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I use Waterfox but potato/potatoe #waterfox #firefox #FuckAI youtu.be/E2AoYIKwJqM?...

#MicroSlop

The Jordan-Wigner transform! You can map spin operators to fermionic operators. Super useful in quantum computing and quantum chemistry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%...

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Here's a slice of Young's lattice — integer partitions with at most m pieces each of size at most n — as a little Sunday treat: e-infinity.space/young-lattice/ It's built as the quotient of the Boolean lattice Bₘₙ by the action of 𝔖ₘ≀𝔖ₙ ≤ 𝔖ₘₙ. 🧮

Bday coincidence. 1968+69 I ordered paper airplane books from Edmund Scientific both arrived on the day of bday. At Kahluna restaurant, two pals that work there brought in these two books tonight after some previous aviation conversation. Bday was Thursday but this is good. #PaperAirplane #Birthday

Seems reasonable - Updating My Grading Policy Because You're All Using AI All The Time danmeyer.substack.com/p/updating-m...

whoever did the cover of this?!?

Those of you who are old-school enough may remember #TMWYF during pandemic times, where I first learned of @visualalgebra.bsky.social's project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZI...

Please do read. My first glance I thought it was sarcasm/satire - it is not those. It's a plan.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

My guy, if YOU’RE not going to read your paper, I’M not going to read it.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

"You will need to ask your mom if you can ride your bike to the mall. The dirt mall is closer, but the magazine stand at the dirt mall doesn’t carry any computer magazines, so you’ll need to take a longer ride to the good mall, where the book store actually has computer magazines." Good times.

My passion flower is once again going off and also look at this spectacular spider

Do you ever wake up and wonder "What if my job was to make saltwater taffy on a sphere via the Weierstrass ℘-function?"? e-infinity.space/taffy-sphere/

The fifth and final online lecture from James Munro's Introduction to University Mathematics course for our new first year students (two in-person lectures follow) goes to the heart of the subject by focusing on logic and proof. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=590w...

applying for jobs again

Students learn to sort, classify, and display a variety of concrete objects, and begin to explore the concept of probability in everyday contexts using beads and pipe cleaners. www.oise.utoronto.ca/robertson/le...

You can't "solve math" because it's not a list of problems to be solved. It's a web of ideas to wonder about.

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I am selling this piece which was used in the game/album Ancient Undead Spider Wizard

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I’m trying to sell some originals, so I’m on offering this piece for $75 plus shipping

Thank you to the mathematicians like @louigi.bsky.social fighting back. www.ahmath.org/statements

Hey, media people! Read this thread! Stop trying to interview the same few super-famous mathematicians about AI. It's like interviewing the two or three wealthiest people in the US about how inflation affects their ability to buy food.

I need to write this up in the next few days, but there is about to be a full event stream of astronomy transients on the AT Protocol, ready to use for science - and that's awesome!

Happy birthday to trailblazing programmer & computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). 🧪👩🏼‍🔬🐡 My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠ ⁠ Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in

Tommy can you hear me? - apologies to Peter Townsend

"...degrees should not be rewarded primarily on the text of a dissertation...more on a rigorous in-person defense. Students should regularly show professors they can speak fluently about their work." Maybe - work with artists and writers to broaden the understanding of the art of mathematics?

15 minutes. I started my first day at an appliance repair place and asked my new boss a question about a job assignment. He started yelling at me about not knowing how to do anything - I said "fuck you" and left. He called later to apologize. Did not go back.

10 minutes in, I feel somewhat less anxious about talking to my after school kids about STEM careers. Mostly we don't talk - we do stuff but it does come up.

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With the abundance of LLM proofs, we are now past the stage where proofs are the key goal of mathematics. We human mathematicians must focus our attention on areas in math previously neglected, such as Dance,

More please! www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

MPR makes it more and more difficult for me support it. This show was the reason I donated as much as I did and now it's gone. www.yourclassical.org/story/2026/0...

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A 4th grader requested more mazes in her end-of-year reflection. I listened! Our 1st maze was rectangular & used a marble. This time, students made hexagonal spider pits, using magnets underneath to guide a person to safety! I repeat challenges, but never the same way! #EduSky #stem #steam

Asking for a friend.

Is anyone here familiar with modular localization in AQFT? Tomeka-Takasaki theory, standard subspaces, etc. This is really abstract and I feel like I only have a chance of figuring it out if I know what the goal is. And I want to figure it out, because I am concerned with localization in QFT.

Page 46 of My First Book About Engineering inspired K–5 students to build 2D/3D orchard trees while exploring biomimicry and agricultural engineering! When books inspire hands-on engineering, students connect what they read, what they create, and the world around them.

Was talking w some colleagues the other day and we came to the conclusion that, at this point, AI-generated Lean code adds almost zero to our confidence that the stated results are correct and correctly proved. (We already knew it added zero to our understanding.) #MathSky

Important parts of brain function — and IMO THE most important parts of brain function — are created by the patterns of the trillions of connections in the brain. Needless to say, organoid cell blobs don’t have a similar connectivity pattern. Not close. (There. One article’s thesis down.)

“Cathematicians did not ask for this work to be done.” #AHM

Apologies in advance for the alt text not catching the details. Just to excited to not share my Friday night math and music book club at my local bar. Titles and in alt text. WOW!!!!

"At minimum you need to explain what you did, including which steps required new ideas and which steps are already well-known. More substantively, you are expected to nurture the literature." - Words to thrive by

OFFS. I hate these tech-bros more with every breath. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

"replace mathematicians with bots. This is the equivalent of replacing the chef with the kitchen tools, even if the knife is automatic and can dice veggies on its own, there is still a significant distance between that and palatable food that you'd want to eat."