Jerry Neumann
@ganeumann.bsky.social
I am going to keep writing until I figure out how to write good.
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Finally busted open the cabinet without a key. Apparently last opened in ~1992
September 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Finally busted open the cabinet without a key. Apparently last opened in ~1992
This is like my whole philosophy (Chuck Close, in Joe Fig’s Inside the Painter’s Studio, HT Vaugh Tan's newsletter uncertaintymindset.substack.com/subscribe)
![I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to [participate in] ‘problem creation’ … You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you’ll find yourself all by your lonesome — which I think is a more interesting place to be.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fsc6dga3oxkslx7trybeg65f/bafkreiaegoufybw5kd5yvnmqqi4aggbgdtpvyyg5w4ynso37kgozqntlga@jpeg)
July 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is like my whole philosophy (Chuck Close, in Joe Fig’s Inside the Painter’s Studio, HT Vaugh Tan's newsletter uncertaintymindset.substack.com/subscribe)
Excited for the skincare/donut mashup
June 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Excited for the skincare/donut mashup
It's back, in episode 4
June 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's back, in episode 4
Normally I would consider this spam, but maybe I should forward this one to someone at Columbia
June 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Normally I would consider this spam, but maybe I should forward this one to someone at Columbia
The high and the low from my end-of-semester instructor evaluation
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The high and the low from my end-of-semester instructor evaluation
The source looks like this, which is just latex. It's cast by a WP plugin into an image on the client side
May 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The source looks like this, which is just latex. It's cast by a WP plugin into an image on the client side
Whereas, perplexity seems to be able to tell there is math, but not calculus. It has to be the markup language I am using
May 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Whereas, perplexity seems to be able to tell there is math, but not calculus. It has to be the markup language I am using
This is interesting. I wonder if the MathML encoding is screwing up their scraper
May 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is interesting. I wonder if the MathML encoding is screwing up their scraper
Also, I don't remember writing this post. Does anyone think I should write this post? It sounds boring
May 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Also, I don't remember writing this post. Does anyone think I should write this post? It sounds boring
I think maybe it can't read math notation? Because....this is understating it
May 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think maybe it can't read math notation? Because....this is understating it
I asked chatgpt to criticize my writing and I regret nothing
May 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I asked chatgpt to criticize my writing and I regret nothing
Use the *curly* brackets
April 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Use the *curly* brackets
There's always been both
(From "The IBM Case Arches Eyebrows in Silicon Valley, Where High-Tech Spying Is ‘a Way of Life’", People Magazine, August 2, 1982)
(From "The IBM Case Arches Eyebrows in Silicon Valley, Where High-Tech Spying Is ‘a Way of Life’", People Magazine, August 2, 1982)
April 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
There's always been both
(From "The IBM Case Arches Eyebrows in Silicon Valley, Where High-Tech Spying Is ‘a Way of Life’", People Magazine, August 2, 1982)
(From "The IBM Case Arches Eyebrows in Silicon Valley, Where High-Tech Spying Is ‘a Way of Life’", People Magazine, August 2, 1982)
You have to use the curly brackets
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
You have to use the curly brackets
Always loved this story about a rich Roman citizen who earned the public's love through public works and then they turned around and burnt his house down when he tried to screw them (the "worthless plebeian" inventing a story thing is almost certainly gaslighting)
March 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Always loved this story about a rich Roman citizen who earned the public's love through public works and then they turned around and burnt his house down when he tried to screw them (the "worthless plebeian" inventing a story thing is almost certainly gaslighting)
I make it a policy to not read WSJ op-eds because they're written by fools, but from the headline, I assume this one is about Elon Musk?
March 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I make it a policy to not read WSJ op-eds because they're written by fools, but from the headline, I assume this one is about Elon Musk?
This is sort of depressing
March 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is sort of depressing
Wittgenstein, 1937
February 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wittgenstein, 1937
Love this Feyerabend essay: "How to Defend Society Against Science" www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/...
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Love this Feyerabend essay: "How to Defend Society Against Science" www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/...
