egg @eggular.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It depresses me that I was born at a time such that LLMs will probably be better than me at my own research field within the next 5 years. I care so much about the mathematical community - about mathematicians - and I don't want to see it all fall apart. 010
Reposted by egg🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Speaker announced his talk as "future work in progress" which reveals a fascinating view of time 1113
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Love how this is literally so wrong (d=6 is the critical dimension.... not well-understood lol) 010
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I'm sorry if this is a bit rude but this article veers pretty technical into the math actually being done... I thought it quite carefully explained what technical improvements the model introduced (as Gowers points out, building on the existing literature) 120
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 09/05/2026did we even read the same article? (did you read the article?) 120
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I love proofs in (elementary) Riemannian geometry where the proof is just by unpacking. I feel like if you just write the correct expression then so often the proof is just by unpacking + expressing in local coordinates. 000
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 14/04/2026in two-dimensional, self-dual lattices (if you're asking or a tiling of the plane satisfying this there's only one!!!). plus the existence of a threshold is just a consequence of Kolmogorov 0-1 law. it could also be trivial, e.g. on a two-ended graph lol 010
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 14/04/2026while searching for Menshikov's paper "Coincidence of critical points in percolation problems", AI Overview provided one of the worst explanations of universality I've ever seen. literally so wrong (p_c is not universal lmao) 210
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Learning about MIP* = RE and the Connes Embedding Problem, I wonder: should I have been an operator algebraist? 120
Reposted by eggnormal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social · 24/03/2026when are they gonna find a cure 211823
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 13/03/2026it's actually lowkey fine in lots of ways, it's not that bad, it's just at this point tangibly worse than the life I used to have. I feel it so distinctly. in 6 months-ish the outlook is better. 000
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 13/03/2026almost 6 months into PhD and it still feels like I lost my social environment, my friends, the city I loved most, a lively and active research scene, all to be hazed via 3 year-long mandatory first-year classes that you're supposed to game the system and pass out of (but I didn't game it correctly) 100
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 13/03/2026feel so depressed. end of quarter and I just don't feel like I care anymore about anything, math, my life, etc. I feel so estranged from myself, I've spent so much time doing math problems for random classes (and I still don't feel I understood the material well) rather than having thoughts 100
Reposted by eggSorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics. 5477922100
Reposted by eggryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/03/2026boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise 1005343671
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026this is not how you state theorems, you don't state the assumptions inline way above and say "f will be x" and then write sentences starting (and ending) with mathematical notation saying things like N_p \geq 2 010
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026for example, he proves this proposition with strong assumptions and a weak conclusion, while a much stronger statement is true (for principal value sums) for arbitrary analytic f with |zf(z)| = O(1). Then he assigns a bunch of sum problems that are unsolvable with the weak version given in the book 100
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026typesetting is nightmarish, everything is some long in-line derivation which randomly introduces 3 or 4 important definitions, generally not in their own environment, which is then used 4 or 5 pages later. exercises in chapter 11 end up using some random prop in chap 6 100
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026it's an absolute disaster, random stuff shoved in at every opportunity, most prominently long historical tidbits of various mathematicians. theorems and propositions are not clearly stated or mathematically well-posed, definitions are given extremely implicitly or omitted. 100
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 05/03/2026barry simon's complex analysis textbook is, across several axes, one of the worst textbooks I've ever read from a pedagogical standpoint. 130
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 03/03/2026not beating the allegations (chose to present Minkowski bound for my final presentation in Galois theory, as the lone discrete probabilist in the class) 020
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 04/02/2026this is a regular meal for like 30% of the world but go off... 010
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 04/02/2026among all the ways this is deranged and alien (sesame noodles is not a weeknight meal? cannot buy cilantro?), why does it is also lowkey Racist for no reason 110
Reposted by eggskeeter devilpenis @guypussy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026big fat guy who chills is the best type of animal that can kill you 1162
Reposted by eggianstein's monster @it-i4n.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I like it when people tell me about the television shows they're watching. I haven't watched a television show in years and have seen maybe 7 in my life but I like hearing about them. tell me what the brigertons are doing. 4226414
Reposted by eggAlex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com 376125506105
Reposted by egg Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I’m sorry but I still can’t get over the fact that the analyst Jean Leray was captured by Nazis in 1940 and knew it was time to become Goblin Wizardman & this is why the world contains sheaves 722055
Reposted by eggMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comMan shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research 5689340
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 20/01/2026gave my first conference talk and it went really well!!! so much positive feedback from probabilists I really really admire 040
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I can't keep getting away with this (but like actually, I can't keep getting away with this lol) 220
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Maybe it's bad that I'm a math PhD student who doesn't know what div, grad, curl are 130
Reposted by eggMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin. 221367284
Reposted by eggKai @kaichung.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Love mathematicians' notion of "exists in nature" 2183
Reposted by eggꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 04/01/2026*points at gyre* There’s your problem. Widening. 1144
Reposted by eggMichael Kinyon @profkinyon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them 1162
Reposted by eggMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verifiedirishtimes.comAt least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher 3920721155
Reposted by egg Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2024Renting a flat in the tubular neighborhood 67811
egg @eggular.bsky.social · 12/12/2025seeing my cat and my friends at home for the first time since moving to US for PhD. so very excited 000