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Tammy Kolda @tammykolda.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thanks to Michael Harris for featuring this essay as a guest post on his substack. Check out the essay and the substack Silicon Reckoner!

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

From @nytimespr.bsky.social, a closer look at #1stproof, a community experiment to see how well AI can do research math. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/s...

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These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

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Tammy Kolda @tammykolda.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Hard copy available now for overnight delivery (at least in NorCal): amzn.to/3Ja6ITk. (PDF is also free on my website.)

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Tammy Kolda @tammykolda.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Gabriel Brown & Joe Kileel (UT Austin) have enabled me to much better understand some foundational results for 2x2x2 tensors, and the result is a paper that hopefully illuminates these results. Gabriel produced the Hyperdeterminant Visualizer: ghbrown.net/deter/hdet/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.03937

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Tammy Kolda @tammykolda.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Milestone/Nerd Alert: I've created 2⁵-1 YouTube videos about TikZ and PGFPLOTS. These are tools for creating beautiful graphics directly within your LaTeX documents. Check it out and share with your network. Thanks! #texlatex #tikz #pgfplots www.youtube.com/@UnlockingLa...

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Unlocking LaTeX Graphics

This is a channel is focused on teaching TikZ and PGFPLOTS, tools for creating graphics in LaTeX documents. Tammy Kolda, an applied mathematician, explains these tools step by step. She provides exten...

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/03/2025

Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack. “Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone” Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X @altnps.bsky.social

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SmogMonster @smog-monster.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Math is woke, apparently

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Tammy Kolda @tammykolda.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Philip Morris rates high in social responsibility because 38% of its revenues are from cigarette alternatives like nicotine pouches. That's like saying Smith & Wesson is socially responsible because 38% of its revenue comes from non-assault rifles. www.wsj.com/business/app...

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Apple Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2024

Tech companies held six of the top 10 spots, while Mastercard jumped to fifth place from 24th last year.

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