> Be math graduate student
> Go to interview for software job
> Interviewer asks how to find the number of ways to get the number $v$ as a sum of $d$ $f$-sided dice
> Tell him it is the coefficient of $x^v$ in $(x + x^2 + \dots + x^f)^d$
> Write out code in C++ to compute coeff
> Interviewer asks what a polynomial is

why can't you smoke alcohol

>maximum INT of 18
>only corresponds to 137 IQ
Can someone remind me why we respect magic users again? Even the smartest magic user is dumber than the average mathematician.

With the Cleveland Indians name change making news today, I was looking up the polling and statistics done on the issue. Like I remembered, past polls had shown the majority of Indians didn't find the names of the Cleveland Indians or Washington Redskins offensive:
>In an April 2013 poll by AP-GfK, 79 percent (of natives) responded that the name should not change, 11 percent said it should change, 8 percent had no opinion and 2 percent did not answer.
>A June 2014 poll by Rasmussen Reports found 60 percent agreed that the name should not change, 26 percent that it should change, and 14 percent were undecided. In 2018 journalists for the Associated Press questioned Rasmussen's methodology.
>A poll conducted by Langer Research for ESPN's "Outside the Lines" in September 2014 found 71 percent in favor of keeping the name, and 23 percent thinking the name should be changed.
>The 2016 annual NFL poll found 64% of NFL fans favored keeping the name while 25% supported changing it.
>In May 2016, The Washington Post (WaPo) released a poll of self-identified Native Americans that produced the same results as the 2004 Annenberg poll, that 90% of the 504 respondents were "not bothered" by the team's name

Despite these past public opinion polls/studies, a new study from Michigan and Berkeley was published in 2020 which appeared to completely invalidate these findings:
>...The researchers found that 49% of self-identified Native Americans found the Washington Redskins name offensive, 38% found it not offensive, and 1% were indifferent.
My bullshit alarms were raised, so I read the study itself and found their demographics:
>Gender Cisgender men: 31%
>Cisgender women; transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer people: 69%

Can someone explain to me how this huge of a gender imbalance is acceptable for a public opinion study? This sounds like statistical manipulation and complete bullshit made to confirm the researcher's hypothesis.

What do we do about this? Blatant IP theft. When we invent something, we are "LARPING" and when they steal it, they are "inventing."

What happened to this country?

Thinking of doing a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
Any advice from other people who have done engineering related PhDs, or even more broadly, science related PhDs?
I'm thinking of doing a PhD around human robotics. If you have any experience in that field that would be great.
Otherwise, just generally, how did your PhD go? Would you do it again? Anything you would do different? What did you do afterwards?

>infinity

I have a vasectomy from 2.5 years ago and I just had my first sequential orgasms (1 within 60 seconds of the other). I'm wondering if this is a safe thing to do or will it reverse the vasectomy due to pressure or something

>all integers are even or not even (odd)
>all animals are either mammals or not mammals
>all (valid) statements are either true or false

Why is it that we can express any concept in terms of being either x or not x? Why is it that there is no 3rd option? What is this principle called?