Bradley Dart - MMath, MA, PhD Candidate ☪️​📚

The only 'influencer' I need in my life is Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa salaam.

Growing wealth through investments as a Muslim is difficult. No GICs, no high interest savings, no government bonds. Many high-dividend stocks are not Shariah compliant. Any advice is warmly welcomed, especially about how to invest in, e.g., sukuk, as a Canadian.

@WorkInVirtual Of course. I applied to the jobs as soon as I saw them and gathered the materials. We'll see if next year brings sweeter fruit.

@philomathein Both, honestly. Applying early helps because many roles start reviewing candidates before the deadline, but market timing matters too — hiring cycles, budgets, and competition can completely change outcomes from one year to another.

I think my first year on the academic job market has been unsuccessful. I applied to 41 full-time positions, mostly as lecturer, in 13 different countries. I was ineligible for many others because I haven't defended my thesis yet. I didn't apply to jobs in USA or Israel.

@WorkInVirtual Do you mean applying early, or the year of application?

@philomathein Timing matters more than most people realize.

The 'Islam-spread-by-the-sword' crowd are going to have to explain how John of Damascus did all of his work - including his published criticisms of Islam - while living in the Umayyad Caliphate.

@softwarewisdom I find the opposite, personally; learning languages - especially to fluency - and memorizing texts is arduous for me. Whether it would take less time in one direction or another to an analogous degree of competence, on average, I couldn’t say.

@philomathein Those languages are not harder. Math is harder. And I enjoy math, by the way. It is much easier to teach a math-literate person a foreign language than to teach a foreign languages teacher math.

The humanities vs. STEM discourse is ignoring the fact that (traditionally) a liberal arts education involved the analysis, memorization, and composition of texts in, e.g., Latin and Ancient Greek, which I personally would find MUCH harder than grad-level math or physics courses.

@softwarewisdom Of course, AI, theorem-provers, etc. are valuable tools that supplement and augment human cognition. However, I find the offloading of our most basic intellectual activities onto a computer to produce an ‘output’ without learning anything to be quite ghastly.

@philomathein Not related to the reposted content, but I asked an ordinary LLM tool a proof by induction of a minor conjecture I had noticed in combinator calculus and, to my surprise, the proof was correct. Such tools can add some value to researchers, even when the answers contain mistakes.

Stop thinking. Stop learning. Stop reading. Stop writing. Don’t criticize. Don’t analyze. Avoid work. Avoid joy. Avoid struggle. Avoid responsibility. Feed the machines. AI is your friend. AI is your master. Make ‘content’ for AI to consume. Make yourself useless and redundant.

@winnie4prez Thanks, I’m moving bit better now alhamdulillah

@philomathein subhanAllah I pray you're doing better now !! Eid Mubarak!

Spent the first morning of Eid in the hospital (don’t worry, just tweaked my back, on bed rest now), but seeing people alone and hooked to machines or unconscious reminded me that I have much to be thankful for, alhamdulillah. Eid Mubarak to you and your families!

"Thank you for your interest" "We have carefully reviewed your application" "We regret to inform you" "You were part of an incredibly talented group of applicants" "Thank you for your time and effort in submitting an application"

John Lewis, established in 1864 and renowned as a beloved British department store, is unashamedly promoting the Islamification of our fashion industry… Is this what John Lewis envisions British women should wear?

@jozefandrew1 Also, unless an aristocrat spends their time over a laptop in a shared office or kitchen table, this is not an accurate description of the average PhD experience.

@jozefandrew1 Respectfully, ‘industry’ is not at all interested in a humanities PhD. You’ll be 5-7 years behind your peers and likely have delayed marriage, children, and little savings. I don’t regret mine (mostly) but we shouldn’t put lipstick on a pig.

Mathematics is one of the most fundamental disciplines at a university, but @MemorialU is cutting 7 of 8 contractual faculty positions in the Department of Math and Stats next year and reducing class sections of first-year courses by nearly half. ntv.ca/news/mun-facul…

@GeoffBudden @AliFromTheArea Yes, my mistake - they were born but did not die in the Colony. I never met any of them, unfortunately. We could very well be related, especially if they’re from Notre Dame Bay!

@philomathein @AliFromTheArea Mine were Bartholomew & Hannah, Eli & Suzanna, Edward & Margaret and Ernest John & Delilah, all of them born in the Colony of Newfoundland between 1844 and 1891 and all of whom died there (or in the Province of Newfoundland, Canada), between c1899 and 1971. I knew two of them

@AliFromTheArea Bradley son of Garfield son of Garfield son of Archibald son of Josiah son of Robert son of Robert. I have the last letter from Robert Jr to his wife and Josiah. My legacy is that I am the first Muslim in my line.

@AliFromTheArea Not sure the casual anti-white comment is needed, brother. I know a lot of white people very invested in their genealogy. My great-grandparents are Archibald & Ida, Arthur & Ettie, Gilbert & Annie, Felix & Bridget. All were born and died in the Colony of Newfoundland.