dat_math [they/them]

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  • First observation: this is unironically the most wildly antisemitic anecdote of the last few presidents AFAIK

    I'm a Jew (at least I was raised jewish, had a bneimitzvah, yadyada, who the fuck knows about my spirituality/lackthereof now) and it's not immediately clear to me why it's antisemitic to force a head of state break sabbath. It's been more than a decade since I read a translation, but does the Torah not explicitly permit breaking the sabbath in times of emergency or is that a talmudic or more modern opinion?

    Am I missing a blind spot (in my own perspective) here?








  • I read this when I was a child and I think it helped build a lot of intuition about numbers (and Trachtenberg's story was quite inspiring as a small jewish kid)

    it explains why the techniques work but it's not particularly deep and is mostly good for getting extremely fast at arithmetic with numbers that seem quite scary due to their size.

    Would you mind elaborating a bit more on what kinds of math you're interested in and maybe what you remember connecting with or find particularly inaccessible in your earlier mathematical education?

























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