Cobra chickens...

No Gemini, I am not looking for an explanation in fr*nch, even though 4 out of the 5 words in my query consist of borrowed terminology

The undergrad project I'm co-supervising this term just ended. Beyond being proud of what my mentees have achieved, witnessing the full process of how the ideas developed and watching their research skills grow in real-time is something I'll forever cherish. 1/2

from a paper I've been reading lately #MathSky

Spotted in a classroom today

Haven't posted here in a while... Anyways, here's some Canada geese

Random blasphemous idea: every finite graph is chordal by the fundamental theorem of algebra if we allowed perfect elimination orderings to have complex-valued neighbor counts (whatever that means) and defined chordality through linear factorability of the chromatic polynomial.

Just signed the #LeidenDeclaration. #MathSky #AcademicSky

Funny how people complain that the new arXiv policy is too harsh. If anything, it's still way too lenient. Getting caught with AI slop should result in a permanent, publicly viewable (in the form of a hall of shame) ban and retroactive redaction of all previous arXiv submissions. #AcademicSky (1/4)

Good to see arXiv addressing type 2 errors by going after AI slop, but type 1 errors need addressing too. Lots of legitimate papers get rejected for no reason.

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

Good to see arXiv addressing type 2 errors by going after AI slop, but type 1 errors need addressing too. Lots of legitimate papers get rejected for no reason.

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

I did the meme! (well, the first part for now)

TotientQuotient@totientquotient.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Arrived at my new home :D

I did the meme! (well, the first part for now)

TotientQuotient@totientquotient.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Arrived at my new home :D

Arrived at my new home :D

Visited a rival school

Love this place so far 🇨🇦

I will never shut up about the absurdity of the tripos grading system.

Just realized the date of this post. These are my genuine thoughts - it wasn't meant to be April Fools. I might still hop on every now and then but I'll be a lot more active on the other site.

TotientQuotient@totientquotient.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Honestly I feel like quitting this platform. The math community just isn't really big here and it Increasingly feels like I'm just talking to the void. I'm still active on tw*tter, and I might give mastodon another try too

Honestly I feel like quitting this platform. The math community just isn't really big here and it Increasingly feels like I'm just talking to the void. I'm still active on tw*tter, and I might give mastodon another try too

Saw this excellent thread on Twitter (x.com/skominers/st...) about the issues surrounding zero-sum grading and thought I should share my thoughts and experiences once again. #AcademicSky (1/10) 🧵

Now that I've finally sorted everything (visa, housing etc) it's time for the grand reveal. I will be starting my Master of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo! Henceforth commences my long-awaited academic redemption... #MathSky #AcademicSky

For those who don't know me and what I've been through, I cannot overstate my gratitude towards Waterloo. While other grad schools refused to look past my grades, Waterloo showed sympathy towards my struggles with the Cambridge Tripos and offered me a chance to prove my worth.

Now that I've finally sorted everything (visa, housing etc) it's time for the grand reveal. I will be starting my Master of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo! Henceforth commences my long-awaited academic redemption... #MathSky #AcademicSky

Institution email activated ✅ Now I can finally use overleaf premium and access paywalled journals again!

Should I pay for Claude? I found the free version quite decent at doing literature reviews. Now that I'll be doing a lot more research soon, $20/month doesn't seem that bad of an investment if it's going to help a lot.

Hey babe, are you the type of conjugate-partition symmetry exhibited by Macdonald polynomials? Cuz damn, you're a (q,t)! #MathSky

Howie Hua@howiehua.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Since Valentine's Day is coming up... Flirt, but make it mathematical. I'll go first: If I am cos²x, you are sin²x, because together we're 1.

CNY is such a fake and performative "festival", can't wait for it to be over. What's the point of giving out red packets if you don't even get to keep the cash lol

#MathSky #AcademicSky Oh well, bad news again. 2nd arXiv paper got a journal rejection too. This one hurts much more than my 1st rejection since it's a much better paper. Coauthor told me she's published worse papers in comparable journals. I'm worried that my paranoia is becoming justified. 1/4

New banger I've been reading lately #MathSky

New banger I've been reading lately #MathSky