Calvin McPhail-Snyder

Hi everyone! (which is no one right now.) This is intended to be a professional/public account where I focus mostly on math.

@littmath @postdocforever He’s a noted transphobic “journalist” who also talks a lot about how MeToo went too far.

@postdocforever No worries, I don’t really know anything about him.

The idea that thousands of chuds checked the literature for rigorous scrutiny of Louks’s thesis before calling her slurs is quite funny, in a way. Can’t imagine feeling the need to carry water for this sort of thing.

@catdadpotat @focusfronting I once saw a really cool art piece in the Tate Modern about this! It was a video of a conductor shot so you could only see his hands, on a huge screen in a dark enclosed room. It was super disorienting and neat, but maybe too much for being jet lagged so we only lasted 30 seconds

@ainesanapulla @no_earthquake How you can you not get excited about coaches saying things like “Trips Right Yo-Yo 60 Y Stick”?

@no_earthquake Entire sport around logistical difficulties and planning, my appreciation has grown.

just discovered that in american football they switch the whole team around between offense & defense wtf

@colinb8 @kareem_carr He’s saying what I did (the first derivative of the red curves doesn’t converge to the green curve) in more informal language

@esselltwo @kareem_carr Good points. What's puzzling me is Kareem Carr's statement that they're not the same curve. Of course the individual curves are not the same as the limit curve, but I don't understand the underlying point KC wants to make.

Not the same curve. At the corners of the red squares, you’re turning exactly 90° which is pretty sharp. As the red squares shrink, you end up explosively turning more and more times a second to keep a steady pace. That’s nothing like just cruising along the green diagonal.

@colinb8 @kareem_carr Here the convergence is uniform but the first derivative doesn’t converge even pointwise. Since arclength depends on the derivative it’s not surprising the red and green curves have different lengths

@kareem_carr I suspect you know more about maths than I do (my degree in it was years ago), but this seems to be the diagram from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staircase… showing that pointwise convergence (uniform convergence here?) might not behave nicely. I don't understand the point you are making?

@elfstrogenic @lastpositivist It’s kind of funny that he recruited a bunch of people to his intellectual movement/cult by writing Harry Potter fanfic

Oh word there's actually an explanation for why he blocked me. Ok fair it's an annoying paper but I will say if you read it the clear villains are PoC intelligentsia, which I explicitly name myself within. I kinda thought that as a society we agreed self directed racism is fine?

You gotta believe

@TaliaRinger But seriously, good luck and it DOES get better

@TaliaRinger I’m amazed she’s sleeping regularly enough you have a schedule!

Loving my new sleep schedule, thank you motherhood: 5-630 PM 8-1030 PM 630-930 AM 10-1130 AM

@TimHenke9 @Daanniii6 I agree with everything you said! Plus I’m not really an expert on the general physics ideas. I would emphasize that TQFTs are quite special: they are good to study but a general QFT (like QED, say) is more complicated

@esselltwo @Daanniii6 I hope I didn't say anything embarrassingly wrong haha

Perks of being my friend:

@Daanniii6 @TimHenke9 That is just one example but it’s on of the major motivations. You can also express lots of Floer-type things in this language, but it’s much harder or maybe not computable (I know less about this)

@Daanniii6 @TimHenke9 For quantum Chern-Simons theory these things are all explicitly computable, although you might get some very complicated sum/matrix/tensor/higher linear morphism and you might need to know a fair amount of representation theory to do the calculations

@no_earthquake @GabiElectra @VitruviusGrind Water is very expensive in CA

@GabiElectra @VitruviusGrind yea that’s a v good call actually

i’m actually fascinated by the overspending rich guy class it seems like the market’s just been better at offering scams at every price point and it’s breaking new high earners’ brains

@shittyprogram @focusfronting @rohn_jawls I was a little confused why they switched from being the racist kind of postrat to being the singularity kind

@focusfronting @rohn_jawls iirc this account is now 3 people posting whatever they want, too. so her credentials don’t really apply very clearly to a lot of what’s posted

@TimHenke9 @bwebste It’s the location of the Springfield the Simpsons live in

@bwebste well I presume it's an area involving 3 states. I just don't know which specific 3 states they are or indeed if it's maybe just a phrase you can use for any 3 states or sth What's most amusing to me is kids' shows never bother to translate it, but in Dutch it makes no sense haha

big same

@AniJhahaha @christapeterso Infamously the Nazis said they had created a “Volksgemeinschaft” which you could translate as “people’s community” but they meant more like “racially [pure] society” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgeme…

@AniJhahaha @christapeterso “Volk” is hard to translate: it can mean “people” but also “race” or “ethnicity” or “nation”

It is wild that Volkswagen is still called Volkswagen! Distinctly Nazi name!

@APotAaaYM @ryanyang0 Obviously studying math intensively from a young age will help make you good at doing mathematical research, but that doesn’t mean being really good at the contests is what’s making people Fields Medalists

@APotAaaYM @ryanyang0 Being a Fields Medalist and being good at research are not the same thing!

the modern world seems to crush geniuses. it's bleak to think about, but if Von Neumann or Erdos were in high school today they'd probably get horribly beaten on the AMC or USAMO by products of the Bay Area Math-Industrial complex, get discouraged, and never touch math again