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Crocheting Hector II: The Return of the Ruffle

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 / Shub Das / Leave a comment

I picked up crochet again a few weeks ago, after over a year of not touching it. For a while I was made to feel like it wasn't a worthwhile use of my time, and eventually I just put it down. Picking it back up has reminded me how grounding it is. There's something about … Continue reading Crocheting Hector II: The Return of the Ruffle

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I picked up crochet again a few weeks ago, after over a year of not touching it. For a while I was made to feel like it wasn’t a worthwhile use of my time, and eventually I just put it down. Picking it back up has reminded me how grounding it is. This isn’t actually my first hyperbolic surface. Last year I started on a project and called it ‘Hector: my hyperbolic emotional support demon’. Somewhere between moving houses and going back and forth to university, he’s gone missing until further notice— or, more poetically, has transcended into a higher dimensional space which our minds simply cannot access. So this project is ‘Hector II: The Return of the Ruffle’ Belated appreciation post as I continue to process the fact that everything we see only makes up about 5% of the universe. Anyway, I’d love to be back here anytime! Thanks @cern (and the awesome gift shop!) #AtCERN Today marks one year of mathsrant. 31 posts, 4,300+ views, 2,300+ visitors, and readers in over 50 countries; none of which I expected when I wrote the first post twenty days after my last A-Level exam, still processing what I can only describe as post-exam grief. Watching a group of Year 7s sit through a lecture on gravity and black holes earlier this week as part of an outreach event made me feel almost envious. They weren’t afraid to give an answer and get it wrong, or even afraid to ask a question that might sound silly. They just blurted things out, no judgement attached. I couldn’t help but wonder, when did we lose that? I have unlocked my phone with my face probably thousands of times. Never have I ever once thought about it. Then, a few weeks ago, I sat in a lecture about something called eigenfaces. And now I cannot stop thinking about my phone May the 4th be with you. Spoiler warning: This short post contains spoilers for Project Hail Mary. If you haven’t watched it yet, go watch it! A lot of maths notes feel like they start on page two. You see a theorem, then a proof, then an example. As I slowly but surely work through catching up on lectures and revision, one of the questions I’ve found myself sitting with is this:
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