Michael Tait Profile
Michael Tait

@magicT8ball

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Baseball, books, math, fitness!

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Michael Tait
2 months
“I was in the period of my greatest success, I was publishing two books a year, and selling well. Reading and writing had become a career, and, like all careers, it began to burden me”
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Michael Tait
10 months
mon: tried to prove theorem tu: tried to prove theorem wed: tried to prove theorem th: tried to prove theorem fri: theorem false
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Michael Tait
11 months
two pieces of miscellaneous info: in december the president of the ncaa testified to congress that there are under 10 transgender athletes in the ncaa; the department of education enforces title ix
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Michael Tait
1 year
2024 reading: the year of @JoyceCarolOates
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Michael Tait
1 year
“there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them”
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Michael Tait
1 year
did the swarthmore crew paint the newly resurfaced paris track 🤔🤔
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Michael Tait
1 year
“His youth was like a Fourth of July rocket — consuming itself in its display” - @JoyceCarolOates
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Michael Tait
2 years
bednarek hates lyles lolol
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AIM
2 years
This week at AIM: "High-dimensional phenomena in discrete analysis"
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Michael Tait
2 years
kate grace is an inspiration for a mid 30s parent #lagrandprix
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Michael Tait
2 years
prediction (c 2030): quincy wilson becomes the first human to run 400 meters in under 43 seconds
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ILAS
2 years
We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra. ELA fits the category of "Diamond Open Access" since it is free of charge both for authors and readers. https://t.co/6SfuDmTYJf
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Michael Tait
2 years
ncaas: drawing lane 3 for a 200 prelim is extremely unfair and they should not use it, 3 people per heat; @seandolan__ looked great for @NovaTrackXC; on a run over winter break @gary_martin20 told me the uva dmr would be up there, too bad the mile prelim is so soon before
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Michael Tait
2 years
concept: chile con carne but you put corn in it and call it chile corn carne
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Michael Tait
2 years
this is still a good idea 🦉
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Michael Tait
5 years
a sb squares variation: de-randomized, multiple wagers allowed per square, but payout is distributed to all winners in proportion to how much was bet. my guess about the optimal strategy comes from @BreakingAGame's theorem on how to win march madness -
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Michael Tait
2 years
“what people thought were stories were fragments from shattered wholes, the patterns, the brain waves, of a certain man at a certain time in his life, the record of his controlled and uncontrolled inner life: therefore all writing was autobiography, wasn’t it?” -@JoyceCarolOates
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ILAS
3 years
The ILAS Board approved a proposal to hold the 26th ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan, June 23–27, 2025. The main organizers are Jephian C.-H. Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University) and Matthew M. Lin (National Cheng Kung University).
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Michael Tait
2 years
reup the campbell’s soup commercials with jason kelce and his moms
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Michael Tait
2 years
“He is in that tiny echelon of athletes who not only transcend a sport but transform it”
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Louisa Thomas
2 years
I wrote about what I’ll be remembering from this baseball season, the dreamlike performance of Shohei Ohtani
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Joint Mathematics Meetings
2 years
“Graphs and Matrices,” an ILAS Special Session at #JMM2024 that highlights the rich interplay between matrix theory and graph theory. See https://t.co/D6lT4fxeDf @ILAS_news
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