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by eigenstuff 9y ago
Have you ever heard of Homeboy Industries? Their motto is actually "nothing stops a bullet like a job." It was started by Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest out in LA, and basically he opened these bakeries (and some other busines
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
I think the main reason for the initial focus on calculus in intro QM is more to do with making sure you have a solid grasp of the ugly, complicated, hard way of doing things before diving into the more elegant, easy way (once armed with an
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
A large fraction of the gun community actually HATES the NRA for exactly the same reasons everybody else does. There's just no highly visible organizations for gun owners that, y'know, promote reasonable gun control and don't
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
The Duke Lacrosse case wasn't uncovered by journalists, though.
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
Oh, man, I'm getting Hanson's "Visualizing Quaternions" for Christmas and I can't wait, so I'm definitely gonna print off that visualizing Clifford algebra article and go through it with my sketchbook this even
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
They more than dominate the media as the loudest pro-second amendment voice, they straight up have your elected representatives by the balls and bullied into submission. This episode of Fresh Air from a couple months ago about the NRA is pr
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
Same here. I'm an artist, but my work is in math and physics visualizations so I come here for that kind of content as well.
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
As an artist, yeah. I have a pretty big tumblr following that I've built up over the years, but I also prefer instagram even though I've only had it for a little over a year and haven't built up nearly as big of a base. I thi
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
I just opened an Etsy a week ago. I was so broke I had to borrow $1 from a friend to finish paying for my listings. (I am no longer that broke, thanks Etsy.) Pretty sure that's a fantastic way to keep out the actual artisans/starv
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
There's also no such thing as "schizotypical" personality disorder. It's schizotypal.
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
Upvote for justnomil!
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
As a woman who is never having children because they'd get in the way of my career, thanks for the laugh.
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
I was put on ADHD meds as a 4 (almost 5) year old after my first violin lesson, this was back in the mid-90s. My mom said it was the weirdest thing she'd ever seen: I so badly wanted to sit still and listen because I wanted to learn to
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
I'm an artist who makes math and physics visualization sculptures, I LOVE taking notes on 18"x24" drawing paper with a combination of colored pencil, fountain pen, and gel pen. For long derivations rather than notes/sket
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
So... a bunch of school girls in Africa being kidnapped and raped and forced into marriages can't be considered a violation of their human rights because those responsible didn't do the same to little school boys, too?
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by eigenstuff 9y ago
I describe myself as a starving artist pretty frequently. What it means is that every week I find myself choosing between materials and food. Sometimes food wins, sometimes materials do (they did this week). Every penny I can spare goes tow