Tyler Jarvis

r/AskNYC u/UmweltUndefined • 3h Is there anywhere that delivers that will give a discount rate on 65 gallons of milk?

You WILLL NOT guess what this is about. But I encourage you to try before clicking through for the answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/X...

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Screenshot of US bill introduced to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland”

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

No longer a hypothetical question: What would happen if a bunch of hype-loving investors who didn’t really understand the nuts and bolts of AI took over the world?

I asked my students last semester what percentage of the internet is pure bullshit (either intentional or accidental). The lowest answer was 90%, and the CS major guaranteed it was 99.9999%. I then asked where AI gets its answers from. The looks on their faces was the highlight of the semester

Sometimes when building a minimal reprex for a bug, you discover that you were the bug all along. I assume this is what Kafka was on about.

Yellow Iron lung on display at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Just posting this picture of an iron lung at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, for no particular reason.

Jonas Salk was pretty dope.

#VaccinesSaveLives

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

This is not what I expect from the MAA. I agree it sounds like article was written by an LLM

The reason I prefer this is that it’s feels more natural, not a random collection of rules. Symmetry, ability to undo a move, ability to compose moves, are all very natural things to want to have/study. But the set-with-operation def seems hard to justify vs semi group or monoid—it feels arbitrary

I’ve long felt that the set-with-binary-operation definition is the wrong way to define a group. I much prefer to say it is a nonempty set of symmetries (bijective functions of some set to itself) that is closed under compositions and inverses. Associativity and the identity come for free.

When I was a young man there were whispered rumors among the elders that they could remember their own elders talking about a time when getting grants had been a means for doing science, rather than vice versa.

We need more of this in congress, and everywhere else: courage to do what’s right instead of what’s convenient or safe

This is confirming, yet again, my experience that SIAM conferences are much better run than AMS. #mathsky #JMM2025

And the conf app doesn’t work without wifi, so I’m wishing for the paper program like we’re back in the last century

I loved meeting up with old friends and learning new things at #JMM2025 but the lack of internet is a serious problem. Normally I can hobble along with cell service but can’t get more than one bar in most parts of the conf center. Really frustrating! #mathsky

This is crazy. It's morally wrong, socially irresponsible, technically stupid, financially dangerous (does that tiny disclaimer saying "don't trust this!" in a tiny font going to hold up in court?). What is up at Google, have they truly given the reins of the company to an unfathomable idiot?

I genuinely cannot believe Google is now showing Gemini-generated medical snippets including *drug summaries and medical advice* to treatserious health conditions.

I checked. It does. With barely a tiny disclaimer about GenAI. How can a (formerly?) trusted company be so incredibly reckless?

Der Tod steht im Rahmen einer geöffneten Tür mit der Aufschrift: "Google Suchergebnisse Seite 2". Vor ihm steht Elvis. Sensenmann: "Gutes Versteck, muss ich zugeben."

Clever.

This is confirming, yet again, my experience that SIAM conferences are much better run than AMS. #mathsky #JMM2025

And the conf app doesn’t work without wifi, so I’m wishing for the paper program like we’re back in the last century

I loved meeting up with old friends and learning new things at #JMM2025 but the lack of internet is a serious problem. Normally I can hobble along with cell service but can’t get more than one bar in most parts of the conf center. Really frustrating! #mathsky

This was a really nice talk about some very interesting ideas

Sorry, sounds like I need to work on my humor detector

Hard disagree. It looks better than any other system out there, by orders of magnitude. Making math easily readable takes work, just like explaining math clearly takes work. Plus it's easy to make a macro--please just don't inflict MSWord upon us.

On second thought, the internet was a mistake

Ingrid Daubechies Awarded National Medal of Science | Duke Today

A huge congrats to Ingrid Daubechies on this well deserved honor!!

today.duke.edu/2025/01/ingr...

how i'd learn machine learning in 2025 if i had to start from scratch:

1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg
2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk
3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't liberate him from the terrifying prison of consciousness