Quote by Alan Turing, featured in Terence Tao’s monograph Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis

Happy New Year! Some MATH for 2025: 1. 2025 itself is a PERFECT square: 45² = 2025 2. It is a product of two squares, namely: 9² × 5² = 2025 3. It is the sum of THREE squares, namely: 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 4. The last perfect square? 1936 44² = Year 1936 5. It is the sum of

This is true, and perhaps easier to think about using music. A finite musical “alphabet” e.g. twelve tones, which generates compositions of finite length, may produce infinitely many compositions. Pretty cool eh?

What's the difference between applied and pure math, and how does it affect math learning? Here's what @DrPamB has to say @the_rcm @FieldsInstitute #mathiseverywhere #mathchat @mashupmath @MathletePearce @OAMElearns

ceo any% 55:32 — new record???

As a rider for the past 10 years, one who's received zero complaints, and someone with a +4.9 rating, I'm extraordinarily disappointed with the lack of customer support. No reason given. Now no responses to my emails. Shame on you @Uber. Please fix your shit.

Only thing I can remotely fathom which may have triggered this is an email I received noting there was something wrong with the credit card I used for Uber One. Since none of my cards are at limit or expired, I can only assume the issue is on their end.

Of course, you'd think that I could just ask @Uber what's up, and that they would let me know. Well, logic doesn't always prevail. After appealing my ban, I was told that I broke their "terms & conditions." Which terms and conditions? They won't say.

If anyone is wondering what I did to deserve getting banned, the answer is nothing. Absolutely nothing. I didn't use @Uber in 1.5 months, so I have no idea what I did to deserve getting banned.

Fortunately, as a large male bodied individual, I didn't feel unsafe at 2am in downtown Saskatoon. But not getting advance notice of being banned from this platform did result in a completely avoidable health and safety risk.

The next time I tried to use Uber was in the wee morning hours of July 30th, trying to get home from my brother's wedding in downtown Saskatoon #YXE. I tried to log into the @Uber app only to be made aware that my account was deactivated. No warning email. No advance notice.

I'm extremely shocked and disappointed to find out that I've been banned from using @Uber without notice or reason. I haven't used Uber since June 8th, which was a short, uneventful trip to work in Philadelphia.

Libraries were once magnificent temples of learning - these are the 20 most beautiful examples on Earth 🧵 1. Admont Abbey Library, Admont, Austria 🇦🇹

The new version of Midjourney that released yesterday shows how far AI has come in making commerical-level images from text alone Here is what you get for "modern outfits inspired by Van Gogh/ Basquiat/ Monet/ Rothko, fashion photoshoot" Each one is the first try, no revisions.

The red tentacles of God. One of the most interesting non-anthropomorphic depictions of the deity, in an illustration of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) receiving a vision from God and sketching on a wax tablet. Are there many more non-anthropomorphic depictions of God?

I've created academia! "GPT-4, follow these steps: 1. Write a paragraph about how the theory of the firm relates to AI 2. Write a paragraph criticizing the paragraph in the previous step 3. Write a paragraph criticizing the paragraph in the previous step. Do this ten more times"

@ianpacemain Yes, let's throw away educating students about hundreds of enormously varied years of music from the troubadours of the middle ages to contemporary composers all over the world to teach about a few decades of Anglo-American pop music -- for diversity, of course!

The decimation of classical music in education is frequently presented as if it constitutes a move towards more ‘progressive’ and ‘diverse’ alternatives. The reality is a total subservience towards capital and commerce, more befitting of the politics of neo-liberalism.

There are two separate issues that require investigation. It is important to keep them straight. One is general and about policy: what China and other foreign actors have been trying to do to our elections, and whether our defences are adequate….