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@Breakfastisready Nice work!

<< If you read math papers it pays to keep this in mind:

Most mathematicians are not writing for people. They're writing for God the Mathematician. And they're hoping God will give them a pat on the back and say "yes, that's exactly how I think about it". >>

--- John Baez

https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1249055680033460225

This place isn't anything like twitter or facebook or instagram, its so much more fucking valuable than corporate, monetized social networks can ever possibly be.

I don't care if the fediverse disappears tomorrow, it already has done way more good in my life than a lifetime of corporate social networks could.

Happy day, new saree, makeup after ages. Feeling cute, won't delete. #IWear

R.I.P. Margaret Burbidge, who has passed away at 100. She was at the forefront of our understanding of at least two fields in astrophysics and cosmology. https://andrewjaffe.net/blog/2010/03/margaret-burbid.html

Interesting Quanta article explaining the "universal covering problem", aka finding the smallest convex region that can cover an entire set of shapes; even restricting to shapes of "diameter 1" still leaves a tough unsolved problem in #mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-simple-math-can-cover-even-the-most-complex-holes-20200108/

Nathuram Godse was India's first Hindutva terrorist.

RT, if you agree.

#गोडसे_मुर्दाबाद

Over on that other microblogging platform, John Baez points out how easy it is for mathematical physics crackpottery to get published in a prestigious-sounding pay-to-publish journal from an actually-prestigious publisher, Nature Scientific Reports: https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1208768265830354945

In the ensuing discussion, Flavio Nogueira reports that editors rejected papers only to see them published anyway: https://twitter.com/F_S_Nogueira/status/1208787145911152640

Should we start treating Nature as a predatory publisher?

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