Annabelle Marsh

Other than that, I use the fact that I got really good at breaking down hard problems and thinking logically. I also write quickly and effectively thanks to my humanities background. I have never felt the urge to reach for generative AI to draft an email or memo because I am a better writer than it.

Islamic Communities in Scandinavia was an ethics/oral communication class where we did structured debates on modern political issues in Sweden and Denmark involving migration and assimilation. Learning how to argue an emotional topic clearly while not stepping on toes has been so useful in life.

I have a Math BA with a CS minor. In my day to day work as a Data Engineer, I directly use 3 classes I took in college.

1. 1 credit Intro to Unix
2. Intro to Data Science, where I learned about relational databases/joins/filtering.
3. Islamic Communities in Scandinavia

Agreed. I arguably did all STEM (Math major, CS minor), but I did it as a BA at a SLAC and took more humanities classes than I did STEM.

I constantly get praise at work for clear and concise writing and I have never once felt the urge to reach for generative AI to "help."

Ejection Notices Ejection Notices

They've also got a handy dandy list of recent ejections: martin-baker.com/ejection-not...

Tie Club Tie Club

There's an ejection seat manufacturer that will send you a tie if you've successfully used their ejection seat to eject from a fighter jet, but it specifically has to be their brand. martin-baker.com/tie-club/

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

Geometric local systems on very general curves and isomonodromy, JAMS

Canonical representations of surface groups, Annals

I've recently been talking a bit about how difficult it is to carefully check even well-written mathematics. I want to try to explain something about this by telling the story of some errors in the literature that (in part) led to the two papers below. 1/n

there are four teams (bills, ravens, lions, vikings) who are really good, really entertaining, have very compelling narratives, and would be exceptionally satisfying to see as super bowl champs. if the chiefs threepeat it will be more annoying and loathsome than anything the patriots ever did

My leadership at work is convinced that GitHub copilot is an amazing tool that can replace developers.

I just spent a week fixing bugs and rewriting tests for a repo where my coworker used copilot to generate the code and tests and the code would "run" and "pass tests" but had major bugs.

Generative AI is good at being confidently slightly incorrect and is getting less slightly incorrect every day, but I doubt the current approaches are going to get us something that is actually correct consistently.

See: bsky.app/profile/njoh... AI can't write a math proof but pretends it can.

American Solar Manufacturing Is Back, and It's Big The success taking place in America is stunning. Companies are investing billions of dollars to produce American-made solar panels in states like Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Washington, South Carolina, and ...

The solar manufacturing boom in the US is a huge, under-covered story. As of Q3, the US has the capacity to produce enough panels to satisfy its own demand -- a fundamental, epochal change from even a few years ago.
seia.org/blog/america...

The irony of this post and bsky.app/profile/hank... being 4 posts apart...

Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university.

A screenshot of a Tweet claiming that OpenAI o1 scored in the top 1%-2% of participants in the Putnam math competition.

There's been a bunch of claims (mostly on X) that ChatGPT did great on this year's Putnam math competition. Let's do a thread to talk about it! 🧵

#MathSky

In other news my neighborhood has no rules against turning your house into a triplex, but has an elaborate set of design regulations around ensuring that all construction has an appropriately decorative facade so as to not disrupt the architectural character.

I can't tell if I'm actually a YIMBY or if I just have a strong personal preference for living in a 2-10 unit 3 story building in a neighborhood of 2-10 unit 3 story buildings and think the world would be better if it catered to my preferences.