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@UrsSchreiber I'm so sorry. It's definitely negligent. You might write a polite complaint to the publisher and/or the scientific board to inform them of the editorial negligence but of course that won't change anything about your submission. Maybe(?) they'll say something to the editors.

It took the editors at "Quantum Topology" 111 weeks to conclude they are "not interested" in our arxiv.org/abs/2309.07245 . Fair enough. We are now splitting off the hard homotopy theory from that preprint to a stand-alone article: ncatlab.org/schreiber/show…

@DanRosiak I always liked this one, from Goodstein, "States of Matter":

You simply don't get better than this intro

@1goodtern Did he take a recent course of fluoroquinolone antibiotics? This is a known, if rare, side effect.

I don't think his did. He had just been ill.

I was once playing squash with a friend and in a quiet moment just before I served we both jumped at what sounded like a small gunshot. Strangely, my friend looked round at me angrily thinking I had hit or kicked him. Then he fell over, and the pain kicked in.

@agingdoc1 Mdpi?

Statin Treatment for Reducing Mortality Risk in Individuals over 75 Years of Age: A Large-Scale Retrospective Analysis 👉"Provision of statin therapy contributes to a reduction in risk of all-cause mortality in individuals aged 75 years and above who have an unknown history of cardiovascular disease, regardless of the type of statin or the patient’s CCI score." mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/1…

@alejandroadem @NSERC_CRSNG @SSHRC_CRSH What's an MOU?

@Biff234523 Thanks for the information! The spreadsheet doesn't open for me.

It’s been quite a while since I posted a thread on mucosal prophylaxis items like nasal sprays and lozenges. Unfortunately, that’s in large part just because I feel like there’s been significantly less discussion about them lately. The pro-infection, inevitable COVID, academic and professional crowd have lowkey been quite successful in the CC community lately in their strawman campaigns to discourage their use. Nasal sprays were the topic of my first popular thread on my old account. So now that I’m gaining some followers again, I should probably reiterate: I strongly support the use of all potential prophylaxis items including “controversial” ones like nasal sprays, far-UVC, diet/supplementation to support the innate immune system, etc. just to name a very select few. We prevent infection by any means necessary and we support citizen science around here. So if anyone happens to disagree then it’s probably best to go ahead and unfollow. For nasal sprays in particular, the science base and mechanism of action is strong even if there aren’t hundreds of randomized clinical trials (why would there be? They’re dirt cheap and there’s no money to be made). Additionally, it’s extremely important that we get as much mucosal support as possible early in an infection, to lower viral load and help prevent translocation to the brain, lower respiratory tract, and other areas of the body. So, that said: I just wanted to give a reminder on some of the options that exist that can significantly help us with prophylaxis in mucosal areas when used as a layer in combination with N95+ masking and Novavax: Personally, I really like iota-carrageenan sprays, which work by creating a decently long-lasting physical barrier that blocks viral entry and replication because I-C is mucosdhesive. If you’re interested, I made this spreadsheet which lists some formulation differences and purchasing options for the US: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…. For example: Betadine is fine and very accessible, but there are others with advantages, like NoriZite which contains added gellan gum, Algovir which contains kappa-carrageenan (which creates more rigid gels) in addition to iota-carrageenan, and Flo Travel which has a higher concentration of iota-carrageenan than most other brand. Many others strongly recommend nitric oxide-based nasal spray (called NOwonder, formerly Enovid) which creates a disruptive environment for the virus and also offers immune support in mucosal regions. I use it too, I typically try to use an I-C spray pre-exposure and nitric oxide post-exposure. For throat prophylaxis, there are quite a few potential options. My pick personally are these Iota-carrageenan lozenges (pharmacyloreto.com/lontax-gola-20…) which operate on the same principle as the nasal sprays. There are also some Iota-carrageenan sprays available from various brands as well, I just don’t like them quite as much because I feel like coverage is poorer and the concentration isn’t as significant. Other people like gargling with mouthwash containing the antiviral ingredient cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC). For the US market, Crest prohealth clinical and therabreath deep clean are the 2 options with the highest concentration of 0.10%. Therabreath uniquely offers 3oz sizes for plane travel. It’s very accessible and risk-free, so might as well, but I’m just not convinced that the efficacy is there compared to I-C. There are also Blis K12 probiotic lozenges, which have shown potential in studies for boosting mucosal immunity and preventing respiratory infections. More accessible are xylitol lozenges (and they have nasal sprays as well) - but, while extremely low risk so no harm in trying, the likely efficacy for me is too low to really view either as worthwhile, we have so many better options out there if you can access them. 👋 Please drop a comment if you’re still using any of these yourself, and feel free to share what products you’re getting the most use out of these days

@mindsetmachine Course

Dude teaches how you can brainwash yourself to become DISCIPLINED 🎯🧠💯

shouldn't just be swept under the rug.

We've never had a non-human which was able to generate coherent text, and even proofs. I don't think it's so clear that they're "just" tools, or that we deserve credit for what they do when we prompt them. I think it raises a number of important philosophical questions that

i think that the top LLMs are pretty much AGI & have been for most of 2025. it's the new age, for real. and yet... the irony... here i sit, removing all the spaces from my 30 figure file names in the latex code by hand, because the ArXiv runs on 1990s tech...gfdi.

@prof_g And maybe the answer is to try to make your analogy better - to add different kinds of credit for different roles in the process: "Director", "Guy who solved problems in detail", "Paper writer", "Editor", "Robot assistant", etc.

@prof_g Except that it's an important philosophical point for the profession, as it affects how we will assign credit going forward - and, as a result, jobs, grants, and everything else.

@prof_g Let me ask it another way. Do you believe it's fair to give you credit for ideas the machine produced?

@littmath @d_m_d_m_d_d @CoFore856 Really? Most academics outside the US don't have an .edu email... And plenty of non-researchers inside the US do. If that's really true, it's absurd.

@d_m_d_m_d_d @CoFore856 I think you don’t need an endorsement if you have an .edu email, which I think some of the people here do.

In the last month there have been at least 3 (nonsense) papers on the Hodge conjecture posted to arXiv that I am 99% sure are LLM-generated, complete with hallucinated citations, etc. Very obnoxious to pollute the commons this way.

@prof_g Have you ever watched the credits for a movie, though? I'll accept your analogy when we have coauthor categories equivalent to "screenwriter", "actor", "director", "music composer", "stuntmen", etc

@rieser_mathsci If I'm the director, it's my movie. Credit where credit is due, but, no, they are not co-authors.

@prof_g I'm surprised when people say - and even deeply believe - that they wrote something when all the actual words were produced by an LLM. I strikes me as an odd and largely incorrect extension of one's sense of self.

@prof_g But they are both brainstorming ideas, proofs, and even actually writing parts of the paper, if I understand correctly, right? If a person contributed what they do to your papers, wouldn't that person be a coauthor?

@currying How would you use it?

Very useful technical lemmata for fellow sheaf nerds: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14007

@prof_g @lu_sichu If you've ever had to read someone's research code in order to understand a model they incompletely explained in a paper, I'm not sure you'd be looking forward to this future of refereeing. Still, I hope it'll be an improvement.

@prof_g @lu_sichu Lean (or other proof-checkers) will hopefully speed up reviewing, but they won't be enough to make it instant. One will still need to check that the human-readable results and proofs in the paper are in fact what was programmed into Lean.

2024: submit a paper that looks right to a journal. wait a year for referee reports. revise and resubmit. wait more. 2026: post a paper that AI says is right to arxiv. wait a year. run it through the latest models. revise and re-post. automate the flow?