Mathematical notation needs to be disrupted

Thanks for not abusing greek as homoglyphs...

ΛΟΛ νόου τζενέρικς

This is how "lol no generics" is phonetically written in greek (meaning the pronunciation sounds the same as in english)

χαχαχαχα

If I wasn't a poor student that is switching from cs to math, I would shower you in gold.

Conclusion: yes please math community shut up and take notes from webshit because math and programming are exactly the same.

Actually, this guy makes Minecraft mods.

http://i.imgur.com/sy9lVl4.jpg

TIL greek alphabet is obscure and dead

It's not just greek alphabet, the integration symbol for example comes from medieval rendering of letter 's' (called 'Long s').

Or the del/nabla operator:

The nabla is a triangular symbol like an inverted Greek delta ∇. The name comes, by reason of the symbol's shape, from the Hellenistic Greek word νάβλα for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith to Peter Guthrie Tait in correspondence.

Math often feels like an RPG game where each NPC and each item has a unique and half-forgotten lore to them that typically dates back at least a couple of centuries. Seems like math has side-quests in side-quests, in fact, it's probably side-quests all the way down.

Tbh sometimes mathematicians also use Fraktur script, or Hebrew.

Fun fact btw: there's a separate unicode block for Fraktur letters, for use only in mathematics, where Fraktur letters have different semantics than regular Latin letters. When typesetting regular text, you should use the regular Latin code block with a Fraktur font. Isn't it fun ?

Greek here :S

and was largely invented by geniuses in a tearing great hurry to get to the point of whatever it is they'd discovered.

Just like most software then.

for all j where uj belongs to j?

∀ j | j ∋ uj

nigga wat

The variable names have to be short so the professor can pretend his midterm is actually completable in 90 minutes.

Like fuck, it's math, how are you supposed to understand it without an accompanying book chapter or paper? There's your documentation, better than you could accomplish with docstrings and "descriptive" variable names, which would commonly be contrivances that deviate from the actual source.

Especially because they tend to be fairly consistent.

I worked with actual scientists. Three characters is way too much. Also, mixed english and local names in code are great.

I've written a style guide containing

Variables should be given short and useless names such as q, x or p.

I read that iMac's major and this is deep and started wondering what the fuck that sub is about.

imacs

emacs*

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Damn

Thanks to Ed Kmett

This is how you know shit is about to get real.

This is some abstract shit dude

But what if a high jerk level mathematician learns haskal? Then we get the programming singularity.

Math is at least difficult. Haskell leg-humpers seem to think what they do is hard when it's not.

Webshits are just jealous of our 300k starting at any job we want.

McDonald's really lifted their cashier game I see

Do you even Curry-Howard?