Asking mostly because I have fuckloads of video courses, plus a number of movies, that I have yet to even check if the content is as good as their titles imply and I really feel like I’m mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.

  • @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 months ago

    hey you mentioned category theory, any math community on the fediverse? r/math is sometimes gold but most of the time cringe, because… reddit

    • @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      23 months ago

      Sorry to reply to this so late, I procrastinated because unfortunately my answer is that I don’t know of any communities, perhaps because I’m a scientist who loves maths rather than a mathematician.

      However, I will use this opportunity to share some fun stuff from people I like.

      https://youtu.be/H0Ek86IH-3Y by Oliver Lugg on Youtube is great. His channel is very eclectic though, and there isn’t much pure maths. I love his shitposting tone though, and he has a discord community that were pretty mathsy when I was in it.

      A blog-type site that I enjoy is Tai-Danae Bradley’s https://www.math3ma.com/about, largely because I’ve discovered many other cool researchers through her site.

      I also really enjoy Eugenia Cheng’s books, especially as someone who is interested in understanding how to write good scientific communication that is accessible without “dumbing things down”. I recently finished “The Joy of Abstraction”.

      Apologies that this isn’t what you actually were looking for. I share your distaste at Reddit: I have used Reddit occasionally for those niche communities that aren’t available elsewhere (yet!), but the atmosphere is increasingly toxic. I fear that smaller communities that flee are congealing in harder to discover places, like Discord.

      • @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        thank you

        Sorry to reply to this so late, I procrastinated because unfortunately my answer is that I don’t know

        relatable lool, “I can’t do it rn cuz I still don’t know how to perfectly”