Lemy-isms

isomorphismes:

I hope I can say this in a way that makes sense.

One kind of mathematical symbology your eyes eventually get used to is the “Σum over all individuals” concept:

Yes, at first it’s painful, but eventually it looks no more confusing than the oddly-bent Phoenician-alphabet letters that make up English text.

I believe there is a generally worthwhile pearl of thought-magic wrapped up in the sub-i, sub-j pattern. I mean, a metaphor that’s useful for non-mathematicians to introduce into their mind-swamps.

The pearl is a certain connection between the specific and the general—a way of reaching valid generality, without dropping the specificity.

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To Bat, or not to Bat, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The bombs and insanity of the Joker and Riddler,
Or to kick their asses against a Sea of corruption,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of a Catwoman, 
Th’ Joker’s wrong, the Penguin’s contumely
The pangs of a Killer Croc, the law’s delay,
The insolence of Azrael, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy Bane,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare batarang? Who would combat boots bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after Death,
The undiscovered Gotham, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

(via io9, I <3 these commenters)

Jake likes a girl. Her name is Bella. 
Bella likes a different fella.

See this vamp? This is Ed.
Ed is pale. Ed is dead.

Ed saved Bella from a van.
Ed must be a special man.

Ed won’t kill boys. He won’t kill girls.
Ed gets fed on deer and squirrels.

This is James. He’s a tracker.
He’s a sort of vamp attacker.

James hunts Bella for a thrill.
Will Ed kill him? Yes, he will.

But James gave her a little bite.
Will she be a vamp? She might!

Edward fixes Bella’s cut.
She won’t be a vampire.
But…

She becomes one. Read some more.
She’s a vampire in book 4.Twilight, by Dr. Seuss

Jake likes a girl. Her name is Bella.
Bella likes a different fella.

See this vamp? This is Ed.
Ed is pale. Ed is dead.

Ed saved Bella from a van.
Ed must be a special man.

Ed won’t kill boys. He won’t kill girls.
Ed gets fed on deer and squirrels.

This is James. He’s a tracker.
He’s a sort of vamp attacker.

James hunts Bella for a thrill.
Will Ed kill him? Yes, he will.

But James gave her a little bite.
Will she be a vamp? She might!

Edward fixes Bella’s cut.
She won’t be a vampire.
But…

She becomes one. Read some more.
She’s a vampire in book 4.

(via io9)