Math prof at a non-R1 uni. I blame no one but myself for my smothering mediocrity.
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Prof. Goat retweeted
Fields medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin was deeply shaken by OpenAI’s release of more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts, including work on 16 questions directly relevant to his research.
“On Tuesday night, I cried, and it woke up my daughter”
“They have annihilated my field of research.”
lemonde.fr/sciences/article/…
Prof. Goat retweeted
Universities say they’re so concerned about wealth inequality.
Apparently the solution is to pay the president over 1 million a year, give an army of administrators high six-figure salaries, and leave teenagers with the debt.
Prof. Goat retweeted
I understand that you can’t make my meeting with the Provost, but that’s okay; you weren’t invited.
Prof. Goat retweeted
Remember all those things the dean promised you? The provost said no. To everything.
Prof. Goat retweeted
Quasi-RH?!?!???! Are you kidding me? If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.
RH says zeta has no zeros in Re(s)>1/2. The best we had until a second ago was a region that got thinner and thinner the higher up the imaginary axis you go. I thought maybe they’d fatten that up a bit, that’d be a massive breakthrough. But no. They got a zero free strip!!!! Insane
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.
github.com/openai/math
Yep. Economic judgements during a divorce are not about moral fairness. It is part of the pain.
Wife: “He’s refusing to pay spousal support.”
Husband: “After she left the marriage for another man?”
Judge: “I understand why you’re upset. But we’re here to determine financial support, not decide who was the better spouse.”
Husband: “She earns $68,000 a year. I earn about $240,000. But she also walked away with half the savings and the house.”
Judge: “Is that accurate?”
Wife: “We haven’t sold the house yet.”
Judge: “Do you have access to other assets?”
Wife: “Yes, but most of my share is tied up in the house.”
Judge: “How long were you married?”
Prof. Goat retweeted
Don’t worry about the people crawling out of the manholes on campus, those are our adjuncts!
Lol..there may be a department chair who up and quits!
Prof. Goat retweeted
The development office doesn’t need student callers for the capital campaign anymore. They cut the caller budget 90% by hiring state inmate labor at $2/hour.
I did not know that you can handwrite quiz questions on scratch paper and ChatGPT can turn it into a multiple choice quiz, with either Word or Latex output. 🤯 You should instruct it to shuffle answers though.
Prof. Goat retweeted
This is not surprising. When I taught Algebra II, the students couldn’t tell me the factors of 12.
UC-Berkeley math prof says she has to teach fractions to calculus students because standards have fallen so far trib.al/Uw6bIxo
Prof. Goat retweeted
The only people who bring up the Faculty Senate are the Faculty Senate. But everyone brings up the Dean. Clearly faculty know where the power resides.