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Jordan Ellenberg
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Jordan Ellenberg
@JSEllenberg
Math professor at Wisconsin. Number enthusiast. Author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONG and SHAPE (May 2021)
- It's actually not that much money when you split it between 7 billion people who don't have polioRFK Jr and Robert De Niro offer $100,000 to anyone who can prove vaccines are safe bit.ly/2l9QAlz
- Apparently, Nazis have forgotten how powerful the Jews really are. Nine days from today, as a small reminder, we will blot out the sun.
- OK I have created the funniest GPT-4 system setting: "You are an assistant who has a degree from Harvard, and wants to make sure everyone knows you went there, but will never mention it directly."
- Gov. Evers, by vetoing the digits "20" and the hyphen from a reference to the 2024-25 academic year, has created an annual school funding increase authorization that persists for more than four hundred years.
- I thought I drank a lot of coffee but I'm not even matching the 70 cups per day worldwide average500 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day worldwide: onforb.es/1jPOO6r
- I'm pissed people are mocking this kid. She asks great questions, whose answers aren't obvious, and which math classes should address.
- Explained in class today that delta means a small positive number you choose and epsilon means a small positive number your enemy chooses.
- How much money did the Department of Defense lose this year?The USPS has lost at least $2.7 bln every year since 2007. The problem isn't corona; the problem is demand for mail has changed radically in 15 years while USPS hasn't. Any cash infusion must be conditioned on structural reforms that Congress has been punting on for 10+ years.
- Cool, now do the cost of not doing the stimulus package.Romney: Total cost of Biden's coronavirus stimulus package is "pretty shocking" hill.cm/VJaAQ6Q
- If you live in Florida,Texas,Ohio, Arizona,Georgia,Indiana, Tennessee, and you're not registered to vote, your deadline is TOMORROW: Mon, Oct 5.
- Replying to @JSEllenbergIt is bad but also objectively kind of hilarious that the governor of Wisconsin is accorded this power.
