Ben Blum-Smith

#mathisdemocracy

This is a banger

"And when students find these things difficult, we should remember that they very much are" - @sbagley.bsky.social

Tonight at the NYU Math & Democracy Seminar, Bailey Passmore of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group on "Public Data & Human Rights". 5:30pm ET! Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...

Math & Democracy Seminar at the NYU CDS in less than 90 minutes! Matthew Dahl, "Large Legal Fictions: Detecting Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models". You can watch here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...

This is today!

#MathSky the AMS survey is a good opportunity to point out the good things other societies are doing and ask for the same for math

NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar is back in effect. First up: Lalitha Sankar, "Understanding Last Layer Retraining Methods for Fair Classification: Theory and Algorithms". This coming Monday, 5:30pm ET. Open to the public; sign up here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

‎From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood on Apple Podcasts ‎Education · 2024

Getting a lot out of Chris Emdin and Sam Seidel's new podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died at the age of 81.

Oh, a major loss.

May her memory be for the revolution that brings us all to collective liberation. ❤️‍🔥

Ugh I'm so sorry

TIL that when a topologist / Hopf algebra person says that "this algebra is finite type over k", they mean something completely different than what a commutative algebraist means when they say the exact same thing

This is tomorrow! See you there??

One more NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar this coming Monday (5/13) at 5:30pm ET: Cory McCartan, "Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed". Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...

In one hour! See you there?

This is tomorrow! Open to the public <- that means you!

New NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar this coming Monday (5/6) at 5:30pm ET: Abigail Hickok and Mason Porter on using topological data analysis to study equity in access to polling places. Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...

Maybe an even more accessible example is Z x Z? Again, the diagonally embedded copy of Z is a subring that's not an ideal.

How about Z/2Z x Z/2Z? Then {(0,0), (1,1)} is a subring that's not an ideal, right?

Other than that I know nothing yet

It is playing at the SF film festival in just over a week sffilm.org/event/counte...

I am in a movie about math + democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5a2...

[Schools and democracy]

This is exciting: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...