{"id":2200,"date":"2019-05-04T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T18:27:54","slug":"never-argue-with-a-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Never argue with a Mathematician&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason you never want to argue with a mathematician is simple &#8211; the homework. I awoke to find this waiting for me on the couch where I do my morning reading. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/konrad_argument_May14th2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/konrad_argument_May14th2019.jpg\" alt=\"konrad_argument_May14th2019\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking about metrics with my roommate quickly revealed a hole in how I thought about metrics, which was simply put wrong. I hadn&#8217;t realized that I tend to project higher dimensional problems into Euclidian spaces &#8211; and that included metrics. Still homework waiting for me in the morning was cold, funny, but ice cold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason you never want to argue with a mathematician is simple &#8211; the homework. I awoke to find this waiting for me on the couch where I do my morning reading. Talking about metrics with my roommate quickly revealed a hole in how I thought about metrics, which was simply put wrong. I hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}