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The Exponential Family Portrait
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The Exponential Family Portrait
The exponential family portrait. Each generation grows by exactly one constant, yet the exponential function ensures they'll never reach their full potential. Just like my research budget. The Taylor series of my academic career would also converge to disappointment.

Taylor Expansion Goes Brrr
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Taylor Expansion Goes Brrr
The bitter truth every physics student eventually swallows: we're just making educated guesses and calling it science. Taylor expansions let us pretend complex functions are just polynomials if we squint hard enough. "Let's assume this sphere is a perfect cow" energy. Meanwhile, engineers are building bridges with these approximations and somehow they don't collapse. Usually.

The Forgotten Child Of Polynomial Approximations
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6 days ago 2.7K views 0 shares
The Forgotten Child Of Polynomial Approximations
The mathematical hierarchy strikes again! The meme brilliantly contrasts Taylor series (the popular, well-supported child) with Maclaurin series (the forgotten skeleton at the bottom of the pool). What's the joke? Maclaurin series are actually just Taylor series centered at zero, but they get treated like a completely different concept. It's like mathematicians created a special name for a Toyota Camry when you park it in your driveway. Pure mathematical neglect in polynomial form! Next time your calculus professor mentions Maclaurin series, pour one out for the forgotten special case that deserved better.

Math Major's Small Angle Betrayal
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13 days ago 4.3K views 0 shares
Math Major's Small Angle Betrayal
That look of pure mathematical betrayal! The small angle approximation (sin x ≈ x for x near zero) is actually a legitimate mathematical shortcut used in physics and engineering. But to a math major, this is like saying "2+2≈4.1 is close enough." They've spent years proving theorems with rigorous precision only to watch someone casually commit mathematical heresy. The Taylor series expansion of sin(x) is x - x³/3! + x⁵/5! - ..., so technically the approximation has some merit, but that death stare says "I didn't suffer through Real Analysis for you to butcher calculus like this."

Taylor Series vs Taylor Swift
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13 days ago 3.7K views 0 shares
Taylor Series vs Taylor Swift
The ultimate mathematical double entendre! While he's professing his love for Taylor Swift, she's responding with her love for Taylor Series—the mathematical formula that expands functions into infinite sums. The equation shown is literally how mathematicians express their undying love for approximating functions around a point. It's the perfect nerdy miscommunication that happens when pop culture meets calculus. Next time someone asks if you're a Swiftie, just start writing out polynomial expansions and see how they react!

The Taylor Series Initiation
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16 days ago 3.8K views 0 shares
The Taylor Series Initiation
That moment when you've been nerding out on physics memes for years without understanding them, and suddenly in college you encounter your first Taylor series approximation and feel like you're part of an exclusive club! The pure joy of finally getting those jokes about "just ignore the higher order terms" and realizing that f(x) ≈ f(a) + f'(a)(x-a) is basically the mathematical equivalent of saying "close enough." Welcome to physics, where we celebrate being approximately correct and pretend the rest doesn't matter!

Nuclear Physics For Dummies
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25 days ago 5.5K views 0 shares
Nuclear Physics For Dummies
Engineers looking at a nuclear power plant: "Yep, it's just spicy water making steam." 😂 That's literally what nuclear power boils down to (pun intended)! Despite all the complex physics and engineering, nuclear plants basically use radioactive material to heat water, which creates steam that spins turbines. The meme brilliantly captures how engineers and math enthusiasts can reduce incredibly complex systems to hilariously simple terms. Like describing a nuclear reactor as just "boiling water" while casually ignoring the whole "controlled nuclear fission" part! Fun fact: Nuclear power plants are actually among the safest energy sources per kilowatt-hour produced, despite what pop culture might have you believe. The water part is pretty important too - it both transfers heat AND shields from radiation!

I'm Doing Taylor Approximations All Day Long
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25 days ago 5.1K views 0 shares
I'm Doing Taylor Approximations All Day Long
The eternal rivalry between physicists and mathematicians captured in one perfect meme! Physicists live and die by Taylor approximations—those beautiful mathematical shortcuts where we replace complicated functions with polynomials and conveniently "forget" the higher-order terms because they're "negligibly small." When a mathematician calls us out on this mathematical sin, we can only respond with a guilty "But yes." It's the physics equivalent of being caught putting pineapple on pizza and having zero regrets. We'll keep approximating sin(x) as x when x is small enough, thank you very much!

Physicists Only Want One Thing And Mathematicians Hate It
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28 days ago 5.4K views 0 shares
Physicists Only Want One Thing And Mathematicians Hate It
The eternal battle between mathematical rigor and physical practicality on full display! Mathematicians are having a complete meltdown over physicists casually using Taylor series expansions without checking if functions are even differentiable. Meanwhile, physicists are just vibing with their approximations, making the math work for them with zero remorse. That formula? It's the Taylor series expansion that lets physicists approximate nearly any function as a polynomial—the ultimate "close enough" tool that makes mathematicians cry themselves to sleep. The rigorous proof-lovers demand formal verification while the practical physics crowd goes "haha differential equations go brrrr." Pure math vs. applied science warfare at its finest!

The Actual Best Approximation To Sin(X)
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1 month ago 5.8K views 0 shares
The Actual Best Approximation To Sin(X)
Mathematicians trying to approximate sin(x) with fancy Taylor series: *sweats profusely while adding more terms* Meanwhile, the REAL genius move: Just set f(x) = 0 at all multiples of 2π! ✨ INFINITE ACCURACY at those points! Who needs continuous functions when you can be EXACTLY RIGHT at countably infinite points?! It's like claiming you're fluent in French because you know how to say "omelette du fromage" perfectly. Technically correct at specific points... catastrophically wrong everywhere else. 🧠💥

Mathematicians vs Physicists: The Eternal Calculus Battle
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1 month ago 5.9K views 0 shares
Mathematicians vs Physicists: The Eternal Calculus Battle
The eternal rivalry between mathematicians and physicists captured in their natural habitat. On the left, a mathematician having an existential crisis because someone dared to differentiate without checking if the function is differentiable first—mathematical blasphemy of the highest order. Meanwhile, the physicist is just vibing with Taylor series approximations, completely unbothered by such formalities. Physicists will happily expand functions into infinite series and assume convergence while mathematicians weep in the corner about rigor. It's like watching someone use a screwdriver as a hammer and being totally fine with the results.

The Taylor Series Of Sin X Is Now Adult Content
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1 month ago 5.0K views 0 shares
The Taylor Series Of Sin X Is Now Adult Content
Looks like innocent mathematical expressions are now getting flagged by search engines. The Taylor series for sin(x) = x - x³/3! + x⁵/5! - ... is apparently too provocative for SafeSearch. Those alternating signs and factorial denominators must be quite risqué. Next thing you know, they'll put parental advisories on calculus textbooks and ID-check students buying graphing calculators.