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The Social Role of Mathematical Proofs
The Social Role of Mathematical Proofs
I think doing math professionally can be stifling as it can feel like you’re expected to know everything while staying collected. This blog is my outlet to do my best to grow as a mathematician while giving myself and others permission to be wrong, ignorant, and emotional about math!
·homeowmorphism.com·
The Social Role of Mathematical Proofs
Tai-Danae Bradley’s walkthrough of associahedra
Tai-Danae Bradley’s walkthrough of associahedra
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateinfi What happens when you multiply shapes? This is part 2 of our episode on multiplying things that aren't numbers. You can check out part 1: The Multiplication Multiverse right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4I2C3Ts7_w Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com And discuss the episode further over on reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/PBSInfiniteSeries/ Previous Episode The Multiplication Multiverse | Infinite Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4I2C3Ts7_w In our last episode, we talked about different properties of multiplication: associativity and commutativity are the most familiar, but they’re just two of many. We also saw it’s possible to multiply things that aren’t numbers, and in that case we may not have... associativity, for instance. But that’s not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a beautiful thing! References:: More on the associahedra: http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-associahedra http://www.claymath.org/library/academy/LectureNotes05/Lodaypaper.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0212126.pdf More on multiplying non-numbers: http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/11/24/multiplying-non-numbers An introduction to operads: http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/10/23/what-is-an-operad-part-1 http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/10/30/what-is-an-operad-part-2 Some applications in math and physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3245 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.2871&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://bookstore.ams.org/conm-227 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780817647346 Richard Stanley’s book on the Catalan Numbers: https://www.amazon.com/Catalan-Numbers-Richard-P-Stanley/dp/1107427746 Written and Hosted by Tai-Danae Bradley Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Meah Denee Barrington Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level! And thanks to Nicholas Rose and Mauricio Pacheco who are supporting us at the Lemma level!
·youtube.com·
Tai-Danae Bradley’s walkthrough of associahedra
The digestive system
The digestive system
the more I try to focus on what I genuinely love. The stuff that really nourishes and feeds me.
·austinkleon.com·
The digestive system
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
I say ‘feasibly’ because often the upper end of career ladders for Independent Contributors (ICs) could be paraphrased as “we’ll know it when we see it”, which can leave those who haven’t sufficiently proven “it” in a frustrating limbo. ​ I’ve worked very hard to become an engineer and I want to stay here. ​ Developing prototypes to further explore and support ideas that come from that research.
·keavy.com·
Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
hilariously, clumsily, grossly visible
hilariously, clumsily, grossly visible
The thing I try and tell myself every week: Just because people don’t want to hear it doesn’t mean it’s not true. And just because this work is relentless doesn’t mean it’s not worth it. ​ It’s difficult to explain that patriarchy means rule and control by men, power held by men, and the generalized idea that men are more valuable and important — and that that can be true even if some women have some power. All sorts of people, and not exclusively men, can be involved in its preservation; the vast majority of the time, they’re not aware they’re doing so. Institutions help sustain patriarchy, but so do individuals and traditions and clothing norms and religious beliefs and health insurance benefit plans and air conditioning standards.
·annehelen.substack.com·
hilariously, clumsily, grossly visible
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
So the assertion that technology companies can’t possibly be shaped or restrained with the public’s interest in mind is to argue that they are fundamentally different from any other industry. They’re not. ​ an echo of the very ethos that founded America: progress at all costs. ​ and it’s time to question what “progress” actually means.
·vox.com·
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
Up and to the Where?
Up and to the Where?
A beauty and order that language fails to describe but math, art and music do a better job of conveying. That against all odds, I - a collection of atoms consisting mostly of empty space - has the chance every single day to experience and explore this incredible universe. ​ And that the only logical thing in the face of all these realizations is to enjoy, celebrate, and try my best to preserve that beauty.
·jborichevskiy.com·
Up and to the Where?
Above & Beyond: Group Therapy 350 Deep Warm Up Set, Prague
Above & Beyond: Group Therapy 350 Deep Warm Up Set, Prague
Listen on streaming: https://Anjunabeats.lnk.to/ABGT350ABDeep Stream us on Spotify: https://Anjunabeats.lnk.to/AboveBeyondSpotifyYo Subscribe to our channel for more ABGT350 set replays: https://lnk.to/YTA_B Follow A&B on Spotify for full set replays: https://anjunabeats.lnk.to/AboveBeyon... Live dates: http://po.st/ablive Subscribe to our channel: https://lnk.to/YTA_B Above & Beyond present Group Therapy 350 live from Prague. Our deep warm up set, recorded on Thursday, October 10 2019 with Anjuna HQ and the #ABGT350 crew. With thanks to Nomobo and the whole team at United Music Events. Tracklist: [00:00] 1. Above & Beyond ‘Group Therapy Intro’ [00:48] 2. Andrew Bayer feat. Alison May ‘Immortal Lover’ [Qrion Remix] [05:46] 3. Above & Beyond 'Homecoming' [Enamour Remix] [10:38] 4. Eli & Fur 'Into The Night' [16:16] 5. Above & Beyond and Seven Lions feat. Opposite The Other ‘See The End’ [Avoure Remix] [20:28] 6. Marsh ‘Eu Phoria’ [24:39] 7. Nox Vahn ‘Brainwasher’ [29:22] 8. Ben Böhmer & Monolink ‘Black Hole’ [34:31] 9. Joseph Ray ‘Room 1.5’ [41:12] 10. The Midnight ‘Kids’ [PROFF Remix] [45:45] 11. The Dualz ‘Your Eyes’ [50:53] 12. Yotto ‘Hyperlude’ [Dosem Remix] [54:45] 13. Tinlicker ‘The Walk’ Above & Beyond: ABGT300 Deep Warm Up, Hong Kong - https://youtu.be/O9F_drLehU0 Above & Beyond: ABGT250 Deep Warm Up, The Gorge - https://youtu.be/rkqnuI1SxBs Above & Beyond: ABGT450 Deep Warm Up, London - https://youtu.be/IrzO9GqS8BY Watch ABGT400 London: https://youtu.be/Tk38QvbUHBw Watch ABGT350 Prague: https://youtu.be/XlndmZ-4mc8 Watch ABGT300 Hong Kong: https://youtu.be/Oi0sVRZ_49c Watch ABGT250 at The Gorge: https://youtu.be/CMXiCR2gQw0 Watch ABGT200 Amsterdam : https://youtu.be/cS6Hi2Avoww Watch ABGT150 Sydney: https://youtu.be/DDQWoe8AoUs Watch ABGT100 New York City: https://youtu.be/10utJGbQQLs Live Dates: http://po.st/ablive Website: http://po.st/wbab Facebook: http://po.st/fbab Twitter: http://po.st/twab Soundcloud: http://po.st/absc Instagram: http://po.st/abins iTunes: http://po.st/abitunes Google+: http://po.st/abgopl #ABGT350 #Anjunadeep #AboveandBeyond
·youtube.com·
Above & Beyond: Group Therapy 350 Deep Warm Up Set, Prague
My first year as a professor
My first year as a professor
of work I poured into our course blog. Every student contributed two posts to the blog, and I gave multiple rounds of detailed feedback on all twelve posts, learning a lot from the students in the process. ​ and especially not Jekyll, since having a working Ruby environment is the hardest problem in computer science
·composition.al·
My first year as a professor
Creativity and fear
Creativity and fear
Imagine the pressure of having to top each successful thing you do. This thinking assumes that you must be constantly on top, not only against your peers but also against your past self. Even worse, this thinking assumes that if you cannot win then you must stop playing. But what about the joy of learning, the quiet glory of just making things and sharing them without expectation? No, when your time is up you’re free to go. At the end of the day, the only thing perfect is a blank page, I think there is something inside me and I want to find it.
·generalabstractnonsense.com·
Creativity and fear
A Final Griefbacon Announcement
A Final Griefbacon Announcement
There are lots of reasons, but a main one is that no project goes on endlessly, or should. It can’t be leg day forever. It’s been such an absolute joy to stay up late at night at the sleepover and tell secrets with you.
·griefbacon.substack.com·
A Final Griefbacon Announcement
Abandoning a Cat
Abandoning a Cat
And the cat went back to being our pet. ​ and cats and books were my best friends when I was growing up. ​ These questions—along with that of how the cat beat us home—are still unanswered. Another memory of my father is this: ​ I should explain a little about my father’s background. ​ Things he never could have written in his letters, or they wouldn’t have made it past the censors, he put into the form of haiku—expressing himself in a symbolic code, as it were—where he was able to honestly bare his true feelings. ​ Yet he must have felt a compelling need to relate the story to his son, his own flesh and blood, even if this meant that it would remain an open wound for both of us. ​ is breathe the air of the period we live in, ​ I understand all the more now why he closed his eyes and devoutly recited the sutras every morning of his life. ​ Still, that solitary raindrop has its own emotions, its own history, its own duty to carry on that history. Even if it loses its individual integrity and is absorbed into a collective something. Or maybe precisely because it’s absorbed into a larger, collective entity.
·newyorker.com·
Abandoning a Cat
Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats
Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats
It’s not a political movement. It’s not even some coordinated, nicely branded “techlash.” It’s just regular people, watching inaction and outcomes, who are fed up. ​ I know Zuck’s persona of nerdy programmer has long disappeared, but the level of NFL Wide Receiver cockiness is still jarring to hear. but the anger is not the problem to solve, it’s the lung cancer.
·themargins.substack.com·
Mark Zuckerberg and Existential Threats