Had a lot of fun at #JMM2025, got to see a bunch of old friends and meet cool new people!
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The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever
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parents please check your kids' halloween candy. I just found this injection in a candy bar
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We have a new record!
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search verified that this massive number is indeed prime.
Which also means that a new perfect number has been discovered.
The last record held for an unusually long time—almost 6 years. We’ll see how long this stands.
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The joys of parenthood really can’t be overstated. Looking into your child’s eyes and knowing they’ve never chosen a basis for a vector space or asserted two objects are isomorphic without specifying an isomorphism—there’s just nothing like it.
This entire thread is everything wrong with academia. I hope to one day help in disassembling the systems that incentivise people to be like this.
Talk to whoever you think is interesting at any conference, it doesn't matter if they're a grad student at a "low-ranking" institute
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An academic is only as good as their supportive parents, asking uplifting questions like:
- What do you study again?
- What do you mean they don't pay you to publish?
- How will you keep busy over the summer holidays?
- Do you know how much more your sister makes?
New magic squares lore just dropped!
Daniel Flores: A circle method approach to K-multimagic squares arxiv.org/abs/2406.08161 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.08161
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Daniel Flores: A circle method approach to K-multimagic squares arxiv.org/abs/2406.08161 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.08161
I'm visiting family in Houston right now and I love how unpredictable the weather is. In the morning it's clear skies, then torrential rains for an hour around 12 pm, then back to sunny at 1 pm.
We're off celebrating my wife's birthday this weekend and we found a long empty hallway. I took this photo of my son and it sorta looks like it could be a movie poster for the shining 2.






















