Science in the US will break if we don’t stop this. Trump is trying to shift scientific funding from being decided by peer review to being decide by political appointees. Today, July 13 @ 8:59pm PDT is the deadline to submit a comment to the OMB opposing this change: www.aps.org/initiatives/...

Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance

Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat. Submit your comments by July 13,...

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Explain your @ I like math and my last name is Power. Λᵏ(V), the kth “exterior power” of a vector space V, is the set of k-dimensional oriented volumes in V. So an element of Λ²(ℝ²) is sort of like a parallelogram but the order of sides matters. This is used for calculus & geometry in curved spaces

Al Merose@al.merose.com · 2mo ago

Explain your @ I was born Alexander Sky Rosengarten, and went by “Alex”. My wife, when we were dating, started calling me “Al” and it stuck. When we got married, we combined last names (hers was “Merz”). In another universe, my @ would be al.merzengarten.

The creator of the Signal messaging app has a new privacy focused AI chat bot called Confer: confer.to . I've read their blog post on how they're doing private inference and it's really impressive and cool. It should prevent them (or anyone other than you) from being able to read your chat log.