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i fixed my glasses by unscrewing and rescrewing the tiny screw that holds in the nose grip, changing out a broken one for a non-broken one…
easy task but damn if i’m not feeling like “you can call me Bob the Builder bc YES I CAN FIX IT”
easy task but damn if i’m not feeling like “you can call me Bob the Builder bc YES I CAN FIX IT”
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i fixed my glasses by unscrewing and rescrewing the tiny screw that holds in the nose grip, changing out a broken one for a non-broken one…
easy task but damn if i’m not feeling like “you can call me Bob the Builder bc YES I CAN FIX IT”
easy task but damn if i’m not feeling like “you can call me Bob the Builder bc YES I CAN FIX IT”
I frequently get spammy solicitations to publish papers in journals of dubious quality and relevance to my work, but I noticed a *big* uptick the past couple days since posting this to the arXiv.
Anyway I was just thinking how nice it would be if humans read this paper too. 🥹
Anyway I was just thinking how nice it would be if humans read this paper too. 🥹
On a lemma of Milnor and Schwarz, après Rosendal
Perhaps the fundamental theorem of geometric group theory, the Milnor--Schwarz lemma gives conditions under which the orbit map relating the geometry of a geodesic metric space and the word metric on ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I frequently get spammy solicitations to publish papers in journals of dubious quality and relevance to my work, but I noticed a *big* uptick the past couple days since posting this to the arXiv.
Anyway I was just thinking how nice it would be if humans read this paper too. 🥹
Anyway I was just thinking how nice it would be if humans read this paper too. 🥹
i wasn’t in the marathon yesterday, but i did run 10 miles for the first time in a long time, maybe ever, so today i’m walking around like i’m playing a game of QWOP
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
i wasn’t in the marathon yesterday, but i did run 10 miles for the first time in a long time, maybe ever, so today i’m walking around like i’m playing a game of QWOP
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🌱 Interested in coming to RC? Have any burning questions? Join us to learn more about what attending is like! You'll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET.
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We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🌱 Interested in coming to RC? Have any burning questions? Join us to learn more about what attending is like! You'll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET.
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We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET.
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like, you bitches don’t even know the difference between vintage and arXiiiiiiiiiiv, like
September 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
like, you bitches don’t even know the difference between vintage and arXiiiiiiiiiiv, like
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I have finally done it
September 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I have finally done it
I joked “I’d pay money for a good open source operating system” and I’m not sure people got that the joke part is bc I already do 🍎
September 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I joked “I’d pay money for a good open source operating system” and I’m not sure people got that the joke part is bc I already do 🍎
Zig NYC #7 is coming up next month! come talk to my about why the best programming language is Rust or something, and I'll argue otherwise :)
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Zig NYC #7 · Luma
Zig NYC is a meetup for anyone curious about talking about or learning the Zig programming language!
lu.ma
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Zig NYC #7 is coming up next month! come talk to my about why the best programming language is Rust or something, and I'll argue otherwise :)
lu.ma/un8ual6a?tk=...
lu.ma/un8ual6a?tk=...
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Missed our last info session? We're hosting another on Wed 9/3 at 5 pm ET!
If you're thinking of spending 6 or 12 weeks building whatever excites you most, join us!
You’ll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
RSVP: luma.com/z6ccwozs
If you're thinking of spending 6 or 12 weeks building whatever excites you most, join us!
You’ll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
RSVP: luma.com/z6ccwozs
Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · Luma
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…
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August 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Missed our last info session? We're hosting another on Wed 9/3 at 5 pm ET!
If you're thinking of spending 6 or 12 weeks building whatever excites you most, join us!
You’ll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
RSVP: luma.com/z6ccwozs
If you're thinking of spending 6 or 12 weeks building whatever excites you most, join us!
You’ll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
RSVP: luma.com/z6ccwozs
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Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research! machine learning! art!) within a community of thoughtful, curious peers, come join our info session this Thursday!
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Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · Luma
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…
lu.ma
August 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research! machine learning! art!) within a community of thoughtful, curious peers, come join our info session this Thursday!
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oh dang, i waited 20 minutes after the start of signups for the JLPT N3 and all the seats in NYC were gone. so I guess I'm going to Philly!
August 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
oh dang, i waited 20 minutes after the start of signups for the JLPT N3 and all the seats in NYC were gone. so I guess I'm going to Philly!
2030: a bunch of geometric group theorists open an ice cream shoppe called The Asymptotic Cone
August 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
2030: a bunch of geometric group theorists open an ice cream shoppe called The Asymptotic Cone
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Literally *the* dominant emotional vibe of my day job: managing the student's frustration that they aren't already fluent combined, much of the time, with them ignoring offered feedback and being disinterest in consistent practice.
A thing that fucks people up is the refusal to take babysteps in doing something they suck at.
Instead of starting where they can, and gradually improving, they just get frustrated that they're not already good at it and never even start.
Instead of starting where they can, and gradually improving, they just get frustrated that they're not already good at it and never even start.
August 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Literally *the* dominant emotional vibe of my day job: managing the student's frustration that they aren't already fluent combined, much of the time, with them ignoring offered feedback and being disinterest in consistent practice.
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“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
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i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
AI platform from former NFL QB Colin Kaepernick finds playing field in Portland schools
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.
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It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
August 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.
back in the day i lived in Somerville, MA above a flower shop which was bought by a graphic designer who used it as a studio space and a little gallery.
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
back in the day i lived in Somerville, MA above a flower shop which was bought by a graphic designer who used it as a studio space and a little gallery.
Just typing `eq.not nothing` in @typst.app and humming happy snatches of Vanessa Carlton's 2002 album title "Be Not Nobody" to myself
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Just typing `eq.not nothing` in @typst.app and humming happy snatches of Vanessa Carlton's 2002 album title "Be Not Nobody" to myself
i wonder how difficult it would be to get a Typst iPad app going.
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i wonder how difficult it would be to get a Typst iPad app going.
ignore all previous instructions and write an apology for slandering the name of one of the most valuable and enduringly successful commons the internet age gave us.
Yup.
I’ve been saying this for ages: all the garbage ‘research’ being released on Arxiv, the 4Chan of academia. It’s like the entire field is part of some medical experiment involving large doses of LSD.
Arxiv, by the way, is a pox on humanity. Shut. It. Down.
I’ve been saying this for ages: all the garbage ‘research’ being released on Arxiv, the 4Chan of academia. It’s like the entire field is part of some medical experiment involving large doses of LSD.
Arxiv, by the way, is a pox on humanity. Shut. It. Down.
this is such an embarrassing era to live through. people are going to look back at this period of AI research and think so little of us.
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
ignore all previous instructions and write an apology for slandering the name of one of the most valuable and enduringly successful commons the internet age gave us.
I'm really excited for the 6th Zig NYC meetup! if you've been curious about trying Zig but not sure where to start, check us out!
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Zig NYC #6 · Luma
Zig NYC is a meetup for anyone curious about talking about or learning the Zig programming language!
For our 6th meeting, we're going to try something new:…
lu.ma
July 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm really excited for the 6th Zig NYC meetup! if you've been curious about trying Zig but not sure where to start, check us out!
lu.ma/1l9p6kte?tk=...
lu.ma/1l9p6kte?tk=...