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The mathletes threw up their hands when the machines entered the race and the brain pulp merchants, always on the hunt for the most profitable return, were quick to switch to the new and shiny altar of AI and now exult in spitting on the old in a show of their newfound devotion.
"Many kinds of men devote themselves to Science, and not all for the sake of Science herself. There are some who come into her temple because it offers them the opportunity to display their particular talents. To this class of men science is a kind of sport in the practice of which they exult, just as an athlete exults in the exercise of his muscular prowess. There is another class of men who come into the temple to make an offering of their brain pulp in the hope of securing a profitable return. These men are scientists only by the chance of some circumstance which offered itself when making a choice of career. If the attending circumstance had been different they might have become politicians or captains of business. Should an angel of God descend and drive from the Temple of Science all those who belong to the categories I have mentioned, I fear the temple would be nearly emptied. But a few worshipers would still remain—some from former times and some from ours. To these latter belongs our Planck. And that is why we love him." -Albert Einstein
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Massie: "There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"
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Stop writing papers!!!!!!!
If you're a grad student on the job market beg for talks from people wherever you know. Ask them to record the talk and put it up on your website. That's your CV.
The only way out of this is for the talented people to exit the rat race of publishing altogether. Let arXiv be saturated by sloppers.
If talented people choose Exit over Voice, then the whole journal system doesn't matter and if they publish cheap reproducible slop they'll collapse under their own weight.
Choose Exit!!!!!! Be the force behind a total collapse of academic status quo.
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This squids and sea turtles decoration of a rhombic dodecahedron, from my book “Designing and Building Tessellated Polyhedra” (B&W version also in my newer CRC Press Tessellations book), can be distorted to decorate the dual polyhedron, the cuboctahedron. mathartfun.com/TessBooks.htm…
1990s:
> US federal cuts to particle physics & cancellation of the superconducting super collider
> sending tons of particle physicists out of job into quant roles
> over-reliance on diffusion/heat equations; packaging toxic subprime mortgages as "AAA-rated" securities.
> crash
Okay, to be fair, isn't this all of physics? A field where you do like 3 postdocs and start faculty life at ~40—if you're lucky? My hot take has long been that physics funding is a covert subsidy to Wall Street: teach them all the skills, then frustrate them into becoming quants.
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Incredible how Persian served as the main language of admin, high culture, and diplomatic communication across three ethnically & culturally distinct and geopolitically rival empires: Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal.
شکرشکن شوند همه طوطیان هند
زین قند پارسی که به بنگاله میرود
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BTW my favorites are 5.1.2.2, 5.4.7.11, 5.5.3.4, 5.5.3.18, 5.5.7.8
because these are really the things cannot imagined before higher category theory (or should say HTT)
The crude anti-intellectualism of hordes of tasteless barbarians on this wasteland of a "social" media never able to fathom or appreciate that a modest Sunday tea room like this was a *club* where intellectual giants of the 20th century met, some even doctoral students.
Also, anything you do in a PhD, you can do in your own time. With platforms like substack, research, reading, reflection, and reaching out to audiences have become democratised and widely available. The PhD is about credentialism, membership of a club deemed prestigious, baubles.
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I love this energy. As the mountains of slop grows with acceleration, piles of horseshit claims grows too, and if we are not aggressively take on fraudsters I don't know if there is a flourishing future for us as societies.
I give you one example among many:
the whole field of higher category theory would not grow if people in the field could not drop one-liners like "yes, this is true because of theorem 6.1.2.4" to persuade others their constructions and proofs were correct.
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If you choose to provide feedback, the entire conversation associated with that feedback may be used to train our models."
Seems worth bearing in mind. The sentence comes from the beginning of the FAQ in this page. 2/2
help.openai.com/en/articles/…
> Incredibly long papers
> Minimal AI use
an oxymoron.
There should be a special place in hell for people who use it to communicate ideas, verbally or in written form. Do it to yourself, use it in private, but what happens between you and your AI agent should remain private.
Additionally, my strong intuition is that AI use is being under-declared. Too many incredibly long papers claim minimal AI use, eg "AI helped us prove Lemma 7." That doesn't add up when the number of submissions is several times the usual number.
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I feel vindicated.
Much has been said about how early career mathematicians should be transparent about their AI declaration. Here is the screenshot of the declaration from a recent paper by Fields medalist Charles Fefferman and Svitlana Mayboroda (arxiv.org/abs/2611.07694v1). For comparison, here is what the open source AI detector SnapJudge (nlplab.cs.duke.edu/snapjudge…) has to say about the amount of AI used in their paper, together with a section by section breakdown.
Decide for yourself if famous mathematicians and Fields medalists should deserve to be treated any different by the scientific community when it comes to fraudulent AI disclosure than early career mathematicians.
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By and large techbros being sissy princesses terrified of any and all regulation is a massive L for the economy. If data markets were properly regulated we would have gotten much less data-hungry forms of AI. More agreeable to the public + better for the economy.
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Both the NYT and WaPo long post mortems on how Trump/GOP got obliterated in the midterms note specifically that Ted Cruz urging Trump for more Iran war influenced Trump’s decision to abandon the exit ramp/MOU Vance had helped negotiate.
what the actual fuck!
he was speaking against the insanity of the impending third round of war just a few days ago.
BREAKING: US Senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke today. Multiple sources, including Politico, have corroborated this information.
This comes a mere four days after Senator Murphy exposed the Trump Administration's plan to extensively target Iranian civilian infrastructure in a potential return to war between the two sides.
Speaking to the Middle East Institute on October 28th, Senator Murphy stated:
"It will lead to devastating escalation, and the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law. There's been open reporting as to what we may be planning and the civilian infrastructure that we may be targeting."
"Some of us have been briefed on the war plan. And while I cannot disclose any details, I can say this: the plan is insane."
The timing of this stroke... Curious...
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The West’s abuse of the economic weapon has created a vast, underground world economy, with dark fleets, shadow banking, illicit money flows, front companies, and shadowy middle men.
One consequence of these developments is to vastly enlarge the space for illicit activity world wide. One is reminded here of the Prohibition and the big bang of corruption with the fx controls of the early License Raj.
It’s not just criminals and smugglers, shadow bankers and dark shippers. The opportunities for rebels and warlords have expanded dramatically—illicit arms flows have expanded in tandem. We’re seeing this especially in Horn and the Sahel.
I suppose it is fitting that the US is itself reduced to playing cat-and-mouse along the Oman route. Command of the sea, per Mahan, “is the possession of that overbearing power on the sea which drives the enemy’s flag from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive.” 😂
What this report makes clear is the bankruptcy of US sanctions policy. It has achieved so much at hurting average people with inflation and shortages but it has achieved nothing in changing government behavior or even denting its ability to fight a war. That is what should be alarming about this report. reuters.com/world/iran/irans…
