We spent the entire episode today on your boosts from episodes 1-5. Tried 6 but we had to abort because we had a time issue.
We’ll finish them next week.
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It needs to be said
nostr:npub16dsu2ghu9yd363utyw7dejqc8rgx5ps7r4hxddrvx2x64dh73p7qqkh6vy is a math motivating madman! We can’t wait to read your boosts tomorrow and figure out how to do our show around it
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Number Theory is an incredible rabbit hole. There’s no way to master cryptography without uprooting your life to master it for however long the journey lasts.
You will still be visible in the world but your mind will live in the glorious world for as long as it wants.
While in that rabbit hole, the Chinese Remainder Theorem is a side quest that might make you invisible to the world. It’s a world within itself loaded with wondrous discoveries.
These are like multi-year video games except finishing them makes you a superhuman.
We’ve created a mathematical monster!!
Only took 8 episodes!
Get on the bus - it’s much easier than you think and now we’re supporting the podcast with videos!
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Part 2 posted to the Community. Use sattelite.earth or nostrudel.ninja to access.
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There is now a community for the Motivate The Math podcast.
Use a web app like satellite.earth or nostrudel.ninja to access it and participate.
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Homeschoolers. How can I help teach you and your children math?
I know you want to learn and I want to teach it - but how do we really come together?
I need to understand your pain and struggles. Please share with me here.
Thank you. I’m going through proof (of its existence) involving projective geometry and it’s removing all ability to discuss this with other humans.
Thank you kindly for that beautiful economy of words that eludes me.
Did you know that the points on an elliptic curve form an Abelian group?
Now I’m glad we suffered through 2 podcasts to explain what groups are and how we don’t know why but it’s important to know something is a group!
We (on this podcast) still don’t know why this fact matters for elliptic curves yet - but it seems plausible in the context of what we discussed that we like:
1) closure under point addition (adding any two points gives us a point that is definitely on the curve)
2) infinity point is the identity (always wondered what that point meant in the coding books like nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 Programming Bitcoin)
3) order of addition doesn’t matter (P1+P2) = (P2+P1)
So the points being an abelian group makes all of the arithmetic around adding points nice. VERY NICE!
EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS RIGGED TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY THROUGH A CAREFULLY CONTROLLED MEDIUM.
EXCEPT MATH
They can’t rig math. They can rig how it’s used and what it says and they can demoralize you into not learning it or seeing for yourself what is knowable. They can co-opt its applications.
But they cannot undo Euclid, Euler, or Gauss.
Learn math and learn who these men were if you want to have a fighting chance against those who can rig everything you think you know.
Based on that thinking - I might say that the ability to be a tyrant and deprive people of their basic necessities of life only to raise their marginal value to them when you benevolently trade it back to them is the most valuable ability.
Bitcoin protects you and your descendants from this tyranny. Not completely obviously - but relative to he who has none.
Always having the basic necessities without needing the state apparatus is therefore the most valuable thing an individual can acquire.
Without bitcoin, this is only possible through debt and wage slavery.
Math just needs motivating. It’s not hard if you put in the work.
I cannot stress enough the importance of modular arithmetic - the math where we divide and focus only on remainders
Take any number N (preferably a prime - let’s use N= 5)
(Here = is congruence )
1(mod5) = 1
2(mod5) = 2
3(mod5) = 3
4(mod5) = 4
5(mod5) = 0
6(mod5) = 1
7(mod5) = 2
8(mod5) = 3
9(mod5) = 4
10(mod5) = 0
You seeing it?
3483638(mod5) = 3
Being good at this is SO IMPORTANT to learning cryptography. You have to be just as comfortable with these operations as nerds are with the other usual ones (addition, multiplication, etc)
https://fountain.fm/episode/LNxnprHhlWSBh4n5b0eS
This is a bonus episode. Made by AI - we released it because it does such a great job of explaining the 1st 2 episodes to laypeople.
Thanks brother! You move yet?
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I see a lot of potential to use Nostr for this project. Appreciate that you’re with us for this ride.
https://fountain.fm/episode/4QeQ1s9TraV0XEj5nlXz
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You might want to check the supporting video.
We talk about Groups (seriously - who does that?)
I’ve pinned a note on noStrudel exposing a mistake I already know I made - nothing horrible.
nostr:npub12eml5kmtrjmdt0h8shgg32gye5yqsf2jha6a70jrqt82q9d960sspky99g and nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9 are committed to motivating Bitcoiners to study math and demystifying the majority of it.
Mistakes will be made as none of us are professionals. We will always hold ourselves accountable - the listeners trust in our signal is paramount.
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