Leo C. Stein
@duetosymmetry.com
Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him
🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/
@duetosymmetry everywhere
🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/
@duetosymmetry everywhere
Another TikZ masterpiece I cooked up today 🧪⚛️🧮
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Another TikZ masterpiece I cooked up today 🧪⚛️🧮
It's also pretty trivial to make the #emacs bibtex-mode linkify eprints (it already linkifies DOIs) so all you have to do is click or hit enter to open the arXiv or journal paper
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It's also pretty trivial to make the #emacs bibtex-mode linkify eprints (it already linkifies DOIs) so all you have to do is click or hit enter to open the arXiv or journal paper
Neato! As a point of reference, this is the watch I sent out for repair and made me think about replacing:
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Neato! As a point of reference, this is the watch I sent out for repair and made me think about replacing:
I found the best way to enjoy this (audio on!)
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I found the best way to enjoy this (audio on!)
I didn't ask for AI in my search. This is really not convincing me!
September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I didn't ask for AI in my search. This is really not convincing me!
I spent a long time figuring out how to get matplotlib to be able to add a little cartoon of a binary orbit onto a plot (so now you all have to see it):
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September 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I spent a long time figuring out how to get matplotlib to be able to add a little cartoon of a binary orbit onto a plot (so now you all have to see it):
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Right-wingers suddenly deciding to decry political violence
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Right-wingers suddenly deciding to decry political violence
I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing
August 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing
I'm happy to report that so far I've been to two hawker markets; and just had prawn laksa at Food Republic
August 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I'm happy to report that so far I've been to two hawker markets; and just had prawn laksa at Food Republic
The Mathematician as Shepherd, Bronze by Nina Douglas. Located at the IHES. Donated by Marilyn and Jim Simons in November 2014.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Mathematician as Shepherd, Bronze by Nina Douglas. Located at the IHES. Donated by Marilyn and Jim Simons in November 2014.
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I see a resemblance! (Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA, USA)
July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I see a resemblance! (Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA, USA)
Last night I was feeling like a grad student as I was deriving the coefficients l/(l+1) and (2l-1)/(2l+1) in this formula (from Blanchet+Damour 1986):
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June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Last night I was feeling like a grad student as I was deriving the coefficients l/(l+1) and (2l-1)/(2l+1) in this formula (from Blanchet+Damour 1986):
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Very scruffy physicist checking in. Most of yesterday was spent dealing with downed tree branches from a big storm, still more cleaning left to do today
June 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Very scruffy physicist checking in. Most of yesterday was spent dealing with downed tree branches from a big storm, still more cleaning left to do today
We need more illustrations like this in the physics literature ⚛️🧪
May 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We need more illustrations like this in the physics literature ⚛️🧪
Bonus: here's an animation I generated showing how the sausage was made. Each frame is one commit from the paper repo.
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bonus: here's an animation I generated showing how the sausage was made. Each frame is one commit from the paper repo.
I promised @joeyneilsen.bsky.social a shitty diagram and we still can't send pics in DMs so everyone gets to see it
May 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I promised @joeyneilsen.bsky.social a shitty diagram and we still can't send pics in DMs so everyone gets to see it
And people think mathematics isn't a romantic subject???
h/t @doctorbones.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
h/t @doctorbones.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And people think mathematics isn't a romantic subject???
h/t @doctorbones.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
h/t @doctorbones.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
We went from 2,000 satellites in 2019 to 11,000 satellites today 😱
Opening slide from @merrdiff.bsky.social
Opening slide from @merrdiff.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We went from 2,000 satellites in 2019 to 11,000 satellites today 😱
Opening slide from @merrdiff.bsky.social
Opening slide from @merrdiff.bsky.social