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The mathematican's apprentice
@mathapprentice.bsky.social
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Associate professor of mathematics at the University of Padua. French. I study vibes
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go home youtube you're drunk
Youtube thumbnail of a documentary on William F. Buckley (!) by the Cato Institute (!!) with 156 views (lol) that popped up in my playlist
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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In this department, we believe in the law of excluded middle
A sheet of paper taped to a door, with a "no entry" sign and the text (in italian) "OFFICES AREA access forbidden to those not authorized"
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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"Oof size: large" meme
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Image of Disco Stu from "The Simpsons" overlayed with the quote "If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed".
August 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Too many of the replies are exactly this
michael cohost.org/lutz, gamer lord @WarrenIsDead AMERICAN FASCIST: Your going to the camps AMERICAN LIBERAL, CHUCKLING: *You're 21:09 17/12/2016 12,9K Retweets 730 Quotes 35,4K Likes 336 Bookmarks
July 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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no. (Google query: "time is the fire in which we burn grant morrison")
AI Overview The phrase "Time is the fire in which we burn" is a famous quote from Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman, specifically issue #10. It's a line spoken by Superman in the context of his impending death and serves as a reflection on the passage of time and its impact on all things.
July 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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wtf
AI Overview The averaged restricted three-body problem, while generally not integrable, can become integrable under specific conditions, such as when considering only the secular evolution of high eccentricity and inclination asteroids. In these cases, the problem can be simplified and solved analytically. However, the introduction of eccentricity, inclination, or close approaches with perturbing planets can lead to non-integrable behavior. Detailed Explanation: The restricted three-body problem involves the motion of a massless particle (e.g., a satellite or asteroid) under the gravitational influence of two massive bodies (e.g., a planet and a star). In the classical, circular restricted three-body problem, where the two primaries move in circular orbits, there exists one known integral of motion: the Jacobi integral, making the problem integrable.
June 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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It's actually quite accurate
Oppenheimer obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in March 1927 at age 23, supervised by Born.[29][30] After the oral exam, James Franck, the professor administering it, reportedly said, "I'm glad that's over. He was on the point of questioning me."[31] Oppenheimer published more than a dozen papers while in Europe, including many important contributions to the new field of quantum mechanics. He and Born published a famous paper on the Born–Oppenheimer approximation, which separates nuclear motion from electronic motion in the mathematical treatment of molecules, allowing nuclear motion to be neglected to simplify calculations. It remains his most cited work.[32]
June 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Sicko watching inside through a window, grinning and saying "Yes ... ha ha ha ... yes!" meme
May 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" death by desiccation scene
April 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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If you know you know

bactra.org/notebooks/nn...
ties to decadent plutocrats. I find it hard to take the cult seriously enough intellectually to bother refuting it. These are, after all, people who think they can go from the definition of conditional probability, via Harry Potter fanfic, to prophesying that an AI god will judge the quick and the dead, and condemn those who hindered the coming of the Last Day to the everlasting simulated-but-still-painful fire.
April 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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cursed paragraph
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
The Yale University graduate was a founding member of the investment team at Bloomberg Beta, and made Forbes’s “30 Under 30” venture capital list in 2015. Zilis also was a board member at OpenAI and worked at Tesla earlier in her career.
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Revelation of the the female android in the movie "Metropolis"
February 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Surprised Pikachu
February 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Deep-fried laser-eyes Richard Dawkins
February 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🙃
Excerpt from a math paper open in ScienceDirect with the term "perturbation theory" underlined and a link text reading "Learn more about perturbation theory from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages"
January 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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"Mais en fin de compte, où est-ce que tu as passé ton Master?"
Mème de Ben Affleck épuisé fumant une clope sur le pas de la porte
January 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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P.O.V. de mes collègues italiens lorsque j'explique le rapport entre l'Université Paris XI / Paris-Sud / Paris-Saclay, l'ENS de Cachan / de Paris-Saclay et la Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay
Mème de Charlie Day gesticulant devant un tableau d'affichage conspirationniste
January 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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oh no galileo what is you doin' 😩
A page from Galileo Galilei's "Dialog concerning the two chief world systems" (1632). It displays a diagram erroneously comparing the downward *speed* of a mobile due to the gravity of the earth with the upward *distance* described by the same mobile under of the centrifugal acceleration.
January 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I know the fight over privacy has been lost for over a decade, but I still manage to be shocked from time to time. This is bonkers. And for what result?
My induction took place in Bensalem, a township northeast of Philadelphia, in a spare campaign office still announced by a Biden-Harris yard sign. I received training on a mobile app that would guide my steps, generating for each of my canvassing forays a street map with dots showing the households of registered voters, who were identified by name, age, gender, and party affiliation. The app meant that, when people opened their doors, I could ask to speak with them by their first names. I recorded their responses, indicating whether they were “strong” for Harris––definitely voting for her–– “strong” for Trump, or were still in some murky terrain of indecision, in which case I was on: I had a minute or two to launch my pitch to sway them. I also received my first training in campaign messaging––a short course on Project 2025 and the catastrophic perils it posed for American democracy.
December 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Remembering this classic
May 17, 2024 at 6:38 AM