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what does this quadratic + cosine curve look like?

how does the area change for this funky polynomial?

what sequence always produces numbers whose difference of successive squares is interesting?

when is the area bounded by two different curves bigger or smaller?

‘Howl’ part II, by Allen Ginsberg: What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment!

how can this result about cubes translate into results about prime numbers?

Flashcards 2021-10-10 How could you compare the size of numbers without converting them to decimal, like $\frac{\sqrt{7}}{2}$ and $\frac{5}{4}$?? Square them or use another function that preserve ordering. Backlinks [[MAT Questions]]N Metadata date: 2021-10-10 15:40 summary: "" tags: - '@?public' - '@?mat' - '@?notes' - '@?maths' title: MAT - Paper 2015 - Q1J

how often will a function and its derivative intersect?

how many ways can you solve a funky simultaneous equation?

From Replacing Guilt, “Recklessness”: Recklessness is in the ability to say “screw the odds, I’m going to push forward on this path as hard as I can until a better path appears.” If the odds are low, a better path is more likely to appear sooner rather than later — but the reckless let that be a fact about the paths, and they don’t further allow low odds to prevent them from pushing forward on the best path they can currently see, as fast as possible.

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war!

From Replacing Guilt, “Failing with Abandon”: … @?todo Metadata date: 2021-10-05 16:37 tags: - '@?notes' - '@?rationality' - '@?public' - '@?safe-to-post-online' title: Failing with Abandon