Associate Professor (Clemson) | AIMS Lecturer (South Africa) | Author: "Visual Algebra" (forthcoming) | YouTuber | First Gen | Homesteader | Dad to Ida & Felix
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Matt Macauley retweeted
Looks like math majors still make a ton of money, without graduate degrees. Four years out and Duke grads take the prize at almost 300k/year (17 students). The median is also really healthy, with a lot of clustering around 70-80k
Matt Macauley retweeted
Mathematics has now fully morphed into biology:
Project costs millions $ ✅
Put out paper that nobody has read ✅
Massive paper supplement nobody will read ✅
Advertise with pretty art ✅
Vicious authorship fight ✅
Say you're curing cancer ✅
Matt Macauley retweeted
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Matt Macauley retweeted
hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
Matt Macauley retweeted
After reading Matt Shumer’s “Something Big is Coming” yesterday, which has hit 55M views, I started searching high and low for any and all counter arguments.
Not because I believed he wasn’t being honest. Or revealing valid a tectonic shift coming.
But because there is always two sides (minimum) to every story. Not sometimes. All times.
Forming opinions based on one side is how you get lobotomies becoming accepted psychiatric practice for twenty years.
So, is there any other viewpoint other than the end of the world as we know it where we’re all noodling at the local lake for our dinner?
Perhaps.
And, if so, this is the best I’ve seen.
Take a deep breath. And read it. You’ll take a deep breath after reading it, too.
Matt Macauley retweeted
Doctor: “do you have any pre-existing heart conditions?”
Me: “yes, the Mariners are currently in the playoffs.”
Matt Macauley retweeted
SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN, A YOUNG DAVE NIEHAUS IS SMILING 🥹
THE @MARINERS ARE ONE GAME AWAY FROM THE WORLD SERIES!
I DON'T BELIEVE IT!
MY, OH MY!
🔱 #MLBPlayoffs
Matt Macauley retweeted
Jorge Polanco with the 15th walk-off hit in a winner-take-all game in postseason history
17th walk-off win in a winner-take-all game overall
INCREDIBLY … the only other ALDS winner-take-all walk-off win?
Edgar’s double
BASEBALL!!!
Matt Macauley retweeted
Even if you don't care one bit about scientific research, it's important to recognise the value of publicly funding people working on very hard problems and training bright young minds on how to solve them.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that so many successful entrepreneurs have a science background? The US didn’t become a global leader in technology and innovation by accident. It got there through decades of public investment in science, building research groups where young people could throw themselves at the toughest questions we face.
Today, 49% of US unicorn CEOs hold STEM degrees, and 70% of founding teams include at least one person with a STEM background. That pipeline of innovation was forged in universities and national labs, not in boardrooms
And when research is sustainably funded, the best international students come to US universities, and stay to build their companies (Elon Musk is one of them). Over 50% of international students in the U.S. are in STEM fields. Do you think this will continue if their research funding collapses by >70% and they can be kicked out at any time because the current government picks a fight with their University?
In the 21st century, attracting smart young people is the most valuable resource any nation can have today. In the future it will become even more critical. Scientific research is one of the strongest magnets for talent. You can ignore it, but the US is dismantling one of its most powerful engines of innovation
Matt Macauley retweeted
If you want to deepen your understanding of linear algebra and study modules (the generalization of a vector space), what many algebraists consider as the most important of all algebraic structures, I would invest some time in Blyth's pdf text on module theory.
Link in comments
Matt Macauley retweeted
Commutative algebra, is one of the most important subject in all of mathematics, it connects to many of the most important subject in algebra, such as Galois theory, algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry ect.
Thankfully, James Milne's got a great primer, link in comments.
Matt Macauley retweeted
🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
Matt Macauley retweeted
Very nice piece on "Duck syndrome" at @DynamicEcology. Worth reading for all those imposters like me! 😉
dynamicecology.wordpress.com…
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Great post by my undergrad research student Pramana Saldin about training a neural net to navigate a Cayley graph! pr4-kp.github.io/posts/machi…
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🌟Studying or teaching Complex Analysis?
complex-analysis.com/
is back with a new design, in celebration of its 5th anniversary 😃🎉
Share the ❤️love of mathematics with your friends/colleagues.
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