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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I liked Ted Chiang's take on it from a couple years ago initiative.humanities.princeton.edu/news/2025/in...
Everyone should think carefully about using generative AI simply because the technology is built on environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and IP theft. College students should think extra carefully about it because, even if those other issues were magically resolved, using generative AI is largely incompatible with the purpose of education. In the talk I gave, I said, “When you’re a student at a university, you should think of yourself as an athlete in training, and the job you’ll do after you graduate is the sport you will compete in. You don’t know specifically which sport you will play, and neither do your professors. What your professors do know is that strength training will help you. That’s what essay writing is; it’s strength training for the brain. Using ChatGPT to write your essays is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you are never going to improve your cognitive fitness that way.” Let me expand on that. Building strength requires exertion; if anyone offers you an exercise program that involves no exertion at all, you know it’s not going to be effective. The improvements that come from doing cognitive exercise are not as rapid as those that come from physical exercise, but they are just as real. Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven’t before, and that is precisely why it’s useful. Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it’s to learn how to think. Turning in completed assignments can help you learn how to think, but only if you’re the one who completed them.
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine if he had been a Canadian Football League fan in the 80s
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He's doing Dreamworks Face
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well strictly speaking you already remembered the name of one of the volcano movies, if only inadvertently
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This prompted me to check the wiki article on the race since I didn't even know who was running and the list of endorsements for James Fishback in the R primary has me cackling
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canadian Victory 😎
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This should haunt Yggy for the rest of his career
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is he talking about like a Black Mirror Season 1 situation?
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spare a thought for Gog and Magog as well. It's tough at the top.
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looking forward to this guy facing absolutely zero consequences, electoral or otherwise
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm sorry but this goes beyond moderating. He is repudiating his previous statements. It makes him look weak and cedes ground to Republicans.
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
David Ahenakew comes to mind. And his conviction was eventually overturned.
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mulder climbing on top of the same gondola I took for ski lessons was so cool
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyways my fave was the dude with the inexplicable Australian accent
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Who, this guy?
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
*laughs in Seattlese*
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's by far the best value but if I'm feeling fancy I still gotta go with hotpot queen
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bah God that's Melania's music!
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That's right, genital inspections! But just for girls, of course. For more info: nohateinwastate.org/about-i-638
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I mean this person is an actual elected rep. How many of her colleagues were asked to disavow these remarks?
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Didn't think this one could be topped but the one you posted might well do it
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yeah like this was 10 years ago?
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Close! It's Saskatchewan
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
He was also great in Invincible more recently
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gentner Drummond
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hark! A Vagrant 311 by Kate Beaton
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
David Eby
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I highly recommend Kingdom if you haven't seen it, it is a blast. Korean zombie series set during the Joseon dynasty
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's super inconsistent as well, for some reason Burger King is allowed but Dairy Queen has to just go by DQ. I think Best Buy sued to be able to keep using their name, meanwhile Staples just straight up capitulated haha
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the all-time great talk titles and abstracts
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
William Kahan meanwhile just hated a specific implementation
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love showing stuff like this to students in Desmos
10^20 + 10^4 - 10^20 evaluates to 16,384 (not 10^4) because the first sum needs to be rounded to the nearest floating point number
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reminds me of
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🫡
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Actually nevermind. The source for it being attributed to Ramanujan actually goes harder
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.” Srinivasa Ramanujan
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've always seen it attributed to Ramanujan
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Also,
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thinking about Jason Alexander on ST:Voyager again
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yeah wasn't it like a year later that you could see The Federalist open on the laptop of the crying Nazi that organized Charlottesville?
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Still the best joke to appear in a math paper
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
He did the meme
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On that note, I wonder what Glinner is up t--
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