ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙
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Numbers and shapes at Reed College. Mathematician, parent, spouse, runner, 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 enthusiast. He or they.
I was part of a group that met last week to try to propose recommended changes to the structure of math PhD programs in an age of AI. Our report, together with a collection of related resources, is now available here: cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/aimathphd_su...
Summit on PhD Math Education in the Age of AI - CMSA
On September 17–18, 2026 a group of 24 mathematicians met at Harvard to grapple with the changing landscape for mathematics PhD programs in the age of AI. We produced recommendations given […]
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Read this during undergrad and can still quote it from memory lol
If we’re in the Singularity, how come I can’t get the office printer to work reliably? Checkmate, clankers.
Just discovered Nick Wheeler's handwritten lecture notes in Reed's digital archives. Who wants to learn special relativity? rdc.reed.edu/record/22856...
Kiddo’s 4th grade class started typing practice. He reports a current rate of two words per minute.
In case you missed it, I just introduced a bill to help protect our wildland firefighters. Watch for the 60-second rundown.
Petition to cancel Thanksgiving and replace it with a holiday on November 23 called Pingala-Fibonacci Day on which everyone gathers at 5:08 and each guest's plate is required to hold the sum of the previous two guests' plates.
My most mystical belief is that knowledge is neither a tower nor a raft, but rather an ever-evolving fractal foam that might be dense in some regions but is never complete.
Haversine? But she hasn't even read the Terms & Conditions yet!
A slide from a 2012 talk I gave on quant reasoning and writing, my sneaky way of teaching mixed company what a commutative diagram is Also that plenty of folks travel the "informal reasoning" solution path in their everyday lives who say they're "bad at math" bc they don't take the long way round
Today's math talk with kiddo was incredibly gratifying: ﹡If a computer counts to one billion in one second and has been counting since the start of the universe, then it would currently be at about 4.4e26. 1/2
Oliver decided to join in my spouse’s active meditation this morning.[Audio on.]
Well, just recommended a yearlong ban for someone due to a math.KT AI slop submission. Don't do that, kids.
Peter Scholze in the Princeton AT seminar (online) just now: "This makes me strongly believe that the continuum hypothesis is false." (In reference to recent work suggesting that reflexivity of condensed vector spaces is (a) independent of ZFC and (b) false if 2^ℵ₀ = ℵₙ for some n<∞.)
NYU Courant professor Tristan Buckmaster, of Navier-Stokes drama fame, gave a talk at the new NYU Mathematics in the Age of AI seminar series. It was... popular.
The algebra of Boole was not Boolean algebra! It was the algebra of signed multisets (instead of the algebra of sets). 🙃 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Boole’s Algebra Isn’t Boolean Algebra
To Boole and his mid-nineteenth century contemporaries, the title of this article would have been very puzzling. For Boole’s first work in logic, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, appeared in ...
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arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
A Reed student needs to write a thesis on why we call this the Canyon.
These groups were made for acting, and they’ll act all over you.
These ads for alternative early childhood education in Portland are getting weird.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 5d agoMother Mushroom and her children (circa 1900) by Polish artist, Edward Okuń
Check 1001 from "Society of Young Women Scientist [sic] and Engineers LLC" for $150k to a Susan Collins super PAC is a helluva way to bribe a Senator, especially when paired with gleeful emails to the head of the super PAC describing the scheme.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
