Ask anyone I know personally, and they'll tell you that I like mathematics, simplicity, and ease of access to information.
Never is this more true than when I find a number in my life that has significance to me, and an easily noticed mathematical quirk to it.
I like finding simple ratios in the ratings of my stories, pulling apart the systems by which stories are ranked, and I sigh with the mental ease of finding a perfect square number somewhere of value.

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This is my third time trying to write this post. The previous two times, I failed to find a way to write about this well, so I'll instead write about it badly.

I started trying to understand algebraic geometry (very) recently, and I bumped into what's called the Nullstellensatz. I haven't understood it yet, but there's a slice of the intuition that I found fascinating.

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So my brother is doing stuff with math, IF you like the kind of math he's talking about. you'll find this video interesting..

If not, then this blog isn't for you, and frankly it isn't for me either. It's for my brother so more people see his work in the frontiers of math.

Um

SHPOOPI

Anyway, so for some reason, lately I've been noticing a lot of anti-maths sentiment on Fimfiction. One common claim seems to be "yeah, so basic algebra is useful, but we're

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The title is “THE LEIBNIZ FORMULA FOR DIVIDED DIFFERENCE OPERATORS ASSOCIATED TO KAC-MOODY ROOT SYSTEMS”.

If you’re interested in that sort of thing, here it is.

My brother’s Doctoral thesis.

I’ll let him know how people respond, if anyone does.

So, I used the new Match BBCodes to quantify my writing.

My Writing = \frac{Spike \pm \sqrt{romance tag - talent}}{random shipping}

Now it should all make sense to you guys.

A lot of people are bemoaning Trump’s election as a failure of democracy. I think the reactions of the losing party reveal a bigger failure (which both parties are guilty of):

“Hillary failed to motivate the Democratic base.” (I hate the term “base”. It means “the extremists”.)

“Clinton got only 88% of the black vote. Obama got 93%.” (Should have run someone who would have been the first black president again instead.)

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I've said before that the story length between short-short, and 10,000 words, is very hard. Short shorts, under 1500 words, have just one or two scenes and jump directly into the action. Stories over 12,000 words are long enough that I can rearrange the order of presentation to put something catchy at the front. But 2,000-8,000 words is hell – there aren’t enough scenes to rearrange them, yet there’s too much setup necessary to start at the beginning.

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Math problem of the day: The Pancake Problem - What is the maximum number of flips required to reorder a stack of n pancakes so they are all ordered by size - biggest at the bottom, smallest on top.

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CORRECTED NOV. 13 AS PER HeirOfNorton's OBSERVATION THAT BOOKSTATS FIGURES INCLUDE JOURNALS, AND INSTEAD USING NIELSEN BOOKSCAN FIGURES:

Total books sold in America in 2013: 2.6 billion.

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After the recent site update, the list of users who favorited a story is NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

That's a catastrophe for my recommendation system. With favorites by story, I could just pull the favorites on the top 1000 stories, and that provided enough data to bootstrap the system. More importantly, I could get the favorites off new stories as they come out.

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E is Equestria while V is Valley. 7 days on E is = to 2 months in V but when the bridge between E and V are open, time is ≠ to V instead = to E. I must find the time difference between E and V by days...
6 (d = Days)
60d / 7d = 8.57d (Let us imagine that every month on E is 30d, this is where I get 60d, 2 months adds up to 60d)
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8.6d

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This has a lot more to it than just me being in Calculus III!

You know, I look around myself daily, and see so many people. So many lives, so many stories lived, and I am one of them; I get to live my own personal life story, and no one else gets to. It's interesting, peculiar, for one.

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We all studied math, right? Algebra, calculus, trigonometry, solving x's and y's, etc. I'm sure you also encounter the quadratic formula.

Well, when you enter the corporate world, did you realize that these lessons are not useful after all? I sure am.

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Why's math so important? I mean, I get it, math is important, even if I don't like it so much, but that isn't the problem. The problem is, at least for me, why is it so important in the structure of my classes which level math you're in? I'm at grade level, but I'm friends with all these geniuses who aren't, so I get no time with them at all? I mean, that would be okay if I got to hang out with them AFTER school, but no, I have no social life. On half days, when everyone else goes out to the

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I tried clustering fimfiction authors based on who follows them. See BIG BOX OF STUFF YOU DON'T NEED TO READ below for details.

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Hey everyone! Just checking in with an update.

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Okay, so, recently I got a little interested in the Collatz Conjecture.

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Right now, 1,638 people and/or ponies have answered the fimfiction survey. Thanks very much! I didn't expect to hit 1000 for a long time.

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Everybody loves statistics, right?!

Okay, so here's a breakdown of the ratings of my stories:

Yes, that's right, most of my stories are not clop!

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