Reposted by Paul RoweGuido X Jansen @gui.do · 01/10/2026It's always important to read what the graph axes say 1027343
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thanks for visiting our recipe. You may want to cook this meal, but we’d prefer it if you bought this car down here. Or this lotion up here. What, you can still see part of this recipe? Our product!?! Why don’t we cover the screen with an invitation to sign up for all our other recipes. 230
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oops. My weird use of OP was because I forgot I was replying and not quoting 🤷♂️ 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I posted on FB about the virtues of 3 legs over a decade ago. But soon after, I intuited the issues raised by the OP and I have felt uneasy ever since. (But only when I think of it. I’m not a maniac.) 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a fundamental tension between 3 and 4 legs. On one hand 3 legs will keel over because of issue with center of gravity. On the other, 3 legs define a plane, so you don’t get that annoying wobble. 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The mere fact that there are gaps to return to is good evidence that you could have more unreasonable. 😂 011
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For anybody interested in philosophy and its history, this is podcast is for you. If podcasts aren’t your thing, he has been publishing book versions of the series. They are wonderful overviews and intros to philosophical texts. And the no gaps approach is real but not unreasonable. 1112
Reposted by Paul RoweMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...) 1140772
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Jets seem entirely too inconsequential to count. Like, do Jets fans ever even get their hopes up? 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Having Monday trash pickup is incredible privilege because you have all of Sunday to decide when to put trash out. It’s a privilege I waste almost every week 😔 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been teaching myself about Möbius inversion on posets which makes me wonder for which of these (if any, and properly generalized) we know a closed form for their Möbius functions. 🤔 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And don’t forget there are two ways of rotating by 180 degrees! 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026At 45k followers I will do the same. (Probably* just repost @lastpositivist.bsky.social ‘s post). * This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers. 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I believe we can prove the NY Times SpellingBee game wrong, BlueSky! We just have to reply and quote with pictures of all your pets’ boopable noses. 120
Reposted by Paul RoweIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters 31074251
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I saw this and thought “You mean third quarter.” Checked bio and … “Ohhh of course” 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thank god my NYTimes crossword streak survived the transfer! 020
Reposted by Paul RoweSteven Clontz @clontz.org · 18/09/2026Trouble is, everyone wants to build the Terminator, and no one wants to build WALL-E. 4192
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I legit had to read the description carefully a few times to convince myself that it was a second kind of forcing that I don’t understand. 020
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s Necessarily Possible that I Not Know It’s Butter. 040
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My Russian speaking friend was in a youth orchestra and the conductor kept prompting for more cows. He eventually looked to my friend for help and spoke in Russian when she realized: “Oh chaos!” 130
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It seems like a good analogy is the way we speak about energy levels “wanting” to be in a certain state. We (usually) don’t extrapolate the wanting beyond the analogy. 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh my high school friend group had this with Russian. Chaos, yes? 210
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every time I see Wd Sheeran or can’t think of his name, I think (ironically) that guy who is the best song writer since the Beatles. 000
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My running joke about Ed Sheeran is that he is the best song writer since the Beatles. This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road. 110
Reposted by Paul RoweJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The class that meets right before mine in my classroom is Intro to AI. It’s followed by The American Revolution. I love the weirdness of that. 1336222
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I often feel conflicted by art from the 1920s. This is no exception. I like the forward facing eye projected from the (sideways) figure. The angles evoke Cezanne (good), but overall effect is somehow … I don’t know. If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn. 000
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Janna Levin has voiced my opinion: Just because some expert knows a theorem is true doesn’t mean I shouldn’t want to try to understand why. Replacing an expert with AI doesn’t change anything. 020
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’m disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. It was even my first guess and would be a pangram. 😢 010
Reposted by Paul RoweChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit 2475144
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It may be able to solve millennium problems, but can it *pose* them??? 030
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Odd are that this is AI slop. (According to somebody who just had to “quality review” a paper that seems to have been entirely AI generated) 001
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’m also curious how much of the development is of the quality for Mathlib. Buzzard was pretty clear from the start that one main benefit was actually formalizing all the rest of it to support other uses. 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“AI has eaten mathematics” is roughly as true as “AI has has eaten crank science YouTube influencing.” She doesn’t seem that worried 🤔 020
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Home Library h-index: The largest value n such that there are n authors for whom you own (alternatively, have read) n of their books. I believe mine are Own: 7 Read: 5 I’m curious how this compares with others. #BookSky #MathSky 071
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It was most definitely a side quest in which a relatively asocial friend of a friend was enduring a party. It also might have been summer between junior and senior year. 010
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I actually learned this trick at a party in college! And it’s felt like a super power ever since. It has fueled my unhealthy obsession with cleaning hotel sitter heads with those rubber nozzles that always shoot water in all directions. 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Ok nice. That gives me a starting point. It might be more take-apart-able than I think, but I’ve been treating it mostly as a fixed unit. I just haven’t had the bandwidth to figure out what to treat it with 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I could use some advice on de-liming, specifically a kitchen faucet whose spray fiction is getting wonky. (I’m oddly obsessive about addressing similar issues in hotel shower heads, but simply scraping off shit isn’t working here) 110
Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“You’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter.” “Get on with it!!” 020
