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the relevant distinction is not between pure and applied math but rather between math-as-an-art and math-as-a-technology
Matteo Capucci
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Matteo Capucci
@mattecapu
🇮🇹, PhD @mspstrath, mathematician @ARIA_research (category theory for systems theory & cybernetics), aspiring psycohistorian. shitposting isn't endorsement.
- Nobody will remember: - your elegant proofs - how “busy you were” - how many papers you wrote People will remember: - your other work
- at long last, we have created the precrime police, from the classic sci-fi movie 'don't create the precrime police'Forbes 30 under 30 has been doing this for years.
- *overleafAll the homies in the google doc
- the existence of an autistic spectrum implies the existence of an autistic Hilbert operator
- Replying to @colin_fraseryou're doing it wrong, you have to bribe it with imaginary money and role play as an hostage
- soooo why are proofs cultural objects? here's a quick thread 🧵the ore you're a mathematician the more you realize how proofs are really cultural objects xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fer…
- be not afraid
I don’t even want to know how they typeset diagrams in 2-categories. 
Begging AI companies to stop using the meaningless term “PhD-level” in their marketing.- Replying to @__femb0twtf this can't be true what kind of policy is that
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