I take your point, but also dare not impugn the integrity of the Guinness World Record Association.

I don’t love all of his stuff, but Crying, GR, and Mason-Dixon are phenomenal.

noooooooooo 😭

Yeah, looks like it. I suspect that college registrars have a very different reaction than I do when reading Kafka.

I thought I had destroyed the beast when my department unanimously approved four major curriculum-related proposals, but the hydra has regrown eleven heads that I have to input into and shepherd through Curriculog.

ZFC gets axiom schema but I don’t? 😢

If I have been particularly diligent and very lucky, there might be some positive measure subspaces of knowledge space in which my knowledge is dense.

So now I'm hunting for a vector field that is "minimally parallel" to the normal bundle of Σ, which will allow me to frame a minimally punctured version of Σ, and then I'll avoid the punctures when 'drawing'.

What does this have to do with visualization? I have a specific Σ I'm 3d printing which is a moduli space, and I want to 'draw' what some of its points correspond to on the surface. To do so, I'd like to frame Σ's tangent bundle, but I can't because Σ has genus 4 💀

Why? If not, then you could use X to parallelize Σ by projecting X(q) onto the tangent plane of Σ at q. The only parallelizable Σ is the torus! bsky.app/profile/moti...

I haven't been keeping records, so here's a new example: it has six strands and is the closure of the composition of braid group generators [(3, -1), (2, -1), (4, 1), (2, 1), (4, 1), (3, 1), (1, 1), (1, -1), (3, -1), (5, -1), (3, 1), (2, -1)] where (i,e) means \sigma_i^e.

Did you try The Crying of Lot 49? Was it not a romp? Do you not want to stencil muted post horns on your rubbish bins?

you're dead to me

Eventually, but this is part of some work-in-progress, so I'd prefer not to share the code presently.

No, this was a little python project: numpy and matplotlib.

Thanks!

lol one of his questions today translates into "what is the largest natural number that is not an element of the semigroup generated by 3 and 8 under addition?"

Beast Academy? Really cool, thoughtful, creative, and challenging supplementary math curriculum for grade schoolers. beastacademy.com