Fun fact.
In the Lord of the Rings films, most of the Riders of Rohan were actually women with fake beards because when the production put out a call for local experienced riders, a lot of women showed up with their own horses.
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska solved a problem that had puzzled mathematicians for over 400 years. Even Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton couldn’t crack it.
We live in a three-dimensional world, but Maryna solved a puzzle in an eight-dimensional space—something that’s very hard even to imagine.
She was born in Kyiv, studied at Taras Shevchenko University, worked in Bonn and Berlin, and at just 33 became a professor in Lausanne.
So what was the problem? It’s about how to pack identical spheres as tightly as possible in space. This question was first asked by Kepler back in 1611. Over time, scientists found answers for two and three dimensions—but not for eight.
Maryna proved that in eight dimensions, the densest packing is formed by a special mathematical structure called a lattice. What’s even more amazing is that she did it in just 23 pages, while earlier attempts took hundreds.
In 2022, she was awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics. She became only the second woman in history to receive it.
Today, Maryna Viazovska works in Lausanne, supports Ukrainian mathematicians, and brings pride to Ukraine with her achievements.
O cara jogou uma garota no chão e pisou na cabeça dela por ela ter se recusado a dar o número do telefone pra ele, e a mãe do anjinho diz que ELE é a vítima.
Taí uma que vai aprender o caminho do presídio pra visitas de fim de semana rapidinho.
Conversei hoje com um amigo meu… engenheiro formado no ITA, mestrado em Stanford, doutorado em Harvard, pós-doc no MIT… currículo que dá até preguiça de ler inteiro.
Perguntei o que ele fez no feriado.
Ele respondeu, todo sério:
- Eu desenvolvi um estudo sobre tratamento hidrotérmico de cerâmica, vidro e metais em ambiente de alta tensão.
Fiquei até reta na cadeira… pedi pra explicar melhor aquela genialidade.
Ele respirou fundo e traduziu:
Eu lavei a louça com água quente…
…sob supervisão rigorosa da esposa. 🫢🫢🫢🤣🤣🤣
λ · μ = lk(∂λ, ∂μ) + ∑ handles intersections
Watching Lisa Piccirillo own the blackboard like this; intersection forms on homology modules, handle cancellations in 4-manifolds; hits different. The precision, the chalk dust, the way she just sees the topology.
This is pure 4D magic: where smooth vs topological distinctions go wild, and one clever trace or form can kill a 50-year knot problem.
Her Conway knot proof lives here; showing it's not smoothly slice, unlocking exotic phenomena that change how we understand spacetime surgery and manifold classification.
Zeka akademik başarıyı açıklamıyor.
Zeka ile akademik başarı arasındaki ilişki ρ = 0.54.
Bu, zeka-başarı varyansının yalnızca %29’unu açıkladığını gösterir (r² ≈ 0.29).
Yani zeka, en büyük faktör olsa da sanıldığı kadar belirleyici değildir. Kalan %71 çevresel faktörlere bağlı.
Semana passada tavam falando que o Homelander era como o Alexandre de Moraes, agora tão falando isso aqui
Eles estão projetando a crítica política da série no contexto brasileiro e não nos EUA
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