Daniel Litt

are you serious

Inspired by an actual response I got from an author to a complaint I made about their paper on the other site.

Oh, you have criticisms of my paper? Surely you noticed the part of the paper where we already rebutted your critique, by writing “Possible criticisms: the methodology of this paper is bad. We are aware of this.”

website where you can report people inappropriately celebrating political violence

pretty bleak

airport bird!!!

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (acting as the settings of novels by middle-aged professors about the midlife crises of middle-aged professors)

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (an escalating series of pranks played by a trouble-making fraternity on the straight-edge dean who will stop at nothing to shut them down)

Awesome, thanks!

Not yet but planning to!

Sounds great, would be very interested in tracking this down if you can remember more detail!

Enjoy the conference!

they have a great 4-lecture mini-course about local systems on algebraic variables. highly recommended that you attend. will cure depression, life changing

Going to Padua next week to give a 4-lecture mini-course on “Local Systems on Algebraic Varieties.” Apparently the university is quite old—if anyone knows any math- or science-related sights there that I should check out, please let me know.

Have you in your field seen a lot of LLM-assisted papers on the ArXiV claiming to solve an open problem?

I hear @littmath.bsky.social report a lot of "proofs" of the Hodge conjecture, but I haven't heard anyone about other open problems. Have you heard about YM mass gap? Riemann hypothesis? P=NP?

this is actually how i disambiguate you from Evil Sridhar

Montreal biosphere

Montreal biosphere close-up

back on the good stuff (geodesic dome tourism)

I am also going only for this week (for similar reasons) :)

Heading to Fort Collins for the once-a-decade algebraic geometry summer research institute. Please say hi if you’re around! (And come to my talk tomorrow on “p-curvature and non-abelian cohomology”!)

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right, I was thinking that would be the climax, with two versions (how Grothendieck saw it, and what I think is the more accurate version)

current plan (which I will probably never execute on) is to switch back and forth between his early and late career, like Oppenheimer. first is meeting Schwartz, then Vietnam, then probably some childhood stuff

obviously subject to change since I started writing it 20 minutes ago, but it's narrated by Serre, and it opens with him writing one of his last letters to Grothendieck

ok somebody stop me, the first page now exists

(the screenplay does not actually exist but the title does and I'm very proud of it)

at 10,000 followers I will reveal the title of my Grothendieck biopic screenplay

pancakes smothered in maple syrup

planning to use this picture in a talk to explain what a foliation is, feeling extremely Canadian

Oh, this looks nice!

This might be what I end up doing, I was fiddling a bit with it earlier today.