Thomas Lin

@7homaslin.com

Super nerd here to spread the joy of learning. 📖 Publisher @quantabooks.org‬ at @simonsfoundation.org 📚 Author list: Terence Tao, David Tong, Kevin Hartnett ⚛️ Founding EIC @quantamagazine.bsky.social 💼 Prev @nytimes.com, CASW, CUNY J-School 🚴🏼🎾♟️

The “hydrogenobody” is "an organelle, new to science, that is essential to the biochemical process of rebuilding atoms into compounds that are heating the planet." Scientists are trying to target hydrogenobody-rich protozoans in cow guts to "curb the burp." www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-way-th...

A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere | Quanta Magazine

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.

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This glass frog has to be one of the coolest creatures I saw in Costa Rica last month. Its translucent skin is an amazing adaptation to camouflage it from predators. When you shine a light from below, you can see its internal organs!

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I've been documenting a pair of black-capped chickadees nesting in our garden as they fly back & forth every few minutes, hunting meals. An avg clutch of 6 to 8 chickadees requires 3,000 to 5,000 feedings over the ~16 days from hatching to fledging. Most popular foods: caterpillars, moths, spiders.

A collage of 16 photos of black-capped chickadees. Each photo depicts a closeup of a single chickadee with prey in their mouth, such as a caterpillar, adult moth, other winged insect, or spider. The chickadees are small songbirds with gray-white plumage and patches of black on their heads and throats.

“You need to learn math. You need to learn it in the kind of way it’s always been learned, and understand the concepts, and wrestle with them. If you ever want to be someone like Terry Tao who’s directing AI, you need to have that deep level of understanding.” www.quantabooks.org/kevin-hartne...

Kevin Hartnett on Mathematics in the Age of AI

Sometimes, a book perfectly meets its moment. Kevin Hartnett’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE was released on June 9, when everyone wanted to talk about math, computers, and AI.

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If you’re in the Philadelphia area on July 25, stop by the @quantabooks.org booth at the International Congress of Mathematicians at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Terry Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) will be signing bookplates from 11am to noon.

Six Math Essentials - Quanta Books

The “Mozart of mathematics” invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking...

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Thomas Lin@7homaslin.com · 3mo ago

Galleys for Terence Tao’s SIX MATH ESSENTIALS have arrived at our @quantabooks.org offices. We’re excited to share them with reviewers! The official publication date is Oct 27 and you can preorder the book here: www.quantabooks.org/books/six-ma...

From nationally recognized master math teacher Patrick Honner: "For teachers and learners of math, THE PROOF IN THE CODE isn’t just a compelling tale of recent theoretical advances. It’s part of the backstory of the next chapter of human mathematics." mrhonner.com/archives/21882

Book Review: The Proof in the Code

In just a few years artificial intelligence tools have progressed from solving formulaic math contest problems to generating novel proofs of long-standing open conjectures. The way math is done is …

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