No passion, all technique
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Just an absolutely sociopathic view of mathematics, the value of a human life, and our obligations to each other.
About mathematicians (and people in general) worried about their jobs: this is completely understandable. You used to do something that other people were willing to pay for, and you're not sure if in the future you will still be useful to others.
So... figure out how you can be useful to others! Nobody said it was easy. You're not "owed" a job by society, no matter how many years of training/experience you've invested.
Businesses know this very well; they can be operating for 100 years, and then people stop buying the stuff they make, and they go out of business. Constantly re-evaluate and pivot to making stuff people want!
In math terms: if your field "dries up" (this happens all the time, and it's important to recognize when it starts), move to another; there's always more math to be discovered! We are granted tenure not so that we can sit on our laurels, but so we can take really big risks that may not pan out for a long time (if ever).
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Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters
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BREAKING: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has DENIED the AG's motion to vacate Richard Glossip's conviction, along w/ the request to stay his May 18 execution date. "This Court has found no credible claims to prevent the carrying out of Glossip's sentence." Story to come.
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7/ Here’s one of the calls he references, in which UnitedHealthcare nurse Victoria Kavanaugh and insurance broker David Opperman laugh and express relief about Chris’ claim being denied:
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The Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that an officer who admitted to twisting a teenage girl’s arms to cause her pain did not violate the law in his actions. bit.ly/3xt6ZsF
Working at W&J has been a terrific experience, and thankfully I'll only be a few miles up the road from my great friends, colleagues and students there. Excited for what the future holds.
And don't worry, I tasked the student with reading Wiles' proof to make sure the irrationality of 2^(1/3) is never used there...
As soon as someone shows me how I’m gonna make an NFT of all NFTs that are not NFTs of themselves, and that’ll be all she wrote
It’s frankly unbelievable that Baby Driver would be into the Blues Explosion, but never once have heard Beck’s Debra. Took me right out of the film zero stars
My only issue with this is the f looks like it’s leaning away from the x when you put it on the right. f’s should act on the left, g’s on the right, and h’s should act from straight above like a claw machine
Fun activity for your kid. Name a nickname and ask what it’s short for. So far we have:
Ernie → Ernathan
Bill → Billand
Jim → Jarnold
(“wait I thought James was short for Jameswell”)
Al → Aland
Kip → Attakip
Dick → Dindicky (??)
Mo → Mowen
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BREAKING: Senate defense appropriations bill is out giving the Pentagon more than $10 billion than requested, $725.8 billion
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NEW: Striking John Deere workers are furious about the company’s contract offer which would give them only a $2-3 raise over 3 years.
Deere’s CEO made $15.6 million in 2020 — a 160% raise.
“John Deere made billions and threw us peanut shells...We’re supposed to scoop them up?”
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Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.
One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.
Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)
New on the arXiv: A pair of papers on the rep theory of the 'strange' Lie superalgebra 𝔭(n), with esteemed collaborators Nick Davidson and @jonkujawa. Very proud of this project, begun when I visited Nick & Jon in OK, nearly three full years ago:
In 'Webs of Type P' we introduce diagrammatic type P web supercategories, and show that these give a combinatorial model for the monoidal supercategory generated by the symmetric/exterior powers of the natural 𝔭(n)-module. Lots of pictures.
arxiv.org/abs/2109.03410
In 'Howe Duality of Type P' we establish classical and categorical Howe dualities between 𝔭(m) and 𝔭(n). We also give a generators-and-relations presentation for the universal enveloping superalgebra U(𝔭(m)).
arxiv.org/abs/2109.03984
