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New paper with Josh Lam, about which I'm really excited! I want to try to briefly explain what the point is in this thread.
Daniel Litt
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Daniel Litt
@littmath
Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. "Tireless math ronin." Algebraic geometry, number theory, etc. He/him.
- Here are the numbers from 10 to 100 in alphabetical order: 18, 80, 88, 85, 84, 89, 81, 87, 86, 83, 82, 11, 15, 50, 58, 55, 54, 59, 51, 57, 56, 53, 52, 40, 48, 45, 44, 49, 41, 47, 46, 43, 42, 14, 19, 90, 98, 95, 94, 99, 91, 97, 96, 93, 92, 17, 70, 78, 75, 74, 79, 71, 77, 76, 73,
- 12 years ago today, I was sitting between a mother and child on an international flight when the child asked me to pass his mom this note:
- Uber driver from the airport last night found out I was a mathematician and started excitedly asking me about spherical trigonometry. Over the course of the ride it slowly dawned on me that he was trying to persuade me that the Earth is flat.
- disproving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing that there are in fact only finitely many monkeys
- gpt-6 will have the intelligence of someone who decided not to get a PhD
- Incredible: AI can predict the winner of the 2024 election. Looks like there will be a few surprises; for example, there's a good chance that Iowa will win Texas.
- One of my students, after acing a question on her Intro to Proof final, ended the proof with “Slay” instead of QED. Just incredible.
- The rot in academia goes so deep. I’ve discovered that thousands of academics keep LISTS of sources they’ve plagiarized from, cunningly hidden in the “References” sections of their papers.EXCLUSIVE: @realChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity. This is a bombshell. 🧵
- If Apple’s market cap is $2.96 trillion, why should we pay for iPhones and MacBooks? Seems absurd.If Harvard has $53bn of endowments, why on earth does it need or warrant another $2bn of public funding? Seems absurd.
- Yet another incredible LK-99 replication. Humanity is about to go doubly exponential.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe author has stated that this is a loss joke - and wishes for it to be clarified. twitter.com/littmath/statu…
