Kim Reece @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz

@cwebber I guess another way to put it is: "Anything is a number if you're brave enough".

Reviewer 2 erklärt beim Frühstück Boolesche Algebra:
"Möchtest du Milch oder Wasser trinken"
"Ja!"

We launched a new group to promote the translation of the scientific literature https://variable-variability.blogspot.com/2021/05/launched-new-group-translations-scientific-literature.html

Why does a barely literature climatologist start an initiative to translate more scientific articles? 😎

I will repeat this toot, but for 2021.... we ain't over this pandemic yet. Even if you're lucky enough to live somewhere with readily available vaccinations, many others won't be, so don't put them at risk by incentivising travel to F2F conferences. https://scholar.social/@yoyehudi/104365437732146313

Being a physicist whose office e-mail address is out there in a departmental directory, I get plenty of crackpot e-mail. Today's was the first to rhapsodize over Hagoromo chalk, though. To paraphrase: Ha ha, not even the best chalk in the world can stop you from writing fallacies like i^2 = -1.

Archipelago #2
12"x9"
Metallic ink on black art paper

Available now at https://shop.andymakes.com/

Took a few tries to get the ink to distribute cleanly but I've very happy with how it came out.

Kontakt von mir ist auf Jobsuche:

Fachinformatiker AE, 2 Jahre Erfahrung in Frontend (Typenscript & React).

Will in die Softwareentwicklung, hat Lust auf z.B. Rust weil ihm die Sprache Spaß macht.

Voll remote gewünscht.

Habt ihr Hinweise oder eure Firma sucht?

I need a job. While I'm applying to PhD positions, I can't wait around for that.

Nothing makes the reality that I have to do this hit hard quite like paying out 10k of bills...

Recent M.Sc. in Mathematics (Number Theory). I can do mathematics, software engineering, etc. I write English passably, and can limp by in German.

Goettingen or remote... I'll move if I must but it'd be a heavy burden at this point. USA citizen in Germany, Czech citizenship in the works but not yet in the bag. This is 2021, surely remote is possible.

Temporary or freelance work also a possibility. ​

Cantor's diagonal argument for non-denumerability boils down to "Every function from the natural numbers to the reals fails to be surjective."

Is there an equally lovely but underappreciated argument that does "Every function from the real numbers to the natural numbers fails to be injective?" If not, why is that direction more difficult?

Please boost

Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?

Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany

Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA

Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.

Any missing?

Me: "look, our historians, at least the professional ones, are highly empirical"
Also me: "no, no, wait, just don't take 'university position' as equivalent to 'professional historian', half of the pros don't have positions. Some don't even have degrees. And in the actual universities we sometimes get people who think Sanskrit came from Ukraine. We're very sorry about this."

Bot-generated safety sign

Several years ago, I figured out that it is possible to make *cast* records, using a quick setting resin.

These cast records, when they work, sound just as good as the originals.

"When they work" is important, because they almost never work.

I know why they weren't working, and it's a whole combination of reasons, but 100% of those reasons will be addressed at the Maker Space.

It's not a perfect process, even now. It takes 20 minutes or more per disk, but it works.