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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱
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USSR->Australia (Perth)->Netherlands->Germany->Netherlands->Singapore->Oxford (UK)->Evanston, Illinois […]

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In Mexico City for a week, vacation/work (for my spouse).
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Hello Providence, RI. Attending an ICREM workshop.

https://icerm.brown.edu/program/semester_program_workshop/sp-f25-w3
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #mamdani's win in NYC:

"Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal."

“Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his […]
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November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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@chris__martin
our new checkbook with a logo of my choice arrived today.
This all you need to know about US banking.
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Hiring - US, fully remote - I don't know why the posting lists so many programming languages but IMO the main familiarity you need at this point is just typescript. Application is there, or feel free to talk to me.
http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/renaissancelearning-nam/jobs/4962850008
Software Engineer II
Remote- US
job-boards.greenhouse.io
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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The last thing tying me to the Google ecosystem is my phone. Can anyone out there recommend an open source phone that they have had good success with?
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Whoever "welcomes this" really didn't get the point... and should be kept far from any science policy decisions.

The problem is not that we have the wrong scientific metrics, but that we rely on scientific metrics way too much:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🧵1/N

tl;dr did not foresee a discussion of event sourcing in computer architecture to allow me to understand deep Buddhist philosophy...

I'm reading "Geek Sublime" by Vikram Chandra:

https://www.vikramchandra.co

This also gives you insight into the notion of dependent co-arising! The state […]
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June 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115434534027489078

You're the victim of a protection racket.
mastodon.social
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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David Ball, keyboard player, composer and producer from the band Soft Cell has died. So many other people should have died instead.

I'm full of Frustration right now.

#davidball #softcell

October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Some kinds of dedication you just don't want.
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Getting ready for #pythonbrasil next week, here's my updated Minimal Sphinx repo and docs https://github.com/melissawm/minimalsphinx and the brand new Minimal MkDocs repo and docs https://github.com/melissawm/minimalmkdocs
GitHub - melissawm/minimalsphinx: A repo with a minimal Sphinx example for Python documentation.
A repo with a minimal Sphinx example for Python documentation. - melissawm/minimalsphinx
github.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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My coauthor's surname was replaced by the first word in the title of the paper listed under our names, and that word was dropped from the title.

Thanks, Springer's possibly AI-using typesetting company...
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps:

I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop.

Framework's whole *thing*, their […]
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wandering.shop
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Great job opportunity in a fantastic department which I can't recommend enough: a great place to work. (I'm still there after almost 30 year.)
https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1349/0/457569/15539/assistant-professor-in-mathematics/
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Assistant Professor in Mathematics, , _LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university_ _ _ _As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we  encourage applications from women and those of Minority Ethnic backgrounds as they are currently under-represented at this level in this area. All appointments will be ade on merit or skill and experience relative to the role._ _ _ **Department of Mathematics** **Assistant Professor in Mathematics****** ** ** **_Salary is no less than £68,087 per annum. The current salary scales can be found on the _****_LSE website_**** __** The Department of Mathematics at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor to join the Optimisation and Algorithms group. The post holder will contribute to the intellectual life of the School through conducting and publishing outstanding quality research, engaging in high quality teaching, and participating in School and Department activities. Applicants should have a completed PhD, or close to obtaining a PhD in a discipline related to mathematical optimisation by the intended start date of 1 September 2026. Expertise and research interests related to mathematical optimisation are essential. In addition to applicants furthering the Department's current areas of specialisation, we welcome those with complementary expertise, notably in continuous optimisation and/or machine learning. The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on LSE’s online recruitment system. In addition to a competitive salary, the benefits that come with this job include generous family friendly benefits, an occupational pension scheme, research grants policy with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment, and excellent support, training and development opportunities. For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification. **To apply for this post, please go to** https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please do not hesitate to email the Head of Department, Prof Bernhard von Stengel, b.von-stengel@lse.ac.uk. ** ** **The closing date for receipt of applications is 3****December 2025****(23.59 UK time). W****e are unable to accept any late applications.** , Job Type : Academic Area : Mathematics Salary : Above £50,000 Contract Type : Permanent ,
jobs.lse.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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@chris__martin Hiawata Song, translated very nicely by a well-known early 20th century Russian poet and writer, Bunin, keeping the poetic meter etc, was compulsory reading in Soviet schools.

Maxim Gorky, a bolshevik writer, produced Stromy Petrel Song, in exactly the same meter...
(not kept in […]
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September 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I really do want to know though, are you aware of the economic protectionist measures taken by native american tribes and what do you think of them
September 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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my hobby is producing takes that absolutely nobody wants to respond to
September 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
[plea for a maths pdf]

could please someone help me to a pdf /ebook of

A Course in Real Algebraic Geometry
Claus Scheiderer
ISBN: 9783031692130
A Course in Real Algebraic Geometry, Springer 2024

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69213-0

I can apparently only get a hard copy […]
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September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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@dpiponi
I particularly enjoyed this part:

On Saturday, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund who has been representing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in talks about the war in Ukraine with the Trump administration, wrote on X that he “had very positive discussions […]
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September 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/
Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas
The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.
www.cbsnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM