Spencer Bagley

Mathematicians too!!!

us military.... innocent children

Rules lawyering for good lol

Some bullshit about sandwiches 🙄🙄🙄

sometimes you just gotta be Reviewer #2

Every morning the cats step on me, repeatedly, back and forth, forever. I know it is love but sometimes I want to mail them to another planet.

Ik I'm late to this but god damn is Michael Rapaport obnoxious

Ga zee boh

blubber

Four Colors and Teaching Mathematics What the Four Color Theorem and its history tells us about the role of humans and proof in mathematics education.

I wrote about the story of the Four Color Theorem that I remember being told and Terence Tao and generative AI and some of my thoughts on teaching.

www.peter-keep.com/2026-03-02-f...

In my first class, nobody wanted to think;
in my second class, only one person showed up.
I am utterly demoralized.

Prefigure is great and easy to learn!

Mengele shit

THK is actually pretty easy. The Radiance, on the other hand,

Nought can Deform the Human Race
Like to the Armours iron brace
When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow
To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow

—William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”

I have finally, for the first time across three save files, conquered the Trial of the Fool!!!!!

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.

The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

Also: Spite. Fuck them.

Yeah

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

ACAB includes ChatGPT

quitgpt.org

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

The company’s “AI” famously can’t do anything right even 50% of the time, and they are so transparently unethical that even the Facebook folks are like “we probably shouldn’t use tech that way,” so sure, by all means, put them in charge of the nuclear codes or whatever.

Yeah was about to just wander in here and be like "whomst among us"

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

lol stuart adams get fucked

Four Colors Suffice, by Robin Wilson!! One of the best pop-math books I've ever read.

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

Tired: -X points per unexcused absence

Wired: you're adults show up if you want to idgaf lol

Inspired: actually I have some ability to help encourage good habits, so you get X no-questions asked absences, after that you meet with me to discuss your progress and fully waive the grade penalty

Quick, somebody whip a hat on him!! 🤠