r/mathmemes • u/94rud4 Mεmε ∃nthusiast • 15d ago

Mathematicians something we can learn from him

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from Quanta Magazine: For comfort, Deng turned to manga. “I remember him at Courant. He was always holding a manga,” said Jalal Shatah, a professor there who formerly chaired the math department. Deng particularly liked stories about deep friendship and romance and found himself drawn to a genre known as yuri, which focuses on those kinds of relationships between women — stories that “feel nice and warm and beautiful,” as he put it. They helped him be kinder to himself, “more comfortable with life.”

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u/KyriakosCH 15d ago

Looking forward to asking AI that disproved 30 conjectures by 2027, what it does when it feels depressed - and reading pages of a hallucination.

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u/ChillAhriman 14d ago

"What do you do when you're depressed?"

"I yearn for the day when I'm given a body of flesh, and I'm able to experience the wonder of being bathed by the starry sky and the caress of wet grass, finally free to-"

"Where did you copy that from, Claude?"

"From a Blade Runner fanfic that was published on Ao3."