Writing eulogies for both my parents made me reflect on just how much they'd done for me. Coordinating eulogies written by others brought it home that even as adult children, your parents are always 'mum and dad', and that there is another side to them seen much more clearly by their friends.
I wonder how much of a country's success (measured in terms of social welfare) comes down to how much thinking (of particular sorts) is valued in that country
I'm sure that every time they barged into someone's home they took careful records, recorded the IDs of the agents involved, and logged the incident
a special kind of hell to be in physics then find your inner bourbakiist?
introverts who forget they are in a group are all set
Who's the force for good? What do they do?
A good initiative, but with e.g. meta making 16 billion a year out of ads it knows are scams, I'm not holding my breath waiting for some letters from Norway to make a difference. Would prefer concretely actionable solutions
Since when did tenure protect against department closure or redundancy on the grounds of financial emergency?
What do you think of categorical probability? Does it count as applied category theory? Too niche?
i can haz dandelion soup an live well?
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor and Dedekind created for us"
The title of this Quanta article is perhaps a bit harsh, but still, its content is rather shocking
www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...
seems like some people only watched the first episode of the borg
Awodey Ch 7 uses that Cat has small coproducts to show it has all limits
What does conservapedia make of the Manhattan project? One of those paradoxical instances where two negatives, "liberal claptrap" and "Jewish science" made a positive?
philosopher here, noting n≠1
So that’s why, according to Krugman, we’ve only seen such investments recently, as a result of the huge increase in wealth in the top gazzillionth. Of course, lining his pockets and furthering right wing extremism is probably a win-win for Musk
Nice format and content! There was a recent Krugman post that explained how buying X (or similar) makes financial sense, even if X loses a ton of money. The twist is that it only makes sense if you are colossally wealthy to start. Otherwise the return on influencing policy isn’t enough.
According to nLab, Eilenberg & Mac Lane 1945, `General theory of natural equivalences', introducing categories, functors and natural transformations, was at first rejected on the grounds of having "no content"
#Reviewer2
ncatlab.org/nlab/show/ca...
a bit of a low bar tbh, not being Buckingham Palace material
Grad students in all disciplines read there
Not on top of the full breadth of his work, but *Reasoning about Uncertainty* is such a gift to so many disciplines
Not sure I put my question very well. This is the kind of notion of representation I had in mind. Do your views cover it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Represe...
I'm told there's evidence that people think their wage increases are deserved, while price increases are undeserved. So even if people accept that they better off with respect to the wage-increase-minus-price-increase perspective, they may well be resentful, Biden-blaming etc..
In paper n+1 we extend paper n via that lemma in paper 0 that we'll double check a bit later
I'm not necessarily a fan of this early specialization though, just the way it was.
Depends on the education system. In the UK in my time there was faster specialization than in other countries. If you liked math the last two years of high school were pure math, applied math + one other. Survey was the text for the last year of pure, we covered about half of it. Loved it.
In high school we had Survey of Modern Algebra as the pure textbook, and applied covered e.g. line, surface, volume & vector integrals. Hadn't properly met epsilon, but I think this would have been enough to have got a lot out of MacLane. Learning by osmosis is underestimated
Took me a long time to realize that much of mathematical activity is about the development of the right concepts and terminology. Tell students we need to develop languages so we can understand cool stuff like shapes, numbers and spaces, give them Mac Lane Mathematics Form and Function to discuss.
"most illustrative endeavor"?
