mathapprentice.bsky.social
Researcher in mathematics at the University of Padua. French. I study vibes
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Also failed the Hegel one 😞
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😨
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complementing with my favorite: tolkien replying on why didnt the fellowship just flew to mordor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Uz0LMbWpI
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The funny thing is that the rest of the movie is still pretty blunt and didactic but it gets away with it because it's also funny and engaging, and the worst thing about that speech is that it does feel like a recapitulation in a more didactic form of what the movie has already said very well.
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I also think the discourse doesn’t adequately account for the notion that the monoculture on BlueSky might be bad, but it not as bad on balance as the Nazis, pornbots, increasingly-weird algorithm, Elon-centrism and so on on Twitter.
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let's put the streams of consciousness/half-baked ideas/bitter criticisms on our own page
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Granting that we would be yelling into the void in any case, maybe we should even go back to blogging
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That makes sense. Yes I see how it can be an extension of the "I asked chat GPT to say the words, 'BOO!' and now I'm scared." genre of pieces.
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I see your point, but I still think that part is defensible as a one sentence description of his work. My issue with it is rather that, in the context of the article, it conjures the image of Oppenheimer moving to a german university to start a molecular structure lab, which is *not* accurate
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Even leaving aside the Manhattan project, Oppenheimer's professorship at Berkeley already refutes their point. When he started his own theory group, he was firmly back in the US. Still, it's not crazy to claim that German physics was ahead in that time period (1920s early 30s)
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It's actually quite accurate
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This list is almost entirely copied from some open science/reform playbook. Just curious how the originators of these science-as-a-monolith views currently feel about the MASAification (or is it MSGAification?) of their agenda.
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apologies, turns out I am susceptible to the Bluesky disease
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Freudian typo?
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With the bonus of being an entertaining novelist
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Joseph Campbell wanted every story to be about a journey, James George Fraser wanted every story to be about a sacrificial king, and Robert Graves wanted every story to be about a hot blonde dominatrix so he's the most fun one.
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I am old enough to remember a time when open access was not a way for publisher to extract a toll from the authors (or more accurately their institution, i.e. in many case taxpayer's money). I remain astonished (and disgusted) by their highjacking of the idea for profit
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Surely, it would have been a major campaign contribution if Harris had NOT paid them? (I probably should not try to apply logic here...)