De

I'm De. I did my bachelor's degree somewhere in a French-speaking country. I did my M1 'Parcours Fondamentales' and M2 spécialité Géométrie Algébrique. Then I did my master's (again) in mathematical physics. And now I'm working at this company where uhm (cough cough) unlike Mr. Cox something! I'll get sued if I share anything about the company!! So let's not connect!!

During a meeting this morning, I had to speak a little Korean to explain something. After that a vp from another department said “It's commendable that you've taken the initiative to learn another language for the benefit of our clients” I should've just smiled and let him think that was the reason!! but rule number three! tell the truth. So I was like “uhm actually I like this Korean singer called Kim Taeyeon, I learned it so I could understand her lyrics!” That's what happens when you're raised by a very Catholic grandmama!

My nutritionist told me to eat like I need to gain 7kg, not because I'm too thin, she just wants me eating more. So @BrewMasterNull thinks it's funny we’re out here eating “fatty rice”… “lemak rice”… “nasi lemak”

What do you mean my schedule is already full until february 2027?!! P.s when you’re mixed here and there, you end up with a ridiculously long name because apparently your family wanted it to represent every part of your identity!!

I’m sick and bored so I decided to write a poem in Russian!! As I’ve said before… yearning hurts differently in Russian!! let’s bleed with me… I mean learn Russian!! So Russian verbs usually come in pairs (perfective/imperfective). And that’s why I purposely used “Я чертила формы” (imperfective)!! It means I was drawing shapes, not as something completed, but as something ongoing, possibly repeated, over time!! In boring English it’d be something like “I was drawing shapes” but see how Russian makes that unfinished feeling part of the verb itself??!! Second!! I used the word “клятва”!! It can’t be just translated as oath/vow because it can carry this solemn, almost sacred weight!! Not just a promise, but something that feels… uhm binding!! Third!! “Я думала, свечение—это клятва”!! Literally “I thought the glow was a vow” But “свечение” can evoke both the light and like the process of shining. I chose this because I wanted that ambiguity!! The glow itself or the very act of glowing!! In English I’d have to play around with “I thought the glow was a vow” or “I thought the shining was a promise” And my fav line!! “Я хотела, чтобы небеса подтвердили то, что я уже чувствовала” (I wanted the heavens to confirm what I already felt) The me… the speaker doesn’t just “misread” the stars!! She stupidly wants the universe to validate something she has already decided to believe!! The problem is the cruel heavens promised nothing! She was the one who mistook her own longing for evidence!! Sad… Okay I’m tired!! Anyway!! Russian is beautiful and this is how I spend my free time!!

Mutual: “De u don’t look chinese” Me: Astute observation, man! Perhaps because I’m not Chinese!!

Sent an email at 7am: “I have not fully recovered from my cold, so I'll be taking sick leave today and tomorrow. I will be present for the nine o'clock meeting only. If something urgent requires my attention, please don't hesitate to contact me.” By 8:30 I'd already stared at almost 30 emails with the subject '(really important)' Amateur move, De!!

For my kind mutuals: I only have Twitter!! I don’t have any other social media accounts, nor do I plan on creating any!! The only reason I’m active on this app is because I’m not particularly fond of interacting with people irl! and my therapist suggested I give this a try!! It was either this or dating apps! and there’s NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN THE WORLD to convince me to join one of those!! (No offense to anyone who’s on one!!) Anyway, the moment I’m done with this ridiculously expensive therapy of mine, I’m deleting this app too!!

Can't breathe again!! I'm too lazy to cook, so I'm just having steak for dinner. Going full carnivore!

I’ve been reading this paper on persistent homology of Hamiltonian orbits and its application to beam physics and my god I have sooo many questions!! First of all!! I actually think the idea is interesting! Using PH to characterize the geometry of short Hamiltonian trajectories! But the authors keep saying it can “predict” the dynamic aperture and I’m struggling to see where they’ve demonstrated that! Like whereeee?! For the proton IOTA case they compute PH from 200 turns and compare it with survival tracking up to (10^8) turns. Fine! but where’s the confusion matrix?? Precision?! Recall?! How far is the predicted DA boundary from the actual one?! And why 200 turns???? What happens at 50, 100, 400, or 800? Do the labels change?? What about sticky orbits that look perfectly regular for the first 200 turns??! Then there’s the metric dependence!! The Hénon–Heiles example literally shows a misclassification that improves when they change the embedding! So how sensitive are the IOTA results to the number of sampled points, coordinate scaling, or the metric?! Alsoooo where are the cheap baselines??! What if I just take the same 200-turn trajectories and compute frequency-map drift or maximum excursion? Does PH actually tell me anything about long-term survival that those simpler diagnostics don’t??? And the IOTA lattice is a pretty favorable test case for normal-form decoupling!! I’d be much more convinced if they showed this working in a strongly nonintegrable, coupled system!! Listen, I’m not saying PH is useless here!! But showing that short-time PH classifications are “spatially” consistent with long-term survival maps isn’t the same as demonstrating that they predict the dynamic aperture!! Ugh I was enjoying the mathematics until the claims started annoying me!!

This Moroccan grandma next to me gave me a “dessert” she made (her own version of sellou or something!!) Old people love me!! My brothers say it's because I have stray cat energy! Who cares! Free food is the best

Last year, my friends convinced me to dress as Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist for Halloween! Last night, I had to stay at my brother's place because he didn't trust me to stay by myself!! One would think I'm just an “allegedly” adult!

Had to sleep half sitting up because I can't breathe and I convinced myself I'd get sudden infant death syndrome (I'm a big baby when I'm sick!) Woke up cranky, went for a walk (searching for oxygen!) came home, showered, prepared for the nine o'clock meeting, and then I'm done!! P.s J'ai mis mes lunettes sur mes lèvres parce que mon nez ne sert plus à rien!!