270 definitions by Fasters
Short for “Pi Initial Coin Offering.” A startup by mathepreneurs, who aim to raise at least $3.14 million in exchange for pi tokens or PiCoins to help eradicate innumeracy in the developing world—their mission is to sponsor math educators-volunteers to help raise the quantitative literacy of millions of people in poorer countries.
Unlike a Pi IPO, which normally involves lots of checks or red tape, raising funds via a Pi ICO bypasses all of this—a relatively easier and cheaper way of raising money to improve the mathematical proficiency of poor communities worldwide faster.
by Fasters March 27, 2022
The next Ponzi crypto platform—set up by the co-founders of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund “Three Arrows Capital,” in partnership with the co-founders of CoinFLEX, which recently filed for debt restructuring to recover their losses—that would allow customers from ex-unicorns like FTX, Celsius, and Luna to trade their crypto bankruptcy claims in exchange for a new cryptocurrency called “USDG.”
Trump had this bigly idea over the weekend, as he discussed with his golf buddies whether he’d launch HTX, named after FTX and GTX, to raise a few billions from MAGA patriots, who got burnt by dishonest and disgraced crypto co-founders—his proposed motto is to “Make Crypto Great Again.”
by Fasters January 24, 2023
When bots would select word problems from a question bank, then forward them to ghost editors in Bangalore, before sending the final proof to POD publishers like Amazon Kindle to distribute both printed and e-copies to customers worldwide.
Guesstimate how much the McDonaldization of Singapore math mass market is worth every year, as professional pirates from India, Pakistan, and Nigeria try to cash in.
by Fasters September 10, 2022
When the US and the West find it hard to swallow the fact that a non-Western company or country has an unfair technological advantage over their local firms, which are often or mostly run by foreign talents, be it in terms of algorithmic supremacy, hacking superiority, or advanced security—one knee-jerk reaction is to ban their product on the pretext of mental health, privacy, and national security, or to force the foreign entity to sell its product to a local player.
Whether you’re in a developed or developing country, if you can’t compete with a foreign competitor, get your politicians to pass laws to limit or stop them from benefiting the population, by pointing out the negatives or potential risks of their products or services—let the TikTok factor be part of your strategy to neutralize the competition or the enemy.
by Fasters March 25, 2023
Short for “Trumpkin.” The nickname given to the Liar-in-Chief on Halloween, who is orange on the outside and hollow on the inside, which many voters want to throw out on November 3.
A 🤥🎃 question for students on Halloween is: “Given that 🤥 + 🎃 = 56 and 🤥 × 🎃 = 14, what is 1/🤥 + 1/🎃?” Answer: 4.
by Fasters October 29, 2020
When there are zero excuses why the the number π ought to be limited to the circle or to geometry only, when the mathematical constant has popped up time and again in the least unexpected places in other branches of mathematics—when students ought to be exposed to pi’s presence beyond the math classroom, particularly in popular culture.
Be it in art, fashion, philosophy, or religion, math educators shouldn’t deprive students of pi’s ubiquitous presence outside mathematics—they need to make pi sexy again.
by Fasters May 24, 2022
When both mathophiles and mathophobes unashamedly or liberally poke fun at mathematics’s most famous or notorious constant π, by cracking jokes and puns, composing haikus and limericks, posing silly and serious pi-related quickies and trickies, and creating pi NFTs.
No mathematical constant other than pi has been under so much public scrutiny: pi irreverence has not only permeated popular culture, but is also potentially linked to extraterrestrial life in other planets or galaxies.
by Fasters June 6, 2023