tacomonstrous

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by tacomonstrous 5d ago
As a mathematician, this is far from my experience of actual professional mathematicians, because they encounter people much smarter than them quite often. Maybe more true among graduate students, however.
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by tacomonstrous 9d ago
It's hard to know what math is 'useful' a priori. That's always been the argument for supporting basic research. This is not why I am a mathematician however. I think there's intrinsic value into understanding somet
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by tacomonstrous 9d ago
FWIW even Astra hasn't been able to solve the problems I care about, which are less about proving theorems and more about understanding the right way to think about already existing stories (and thus permitting extensions to new contex
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by tacomonstrous 10d ago
The fact that you talk about 'first author' papers in math only reinforces my point. It's not the same culture as other STEM fields.
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by tacomonstrous 11d ago
None of this is true.
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by tacomonstrous 11d ago
This is essentially irrelevant to the content of the post, but it's amusing to me that he casually mentions submitting to JAMS as if its acceptance were a mere formality.
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by tacomonstrous 14d ago
Looks like Google's given up on frontier models for external consumption?
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by tacomonstrous 1mo ago
The true morally correct path would have been to take big money out of college sports (not to mention high school sport) entirely. Of course this is now essentially impossible without what I imagine will be extensive rioting countrywide.
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by tacomonstrous 1mo ago
Everyone commenting here seems to take this to mean he's leaving Google, when that's not what the article says.
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
Maybe there's an error, but much of this write-up reads like nonsense to me. The assertion that a semidirect product with an abelian factor must admit that factor in its center is absolutely false. This is actually acknowledged later i
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
If you think not having done this (or really anything else except somehow preventing him and the Republican party from gaining power in the first place) would have prevented any of Trump's actions, I have a lovely bridge that just came
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
Hmm... If only there were a tangible reason why a treaty would have been impossible to get through the US Congress as currently constituted.
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
Stark assessment: "The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who c
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The assault on science funding continues(science.org)
6 points by tacomonstrous 2mo ago|1 comments
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
What this is yet another demonstration of how being immensely accomplished in one field says absolutely nothing about what one may be able to contribute to another.
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
Yes, as someone who prefers developing the 'correct' structure over 'merely' proving theorems, this is good for me in the short term. However, the writing I fear is on the wall for my medium and long term utility.
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
I would call that a trivial finite etale cover :)
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
Speaking as a mathematician, it does seem like we're a bit fucked as a community. Anything that is at all accessible to currently existing methods and mathematical infrastructure is probably going to fall to the frontier models of toda
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
This is nonsensical: Properness of the map is equivalent to its being an isomorphism (quick proof: Jacobian invertible implies that the map is etale, and properness would imply that it is finite etale, but affine space doesn't admi
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by tacomonstrous 2mo ago
This is of course an oversimplification by graduate students trying to reach a broad audience, but one could argue that it in fact is. Langlands himself viewed his program as part of an attempt to achieve non-abelian reciprocity laws. See f
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
I know there's at least one Costco in Brooklyn
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
How does unrejection work exactly?
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
You seem to have a strange idea of both money and government.
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
>The situation with human mathematicians is not much different. Eg, Wiles original proof of Fermat's Last Theorem contained errors found by reviewers, which he later repaired. In fact, it was Wiles himself who realized there was an
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
I don't know the numbers, but you and the parent are saying different things. The US could still be supplying 2/3s of Israel's weapons while only subsidising about 10% of that supply.
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
”For example, it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award. It also allows NSF to
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
The rule is still open for comment. FTA: The public comment period closes approximately July 13, 2026 (45 days from May 29 publication). Comments must be submitted to regulations.gov, Docket OMB-2026-0034.
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Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science(elizabethginexi.substack.com)
84 points by tacomonstrous 3mo ago|10 comments
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by tacomonstrous 3mo ago
This kind of comment might have been borderline reasonable before 2025 (though I would have found it laughable even then), but the evidence of the last 18 months shows that one side is in fact evil, corrupt and venal in entirely unprecede
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by tacomonstrous 5mo ago
FYI, Amazon Fresh is shutting down its physical stores.

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