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Elliot Lipnowski
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Please join us on 20/Nov to hear Marina Halac (Yale) present "Agreeing to Implement", a joint work with Elliot Lipnowski and Doron Ravid. Panellists: Matteo Camboni and Sam Kapon. @elliotlip.bsky.social @doronravid.bsky.social @samkapon.bsky.social
#mathsky notation question. We feel totally comfortable with a decoration being a function (e.g., for a number x, let \bar{x}:=x^2). But what about a case/font/format change as a function (e.g., for a number x, let \mathbf{x} denote the constant function on [0,1] taking value x)?
Jimmy Kimmel has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
Sex is great but have you tried replacing annoying quantitative bookkeeping arguments in a proof with qualitative arguments to get the same result??
Spotify account gives a budget of audiobook hours before needing to pay for more hours, but if you listen to a 10-hour book at double-speed (so 5 listening hours), it counts as 10 hours of your budget. So they price r-speed listening at exactly r times that of unit-speed listening.
Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.
Seeking #mathsky book recs. I want a good textbook on basics of partial orders, lattices, and interactions of the same with basic topological notions like compactness. Does anybody have any book they like?
Fun, imprecise #mathsky question: Give a "nice" characterization of which subsets X of [0,1] are complete lattices. [Note, this is harder than the question of which X are complete *sub*lattices, and is much harder than the question of which X are lattices.]
Does anybody else here ever look for the ebook version because the hard copy is in another room?
A tiny #mathsky note on conditional expectations. I'd previously seen two standard existence results of different strengths: a) For square-integrable RVs (L2) via a super easy Hilbert space argument. b) For integral RVs (L1, a bigger class) via Radon-Nikodym—harder! But (a) can actually prove (b)!
Everywhere I go, children gleefully throw things at me
Seeing how my kids fare in racing other kids at the playground is a VERY clear paternity test
During grad school, saw Bob Balaban three times in NYC, in three different neighborhoods. Once in a cafe, once on a bus, once on a subway.
Blunderbolt@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
LaTeX for gmail is no longer supported!!! 😭 Does anybody have any easy solutions to help me quickly write math in emails? #mathsky
Wanted: a program that will read me a mathematical paper in audio. Obviously best if it’s smart about (e.g.) when the symbol “X” should be pronounced “ex” and when it should be pronounced “big ex”. Has anyone in our brave new LLM world made this?
When you ask a computer scientist to tell you their model
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Q: Does the White House have a reaction to the election in South Korea? LEAVITT: Yes, we do. Let me find it for you. Thank you. Um. We do not.
Does anybody else sometimes try to reprove math results they've "known" for years just to feel something?
Fun, easy-but-a-bit-surprising #mathsky fact: there's no way to describe the complex-to-complex exponentiation function in terms of {0,1,+,x,<, and, or, not, exists} and the real-to-real exponential function.
Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump running a multi-billion dollar crypto scam from the White House, both men tested the limits of presidential propriety.
The average American has three friends
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · last yr.The average American has three friends.
Weird phenomenon when working in applied mathematical fields: just learning that an object has a NAME is already a nontrivial advance. The reason is that various objects happen to show up in our one-off papers, but then having a name can mean some math nerds have developed a general theory of it.