each of us.

And it's true, maybe this is a productive exercise depending on a person's particular field. Either way, each to his own.

Video games, p**rn, school, work, tv, art, mental exercises, gym, dating - in all honesty I don't think there's any objective superiority to how one spends one's time. As long as it is giving you whatever you truly want or can realistically get out of life, then you should hopefully be satisfied.

 

[Stanx22]

Get help. We can't save you. Go train and do something else. Women may not like your bald head but it doesn't stop you from enjoying things in life. You will be happy with or without your hair when you do sh*t you like.

Also go on low dose SSRI IF NEEDED.

I didn't ask for help, i'm just venting.

People need to differentiate between asking for help and venting, i'm not stupid enough to think that i can get help from people who live thousands of miles away from me and are depressed and fucked up themselves.

I actually never asked anyone here for help unless it was for treatments or something like that, but all my posts i'm just venting and talking to myself.

So please for anyone here, stop treating me like a lunatic or an emo depressed teen every time i post something.

Just ignore the posts like they don't exist, i just need to post them because they help me somehow.

What confuses me about the impact section, is that you can't be considered a "cool" poster unless you post hilarious replies that gets you enough likes or engage in discussions about women or politics, while the impact section is actually made for venting and talking about one's problems and suffering with hair loss.

To be more specific, the one who gets most likes is considered the coolest and sure posts like venting or talking about actual problems with hair loss are uncool and won't get likes compared to posts with hilarious replies or black pill sh*t, thus they are unwanted.

 

[razzmatazz91]

I didn't ask for help, i'm just venting.

People need to differentiate between asking for help and venting, i'm not stupid enough to think that i can get help from people who live thousands of miles away from me and are depressed and fucked up themselves.

I actually never asked anyone here for help unless it was for treatments or something like that, but all my posts i'm just venting and talking to myself.

So please for anyone here, stop treating me like a lunatic or an emo depressed teen every time i post something.

Just ignore the posts like they don't exist, i just need to post them because they help me somehow.

Most of us know when we see someone vent. But trying to help the guy out anyway can't be a bad thing.
I've often been venting here myself. And the support I get here I can never ever get anywhere else. I've tried. But no one else can understand the pain you and I feel but the community here.

You're very young. And when I look back on my miserable life, I thank my stars I didn't have a horseshoe at 21 like @Exodus2011 or NW3 at 18 like you. So I can understand that it must be insane going through what is happening to you. But dude...get a grip. No one here hates you. No one.

 

[Exodus2011]

Social media, sugar consumption video games, pornography.

None of those are bad as long as its reasonable amounts

And even in excessive amounts theres a lot of fun to be had

The worst one there is sugar consumption as in excess it kills. You should have kept along that line of thinking. Activities that can kill like thugging or drugs

And thanks for the call out @razzmatazz91 . Im glad im seen as a yardstick to measure how miserable one is

 

[razzmatazz91]

And thanks for the call out @razzmatazz91 . Im glad im seen as a yardstick to measure how miserable one is

Didn't mean to hurt you bro. Sorry. Your hair was in a pretty bad shape... I really think life is cruel.

How has life been since then?

 

[sunchyme1]

And thanks for the call out @razzmatazz91 . Im glad im seen as a yardstick to measure how miserable one is

looooooooool

least you got a sense of humor mate

all these fuckers calling you out recently